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Rumahnya boleh jauh, tapi it’s all worth it. Dari Chadstone aja butuh waktu at least 20 menit lewat freeway. Tapi kalo makanannya kayak beginian, jauh apapun ditempuh … no problemo.

Semuanya pada kontribusi makanan nih. Dari Ikan Sambel Balado, Beef Rendang, Udang Pedas, Nasi Tumpeng Lengkap, Mie Goreng, Sambel Goreng, Ayam Goreng, Salad, dan unlimited stock of buah-buahan.

Figure 1: Nasi Tumpeng Komplit.

Figure 2: Ikan Sambal Balado

Figure 3: Hidangan Komplit

Saturday, 07th October 2006 – Foods adventures.
Breakfast: none
Lunch: Big portion of Chinese food at Rose Garden for each person.

Afternoon meal: Lots of Dutch Poffertjes at QV with Coffee.
Dinner: 6 portions of Chinese dumplings. Someone was craving for dumplings.

After dinner meal: Instant noodles for everybody.

Supper: Krispy Kreme donuts.

A very simple question: were we really that hungry or just merely greedy?

I am writing this blog because I am having an insomnia tonight. I called my parents overseas asking how they’re doing, and let my mum talking and gossiping as usual, but still not working. So I browse some photos captured by a friend of mine, especially photos about foods.

These photos were taken when we had a bday lunch at Koko in Crown Casino. This is also to show you how much we love japanese foods.

Hotate Misoyaki	Sushi & Sashimi Platter	Sakana Shioyaki
The photos were by courtesy of Felix Irawan

Friday, 04th August 2006

Happy Bday 29th for Libun. Schedule for dinner – Korean Hometown (Oakleigh). Ordered meals: Korean Special Bday Fried Noodles, Chicken Bulgogi, Pork Bulgogi, Seafood Eun-Tang (taste like kimchi stew but full of seafoods) and lots of Korean side dishes.

As for dessert we had two kinds of bday cakes bought from David Jones. Cookies & Cream with Chocollate Topping, and Strawberry Cheese Cake.

Saturday, 05th August 2006

We booked a restaurant called KoKo, a fine dining restaurant at Crown Casino. The best thing about eating at this restaurant was that we got a complementary vallet parking at Crown Casino. Sound great, hey! The interior of the restaurant was so stunning. We ordered a lunch set C, we decided not to choose the teppanyaki lunch set, considering that we did not really like teppanyaki that much. I wasn’t sure what the others ordered for their lunch set, but all of them was delicious. As for me and lala, we ordered Hotate Misoyaki (freshly baked scallops with miso cream…very very mouth watering entree), and Namagaki (fresh oysters served with ponzu dipping sauce) as the entrees. I loved Hotate Misoyaki, but lala loved the Namagaki instead (because of their freshness I guess). For the main courses, we both ordered Sushi & Sashimi Platter. Again, very delicious.

Hotate misoyaki	Namagaki	Sushi & Sashimi Platter

Finally, we had green tea ice creams for the dessert. Sorry, I don’t have the photo, but you can imagine what a regular green tea ice cream looks like.

Not long after having lunch, we went down one cafe bar called Cervo, still at Crown Casino. I was feeling hungry, because it wasn’t a big lunch for me. So I ordered Bruschetta (toasted crusty loaf with dice italian tomatoes, with spanish onion, fresh basil and black pepper powder), and a flat white coffee.

As for dinner, again we headed down to another Japanese restaurant at Lonsdale st called Izakaya Chuji. I ordered Katsudon, Sukiyaki, and YuKe (raw beef). What a day!

Saturday, 29th July 2006

To begin with, I have started my liking to Williamstown (Melbourne) ever since we had those crepes in Breizoz. There is one restaurant called Sam’s Boat Shed in Williamstown located on 3 Syme Street. We went there for having a late dinner, because we were still stuffed with those meals we had in a Malaysian resto in South Yarra (Bakut Teh, Assam Laksa, and Oriental Pork with Eggs)

Anyway, I am not gonna talk about the foods we ate at the Malay resto, but the Sam’s Boat’s Foods instead. The resto is located near the Williamstown beach, close to the dock where people parks their boats or I can simply say it is next to the Quest Williamstown Hotel/Accommodation.

The resto is pretty much looks like a hut from the outside, and the inside interior/design is more like being in a boat. There is a mini bar right in the middle together with the cash register.

Well, enough with the brief description of the place itself. Now let’s talk about the foods we had in there.

As for the entrees, we had a mouth-watering Prawn Bruchettas (toasted garlic bread with tiger prawns on top),

and tasty Potatoe Skins (freshly baked potatoe skins with melted cheese and crispy bacon plus sour cream on top).

There were fully-loaded entrees, I must admit. My stomach was already half-full, and yet the main course hadn’t turned up. Luckily our wood-fire smoked salmon pizza was consider small. We managed to finish it all (with a little struggle though).

Planning to have an apple strudle for our dessert earlier, but no way – we couldn’t take it anymore. So we cancelled our dessert and I ordered a red-wine by the glass instead.

Friday, 21st July 2006

We are having such lavish Russian meals over a friend’s house for our dinner. All type of unique Russian cooking style were on the dining table, from chickens, lambs, beef, and salads. For just AUD$65.00 for the lots, it can feed up to 8 people in general. Not bad, hey!

Saturday, 22nd July 2006

We spent our early lunch at this Thai restaurant in Williamstown called Wild Rice. Not much of an original Thai food. It was a bit overpriced too for such a small and standard taste. Quite a disappointment we experienced.

The excitement came when we came down to this little French hut serving delicious crepes. Breizoz – French Creperies, the name, in Williamstown. Famous for its creperies, serving from traditional crepes to modern crepes. Nothing can beat the traditional and simple savoury creperies and the sweet creperies. Mouth watering delicacies, I must say. The flaming Orange Jaffa Les Crepe with Vanilla Ice Cream was just amazed me the most.

My recommendation:

• Les Galletes – Cheese
• Les Galletes – The Complete (Egg + Ham + Cheese)
• Les Crepes – Jaffa (Orange) with Creme and Chocollate topping
• Les Crepes – Jaffa Suprise (the flaming crepe), contains alcohol
• Les Crepes – Beurre Sucre, just butter and sugar (simple but superb)

For dinner, we had a chinese-malaysian food in Clayton. I can’t recall the name of the restaurant, but the foods were not bad. To end our saturday night, Pink Panther the Movie was the best companion. What a quality time to have some good laughs.

Sunday, 23rd July 2006

Quite a relaxing rainy Sunday afternoon. Koko Black hot chollocate, a delicate drink to end our great weekends.

One of the employees in our company is leaving. As a small token of appreciation, the managing director was taking him and everyone out to lunch today at the Blue Stone Restaurant located in 349 Flinders Lane. I must admit, they make a really good gourmet pizzas, and delicious dessert, especially the smoke salmon pizza. A little piece of heaven melt in my mouth. We had 2 hours of great time and good food.