For dinner on our final night in Sydney, we ate the yummiest Thai food at Chilled Out Thai, not far from my sister's house in Maroubra. I try to avoid using superlatives when I can, but I do mean it when I write that this rates as our best encounter with Thai cuisine so far. For some reason, I had never really gotten into Thai food, in spite of - ( Read more... )

Here are some shots I took around Hyde Park and Darling Harbour during our stay in Sydney city last month. This wasn't our first visit to Sydney, and these few shots are in addition to the ones I've previously posted up on my journal in early 2006.

Anzac War Memorial and the Pool of Remembrance; and Rob (with Zak in pram) walking down a fig-lined ( Read more... )

All of my sisters and I got together again to have dinner before my younger sister Honey was due to fly back to Tokyo. It was great to have everyone together at one place, including our respective partners and kids, although perhaps Mamak wasn't exactly the best place to enjoy a leisurely dinner. For some reason or other, this restaurant has gained ( Read more... )

Taking a break from writing about our restaurant eats during our trip to Australia, here are some of the food we ate on the go, on the streets and at a food court/cafe.

Curry tiger @ Harry's Cafe de Wheels, Haymarket

I first read about the place and the pie on Perth blogger's site, thefoodpornographer, and was surprised that I haven't yet ( Read more... )

During our trip to Sydney, in addition to staying a couple of night's at my sister's house in the eastern suburbs, our little family also stayed a couple of nights in an apartment in the city. One of the things Rob and I did was to have another lunch date to make up for missing our monthly dates for the previous couple of months due to all the ( Read more... )

We flew to Sydney to stay for a few days after Perth, and we stayed a couple of nights with one of my elder sisters in Maroubra, an eastern suburb near the beach. We had a mini-reunion dinner with all three of my sisters at Golden Unicorn Chinese Restaurant near F's house, and it turned out to be a surprisingly good dining experience for a ( Read more... )

Most of our recent trip to Perth was taken up with (organising) Rob's birthday do, spending time with family, visiting a couple of friends and taking care of a few official stuff. Other than the lunch we had at Friend's Restaurant on Rob's birthday, and the dimsum lunch with my family and mother-in-law on Sunday after church at Northbridge Chinese ( Read more... )

One of the main reason for our trip down under was to celebrate hubby's 30th. In addition to the small-ish do to celebrate with family and some friends, the two of us had a degustation lunch at Friends Restaurant. Rob loves eating his way through a multi-course degustation meal, so it goes without saying that there wasn't a better meal to celebrate ( Read more... )

We are back in Tokyo after spending the last couple of weeks in Australia. It was a hectic jam-packed trip, but we enjoyed a fabulous time with both sides of our families in Perth and Sydney. Highlights of the trip was celebrating Rob turning the big 3-0, and meeting my niece baby B for the first time. It was nice to be back in Perth, enjoying the ( Read more... )

This is my last post on our trip to Hong Kong, and I'm already having to start packing for our next trip, this time to Australia. I think we need a break from all that flying around after this trip down under.

This was our last evening in Hong Kong, and Rob's lovely aunt C brought us to FoFo by el WIlly, a newly-opened restaurant that serves ( Read more... )