Saturday, October 16, 2010
Nobu
For a long time, I've been dying to go there since it first opened in Melbourne.
Finally, my cullinary dream came true when Michelle decided to have her birthday lunch there, yay! :)
Hungry people to appease - myself, Amanda, birthday girl Michelle, Connie and Beck.
Heads up before you proceed with the following - I'm very impressed by the food, in fact, I was absolutely blown away! But I shan't oversell it, I shall let the photos do the talking.
Had some beans sprinkled with sea salt before we decided what to order.
For entree, we had the following:
Sashimi with jalapeno.
Tacos with salmon, lobster and crab fillings, accompanied with a salsa.
Crispy rice with tuna salsa.
Everyone was flabbergasted by this, it was simply amazing!
Salmon tataki
Beef tataki
It was shortly followed by miso soup but I forgot to take a photo of it.
Moving along, main course:
Prawns cooked in a creamy lemony sauce
Scallops and asparagus with spicy garlic sauce
Soft shell crab kara age
Gyoza with a ponzu sauce
Beef sirloin steak with teriyaki sauce
As for dessert, I had a chocolate bento box. You may be curious as to what a chocolate bento box consists of. Well, ladies and gentlemen...
.... a chocolate fondant with green tea ice cream and goma disc!!
Molten chocolate oozing out, gosh I'm in cullinary heaven! One of the best chocolate fondants I've had!
Japanese doughnuts filled with a chocolate ganache with almond ice cream and toasted pistachios. Both Amanda and Beck had this.
Michelle's sorbet and ice cream. There was one very interesting and unusual flavour - Thai basil ice cream! @_@
So, did the above photos successfully sell Nobu to you? LOL
Either way, I was very happy with my fine dining experience there, would not hesitate to go there again!
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Btw it was my last day at my current position on Friday. To my pleasant surprise, got a very special delivery courtesy of my lovely colleagues...
... in the form of beautiful roses!!
Look at them, they're just so pretty!!! *swoons*
I know I'm not a flower person, but, like I said before - what girl wouldn't love receiving a massive bouquet of flowers every now and then? So boys, it really doesn't take much to impress us girls haha.
Besides the roses, Lara also made us her famous tiramisu. You can't get more authentic than that! (She's Italian you see)
Awww, I love roses~~~
For a long time, I've been dying to go there since it first opened in Melbourne. 
Finally, my cullinary dream came true when Michelle decided to have her birthday lunch there, yay! :)
Hungry people to appease - myself, Amanda, birthday girl Michelle, Connie and Beck. Heads up before you proceed with the following - I'm very impressed by the food, in fact, I was absolutely blown away! But I shan't oversell it, I shall let the photos do the talking.
Had some beans sprinkled with sea salt before we decided what to order. For entree, we had the following:
Sashimi with jalapeno. 
Tacos with salmon, lobster and crab fillings, accompanied with a salsa. 
Crispy rice with tuna salsa. 
Everyone was flabbergasted by this, it was simply amazing!
Salmon tataki
Beef tatakiIt was shortly followed by miso soup but I forgot to take a photo of it.
Moving along, main course:
Prawns cooked in a creamy lemony sauce
Scallops and asparagus with spicy garlic sauce
Soft shell crab kara age
Gyoza with a ponzu sauce
Beef sirloin steak with teriyaki sauceAs for dessert, I had a chocolate bento box. You may be curious as to what a chocolate bento box consists of. Well, ladies and gentlemen...
.... a chocolate fondant with green tea ice cream and goma disc!! 
Molten chocolate oozing out, gosh I'm in cullinary heaven! One of the best chocolate fondants I've had! 
Japanese doughnuts filled with a chocolate ganache with almond ice cream and toasted pistachios. Both Amanda and Beck had this. 
Michelle's sorbet and ice cream. There was one very interesting and unusual flavour - Thai basil ice cream! @_@
So, did the above photos successfully sell Nobu to you? LOL Either way, I was very happy with my fine dining experience there, would not hesitate to go there again!
*********
Btw it was my last day at my current position on Friday. To my pleasant surprise, got a very special delivery courtesy of my lovely colleagues...
... in the form of beautiful roses!! 
Look at them, they're just so pretty!!! *swoons*
I know I'm not a flower person, but, like I said before - what girl wouldn't love receiving a massive bouquet of flowers every now and then? So boys, it really doesn't take much to impress us girls haha. 
