The usual food porn and an Announcement.

Hello Readers!

I've been taking a lot of OOTD pictures lately, so here is one!

It's been a while since my last blog and as usual I have been stuffing my face. hahaha

Here are some of the things I've been eating!

Pork sausages from Father's Office. 

Cheese and Bacon fries!

I also made another trip back to my favourite sushi place, that's some grilled salmon..

This time they even had Ootoro! Look at dat fatty tuna!

Some Korean BBQ with the boyfriend.

I also went to a trendy restaurant in Melbourne called Chin Chin (if you're japanese, my mates and I had a good laugh too) That's some pork and pancakes.

Spiced beef roti.

Salt and Pepper Squid.

Crab and Pork Cakes. 

We also had some cocktails to wash it all down! So refreshing, it had plum wine, raspberry and blueberry in it.

Chin Chin's a really great place to eat if you're into that kind of Modern Asian food and like those thai/vietnamese flavours.

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I also just had the best burger of my life! Here it is! 

This is the Wagyu Burger from Rockpool with bacon, gruyere cheese and zuni pickle. I had my burger medium rare, it simply melts in your mouth and the Brioche is perfect as well! I can easily see why this is one of Melbourne's 20 iconic dishes.

I'll be eating at Flower Drum tomorrow as well and their Peking duck is also on this iconic list too so i'll let you know how it goes!

And of course....finally some Cake and Tea. :)

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If I haven't mentioned it already, I'll be flying to Japan and China next Wednesday and I'm very excited!

My boyfriend and I have already made reservations for a couple of restaurants, so you can expect the food porn level to reach newer heights!

Internet access will be scarce but I'll try to update this blog about my holiday as much as possible so as to not SPAM you with a ton of pictures afterwards. Take care of yourselves!

Thanks for Reading.

KoKo Teppanyaki

Hi Everyone!

Hope your exams went well, my last one is tomorrow!

I've just finished studying and decided to take a break by writing another food blog.

As a last minute decision we tried to get a booking at KoKo a Japanese teppanyaki restaurant located at Crown Casino. Unfortunately we were told they were fully booked until 9:45pm...but 20 minutes later they called us back saying they had a table at 7:45! What luck! 

Such a terrible photo but the restaurant is gorgeous. It has a very traditional Japanese theme with a large pond right in the center of the restaurant! Very cool.

If you don't know what Teppanyaki is, it's a really exciting dining experience where a chef cooks and serves the food right in front of you on a large grill. 

The way KoKo works is they have a variety of set menus to choose from we chose the one called Kaze ($129pp), which means Wind in japanese. 

Dinner started out with some lovely sashimi. As usual the tuna is delicious, but I also found their salmon was particularly tasty as well!

It was then followed by Lobster Tempura with wasabi mayo. I absolutely loved this dish, there's nothing quite like biting into a big succulent piece of lobster that's been fried in a delightfully light tempura batter. I should also mention again that Wasabi mayo is and forever will be "the bomb"

This adorable little tea pot had a really flavorsome soup in it, the waitress said it was made from seafood. It was called Dobinmushi.

Finally we got on to the real Teppanyaki, which started off with seafood! Prawns and Scallops!

All of the seafood was excellent quality and I was really happy with the way they were cooked.

Scallops were great! So plump on the inside, exactly how they should be.

I'm really glad that the Prawns were good as well, the chef even cooks the head for you.

Next was a bit of salmon, as you can see it was cooked perfectly and the sauce you dip it in made it even better! I also adore the tableware at Koko too, the plate in the photo is absolutely gorgeous!

The chef then proceeded to make us our wagyu fried rice! It's just so fun to watch him make it right before your eyes, it's literally dinner and a show!

We then moved onto the Wagyu sirloin, the chef was very nice and asked us how we liked our steak cooked.

Finally we reached dessert, which was the most amazing vanilla ice cream I've ever had! It was smooth and creamy. You can even see the little bits of vanilla in the ice cream.

As usual we ended our meal with some tea, accompanied by some very interesting conversation with some Scottish gentlemen sitting next to us. 

So in conclusion, I recommend you try this place out one day. It's lots of fun, if you're a bit tired of KBBQ like I am at the moment, Teppanyaki is a really fun easy going experience where you can just sit back and relax whilst the chef does all the work for you!

