Friday's ended, and with it, random food encounters, a few easy DIY meals, a few meals eaten outdoors, plus some dog walking.
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Starting from the beginning, I think this was Sunday.
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Take a closer look: it's a woman walking 6 pugs on leashes, and a man with this big shaggy dog. I think the woman was struggling with those pugs across the road. Poor thing... ^^''
Got home and had nothing to eat that Sunday night. Decided to make a simple pizza.
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Start off with some olive oil.
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Cooked asparagus spears and barbecue chicken.
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Extra cheese~ lots of cheese~
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Salt and pepper to taste before putting into the oven grill and removing when the cheese has melted.
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Since a meal isn't complete with soup, the chicken bones went into the pot of water that boiled the asparagus and after simmering for a while and sieving it, out came golden chicken soup (I could taste the barbecue seasoning used for the chicken, but hey, this isn't meant to be healthy anyway).
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I don't know what these are called, but an auntie gave it to us. Spongey egg cakes in various shapes and sizes =D
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The next day, I still had chicken, wrap and asparagus left over from the day before, so I decided to use the same ingredients to make a wrap instead. Same process, just rolled up.
It actually tastes better rolled up than flat out in a pizza form. I wonder why... I think as a pizza, the base which I used (a tortilla) was too thin, so it was a bit hard to eat. Would have been better with a proper pizza base, or as someone previously suggested, pita bread =P but wrapped up, the tortilla worked really well. I had to microwave the opened wrap to heat up the cold chicken and asparagus, then roll it up before putting it under the grill so the top was all crispy, the cheese inside completely melted and fillings piping hot. Slice into two and yum-ness ensues =)
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Bought a rose this time from the man in the wheelchair. That's the thing about roses I dislike- it dies way too quickly. Lavender lasts a couple of weeks, but roses? You'll be lucky if it doesn't start wilting in 3 days. They are beautiful when alive though, and nice smelling too =)
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Last week was the achacha, this week? Kumato. I haven't seen this before- my mum randomly brought home a box of these and I assumed they were just like grape tomatos.... but they do look a bit different.
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They weren't all orangey-red like cherry/grape tomatos (yes, I spell tomatos without the "e". They aren't tomatoEs) and have a greenish tinge that make them look a little off.
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Taste-wise, it's actually sweeter than grape tomatos, and firmer. While grape tomatos tend to get a little squishy once you bite into it and it explodes, these kumatos have a pretty firm texture even after it explodes. Who would eat grape tomatos now that there are Kumatos??
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Random sighting 1: a giant ugg boat standing in the middle of CBD on a rainy day. Poor guy, it was a pretty hot and humid day too. Imagine being in a costume in summer... I hope he gets paid a lot for doing that.
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Today! Went dog-walking with Obie. The weather was heaps nice and we took him up this hill that overlooks the waters. Umiiiii!!!
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He's camera-shy and always turns away, but in this shot, he looks so furry and huggable... and he has the colour of a fox =D
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Lunch was Thai... I think it was called "The Best Thai 2", haha. Pad See Ew.. or however you spell it.
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Pad Thai. Tastes like Newtown Thai 2 =D
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Hot day and walking a dog that splays out all 4 legs into a defiant stance often requires a refreshing coconut. My camera preferred to focus on the dirty dishes behind it.
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Oh, I managed to get a wonderful photo of Obie! See that thing he's staring at? Kibbles =P That's the only way to get him to stare unmovingly for a photo XD Cute thing.
Watched tennis with tt for an hour or two (females double) before heading off to Darlinghurst, Yok Yor for dinner with my brother. It's another Thai restaurant and was rated quite high on eatability.com, but who really trust that site?
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Interior looks quite nice. We booked a place at 6pm- didn't need to, the place was pretty much empty.
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Yok Yor- its menu.
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Drinks first. Both icie and tt ordered a "longan juice", but what came wasn't what was expected. It wasn't 100% longan juice, rather it was a concoction of herbal tea+ longan... I don't even know what they put in there, and I must say, it didn't taste all that great.
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I ordered a Thai iced tea with milk. It came looking very orangey (photo is inaccurate, it was a darker shade) and very sweet, but nice. Drinks were priced at $4.
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Looking at the menu, we were spoilt for choice, with seafood, duck, chicken, beef, noodles or rice, soup or stir-fries, hot and spicy or sweet and salty.... in the end, we ordered three dishes with extra rice for each person. I've long forgotten the Thai names of the dishes, but this was lamb with beans, chilli and cherry tomatos. Spiciness level: pretty hot, 3/5.
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A duck curry next, with fruit salad. They had pineapples, longan, grapes, carrots, broccoli, basil and chilli along with slices of duck. Quite nice, spiciness level: 4/5. It was pretty hot, and we were breaking out in sweat. tt had long finished his rice and icie was sniffling =D
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Last was a one-person's serving of braised pork belly, accompanied by fried tofu, veggies, egg and a mantou (white steamed bun) and a chilli sauce, which we conveniently forgot to use and only noticed at the end of the meal. I think we were all pretty much over the whole spiciness thing and wanted something a little less aggressive in flavor... but this pork belly was pretty normal-tasting. It's only really good if it's crackling pork belly, or else the skin and fat just goes to waste. Well, at least it doesn't go to the waist or thighs, but really, what a waste of pork belly! The next time I have it, the skin's going to be salted and crackled =_= Best was still at Westin Hotel... their pork belly with apple/vanilla puree and poached apples plus an apple crisp on top... that was a perfectly executed pork belly dish. (Refer to post from November 10, 2009)
Overall... the food was nice, but not somewhere I'd go to a second time. The cost came up to about $78 for three ppl, which is quite expensive (well, compared to Newtown Thai- $6 a dish, of course) and the flavors were quite overpowering and strong... you do come out of the dinner feeling a little queasy and uncomfortable with all the spiciness. OK, it was our own fault for ordering spicy food, but it's not just because it's spicy, the food was also quite oily. $3 for a bowl of jasmine rice was definitely not enough to accompany the dishes, and the drinks... well, I liked my iced milk tea, but tt and icie weren't so happy with the longan juice. That was quite misleading... so eatability.com sucks when it comes to giving accurate ratings for restaurants. I would give it a 6/10.
My high school friends are thinking of going to Yok Yor for dinner soon. I hope I can dissuade them and go somewhere a little nicer and more worth its value.
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Random sighting 2: Remember the cement gadgets from a few posts back? Look what was at Darlinghurst =D Will Cole's taken to making cement teddy bears now! Poor bear, he's losing his arm. People must really like kicking these things and ruining them...
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On the other side of the pole, a broken mobile phone.
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Apparently, they are responsible for the cement gadgets.
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Random sighting 3: No, Saki wasn't inside, and no sign of Nodoka either. It was a restaurant. Didn't even have a mahjong table inside! And you call yourself a mahjong room?!
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Final random sighting: Further down the street while heading from Oxford Street towards Townhall, another cememt teddy bear. This one looks almost new without any broken parts =) CULTURE!
Soon... uni's going to start. My food adventures and this blog might just die... =(
4 comments:
Hmm, Yok Yor was nice but not quite worth the price. And yup, need to go back to Westin Hotel some time =)
Also, I believe I see ้่ไป there - yum. =D
Westin Hotel's pork belly!! Or even Lowenbrau's pork belly... it has to be crispy =D
I've only tried Lowenbrau's pork knuckle, and I'm not *that* impressed... Is their pork belly better?
I think I've had it once, it was in some platter, and it was super salty, but very very crispy =D
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