Lunch at Jean Pierre Sancho

Lovely Fel & I

Finally got to visit Jean Pierre Sancho with the lovely Fel, on the corner of Hay Street and Shafto Lane. This little french cafe made me feel like I was in Paris again with the delicate pattiseries and the french staff with their uppish attitude. Don't get me wrong, loved the experience and the food was enjoyable. The flavoured macarons were a treat and the potato & tomato soup was amazingly creamy and I wanted more when I was done. The soup-to-bread ratio was not nearly enough but I would have it again. We also tried some layered meringue & cream dessert (not sure what it was called-something in French) that was quite delicious. The decor was simple yet beautiful with the vintage looking furniture, chandelier and beautiful crafted framed mirrors reflecting a French ambiance. If you're looking for a new cafe to try, I would recommend it.

Flavoured Macarons

Crafty soup in bread - Love it

Layered Meringue & chocolate cream

The Giant cupcake

Very excited about using my giant cupcake mould. After having an orange and poppy seed muffin for breakfast the other day, I decided to make a giant version of it. Using the moulds, a turd shaped piece is made along with the cake base with grooves. As I was trying to slice the top half, it cracked, I was devastated. However, I managed to ice it up covering my imperfections.

Top of giant cupcake

Assembled top & bottom

Final product - Giant cupcake!

Giant cupcake mould & teacup

I received two giant gifts this month coincidentally. A giant cupcake mould from Robbie and a giant teacup & saucer from YuehLai to match. As you can see from the pictures below, I've placed 'normal' sized items next to the giant ones.

Giant cupcake mould next to a cupcake paper case & a babycake paper case

Giant teacup vs. normal teacup

New contact lenses!

My new hazel eyes!
Other than the shitty pixelated image, comparison of my eye colours :)

If you look at it closely, you can see the little dots of colours. Alien eyes!

Exhibit: B; international street art

I got to check out the Exhibit: B street art exhibition in Subi on my half day off. I read about it off Yours truly, 2095. If you're interested, it's located on 433 Hay Street, Subiaco. Opening times 9:30-5:30pm, closes on the 19th of August.


Artists included Mr Brainwash, Shepard Fairey, Mysterious Al, Dotmasters, Byrogylphics, Pahnl, tek13, and more. Shepard Fairey is probably one of the more well known ones for his Obama 'Hope' Poster. I got a bit carried away taking photos. I really like Russ Mills work, he combines both traditional media and digital imaging. His bold strokes and sketches are manipulated digitally to create an emotional distortion.

Some of Russ Mills work and some local guy with the light boxes, Simon...

More artwork

I find beauty everywhere (Red) - Mr Brainwash

Don't be Cruel - Mr Brainwash, Staring Girl - TEK 13

Slow and Steady - Ink Fetish

Charlie Chaplin!

Happy Birthday Roberto!~

Robbie turned 23 yesterday! I managed to ice this baby (Cake above) after work in a jiffy before heading to dinner with Rob & Family at Christina's Restaurant located in Victoria Park. It was my first time there and I found my meal rather satisfying. I had the Tasmanian Salmon with curried potatoes and green beans. I would probably go back there again. Anyways, after dinner, Rob's mate took us to the movies to watch 'The Expendables'. He paid for my ticket as well yay! The movie wasn't as good as I expected it to be...definitely don't pay to watch it. Download it instead, by download I mean, purchase it legally online...

Hope Rob had a good time, Happy Birthday!~ <3

The Outback Jacks Challenge

OBJ Challenge

Met up with a few uni mates for dinner last night. If you haven't heard of the Outback Jacks Challenge, it involves completing a full meal, including a 1kg Rump Steak, 500g of chips and 500g of steamed vegetables, in 30 minutes! So Max decides he'd take on the challenge even though he had KFC and a shepherd's pie right before he came to dinner. Whatever possessed him to attempt it, I'm not sure, maybe it was for the free Tshirt? However, he was thoroughly unsuccessful in completing the challenge and will be forever labelled as a failure.

FAIL!

New Zealand: Round two

Lake Tekapu

Jumping pics

I haven't update my blog in awhile, have been pretty busy. Currently having my Uni placement at the Children's hospital which can be rather challenging. Anyways, I went to New Zealand again for the second time this year with the bf and his mate. We travelled from Methven to Queenstown and back up to Kaikoura to visit the lovely McGovern sisters! We visited Mt Hutt, the Remarkables and Mt Lyford for some snow. New zealand scenary is Amazing! Three words that sum up my vacation; snowboarding, cointreau & jagerbombs. Somebody, no names mentioned, passed out after two jagerbombs at the bottle shop. Fun times.

