Bites: Hog’s Breath @ Northbridge, HK friends :)

Rwarrrr!  Having more free time for myself seems nice.  No need to feel obligated to finish something or to force myself to do something I do not want to. ;-)!  Yesterday I had lunch with fish and bread @ Northbridge.  We had lunch @ Tak Chee well known for its Hainanese Chicken Rice both steamed and fried.  After that went to the hospital with my sister to visit my aunt.  Bought her some flowers and fruits.  But who would have known she would be allergic to it =.=”!

 

 

Later in the day I attended Polly’s service and then followed them on to a dinner held for the Hong Kong peeps heading back in a weeks time or so.  Hog’s Breath was the place to be and I can’t help but mention how the food there seems to get better each time I pay them a visit.  We had 18 people there last night and it was quite fun despite the communication gap.  I could understand most of the things they said but found it ridiculously hard to reply back in their mother tongue.  Chatted quite a fair bit with the people around me but it was impossible to reach the ones at the end. ahah.  Could barely see their face omigosh.  Nevertheless, meet some of the peeps that were there yesterday. Pics taken mainly by Polly!

 

Alethia and Polly.

 

Hantu.

 

Mark and Aizayah Isaiah. Oook! I hope I got their names right here @@

 

A quarter of Chris’s head Wilson with rock on and the pretty girl with her peace sign.

 

Cheng HoYan or Zion with Jason.  Both HK peeps.  Jason has promised to deliver me a list of restaurant to visit when I hit the island this X’mas. Sounds sweet!

 

At this point after talking for like an hour, we were famished.  Like really really hungry oh gawwwwwwd!  Wonder what the hell was happening!  In situations like this, I would normally start ranting to no end but I was well, you could say trying to contain my manners?  But at least the people @ Hog’s Breath tried to make things a little better for us.  They did two things! One:

Free garlic toast for all.  Not the best thing in the world, but it held our tummies for maybe another 10 minutes? xD

 

And also to compensate us, they unleashed the BIG BIG PIG, the infamous Pink Hog mascot

Pauline, me and Joe.  Mind my face, the hog had just swipe its chee sau (pork hand) on my face.  And trust me, the mascot really needs a shower.  It friggin stinks.  *checks for pimples* jkjk! ahah.  And later on it hugged Pauline.  Then Tony who sat in front of me said “Ham Chee Sau” which brought about a similar meaning to pervert. 

 

After waiting for quite sometime our food finally arrived (when the restaurant was half-emptied).  But I was pleasantly surprised with the serving.  The steak had improved from burn to not burn and from a small cut to a larger one!

WenY’s Byron Bay Prime Chili Steak.  Removed the salad and replaced it with a double carb as my sides.  Added an extra Byron sauce for a dollar ninety-five.  The steak was well cooked and when I reached the middle.  OH GAWDDD.  There was this little slice which was so juicy @@. I find the steak to be well worth it $31 price tag although I would not come here anytime soon again. *check wallet only to find a hole*

 

This was Polly’s steak with calamari which she shared with Alethia.  Looks pretty good I must say.   It filled two girls up, I’m amazed ahah.  It cost them $36.

 

Later on as there weren’t enough cars, we took the bus home. But we stopped for awhile to hang around James St. to see some performances.  But I missed Van She because they took forever to finalise their setup.  Guess they were experiencing some technical glitches.  But before Van She, there were three very vocal girls took the stage and blew me of my feet.  I was impressed by their energy on stage. Prawnnnnnnnnnnn danceeeeeeeeeee.

 

Great night!

 

WenY

Bites: Wing Bo, Maylands

Went around a bit to get some food to fill up the stomach for dinner.  Snooped around the internet and I found Wing Bo to be quite famous among diners @ Maylands area.  So we decided to give it a try.  When we reached we were shocked to see the crowd being mostly Caucasians.  We’d though it’ll be you know, more Asians.  Nonetheless we decide to give it a go.  We waited for about 30 minutes before getting a place for 5.  The lady there was quite helpful but the staff did not look too friendly overall. Maybe they were just overloaded for the day, but Kelvin said they have no excuse being in the hospitality business.  But I must say they’re just students trying to make that extra buck.

