tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19585175583853556272024-03-05T20:14:40.446+11:00Brunch, Lunch & MunchUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958517558385355627.post-37347532322282989052017-05-13T23:24:00.000+10:002017-05-13T23:25:11.686+10:00Orana<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com01/285 Rundle St, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia-34.922626 138.61012800000003-60.4446605 97.301534000000032 -9.4005915 179.91872200000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958517558385355627.post-81014584001975287282016-01-22T23:00:00.000+11:002016-01-22T23:00:41.897+11:00Bennelong<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think I need to ease myself back into writing again. So let's just keep it short and simple for now. Went to Bennelong for lunch to celebrate Robin's birthday. Here are the photos. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My entree <i>Smoked Blackmore Wagyu tartare, fermented chilli paste, cultured cream & grains, mushrooms, seaweed, egg yolk</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Robin's main <i>Roasted John Dory, served on teh bone, orach, turnips, native coastal greens, umami butter</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Complimentary cupcake!!! I now learn to always tell them what I'm celebrating when I book the table. Most of the time you might not get anything, but maybe once in a while when you're lucky you will get <i>THE BEST CUPCAKE EVER!! </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Robin's dessert <i>Cherry Jam Lamington. </i>His comment after eating is "How am I supposed to go back to normal lamington from Coles now?" Menu is not very descriptive so I'll have to explain a little. The white fluffy stuff was shaved coconut ice cream. The covering chocolate was thick and gooey. The tart cherry jam inside just cut through the sweetness of the chocolate, so that overall it's not overly sweet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> My <i>Pavlova. </i>I ordered this because it looked nothing like a normal pavlova. Saw this Opera House looking dessert on some other blogs before and it just got stuck in my head. So I just had to order it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There we go. First blog in almost 3 years :) Hope it won't be another 3 years till the next post. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bennelong Point, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sydney NSW 2000</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958517558385355627.post-14528176751673696462013-04-03T11:05:00.000+11:002013-04-03T11:05:51.455+11:00Kikunoi - My 1st 3 Michelin stars restaurant!! <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'll just upload photos and brief description of the dishes as I remember because I've lost the menu *sigh*.. Photos are not doing any justice to the food anyway. I failed big time at taking photos of these dishes... :( Loved the dishes, but I didn't like any of the photos that I took. None of them could show how nice the food was!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My sparkling sake. I liked it so much that I went around Kyoto liquor store looking for it. Bought a bottle of it back to Sydney :D Found out that the restaurant only charged little bit more than the shop which we thought was quite good because they didn't try to rip people off haha.. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">**Good news! I found the menu! haha..** So here's the <i>Assortment of appetizers:" horse reins" sushi, ume agar-agar jelly, icefish with yuzu, tofu marinated in red-pickled ume, fuki(coltsfoot) bud marinated in miso, rapini dressed with mustard, cod roe terrine, sweet black beans, wasabi green. </i>Many things on the plate, had never tasted any of these things before. Favourite was actually the wasabi greens. Crunchy sweet refreshing vegetable with a bit of wasabi kick. Very interesting (not to say the rest were not though..) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Robin's sake. Very nice sake too. We wanted to buy and bring this back as well, but couldn't find it anywhere :( </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This bowl doesn't look like much, but there were many things in there <i>Sashimi of flounder and botan prawn, prawn roe, flounder liver sauce, udo(wild mountain vegetable) curl, carrot curl, wasabi, marinated fresh nori. </i>The sauce was something really different. Thick and creamy with intense fish flavour, looks almost like a runny peanut butter but taste nothing like it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Sashimi of koshini (young bluefin tuna), soy marinated egg yolk sauce. </i>For us Malaysian who grew up on soft boiled eggs, here's the ultimate version of it. I didn't think much of the sashimi, but the egg yolk sauce... oh the sauce... I literally licked the saucer clean. It's like soft boiled egg but only the best part and it was concentrated - so much flavour and so creamy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finally.. dessert! <i>Strawberry ice cream, strawberry soup.</i> Digress a bit, Japan did have really really nice strawberries. The more expensive the nicer they were. Even saw some white strawberries. Not sure how they taste though. Didn't buy them because they costed like AUD25 for 9 strawberries hahaha.. So if anyone of you have tried the white strawberries let me know. I'm really curious on whether they are nicer than the red strawberries, whether they are worth the money. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So here's my very first experience in a michelin stars restaurant. Definitely a memorable trip. Highly recommended for those who are visiting Kyoto :) However, booking can only be done via hotel. They won't accept any reservation by direct phone call. </span><br />
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Lastly, <i>Lemon cheesecake with mint crumbs, vanilla ice cream, compressed watermelon. </i>Not sure what does compressed watermelon mean. It looked and tasted like normal watermelon to me haha.. Oh well.. maybe they did something to it but I didn't notice.. </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This round thing is the cheesecake! It's size of a big marble. When it was being served, the waiter said "this glossy ball is edible. Lots of people left them on the plate they probably thought it's plastic". It's so glossy that it really looked like plastic. Very cute. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Just as well we didn't do the degustation, otherwise I wouldn't be able to have this dessert :) </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958517558385355627.post-4509214927355713482012-03-09T22:49:00.000+11:002012-03-09T22:49:28.984+11:00momofuku seiōbo<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've read about momofuku quite a while ago. Been wanting to go since then and finally got my "excuse" to make a booking. My 2nd wedding anniversay :) Told Robin I'd take him to a restaurant that he's never been and kept it a surprise till we're there. Good to have nice sister in law who didn't mind babysitting the little guy for us that night. We really enjoyed our night out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We got there early that day, so we sat at the bar for a little while. If you like coffee and if you like beer, here's something to try! <i>Hitachino Nest Espresso Stout Japan - $14. </i>I'm neither a coffee drinker nor a big fan of beer, so I didn't even try. Robin didn't really like it though. He said it was weird to combine the 2 drinks together. After a while when our table was ready, we were shown to our seats which were at the counter looking directly into their kitchen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">First course, <i>Snacks - nori, smoked potato, shiitake chip, mochi </i>(clockwise from the top). This plate were for the both of us. How I wish I could have 2 pieces of everything. The plate did look a bit sparse, I wish they would fill it up. All of them would make great tv snacks :) </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here are the zoomed in photos. