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Saturday, April 2, 2011

Nom Nom @ Cafe Bondi

One thing I really like about my group of friends is they are really FOOD HUNTER!!! What I mean food hunter here is not just looking for food but looking for GOOD and WORTH EATING food! One of the friends from the group got this voucher - 2 for $49 lunch at Cafe Bondi and obviously there were terms and conditions applied to this voucher (which I don't really care about). All I know about this voucher was the lunch includes an entree (sharing between 2 persons), 2 main courses (so each pair can choose 2 main course - anything from the menu) and 2 glasses of wine/beer/any other drinks from the menu. With all these, each person only pay $24.50 which is really cheap! And don't think it's cheap so the portion will be small and with not so nice taste... NEVER EVER THINK THAT WAY!!! If you see my photos which I'm going to show you shortly, you'll know how worthy this lunch was!


And so we traveled all the way from Macquarie/ Chatswood/ Sydney to BONDI!!!


In the Cafe~
Tell you what... We got really LONG table! I was really shocked when I saw that =.=

See, Tanya and I were so ready for lunch! We even warmed the cutleries up XD

Another posing while waiting for our FOOD~
Tanya, me, Hanafi and Yoyo




I was sharing the package with Tanya and here's our orders...

We ordered Chicken Caesar Salad for entree (We always caesar salad).
This caesar salad is so different from others we ate before. One thing that makes this so special is the anchovies (not sure if you notice that on the of the chicken). The anchovies added a very nice taste to the salad, a little salty but it was just nice to eat with the lettuce, chicken and etc. This is quite a big serving, Tanya and I couldn't even finish it and we actually felt a little full... (even before the mains be served OMG!!!)

Here comes the main course~

Grilled Salmon xxx (forgotten the name) which was on the special menu of the day.
This dish was really good! We didn't squeeze the lemon, there was 'juice' from the salmon and salsa salad already. Cut a small piece of salmon and eating it with a little salsa salad = YUM!!!

Another dish on special menu of the day. It's Fettucine with seafood (something like that but that's not the name for sure!). Don't think it's normal spaghetti! It's really different! A taste of fresh seafood with well-cooked fettucine... So Yummy! I must really praise this for the really large prawn!!! OMG, seriously the prawns were really large and crispy!!!

Some other entree and main courses the other friends ordered...

Chicken Salad (if not mistaken). Looks GOOD!

Mussels in a Spanish Tomato, Olive & Roasted Red Pepper Sauce


Okay, I have no idea of the names of these two dishes above but they were beef for sure!
I don't eat beef so I really don't know how they tasted. My friends said they were really good! And I tasted the fried onion rings on top of the 2nd dish and it tasted really GOOD!

Yoyo looked really happy with her dish. Why not eating it yet?
Maybe she had no idea how to cut them hahahaha!


I told you all the dishes were really big and we seriously couldn't finish them (even guys couldn't finish them... well, some of them could but took really long time). Gonna show you a few faces then you'll know how a person looks REALLY FULL!

Look at Tanya's cheek... She tried so hard to stuff everything in her mouth.
She looks like she was sighing... "OMG, how am I going to finish them..."

I like this photo of "I'm so full" the most! Doesn't she look helpless when looking at the REALLY BIG STEAK with lotsa chips (it only showed up as half from the photo but it still looks alot!)?

Yoyo trying very hard to stuff herself more! Look at that big plate, I really wonder how they gonna finish that!!!

You know what, don't waste it if you can't finish! You can do some food art!
Art by Yoyo ❀

Here's the whole group. Isn't the table LONG?
Can't even see the people at the back clearly!
Looking for me in the photo? Haha, no need to try cause I'm not even in that photo! I was the camera lady ^^


One thing I found quite significant to the Cafe is the paintings on the wall! There are many paintings hanging on the wall and they are actually for sale! Few hundreds each painting, super expensive! Not sure if there's someone buying them but they are really CUTE!


This is so funny! It was so random when Yoyo did that (she was trying to pretend the girl in previous photo). Yoyo added to this photo, "photo lies sometimes". You know what she means! haha~


Pretending to be the girls in the painting. What do you think?



All right, finished eating! Let's have a group photo!
Let me see... Ermmm, we still missing some people in there... well of course me is not in there, Tanya is not in there either... Because we were the producers of the photos!!! So UNFAIR!!!

It was a great day with great people and great food AND it only cost us $24.50!