Besides the roses, Lara also made us her famous tiramisu. You can't get more authentic than that! (She's Italian you see)
Awww, I love roses~~~Labels: food, fun time, special occasions
♥ When you think of happiness, I hope you think of me.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Busy busy busy
The perfect description for the past week.
Went to Yokohama for teppanyaki right after work - Connie and Amanda.
We've been so looking forward to it since we last went there a few weeks ago - Michelle and myself.
Fried maryland fillet - yummy!
Our assorted vegetables sizzling away, the chef is a funny character btw. I kinda like him, at least he's not boring lol.
Tiger prawn and succulent scallops. *drools*
And this - ladies and gentlemen, simply the best steak! (Ok, I may have exaggerated a little but you get the idea and FYI - we had it rare) In fact, Amanda and I were saying to each other the next day," How good was that steak last night!"
Connie had been craving this fried rice for so long that she was in a euphoric state as soon as we were served this.
Went karaoke after dinner and dessert (went across to Pancake Parlour right after teppanyaki, yes I know we're such pigs, shut up!). Note that it was a Thursday night - it dawned on me that we were such lunatics to have gone karaoke on a weeknight, obviously we weren't thinking lol.
Someone once told me that I'm a karaoke junkie. Maybe I am, bite me! :P
Please do check out the above clip, it's so funny that we were pissing ourselves watching it over and over again! Who knows, the girls might shoot to stardom after this is uploaded to Youtube haha.
The next morning at the office - note that three of us looked perfectly normal at the end of the table, unaffected by the event that transpired the night before (I didn't sleep until 1am). Alas, this was but a facade for I suffered the repercussions of our madness soon after lunch - I was pratically walking around the office like a zombie! Oh well, no regrets though, we had so much fun! :)
A couple of days later, went to Cuckoo at Mt Dandenong in conjunction with Aunty Lily's birthday.
God knows how I love a hearty buffet! *drools*
It goes without saying that I absolutely enjoyed myself there - myself and Diana.
I remember taking a photo at this exact same spot two years ago, funny how time flies.
Profiteroles cake - to Daniel's credit, it was such a lovely cake!
And this, I said with a very heavy heart - it was finally the dreaded moment to bid adieu to dear Wingsze. T_T
Got her a bear from Build A Bear which has my pre-recorded message - "Wingsze, I will miss you very much. Take care. And please get married soon!" Note that I recorded this in Cantonese. Think she almost killed me after the last line haha.
Looking at three of us former Dalpura housemates, I had an epiphany - the only thing that is constant in this world is change. We have since moved on to different phases of our lifes, such is life, c'est la vie.
Wingsze started camwhoring with her food.
And with someone else's food too... -____-lll
Hung out at Max Brenner after dinner.
One final massage for Yong before her flight, how funny!
意外的邂逅到底是为了什么？
既时心已起了涟漪又能怎样？
怎么还是永无止境的等待呢？
终点到底在多远的未来呢？
无奈。
The perfect description for the past week.
Went to Yokohama for teppanyaki right after work - Connie and Amanda.
We've been so looking forward to it since we last went there a few weeks ago - Michelle and myself.
Fried maryland fillet - yummy!
Our assorted vegetables sizzling away, the chef is a funny character btw. I kinda like him, at least he's not boring lol.
Tiger prawn and succulent scallops. *drools*
And this - ladies and gentlemen, simply the best steak! (Ok, I may have exaggerated a little but you get the idea and FYI - we had it rare) In fact, Amanda and I were saying to each other the next day," How good was that steak last night!"
Connie had been craving this fried rice for so long that she was in a euphoric state as soon as we were served this.
Went karaoke after dinner and dessert (went across to Pancake Parlour right after teppanyaki, yes I know we're such pigs, shut up!). Note that it was a Thursday night - it dawned on me that we were such lunatics to have gone karaoke on a weeknight, obviously we weren't thinking lol.
Someone once told me that I'm a karaoke junkie. Maybe I am, bite me! :PPlease do check out the above clip, it's so funny that we were pissing ourselves watching it over and over again! Who knows, the girls might shoot to stardom after this is uploaded to Youtube haha.
The next morning at the office - note that three of us looked perfectly normal at the end of the table, unaffected by the event that transpired the night before (I didn't sleep until 1am). Alas, this was but a facade for I suffered the repercussions of our madness soon after lunch - I was pratically walking around the office like a zombie! Oh well, no regrets though, we had so much fun! :)
A couple of days later, went to Cuckoo at Mt Dandenong in conjunction with Aunty Lily's birthday.
