Saturday Feast

Handed in all assignments by Friday. Finally it's time for some relaxing moments and enjoy my saturday without worries and panicking. We started off by watching the movie, Julie and Julia in the morning. We got 2 free tickets from bestie, YL at this cinema situated in Nedlands. When we reached there, we understood why it was mentioned as antique cinema on their website. It was indeed an very old cinema with only 2 cinema halls in there. The ticket booth is just a small booth which can only fits in one person. The cinema hall reminds me of Malaysia's cinema. The designs, the seatings, the chair, the screen and the exit. Everything is so much alike as Malaysia's cinema, Star Cineplex if I remember correctly. There's less than 20 people watching the movie including us and most of them are old folks. But I think it's good as we get to sit freely and you wont have the problem of people making lots if noise when you're concentrating on the movie. :)

The movie was good but not too good to me. I thought there will be more food and recipes. Towards the end, when it's about how they become the writer and the cookbook finally got publish, I almost fell asleep. I was striving to keep my eyes open. lol. After movie, we went for lunch at The Walk Cafe at Subiaco. It's a small cafe located in all of the alleys. I accidentally discoved it the last time when i went shopping with friends at Subi. I like the atmosphere and the food at the cafe. I had my favourite turkish bread with latte and soy milk. Yumm..Went home after lunch to take a rest and watched movie 'The Ugly Truth'.

Around 6.30pm, we left home to go for dinner at Kanta restaurant. I have been craving for Japanese food for the past few weeks. Time to satisfy my tummy :) We ordered lots of food that night. Before we had our entrees, they served us each a small plate of thin noodles.

All together we ordered 6 entrees.

My gyu-tataki, slices of beef with thin shreds of onion together with ponzu sauce which is not in the photo. I don't like raw food so it's hard to tell if it taste good. Even thou it's seared at the side. But the bf liked it.

Rhianoon's Miso Soup.

The bf and Michael had this for their entree. Both of them are crazy in love with this. I gave it a try and for once, I think raw beef is really nice. The raw beef is marinated with sesame oil. It was sweet in taste because of the thin apple slices underneath the raw beef.

Rhiannon's chicken karaage. It was so so good. It's different from those we normally had at japanese restaurant. It not too oily yet there's enough fat in the chicken to make it taste wicked.

I had chawanmushi after my beef slices. Haven't had one in ages. But I don't like the idea of having fish fillet in the steamed egg. Not so nice.

My main. The eel was really fresh and the sauce was just nice. Because sometimes I find the sauce a bit too sweet when I had it at other japanese restaurants.

Rhiannon's Chicken Katsu. It's good as well. The skin is really crispy but the meat wasn't too dry.

And this is the best!! Too bad this photo is blur and it's the only photo I took. The beef was so yummy. It was perfectly cooked. The meat is so tender and when you bite it, you can feel the juices in it. The sauce was awesome too. The portion is not enough for the bf. He was still hungry after that.

I ordered green tea ice-cream for dessert but I forgot to take a photo of it. It was served with lil bit of red-bean paste on top of it. It was good but I personally prefer a bitter taste green tea ice-cream. After dinner, we went for coffee at 44 King St Cafe in King St. A nice place for coffee and chatting session. I think this the place that me & bf visited the most. YL and Adam joined us after their dinner. We had some dessert as well. Lol.

Rhiannon and her dessert. I'm not very sure what was it. All I know is it's chocolate cake topped with chocolate sauce and meringue.

The bf and I had this. It's something special to me. Never had a baklava before. For those who don't know what baklava is, it is a Near Eastern pastry made of many layers of paper-thin dough with a filling of ground nuts, baked and then drenched in a syrup of honey and sometimes rosewater. But I don't really like it, probably just this one. I found it too hard to even cut it. The toffee ice-cream was good thou.

Now you'll understand why I put Saturday Feast as my title. Basically it's food and food all day. May not appear a lot to you but for those who knows me, it's A LOT!!! lol.

Gotta get back to revision now. Exams in one week time. Can't wait to get it over with. Have a great week ahead.

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Happy Birthday to my bestie ♥

Last Saturday night, we went out to celebrate bestie, YL's birthday. We had a hard time getting a restaurant as most of the restaurants that we wanted to go were either fully booked or not available due to private party. So in the end, we had dinner at this restaurant, Lamont's in East Perth.

Outlook of Lamont's

The kitchen area


Adam & bf had the same entree - Wagyu Bresola with asparagus and shallot salad, red grape mustard mayo. I tried some of it and it tasted just alright.


YL's entree - Lemon Sole fillets, soft herb crumbs with sauce gribiche. I tasted this dish as well. Hmm, just okay to me too.. It's too plain to my liking.


My entree - Ham hock terrine with crisp pork cheek, calvados crème fraiche. The pork cheek was not bad but the terrine had this kinda weird flavor to me & bf. It might be both of us are not used to it or it taste just weird.

Bf and adam had the same main dish too - Margaret river venison with cauliflower and potatoes.
For those who doesn't know what venison is, venison is actually deer meat. For this dish, bf din't really enjoy it. The venison was not a fresh piece and the meat was quite tough.

YL's main dish - Duck breast, confit duck leg brik, blood orange and walnut salad. I din't try out this dish as at the very moment YL said it doesn't taste good, I can't be bothered to taste it. According to YL, the duck breast was overcook and the sauce was terrible. She basically din't enjoy the dish.