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now, the main momofuku attraction for me. <i>Steamed bun - pork belly, cucumber, boisin sauce. </i>Sorry about the picture. It did not do the bun justice. I just couldn't wait to bite into it. The bun was so soft and fluffy. The pork was oh so tender. Together with the crunchy cucumber that added some bite to it and the sweet hoisin sauce, it was like the best bun ever!! All looked like very common ingredients, but together there was some magic that made it so incredible. I saw how they store the bun in a container in the kitchen, very very tempted to ask the chef to put a few in a doggy bag for me to bring home :p</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here's the <i>Sea mullet with blood orange. </i>Again, the chef had worked wonders here. I don't really know my fish market, but Robin said sea mullet is a very cheap fish. The chef had made it so amazing with the creativity to serve it with blood orange. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Marron with fennel and dill. </i>Very fresh marron nicely cooked. See the black blob of stuff at the back? Absolutely no idea what that blob of black stuff was but it was AWESOME. Didn't look very nice, but that was the BEST part on the plate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A very pretty looking dish of <i>Beef with radish and fermented black bean. </i>Can't see much of the beef here because it was covered under the vibrant slices of radish. I quite like this dish but Robin thought the combination didn't quite make sense. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This was the <i>Smoked eel with jerusalem artichoke and pink grapefruit. </i>Again, combination of seafood with citrus. This was served with a bowl of eel broth. The intense flavour of the broth just made us wanted more. It didn't have a tiny bit of the seafood fishy taste in it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Mud crab with yorkshire pudding. </i>Hmm.. babybrain strikes again! Can't remember much about the taste of this dish anymore. Only remember seeing the yorkshire puddings being made in the kitchen and wondering when would I get served these cute looking thingy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Egg with toasted rice and brown butter. </i>Wobble wobble wobble~~~ Perfectly wobbly egg!! How awesome was that. Such simple ingredients yet such highly satisfying flavour. I was amazed how well the fragrant of the toasted rice go with the egg and butter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Pea agnolotti with parmesan and ham. </i>I remember that white foam thingy. Again, funny looking component and absolutely no idea what it was. Creamy with a bit of spiciness in it. Very interesting foam. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Mulloway with smoked roe and lettuce. </i>Robin started eating his while I was still busy taking photos. He gave me a nudge n said "you better eat this now". Presentation wise it was rather ordinary, but the fish... so fresh so crispy. Even the lettuce was good. Nicely charred. For some reason the best part of all these dishes are those unknown components on the plate. There was some crispy crunchy stuff sprinkled all over the plate. I reckon those were the icing on the cake. Made the dish a whole level higher. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Lamb neck with onions and mustard seeds. </i>Lamb was nicely cooked. Very tender and juicy. Love those onions. They were actually very sweet. Great combination with the mustard for the lamb. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This was a bit of a funny 1 for me. <i>Pecorino with honey licorice and bee pollen. </i>Never thought of eating cheese with honey. That's essentially what it was. I'm not sure to consider this a sweet or savoury. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now here's a funny looking dessert.<i> Wattle seed, malt, crispy milk. </i>No idea how they made the crispy milk skin, but it was so crispy it's like eating milk flavoured chips. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Miso, cherries and black sesame. </i>The only way I like my cherries is fresh. Not candied not poached, not anything. So I was a bit cautious about this. I tasted each component on its own and thought I didn't like it. So I decided to just gobble everything together and finish it since it's just tiny. Much to my surprise, everything suddenly just tasted so much better TOGETHER! Each component was vital. They just had to be there to complement each other to create this unique taste. It just wouldn't work without any of it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If I hadn't read about this restaurant before, I wouldn't be expecting this to end the meal - <i>Pork Shoulder. </i>While typically this would be a savoury dish, here, it was given the task of a dessert. Definitely sweet enough to qualify as a dessert, but not rich and heavy like a chocolate mud cake sort of thing. Kind of fun and messy though because no cutlery was given. EVERYONE had to use their hand for this haha.. What an experience :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Conclusion, very very very satisfied with this dinner. While the plating of the dishes wasn't as impressive as some other restaurants, it's definitely not a problem here because as soon as one tasted the dish, nobody would care how it looked like. Could also see that the chef got some very clever ideas with the dishes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Side note: Adriano Zumbo's dessert train was located right opposite and conveniently opens till 11pm. So what happened? I got myself 2 macarons from Zumbo haha.. Red was coke, green was mojito. Sorry about blurry photo again. I couldn't wait to bite into the macarons :p </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">PS. Reservations are to be made on their <a href="http://www.momofuku.com/restaurants/seiobo/">website</a> and only 10 days in advance. Can't remember where I read about this, but I know new day is added at 10am each morning. So to make sure you get the day that you want, make sure you are in front of the computer 10 days prior and start hitting the refresh button from 9:59am (which was what I did). The seats do go out FAST. </span><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958517558385355627.post-84504775145680956372012-01-05T14:32:00.001+11:002012-01-05T14:32:13.830+11:00Iiza<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">First post of 2012!! Happy new year everyone!! Hope everyone had a good break :) I had a day off from being a mum so I decided to go to a restaurant in an area that I wouldn't want to go with a pram and a baby. That place is Newtown. We all know how "easy" it is to find a parking at Newtown. So on my day off, I went to Newtown with my friend to this Japanese restaurant that I have heard about quite a bit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One thing the thing that I missed since I got pregnant was the sashimi. Now that I can eat anything and everything again, of course sashimi will be on the table :) <i>Chefs Selection Sashimi Plate - Deluxe<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>18pcs of assorted fresh sashimi - $29. </i>I think we really need Japanese restaurant of this kind of quality around the Shire. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Fire Roll - 6 pcs of tuna rolls topped with spicy sauce & crunchy potato - $14.50. </i> Just thought I would try something a little bit different. I quite like the spicy sauce. The only problem was that they fell apart quite easily. