REMEMBER the days when coffee and bread weren’t trendy? A mug of Nescafé and a slice of Tip Top was about as fancy as it got. Now I regularly encounter […]

THERE’S old school and then there’s Golden Gate Chinese in Bicton. The photos of food splayed across the windows, the kitsch illuminated sign, the basic decor and tablecloths, the fact […]

GO out for a smoothie and come back looking like Joan Rivers? That could be a possibility at Pluck Salad and Juice Bar, where they used to add a shot […]

SAUSAGES so shrivelled they look like a geriatric’s penis, bright yellow chiko rolls, and chips cooked in prehistoric oil. These were some of the culinary delights you would find at […]

  NOW that Mark McGowan is no longer premier, I wonder if he will grow a ZZ Top beard, get fat and shuffle around Rockingham Beach with a metal detector. […]

ABRAHAM begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judah, and Baby Roy begat Roburger. Well not really, but it feels like burger joints are springing up all over […]

STILL paying off the Christmas credit card? Hanging on by your fingernails until the January pay cheque at the end of the month? With this in mind, the Chook decided […]

PRINCE Harry spent a lot of time banging on about his todger in his memoir Spare, but another quirky titbit was his love of “posh” fish fingers in his childhood, […]

AFTER six hours of Christmas shopping in Garden City, I was losing the will to live. The final straw was some fat guy dressed as an elf trying to sell […]

I had Xanadu blaring at full volume as I roared down the Canning Highway in my Holden Astra. Stopped at the lights, windows down, I got strange looks from a […]