Foodies N Places

Vegi-licious 2011 : Bendigo Thai Take Away

2011-05-17T20:58:00.003+08:00

Lychee Crispy Wontons with Vermicelli Noodle Salad Stack

Chef: Baht Clark

Ingredients

4 Wonton sheets

100g Sesame seeds

1 Carrot, thinly sliced

1 Cup of Coriander leaves

1 Cup of Mint leaves
125g Vermicelli noodles
1 Avocado fan
150g Wonbok, thinly sliced Balsamic Reduction

Dressing

5tbs Light soy sauce
2 Limes juice
5tbs Olive oil
2tbs Sweet chilli sauce
2tbs Rice wine vinegar
1 Bird eye chilli

Method

1. Place vermicelli in large heatproof bowl. Cover with boiling water and set aside for 5 minutes to soften. Drain.
2. Fry the wonton skin in batches over high heat in 30 seconds, or until light and crispy. Drain on paper towel.
3. Cook the sesame seeds in large non-stick frying pan for 5 minutes or until toasted. Transfer to a plate.
4. Whisk soy sauce, lime juice, olive oil, sweet chilli sauce and rice wine vinegar in a bowl.
5. In a bowl, add carrot, coriander, mint, vermicelli noodles, sesame seeds, wonbok and lychee.
6. Add dressing to salad and mix well.
7. To serve, swirl the balsamic reduction around the plate and stack the wonton skins.

The Wonton stack is a creation if Baht's and it is really nice and the special thing of this dish is you can serve it as entree or dessert ! The crunchiness and the sweetness of the wonton skin and berries sauce is just perfect especially when you are biting the lychee, the sauce is just like exploding in your mouth. Couldn't stop tasting the dish after the demonstration session.

Thumbs up for Chef Baht!

More info please visit: http://www.buddhaday.org.au/documents/VEGI-LICIOUSBooklet_2011.pdf

Buddha's Day & Multicultural Festival : Vegi-Licious 2011

2011-05-14T21:14:00.004+08:00

Hey Guys! 2 more days to the 16th Melbourne Buddha's Day & Multicultural Festival at Federation Square. The event is from 10am to 5pm, 14 &15 May 2011 and proudly organised by Fo Guang Shan Melbourne & BLIA Victoria.

Throughout the festival there will be various youth activities and cultural activities and one of them is the cooking demonstration which is an introduction to vegetarian food.

Among the participating restaurant this year are Tofu International Shop, Bendigo Thai Take Away Shop, Laksa Me, Lentil As Anything, Millswyn, Angela's Kitchen & Art Gallery Tea House.

For more information, please go to http://www.buddhaday.org.au/ & http://www.buddhaday.org.au/vegilicious.html.

See you guys there !

10.00am - 5.00pm

14-15 May 2011, Saturday & Sunday

Federation Square, Melbourne.

Vegie Hut

2010-11-20T11:54:00.001+08:00

Vegie Hut is one of the Chinese restaurant that served only vegetarian food. They are one of the few Chinese vegetarian restaurant in Eastern suburbs of Melbourne.

Located in one of the busy suburb of Box Hill, famous for Chinese & Asian restaurants.

Roast Pork & Duck

The "meats" used in the dishes are made out of the bean curds to resemble real meat. It is amazing how they can create ingredients that are so similar to the real thing in texture and taste.

Penang Asam Fish

The "asam" sauce has sourish taste, you can easily finish two bowl of rice with the sauce because it is really appetizing. The fish is created by one of the vegetarian as well, with the sea weed wrapped together as the skin to give the give the fish fishy taste.

The Yam Basket

Yam basket with stir fried prawns, vegetables and cashew nuts was my favorite of the day. The yam basket is actually a yam bowl that is deep fried to create the crispy outer skin and yet maintaining the softness and the moistness of the yam inside. The yam on its own does not have much taste to it, it is the sauce of the stir fried prawns and vegetables that gives the dish a barbecue taste.

My Ratings;

-Environment: 3/4

-Food: 3/4

-Price: 3/4

-Service: 3/4

Vegie Hut:

984 Whitehorse Road,

Box Hill, VIC 3128

03 9898 2287

Jalan Alor, Melbourne [Update]

2010-11-18T23:57:00.003+08:00

Went to Jalan Alor again today after the last time I visited which was when they were just opened for a week. Took this opportunity to try the other dishes on the menu.

Didn't manage to take any photos of the restaurant for my last post so here are shots of the place!

Honey Kam Quat (left), Special Air Barli with Lemon (hot and cold)

Air Barli which is a barley drink commonly available in Malaysian kopitiams (coffe shops). Jalan Alor's Special Air Barli are boiled fresh everyday with barley instead of premixed solutions and you have a choice of adding in lemon, lime or kam quat (Chinese lime). It is a very refreshing drink whether it is hot or cold.

Honey Kam Quat is also a refreshing drink but a bit sweeter compared with the other two.

Singapore Fried Noodles

Again one of those dishes that I like from this restaurant. Their Singapore Fried Noodles is cooked with tomato paste instead of curry powder like what you can commonly find in other restaurants. Also, Singapore Fried Noodles are suppose to be dry and the one I had was perfect with two huge prawns! The addition of lettuce and bean sprouts adds a crunchy texture and freshness to the dish itself.

Curry Chicken Rice

I've got nothing much to say about this dish as it is rather normal. Maybe some potatoes in the curry would be much nicer.

Kon Loh Ayam Panggang Pan Mee

Tried the Kon Loh Pan Mee today as well which has Ayam Panggang (barbecue chicken). You can taste the difference in texture of the pan mee as the noodles are freshly made by hand in the restaurant. It is just like the difference of freshly made pasta with the commercially made. The mixture of the sauce for the noodles has a well balanced taste of sweetness, saltiness as well as the aroma from the sesame oil.

For the previous post of Jalan Alor, please click here.

My Ratings;

-Environment: 2/4

-Food: 3/4

-Price: 4/4

-Service: 3/4

Jalan Alor:

7/206 Bourke St,

Melourne, VIC 3000

03 9663 1138

Orient Express, Crown

2010-11-17T23:23:00.003+08:00

Orient Express is a Sushi Train restaurant located in the Crown Casino, Southbank. They are the very first in to have the double decker sushi train which serves cold and hot dishes. It is indeed a unique concept that is new and fresh.

It is unfortunately not easily noticeable because it is located at a corner on the upper level food court where KFC and McDonalds are. I wouldn't have discovered this place if it is not for the advertisements.

The setting of the restaurant is what you will typically find in a sushi train Japanese restaurant, with the bar seating. Only thing different is the double decker sushi belt, the top being the hot dishes and the bottom for cold dishes. They actually have radiant heaters on the hot sushi belt to keep the dishes warm. It feels really hot if you put your hands into the tube. The sushi belt is like a subway tube that can be opened and closed.

Other than the dishes on the sushi train, there are also about 50 hot dishes that can also be ordered from a list if they are not available on the sushi train. I'm not sure if it's because they are new, but the list of dishes was just a list, it wasn't a proper menu. We had the list on our table for a moment before it was taken away by the waitress to the other customers.

It would have been really helpful if they had a proper menu on every couple of seats so people could just order straight away and anytime. Also, the list of dishes only had the names and prices on it, there were no pictures or descriptions on them which we found rather difficult to figure out what the dishes were. A thumbnail sized photo of every dish they have would be really great to help provide a picture of what we are about to order and eat!

Ebi Sushi

Ebi Tempura Sushi Roll

Agedashi Tofu

Crab Stick Tempura

Salt and Pepper Calamari

I have no idea what is this dish called. It looked good so we just took it off the sushi train. The outer layer is crispy fried rice noodles with cheese and pine nuts as a filling. It has a sourish taste to it which was very odd and not to my liking at all.

Chocolate Mousse

Overall, the food here were not as special or good as I thought it would be. The photos and advertisements looked promising but we were quite disappointed.

Orient Express serves only small dishes and sushi. So if you are going with a group of friends and not everyone fancies sushi, this is not the right place to go to because they do not serve bento boxes or set meals.

My Ratings;

-Environment: 3/4

-Food: 2/4

-Price: 1/4

-Service: 3/4

Orient Express:

8 Whiteman Street,

Southbank, Melbourne, VIC 3006

03 9645 9959

http://www.orientexpress.net.au

Freycinet Marine Farm

2010-11-13T22:43:00.001+08:00

On the way into Freycinet Lodge, or should I say Freycinet National Park, there were a lot of farms along the way selling nice fresh seafood.

Freycinet Marine Farm is on the Freycinet peninsula on Tasmania's East Coast. A cool and clean place designed to welcome everyone to taste their fresh seafood produce.

Baked Scallops

Oyster Kill Patricks

The price of the food are cheap so don't expect anything like what you can get in a posh restaurant. The staff are really friendly, nicely cooked oyster with barbecue and bacon but not the sbut not the scallops I had as they were not cooked through.

I reckon it would be better if the oysters were cooked with the heat from the bottom instead of the top which makes the oysters dry.

My Ratings;

-Environment: 3/4

-Foods: 2/4

-Price: 3/4

-Service: -

1784 Coles Bay Road,

Coles Bay, TAS.

03 62570140

Spaghetti Tree

2010-11-12T23:53:00.005+08:00

Was looking through the Entertainment Book today under a gloomy sky and I saw Spaghetti Tree which was not far from where I was on Bourke St.

Don't judge a book by its cover, the exterior of the restaurant looks ordinary but the interior is awesome!

The restaurant has 2 levels with a double volume space in the middle. Tables were laid out quite closely, just nice and cosy, not too cramped. I would say it feels very warm and welcoming to be in the restaurant. We had beautiful live music whilst enjoying really delicious pasta.

