Foods and Melbourne

Due to exam, i have save a lot of $ since i hardly step out of my room, no go out = no spend $, so i have extra budget to treat myself to some good food :D manage to persuade Vanya go 败家 with me~

Saw a blog mentioning a few good restaurant/cafe so decided to explore it, something that is NOT Asian and Italian~
Mrs Parma, located at Lt. Bourke st. (Vanya acting as 路人 there)
It's a bar restaurant, so people go there for good beer, we went for the food.
The drink is order at the bar. This one just lemonade, Vanya never been to this sort of place (me neither) so she decided to follow me on whatever i order....
TADA!! the food, the round round one is Moroccan meatball, not nice that meat ball, as for the pizza looking thing, it's chicken breast, pizza style, unique eh~ taste good too~ cost around $23 this one, standard ang mo restaurant price lah, serve along with salad and chips~
Vanya's BBQ parma. Round one is onion ring~ Doesn't look like big portion, but it's very very full, both of us almost have to crawl out when we finish that meat....

At first Vanya was complaining why the salad and chips not serve as one per person, now we thank god they are not... we can't even finish that 2 bowl~

We sat there for very very long time, cos in the end we are soo full that we have to force ourselves to finish the meat, our $$ ah~~ Almost all customer are ang moh~ and we ate so slow that almost everyone that come in later than us had already finish and left.... the table next to us have already serve 2 different group of customers....

When we finally left, we decided to go for a walk to digest the food.... feel really bad walking with a almost bursted stomach, our plan to shop around the CBD ruined..... plus it's raining =.= so we decided we shud 'hide' in Myer or David Jones
saw this Japanese restaurant, with lot's of 招财猫 in all difference sizes~There's more inside the shop~
Chocolate!! and bear!! been in melbourne for so long and i have yet try out the chocolate from this shop~
Went to Myer's basement... pile of burger cushion~ this one hard to sell off i suppose, saw it since i was back in Melb early this year... lot's of people saw it will "ahh burger" then go hug, hug, then put it back and walk away bah hehehe~ also got Vitamin one~ frankly i prefer Vitamin one cos the fure nice and very springy and soft to hug~ but too springy not as useful as the burger one, prob will exile to the side of bed that vitamin~ burger on the other hand, u can sat on it, sleep on it etc~ since it's flat~ only no good thing is that vege, cheese and meat is a bit hard~ shud use sofer material~ Yes Vanya 'invest' in one... lining up paying for it... I love browsing at Basement cos for some reason most employee can't be found, even finding a opening couter to pay also tricky~ all employee too busy tidy up the mess people make when they try on clothes or skim thru pile of discount item~ Hence it always look messy~ well they purposely let it look messy maybe~
Starbuck again :D it somehow become our favourite 'resting leg' place + satified our desire to drink~ cos it's not available other place in surburb....
Flinder street~ no we didn't go home late, it's just it get dark earlier during winter, this is just past 6.

Tim Burton Exhibition

Monchacha walk into ACMI and went to Tim Burton Exhibition. Don't know who's Tim Burton or think the name very familiar? Well he's the producer + director of that horrible Alice in the wonderland 3D. Didn't watch that? well am sure you watch the old Batman, Batman Returns, Nightmare before Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate factory, Corpse bride etc... (Lucky i do like his other works, otherwise a bit @#$% paying $14 to go in) They sure put a lot of effort to the door. The exhibition is still on until October sth, we went very very early.... was intend to go NGV but end up going this one cos we thought it's limited time or something.... well it is limited time lah but it started at 24 June and we went at 29, quite early.... wonder why i accidentally stumble on this and knew about it...
Got batman's car on display there~ Entrance to the exhibition~ from this point onward, no camera~ Quite an interesting exhibition.... now know why Alice is a disaster for me... he can twist any nice fairy tales... his work... his way of thinking.... quite weird....