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This was something that I have never had in other Japanese restaurants. <i>Japanese Gyu-suji Nikomi - Tender Wagyu beef tendon braised over night in miso stew</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>served in a clay hot pot (limited serves per day) - $21. </i>This stew was very very tasty. Came with 2 slices of garlic bread which were so nice after dipping into the thick soup. Actually it wasn't really a soupy soup, it was more like thick yummy gravy :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now this was the favourite of the day. <i>5 Seared ‘Aburi’ Sushi Plate - Deluxe<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 12pcs of delicately flame seared sushi - $34. </i>I was told to order this if I ever get to visit this restaurant. So I did and I can understand why. It was sooooo gooood!!! As soon as I put a piece of them in my mouth, it was like O.M.G. Why can't I find something like this around the Shire? Now I need to go back to city everytime I want this. For all the girls who are planning to have a baby, DO NOT try this. You will not be able to resist eating this during pregnancy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Spider Roll - 6 pcs of crispy soft shell crab sushi rolls wrapped with finely sliced seasoned daikon radish - $14.50.</i> First time I tried sushi wrapped up with daikon. It was quite interesting as the daikon added a bit of refreshing tartness to the sushi. Kind of like a lemon to fish and chips. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That was a really really satisfying good meal. I really wish we have Japanese restaurants that serve food like this a bit closer to home. </span><br />
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3184 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia-33.8944508 151.1826613-33.8960983 151.1801938 -33.892803300000004 151.1851288tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958517558385355627.post-41972470762434109572011-12-12T17:02:00.002+11:002011-12-12T17:05:59.631+11:00Home Thai Restaurant<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Haven't been eating out much since having the baby. So not much to blog about. For the sake of keeping the site active, here are some photos that I took ages ago but never got to post about them. Now, because it's been so long since I had that meal, I can't really remember much about them anymore :p That's why only posting the photos up. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We wanted to bring Robin's mum out for dinner 1 day. Can't remember what occasion though. I think it was her birthday? Wanted to bring her to somewhere she normally wouldn't go, so we took her to try some French food at La Guillotine. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After dinner we didn't have dessert at La Guillotine, instead we went to The Chocolate Room to have some coffee and dessert. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">La Guillotine French Restaurant</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">518 Kent Street Sydney NSW 2000</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tel: 02 9269 0004</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958517558385355627.post-63770683378753005112011-05-25T22:10:00.000+10:002011-05-25T22:10:23.385+10:00Canberra Weekend Getaway<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We've been saying we want to get out of Sydney for a while. Never got to decide where to go, who to go with and it was such a hassle to try to organise something with more than 2 people - these 2 have to work on weekend, that 2 can't take leave on those days etc etc. So in the end we just thought forget it, we'll just make a short trip on our own and enjoy some good food. So here we were, ended up in Canberra for a weekend. Left Sydney on Saturday morning, arrived at Canberra around lunch time. Robin actually booked a table for lunch at this busy little bakery called Silo Bakery. He was actually thinking of bringing me there for the desserts which looked awesome on their website, but unfortunately by the time we got there they sold out of ALL their sweets. So we just had lunch there. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwTwh2kFCI/AAAAAAAAKvg/oUZ0XpYJK5E/IMG3_0055.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwTwh2kFCI/AAAAAAAAKvg/oUZ0XpYJK5E/IMG3_0055.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I ordered <em>Vegetarian Pates - $12 </em>which came with some sourdough. </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhEPDErPilP2hsyCwFvmX6CJXt7-QNZNFUuKnaVJ6-zst8TyMG_qP4tv8TgHf6Z0GL4M-PeOew-fBmV70C3324IsNzX_v9Tc-J64Wj8d51PQsxvsPxFCseAh3M10KHeaCLLecudOAM5fk/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhEPDErPilP2hsyCwFvmX6CJXt7-QNZNFUuKnaVJ6-zst8TyMG_qP4tv8TgHf6Z0GL4M-PeOew-fBmV70C3324IsNzX_v9Tc-J64Wj8d51PQsxvsPxFCseAh3M10KHeaCLLecudOAM5fk/" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The pates came in 3 different flavours: (Clockwise from top left) Pumpkin & walnut, mushroom & almond, pimento & hazelnut. My favourite was the pimento & hazelnut which was a bit like the crunchy chilli and tomato dip. Little bit spicy with the crunchy hazelnut on the freshly baked soft bread.. yummmm.. Can't have the real pate, I really wouldn't mind having these vegetarian pates instead. 2nd flavour that I liked was the mushroom & almond. The only problem with the pumpkin flavour was that it was sweet. Almost like a dessert. Still good, but just a bit weird with the sweetness in there. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwTxNK4k_I/AAAAAAAAKvk/VFxkdReVmJg/IMG3_0066.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwTxNK4k_I/AAAAAAAAKvk/VFxkdReVmJg/IMG3_0066.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Robin ordered the <em>Oyster blade beef braised in beer & onions - $24. </em>It was good too! I ate almost all the bread with my pate, so Robin only had a bit of the bread to go with his nice gravy. Should've ordered more bread. It was still very good though, tender beef with soft potatoes at the bottom soaking up all the yummy gravy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">So that's it for our lunch. It was a pity that we didn't get to eat any of the sweet pastries and stuff. Oh well, maybe another trip. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">After lunch we went to the Questacon just to do some touristy thing when we were there :) Drove the mini blimp through a hoop, went into a pitch black dark tent to see the star lab, just basically being a kid again haha.. It was fun. I used to really like to visit all these science centres. Lots of cool things to play with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Anyway, after that we went to our hotel and checked ourselves in. Had a bit of rest there before heading out to dinner. We were lucky that in our room there was this book. Can't remember what it's called now, but it's basically a where-to-eat-in-Canberra book. So we picked 1 of the restaurants in the book and guess what? It was at the same block as the Silo bakery that we went for lunch. The restaurant that we picked was the Kennedy Room. It's half restaurant and half pub. So the restaurant half had tables and chairs set up, the other half was the bar with some tall tables and stools and plenty of space for people to hang around and chat. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwT0fR56uI/AAAAAAAAKwA/Zx2sQtVEfPI/IMG3_0086.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwT0fR56uI/AAAAAAAAKwA/Zx2sQtVEfPI/IMG3_0086.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">For entree to share, we ordered the <em>Caramelised roast pork belly with chilli & coconut vinegar - $16. </em>The meat was really tender, it was nice to go with the sweet and sour dressing. The only thing missing for me was the crunchy crackling. It would be so much nicer if it had the crackling at well. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwT0hURyII/AAAAAAAAKwE/MQzueHBEDFM/IMG3_0092.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwT0hURyII/AAAAAAAAKwE/MQzueHBEDFM/IMG3_0092.