Wedges with sour cream & sweet chilli

There are 2 different price of wedges at $2 different of your choices with or without sour cream & sweet chilli.

Tortellini "Verdi"

The tortellini has a chicken and spinach filling. It is cooked in a creamy and cheesy white sauce with chunks of chicken, capsicum and baby spinach.

The white sauce is perfect as there cheesy taste was not too thick or too heavy so you won't feel sick at all after having this dish.

Peking Duck Risotto

This lovely Asian style risotto is just absolutely mouth watering. The portion of risotto was just nice with fresh oven roasted duck, spring onion, parmesan cheese and hoisin sauce works perfectly for this dish.

When I wanted to order this dish, I thought it will be odd to combine Peking duck with risotto but I was absolutely wrong.

The portion of the dishes in Spaghetti Tree are not as big as what you can get in the Italian restaurants on Lygon St, but I think it is just nice without having to feel too full and sick.

I can't wait to go back again to try their lasagne, cannelloni and the other pasta dishes.

My Ratings;

-Environment: 4/4

-Food: 4/4

-Price: 2/4

-Service: 4/4

Spaghetti Tree located at:

59 Bourke Street,

Melbourne, VIC 3000.

(03) 9650 3174

Zeps Cafe, Campbell Town

2010-11-09T23:50:00.008+08:00

After our one day trip in Hobart, we then went to Freycinet Lodge, Freycinet National Park and it takes about 4 hours driving. On our way to there, we passed by a small town called Campbell Town and its also one of the town that definitely everyone will pass by.

After a short walk, we decided to come into Zeps Cafe as their risotto dish that written on the special menu board attracted us to go into it.

Chicken & Vegetables Soup

When my dad told us that he ordered the soup above, by just listening to what he told is we'll just think that he's wasting money by ordering soup. But once it turned up and tasted, we were so surprised by the taste and the numbers of ingredients that are boiled together to produce such nice soup.

Spicy King Prawn, Green Pea & Chorizo Sausage Risotto

Risotto is one of my favourite dish after spaghetti. By just the name on the special menu board, it attracted me to go into this cafe to try it out. Honestly, the prawn is not spicy at all as referring to dish name it supposed to be spicy. Overall the risotto is really nice besides there is some mistaken with naming the prawn as "Spicy" king prawn which is not spicy at all.

Seared Scallops on Fondant Potatoes, Sautéed Leek with Garlic & Lemon grass Butter Sauce

I've also ordered one of their scallop dish above. When ordering, I actually didn't know that its such a healthy dish as it's full of vegetables.With the number of scallops that they gave us, the only thing I can say is worth to order for scallops lovers.

Even though prawns and scallop are not that fresh compared to those in city like Hobart, Zeps Cafe had really created a few healthy dishes for its customer to choose.

My Ratings;

-Environment: 2/4

-Foods: 3/4

-Price: 3/4

-Service: 2/4

Zeps Cafe located at:

92/94 High St,

Campbell Town, TAS 7210.

03 6381 1344

Movida Bar de Tapas Y Vino

2010-11-07T22:26:00.028+08:00

If you guys still remember my Time Out & KoKo post, on the same day we actually went to Movida as well since we were around there.

Chef's busying in the kitchen

The Bar

Movida Next Door is more of a bar and a good place for you to sit around, catch up with friends, have a drink and enjoy some great tapas dishes.

Bomba

The Bomba is one of the dishes that was on Master Chef Australia season 2 during their challenge in Melbourne. The bomba is filled with chorizo which is pork sausage. The crunchiness of the Bomba is just great along with the sauce that melts in your mouth.

Viera

These oven baked scallops with jamon (spanish word for ham) and potato foam are just great. The scallops are juicy and fresh whereas the potato foam is absolutely silky.

Pork Belly

The juicy pork belly with crispy skin was one of the specials of the day. Even though the bill for it turned out to be quite expensive but we didn't mind at all because it is just so good!

Hot Ganache Pudding with Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

I love chocolate very much. The Ganache Pudding was still melting when we cut it into half and you can see the vanilla bean ice cream melting on top of it. The thickness of the chocolate is just so perfect and I couldn't forget about it even though I actually had it quite few months ago.

Give it a try guys, for sure you'll love it!

My Ratings;

-Environment: 4/4

-Foods: 4/4

-Price: 1/4

-Service: 4/4

Movida Bar de Tapas Y Vino:

1 Hosier Lane,

Melbourne, VIC 3000

03 9663 3038

Rock Kung

2010-11-05T22:40:00.008+08:00

Rock Kung is an old Chinese restaurant I should say that is located in the busy precinct of Glen Waverley. Even though the place is quite old and the staff has poor customer service, they serve surprisingly good roast meat dishes such as roast duck and roast pork.

Roast Duck & Pork

The Roast Duck & Pork and really juicy and I love the crunchiness of the Roast Pork Skin.

Stir Fry Prawn Cake with Chinese Broccoli

As shown in the photo, there are a lot of prawn cake slices on top of the Chinese broccoli. My family loves meat but we would often order this vegetable dish because it is mixed with the prawn cakes. Ordering this dish is like a combination of 2 dishes but for the price of 1.

"Jin Yeong Sam Bou" - stuffed eggplant, bitter gourd & bean curd puff

The "Jin Yeong Sam Bou" is a dish where you will see three different vegetables that stuffed with fish paste. They firstly fried all the vegetables with stuffed fish paste and served together with a thick golden brown sauce.

Deep Fried Chicken with Salted Egg

I would say this is the nicest Deep Fried Chicken with Salted Egg also known as "Wong Kam Gai". It is chicken coated with a salted egg and deep fried. There are other restaurants around Melbourne serving this dish but Rock Kung is the best as you can taste the salted egg.

Cheese Prawns with Noodles

Lastly would be this unforgettable Cheese Prawns with Noodles. It's really hard to describe this dish, you would have to try it our yourself to understand why I love the taste very much. =)

My Ratings;

-Environment: 1/4

-Foods: 3/4

-Price: 2/4

-Service: 1/4

Rock Kung is located at:

101 Kingsway, Glen Waverley, VIC 3150.

03 9560 9032

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2010-11-04T19:57:00.004+08:00

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Ball & Chain Grill

2010-11-03T22:32:00.004+08:00

Hey guys ! FnP is back and let's get back to my journey of foods in Tasmania. After a long day in Brunny Island, we decided to come back to Salamanca Place for this Ball & Chain Grill.

From the outside you may feel that Salamanca place is quiet and there won't be much of a crowd during the night, but surprisingly there are a lot of people inside this restaurant.

Each person can get their starters from the salad bar and I find their rice pretty nice.

Foods from salad bar

Oyster Kill Patrick

This is the 1st time I had the Oyster Kill Patrick. The bacon is really juicy with the sweetness of the barbecue sauce and the acidity from the lemon juice.

Tasmanian Seafood Steak of the Day - "Fried" Flat Head

The Flat Head that I've ordered is just a simple marinated herb fried fish. I find it a bit pricey as the portion is not that big compared to other dishes.

The taste is not bad but it's kinda dry for this. Not recommended to order.

Scotch Fillet

My parents they ordered the the juicy scotch fillet with an eye of fat which enchance the flavour. According to them, this is the best in Hobart! To with this scotch fillet you have a selection of sauces to choose from which includes plum and ginger, Ball & Chain barbecue, satay and etc.

My Ratings;

-Environment: 2/4

-Foods: 2/4

-Price: 3/4

-Service: 3/4

Ball & Chain Grill:

87 Salamanca Place,

Hobart, Tasmania 7000.

03 6223 2655

Jalan Alor, Melbourne

2010-09-20T22:01:00.010+08:00

Recently, there have been quite a number of restaurants serving Malaysian cuisine opening and popping out everywhere in Melbourne. The latest is Jalan Alor which is hidden in the new 206 Bourke St (between Russel St and Swanston St).

What or should I say where is Jalan Alor? Jalan Alor is a street back in Kuala Lumpur, famous for its cheap and delicious hawker food that is available day and night. It is a street where you can get practically almost whatever hawker food there is in Malaysia.

On the day we had lunch, we were introduced to the name of the restaurant. The Chinese characters actually meant "Ma Lai Jan" in Cantonese which is also known as "Belacan" in Malay. Belacan is one of the favourite spices that is used loved in Malaysian cooking and the restaurant has a few dishes cooked with Belacan that you can try as well. The Chinese name of the restaurant is actually given by the famous food critic from Hong Kong, Mr. Choi Lan.

The interior of the restaurant is quite cheerful with bright colours. The use of wooden benches and stools along with the hand painted murals of banana leaves on the floor and walls gives a feeling of dining at the beach.

Satay Ayam

Satay Ayam (Chicken Skewer) is one of the favourite snacks in Malaysia can be found easily in most of the hawker stalls. The Satay Ayam at Jalan Alor is served just like how it is in Malaysia, with chopped onions, cucumbers and the most important Satay sauce (Peanut sauce).

Personally, I like the Satay sauce very much with the smooth but not chunky peanut sauce eaten together with the skewers. It just makes me want more after the first bite. Only difference is that they don't charcoal grill the skewers like what you can get in Malaysia. Instead, the skewers are deep fried and the chicken is well marinated.

If the dish is served together with Ketupat (cooked rice wrapped with woven palm leaf), I reckon it will be really good.

Penang Har Mee

The Penang Har Mee is prawn noodles. The soup has a very nice prawn taste to it and a generous serving of rather big prawns as well. I know of other restaurants in Melbourne that serve good prawn noodles as well but none of them have prawns this big. Only downside was I find it a bit too oily for my taste.

