Catch up Session with E

Spaghetti Carbonara & Salmon Penne

à la Crème de Marrons

Met up with E for lunch at broadway Sugar Bean Cafe, nice pasta and value for money, lots of uni students lunching there. Been a while since i met up with E, we usually have coffee together in between breaks during out semester but now, timetable are so packed and different!

We headed to La Galette De France, 5 minutes away from broadway fair, E had the Raspberry Coulis that i had the previous time and i tried their new Chestnut Cream Crepes - à la Crème de Marrons. It tasted slightly like kaya, semi sweet and smooth texture, i added roasted almonds for that extra crunch! It would be perfect with Coconut ice cream. thanks E for your sweet treat, it was yummy-licious.

'The Bride Was Beautiful'

"breathing was difficult; the pain in her back intense. despite her condition, katie, 21, held off her illness to celebrate the happiest day in her life: getting married to nick, 23, who fell in love with her since 11th grade. five days later, katie passed away."

from photo essay by romain blanquart. via cup of jo.

Crave for Pancakes

woke up at 7 am this morning, headed to broadway fair for Sugar Bean Cafe, usually have my breakfast there at 8 am every wednesday, before my 10 am tutorial, Z has been whining about his fabulous pancakes but up till now still haven't manage to try it!

i usually go for the muffin & coffee set for $A5.50, but this morning, the crave for pancakes set in, pancakes and latte $A10.70. Very, Extremely enormous portion! it was 2 pc of what's in the picture, couldn't finish!

Broadway Fair Shopping Centre,
Shop 30A, 88 Broadway,
Nedlands, WA
+61 93865844

Dinner at Laura's

Say Cheese!

Irene & Iris (Both looking so pretty), Iris is my Taiwanese colleague from Neds, Irene her sister

Kath (in yellow), my other bestie in Aussie, thanks for lending me your car dear.

Seafood risotto, Beef lasagne, lettuce salad! Yum, all prepared by dear Laura. It was her farewell dinner, a pity Chris left early, we all had lots of chat and some drinks over dinner. Simple but yet meaningful. I will miss Laura

Back at Soto's

As usual, needed my sharp dose of caffeine fix early in the morning. Headed off for 'Soto Espresso', pestered Z to take me back to where we were last night. Couldn't stop thinking of the delectable wide array of breakfasts they serve. We started our day with very nice hot breakfast. Not forgetting to mention, it was crazily expensive. I paid about 50 AUD for the two of us (funny how Australia has the 10% public holiday surcharge, imagine if Singapore had this, people would be STOMPing away).

I had 'Eggs Benedict'- Poached eggs, spinach on side, smoked ham on New Norcia crusty sourdough roll, finished with rich creamy hollandaise sauce.

Z had 'Soto's Big Breakfast'- portobello mushroom, grilled tomatoes, 2 generous serve of french toast, poached eggs, ham, streaky bacon, caramelized potatoes.

Take a sneak peek at our breakfast, don't you salivate on my pictures!

'Soto', smacked in the corner of Beaufort St.

"Coffee should be as black as hell, as strong as death, as sweet as love"

Soto Espresso

507 Beaufort St.
Highgate 6003 WA
+61 9227-7686

World's Best Pizza (I'm Not Joking)

Me: Laura, i'll take you to have World's Best pizza tmr night

Laura (Looked at me with a 'Yeah Right' face): Alright then.
The next day, she went to work, asked Von (our pastry chef), if there was such a place, she thought i was pulling her leg, every time i do, but not when it's food.

The trip to Little Caesars Pizzeria, one of the World's best pizza, was very worthwhile, took us nearly an hour drive away. Although we started off at about half five, it was getting dark too quickly and there were minimal street lights at the suburb where Little Caesar was located, situated somewhere in Mundaring Perth Hills, tucked in the middle of streets of shops, the place looked somewhat like those coffee shops back home. It was packed with crowd so we had to seat at the tables along the roadside.

