Noodlies, Sydney food blog will be talking food on Tim Webster’s Food, Wine and Dining segment on radio 2UE at their outside broadcast live from the Sydney Royal Easter.  I’ll be on from 5.30pm to 6pm.  Kim Coverdale food editor of Australia’s best selling food magazine, Super Food Ideas will also be joining us.

Noodlies, Sydney food blog will be talking food on Tim Webster’s Food, Wine and Dining segment on radio 2UE at their outside broadcast live from the Sydney Royal Easter.  I’ll be on from 5.30pm to 6pm.  Kim Coverdale food editor of Australia’s best selling food magazine, Super Food Ideas will also be joining us.

Easter Show visitor trying Crazy Wings at 2UE live broadcast

I’ve now become 2UE’s resident restaurant reviewer and today I’ve picked out that fun, cheeky and delicious restaurant, Crazy Wings to feature, in particular their new-ish Chatswood store.

Crazy wings is kao chuan; bbq street-style food served on skewers.  It’s fast and furious and crazily intense flavours.  It’s the sort of food you have with beer with friends and good conversation.  I say intense flavours because over 20 different spices (sichuan pepper, star anise, Chinese liquorice, fennel etc) are used to marinate the meat for over 2 hours.  And they’re purely chargrilled over Turkish coal.

There are 36 different types of bbq skewers you can have at Crazy Wings, from chicken wings, seafood, vegetables:

  • 8 types of chicken wings (crazy wings: honey soy, chili pepper, black bean, curry…)
  • 7 types of seafood (crazy prawns, scallop, lobster ball, fish tofu..)
  • 14 Crazy meats (crazy lamb, quail, teriyaki beef, offal)
  • 7 vegetables (crazy leek, enokitake mushrooms, sliced potato)

Kao Chuan is a traditional style of cuisine from North China dating back to over 100 years ago.  It was introduced to Beijing later and took off.  Now there are over 300 Crazy Wings restaurants in China, most in Beijing.

Recently, it’s going to a major international expansion with restaurants in Canada, South Korea and of course, Australia, two outlets Chinatown and newly opened Chatswood restaurant.

All the crazy skewers and hand skewered and are made to order – so it’s fresh.  They also have a great range of other popular Chinese classics:

  • 7 types of crazy fried rice (tomato beef, mixed seafood, teriyaki beef – eel for the exotic)
  • 4 types of noodles, egg and rice noodles

Open for lunch and dinner 7 days.

Must try for the adventurous: fried rice with eel, offal crazy bbq, Chinese beer and this prune soft drink (below).

Interesting side: not only is the food good, it’s technologically advanced too… all orders are taken over mobile, phone, iphone or ipads!

Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea

It’s one of the Cancer Council’s biggest fundraising events. Because morning tea is about food, as an active food blogger, they’ve asked me to be an Ambassador this year to help raise awareness.  So I’ll be talking to Tim about it today.  It’s an important cause and the statistics are sobering:

  • 1 in 2 Australians will be diagnosed with cancer by 85yo
  • around 114,000 new cases of cancer were diagnosed in Australian in 2010
  • it’s a leading cause of death in Australia – some 43,000 in 2010
  • most common forms (excluding melanoma skin cancer): prostate, bowel and breast – so affects all background, culture, community

Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea began in 1994 and has raised over $90m in that time.  2011 target is $4.5m in NSW and $11m nationally.  This year some 1m Australians are expected to get together at Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea.

Funds raised will go towards helping prevent, treat and manage cancer in our community.

How can you help?

  •  Host a morning tea with your work colleagues, friends, family or community group. The official Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea is on Thursday, 26th May this year but you can hold it pretty much any time up to early June
  • Donate 

To find out how to do both visit www.biggestmorningtea.com.au or call 1300 65 65 85.

Let’s do our little bit to help fight Australia’s leading cause of death.

What did you think of the segment? 
Give me some feedback in the comments section.  
Also, any suggestions on restaurants to review for 2UE? Let me know!

Crazy Wings
Shop 8 (Eat Street)
1-5 Railway St, Chatswood
(02) 9410 3978