Penang Char Kway Teow

I like their Char Kway Teow here as they have slices of Chinese sausage as well. The dish tastes exactly like how it should be from Malaysia. I find the price very worth it as well, again for the big prawns that is in the dish and the serving size. I wished there were more slices of the Chinese sausage because I really like it.

Nasi Ayam Taugeh

Nasi Ayam Taugeh is similar to Hainanese Chicken rice but the only difference is this dish is served with bean sprouts. In Malaysia, Nasi Ayam Taugeh (Bean Sprout Chicken Rice) is very famous in Ipoh just like how Char Kuey Teow is famous in Penang.

I wished they served fragrant rice with this dish, but it tastes good with just steamed rice as well especially if you mix the soy sauce with the rice.

Nasi Ayam Bakar

Nasi Ayam Bakar or Barbeque Chicken rice is also one of my favourite. I like the taste of the chicken as it sweet but not too dry as well. It is served with fragrant rice which is full of flavour and tastes really authentic.

I'll definitely be back soon to taste the other dishes they offer. This restaurant serves Malaysian food that is very similar to what you can get in Malaysia, I guess partly it's also because the chefs are from Malaysia!

UPDATED post, please click here.

My Ratings;

-Environment: 2/4

-Food: 3/4

-Price: 4/4

-Service: 3/4

Jalan Alor :

7/206 Bourke St,

Melbourne, VIC 3000

03 9663 1138

Passionflower

2010-09-12T23:10:00.010+08:00

Passionflower has finally opened in Melbourne last Friday. My friend told me that it was nice and lots of people were queuing for them on the opening day. Since it was so famous, I decided to give it a try with my bro today.

Black Pearl

Black sesame ice cream is the main reason I went there for because it's really really hard to get such a flavour of ice cream here in Melbourne. Their Black Pearl ice cream is served with black sesame glutinous balls and crushed peanuts.

I really like the glutinous balls and peanuts but the black sesame ice cream is rather disappointing. I think it could be better if it has a stronger sesame flavour rather than just tasting sweet.

Cookie Me Up

My brother ordered the Cookie Me Up ice cream and it has chunks of triple chocolate fudge, cookies topped with warm chocolate sauce and whipped cream.

Well, I'm sure that all of you guys know how cookies and cream ice cream taste like and for this one it just taste vanilla that without cookies taste I reckon. Cookies and cream ice cream should have chunks of cookies in it that you can bite or chew on, but this didn't really have that punch. For something that price, I would've expected more.

The funny thing is both of the ice cream that we ordered, only the toppings that comes together with ice cream are nicer. The ice cream itself are just ok and I don't think it caught my taste buds for a second round, maybe for their waffles or fondue but not the ice cream. Maybe I'll be considering whether are there any better flavours other than the ones we had today.

My Ratings;

-Environment: 2/4

-Foods: 1/4

-Price: 1/4

-Service: 2/4

Passionflower:

Shop 2, 189 Bourke Street,

Melbourne, VIC 3000.

03 9663 0033

Pancake Train, Margate

2010-09-10T21:27:00.002+08:00

Tasmania has such beautiful scenery and delicious food that I couldn't stop taking photos and introduce the places to all of you guys who read my blog.

1st stop that I'll bring you guys to is this place that serves very nice pancakes. The unique thing bout this place is that the shops are on an old train. Other than enjoying nice food and views, you can also get to experience eating on the train.

Beef Strogonoff

Everything here is served with pancakes. This is the beef strogonoff with beef strips in a rich sauce seasoned with dijion mustard. According to my dad, that's by far the nicest beef strogonoff he has ever had.

Rocky Road

I really like the Rocky Road, the pancakes are served with rich chocolate ice cream, chocolate mousse, marshmallow and peanuts. I would prefer to have this with lesser mousse and more chocolate ice cream.

Berry Delight

Berry Delight here is served with different types of berries such as blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, boysenberries and blackberries. To my surprise, this pancake dish is not very sweet.

The pancake train is operated by a young couple, too bad they don't serve dinner and are only open from 9am to 5pm. Therefore, be sure to make it early if you don't want to miss out the extra delicious pancakes here!

My Ratings;

-Environment: 3/4

-Foods: 3/4

-Price: 4/4

-Service: 4/4

1567 Channel Highway,

Margate, TAS 7054.

03 6267 1120

How to make "Malaysian style Fish Head Noodles"

2010-09-04T23:10:00.004+08:00

Fish head noodles is one of the popular dish that you can easily find back in Malaysia hawker store. It's a combination of deep fried or fresh fish cooked together with rice noodles.

In the past few days, my parents had the chance to cook this dish for us and I really like the combination of the soup.

Ingredients that you need;

1. Fish head of your choice (deep fry)

2. Rice Noodles

3. Tomatoes

4. Chinese preserved vegetables (Ham Choy)

5. Evaporated Milk

All you need to do is pre-boil a pot of chicken soup and cook the rice noodles before serving. Mix the fish, preserved vegetables and tomato with rice noodles into a pot and re boil the soup with evaporated milk so that it provide the unexpected taste that you wont have in other type of Malaysian noodles dish.

Preserved vegetables (ham choy) and tomatoes used is to give the salty and sour taste. This is why so many people likes about this dish and I hope you guys like it too !

Time Out, Federation Square

2010-08-28T22:48:00.005+08:00

Time Out is a cafe in the heart of Melbourne at the corner of Federation Square. You may not know but this cafe actually serves breakfast too!

Time out is located in front of the Federation Square building and the tourist information centre.

Apple Pancakes

Nothing special about this pancake as you can actually see, but I reckon the presentation is nice even the taste is just so so. It is served with American style pancakes with some blueberry compete and ice cream.

Nachos

Basket Steamed Smooth Dory

The steamer basket caught my eye as I was walking to my table so I decided to order it. It is dory fish steamed in a Chinese way served with rice.

Ocean Catch

Although this basket of seafood is expensive for a brunch meal, it's actually worth it if you are a seafood lover. The basket comes with grilled pepper infused Harvey Bay Scallops, Chilli Calamari, King Prawns, steamed Blue Swimmer Crab, natural Oyster, & beer battered wild Barramundi with chips and tartare sauce.

Apple & Rhubarb Crumble

The apple crumble is served in quite a big portion as a dessert.

My Ratings;

-Environment: 2/4

-Foods: 3/4

-Price: 3/4

-Service: 3/4

Time Out:

Coner Swanston & Flinders Street,

Federation Square.

039671 3866

taste of Melbourne 2010

2010-08-26T23:23:00.006+08:00

Hi there! I just came back from the Taste of Melbourne exhibition at the Royal Exhibition Building and it was great since its my 1st time. The exhibition is a platform for local restaurants to participate and introduce their food.

The venue

Smirnoff new Vodka with Blood orange and Cranberry flavour

FREE chocolate fondue for tasting

Livornese seafood stew by Melbourne Wine Room & Mr. Wolf

Vitello Tonnato - sliced poached veal with tuna, caper mayonnaise by Melbourne Wine Room & Mr. Wolf

Duck Tortelloni with pea puree and truffle oil by The European

Beetroot-cured salmon with zucchini, apple & herb salad , horseradish foam by Koots Salle a Manger

Smoked duck, apple & walnut rillettes shredded duck confit en croute by Libertine & Le Traiteur

Pissaladiere fevillete - flaky puff pastry, soft onion, white anchovie & olive tapenade by Libertine & Le Traiteur

Salted western plains pork & sweet roll with pickled vegetables by Longrain

Yellow Curry off Wagyu beef with cucumber relish by Longrain

Rabbit & prune terrine with shallot & raspberry vinegar jam, pickled mushroom by Koots Salle a Manger

Raspberry & Rosella Flower cannelloni, Strawberry & native mint salad by Charcoal Lane

Pistachio "panna cotta", caramel salted popcorn by Sarti

Participating Restaurant:

01. Longrain Restaurant

02. Longrain Bar

03. Stokehouse Restaurant

04. Stokehouse Bar

05. Esposito

06. Melbourne Wine Room & Mr. Wolf

07. Charcoal Lane

08. Sarti

09. maze Restaurant & maze Grill

10. The Place by Luke Mangan

11. Mezzo Bar & Grill

12. The European

13. Libertine & Le Traiteur

14. Koots Salle a Manger (Thursday only)

15. Comida Bebe (Friday only)

16. Izakaya Den (Saturday only)
17. Embrasse (Sunday only)

Royal Exhibition Building

9 Nicholson Street, Carlton Gardens,

Carlton, Melbourne,

Victoria 3053.

26 August 2010 - 29 August 2010

For more info,

http://www.tastefestivals.com.au

KoKo,Crown Tower

2010-08-23T23:44:00.008+08:00

Over the weekend, we celebrated a friend's birthday at Koko. Koko is one of the premium dining outlets in Crown Casino, Southbank. It is a hidden jewel tucked away on the 3rd level of Crown Tower.

The interior of the restaurant designed by international interior designer Tony Chi feels very Japanese.

The Interior & Teppanyaki Tables

The restaurant has a high, double volume ceiling which gives it a sense of spaciousness as well as a shallow pond in the middle that gives a calming effect. As our table was situated next to the pond, the staff kept reminding us to be careful not to fall into the water.

The Chef at Teppanyaki section

Assorted Sashimi

Since its still winter, we got the winter menu and I assume they have other seasonal menus as well. Sashimi is a must have in any Japanese restaurant if you love sashimi. Koko serves two variations of a sashimi platter, a Koko Chef's special sashimi and the one we ordered, the assorted sashimi.

The fish for the sashimi were really fresh but the presentation of the dish was terrible.

