ICE SKATING | FESTIVAL | JAPFOOD

Reaaaally good day today.
A couple of us went out for our last fun trip before hsc year.
Firstly went ice skating and faced my biggest fear. Have not gone back to that place ever since year 6 and fell on my butt and spent the whole time on the wall.
So at first it was fucking hideous and then it got better and ended up being able to skate off the wall solo for a while hahahahas. didn't fall off my buuuuttt! i think thats all that matters HAHAHAHS. 

Then went to sydney fest at hyde park at the messina stall. Sooo fucking good omfg.

So we got the Twist Hot Dog, which was: a milk chocolate gelato hot dog, served in a warm finger bun with essential condiments passionfruit 'mustard', raspberry 'ketchup' and buttercream 'mayo', and coconut 'onions'. It was okay, we didn't like it much hahas. 

Messinaweiner (Pluto Pup)- baton of mapon syrup gelato coated in pancake batter, deep fried and crispy- dipper in plum sauce. 

Soooo fucking good omfg i saw this on a blog and made a mental reminder to get it. sososos good. 

GELATOFFEE APPLES- green apple sorbet, with a caramel milk chocolate glazed candy apple red finish 

Soooo good too! its hard to bite in cause its so cold but yeah so good speechless. 

EYESCREAM LOLLYPOPS- redskin, banana and pop rocks. 

So if you don't know me I'm a sucker for pop rocks and this is just totally awesome. The lollypop looks real good with its pink/yellow swirl and at the back there's a plate of banana pop rocks which is just superb. 

Then went to Kansai and did the all you can eat and had so much sushi and just died in ecstasy. So yeah, don't expect a good pic cause everyone was eatting so much we didn't have a chance to take any ahahahs. this all you can eat 'buffet' isn't like any other normal buffet you'd go to where you'd come out to a stalls of food and pick your portions. It works like a normal restaurant where you'd order plates that have a set price. Yet if you get the $29.50 buffet option you can pretty order as much as you want. overall, pretty good. I've been eatting clean and smaller portions for the last few weeks so i was pretty full by the halfway mark but still kept eatting cause there's so much food and the group wanted to eat more than our price's worth. 

( 6 kids = $180 omfg) 

 their sushi is nice but they overprice every dish, which makes you think that you're eatting more than you paid when it's really not true. For example, one sushi roe nigiri (which tasted crap) was $3 for one! like one piece of cut up sushi roll. so yeah, pretty smart of them. 

Other than the sushi roe nigiri and some soba noodles with the sauce that taste like water, everything was real good ( especially their 'spider' sushi set (crab inside out sushi) ) 

First time in a while i actually went in a food coma where i felt so sleepy on the train and had a food 'walk of shame' to the car. (when you feel bloated and have a food baby)

 Going back home to figure out tina had apple cider for me hehehehehehe.

Good daaaaaay :))

FAT FRIDAYS

so, knowing me, i have been going on a lot of food adventure in the last month but haven't blogged about it so here it is, a bootiful compilation.


So on the last friday of exam week, Annie and I decided to head out to the city after our orals to go food gawking. There was the friday markets at Chinatown so Annie became my guide for the food adventure.


Our first stop was this nice food booth in Chinatown that sold Japanese Pancakes. To me it looked like a bigger version of a custard ball with a nice waffle shell. They had 4 flavours available: Red bean, Green Tea, Custard, Cheese, and with a price of 3 for $5, it was a pretty good deal. We got 2 Green Teas and One Custard - for Annie's sis- and the Green Tea tasted absolutely nice. 

Then we went to Hana Hana, a jap restaurant at the far end of Chinatown. I've been there before on a trip with the group but never got to eat anything because i was pressed for time, so decided to go dine there. The restaurant is very spacious, with two levels; one for savoury meals and upstairs is like a dessert room. 

 image courtesy of yesfood.com.au

We ordered the Beef Okonomiyaki, which was like a Jap savoury pancake which was so absolutely nice for such a little price and also got Tempura Flakes and Red Ginger as free sides. And they had a reall good system there as well; if you clean your table up and put all the bowls onto one of the designated shelves, you are able to collect stamps and, once you reach 5, you can give free soba with the next meal. It's a pretty good initiative i reckon. 

Then we went upstairs cause Annie wanted to show me the Mochi waffles. 

Annie's amazing Photog

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We grabbed the Strawberry Mochi Waffle, which came with icecream and whipped cream for around $6. It tasted really nice so I guess it was worth the price. 