The service at KoKo is superb as well! Our waitress, Kaori was so nice and very courteous. Despite being RIDICULOUSLY busy she tried to have a conversation with me for as long as she could. 

So that's all! This was my first ever Teppanyaki experience and I loved every minute of it!

See you next blog, it will be a dessert lover's dream!

Hwaro (화로 멜번 구이)

Hi Readers!

I'm back with yet another food blog. 

I've just realised that a lot of people think that this blog is a food blog cos of all of my posts!.... but the truth is I just don't do anything more interesting than eating. I promise the next blog will be something new! Anyway, just wanted to write a few quick things about one of my favourite KBBQ places in Melbourne, called Hwaro.

After my first time there, which was around 2 years ago my standard for Korean BBQ changed dramatically.

The quality of their meat, their friendly service and even the interior of the restaurant were all reasons that landed this place in my top favourite Korean places. 

 My most recent visit was for my friends 20th birthday, we had an enjoyable evening catching up and celebrating over some damn good meat and refreshing peach soju. There are actually 2 Hwaro's in Melbourne now, the second one is smaller a lot more casual and offers an all you can eat deal as well. So if you're the kinda person who eats a lot of food, you'll like the second Hwaro. The downside would be you're sacrificing quality over quantity, which is the case with most buffet places but if you're hankering for a succulent cut of meat definitely give this place a go. 

 Just look at the marbling on the meat! Dat Wagyu! 

 We also ordered a lot of other meats as well, another favourite was soy marinated pork belly! Such a great flavour! 

 It was such a great night, the birthday girl could not have chosen a better place to celebrate. 

 My sister and I bought her a Russian teacup. 

She loved it! Haha 

 Another thing I love about this place is this wall, it immediately catches your eye! I think it's lovely idea that you can leave a little something behind at the restaurant, the messages are pretty cool to read. I even found a message I wrote almost 2 years ago.

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 Ending my blog with some more yummy food pics.

A moroccan spice stew with chorizo (boyfriend's dish)

An egg's benedict with bacon

And that glorious moment when the yolk oozes out.

A shepherd's pie with mash. It just tasted like bolognese though. lol

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Anyway that's all. I'm gonna be blogging heaps in the next week or so! Lots of things I want to share.

Until then~

Brunch date with Mum at Cafe Vue

Evening, readers!

I'm back with another tasty blog about my eating experiences.

As a late mother's day celebration, I took my mum out for a nice brunch at Cafe Vue 401 on St Kilda rd.

It was a quaint cafe with a cool interior and rather friendly staff.

We started out with tea and coffee. Cafe Vue have their own coffee called, 5 senses that is, according to my mum quite good. 

My mum and I had their Wagyu beef burger and house chips. Such an excellent burger, there's not that many ingredients in there but it's a simple burger with A LOT of flavour. 

My sister and her boyfriend both had this Wagyu beef pie. I had a taste and it was great! So delicious and hearty and I just love how they plated the mash as well.

We loved the food so much we decided to go for Round 2!

We ordered their "Melbourne Club Sandwich" It was a BLT, A chicken and watercress and a ham sandwich. My favourite was the ham sandwich, it was not your typical school lunch ham it looked gorgeous and the flavour was intense.

Finally, just before you thought we couldn't eat anymore food we had dessert. It was just a macaron each for me and my mum, whilst my sister had a Trio of Chocolate cake.

Unfortunately I have officially made my stance on Macarons....I really don't like them anymore. They're just toooooo sweet for me. However Cafe Vue do make excellent macarons though, they were probably one of the best I've ever had so if you're a macaron lover give these a try.

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So I've had a pretty big marathon day of eating today i'll just leave you with a couple more pictures of the food I've tucked into lately.

A friend of mine in my last Japanese class made some fairy bread to celebrate. It was so nostalgic, I haven't had fairy bread since I was in primary school!

A Wagyu beef hot dog from the Snag Stand at Melbourne Central. (just realised I've had a lot of Wagyu lately. haha)

Finally some spanish donuts from Mocha Jo's in Glen Waverley. I prefer my spanish donuts nice and crispy but these were okay. It's such a shame that strawberries aren't in season though.

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That's all! See you next blog. :)