Tiltshit me

Snowboarding
Random mountains


Happy Black Friday.

San Churros - gotta love chocolate

Churros for two, white & milk chocolate dip, hot chocolate and iced chocolate

Lovely Fel took me to San Churros on Thursday to celebrate her getting into Curtin! Congrats babe! So proud of you! What could possibly go wrong with chocolate and Churros (spanish donuts). Had a lovely time catching up! Speaking of churros, they made pandan churros on MasterChef today!

Tang yuan soup

When I was younger, Mum would make tang yuan soup on December the 22nd every year for some tang yuan festival. However, when we went to Taiwan, they seem to sell it on a daily basis at the shops so I made Mum make it for me when we came back. For those of you that don't know, tang yuan is a glutinous rice ball usually found in ginger soup.

Tang Yuan Recipe

Ingredients

Rice Ball

1 cup glutinous rice flour
1 tspn sugar
water

Soup

3 - 4 slices of ginger
pot of water
brown sugar to taste

Method

Add water to glutinous rice flour and sugar until a doughy texture is produced
Separate into 4 parts, add colours of choice
Roll dough into little balls

Boil pot of water and add brown sugar to taste, take off stove

Boil a new pot of water and drop glutinous balls in
Take out the balls when they float and place into ginger soup

It's tea time!

Green Rose

All this buzz about green tea and its health benefits, my brother went to buy some green tea from T2 today. We chose the Green Rose flavour which consists of green tea leaves (why of course), rose petals and dried fruit such as, currants, mango and papaya. It smells so damn delicious however it was not as strong when we brewed the tea. Probably needed a few more leaves or to be infused a bit longer however it was quite pleasant tasting.

Maxwell & Williams Pink polka dot tea cup & saucer

I want to visit the Green Tea house in Subiaco, it's a japanese place that sells all sorts of japanese tea and tea accessories.

Awesome weekend in Canberra

Pretty much spent the last weekend snowboarding, playing guitar and computer games. Oh, and eating Turkish, Balinese, Thai & Indian food. Very nice food and really wanted to taste Ethiopian cept the guys kept on saying they had rice at home.

Arrived on a Thursday and went to Uni Pub at night. Woke up nice and early at 4:30am the next day and drove to Thredbo and snowboarded the whole day. 7 hours of snowboarding - I woke up the next day aching in every muscle of my body. It was great! But really, it was so much fun!

New Parliament house

On Saturday, I got a tour of Canberra by my very own tourguide, Elle. We visited the War memorial, and the old and new parliament houses. Also, had a delicious pizza at the fyshwick markets. After a day to recover, we hit the snow again on Sunday and spent Monday bumming around.

War memorial

Places I visited: JiuFen, Kaohsiung, Xi Men Ding

A view of the buildings in Jiu Fen up in the mountainous area. You can see a thick fog covering the part of the area, a few minutes later most of the buildings were covered by the fog.

Ocarinas for sale in the markets of Jiu Fen.

Soft chewy colourful candy

I love the colours of the candy.

The streets of Jiu Fen.

My Ice cream girl necklace

Food in KaohSiung

In Kaoh Siung, we went to a restaurant that had old school items as decorations, such as the old telephones, mail boxes, sewing machine and cinema projector. The food was delicious, fresh and cheap! Love it!

Xi Men Ding

Back in Xi Men Ding, the place is bustling with pedestrians and full of shopping and side markets. We had steam boat in one of the restaurants in Xi Men Ding, can't remember the name of it but it was so nice we went to eat there twice!

Steam Boat

You can choose the flavour of your steamboat and even split it into two flavours. We had; tomato flavoured soup and hot&spicy (Ma La Soup).

I love these Ma Chi balls! They taste so good, soft glutinous rice balls with sesame paste fillings.

Ma Chi Balls

Just on a random note, stayed in Singapore for 2 days and this is a picture of the gorgeous food court in Ion Orchard. The food there is delicious and the place looks fantastic!

My visit to Taipei 101

Taipei 101

The last few entries are mainly photos to remind me of my trip to Taiwan, hopefully it won't bore you to death. Now....Taipei 101 for those of you that aren't aware, is a landmark skyscraper of Taiwan comprised of 101 floors. It used to be the tallest building in the world in 2004 until January this year, when the skyscraper in Dubai claimed its title.

Taipei 101 Mall

We ate at a Shanghai restaurant (the name is in Chinese). The food was delicious, we ordered; tofu, pork ribs, duck and crab!

tofu dish

pork ribs

duck

crab dish

I love my new Agatha Paris charm from Taipei 101. It's a tiny little watch, the detail of the watch is exquisite.

My watch charm compared to my finger

Charm view 1

Charm view 2

Charm view 3