HS catch up

Ok this will be quick. I'm absolutely dead tired and still have to get up early for work tomorrow =( I was so alert, driving for about 2 hours there and 2 hours back from Canberra (yes, went to visit the Floriade, in rain, which... was actually not a bad thing because when it rains, you see water droplets on flowers which are quite attractive). 

Observing long driving trips like this, you start to gather what the road rules are. There are the safe drivers, usually sticking to the left lane because they are usually driving at around 100km in the 110 highway. There are the slow ones who disrupt the flow of 100km cars, forcing them to overtake on the right lane, and move back into the left after overtaking (also known as the nice cars, following the "keep left unless overtaking" signs). Then there are the impatient ones, who stays on the right lane because they are usually at about 120km and do not bother shifting back to the left lane after overtaking- they'll only have to switch right again to overtake another car. 

 Which am I? I try to stick to 110 and overtake when necessary and move back left when I can... but turns out, I'm mainly a right lane hogger.

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That's the end of the story for today. This was at Portofino, an Italian restaurant at Leichhardt (gosh, I doubt myself each time I spell that suburb... keep thinking that I'm doing it wrong). Their bruschetta pizza crust was pretty good~

Alternate healing? Not these ones...

Was given some weird health advice today by a random customer. It's one of those alternate medicine advice given by someone who claimed that hospitals are ripping everyone off by issuing medicines and chemo-therapies and surgeries that cost thousands of dollars and keeping everyone in the dark of these "natural" remedies. 

 I went home, googled his "advices" and I won't try any of them, so they are not worth repeating on this blog, nor will I promote it (the guy said "let everyone of your friends know, the current generation is missing out on these valuable cures"). Keywords for those who are curious though: black salve (nasty nasty images when I googled this, so be warned), kerosene (I know, people drink this stuff??) and borax (cleaning agent!! Hello!!) 

 Anyway, that's the end of the story for today, here's food:

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I sincerely hope you didn't find any nasty pictures if you did decide to google, and anyway, I can think of many many many more appetizing things that I want to ingest than kerosene and cleaning agents.

Do judge this book by its cover

Photo blog today! Because really, this is just to toot my own horn... though it wasn't entirely successful =( But for now, let's show some normal Japanese food from Ichiban Boshi:

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I love beef tataki for its yuzu sauce.

Quindici: Cheeky Chocolate

This is bad... I'm trying to get my appetite back by blogging and it is -not- working. It's been more than a week since I felt hunger. It's so strange, I used to get hungry/ crave food every couple of hours... or just whenever I see food in general. That's all gone now. I can go by one meal a day, or not even that, and still summon enough energy to carry on working throughout the day. How is that even possible? 

 I was browsing through recipes to bake as well, and usually that gets my sweet tooth aching for candy. Or chocolate. Or cakes. Usually... =(

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Anyway, I just made a microwave cake and it turned out quite alright... but then knowing me, it'd just get backlogged until I forget about it.

Quattordici: Revolver

This one is a majorly popular cafe, it was crazy. Located at Annandale, which looks deceptively like a quiet neighborhood, there were quite a few cafes that we saw had queues stretching far and wide. It was a Sunday morning, so no surprise there, but despite ST being early and requesting a table for us, when we arrived, it was an additional half an hour's wait.

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And we ordered take away coffee just so we can have something while waiting. And checking out some the hardworking blokes making coffee~

Tredici: Gnome Espresso and Winebar

ST, BW, I'm catching up to you! ST posted about this recently on her blog, link should be on my companion's list on the side. Being one of the cafe buddies, she got the job of grabbing a table for us at this busy little cafe because we were late and she was early. That was one crazy Saturday, I remember it to be so activity-packed, there was little room for mismanagement and timing. We ended up being late, and I have a feeling it was my fault (or was it traffic?) but I cannot remember.

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By the time we got there, ST was already enjoying her iced tea with lemon sorbet, looking every bit the relaxed classy lady having tea on her own in a quaint cafe. It's hard to pull off a "I'm not a loner!" pose... I must say, I suck at it.

On a Rollll

This will be a random post though, so bear with me =) If I remember correctly, this was on my of my free Fridays, before I start working like all sad people who work on Fridays.

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At this Hong Kong style cafe at China Town. This was their set meal of borsh soup with bread roll..

Dodici: The Art of Pie Eating

Here's how backdated my photos are... today is going to be about Harry's Cafe de Wheels. I don't even remember when we visited that place, but we're looking at 2 months back. I decided to include this as part of the cafe series because technically, that's what it is- a cafe.

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This was post badminton, when ST, BW and I decided to have some well-earned pies and pea mash. This was their signature dish named after founder Harry ‘Tiger’ Edwards of chunky lean beef pie served with mushy peas, mash & gravy.

Undici: The Little Marionette

So I've got myself a cup of peppermint and camomile tea, just woke up from a 3 hour nap, and decided I either do some work, or blog. Lack of blog entries due to combination of work, sickness, and can't-be-bothered'ness. Not just blogging, I haven't exercised in two weeks either... laziness. I've had all the photos up and ready on picasa, some which I even uploaded on facebook, but blogging is a lot more time consuming, so... this is the next entry, the Little Marionette, cafe entry No. 11!

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Upon entering this place, one would first notice how small the space is. The kitchen taking up half of the space, and tables on the other half, barely fitting 8 people, plus a queue of people waiting on takeaways and ordering. Further in, a roasting room where a red coffee bean roaster sits, raw beans in sacks on the floor.