We had 3 large pizzas, one was 'Chicken Aloha'- ham, chicken, cheese, pineapple, tomatoes, 'Jane's Addiction' (becoming Prisca's Addiction soon)- PROSCUITTO (i love this salty ham), tomatoes, cream cheese, grilled prawns, onions, third one was 'Oyster Kilpatrick'- oyster, worcestershire sauce, onions and some other ingredients which i couldn't remember, but 'Oyster Kilpatrick' won an award in the Pizza Competition. J loved it so much he had nearly half of the pizza and packed some home, i didn't quite fancy it, the oyster produced somewhat of an ashy taste, or maybe fishy, not sure but jus felt that it wouldn't go well on a pizza base. Proscuitto never failed me when it comes together on a pizza. Just to digress a little again, i remember having a similar tasting pizza at 'Modesto', Orchard Parade hotel, the pizza had rocket, proscuitto and cheese on tomato based pizza, the combined flavor of fresh greens and saltish ham blend so well, i could certainly have finished the whole pizza given that it was a thin crusty based one.

A pity the guys were so full that we couldn't order dessert pizza, two of which were award winning i must say, are you thinking 'HUH, dessert pizza??', YES! ice cream on pizza, custard, pecan nuts, raspberry fruit sauce and sugar icing drizzled on pizza!

Like I always do, having sweets after dinner, we headed to a different cafeteria at HighGate, 'Soto Espresso'. The setting was a different one to 'Exomod Cafe', Soto was dim, giving such a lingering effect, puts u in a sleepy mode, the lighting was minimal. It is perfectly positioned for people watching and tastefully created to put you in an ultra-relaxed vibe. It had a surprisingly huge chalkboard, right up to the ceiling, on it was an extensive array of food menu, from breakfast to lunch..

Look at the table, it has no legs, wonder how does it swing in

That's 'Soto Espresso' for you

Little Caesar Pizzeria
Shop 7, 7125 Great Eastern Highway
Mundaring, WA 6073
+61 9295 6611

Soto Espresso
507 Beaufort St.
Highgate, WA 6003
+ 61 9227 7686

Demise of DBS CEO

The CEO of DBS Bank, Richard Stanley has died from a leukaemia infection on Saturday morning at 8:36 am. Quite shocking after news of recovery just few days back, wonder who would replace Mr Stanley in time to come. He is indeed an important figure head for DBS who seen the bank through tough times especially during this global financial crisis. Life is unpredictable and death calls upon you when you least expect it.

Dim Sum at Regal on Roe Seafood Restaurant

It was glorified Dim Sum for lunch! 4 of us were famished that we had close to 15 baskets of dim sum at Regal on Roe, pretty new restaurant at Northbridge. Quite disappointing, they didn't have my favourite 'Lau Sa Bao', which is flowy duck egg yolk custard in steamed buns. I had it had the other famous dim sum place at Northbridge, Dragon Palace Restaurant, it seems like Dragon Palace is the only one that serves these buns in WA. For those in Singapore dying to try these steam buns, a good recommendation would those from 'Hei She Hui' (Bosses), VivoCity Singapore, they have orangey looking ones with hot flowy egg custard in them, Esther would know what i am talking about, we dined there together once, or maybe twice together.

Just to digress a little, Bosses is filled with dark brown and black panels, exudes a feeling as though visiting the Bosses of those underworld, but once stepped in, you would find oriental wallpaper, with nice chandeliers, black in color from memory, waitpersons clad in black mandarin collared uniforms. Overall their food is superb despite being a little pricey compared with other Chinese Dim Sum restaurants. Worth mentioning was the variety of Chinese Herbal teas that they serve, somewhat like what they had at Shang Palace at ShangRi La Singapore, where they had approx 10-15 different types of Chinese teas.

After Dim Sum, watch Laura say GoodBye and off we headed to our weekly grocery shopping at Subiaco
Market, Laura had a list of food to get for coming Thursday gathering at her place!

Of course, we never failed to visit La Galette De France, but today we decided not to share, and each of us had our very own crepe, Z had Original crepe with butter coating, I had Pear Relli with Ice Cream & Laura stayed with her Raspberry Coulis. It's her second last chance today to eat La Galette De France's crepes.

Regal on Roe Seafood Restaurant
20 Roe St. Northbridge
WA 6003
+61 89228 2198

黑社會, Bosses
1 HarbourFront Walk, Vivocity #02-156/157
Singapore
+65 6376-9740