Takeru - Haymarket, Sydney

Ebi sarada
Prawn salad

-> This salad alone is worth coming back for. Made with two dressings (God bless multiple salad dressings) - wafu (Japanese) dressing on the base and mayo + togarashi (chili powder) on the top. For those of you who thought that the ordinary shrimp cocktail is so last millennium, this one should please you.

Rating: 7.5/10

Ikasumi Pasta
Pasta with squid ink sauce

-> Basically a pasta al nero di seppia tweaked to suit Japanese tastebuds. I am very pleased with this dish. Why? simply because it's so pretty. Let's face it, squid ink is tasteless. Well, not entirely tasteless, but when cooked with cream etc you won't notice the flavor. It's the color that makes this dish so desirable. Kind of like a black Chanel caviar quilted bag (It's so irresistible even guys secretly wish they can carry one of these around) I have this unexplainable fetish on black-colored food. That's the exact reason why I enjoy Jajangmyeon (Korean noodle with black soybean sauce), Guilinggao (herbal jelly), and caviar so much. LOL. Gothic food.

Rating: 8/10

Chicken nanban

-> Best in town. Although, I notice that Azuma restaurant has this on their menu, too, but since I haven't tried Azuma's chicken nanban, it's safe to say that this one from Takeru is the best I've tasted so far.

Rating: 8/10

Aerin's - Raffles City, Singapore

Solo dinner.

I shopped so much that day that I had to be seated in a 4-seater table where my shopping bags occupied 3 of the remaining seats.





Portobello Mushroom, Zucchini and shrimp salad drizzled with Porcini oil



Oven-baked chicken with chick pea salad & beetroot relish



Berries and chocolate cake

Pancakes on the Rocks - Harbourside, Sydney

The newly-opened (or not? I'm not sure!) Pancakes on the Rocks at Darling Harbour




Chicken & Mushroom Pancakes
Yum-o-meter : 7 / 10



Breakfast Pancakes - Pancakes, Bacon, Hash, Eggs Benedict
Yum-o-meter: 10 / 10 ShiOKKKK!!!!



Chicken & Bacon Pizza
Yum-o-meter: 6 / 10



Chicken Caesar Salad
Yum-o-meter: 6.5 / 10



Nachos
Yum-o-meter: 7 / 10



Bananarama
Yum-o-meter: 9.5 / 10



Hot'n'Troppo
Yum-o-meter: 10 / 10 ShiOKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!



¡Mas cerveza por favor



*burrrrp*

Jacaranda Cafe, Houghton Winery - WA

less than an hour drive from perth city




Steak sandwich

Caesar Salad

Land and Sea Platter

Pancakes on The Rocks

not overly keen to have dinner here but
the one paying was determined to get his chicken caesar salad.


chicken caesar salad

eggplant pizza

chicken and mushroom crepes

blackforest pancake


endnote: i'm officially sick of pancakes on the rocks

Tony Roma's - Sudirman, Jakarta

This was the first restaurant I went as soon as I arrived at Jakarta for my winter break. It's a family tradition to greedily munch on some ribs as soon as I arrive home for my holidays.
There were 4 of us - and all of us ordered baby backs because that's the only good thing left in Tony Roma's Jakarta since they pulled out Bountiful Beef (like, the BEST ribs ever) from the menu.





Fire Wings



Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad



Baby Backs w/coleslaw & fries on the side

Pancakes on the Rocks - Sydney

I know...I know...Pancakes on the Rocks are so passe (Especially if you're a Sydneysider), but nevertheless, where else in the WORLD can you get prime ribs and fat pancakes at 3 am??? They even got buffalo wings too. Jennifer Hudson would be happy to hear that. (has anyone heard about that whole Jennifer Hudson and the chicken wings scandal???)

So, my friends and I had this small party (that later turned pretty WILD), and one thing led to another and I suddenly ended up in Pancakes on the Rocks at 3 am with one of my friend because she 'felt like having pancakes'.

We weren't drunk or anything (okay, maybe just a tad tipsy), but my friend ended up scolding one of the restaurant's waitresses. Serves her right, the waitresses at that restaurant are just plain HORRIBLE. pompous, snobbish, and what we Indonesians call, "Sok sibuk".
It's like..."ooh, I'm a waitress at Pancakes on the Rocks, Sydney's most popular and crowded restaurant, and I'm sooooo freaking important! If I'm not here, y'all ain't got nothin' to eat!!!".
(okay, but maybe not in that American accent).

Those sluts should just go to hell (pardon the profanity - It's just that I hate them SO much).




Baby back ribs with potato wedges and salad



Chicken Caesar Salad
(I didn't order this. my friend did. I'm so sick of Indonesians knowing only one type of salad, that is, Caesar Salad. There are plenty of other salads out there.)



Strawberry Pancake with Vanilla ice cream
(Initially, we wanted to share this one, but my friend ended up eating 95% of it because I was stuffed with my ribs. This is my favorite kind of pancake in PotR, because it's not mind-blowingly sweet like the others.)