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Initially we only ordered 1 entree. Then we saw our next table ordered this and it looked really good! So we ordered 1 for ourselves as well - <em>Fried calamari spiced with sumac & black pepper. </em>It was really good too! Cooked just nice, very crispy outside, soft and tender inside. With a bit of lemon juice over it, it's easily 1 of the best fried calamari I've had. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwT1te4OWI/AAAAAAAAKwM/PR3QrOZHAx0/IMG3_0108.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwT1te4OWI/AAAAAAAAKwM/PR3QrOZHAx0/IMG3_0108.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I had the <em>Almond & sesame seed crusted barramundi fillets with Ver Jus - $32. </em>The fish was nice, it wasn't overcooked or anything, I just didn't really like the crust. It was like the dukkah that could be bought in some deli, which I thought the smell of herbs was a bit too strong for the fish. I probably would enjoy it more if it had just a layer of crispy skin. The potatoes with the creamy sauce were really nice though. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwT2CmV3AI/AAAAAAAAKwQ/VUGUVwfwE4E/IMG3_0109.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwT2CmV3AI/AAAAAAAAKwQ/VUGUVwfwE4E/IMG3_0109.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Poor Robin had to wait extra long for his <em>Ribeye steak (400g) w beer battered chips, green peppercorn sauce & steamed vegetables - $36. </em>The waitress took our order, even asked him how he would like the steak done, but when she got to the computer or something she just keyed in barramundi twice. So they made us 2 barramundi and didn't make the steak. So I just ate my fish first while Robin waited for his steak to be made. Apparently not worth the wait though. I didn't really try the steak but Robin said it wasnt' as good as expected. The best part of the dish was the chips. Sauce was good too. Just the meat not as tender as Robin thought it should be. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwT2pGNeYI/AAAAAAAAKwU/nli_6Lsr7U8/IMG3_0117.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwT2pGNeYI/AAAAAAAAKwU/nli_6Lsr7U8/IMG3_0117.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I ordered my dessert while Robin was eating his steak - <em>Lime & coconut pannacotta with oven-dried pineapple - $13.</em> When I took the first bite of the pineapple, it felt almost like I've discovered a new continent! I love everything pineapple - fresh pineapple, can pineapple, even (fake) pineapple flavoured gummi! So being introduced to this oven-dried pineapple was like "I've found a new way to eat pineapple!!" It was sooo good. The pannacotta on its own was very sweet, but together with the slight tartness of the pineapple they were like the perfect match. Wobbly + crispy; sweet + sour... Just made so much sense when put together. The only watchout was - the pineapple tend to stuck to the teeth hehee.. I didn't mind it at all, but I know it could be annoying at times :p </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">After dinner we just went up to the Mount Ainsley lookout. Wanted to take some star trails photos, but sky was too bright from the city lights and the big bright moon. Also, it was only 3 degrees at that time. So we didn't stay long there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Next morning we woke up around 10am. As we were packing up, got a phone call from the reception to say that check out time was supposed to be 10 and it was almost 11 already haha. I thought I requested for late check out when I booked the room online, but I guess they didn't see my comment (or they ignored it). Anyway, so breakfast was skipped and we consulted our 'bible' of the trip again. Felt like having a Thai lunch, so we picked 1 of the Thai restaurants in the book. Guess what? It's located at the same block as Silo and Kennedy Room! haha.. I guess that block of shops at Kingston got plenty of good restaurants. Got there, restaurant was closed. So Robin suggested we go to the other suburb which he knew had plenty of nice restaurants too which was Manuka. So we went there and we saw another Thai restaurant which I remember was in the book too. It was the Bann Latsamy Thai Restaurant. By the way, sorry for not being able to provide prices for the dishes here. I took a copy of their menu, but couldn't find it now :p </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwT3djg7oI/AAAAAAAAKwc/N8ljHlQTX2Y/IMG3_1031.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwT3djg7oI/AAAAAAAAKwc/N8ljHlQTX2Y/IMG3_1031.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For entree, we had the <em>Rice paper prawn rolls. </em>It was very similar to those that we get in Vietnamese restaurant. Refreshing sort of entree with fresh cucumber, some sprouts, cooked prawns and some rice noodle wrapped in rice paper. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwT3_VO0-I/AAAAAAAAKwg/SR9CW-NjJVI/s640/IMG3_1036.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwT3_VO0-I/AAAAAAAAKwg/SR9CW-NjJVI/s320/IMG3_1036.jpg" t8="true" width="213" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">There were a few options for rice on the menu and we picked the 1 that we never tried before: <em>Saffron rice. </em>It was bright orange in colour. Taste wise, I actually couldn't taste anything special. Robin said it taste like coconut rice, but I had a feeling the coconut taste came from the red curry, not the rice itself.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwT4DnNodI/AAAAAAAAKwk/xS7mHu9JyhA/IMG3_1041.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwT4DnNodI/AAAAAAAAKwk/xS7mHu9JyhA/IMG3_1041.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This was the <em>Duck & lychee red curry </em>which I thoguht contributed to the coconut taste in the rice when ate together with rice. It was very tasty, rich and full of coconut flavour. Generous servings too! Another thing that I liked was that all the duck meat was deboned :D Usually when order duck curry in Thai restaurants, I find that they give very little duck meat, just lots of vege. This was the opposite. Lots of meat, lots of big juicy lychees, very very good. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwT4qxgn0I/AAAAAAAAKwo/uqO8fFc_VTk/IMG3_1043.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TdwT4qxgn0I/AAAAAAAAKwo/uqO8fFc_VTk/IMG3_1043.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Another main that we ordered to go with our saffron rice - <em>Stir fried tofu with cashew nuts</em>. It wasn't too bad when eat with the rice, just a bit too sweet with the sauce. I would soak my rice with the red curry sauce but I wouldn't do the same with this. This plate of tofu + vege was really big too. We ended up asking for 2 takeaway boxes and packed ourselves 2 boxes full of lunch to bring to work the next day. Too full from these entree and mains. Didn't have any room for dessert :( I would get the mango sticky rice if I had room in my stomach. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Overall, it was a very relaxing trip. Very happy with all the food there. Did some touristy thingy like visit the questacon & the parliament as well. Experimented with making timelapse video too which you can see <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcZlNOGD1CM">here</a>. At first we thought what are we gonna do in Canberra for 2 days, but when we got there, there were actually more things that we wanted to do than we had time for. Not a bad place for a short trip at all :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Silo bakery</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">36 Giles Street<br />
Kingston ACT 2604<br />
(02) 6260 6060</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The Kennedy Room</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">25 Kennedy Street<br />
Kingston<br />
(02) 6162 2318</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Bann Latsamy Thai Restaurant <br />
M Centre<br />
Shop 9, Flinders Way <br />