We then went to Regents Place, a small alleyway which is rich in good authentic food of different backgrounds. Since the day became a little Jap cuisin adventure, Annie took me to Chanoma Cafe, which specializes in pretty much EVERYTHING green tea. 

image courtesy of http://jenishungry.blogspot.com.au

Although it also sells hotdogs, it was our first time coming here to order dessert so we ordered the Matcha Frape ($5.80) and the Matcha Fruit Anmitsu ($6.90)

Annie's fab photo again!

Although it looked so appetizing, we didn't think it was that great. The Matcha Frappe is quite bitter- maybe a good thing for the Matcha freaks- and although the top of the Anmitsu looked amazing, underneath was filled with plain jelly cubes and the thick syrup was not much help. The small bowl was not worth the $6.90 price to be honest. 

And then i got pressed on time and had to leave again hahas. But that marks me and Annie's first food adventure wootdawoooooot. 

☯☯☯☯☯☯☯☯☯☯☯

yesterday was me and kim's food adventure number idek hahas. 
We initially wanted to go on the monorail because we had a coupon that would expire today, and I wanted to show her some nice food at the friday markets, but we ended up adlib-ing our trip.

we went to get our 1litre meetfresh first as our drink. Which costed us $6. It was quite worth the price but the dodgy cup ended up breaking and spilted some of the drink on our way walking to the monorail.

I also took Kim to buy the Jap pancakes and we got the the Red Bean, Green Tea, and Custard one. The Red Bean tasted okay but we prefered the Green Tea above all. 

Also snacked at Maccas hahahas. 

Food Junkies

Went 1 and a half circles on the monorail and half of our trip was in a carriage by ourselves so it was pretty fun and we made a documentary hahahs. 

Then hiked back to Bankstown to get some froyo even though our stomachs could barely fit anymore. 

fun times on fat fridays :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEPHANIEEEE.

So on Friday the whole group went to celebrate Steph's birthday, YAAAY. ahahas well not the whole group because so many didn't come. yeah, party poopers. 
it was Steph (ahahas of course), Maddie, Kristie, Angel, Linda, Jasmine, Sarah, Jess, Chenzo, and me :)

So we all wanted to go meet at Town Hall but, when we got there, Sarah dragged us to this pretty cool shop at Town Hall called Puff that sells $1 macarons. and they're sosososos nice. Mostly the strawberries onesies ahahs. 

As our present, Steph was a foodie person so we got her all these zumbo stuff and some stuff she wanted at Typo. And Kristie put together this really cute canvas of all of us. Everyone had a huge message for her and took really ugly photos and yeah. Steph got really emotional, it was really cute.

GROUP PHOTO YEEER.

ZUMBARONS <3

 Tan was coming late so we walked around the city to find something to eat. But we're so indecisive as a group, and ended up walking half an hour to all these random restaurants but ending up to not eat anything. 

Tan came so we met her up at George Street Cinemas and we decided to got to Market City to eat food. But then we stopped in front of Pepper Lunch and went inside...so go eat at the shop behind it ahahahas. And we were so loud, i bet so many people were pissed at us. But there was this shop whose meals were sososos cheap. it was this jap restaurant behind pepper lunch. Every bowl/dish was around $3-$5 and you could get so full on it. Me and Linda bought curry and i got takoyaki balls and mochi and altogether it was $7 and i couldnt even finish it in the end because it was so much. and so nice ahahas. 

how cute :)

Jazzy's bowl

 Afterwards, we went to mizuya and bought the $1 green tea soft serve cone and tried to use their wifi but it sucks ahahahas. 

yumyum.

 then we headed to mc to go dodgem cars. but we ended up playing all these other games. racing games, gambling, deal or no deal, fruit ninja, shooting games, dj game, bball shots. it honestly was so much fun. Everyone was having fun, shouting at shooting and winning loadful of tickets to go get batons ahahas.

Afterwards, me, linda, chen, steph, and maddie walked back to town hall together. AND I GOT FROZEN YOGHURT. ahahas havent had my baby for so long. but yogertberry isn't that good, tbh. Still, it was the only one there.

Home choice: watermelon and oreos on mango :)

it was really fun although half the group wasn't there :) AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEPH. LOVE YOU LOTS YOU SASSY GIRL AND I HATE THAT YOU'RE STILL YOUNG AHAHAHS.
I.AM.OUTTIE :)