the booth..

last saturday i went out with my mum to box hill! i'm not staying very far from box hill but somehow we don't really go there often. but the thing is that there are quite a few nice places to dine there. i still have some places to explore there. anyway that day we went around and decided to try out the booth, it's a taiwanese restaurant with some authentic taiwanese hawker food. we tried out their noodle soup, and the noodle is something like 'ban mian' we have in malaysia. i miss that so much! it comes with their famously known bread crumbed chicken drumsticks. that was really delicious, but a little oily though. however it turned out just nice together with the mild noodle soup. and also an entree, something like pork bun with peanut and pickles. it was really yummy! and the bun was so soft. i think i'll go back for the second time. haha!

malaysian food..

last night was dad's birthday and my family went for somewhere really far for dinner. it was at heilderberg, an authentic malaysian restaurant called jade kingdom. it took us about 30 mins to get home from city and another 40 mins to heilderberg. long long way.. but you know what, it was really worthwhile for the long journey. the food there was really yummy-licious. we ordered five dishes, which are kangkung belacan, assam fish, sizzling tofu, yam ring with kung po chicken, and also buttered prawn. massive meal for just five of us.. haha! greedy us. but the food was just so authentic, and the serving was very generous. of course we ended our dinner with delicious ice kacang. two thumbs up for the restaurant! with the sizzling tofu, i seriously couldn't find it anywhere else, it was awesome and of course also to mention about the assam fish! i'll definately going back to try out other stuff, like their bah kut teh. hehe.. well after being here for so long, we really miss malaysian authentic food, so to be able to find a place with such good one, it's definately a good news for us. we enjoyed the dinner.

mornington day trip..

last weekend i went to mornington with my mum and visitor from malaysia with her daughter studying here, it was my first time meeting up with them. it was a cloudy day and with possible showers and we were lucky enough to skip the bad weather when we were outside. anyway we headed to the sunny ridge strawberry farm, the strawberries are just out for picking and they are huge! i didn't join in the picking part but instead i had a morning tea time myself at the cafe while waiting for them, it was my who knows how many times there.. but still i like the place, with alot of stuff selling at the shop and also chilling out at the cafe with nice scones and a cup of english breakfast tea. relaxing.. after that, they joined me at the cafe and we tried their famously known ice cream.. mouth watering with lots of strawberries.

next we headed to the ashcombe maze, there were so many flowers around and we all had a little bit of fun at the maze with lots of photo takings. we went to the rose garden maze and also their lavender farm maze. the flowers are beautiful. love them! all tired after all the photo taking and walking around the garden. i think it's one of the largest around here. worthwhile to drop by and have a look. after the maze, we headed to a beer brewery, but too bad they were closed! hmm.. shall go and try it next time. so instead we went to a cheese tasting place, and we wanted to try on the cheese tastng platter. well it turned out that i'm not so good in cheese. haha! i think dear will enjoy it more than we do. :P there were quite a few of them to taste, there were goat cheese, sheep cheese and cow cheese from different varieties and also till the end was blue cheese, one from goat and one from cow. it was my first time trying blue cheese, and ermm... you know,, haha!

after that we went back home and the rain was pouring at that time. lucky for us! anyways i had fun being outside the city with nice food, scenery and some fresh air. i wanted to bring dear there. hehe!

caribbean market

two weeks ago i went to the caribbean market with my mum, it was somewhere near my house and the weather that day was awesome too! hehe.. but anyway the place was huge, with all kinds of stalls selling different things at low prices, something what i see in pasar malam but with a tidy version. there are ppl selling crafts, paintings, fresh food, pirated stuffs, homemade biscuits and so on.. it was a nice experience, just browsing around and finally i got myself some dutch pancakes.. they are delicious! with some icing sugar, butter and chocolate sauce, would be great if it comes with some strawberries too.. anyway there were nineteen of them, yummy!

cupcakes..

the love for cupcakes... all of sudden there are a few cupcakes shops in town and one of the best ones is the cupcake family.. they have adorable mini cupcakes and some favourite flavours like the green tea, berry moon which is raspberry on chocolcate, blueberry cheesecake.. just to name a few. it's a nice option to buy them as a gift.. but it's kinda pricey though. well when you're having a bad day, it's a way to cheer up yourself. at least it works for me. loving them.. does it melt your heart as well? hope that puts a smile on your face. xoxo

summer days..

hot summer weather is in the air.. it's only early november, not even end of spring and yet we got hit by the heat wave.. it's terrible with no air-con in my room, i couldn't imagine how bad the summer will be.. thankfully i work in the air-conditioned office during the day. mission for this weekend, to get a portable air-con for my room. very determined one.

p.s. seems like i'm going to be boost juice's best friend this summer.

friday night out..

it's finally weekend again! awesome feeling.. haha! well it was a warm and cosy friday night by having dinner with my collegues after work and chilling out at san churros and just chit chat all the way. this place that we went for dinner was a japanese restaurant along chinatown, forgot the name. haha! anyway they served good bentos, quite worthwhile for a meal. it was a simple gals night out.

well we had a public holiday on tuesday and it was melbourne cup day! i had heaps of fun that day as i headed to city with a few friends and had a huge lunch at one of a cafe at flinders lane, very nice atmosphere around that area and it would be great place for a cup of coffee with friends. too bad i don't enjoy coffees cause very sensitive with the caffeine. after that i went shopping around myer, can find some good bargain at the moment. but i did resist the temptation to buy. anyways i went for karaoke in the afternoon. how i wish there is more public holidays here.