Most of his film, notice the main character represent himself a bit... curly curly hair... act weird... his style... His drawing, organs tend to come out, notice all the women got pointy breast.... make you wonder what the hell is he thinking, esp his early work, why a teenager think like that? I like a touch of mysterious in his drawing, like the one you see in Nightmare before Christmas and Corpse bride. There's a lot funny one (if you ignore the organ coming out part). Vanya and i spend a lot of time looking at his work one by one.... that we are overpass by everyone... must annoyed a lot of people for blocking one picture so long hehehe~ paid edi and purposely go liao, didn't look carefully and enjoy ourselves will feel sorry eh~

Overall it is interesting exhibition to go, can spend around 2 hrs there~ one of his work, big balloon hanging outside~

Esp like this Robot boy (if remember correctly) from his book The Melancholy Death of Oyster boy & other stories, said mum and dad is freak out when mum give birth of him. Complain to doctor why he has no skin and have aluminum and stuff instead.... turn out cos the mum been having affair with kitchen appliance.... seriously... what is he thinking... well this poor boy kena mistaken as rubbish bin many time... hence the picture above... even got soket eh~ to connect to power~

Also went to Screen world, probably good for people interested in film and stuff, show you all da history, even got game to play, from very very old ancient pacman game machine to iphone. You can do the Matrix thingy, the famous dodge bullet act here, can email your own 'film' to ya email account if you want.... don't dare go in be siao zha bo lah, to embarrass, esp got lot's of people looking hahaha, we look at other people do it :P
This one very interesting, all the figure is stationary deh, but when very shine white light is on (disco effect type) + the spinning of the table, all the figure look as if it's moving. But look at this one make u @_@ also after that cos of the light. Love this one! shadow show that create monster effect deh! that's me and Vanya, if we move around we look like monster, with saliva dripping around. This one not our best shot, got another nicer picture but a $%^# guy walk pass and ruin it T_T (F***!)
Federation square.... somebody feeding them, darn annoying these birds.
Dunno why got camp fire.... that 2 person is not exhibition stuff... just random people happen to sit there and shivering there ehehe~ They sure look very very cold.... (this one normal dress, those mini skirt or short pant girl with no legging or stoking is the gila one!)

Went for dinner at Dessert house (place that is not famous with dessert)
My coconut milk sago drink (after drink this baru i buy that sago thing in the last post cos feel like wanna try DIY) Vanya's lemon teaVanya's char kuew teow My baked cheese rice :D erm... they should not have use red pasta source.... i prefer cream version... cos i want the baked cheese flavor more, not the tomatoes.... taste okay overall~ got one big piece of pork fillet inside, can you spot it?
Ticket and booklet for the exhibition, the wooden horse not included, hehehe just wanna put it in cos it look nice with them~ that's my necklace~
Buy 2 postcard as souvenir, esp like the baby one... he said "am too young to think about money, love, sport, sex, questions, poison (or whatever that skull mean lah)"

Monash!! why? the 60cent!!

Can't help myself but wanna curse Monash. We International student, ur biggest revenue, pay u soooo much fee per sem, why got 60cent there?$1xxxx.60.... 你怎么好意思要！ u think u r supermarket meh, vegie and fruit weight and price as per kg is it, got 60cent~ which of ur lecturer or tutor got salary as $xxxx.20 is it?

Ah~ bpay... i hate u~ money gone in few click~ am heartbreaking at the moment cos just paid that lump sum of $ for my sem 2 fee....

Random outing

Another ancient forgotten post... post it cos finally upload the picture Went to the new DFO that day and after lot's of walking, decided to take a break at Starbucks. Strange how Starbucks can only be found in CBD Melbourne.... not available in any other suburb.
Ahh~ Picture of Vanya having her first Ice green tea latte and addicted to it since.... been ordering that almost every tine we went Starbucks. My dinner, forgot what is it, Tempura sth,
Side dish - Agedashi Tofu, nice! Both of us really ate a lot... the shop very small so we have to share table with another 2 girl and we finish our main + side dish while the girls sharing table with us can't even finish their mainoops...

This post is dedicated to Be

Okay, i was intended to do this when i receive ya parcel and the postcard from HK but u know typical Angeline got lazy... lazy to upload picture~ Anyhow it's never too late and never too much to say this again - Thanks Be, for the bloody bunny and the postcards, it meant a lot to receive something, even just a word from an old friend, miss u dearly, miss all our random outing together, miss our couple-like msn and sms time, wish u are here with me :(

ps: kyah~ thai post soo cute :P

Junk food

Angeline's love sweet stuff~ hence i tend to buy + try out lot's of them! I can run out of any sorta food except sweet stuff... bad bad...