The O-Bento Box

There is a tasting obento box which is a tasting platter per person which has 4 varieties of Japanese appetisers each. The appetiser that comes in the bento tasting box includes wagyu beef tataki, smooth Japanese tofu with fermented beans, tuna roll and a piece of tempura fish with lemon dressing.

Check with the staff if you guys would like to order as it may vary.

Spider Roll

The spider roll we had was nice but it wasn't the best that I have eaten.

Ebi Hotate Gyoza

They don't pan fried their gyoza here as they only steam it. The steamed handmade prawn and scallop dumplings are served with "ginger ponzu" dipping sauce.

Soft Shell Crab - Crispy Soft Shell Crab and served with "yuzu miso" dipping sauce.

Kamo Kuwayaki

Kumo Kuwayaki is a pan - seared duck breast that simmered in soy mirin sauce with eggplant that comes with 3 different miso sauce.

The duck breast was cooked to perfection. The taste was smooth, the meat was tender and the layer fat just melts in your mouth.

On the whole, we enjoyed the dinner at Koko very much with food that not only tasted good but looked beautiful in a nice ambience and they also have quite a comprehensive wine list which has a wide varitey of japanese sake and wine that ranges from a couple of hundred to a few thousand a bottle.

My Ratings;

-Environment: 4/4

-Foods: 3.5/4

-Price: 1/4

-Service: 4/4

Koko:

Level 3 Crown Towers,

SouthBank.

03 9292 6886

Blok - M Express

2010-08-20T20:28:00.007+08:00

I finally had the chance to go to back to Blok - M today at Little Bourke street to try out their Indonesian food.

There is two Blok - M in Melbourne and the one I went to today is the Blok - M "Express" and another one is located at Prahan. There are a few dishes that I really like and I sure you guys will be like them too.

Gado - Gado

Gado - Gado is basically a traditional Indonesian vegetables salad that is served together with crackers and peanut sauce.

I really like their peanut sauce as it's very smooth and not really sweet, it just perfect to eat with a spoon of cracked crackers and bean sprout which is one of the vegetables that comes together with this gado - gado.

Ayam Balado

I ordered the Ayam Balado with spicy sweet sambal sauce on a fried chicken with rice.

Nasi Gudeg

For me Nasi Gudeg looks like normal mixed rice with few dishes that served together with rice. The special about this Nasi Gudeg is one of their side dish is actually made with sweet stewed Jackfruit.

They do have the story of the person who opened Blok - M and I think this would be great as well to share along with you guys.

"Once upon a time, in Jakarta's Blok - M district, there was a guy called Pak E who spent most of his tenage and adult life roaming about this area. He had no home to go to, his only roof was the polluted sky of Jakarta or under the freeway if he was lucky enough to find a spot. He was a beggar, a drug user, a thug , a busker and a composer throughout his early adult life. His notorious behaviours landed him in jail.

In 1996, after some heavy soul searching, he decided to go to Bali starting out on foot. Not long after an extended journey, he met and Australian girl named Kathie, where they fell in love and got married. Australia may not have been proud to take him on as it's new son, but it had no choice. After immigrating to Melbourne, he opened an Indonesian Restaurant in Prahan which is called "Blok - M" to remind him of how far he had come from the struggles of his early life.

This restaurant, were you are standing now is his legacy, a bred through story of love, hard work and faith..."

My Ratings;

-Environment: 2/4

-Foods: 3.5/4

-Price: 3/4

-Service: 2/4

Blok M Express:
380 Little Bourke Street,
Melbourne VIC 3000.
(between Queen & Elizabeth Street)

03 9600 2534

How to make "Onigiri"

2010-08-19T21:57:00.006+08:00

Hi everyone, from today onwards, FnP will also be blogging about recipes to help you in making something easy and fast to fill up your tummy.

I've ask my dad to teach me how to make Onigiri. Onigiri is basically a rice ball that you can eat with nori wrapped on the outer layer or with different fillings.

He told me that this onigiri that he made is called "Yaki Onigiri Ocha Zeke" which includes the below ingredients:

- Rice

- Nori

- Itokazuri Boshi (Bonito flakes)

- Shoyu (Japanese soy auce)

Basically what you need to do is mixed in the Nori (seaweed) and Itokazuri boshi (bonito flakes) with cooked rice and shape them into a triangle. After you have done shaping them, all you need to do is brush some Shoyu (Japanese soy sauce) on the top and grill them until it turns golden brown and crispy.

My dad also told me that this is also nice to be eaten with green tea bonito soup.

Pino's Trattoria

2010-08-18T21:18:00.005+08:00

Pino's is one of the Italian restaurant that located in the heart of Cowes, Phillip Island. During our trip back in July, we went to this place and had our dinner since there is nothing much for us to choose on the island that near to our Motel.

Tropical Pizza

This family size Tropical Pizza comes with mozzarella cheese, tomato sauce, ham and juicy tomato it just perfect for sharing.

Risotto Marinara

I can actually tell you guys that I've been wanting to try risotto so much and now finally I had the chance of trying this risotto marinara in Pino's. It tasted normal

Carbonara Penne

Prefect creamy Carbonara Penne is our last dish that we had ordered.

Not comparing with the Italian restaurants on Lygon St, the pizzas and pastas here are not too bad. The atmosphere of the restaurant is a nice place to sit back, relax and have a few drinks with your mates.

My Ratings;

-Environment: 3/4

-Foods: 2/4

-Price: 3/4

-Service: 2/4

Pino's Trattoria:

29 Thompson Avenue,

Cowes, Phillip Island VIC

03 5952 2808

Hutong Dumpling Bar

2010-08-05T21:31:00.011+08:00

Two days ago I went to Hutong Dumpling Bar which is couple of doors down Shoya Japanese Restaurant in Market Lane, Chinatown.

I first heard of them as one of the restaurants in The Age's Cheap Eats Guide.

Two levels with a open kitchen. People can see the cooks making dumplings or Shao Long Bao's.

Shao-Long Bao is one of the Must Eats that you need to order in Hutong. It is more or less like dumplings but the shao long bao contains a nice soup and meat wrapped in a translucent skin.

Salted Braised Pork in New Style

Crispy Fragrant Duck

We then ordered Braised Pork and Crispy Duck to go with rice. The pork is well cooked with layers of meat and fat. As you pick up the slices of pork, the slices are so thin that they just crumble. Crispy Duck is our favourite because of the crispness of the duck that very hard to explain.

My Ratings;

-Environment: 3/4

-Foods: 3/4

-Price: 2/4

-Service: 3/4

Hutong:

14-16 Market Lane,

Melbourne,VIC 3000.

03 9650 8128

http://hutong.com.au

Wonton House

2010-08-02T21:51:00.006+08:00

Have you guys ever eaten "Wonton" ? Wonton is a type of dumplings with fillings such as minced pork or prawns. The words Wonton means "swallowing cloud " in chinese.

Wonton Noodle Soup

It's not easy to find a nice bowl of wonton noodles soup in Melbourne, but I can tell you guys that the wonton noodles served in Wonton house is the nicest I've found so far.

Wonton House:

271 Swanston Street, Melbourne 3000.

http://wontonhouse.com.au

Kanithar Thai

2010-07-29T21:30:00.010+08:00

Kanithar Thai is one of the Thai cuisine restaurants that located at Geelong City. I've been there once which is two months ago with my bro and friend during my trip over.

It's a small family-run establishment, nothing grand with the exterior which makes it easily missed.

Their curry is kinda funny, I actually don't find them spicy at all.

Fish Cake with the sweet and sour chilli sauce is a perfect combination.

Roti and Peanut sauce is also one of my favourite and another recommendation from me whenever you all got the chance to go over there.

My Ratings;

-Environment: 2/4

-Foods: 2/4

-Price: 2/4

-Service: 3/4

Kanithar Thai:
45 Malop Street,
Geelong, VIC 3220.

Tomodachi

2010-07-23T21:43:00.011+08:00

Heya guys !! Back to the Tomodachi post again and did you guys went to their Sushi train after reading my post? Hope you guys like it and today I'll like to talk about their ala carte menu dishes.

I'm actually a Japanese foods lovers and I don't mind eating them 24/7 as long as they are nice and up to that standard.

Here you go! The 1st and must that ordered by my brother is this Agedashi tofu.

Agedashi Tofu is nice when it served when hot and it has a gooey thin layer and come together in tempura sauce.

They eggplant is called "Nasu Denhaku" which basically eggplant halved and baked with miso.

This piece of King fish or as known as "Hamachi Wing" looks small but actually it baked amazingly tender and flavoursome. Although it's actually a piece of fish, but when you having it you actually will thought that it's a piece of chicken fillet.

We each ordered rice and bento. Look at how nice they are placing up nicely with so many colours from every different dish.

Do spend some of your time trying Tomodachi that located in Melbourne Central level 3 just straight right infront of you when you are using the la Trobe Street entrance.

Subscribe to their news letter at here as they having monthly promotion all over the year.

My Ratings;

-Environment: 4/4

-Foods: 3.5/4

-Price: 3/4

-Service: 4/4

Groove Train

2010-07-21T09:43:00.006+08:00

Groove train served breakfast till late night and located at 3rd floor of Melbourne Central and it's around the corner next to Hoyt's ticket counter.

The Chicken or Lamb Souvlaki is not that bad but I reckon the pita bread they used is a little bit thick.

One of my friend ordered their Groove Burger and it allows he to choose either Beef or Chicken accompanied with eggs, lettuce, beetroot, bacon & mayonnaise and served with chips.

As usual, I will order fish and I find this fish is pretty nice and served together with varieties of vegetables. To find out more about their fish of the day, look at the menu and ask one of their staff.