 

The food we ordered are:

Seasonal Vegetable in Black Bean Sauce! I have always expected black bean sauce to taste like that, so I was fine but the fish would not consume those vegetable he claim lack salt! rwarrr! In fact they thought it was pricey, but it is ok @ $12 bucks.  Normal stir fry would cost $11 @ good fortune while kangkung belacan is $14 @ Tak Chee house. 

 

Curry Prawn @ $19.  Reasonable cheaper than other places that would normally charge $22.  The taste was very well below my NORMAL standard.  Kinda failed.  Sister said they used the A1 packet but the lack of oil in the dish did not seem at all like A1 curry paste.

 

We also ordered Yam Duck which I found quite delish.  It’s hard to see much difference without proper attention.  But at closer inspection, the crust is not soaked in oil and had a nice flaky finish to it.  This duck came with a winner sauce.  Some places would give a sauce that was so diluted it was sad.  Other places gives barbecue sauce.  I kinda like as it is with tomato sauce.

 

Our final dish was the Wing Bo Special Bean Curd.  This dish was fairly big and priced @ $13.50 it was quite cheap.  It was quite nice as well.  Reminds me of home when mom would deep fry Japanese Bean curd and top it with her onion-carrot-mince meat sauce which tasted lovely!

 

 

Overall I found this restaurant to fare pretty well.  But fish did not like it.  The internet ratings were pretty high and with 8 records to prove on its walls, how bad can it be?  Nonetheless the reviews given were a mixture of true and false.  For example, the serve is not as big as some diners claim it to be.  It was OK only.  What was true is the price.  With everything we ordered, the total bill came out to be roughly $15.6 per head.  Pretty decent.  Perhaps in the next try, it will be more suitable to try what people actually recommend!

 

WenY

Perth Royal Show: Smoke-Free

This is the time of the year again where Perth Kids get to sleep later than 9pm.  Like seriously, they always sleep at 9 =.=”!  The Royal Show seems to be a place I return every year without fail (so far at least!).  This year was no exception but I did not take too many pictures as the events were more or less the same ahah.  My pictures revolved mainly around guinea pigs which I so crazily rushed my friends through lunch to make sure I got to see my guinea pigs which were going to race @ 2.  But before the race there was some other competition which judged the cavies for beauty and posture.

 

 

Kids love their cavies!

 

Kids cheering on during the race!  Guinea pigs are better than the AFL I’d suppose.

 

A guinea pig and its master. This guy won the first round of the race! Although it barely finished the race! The other guinea pigs ran halfway and then they started running back because they thought their owners cheers are actually orders for them to come back ahaha!

 

There were other animals such as the emu which was at the exhibition.  The adult emu is freaking scary I tell you!  Take a look for yourself:

 

After that we sat around chilling and seeing man chopping wood! I know it sounds boring but it is not all that boring when you see a guy chopping only 30 chops after the first dude starts choppin and still wins.

 

A friendly message from the loggers!:

 

Rides were abundant but I wasn’t gutsy enough to do any of them.  I think I’m old already @@!  I used to go on all the rides without considering the consequences.  Now I take a look at the ride and say nah! That thing might snap any moment or ohh the safety belts might just unlock and flyyyyyy awayyyyyyy I will go! @@  Vil and Yh say the Nitro which I sat last year.  The picture is on the left.  Vil said he almost passed out! Good man he is for pushing his fear for heights lol!

 

 

After the rides sister came and joined us for dinner there.  Had the ribs mmm! But some of the ribs were a bit overcooked so it was tough!  But it was OK overall! We sat around the large field and saw motocross which was absolutely aweeeesome!  Horse show followed soon after with the rodeos covered in neon tubes! Kickass!  After their rounds, they trotted along the arena perimeter and let the kids pat the horses! So nice of them ahah.  Lastly was the fireworks display which was very nice as well! The kids in front of me kept going on and on about “I luv it! I luv it”! Great night out for the kids in Perth I guess ahah.

 

WenY!