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Gold Goast Trip (5th-10th Dec 2010)

Before I blog about this trip, I would love to thank to the gang (you know who you are) for organising this trip and being such a great group to travel with =)

The organisers took lotsa time to hunt for great accommodation, hire car and consider everyone's budget. Around a month I think... And here's our trip!!! Yay!

5th Dec
Rainy day... First day in Gold Coast. Didn't get to do much thing. Arrived GC around 12pm and waited for the stupid car to come (it's a really budget budget car hire so there's no counter at the airport), all the drivers (Gavin, Jay and Trevor) had to go and get the cars; luckily, it's just 5 minutes from the airport. The rest of us waited in the airport with everyone's stomach grumbling.....
First lunch in GC was the KFC! I think I must be very hungry... The lunch was SO SUPER DUPER YUMMY! I wonder if the others had the same feelings =P
Checked into our house... Wow!!! Very nice and big house!!! Sorry for my lousy camera again... but the house was really great!

Outdoor...

Lounge and dining area...

Master bedroom... The bathroom of this room has no DOOR at all. If you sit on the bed or anywhere in the room, you can actually see the person in the bathroom (no matter what the person does--> showering, pee-ing or poo-ing  lol).


Outdoor again with swimming pool and BBQ pit...

We did some shopping to stock up some food and alcohol (for alcoholics only =P). 
First dinner in GC was BBQ, home made pizza (tasted really good!) and cake (of Rina's birthday). Yum~ very full!
Rest earlier and hopefully it's not raining tomorrow...


6th Dec
A few showers today... Well not too bad, at least it wasn't raining the whole day! 
So SEA WORLD today!!!
Lotsa things and performances to see! The best performance of the day for me was the DOLPHIN PERFORMANCE! I always love dolphin cause they are really cute! I wish I have a pet dolphin =)
Seriously, I have no idea how these people trained the dolphin! Well the performance was really good... still I hope those dolphin have their freedom in the sea... No matter how good their lives in the aquarium, sanctuary or whatever... I guess it is the best to be able to swim freely in the sea... the natural home.


Group photo at the Sea World entrance...


Sesame street~~~


These were the audience of the dolphin performance.


The dolphin's stage of performance...


7th Dec
Well, we expected it would be rainy day so it would be PERFECT to get more wet! Very obvious, our destination ----> WET N WILD WATER WORLD!
 Not many photos for this theme park as we stored our things in the locker (well, I bet no one would bring camera to the water???). 

Group photo at the entrance again...

Let's get wet!

Woohoo~ Sexy girls~


8th Dec
Sun finally smiled! Yo~~~ It was such a good day to go to the MOVIE WORLD (well we all know most of the rides are very sensitive to rain)! 
Had really great fun in the theme park! Some of the rides are too scary for me... So DO NOT ask me if I went up the Superman ride! That's too obvious! I will never take that ride seriously! That's too scary ok (don't have a good photo of it to show but it is one of the MUST RIDEs in the theme park)! 

Tanya and HD joined us today...




Well, these are not real graves of somebody. Just... you know, the theme park thing.


Characters of the day~~~


Wild West Fall~ The photo we bought from the shop. This one is really fun! It's different from the typical one (I won't tell the reason cause it's the secret of this ride! Try it if you go to Movie World next time). Everyone loves this photo because of Arnie's face (Sorry Arnie)! lol


We wanted to try this! This photo is really nice... But it took so many shots to get the perfect one ok!!! Well, still thanks to Darryl's DSLR and multiple shots of this motion =)


9th Dec 
Busy day, as we were going back the next day early morning. DREAMWORLD + WHITE WATER WORLD + BEACH...
I was glad that the White Water World is connected with the Dreamworld (as Dreamworld's rides are scarier than those in Movie World)! Really really wet today! After White Water World... got wet at the beach again! GC beach is really beautiful! We went there around sunset...

Dreamworld~


White Water World~ Everyone was laughing at this photo! Thought they were laughing at Tanya's expression... Stupid Darryl said i was funnier! He said 'At least Tanya was cool. You... tried to act cool but failed! Wakakaka!'. Whatever =.="




The Beach~


Big wave~


I left my footprint and signature on the beach... Proof of my visit to GC~~~






I think beach is one of the most popular location for dating couples~






Last but not least... The significant jump~ WE LOVE GOLD COAST!!!


10th Dec
Back to Sydney... Very tired! Basically slept the whole day! 


When I got up the next day, I saw people already discussing about GC on Facebook and all of us missed GC already...Well, hopefully we'll go to GC again sometime~
 *For more GC photos, view my Facebook*  
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