My Ratings;

Environment: 2/4

Foods: 2/4

Price: 3/4

Service: 3/4

Click here for more about their menu and their locations.

Old Town Kopitiam Mamak

2010-07-15T20:47:00.011+08:00

Back to few months ago, I've written about the Oldtown Kopitiam which is the very 1st Melbourne Oldtown Kopitiam that located on Little Bourke Street, Chinatown.

Now let me bring you guys to the Mamak version at QV.

Every time I went to Oldtown, one of my favourite and is a must to order which is the Soya Cincau (Soya beans drink mixed with herbal grass jelly). Oldtown Kopitiam is originally from and served Malaysian hawkers foods.

Curry Laksa that served together with sliced chicken, fish cake, Chinese fried tofu and some vegetables on egg noodles is one of the nicest I found in Melbourne.

My brother likes to order their Char Kueh Kak which basically fried radish cake together with bean sprout and eggs where we usually can find this at "Pasar Malam" (night market) back to Malaysia.

Another dish that we couldn't forget when we are in mamak stall or restaurant which is the Maggie Goreng. Maggie as everyone know it is an instant noodles and "goreng" is fried. It tasted sweet and the lime sour taste.

My Ratings;

Environment: 3/4

Foods: 3/4

Price: 3/4

Service: 3/4

Oldtown Kopitiam Mamak:

Level 2, Shop 11, QV Square QV Building,

Melbourne VIC, 3000.

03 9654 2682

http://www.oldtownkopitiam.com.au/

Titanic - The Artefact Exhibition, Melbourne Museum

2010-07-13T22:00:00.008+08:00

In the past few weeks, me and my brother went to the Titanic Artefact Exhibition at Melbourne Museum which is located at 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton.

The exhibition started on the 14 May and going to end in October the 17th.

The exhibition comes with 9 sections of different things, telling us about the ship starting from the construction of the ship to the stories.

There are more artefacts salvaged from the ship but only a handful were selected to be included in the exhibition. Overall, I think it is still worth it to have a look at this exhibition as exhibitions like these seldom come to a place twice. Besides that, you get to experience the design of the ship from the 1st class to the 3rd class cabins.

Unfortunately, just like other exhibitions, photography is not allowed so I don't have much photos to show here.

Lindt - Macaroons

2010-07-12T21:51:00.010+08:00

Over the weekend, we went to Lindt Cafe on Collins Street to have some macaroons after seeing some on Masterchef Australia.

Macaroon is a small round cake which is crispy on the outside but smooth and soft in the middle with filling. They can come in different flavours.

We ordered Strawberry, Blackcurrant, Chocolates, Vanilla and Hazelnuts. They are not very sweet and I really like the crunchiness on the outside and soft inside where it just like eating jelly with the flavour inside.

My Ratings;

Environment: 3/4

Foods: 3/4

Price: 2/4

Service: 3/4

Lindt:

271 Collins Street,

Melbourne 3000 VIC

03 9667 0900

Updates: Entertainment book

2010-06-23T20:41:00.005+08:00

Back in one month ago I've bought this entertainment book "Melbourne version" and today I would like to share with you guys about it.

Beside Melbourne they do have it in many other state and New Zealand as well and this Entertainment book is mostly for Charity purpose. It give you a lot of vouchers from all the restaurant, shops and hotels that participated.

It cost about $60 per book and it's valid for 1 year.

You all may go into their websites or links below and have a look on where to purchase if you are interested.

- Entertainment Book
- How to buy

San Churro

2010-06-22T20:52:00.009+08:00

Churo or sometimes as known as "Spanish Doughnut" which is fried dough pastry snacks that served with chocolate is quite popular in Melbourne.

San Churro is one of a Chocolate shop that are selling churos.

Last few days I've been to this San Churro for my very 1st time and we ordered Iced Chocolate and Churros for two. The chocolate drink is not as nice as Max Brenner and well of course Chokolait.

The churros served with chocolate dipping with your choices of dark chocolate, milk chocolate or white chocolate. Me myself preferred milk chocolate more than dark and white because I don't really like their taste.

For the churro itself because it's fried, I basically find there is some "old oily taste". But overall is fine.

My Ratings;

Environment: 3/4

Foods: 2/4

Price: 3/5

Service: 2/4

Little Malaysia

2010-06-19T21:43:00.008+08:00

Little Malaysia is a Malaysian food restaurant located in of the lanes along Melbourne's Chinatown. I've heard about this place for quite some time now and 2 months back, I decided to drop by to give it a try.

Although this Curry Puff is not as good as the ones i used to have back in Malaysia, this is by far the best I have found in Melbourne. It is filled with curry potatoes, wrapped and fried with a thin skin of dough.

My friend Zui Kok and I had the Nasi Lemak. They serve the dish with Beef Rendang but since I don't eat beef I requested for mine to be served with Chicken Curry. The Nasi Lemak here is quite pricey in my opinion because the serving is quite small compared with the other restaurants.

My brother had the Salted Fish with Chicken fried rice and I can say I liked this more compared with my Nasi Lemak.

My Ratings;

Environment: 3/4

Foods: 2/4

Price: 1/4

Service: 3/4

You can find Little Malaysia address below and they do serve a lot others of Malaysian foods.

26 Liverpool Street,

Melbourne VIC 3000.

03 9662 1678

Dimattina's

2010-06-17T21:35:00.013+08:00

DiMattina's is one of the many Italian restaurants you can find on Lygon Street, Melbourne. Had dinner there last month and it was my second visit. The food in this restaurant left quite a lasting impression on me during my first visit last year.

The sea salt & lemon pepper calamari was salted lightly and tasted good.

This is the mixed pasta platter which consists of 3 pastas or risottos of your choice. A perfect way to share among your friends. We ordered Spaghetti Marinara, Penne Pollo and Fettuccine Carbonara. I particularly liked the creamy white sauce pastas.

Deliciously marinated and grilled chicken breast with the salty crispy pancetta adding flavour to the dish.

My Ratings,

Enviroment : 3/4

Foods: 4/4

Price: 3/4

Service: 4/4

Dimattina's:

306 Lygon Street,

Carlton VIC 3053.

03 9347 5500

Tomodachi - Sushi Train

2010-06-08T20:17:00.012+08:00

It's the time for Foodies N Places to update blog again and today I'll bring you guys for SUSHI !!

Well sushi on a sushi train is actually quite common but it's also very hard to find in Melbourne. Tomodachi is a Japanese restaurant that served sushi on sushi train and normal Japanese ala carte menu.

I find it quite interesting and would like to give it a try although it's quite pricey because yeah as I said it's quite hard to find this kind of Japanese cuisine concept around Melbourne. As they won the best Asian Foods Best Overall and Creative Cooking Competition in year 2007 and 2008 leads them to a name of Home to Melbourne's Best Sushi Trains.

I've tried some of their sushi and I find it very nice and those that I picked are my favourites. If there's chance, I'll really go back again and try their ala carte menu. Different colours of plates comes with different price and their price starts at as low as $2.8 per plate.

You guys may go to their website and have a look. If you join their V.I.P club, you'll receive monthly and birthday promotion details.

Tomodachi is located at Melbourne Central and It's the same floor with Hoyts ticketing counter and (escalator) entrance from Swanston/La Trobe Street.

Tomodachi:

Melbourne Central Shopping Centre, Level 3

Cnr. Swanston & Latrobe Sts.
Melbourne VIC 3000

Ph: (03) 9663 1940

Open 7 days. 12pm - 10pm.
Closed Christmas Day

Badger Creek Blueberry Farm Winery & Cafe

2010-06-07T20:00:00.008+08:00

Hello !! Did you guys enjoyed my previous post? Hope you all like it and yesterday me and my family went to a road trip at country area called "Healesville".

We really enjoyed ourself seeing green trees and farm a lot with all the fresh air.

While we are driving and looking a place for our tea, we suddenly saw the leaflet about this Blueberry Farm Cafe. This cafe been exceed all of our expectation because they served very fabulous coffees and cakes.

The blueberry muffin is just perfect. It is much more nicer compared to other muffin shops with this it is very soft and smooth and served with ice cream.

The Share plate are served with slice bread together with Terrine, Cherry Chutney, Poached Pears, Yea Cheddar, Smoked Salmon and Capers.

This white chocolate cheese cake I bet you all wont find it at other places. If you do, it wont be as nice as this one. Haha.. It's full of thick white chocolate and cheese texture and I'd recommend this to Cheesecake lovers.

Most of the foods are served with Cream or Ice cream and they do sell Jams and wines as well.

My Ratings,

Enviroment : 4/4
Foods: 4/4
Price: 4/4
Service: 4/4

Is a must to go if you guy got chance to visit Healesville, Yarra Valley.

This Blueberry Farm Winery and Cafe:
11 Garnook Grove, Badger Creek,
Healeaville VIC

(03) 5962 1601

Monga Dessert Lounge

2010-06-06T21:13:00.010+08:00

So have you guys try or planned to give a try at Petaling Street?

Do you all know that there is a dessert lounge at level 2 that opened together on the same day with Petaling Street? Now, let me bring you guys to this Hong Kong style dessert place.

The dessert lounge interior is a mixture of modern and traditional. Furniture and decorations are similar to what you can find in a typical coffee shop in Hong Kong like the staircase, bird cages etc.

What comes in my mind whenever I went in to a dessert shop? Red bean sweet soup is my 1st choice that I cannot miss the opportunity to try. What is Red bean sweet soup or in Chinese we called it "Hong Tau Shui" ? This "Hong Tau Shui" is actually mixed with of course Red beans and mandarin/orange peel that boiled together until the beans properly soft.

