Ok~! I’ve kinda done my Japanese presentation for Wednesday, and other than having to prepare for tomorrow’s two hour tutorial, I have time to… update this poor blog.
But first, checking to see if anyone else updated their blog… =( unfortunately, no one has. Internet has been getting so boring lately, I can’t believe it! All I do now is check gmail, oricon charts (haha, go, Morning Musume!!) and um… look at recipes. Not coz I want to cook, it’s just interesting, that’s all.
Oh yeah, I’m meant to be updating. Right, let’s see, let’s start off with a pretty picture of a tree from Usyd.
Now this is what I call a real tree. Not those puny sickly ones that are just branches in the harsh cold weather, this is a real tree. Disregard the fallen branch...
This is Broadway, Tomodachi. Went there some Mondays ago, can't remember which... but it's pretty nice.
More interior, which is nicely decorated.
Beef tataki salad with avocado. Not bad, I like salads =) Going healthy! (haha, just wait till you see the later photos... healthy indeed)
Some set meal of pork? or chicken katsu, I forgot already... been so long =( Anyway, we had to go to class, so didn't really try other stuff, but it was filling anyway. Rating... hm... taking into account the value for price, customer service, and quality, it's actually not that great, so, maybe a 5.5... 6? Yeah...
Look, my phone mascot. His name is Sano. Not Sano from Hanakimi- it's Sano(suke) from Rurouni Kenshin.
Sano is very furry and cute.
This is from Mexican Crepe at Usyd. Quite newly opened, it's really quite popular. They have specials in the morning for breakfast, so this was one of them. Um... mushroom cheese chicken crepe I think? I shared it with F.H one Tuesday morning. I wasn't hungry- she was.
Wasn't anything really special. Tasted quite plain actually... needed like, two packets of pepper =)
Two Sundays ago, I had to go to work at 2:15. I had to teach Sunday School too, which finished at 11:30. Was going to walk to Thornleigh McDonald's, but ended up going here instead. This is at Wild Fired, Pennant Hills. Just walk further up from the Corner Cafe and you'll see it. They renovated it into a really nice cafe. See the woodfire oven on the left? =D
Other side~~
This is their um... (runs to check menu) "Peri Peri Chilli Kebab- marinated and char grilled chicken breast fillet skewers, bbq'd on char grill with peri peri chilli sauce, lettuce and tomato on pita bread." Yup, it was nice. I liked their rice. =)
This is Mixed Grill Gourmet Meat Pizza- "bbq sauce,mozzarella, lamb pieces, pepperoni, chorizo sausage, bacon, egg, tasty cheese topped with sweet chilli sauce." Hey... I thought mozzarella IS cheese... anyway, it was good... The weather outside was storming while I was eating, there are this flash of lightning and this really loud thunder that caused a few seconds of blackout. Annoyingly caused Epay to cease working at Franklins, which messed up one of my customer's transaction that day =_= Oh well, anyway, yeah... Wild Fired is a pretty good cafe, so it's worth going another time. Rating of 7.
Istana with family~~ Nevermind the dirty table, their Nasi Lemak~~
And Sambal Kang Kong~~ I dunno why, but this has always been one of my favourite vegetable dishes. =) Looking at the photo now makes me want to eat it again...
What is this ugly piece of brown thing doing on my site... oh! Uni food. Haha, this is at bottom level Wentworth. Had to get it coz we wanted to sit at the cafe to discuss group work. It's a brownie, an exceedingly sweet (till you can gag kind of sweetness) brownie.
Oh I remember that day. That terrible terrible day of mid-sem exam last Tuesday. I needed that flat white. Studied for two hours before my exam. And guess what? It was bad anyway. I hope I don't get it back tomorrow, or ever. Hopefully someone will be nice enough to flush it down the toilet before it gets back to me.
I don't know what happened to make the photo so blue at the back, I'm sure it wasn't that dark when I took the photo... but it makes the flower look nicer anyway. Yeah... since I can't get photos of my cats recently, coz they don't want to come into the house anymore, or they catch rats outside and it's disgusting to let them into the house after they play around with rats... I've been turning to taking photos of flowers instead. Yellow flower taken right outside my house =)
My dad was super proud of this one. It looks like a weird ball of... fungus... but it must be hard to grow the plant till it produces flowers, so yay =D
Oh look, a mini shuttle. I didn't bother taking off the threads so it looks bad. Oh well.
Sunday~ Just yesterday, my brother and I went to The Rocks after church for lunch. Lowenbrau, perhaps better known as The German Place, or the Bier (Beer) Place.
Here's the other side of the exterior.
As soon as I went in, I was amazed by how big this place was. Seriously, Lowenbrau is such a huge tavern, it's crazy. Yet my brother tells me it gets full at night. Full!! That place can fit... like, hundreds of ppl and it gets full!!
There's like another hall further down that end. And at night, there's bands playing for entertainment.
The bar~~
Crappy pictures because it was dim inside, and my poor phone camera can never take dim lightings well...
German Bier~~ 0.5L. Haha, no, I didn't have real beer. I had to go to work after that, and I wasn't going to walk into Franklins smelling and sounding like a drunk. Plus, our family can't take alcohol well at all =) So this is the non-alcoholic beer (don't laugh! non-alcoholic beer is good- you won't get a beer belly from drinking this and it tastes the same anyway!!)
Their bathroom. Coz that's like the most important part of a restaurant other than its kitchen. It's not a sink- it's a slab of stone.
We ordered a platter for two. Because the platters are big, they got logs to hold it off the table while u eat on the table.
Major disappointment is that they had no pork knuckles available that afternoon. BUT we got extra crackling pork belly instead! So it's all good =) Everyone kinda all stared at our table when our platter arrived. Why, did they think two asians cannot finish a platter by themselves? Coz we most certainly could finish it, and did. Let's see, the platter had three kinds of sausages, and some mashed potato, sauerkraut, pork belly, ham, chicken schnitzels, I can't remember what else, but it was very filling. Excellent food and service. That's why... 20 minutes later... the platter became this:
The stuff remaining on the platter is.. Sauerkraut. That stuff like... I'm sorry, foul. It's not inedible, like parsley and coriander, coz I can eat it, but would prefer not to. I tried three forkfulls of it, and still couldn't get used to it. It's fermented cabbage... so imagine the usually plain cabbage... tasting sour. Everything else was really really really good though... bit salty, but that's expected~ their sausages are nice =D Rating: 8.5 Will go back. P said he wants to go too, so hopefully sometime soon~~
Working on Anzac Day. =( Ok, so I shouldn't be complaining, it's double time and a half, but I had plans! Oh well...
