Bites: Sushi Burger @ Exhibition St., Melbourne

What are the few amazing concepts that you have tasted in your life?  Mine has been a number smaller than desired but good news, it is increasing :).  My latest bite was during a meet up with a few female doctors that are going to be very successful in their lives.  I met them when my friend introduced me to them as they needed a place to stay for their medical placement in Perth.   The girls Cheryl and Lynn recommended my friends and I the Sushi Burger restaurant!

Sushi Burger restaurant :D!

 

Xin Ling’s Crispy Fish burger @ $6.50

 

My Yakiniku Sushi Burger @ $7.50!

 

Or you can pair it up with a bento set with fried chicken the Tasuta Age for $17 bucks! A few bento sets were ordered as Cheryl got a Croquette sushi burger box and Kelvin had the one with the Gyoza.  But my take on this is that if you’re going to have the sushi burger, I’d recommend you have 2 sushi burgers instead of the bento.  Its a lot more satisfying as the accompanying dishes are only common Japanese food with no perks whatsoever.

 

Oh and apparently you get charged and extra dollar for each burger if you are dining in because you plan to spend more money on their food =X.  Oh god where is the sense.  All they do is put it on a small plastic plate.Lynn, Ash and Cheryl.  Thanks for recommending the place :)!

 

The  dessert I ordered!  A strawberry Daifuku.  The strawberry is also known as Ichigo apparently eheh.

 

WenY

Bites: Lindt Cafe @ Chadstone Shopping Centre (Melbourne)

Spain’s well deserved victory over Germany means I deserve to celebrate too! Hoho!  Yesterday I went to Chadstone using the free shuttle bus for visitors.  The bus departs from the intersection of Flinders St. and Russell St. I think.  There was not a lot of sales going on so I did not buy much :(!  But its ok, I managed to try something I’ve been craving for a long long time!

Lindt Strawberry Fondue.  The assortments that came with it was quite nice :)!  But the chocolate dip was miserable :(!

The hot chocolate there was more of a learn-how-to experience than a hot chocolate experience.  Lindt gives you a small pot of melted chocolate and a mug of hot milk.  The mixing is left for you to do.  Unfortunately, I did not think this was a very good idea because I want to taste what Lindt calls “excellence”.  Nonetheless lil girl managed to make a nice drink with a “Stussy” looking design on the froth ahah.

We also had a cake to accompany our afternoon tea! And that cake was far too sweet.  Such a poison @.@!!  I have to rant here that Lindt cafe is very well above what the general public perceive as affordable.  Its cakes start from $12.50 onwards and its quality is no more than FAIR.  Fortunately a good companion and a few friends made the disappointment a whole lot easier to forgo.

My darling :D To those who still do not know who she is yet.  Especially my good friend and my buddy of 10 years Leow Zhan Sheng :)!

My housemate Kelvin!

A fondue spike mace.

Om nom nom nom nom!

Luckily for me, my Max Brenner experience today was a whole lot better!  More on my trip soon!!  Lets see what magic Germany conjures tonight!

WenY

Bites: Mr Tulk @ Victoria State Library

Breakfast.  Whether it is a necessity or a growing trend, it has definitely  become increasingly popular over the years.  More and more creative chefs are coming out to invent their flavoursome dishes.  Its amazing how much they can come up with considering I myself have not done too much when I go to the kitchen and prepare breakfast .  It has always been kept simple for me.  Cereal with milk, big breakfast with tonnes of lard in the bacon, sausages and sautéed mushrooms or even sandwiches.  However I had something different when I came to Melbourne.  I went to a breakfast place where its chefs try to do breakfast like painting a Picasso.  The cafe is called Mr Tulk.  It is a highly esteemed place for having breakfast among bloggers and city dwellers alike.

The interior is aged.  I liked how it looks.  The mirror behind me was supported on books.  Some of it was tax law.  Can’t blame them cafe owners really.

 

I went there with Kelvin and Xin Ling after waking up wayyyy past our breakfast time.  We woke up at noon and only reached there at 1.  Luckily they still served breakfast.  We ordered a couple of ala carte dishes.

Xin Ling’s poached chicken with cos lettuce and herb mayonnaise baguette.

 

Kelvin’s flatbread with meatballs, cheese and sugo!  A definite winner.  Like chicken Parmagiana sandwich just got fused with IKEA meatballs but even better.

 

My hash with corned beef with poached eggs served with a dash of mustard. 

 

No matter which way I try to take a picture of it.  It always look miserably small @.@!  But I must insists, as small as it is, quality triumphs over quantity.  I was super sceptical about the whole Dijonnaise mustard thingy but in the end its pungent+peppery flavour really blended well with the starchy hash.  And the eggs were well poached unlike my failed attempts.  The crisp batter along with its hot yummy inside was wohoooooooooooooooooooo when paired with some mustard!

Chicken and lentil soup.  This one was average and it killed my appetite for the evening.  The lentils had me filled to the brim @.@!  It tasted a bit like a Indian styled soup if you’d ask me.  Even Xin Ling and Kelvin felt that way too! Ok put it this way.  Imagine the bread as prata(roti canai) and the soup as dhal. X_X

 

Hot Choc for the soul.  And gawd that layer of froth is thick!

 

Over all the breakfast at Mr Tulk is pretty yums but Kelvin and Xin Ling thinks another place does it better.  Hope I have enough time to make to try the other place they mentioned!  But I have to say, this place is quite good if you have to grab a quick bite before heading off to do something else like err… shopping?

 

WenY