My bro had his grass jelly with watermelon. It didn't turn out to be like what we expected. We thought the dessert would have some ice flakes beneath and brown sugar water with the watermelon and grass jelly. However, the dessert was quite boring as the grass jelly itself does not have much taste to it and the few watermelon balls couldn't bring out much of the sweetness to the dessert.

My Ratings,

Environment : 3/4
Foods: 2/4
Price: 3/4
Service: 2/4

Monga:
(Level1)600 Station St,Box Hill VIC 3128, Australia

Petaling Street

2010-06-05T21:29:00.014+08:00

"Chi Cheong Kai" is finally now in Box Hill after Glen Waverly & Glenferrie. Today me and my bro went to this newly opened restaurant at Box Hill called Petaling Street or in cantonese they are called as "Chi Cheong Kai" where It's the Chinatown that located in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.

This restaurant is selling Malaysian hawker foods where we usually can find it back in Malaysia. The interior is looking good and I find it very spacious not like others Malaysian cuisine restaurant with squeezy space.

Lo Bak is a dish that mostly liked by everyone and it's also as known as marinated meat. And because it is marinated with 5 spice powder, it is then called 5 spice lo bak / lor bak or Ngor Hiang lor bak which is Hokkien for 5 spice powder. There are many variations recipes for lo bak in Malaysia Penang food.

It is a very popular Nyonya delight food and nowadays you can find it sold in the hawkers centre, economy food in food court, street food or restaurants. The one in Petaling Street, Melbourne I find it abit pricey because it sold at $6 for 3 pieces.

Hakka pork belly with fungus served with dry egg noodles is quite nice but a little bit oily and fat.

Still remember the post that I reviewed before about "Nga Po Lo Shu Fen" ? Click the link and go back to the post. This Petaling street Claypot or "Nga pou" lo shu fun is basically some fried short rice noodle in Claypot. They don't serve it with raw eggs and the I find that they actually don't really cook it together in the claypot like those back in Malaysia.

If the Claypot Lo Shu Fen can have the choices of adding extra raw egg, I reckon it will be more nicer.

My Ratings,

Environment: 4/4

Foods : 3/4

Price : 3/4

Service : 3/4

Petaling Street:

111 Kingsway, Glen Waverley,VIC 3150, Australia
(03) 9561 1388‎
704A Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn VIC 3122, Australia
(03) 9818 0428‎
600 Station St, Box Hill VIC 3128, Australia
(03) 9890 0972‎

Do you all know that there is a dessert shop that opened same time together at Petaling Street Box Hill? Come back again tomorrow and I'll post about it =)

The Cupcake Family

2010-05-10T20:49:00.009+08:00

Hey Guys, I'm back ! Really sorry for not updating any post to share nice place and foods with you guys for the past few weeks. Hmm.. It's Mother's Day yesterday and how do you guys celebrate it with your mom?

Me today would like to show you guys what I've bought for my mom, and mean while hope you guys enjoy with my post today.

The Cupcake Family is located at QV, Melbourne CBD. During the celebration of Mother's day, they promote their Mother's day cupcakes set over Facebook group. It's really a good idea though buying a cute set of little Mother's day cupcakes as a present.

The cupcakes family located at one of the lane at QV with a very nice tea house feels and also some of their friendly staff.

Freshly baked cupcakes.

Spot the wording cookies on top of the cupcakes.

It's really a great idea to buy this kind of stuff and present it to our mom once a year. However, not only Mother's day cupcake they selling but also normal cupcakes. Details for what others cupcakes they have you may click on the previous post that I have reviewed about their cupcakes at http://foodiesnplaces.blogspot.com/search/label/Cupcakes or their official website at http://thecupcakefamily.com.au for more information.

Give a try and you'll no regret.

The Cupcake Family:

22 Red Cape Lane, QV Melbourne 3000.

My Ratings:
- Environment: 4/4
- Foods: 3/4
- Price: 3/4
- Service 4/4

Diamond Palace Chinese Restaurant

2010-03-25T21:03:00.011+08:00

Hello guys! It's been awhile after my post wishing Jason Goh's from smashpop.net and today I just realise that I hardly will post Chinese restaurant on my blog to share with you guys.

Today, I would like to bring you guys to Sunshine and enjoy an affordable simple Chinese Cuisine.

Salt and Pepper Quail.

Roast Duck.

Sweet and Sour Pork (King dou guat).

Salt and Pepper Sole/Flounder.

I seriously miss this when the time back to Malaysia because we can hardly see or even can't see it in the menu I reckon. The "crunchyness" of the side when you are eating it you'll know what I mean.

Chinese Broccoli (Kai Lan) with Prawn and Scallop.

Overall they do served nice Chinese food here but of course you shouldn't expect a very high class dishes will be serve for you. Highly recommended for normal Lunch and Dinner.

203 Hamsphire Rd,

Sunshine, Victoria 3020.

(03) 9311 8166.

Updates: Happy Birthday SmashpOp

2010-03-21T20:49:00.019+08:00

"Happy Birthday SmashpOp!
I want Kido Daruma from Action City"

Hi everyone! It's Malaysian edition again and I'm here to take this opportunity to wish Jason Goh from Smashpop.net a Happy Birthday!!

Best wishes,

Foodies N Places.

Shihlin Taiwanese Street Snacks

2010-03-19T20:58:00.013+08:00

It's another Malaysia foodies edition again. Today I would like to bring you guys to try something that mostly people will queue for very long just for it. Shihlin Taiwanese street snack selling not much things and their XXL crispy chicken is the most famous.

However, today I'm not going to talk about their crispy chicken or other things that they are selling but the one below which is their Handmade Oyster Mee Sua.

Handmade Oyster Mee Sua is made with a type of special stock comprising 5 core ingredients (it's a secret), brewed over a slow flame, form the soup base with the Chinese noodle called "mee sua". A generous amount of oyster and shredded chicken is added before serving.

This handmade oyster mee sua is best eaten when hot and served with coriander that you can see above and I find it taste more nicer if there is more in it.

Ann Ann

2010-03-17T19:54:00.008+08:00

I've tried out one of the Vietnamese restaurant that located at Box Hill quite some time ago. From what I know, the restaurant is basically not opened by Vietnamese owner but Chinese. They do serve other dishes such as porridge in pot.

I find it nice but I got no chance to try it. Well, this restaurant quite good is because they opened for supper as well, find it out if you feel hungry during night time. Let me show you some of the dish they served at my picture below;

This is what you normally can see when you go to any Vietnamese restaurant when you ordered noodles soup.

Spicy beef noodles.

Crispy chicken with tomato rice.

Mango & Strawberry on shaved ice.

Ann Ann:

opposite to China Bar on Station St. near Box Hill Centro.

Asli, Geelong

2010-03-13T20:17:00.016+08:00

Hey guys! The past two days have been nice, sunny and cooling with gorgeous blue skies making the weather perfect for a day out. Just nice for my 3D2N trip down to Geelong to visit my brother.

I went to Geelong with a friend of mine who is Malaysian and has never been to Geelong before. So it was also a trip to introduce Geelong to us (my friend and I), the "Melbournians" and as you guys may know, Geelong is a waterfront city with beautiful views of the bay. It's a rather quiet city without the crazy traffic in Melbourne and we manage to find an interesting restaurant by the name of Asli serving Malaysian food.

The blue sky and sea at Waterfront, Geelong.

"Asli" means authentic in Malay and I find that the restaurant does live up to its name as the food they have does taste very authentic.

Roti Jala, the word "Jala" means "net" in Malay. Because it looks like a net thus they called it Roti "Jala" that made from flour and served with curry.

I find this Nasi Lemak special and it looks different than the typical Nasi Lemak even in Malaysia. What makes it special is that they serve the dish with green "pandan" rice which is a type of fragrant leaf that is also a natural green colouring when blended. Nasi Lemak is usually served with what you can see above which is anchovies, nuts , cucumbers, eggs , fried chicken and of course the most important which is "sambal" (blended chilli sauce).

Nasi Ayam (Chicken Rice).

Prawn Noodles.

Tom Yum noodles.

If you have chance to visit Geelong why not go and try this authentic Malaysian cuisine that located behind Market Square in Geelong town.

Asli:

102B Liltle Malop Street,

Geelong, VIC 3220.

Oriental Cravings, 1Utama

2010-03-08T13:43:00.013+08:00

Hello guys, as I've promised to update my Malaysia trip foodies and today I'll bring you guys to 1Utama shopping mall which is located in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

My bro Benson brought me to this place called Oriental Cravings to try their "Nga Pou Lou Shu Fen". The word "Nga Pou" in Cantonese means clay pot whereas the word "lou shu fen" (directly translated as rat's tail noodle) is a type of rice noodle which is semi translucent and is shaped like a rat's tail. This noodle dish is something that I could not find at all in Melbourne, I miss it so much that I would've eaten the clay pot itself !

Clay pot "lou shu fen"

Clay pot lou shu fen is a very common noodle dish that can be found in Malaysian Chinese coffee shops or at food courts. It is cooked with minced pork and you have a choice of adding a raw egg into it which of course will become cooked by the sizzling hot clay pot. A very nice combination with juicy minced pork and mixed with raw eggs on a dry "lou shu fen".

Rice wine chicken and served with rice.

They do serve other delicious Malaysian Chinese dishes as well. So do check it out when you guys are there! But what I can say is, the clay pot "lou shu fen" is a must try dish when you are there! No regrets !

2 Thumbs up !!

Shoya Japanese Restaurant

2010-03-03T17:20:00.020+08:00

If you guys still remember, I've joined and won the "Ultimate DON's Gourmet Creation Competition" that organised by DON's and Nuffnang. I've won a $200 dinner voucher and I decided to come to Shoya.