God knows how I love a hearty buffet! *drools*
It goes without saying that I absolutely enjoyed myself there - myself and Diana.
I remember taking a photo at this exact same spot two years ago, funny how time flies.
Profiteroles cake - to Daniel's credit, it was such a lovely cake!
And this, I said with a very heavy heart - it was finally the dreaded moment to bid adieu to dear Wingsze. T_T
Got her a bear from Build A Bear which has my pre-recorded message - "Wingsze, I will miss you very much. Take care. And please get married soon!" Note that I recorded this in Cantonese. Think she almost killed me after the last line haha.
Looking at three of us former Dalpura housemates, I had an epiphany - the only thing that is constant in this world is change. We have since moved on to different phases of our lifes, such is life, c'est la vie.
Wingsze started camwhoring with her food.
And with someone else's food too... -____-lll
Hung out at Max Brenner after dinner.
One final massage for Yong before her flight, how funny!意外的邂逅到底是为了什么？
既时心已起了涟漪又能怎样？
怎么还是永无止境的等待呢？
终点到底在多远的未来呢？
无奈。
♥ When you think of happiness, I hope you think of me.
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Tulip Festival
Just a quick update, am getting suspiciously yawny!
So, went to tulip farm the other day. It was such a sunny day, hence the big crowd. In fact, it was SO sunny that it felt like a big shock to the body after the cold winter we just had!
I have a confession - I'm not exactly a flower person. Sure, what girl wouldn't love receiving a massive bouquet of flowers every now and then but I'm not one who would go gaga over flowers (in other words, I'm not 花痴, if you know what I mean LOL).
So do pardon my less-than-enthusiastic sentiments towards the vibrant tulips. No doubt they're pretty but that's as far as the appreciation goes.
Nevertheless, I did enjoy myself very much there. After all, this was my FIRST time there!
Plus, they make a rather picturesque backdrop for photos haha. (Just in case you're wondering, NO - I never joined any of those tulip farm trips organised by ISA back in uni, I was only a poor student trying to save as much as I could!)
Interesting fact to note: Aunty Lily also shares the same sentiments when it comes to flowers.
Jasper lazily sheltering under the shade. Smart boy! Much to my bewilderment, he remained whiney throughout the entire journey (including the journey back home).
I'm buried amidst the ocean of tulips!
Think this is a very good shot of Aunty Lily, kudos to the photographer (ahem, that would be yours truly mwahaha).
With Diana - love the bright red (or was it orange?) tulips!
With Lynn who has the cutest voice.
Given my dress of the day, these pink tulips could be a potentially good camouflage in the event of 'emergency'. They go so well with my dress!
Oh and by the way, looking at the billboard now, it just occurred to me that the festival is ending soon in mid October. So do swing by there soon if you're interested!
Just a quick update, am getting suspiciously yawny!
So, went to tulip farm the other day. It was such a sunny day, hence the big crowd. In fact, it was SO sunny that it felt like a big shock to the body after the cold winter we just had!
I have a confession - I'm not exactly a flower person. Sure, what girl wouldn't love receiving a massive bouquet of flowers every now and then but I'm not one who would go gaga over flowers (in other words, I'm not 花痴, if you know what I mean LOL).
So do pardon my less-than-enthusiastic sentiments towards the vibrant tulips. No doubt they're pretty but that's as far as the appreciation goes.
Nevertheless, I did enjoy myself very much there. After all, this was my FIRST time there!
Plus, they make a rather picturesque backdrop for photos haha. (Just in case you're wondering, NO - I never joined any of those tulip farm trips organised by ISA back in uni, I was only a poor student trying to save as much as I could!)
Interesting fact to note: Aunty Lily also shares the same sentiments when it comes to flowers.
Jasper lazily sheltering under the shade. Smart boy! Much to my bewilderment, he remained whiney throughout the entire journey (including the journey back home).
I'm buried amidst the ocean of tulips!
Think this is a very good shot of Aunty Lily, kudos to the photographer (ahem, that would be yours truly mwahaha).
With Diana - love the bright red (or was it orange?) tulips!
With Lynn who has the cutest voice.
Given my dress of the day, these pink tulips could be a potentially good camouflage in the event of 'emergency'. They go so well with my dress!
Oh and by the way, looking at the billboard now, it just occurred to me that the festival is ending soon in mid October. So do swing by there soon if you're interested!Labels: fun time
♥ When you think of happiness, I hope you think of me.
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