Memories Treasure Chest

Parkland Chinese Restaurant, Sunnybank Not too long ago, I bought the voucher for 'All You Can Eat Dim Sum' for two people in Parkland Restaurant. I took SaC along for this occassion. Having heard from his friends who visited Parkland before, we can actually request for one piece of the dim sum (fried food) instead of the whole usual three pieces. Why you may ask?   So that we can try a variety of food without getting ourselves too full...   Scallop Dumplings     Mini Pork Buns 'Xiao Long Bao'     Seafood Dumplings in Soup Prawn Dumplings 'Har Gow' Garlic Chives Dumplings Steamed Pork and Prawn 'Siu Mai' Various assortment of fried food (spring rolls, meat dumplings, prawn with almond fritters and much more)...    Besides these, we tried their BBQ pork buns and other seafood dumplings as well. Their dim sums were actually pretty good. Their 'Har Gow' quite delicious, with a goo...

Wagaya, Fortitude Valley (Revisited) Treasure of memories in Wagaya on the 1st of September! The food does play a part but there is another significant reason post-Wagaya. Anyway, what did Wagaya offer us then?  We tried a variety of food, clicking away on the electronic menu... Dish no 1: Chicken NANBAN & tartar sauce Chicken NANBAN with tartar sauce $9.50 It was quite a normal dish, nothing spectacular with the chicken except being tender and not overly dry. Dish no 2: Spider Roll Spider Roll $10.20 Soft shell crab with spicy mayonnaise, not too bad. I actually still prefer the soft shell crab hand rolled sushi ( below ). Dish no 3 (special): Grilled eel and prawn box sushi Grilled Eel and Prawns $13.50 One of my favourite dish of the night! I love grilled eel and the combination with prawns and dashimaki egg does offer a moreish effect. Yum! Dish no 4: Korean style pizza Korean style pizza $8.90 The Korean style pizza is quite i...

The Burrow, West End The weather was insanely crazy on Saturday (17th Nov). Not having any psychic ability to predict the weather, MXM and myself made our way to West End for brunch. Just right at the corner before The Burrow, the hail and storm struck us! Should we abort the mission and wait for the storm to pass? Finally, after sheltering in the car for 15 minutes, the sun appeared... It is time for some food! The Burrow was sort of 'flooded' too with water dripping down and some tables were wet. Luckily, we found some seats and quickly ordered at the counter. The Burrow's Menu MXM had his long black while this time I opted for a cappuccino.  Cappuccino Long Black Their coffee is actually pretty good. After the rain settled, there was a long queue of people getting takeaway coffees. Reading through the menu, I was tossing between the cider braised pork belly or the pulled pork tinga. Finally, I surrendered to the pork b...

Melbourne: Manchester Press Cafe It was my last day in Melbourne and my flight back to Brisbane was around noon. Not wanting to miss out on any brekkie that Melbourne CBD can offer, I quickly made my way to Manchester Press Cafe, walking under the rain ( typical Melbourne's weather ). I did not realise that I have walked past Rankins Lane for a couple of times while buying my skinny flat white from Brother Baba Budan ( possibly the best coffee I had in Melbourne ). I got there before their opening times and was just waiting outside, snapping pictures away! Finally, they opened and I walked inside! It is huge with multiple sharing tables, huge poster hanging... I like it and was wishing that Brisbane's cafe has something similar. Manchester Press's Menu Reading through their menu, they offer bagels with the options of 'closed' or 'open' with a choice of wholemeal, plain, sesame seed or poppy seed. Everything look...

Spring, Brisbane CBD 'Celebrating Australia's Seasons' Finally, exams are over and I have time for blogging... I brought a special friend of mine to Spring in August for his birthday. Looking through Spring's website, I realised that they have changed to a new menu.  Spring exudes a really nice ambience with its decorations and furniture. I love them! For starters, we had the fresh baked bread with farmhouse cultured butter. Fresh baked bread, farmhouse cultured butter $5 It has been months since we last visited Spring... I can still remember that the butter was really soft and fluffy! The bread was all right. Following that, we had an entree: Rabbit rillettes, drunken prunes, grissini $15 Prior to ordering, I had no clue as to what 'rillettes' mean until the dish was served in front of us. It is sort of like a pate, rabbit meat that had possibly been cooked in fat prior to being shredded. It tasted quite similar to...