I would say Shoya Japanese Restaurant is a very expensive Japanese Restaurant but in other ways their food is very nice. They served fine dining and also barbecue. Instead of describing so much, let's have a look at all the picture I've posted below;

The interiors and Japanese Sushi chef at the Sushi Bar

Kanape - Unagi miso zuke with Kani wasabi mayo, truffles and Ikura

Gintara miso zeke

Mixed Sashimi in ice globe

Tempura tanaba kani (Crab)

Hotate Fillo (Scallop)

Chahan (Fried rice) served with Miso soup

Teriyaki Chicken steak

Wagyu Serloin Steak with Truffles Sauce

Prawns

Dessert - Chocolate cake and Kurugoma Panakota

Black Sesame ice cream.

Give a try guys! Though is expensive but it's really worth it. Basically things up there come with the set that cost $100 per person but some dishes is not included such as the Teriyaki Chicken, Prawns and lastly the Black sesame Ice Cream.

Shoya Japanese Restaurant:

25 Market Lane,

Melbourne VIC 3000

(03) 9650 0840

To review back my Don's competition post, you may click here.

Thank you Don's. Is Don, Is Good !

Izakaya Hachibeh

2010-02-24T20:07:00.016+08:00

IzakayBefore I start posting up all the picture for my Malaysia and Singapore trip, I would like to bring you guys to this Japanese Restaurant that located at Bourke Street.

This place served nice entrée and we have ordered some as below;

The Gyoza.

The Koroke.

Sliced beef with Udon.

Curry Katsu Don.

And lastly the Tempura Don.

My Ratings:

-Environment: 3/4

-Food: 2/4

-Price: 2/4
-Service: 2/4

You guys may also visit their website at http://hachibeh.com.au for more information.

Izakaya Hachibeh:

143-145 Bourke Street,

Melbourne VIC 3000

(03 9078 9909).

Updates

2010-02-19T21:26:00.010+08:00

Hi to all bloggers and Foodies N Places readers. To Find out more places to eat and visit, remember to stay tuned at foodiesnplaces[dot]blogspot[dot]com. Meanwhile, Malaysia and Singapore trip of mine not long ago will post up on "Foodies N Places".

Remember to come back everyday to check it out !

Yee Sang

2010-02-17T23:06:00.010+08:00

Yee sang is a dish which can be commonly seen during Chinese New Year and it serve with raw fish (usually salmon), mixed with shredded vegetables and a variety of sauce. As you can see below I've posted 2 picture that I tried in Melbourne during Chinese New Year.

Both of the yee sang ingredient is the same but just that the sauce they used is a little bit different.

This is exactly how yee sang look and taste like those I ate in Malaysia last time. We bought this from Rasa Malaya Restaurant which located at Doncaster East.

This is obviously the Hong Kong style where we ate at Shark Fin Inn Restaurant. Both are nice i can say but the result and taste are basically different.

Rasa Malaya Restaurant located at:

272 Blackburn Road, Doncaster East VIC 3109.

(03 98424797)

Updates: Foodies N Places is Back !

2010-02-14T05:37:00.007+08:00

Hey Guys ! It's been awhile where I did not update my blog and I would like to apologize. I've been busy for all the while and travelling to Malaysia and Singapore.

From now onwards, Post will be update as often as I can and not only Melbourne, Australia foods and places will be post but Malaysia and Singapore as well.

Hope you guys enjoy and Foodies N Places would like to take this chance to wish everyone a Happy Chinese New Year & Happy Valentines day .

Pho Hien

2010-01-06T20:51:00.011+08:00

What would you think when Vietnamese foods appear on your minds? For me I'll thinks it's dirty , lot's of people, and etc. But recently, I've been to a Vietnamese restaurant that don't have those what I mentioned awhile ago. I'm so surprised that this restaurant that located at Sunshine, VIC is very clean and good service compared to other at Richmond and Footscray.

This "Suet Feh Lai" or as known as Iced coffee is the so call a "must" order when you are at no matter which Vietnamese restaurant. My parents especially my dad will be the 1st person to order this. Don't really know why actually.

Paper prawn roll is also one of the Viet entrée dishes other than spring roll. They filled with vegetables and roll with prawns.

Today I'm going to introduce rice dishes but not noodles that selling at this small shop. This Roast chicken with tomato rice and lemon grass pork chop I found that it's slightly different from others where the skin of the roast chicken is very very crispy and it's a perfect match when you have it with the tomato rice . **Thumbs up** , my favourite.

The pork chop rice comes with the broken rice and something that hardly you can find at other shops which is the one with sin and orange layers colours on it. It's basically something like steam pork and they cute it into a cube size.

Not that bad, but I don't really like that.

Pho hien is located at those shops lot after you turn left at the traffic lights opposite gold leaf Chinese restaurant.

Hope you guys like it !!!

U3/284 Hampshire Road,

Sunshine, VIC 3020.

(03) 9311 9532

Pie Face

2010-01-02T14:13:00.009+08:00

Hi everyone, it's foodiesnplaces here again to update the blog and 1st of all Happy New Year 2010.

In this year foodies and places will still continue you guys out there to search for nice foods around Melbourne and in 2 more weeks time will be starting to post nice foods up around Malaysia.

Stay tuned for all of this.

Recently, I have tried the pie face that newly opened at Swanston street Melbourne CBD. I actually don't really like to eat pie because I found that not much choices for me to choose as I'm not having beef. This pie face is founded in year 2003 at Sydney and the franchised it to Melbourne now. When you passing the shop before eating it, you can actually start to smell the nice smell of the pie skin that freshly bake everyday. The softness of the pie skin makes me to eat it continuously few days for my lunch.

The mini pie.

The normal size pie comes with few choice of beef, lamb, chicken and vegetarian for your choice.

The sweet pie.

When 1st my mum bought coffee from the pie face, I found that the name of their coffee is kinda funny where something like open my eyes and kick my arse with the face sticker on the cup as well. What a creative way.

Pie lovers or people who don't really like pies, foodiesnplaces is now telling you guys that Pie face is seriously taste good. Feel free to try it and Melburnians, this pie face shop is only located at Swanston street opposite Mc Donald.

270 Swanston St,

Melbourne Vic 3000.

289 Flinders Lane,

Melbourne Vic 3000.

Both are opened 24/7.

Rose Garden BBQ

2009-12-23T22:32:00.013+08:00

Before I start my post today, I would like to share with all of you guys where foodiesnplaces won the Nuffnang / DON's ultimate creation competition. To read the post again, please click here.

THANK YOU DON's & NUFFNANG

Is Don Is Good

Well, let's back to the post today. So you have not enough time and don't know what to have?Foodiesnplaces have a great suggestion for you where this Rose Garden that located at Elizabeth street is totally very very fast and guaranteed you may finish you meal in half and hour time.

Fast and nice is what I found when I'm having meal with my family. Thumbs up !!

Picture showing lot of people until queuing at the entrance to the shop.

The concept of Rose Garden is more or less something like dish on plate with rice. To try this fast and nice meal simply drop by to eat in or take away and they opened from 11am to 9pm.

435 Elizabeth St,

Melbourne VIC 3000

(03) 9329 1560

West Lake Chinese Restaurant

2009-12-20T20:14:00.014+08:00

It's time for foodiesnplaces again to bring you guys around to have something nice. Chinese restaurant can actually consider a lot as well around Melbourne, Victoria. Especially Yum Cha, restaurant will fully bookings for no reason.

Now, a building that located at Liltle Bourke Street Melbourne where not much peoples will know about it actually serving a lot of nice and yummy dim sum at reasonable price.

Char Siew tart and Chicken pie is one of my favourite. The chicken pie skin is very different where I personally never tried before in Malaysia. The crunchiness and sweetness on the skin mixing with the creamy chicken is very tasty.

Daily special, filled with prawn and fish paste and topped with some instant shark fins and fish eggs.

Shark fin dumplings. It's not made with shark fins but it just looks like fins and they called shark fins dumplings.

Char Siew (barbecue pork) bao

Chinese style mixed beef parts.

To those who wants to try something new, this "Bun tong gow" where they mixed seafoods in to the dumplings and steamed with soup is very nice.

Many choices of dessert for customer choices, but my personally thoughts where Tai pan's have more types of different dessert.

Made bookings if possible due to they will have a lot of people during peak season and weekend. If you don't want to regret, just make your bookings in advance by calling the number I'll show you guys below.

189 Little Bourke St,

Melbourne, 3000 VIC.

Tel: (03) 9662 2048

Stalactites

2009-12-14T18:56:00.012+08:00

Feeling hungry? Well, let's foodiesnplaces today bring you to a shop no matter what time as long and as you are feeling hungry you may just go into this shop to fill up you tummy. Stalactites opened 24hours and 7 days a week serving breakfast until supper.

The restaurant called stalactites, therefore they used this as their interior decoration as well. They opened since 1978 and served many type of foods and one of them are souvlaki.

Fried Calamari

Saganaki ( fried cheese)

Pita bread

Souvlaki with your choices of Chicken, lamb or beef.

177-183 Lonsdale Street,

Melbourne VIC 3000.

03) 9663 3316

DON - Is Don , Is Good

2009-12-10T21:12:00.031+08:00

"Ultimate DON's Gourmet Creation Competition"

Recently I found out that Nuffnang (Asia-Pacific's First Blog Advertising Community) and DON's organized a competition in which we have to use the DON products such as Ham, Bacon, Sausage and Salami with our choice and creativity to create dishes.

I thought it was interesting and at decided to give a go.