Manuka ACT 2603</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">(02) 6295 0426</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958517558385355627.post-8240333850358136312011-04-28T22:40:00.000+10:002011-04-28T22:40:08.022+10:00Samcheonggak (三清閣)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I think it's about time I update my blog :p Haven't been eating at many new/interesting places lately. So not much of new material to write about. There are still stuff that I haven't posted though, so here's 1 of those. Just been feeling very tired lately, everyday after work, go home, have dinner, shower and sleep. Don't even have the energy to turn on my computer, let alone to sit in front of it to process photos or write. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Anyway, let's talk food. Went to Seoul earlier this year for holiday. Most of the stuff we had were street food, little things or supermarket food court stuff. I think I'll just make 1 post later to show all those in 1 post. For this post, I'll write about our meal at Samcheonggak. It's 14 course Korean fine dining :D It's the most expensive meal the whole trip. ₩110,000 per person (which roughly converts to AUD 110). </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TV5ff-ncwkI/AAAAAAAAKPc/QKl5f3aetxw/IMG_7201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TV5ff-ncwkI/AAAAAAAAKPc/QKl5f3aetxw/IMG_7201.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This blob of red thing was the <i>Korean Beef Steak Tartare. </i>A blob of raw meat like that just didn't look very nice to me :p It wasn't too bad though. Just didn't think it was too special that's all. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TV5fhGMRQzI/AAAAAAAAKPs/NNwbRhj03Kk/s512/IMG_7217.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TV5fhGMRQzI/AAAAAAAAKPs/NNwbRhj03Kk/s320/IMG_7217.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This was the <i>Seafood Sinseollo </i>i.e. royal hotpot. This was the 'special' in the menu. The whole meal would've been cheaper if we didn't have this. Just thought since I went all the way there, might as well see what's the fuss about. Nothing spectacular. Just a seafood soup. What was interesting was the pot itself :D It was a mini hot pot that was meant for 1 person only. It was soooo cute! Tiny little hotpot. We tried to find it in supermarket and department stores in Korea, couldn't find them. I should've taken another picture that show the size in perspective. It was around 15cm tall, 10cm diameter. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Overall, I think for the same price I could get something better in Sydney. However, I probably shouldn't compare it this way, since it's totally different sort of experience, different sort of cuisine. The only thing I didn't like was the way they served. Dishes came out in the wrong order (they knew that too because they actually said to us "we serve this first, that will come later"). Also, it felt like we were being rushed. Usually in a degustation menu, dishes come out 1 by 1. Here, even before we finished our first dish, they would served the second dish on the table with the 3rd dish waiting at the side. Maybe the mentality is not to have us waiting, but I still don't think they should serve the next dish before we finish eating. From my experience with degustation menus, a 10 course meal would probably take 3 hours if not more. Over here, we finished our 14 courses within 1.5 hours. It wasn't 'eat slowly and enjoy', it was more like 'quick! next dish is here already!'. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We were there for lunch, the restaurant had lots of windows around so it was nice and bright to take photo. Very spacious seatings as well. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958517558385355627.post-26430764245189427112011-02-04T00:21:00.001+11:002011-04-28T22:25:24.650+10:00Shoya<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Happy New Year people!! And today being the first day of Chinese New Year, Gong Xi Fa Cai!! Here's the long overdue post about a very nice meal in Melbourne. Been meaning to write about this place for ages but kept on getting distracted. Been away for 3 weeks, before that was Christmas, and before that I was too busy playing zombie vs plant :p </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Anyway, back to this meal. Had this when I went to Melbourne few months back. I knew there was this nice restaurant there but I didn't want to go alone. So I asked <a href="http://greencilantro.blogspot.com/">Vivienne</a> who had recently moved to Melbourne to join me. We ordered quite a few dishes, chatted non-stop through dinner, totally didn't feel we've just met for the first time :) I guess that's the good thing about meeting up with food bloggers. There will never be the awkward silence because there's a topic that we can never finish talking about - FOOD! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Honestly, I can't remember how was the lighting condition already. So I thought if I don't remember it being particularly bad, that means it should be quite o.k :p Shouldn't be too difficult to take photos. Space wise was good. We were able to move the dish around and take photos from all sorts of different angles. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958517558385355627.post-47769445557066063352010-12-31T00:49:00.000+11:002010-12-31T00:49:32.931+11:00Glass Brasserie<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Welcome to the last post of Brunch, Lunch & Munch.... for 2010 :p No, I'm not planning to close my blog down just yet, even though at times I seemed to have abandoned it. It certainly doesn't feel like I've been writing this blog for more than 1 year already. </span><br />
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Being 1 of the lucky people that was approached by the organiser of Sydney Festival, I jumped at the opportunity to sample the Fast Festival Feast special offer at Glass Brasserie, Hilton. It's $30 for a main course with a glass of wine. (For list of other participating restaurants, visit the <a href="http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2011/Plan-Your-Festival/Fast-Festival-Feasts/">Fast Festival Feasts website</a>) </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My table was very close to the big window looking straight at QVB. It would've been a really good view if QVB wasn't under renovation. I really should start taking photos at lunch time rather than dinner. It was so much easier :) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">*YW dined as guest of Sydney Festival at glass brasserie</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958517558385355627.post-74929289451307302862010-12-09T00:00:00.001+11:002010-12-09T00:02:02.044+11:00The Brasserie<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Went Melbourne for work a while ago. It was quite a good trip! Work wise, learnt a lot, came back feeling much better about my new role than before. Food wise, my boss actually said "go and have some good food, don't just get red rooster and stay in hotel" :D Then, I actually got to meet up with a blogger friend and had a great dinner (talk more about that next post). Anyway, so 1 evening me and my colleague finished work, so we just walked around Southbank looking for dinner. We actually walked into Nobu thinking should have a table at 830pm, but NOPE. So we had to pick another restaurant. Ended up at the Brasserie. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We were very full after entree and main. Colleague asked if I wanted dessert. I decided not to have dessert here because while walking from hotel to restaurant, I saw a gelato stall. So I decided to go back to that stall for gelato instead. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lighting wasn't too bad at our table. Little bit dark, but still not too bad. I just felt a bit awkward taking photo of food with colleague because he was quite new and I didn't know him well. Not many people at work knows about my blog. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He was cool with me taking photos of his food though.