Cruising......

Misty morning to work during winter

One of those things that make me go hmmmmmm......

A big "tank" carrying flammable gas; warning signs / fire extinguisher / emergency phone numbers ... etc are stated for safety purposes.
(Hold that thought)

I wonder how the driver is going to grab the fire extinguisher in case of fire...? It is securely fasten at the back of the tank and covered with a plastic cover.

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Abyssinian food

This pick for dinner was just a random choice from the net.
The first trail of thoughts: There is an African restaurant in Adelaide??!!
The second thought: Lets go and try.....

Place: The Abyssinian Restaurant along Henley Beach road.

I am surprised that it was moderately packed on a weekday night. There were groups of people coming in after we sat down and when we left. Ignorant or sceptical as I may be, this is a well known place for some people (as I observed)


This is where the adventure begins: 3 different types of African beer. 2 of the beer tasted slightly similar to Carlsberg and Heineken, but one of the beer is an acquired taste (sort of bitter and sour)

The portion for 3 people is huge!! It is served on a huge plate and each person eats their own side *Note the 3 sourdough bread around the plate.
What are in that plate? : lamb and chicken, spinach, potatoes, pumpkin and eggs.
How do you eat this?? With your hands =) Peel the bread off the sides and wrap the meat/veges up. I liked the spicy chicken and vegetables; the chili taste is very different from the normal red chili that is bought from the market. It had a dry spicy aftertaste that linger on my tongue


Definitely a different sort of meal in my daily life. A very full dinner too....

Argentinian Grill

Place: Argentinian Grill
along Port Road, next to Adelaide Entertainment Centre
Occasion: K.L's birthday

Look who came for dinner??

As usual we started off with drinks: Guinness Stout and red wine (Shiraz)


Appetisers: Tapas, bread and mussels and clams soup

Vegetables: Rockets with feta cheese

Potatoes and homemade sauce for the grill meat

Mains: The grill meat; pork, beef, quail and venison (I think). The meat are place above a small grill to keep the food warm. As you slowly work your way down, the bottom pieces of the meat definitely lost its moisture but was the most tender meat comparatively. Quite flavoursome with their homemade sauce. Although the portion was meant for 2 people (Pigeon & KL can't finish it)

My mains: seafood chowder. It has mussels, clams, blue swimmer crabs, prawns and quail (?? Don't know what is that quail doing in there, but I'm not complaining... hehehe). If you plan to order this dish for mains, you could skip the mussels and clams soup. This is has a similar tomato based soup but has richer seafood flavour (because of the crabs).

ps: Too full to end the meal with dessert....

pps: Would go back there again one day... yummmmmmm

Auge

Auge Restorante winner of 2007/2008 Entertainment Book Award

I can understand why the restaurant is in the finalist; but with so many nice restaurants around town, I don't know how to judge them to be "The Golden Winner". The place has very soft yet posh interior design and accompanied with ambient music. I'd say it's "the place" to bring to impress a girl if you are bring her out for a drink (not a meal; reasons below)

My Hibiscus Champagne

So pretty; as time passes, the flower slowly blooms and the pink colour intensifies...


I can't remember this cocktail's name =P Looks like sunrise/sunset

The food below are main courses; Barra fish, duck and beef.
As you can see you're date will not be full with the portion size, unless she has a small appetite. The flavour/taste/texture is definitely exquisite (although it still can't beat The Grange's).



PS: I guess the theory of Fine-dining is that the Price of the food is focus on the quality of the dish and not quantity. Which also leads to the next question = After spending over $100 for this meal, would you order takeaway to fill the rest of your tummy??$100 vs $20...

THANK YOU "D" FOR THIS MEAL!!!!

Escargot Hunting Round 2

Escargot Hunting Round 2 = SUCCESS!!!

Place: The Corner Bistro
(along Leigh Street)

I love this French restaurant; simple design, similar to a French cafe, cute French waiter with strong French accent that makes most gals weak at the knees (including me :P) and I met a very charming French cook. There is a pretty French waitress who also works there (part time; I'll leave it to the guys to find out)

Starters:

Champagne and bread.....















I love my escargot!!! Savory, strong garlic flavour and chewy texture = I LIKE!!!



















Mains: Steak cooked differently (with red wine & with cream)











Dessert: Crepes and Ice-cream











PS: Mains and dessert was good, but the escargot just dominated my appetite. I can picture myself eating 5 plates of escargot in one sitting...yummy...

It's a Crazy World out there....