My main dish - Wagyu beef steak with asparagus and potatoes. which I reckon is the best main dish among all. It taste quite good but I found it a bit overcooked. It was quite hard for me to cut and chew it.


After main dish, it's time for dessert. But the desserts on the menu doesn't seem interesting to Adam & bf. We had experience the food and want to play safe with dessert. So adam & bf had cheese while myself & YL had something sweet.

Adam's - Rouzaire Brie de Nangis Soft rind with quince paste and lavosh. Not cheesy enough..

Bf's - Queso Tradicionales Valdeon D.O. Blue cheese with dried figs and pear. Only bf enjoyed this dish. YL doesn't fancy cheese and it's way too strong for me & adam.


YL's - Passion fruit curd, meringue drops and strawberry. Too sweet I reckon.

Myself - Nougatine parfait with honey caramelised figs. The safest dessert and that's the reason I chose it.

After all the food, we finally snapped some photos of human. lol.

My besties

Myself & the birthday girl

The boys or shud i address them as man??

my ♥

Us with our desserts. Taken by the waiter.

After dinner, we had a stroll along the river outside Lamont's before we left for coffee. And it's time for more photos :P

Always my favourite couple.. :)

The bf and I..

We think that we shud give him a lesson on Camera Angle 100 because he was laughing at us when we were trying to get the best angle for our photos. But, who want to look ugly in their photos? Of course we want to look nice in our photos. Hmm, time for more photos taking with the bf. :P

Overall, none of us enjoyed the food. It was seriously disappointing and I had some much to complaint about the waitress that served us. I think none of us will ever visit the restaurant again. Lastly,

Happy Birthday YeeLing!!!

ps: some of the photos are taken by Adam's dslr..

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Another B&G session

Had a lunch date with bestie, yl& adam and adam's sis, may.
We went to this place at north perth, Pantry Door. I've been wanting to go this place for quite a while only that the man thinks it's kind of far for him. Being the impatient me, I asked bestie to have our lunch over there.

When we reached there, I'm so glad to found out that they used Fiori brand for coffee. Quite sure that's the coffee gonna be good useless the staff gonna make a really bad job. We left with quite little choices as most of their food are sold out by the time we reached there. One thing I like about that place is that they don't have a menu for their food. It's up to what they feel like having today and you get to try out different food everytime you're there. So I had salmon tart and cappucino to start off my first meal of the day. It was yummy!! I wished I could try out the quiche as YL mentioned that it's so good that you wouldn't wanna miss out. But too bad, I was full after the salmon tart.

Da yummylicious salmon tart..

along with my cappucino. Coffee never fails to make my day :)

Here's the look beneath the crust.

Other than pastries, they serve quite a few desserts as well. You can find macaroons there too. I din't have any desserts as I was still full but I did have a coffee macaroons. Somehow, I din't like it as it tasted too sweet for my liking. I did got a apple strudel and pasta for my brother. Have to ask him how did it taste.

Coffee macaroon

The place is cosily decorated, a nice place to have a chat with your friends. Only that it might not be such a good idea to go there during the weekends as the place is kind of small and not much tables and seats are provided. You might need to wait for quite a while to get a seat and i guess you're gonna have people staring at you while you're trying to enjoy your meal. Not so good.

Ohh, I miss the food again.. Told the man about it just then and assured him that it's a defenitely-worth-a-visit place. And guess what, the man agreed to give it a try sometime this week. Yay!!!! I'm not too bad in persuasion hey ;)



PS: The man's parents are in town along with his uncle & auntie. He's kind of got interrogate by them when I din't show up for dinner just then. So dinner tomorrow night. Shud I be nervous? I guess I will at that time. :/



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Lunch with lovelies

The next day after SFAS, the man decided to cook lunch for me. We invited yl & adam over since they are also keen on trying new recipes by the man. The man was still overwhelmed by excitement of receiving his brand new knife set all the away from the state. He just can't wait to try it out. Big boy with his new toy. Bet you can imagine how happy he was..

The man put in quite a bit effort into the soup. He was searching high and low for the materials and guess what is it..6 kinds of mushroom which i forgot all the names by now :P

Time to show ya my man's cooking *winks*

The yummylicious mushroom soup with never-failed truffle oil.. slurps
Followed by sausage frittata.. the man used a kind of german's sausage.
Two kinds of sausages & roast tomatoes.

This is for me and I cant even finish it :/

The man preparing frittata. It must be serve warm :)

While waiting for the dessert and since Adam brought his DSLR over, for those who knows me surely I won't miss out the chance of playing with it. So we took photoss.. winkswinks

Taken by me. They are my favourite couple!!!
And then we tried to do the yearbook kind of pose. So here's the attempt by yl & adam.
Then, myself & yl. I look extremely nerd here.
The man and adams' attempt. The man is really good at nerd's pose ;D
Check this one out.. See anything?? Remember the Japanese horror movie 'The Eye'? This is our version of it.
A photo with my bestie.
The man & his baby ;)
and the guys got this ugly pic of me :/
Finally, time for dessert. It's something to die for. So so so good!!! We actually finished the whole thing. I might be able to finish half of it by myself!!! Oh yea, it's Apple Tart Tartin. I was asking the man yesterday if he could make me one again this weekend..teehee

That's our lunch session. Am so pampered by the man's cooking. Can't wait for this friday.. Seafood!!

I ♥ U

Toodles..



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