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Ended up telling him about my blog and got him 'cooperated'. He would turn his plate for me and even volunteered to be my hand model haha.. Needless to say, we got along quite well :) </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958517558385355627.post-81340257296015480892010-11-24T00:16:00.001+11:002010-11-24T01:33:04.843+11:00Jump Q Post!!! #1<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've decided to make a new type of posts in my blog. It's the "Jump Q Post" series!! Everyone knows that I'm a very lazy blogger. I have HEAPS of backlog :p When I do get to write, I normally write in chronological order (basically go through my back log and start with the oldest). With "Jump Q" post, it's something that I thought I should write straight away and skip all my backlog because I'm THAT excited to tell everyone about it hahaha :) Now, let me tell you why this post deserved to be written first. What makes it more special than any other stuff in my backlog??? 1 word - TETSUYA! Yup!! I went to Tetsuya!! :D Tell me if you still don't think it deserves to be written first. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now, this was easily the longest single meal I've had. The most courses in 1 meal too! Total of 14 courses including coffee and a little something that you'll see at the end of this post. We arrived at 7pm, didn't leave until 1215am or so. Yup! FIVE HOURS for 1 meal. We were the 3rd in the room when we got there, and we were the last to leave together with another table. Anyway , like my chemistry teacher in school used to say 'a picture is worth a thousand words', let's just look at the pictures now :) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Conclusion, HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. If you thought of going, but is now hesitating because they lost a hat, you are missing out BIG TIME. Service was great!! Oh, and did I mention my brother in law works there? That's why we had extra courses :D Even had a tour around the kitchen, out to the garden, looked at their tomato plants, the pretty edible flowers and even their own bees! Robin almost didn't want to leave the wine cellar too. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, there was my belated birthday present from my lovely husband :) I'm looking forward to next year's present already :D </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It was still o.k when the sky was still bright because we were sitting by the window. As the sky gets dark, it got harder and harder to take photos. Towards the end it was almost impossible to take a decent photo. Now I'm definitely feeling the limitation of low light capability with my camera. Maybe I should buy a new camera and then go back there again ?? :) </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958517558385355627.post-30599829329552602502010-11-07T00:01:00.000+11:002010-11-07T00:01:31.865+11:00Quay (again! :D)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Hello everyone!! Long time no see!! Things been really crazy at work and also outside of work. Why? Because October was really a very popular wedding month! I had 1 wedding at the end of Sept, then 3 more in Oct. Those in Oct were all close family members i.e. my sister-in-law, my brother-in-law and my brother. Very happy for all these newly weds, at the same time also very glad that finally no more weddings to go to this year - it was tiring (for myself and also for my wallet :p). Now I can go back to my 'normal' routine and continue to TRY to blog regularly :p </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Anyway, I celebrated my birthday couple months ago. Even though I try to have at least 12 months gap between visit of any restaurants, I couldn't say no when my sister say she's going to buy me nice dinner for my birthday, not especially when it's Quay :) (I've visited <a href="http://brunchlunchmunch.blogspot.com/2010/02/quay-birthday.html">Quay</a> earlier this year to celebrate Robin's birthday). She wanted to try the snow egg after watching it on masterchef. So she said to me "I'll buy you dinner at Quay, you go there with me. I want to eat snow egg". Like I would say no to that :) </span></span><br />
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The Sebel Pier One Sydney<br />
11 Hickson Road, The Rocks, Sydney<br />
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</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958517558385355627.post-66521485290330908252010-09-23T23:54:00.000+10:002010-09-23T23:54:35.895+10:00Zaaffran<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It's always fun to have friends visiting from overseas. It's time when I can bring them (i.e. I have excuse) to nice restaurants and we have more people to order more dishes to share :) However, this time I was given the task to pick a restaurant with a small challenge. 1 of them was a Malay so I had to look for halal restaurants. Lucky for me, eatability had a halal category to search on. That's how I found out that Zaaffran is a halal restaurant and it's also in the Entertainment Book. So it actually didn't take too long to decide. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We decided to go with the 4 courses BBQ Banquet - $44.90 per person. It's got a few entrées to share, some chicken, some lamb, some beef and even dessert so pretty much got everything covered. </span></span><br />
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Level 2, Shop 345, 10 Darling Dr<br />
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Our table was very dark. We had a nice table by the window looking across the harbour to cockle bay wharf. Prefect view, but just not enough lighting for good photos. </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958517558385355627.post-44308369985293672072010-09-18T23:34:00.001+10:002010-09-20T09:52:11.512+10:00The Restaurant<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Let's go to The Restaurant for lunch" "which restaurant?" "The restaurant" "huh?? WHICH retaurant??" "THE restaurant" :p I'm just imagining how much fun it'll be if I ask someone to have a meal with me there. I was there for my friend's bridal shower tea party. Of course, the event organiser had better communication skills than me. Instead of saying "Venue: The Restaurant" on the invite, she wrote Art Gallery - which probably saved herself from receiving a lot of emails asking "what's the name of the restaurant?". </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">12 years I have been living in Sydney. First time stepping into the Art Gallery. Straight away I feel like I'm so 'classy' and 'sophisticated' already haha.. People armed with cameras to take photos of the arts and statues and stuff, I had my camera with me only thinking of the sandwiches and scones that they were going to serve in high tea. So, now let's look at what my camera ended up with. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The whole restaurant is surrounded by big big panel of glass looking out from the hill. When the weather is beautiful outside, there's just plenty of natural sunlight in the whole restaurant. </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958517558385355627.post-26202377307465721142010-09-12T14:44:00.000+10:002010-09-12T14:44:01.675+10:00Bar of Plenty<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I had a parcel sent to my old address the other day. So I had to go all the way to the post office at North Parramatta even though I'm now living in the Shire. Wasn't too happy about that because I had to cut my lunch short and rush to post office and back to office (and I wasn't even expecting a parcel at all, no internet purchase and nobody told me anything about sending me a present :p) </span></span><br />