One of the DON's product that I often eat is the Ham, they have few types of ham and today I picked Shaved English Leg Ham as one of the ingredients. What comes to your mind when you see ham, bacon and etc ? I would think of my mom's breakfast that she often makes using ham served with bread and mixed with eggs and baked beans. Today, I would like to make it totally different where I used ham in Japanese nori rolls or commonly known as Sushi rolls.

Choose any one you like of this DON's ham product in Supermarket.

The Japanese rice mixed with vinegar.

Pan fried Ham.

Slices of ham that did not fry at all.

Fresh cucumbers

Ingredients:

1. 1 Pack of "DON's" Shaved english leg ham. (of your choice and may also use bacon if you like)

2. "Obento" sushi kit. (This kit is really awesome where inside included everything and you may get it at Woolworth supermarket)

3. 1 Fresh Cucumber

Notes:

Instead of buying "Obento" sushi kit, these are the utensils that can be bought seperately as well: bamboo mat, soy sauce, wasabi, Japanese rice, vinegar, and nori (seaweed).

Steps to do it:

Cooking sushi rice

1. Bring 600 ml (usually more than your palm) of water and mix it with the rice.

2. Put into rice cooker and cook it as normal.

3. When it's finish cooking, remove it from the rice cooker pot and put it in to a big bowl.

4. Mix the rice with the powdered sushi mix by "Obento" or a few tea spoon of vinegar.

5. Mix the rice well and leave it cool down.

Preparing DON's Ham and cucumber

1. Rinse the Ham with water and gently dry the ham with kitchen towels.

2. Prepare a pan and pan fry one side of the Ham.

3. Depending on your choice, you can either quickly rinse all or just some of your ham in boiling water.

4. Lastly, cut the cucumber into stick size. (You may peel out the skin or just leave it)

Preparing Nori rolls

1. Place 1 sheet of nori, (shiny side down) onto the bamboo rolling mat, wet your hands with water and take a handful of cooked and cooled sushi rice.

2. Spread the rice evenly over the surface of the nori, to within 1cm to the edge.

3. Add your preferred fillings in the middle top.

4. Begin rolling up the mat over the ingredients. Stop when you get about 2.5cm from the edge of the nori.

5. Lift the mat and roll forward again to join the edges of the nori. Keep applying a gentle pressure to make the roll firm.

6. Use a sharp knife to cut the complete rolls in half, place the halves side by side and cut into thirds-each roll will make 6 pieces.

The finish product of DON'S ham nori rolls. Choices of yours to either wrap the ham on the outer or inner layer.

Video below may help you to know more on how to roll the nori rolls.

~~Australian readers~~ please take note, you may also have the chances to win a Restaurant voucher from DON. What you need to do is to go to the supermarket and buy DON's product and think of creative ways to present it. Follow this link for more information:

http://www.nuffnang.com.au/blog/2009/12/02/dons-competition-win-a-dinner-voucher-to-one-of-the-best-restaurants-in-your-home-town/

Good luck guys, enjoy trying !!

Pho Hung Vuong Saigon

2009-12-01T20:56:00.015+08:00

You can actually find Vietnamese foods all over Australia. As in Melbourne, most of the Vietnamese foods you can find at Richmond, Footscray and Springvale. Although they are selling the same thing, no matter which one you go in to it still a lot of people.

What makes everyone going to have Vietnamese food although you have to squeeze with other people? Come, today let me bring you guys to one Vietnamese restaurant that I been to recently where located at Footscray.

Spring roll is one of the dishes that is compulsory to order during your visit to any Vietnamese restaurant. How do you have your springroll? Many different way to eat springroll actually and one of the way is wrapping the vegetable together with one of the spring roll and dip it into the sweet and sour sauce that provided.

To have it this way is actually helps to give the feeling of not to oily while you are having the fried prawn spring roll. For me, I rather not to wrap and straight away dip it into the sauce. Many type of spring roll that they are selling and another one is called prawn paper spring roll which filled with rice noodle and vegetables and serve with special peanut sauce.

Pork chop rice. There is different type of pork shop rice all over cuisine, and the original Vietnamese pork chop rice is actually mix together with lemon grass and grilled it and comes with some vegetables as side dish. The nicest thing and the only one you can find it in Vietnamese food are the rice. Compared to other different type of rice that we used, this is actually those cut rice. From what I heard, Vietnamese people likes to blend their rice until it becomes small.

Large Chicken noodle soup with "fer", means smooth rice hoodles (Hor fun).

Most of the people likes to order beef where its raw beef or beef combination and comes with spicy or non spicy.

Other dishes that selling in common Vietnamese store is their noodles soup. Spicy or non spicy for your choices, and you can choose either chicken, pork, beef or mix.

Chicken soup is my favourite after the pork or chicken chop rice where I personally don't like to eat beef. The sweetness of the soup while you are eating you may squeeze some lemon into it.

Pho Hung Vuong Saigon is located at:

128 Hopskin Street, Footscray
(03 96896002)

Old Town Kopitiam

2009-11-23T12:57:00.013+08:00

Last week I was actually trying to walk around the city with my dad to see whether what we can have for our lunch. Passed by few shops but seems we don't want to have those and finally we saw Old town Kopitiam. Many people said that the Asam Laksa is very very nice and their Roti Bakar as well where in it have a lot of butter and kaya.

It seems that I have lost the taste of "Asam Laksa". After I had that, I feel that it so perfect where you cant find it any other place in Melbourne that taste so familiar and nice. For your guys information, this "Old Town Kopitiam" is actually started in Malaysia first and now they franchise it to Melbourne.

Asam Laksa is actually a dish that cooked with a lot of fish in the soup and served with round white glass noodle* and some vegetables. Mostly people will actually add the "Har ko" into it which is actually made from prawns head where to create the fishy taste for the Asam Laksa. Honestly, for me I really think that the "Har ko" do spoiled the taste of the Asam Laksa soup. Well, its actually depends on every individual.

The Old Town Kopitiam is located at Ground Level, 195 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 where it just next to West Lake Chinese Restaurant.

More picture will up after I try the new Old Town Kopitiam "Mamak".

Woo Ga Korean BBQ

2009-11-21T10:34:00.023+08:00

Woo Ga is a Korean BBQ restaurant. The interior of the restaurant it self are actually like you having a meal in a hut where used wood as chair and tables as well as the walls. This little Korean BBQ restaurant are located at Victoria St, North Melbourne. They allows you to cook your own meat on a charcoal grill pot and they do have meals as well if you don't wanna have BBQ stuff.

The staff will prepare the burned charcoal pot for you at the 1st after you ordered. The will help you to grill it and you may also so your self. For barbecue section in the menu, you may actually choose the combo BBQ set or oder separately. In the menu included Pork and Beef only for Barbecue.

The signature dish. No matter where you go where you are, the 1st comes into your mind will be KIMCHI whenever you tot of Korean food. Isn't it? For this kimchi and other side dishes are refillable after you finish for no limit.

Kimchi hot pot soup is also another dishes that we ordered. Taste not bad, for me i'll give 2/4.

Pancake.. There's many types of different pancakes in the world, sweet or sour.. and cold or hot pancake. Woo Ga they have this omelet pancake and inside do comes with some other seafoods such as calamari.

Where can you find Woo Ga?

Woo Ga is located at:

270 Victoria St, North Melbourne (Near to Victoria Market)

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Maedaya Sake & Grill

2009-11-18T13:20:00.024+08:00

Maedaya is an Izakaya venue rather than a traditional restaurant, meaning that sushi and sashimi are eschewed in favour of dishes cooked on the charcoal grill. Maedaya opened during Lunch and dinner time from Monday to Saturday.

In the evening, they opened upstairs to allow customer enjoy them self for the charcoal barbecue with some of their signature dishes such as "tsukune" (chicken ball skewer), wagyu beef and etc.

Cheese Gyoza.

The skewer.

Lastly, the Japanese mochi and black sesame ice cream.

My Ratings;

-Environment: 3/4

-Food: 3/4

-Price: 3/4

-Service: 3/4

Maedaya located at:

400 Bridge Road, Richmond 3121 VIC Melbourne.

Phone: (03) 9428 3918

Coconut House

2009-11-17T17:26:00.014+08:00

Coconut House is a shop where full of different types of Malaysian food and located at Elizabeth Street, Melbourne CBD. Peoples going in and out queuing for places to seat for just the reason of trying the different varieties of foods in Malaysia.

Oversea student, and peoples who missed their own country Malaysia foods so much can give this a try . Although is not really perfect but where else you can find such similar foods that you wanted and miss so much.

One of the favourite drinks of mine which is the "Soya Cincau". The great perfect match with soya drinks and herbal jelly.

Nasi Lemak as known as Coconut rice you may find it everywhere around Malaysia. Peoples having it during breakfast, lunch, dinner and even supper. Different type between Malays and Chinese "Nasi Lemak" comes with egges, sambal and chicken* A very nice combination between those different things in a plate.

Curry Laksa.

Lastly to share with you guys is the "Pan Mee" where it actually made by flour.

Coconut house or this unique Malaysian Mamak store do sell many different type of foods such as Hainanese Chicken rice, Roast pork and etc.

Coconut House located at:

449 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne
Phone (03) 9329 6401

Chokolait

2009-11-16T22:40:00.016+08:00

Chokolait is a chocolate shop that located in one of the arcade building in Melbourne CBD where in between Bourke St and Lt Collins St.

A small shop having great chocolate drinks and food, and you may not realise this place because its hiding at the corner. For chocolate lover, you all may go and have a try at this.

The Iced Dark Chocolate

Chocolate Pavlova

Chokolait:

Shop 8, Hub Arcade,

318 Little Collins St, Melbourne, VIC 3000.

03 9639 6188