This is from Laurent's (very nice patisserie place!), i don't remember what is that rectangle one call edi but it's quite nice, the round one is orange tart, love it :P not cheap but easily sien deh so small piece like that is enough to make my day
My lovely cup at the back :D This one is sparkling grape juice, somebody recommend it to me, saying it's good, well it is good, not too sweet, taste like Ribena + CO2 =.= hehe~ not much different with the sparkling juice we have at home, it's not expensive $3 sth but it's just not something we would buy when at Coles or Woolworth cos it's in glass bottle aka heavy to carry when we do our grocery. I also buy another apple one later, will upload picture when am not lazy again~
Lipton ice tea!! um... no ice inside and i don't drink it cold... don't even wanna buy cold one if possible... so dunno why they put 'ice' there. This one very very small bottle, free deh, one day i walk pass campus and saw them giving this out, the guy there said "take as many as you want" so we all 不客气 take a lot muahaha~ one flavor each~ got lemon, peach and green tea + lemon, ahem~ paiseh ah, the lemon one i drank edi when i took this pic~ There's 2 other flavor (white tea and mango) i think but they are not promoting that so no free 'sample' Now the bottle become my 'water bottle' since it's cute + easy to stuff in bags.

Macha ice-cream!! This one not bad :P but i don't mind if the macha taste can be a bit more stronger.

Japanese snack!! good grace am not in japan, otherwise i would pour all my $$ into snack. Ate the pink one, nice but a bit too sweet... Just notice it got 期间限定, the green one is macha, also 期间限定, yellow one is honey, got another not in the picture, draw a pancake... pancake flavor? will take a pic later and upload it next time... Gosh, the package so adorable i tak sampai hati ate it!! cos once i ate it have to throw package, otherwise i could summon tonnes of ants to my room!! The candy one is coffee as can see in the pic, white one is milk, blue one is my favorite! soft drink candy!

The milk biscuit... made in malaysia... but i never saw that in Malaysia leh? new product? the biscuit is nice, smell very sweet, but taste milky not sweet~ The box is nice but throw edi as soon as i finished it... The small package thing is green milk tea..... 马玉山 brand from taiwan... eh drank one pack, a bit sweet... maybe i should add in coffee and make my own green tea latte instead next time.... Finall, DIY sago with coconut milk... i like this drink... so i decided to buy one and try DIY myself see how it turn up.... still haven't try it out.... taiwan product again and it said "新好男人， 偶尔也该下厨房” so should i get a guy to make it instead?

Party World

Hmm... this is really very long time ago punya outing~ few months liao baru upload the pic wakaka (pia飞) Anyway, Lala and I been wanting to try out other Karaoke places but too bad most of them operate at night only T_T... So we decided to give Party World a go. (not my first time there...)


We went on a weekday afternoon - cos cheaper and also we are free on that time~ Party world is charge on per person basic and have a minimum spending requirement, best for 3 person... but we don't have another friend in common to go with T_T (this requirement a bit @#$% lah, what if couple wanna go, bring a 'light bulb' along?). Then you can order foods and drinks up to the value of the amount you paid, aka if they charge $18 per person, you can order food and drinks value at $18, any extra $ exceed you would have to pay lah, sound nice? yea well, foods and drinks are usually expensive and not really worth it if you want me to purposely pay for it. Forgot how much is that small room cost since it's such a long time ago thing (2 months+) but the overall experience just okay lah~ have lot's of song and are up to date but u sorta need to know Chinese or good in Chinese input to be able to search, they really need to hire someone to sort their music library properly, some song are sorta 'hidden', you 'click' on the artist 'folder' and could never find it, but if you enter the name and search one by one, you might find it.

The food, I order the noodle, lala order the bento box, the drink i choose soft drink, lala choose milk tea. Foods are okay, eatable, but milk tea leh... ehem... i knew it... this sort of place, never serve nice drink, even if they do, the amount is a bit.... so am sticking with soft drink type. My fried noodle~ kinda small~ Nice when still hot, so better eat it fast Lala's Bento, asked the waiter what sort of meat, he sorta "eh urm it's stir fried pork...er..." turn up it's 卤肉 lah! not bad~

Dunno is it getting old edi or what, we sorta less interested in sing K, less desire of "i wanna go sing k"

Some cam whore:
My lovely camera :P
.... dunno what's she's doing....