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Haymarket NSW 2000<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It was quite dim in the restaurant when we went for dinner. Pictures actually came out quite grainy when I had to use high ISO. Also there wasn't too much space to move around. Tables were packed very close to each other. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Lastly, I would like to bring to your attention, my newly created favicon and watermark!! :D For some reason the favicon only works in Chrome but not in IE. Not sure why. If you can't tell what it is, it's a Japanese rice ball - onigiri. As for the watermark, it's a chinese character which means "eat" with BLM written inside. It was pointed out to me that it looks like a rabbit and snake running towards the onigiri though :p Many thanks to MC for making the files, to my creative husband for the design and myself for the idea kekeke.. :p </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958517558385355627.post-62319959698383039062010-09-03T00:44:00.000+10:002010-09-03T00:44:50.928+10:00The Sultan's Table<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Finally some good news after a series of drama, reminds me of the movie "A series of unfortunate events" (luckily it ends with a happy ending). That's why wasn't quite in a very good mood lately. Fed up of feeling negative and all though. At least it looks like the worst is now over and can start to see some good things happening. I'm definitely a happy ending person. Don't like watching sad movies and don't get people who likes watching sad movies too :p Anyway, luckily still managed to have some good food while all the dramas happening :) </span></span><br />
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Enmore NSW 2042<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TG0UKJMzoLI/AAAAAAAAJjw/IA-Mbx7pvsE/s1600/IMG2_2098.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TG0UKJMzoLI/AAAAAAAAJjw/IA-Mbx7pvsE/s320/IMG2_2098.jpg" /></span></span></a></div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Deep fried flounder served with ponzu sauce - $12. </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We thought they would serve a whole flounder, but actually not. It was served in pieces. Taste was good, but some of the thicker bones weren't crispy enough to eat. </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TG0ULAm4nxI/AAAAAAAAJj0/L8fFzze4AR4/s1600/IMG2_2108.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TG0ULAm4nxI/AAAAAAAAJj0/L8fFzze4AR4/s320/IMG2_2108.jpg" /></span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Flat head tempura - $10</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> . It was on the special menu, so we thought we should try it. Not too bad actually. Batter was thin and crispy, fish was very fresh too.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TG0ULictFdI/AAAAAAAAJj8/8fKr3cdaFAo/s1600/IMG2_2112.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TG0ULictFdI/AAAAAAAAJj8/8fKr3cdaFAo/s320/IMG2_2112.jpg" /></span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Now, the </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">sushi + sashimi combo - $35</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> that I wanted. They came in those 2 tier containers. Here's the sashimi and the other 1 was the sushi. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TG0UMOcdkVI/AAAAAAAAJkA/5UedOEZeB7o/s1600/IMG2_2116.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TG0UMOcdkVI/AAAAAAAAJkA/5UedOEZeB7o/s320/IMG2_2116.jpg" /></span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Didn't look really spectacular, but they didn't disappoint me since that's the whole point of visiting. At least there weren't any stringy pieces and all of them were fresh. </span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Didn't really have many choices for dessert, so we didn't order any. Also, we couldn't find that yellowtail sashimi that was recommended in SMH on the menu. Overall, I'm very very happy that I've finally found a decent Japanese restaurant in Sydney south. Moved here for few months already and this was the first decent Japanese restaurant that we don't have to travel at least an hour for. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Masa Japanese Restaurant</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">28 Princes Hwy</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sylvania NSW 2224</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Tel: (02) 9522 6995</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Note: Booking in advance is highly recommended. It's not a big restaurant and we went there on a Monday and it was full and really busy (only 2 person working in there). </span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img id="noborderimg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/S-Oe4YJ-YiI/AAAAAAAAJIY/VNeNVt-m364/camera-on.gif" /><img id="noborderimg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/S-Oe4YJ-YiI/AAAAAAAAJIY/VNeNVt-m364/camera-on.gif" /><img id="noborderimg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/S-Oe4YJ-YiI/AAAAAAAAJIY/VNeNVt-m364/camera-on.gif" /><img id="noborderimg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/S-Oe4Mq_QZI/AAAAAAAAJIQ/_7VReUwZyes/camera-half.gif" /><img id="noborderimg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/S-Oe4B2bPTI/AAAAAAAAJIU/ftq8FRTF06Y/camera-off.gif" /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Lighting wasn't too bad in there, just a little cramped. </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1958517558385355627.post-19201104249503680322010-08-13T15:10:00.000+10:002010-08-13T15:10:19.647+10:00Jurin<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">You know how I put in my info that I try not to repeat any restaurants in the same year? I broke my own rule with this restaurant. We liked it so much that at the end of the first visit we made booking on the spot for the next visit in less than 2 weeks time. So there will be many photos in this post, that doesn't mean I ate THAT much in 1 meal, that's simply because it's combination of 2 visits (2 different groups of people). I was given the task of making the orders on both visits, so I could deliberately not order the same dish unless it was something nice that I thought should be introduced to the 2nd group of people. Anyway, let's start looking at the nice food!! </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvt9vQm5GI/AAAAAAAAJc8/69gIN0E-4Mk/s1600/IMG2_1570.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvt9vQm5GI/AAAAAAAAJc8/69gIN0E-4Mk/s320/IMG2_1570.jpg" /></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Assorted Sashimi ~7 kind of fish~ - $35 </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Everything was so fresh, absolutely nothing to pick on here. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvt-GCcf7I/AAAAAAAAJdA/bc9dO7DEhNM/s1600/IMG2_1583.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvt-GCcf7I/AAAAAAAAJdA/bc9dO7DEhNM/s320/IMG2_1583.jpg" /></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Grilled Premium Duck Breast - $15.80. </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Fat juicy duck breast meat with some pretty pink colour salt. Nicely grilled with yummy juice bursting out with each bite. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvt-zVYnSI/AAAAAAAAJdI/0fqsAZ0MLn8/s1600/IMG2_1589.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvt-zVYnSI/AAAAAAAAJdI/0fqsAZ0MLn8/s320/IMG2_1589.jpg" /></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Udon Noodle Salad Sesame Sauce - $13.50 </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I thought the sesame sauce would be very rich and heavy, but it's actually not. Quite refreshing in fact. Sauce was served separately (i.e. the black bowl of sauce in the background) and we mixed at the table. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvt_JNDKGI/AAAAAAAAJdM/z_5-MIYvs-Q/s1600/IMG2_1598.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvt_JNDKGI/AAAAAAAAJdM/z_5-MIYvs-Q/s320/IMG2_1598.jpg" /></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Grilled Beef Tongue - didn't get the price. </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Looks a bit boring and dry I must say, but it's actually not too bad. First time having beef tongue that was so thickly cut. Usually those that I had at Jap/Kor bbq, they were all thinly sliced.