The fashion right now (2008) are

1 : Having babies
There are so many famous pregnacy and birth of babies going on in the gossip world. Naming a few: Alba, Jolie, Spears, Blanchett, Richie, Kidman, Garner...etc

2 : Beheading/ ripping bodies apart/ cannibalism
The killers don't hesistate and kill their "loved" ones or some random strangers. Not just ordinary killing where you stab the person or put a bullet through; It's slashing/chopping the victim's head off.
View here, here & here

In Canada :
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,24136340-401,00.html?from=public_rss

In Brazil:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24111677-23109,00.html

In UK:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24159957-23109,00.html

In Greece:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,24123966-401,00.html?from=public_rss

and much much more, these are the recent Big Headlines that occured in July & August...

Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy
World World World World World World World World World World

鼎泰豐

There is a saying (not sure how true is it): If you go Taiwan and didn't go 鼎泰豐 to eat 小笼包 = you've never really went Taiwan.
This restaurant has already branched out/franchised into Japan, USA, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea and Indonesia; and recently to Sydney (June 2008).



The one I went in Taiwan; Honestly, their 小笼包 is very good (thin pastry skin and juicy on the inside). Here are the dishes that we've ordered.... YUM!!!





































How an organised restaurant works to fulfill the demands; first they need "a few" chefs working non-stop, kneading and rolling the buns and dumplings (about 15 of them, not including chefs that fry the food) . Then they need a few humidifier to "expand" the buns (about 4 big ones). Not to forget, lots and lots of steamers... The last 2 pictures was taken about 1 minute apart (just me stepping back to photograph a bigger view) and the height of the basket increased in record speed.























I wanna go back there again...

Idiot on Facebook

This guy added me on facebook; born 1981 and frens we have in common are the ones from girl school... hmmm suspicious hence I messaged him and he messaged back:

Me: Remind me again; who are you?
GG: I love you

Action taken: DELETE & BLOCKED

Retarded fella....

To grin or not to grin???

Just when Adelaide is becoming a "Big" city;

AjisenRamen is in Adelaide!! Go try Go eat!!

Starbucks is closing it's franchise here....

I wished that I had a better camera...

Loved mist and morning dews.
This makes feels like I am in SpiderDemonLand (蜘蛀精 & 盘丝洞)

Those moments...

Everyone went back to see grandma, who by the way is 93. She's getting better now =)



Went to visit Grandpa's grave and my third aunties grave.

Nostalgic

When I was young, listening to Frank Sinatra/ Teresa Teng... etc are always refered as oldies. Now that I'm heading to late twenties music from New Kids on the Block/ Duran Duran are sort of "Oldies" to me, although they are classified as music from the 80s.

Over the whole of last week I've been driving to a friend's place (about 9/10 ish) while listening to the radio. Especially over the weekends, the radio stations tends to put clubbing music and I don't even know half the music that they played. For the ones I knew, it certainly brought back memories.

Music like Sandstorm & Feel the Beat by Darude (seen him performing live in Flux), Rapture by Iio & much much more (can't think of anything else off my head) really brings back memories of me getting ready to go clubbing at J's place; putting on make up, dressing up, look for shoes, find a designated driver (ya right!), speed to the club, speed back home. The flirting/ pulled away/ running away from strangers; The bum into friends and hugs & kisses.

My memories in clubbing; dropping ice down ppl's top; I poured my drink on some idiot's face; eating at mamak after clubbing while a few bunch of wolves stared on; the smell of smoke after clubbing; my 1st ciggy.... good old memories..

Now everything changed so much back home. The names of the clubs have changed, the scene at the club has changed and new clubs popped up. Clubbing used to be bumping into friends and see old rich ahpek trying to pick younger gals; Now it seem to be flooded with young hooligans out to "eat tofu" and chicks who randomly pick a "fight" at other gals (the way they dance/dressed etc)... tsktsk.... Most clubs used to play techno/trance/ house music and now they are flooded with hiphop/ rap music

I must be getting old and out of the scene...

Dream Liqueur Shelf

I love this shelf,so many sake bottle.. so little time.....

Big "urns" of sake....

Lunch in 101

Taipei 101 the tallest building (yet) in Taiwan.
























In the elevator up to the look out point.
























View from the top



















Lunch in the food court of 101, the dishes are slightly different from what you can get in a normal food court. Beef or lamb or chicken with large squid!! Yummy!!! The noodle dish my sis ordered = normal.... but I love the ice-cream waffles. You can actually order savoury dishes with the waffles; fried bacon/ sausages /cheese with ice-cream. If I wasn't full, I would have ordered it but I decided to go for the normal plain chocolate ice-cream with chocolate sauce and cream topping...