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvt_vmztbI/AAAAAAAAJdQ/XNcZLQCF1Z4/s1600/IMG2_1605.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvt_vmztbI/AAAAAAAAJdQ/XNcZLQCF1Z4/s320/IMG2_1605.jpg" /></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Spicy Salmon Roll - $12.80. </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Even though it said "spicy", I didn't really find it spicy at all. Little bit disappointed at that. </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvt_0KHCJI/AAAAAAAAJdU/f88i0OOEeNI/s1600/IMG2_1610.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvt_0KHCJI/AAAAAAAAJdU/f88i0OOEeNI/s320/IMG2_1610.jpg" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Squid & Scallop Steamed Dampling [sic] "Shumai" - $11. </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1 problem with Jurin was that their menu had quite a bit of spelling mistakes. Seeing the menu like that, Robin decided to order everything on the menu that had a spelling mistake just for fun. Glad that we did!! This was actually 1 of those nice dishes that we ordered again the in the second visit. </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuAgDOWKI/AAAAAAAAJdY/qbyIUhYJ5CY/s1600/IMG2_1625.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuAgDOWKI/AAAAAAAAJdY/qbyIUhYJ5CY/s320/IMG2_1625.jpg" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Jumbo Roll - $25. </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This is something you might want to order just for fun - just to see how HUGE a sushi can get :) However, because it's so big, eating it was a little bit 'tricky'. </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuBaOHnlI/AAAAAAAAJdc/IRZyP3_2rNY/s1600/IMG2_1629.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuBaOHnlI/AAAAAAAAJdc/IRZyP3_2rNY/s320/IMG2_1629.jpg" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Deep Fried School Prown [sic] "Koebi" - $9.50. </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">There you go! Another spelling mistake spotted. Again, glad that we did order this! Very very crunchy school prawns, seasoned very well. Something that would go very well with some beer. </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuB_cd40I/AAAAAAAAJdg/m5DOjyCkMB8/s1600/IMG2_1630.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuB_cd40I/AAAAAAAAJdg/m5DOjyCkMB8/s320/IMG2_1630.jpg" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Tonkatsu" Ccrumbed [sic] Deep Fried Pork Cutlet - $18.90. </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Another dish on the table because of spelling mistake. Very nice!! Crunchy crust outside, very tender inside. </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuCLbxI4I/AAAAAAAAJdk/v5iJjlLsDb4/s1600/IMG2_1641.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuCLbxI4I/AAAAAAAAJdk/v5iJjlLsDb4/s320/IMG2_1641.jpg" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Kasuzuke - $15.50. </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It's sake marinated fish. Can't remember what sort of fish that is though. Strong smell of sake, the texture a bit different from usual cooked fish. It's a bit softer and smoother. I quite enjoyed it.</span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuCiMxvVI/AAAAAAAAJdo/q9hNFzi48Y8/s1600/IMG2_1646.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuCiMxvVI/AAAAAAAAJdo/q9hNFzi48Y8/s320/IMG2_1646.jpg" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Eggplant with Miso "Nasuden" - $13.50. </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sister ordered it thinking it was like an eggplant dish that she had somewhere else. Turned out to be something totally different. Tasted alright, I just thought a bit too much sauce. </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuGGIoI_I/AAAAAAAAJeI/aj-Hge4W8h0/s1600/IMG2_1671.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuGGIoI_I/AAAAAAAAJeI/aj-Hge4W8h0/s320/IMG2_1671.jpg" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I really like the bamboo sake container that they used. Looked so cool! And before serving the sake, the waiter brought a tray of cups out for us to choose. There were all sorts of cups to choose from. Different colours, made of different materials, different shapes and etc. </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuGqNUtcI/AAAAAAAAJeM/weCCT9P3m70/s1600/IMG2_1673.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuGqNUtcI/AAAAAAAAJeM/weCCT9P3m70/s320/IMG2_1673.jpg" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Torched Salmon with Avocado Sauce - $15.50 </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> I was hoping for the smell of torched salmon, like those seared salmon on sushi, but the salad dressing has covered the charred salmon smell. Little bit disappointed. Still tasty nonetheless. </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuG_bgADI/AAAAAAAAJeQ/c7E2ir36FNo/s1600/IMG2_1686.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuG_bgADI/AAAAAAAAJeQ/c7E2ir36FNo/s320/IMG2_1686.jpg" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Salmon & Cream Spring Roll "Harumaki" - $7.80 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This was definitely different from the usual Chinese spring rolls that I had. The shape was different, sauce was different and the filling was different too! Yummy stuff!</span></span></i></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuHC4a7GI/AAAAAAAAJeU/pDkYmfacuxw/s1600/IMG2_1690.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuHC4a7GI/AAAAAAAAJeU/pDkYmfacuxw/s320/IMG2_1690.jpg" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Salmon Lover - $32.50 </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Yup! That's me. I like my salmon sashimi and sushi and aburi. A bit disappointed with the torched salmon though. Just not quite what I was expecting. </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuHgyEnqI/AAAAAAAAJeY/BaDZq88wJEs/s1600/IMG2_1699.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuHgyEnqI/AAAAAAAAJeY/BaDZq88wJEs/s320/IMG2_1699.jpg" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Scallop and Prawn saute with Lemon Soy Sauce.</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> I know couldn't really see any scallop or prawn in focus, but they were certainly there :p Sorry! Bad photo... The eggplant that's in focus was really good too actually :) </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuIDWiuOI/AAAAAAAAJec/D3nRDNcIPLE/s1600/IMG2_1710.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuIDWiuOI/AAAAAAAAJec/D3nRDNcIPLE/s320/IMG2_1710.jpg" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Deep Fried Octopus "Takokara" - $9.50 </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We actually wanted to order the deep fried school "prown" again, but they ran out. So we got the octopus instead. Just as good! But because the pieces were bigger, it felt like we had less octopus than we had prawns. </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuIR27BZI/AAAAAAAAJeg/RMA5P8zp0cE/s1600/IMG2_1718.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8cRGV7KYxgA/TEvuIR27BZI/AAAAAAAAJeg/RMA5P8zp0cE/s320/IMG2_1718.jpg" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Assorted Sushi - $32.50 </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Just ordered this to make sure that everyone got some sushi and got some rice to fill them up. Good that all the fish were fresh and yummy :) </span></span><br />
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Crows Nest NSW 2065<br />
Tel: (02) 9966 5811 </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Lighting wasn't too good for photo there at dinner time. A bit dark. Not much room to move around too. It's a small restaurant with as many tables and chairs as it could possibly fit before getting too uncomfortable for the guests. </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6