04 - What you ate today

Yay. A good topic today. I can supplement this post with photos!


Today I left home after having a cup of soy milk.  Then in the car, colleague and I took a detour to Maccas, and we both had a Rosti wrap :)

For lunch, I warmed a can of chunky soup (peppered steak today - D: too peppery) and a few slices of toasted bread.

I took this photo last week, but I pretty much have the same thing every day.  Toast, soup, coffee and work.

M made dinner and it was chicken, and something else, I forgot.

Last Friday (even though I got paid), friends and I decided to pretend to be strapped for cash.  We went to IGA and bought cup noodles, and using the new facilities at uni, we made possibly the most satisfying lunch I've had all semester!

The claypot ramyeon (is this how I should spell it?) is thinner than usual because you can't cook it properly.  As such, it is not as springy and it's texture is not quite the same as the one that come in the individual stove cook packs.  I had the Nissin cup noodles in XO sauce flavour.  For the longest time, I didn't have the faintest idea what XO sauce is made of.  I know now. It's seafood sauce - and a lot of MSG. But so good.  (My chef cousin-in-law makes the best xo sauce everrrrrrr. I will learn one day. I will!)

Korean - chicken and egg with sweet potato noodles with rice.

Seafood noodles. I can't remember what else was in this :/

Ajisen Ramen @ World Square : Miso Ramen.

Chashu Ramen.

The chashu was nice. The thing I don't like about Ajisen ramen is the ramen. Ahaha. It feels like pasta. Like thick angel hair pasta.  Ramen should be bouncy when you bite on it and not break off too easily! The soup is kinda salty, but I like condensed flavour.

Meetfresh! I have used up my third stamp collecting card.  The lady at the counter recognises me/ remembers my order I think.  I always get HERBAL JELLY No. 4! Bottom left.  I love grass jelly. The herbal properties are super (though I think it's really dilute here, and I  bet they don't give you the best stuff) healthy and good for your skin. Tastes nice too, luckily.  Came here with a non-asian friend once to eat "black stuff". It was definitely a waste of time because he pretty much left his bowl untouched. Apparently "black stuff" is inedible. ahahaha

Visited Ajisen again last night with M&D. I usually take them out after payday and D felt like ramen so I thought they might like to give Ajisen Ramen a go.  Ajisen is a worldwide franchise, and we ate from this place in Hong Kong and Shanghai.  Both were disappointed by the food, but it wasn't that bad.

Soft shelled crap fried so terribly. I don't know how to fry soft shelled crab, but I know other places make it look so much nicer and more appetising. :/ 

Special Tonkotsu Ramen (I think :/)

Chashu Ramen.  I like trying new things, but once I find something I like, I find it hard to order something else.

Gyoza. Looked. So. Gross. It had pan crap stuck to the bottom of the gyoza. :( My dumplings never look like that when I eat a Ichiban Boshi :(

And lemon tea, which costs an extra $1.80 if you're getting a ramen.

Prices are pretty similar to Ichiban Boshi, and in future I'd definitely leg it to the Galeries Victoria for that bowl of HQ noodles. The trek is worth it. OR I'll just visit Meppan Menya :)

For dessert last night, we went back to the little Taiwanese store in the Dixon Street fobby shopping "centre".

It looks so gross, but I promise you, it's nothing but utter goodness.

TW sausage in glutinous rice sausage.  There's a bit of um, preserved pickle relish along the middle. FANTASMO. 

And I also got the tofu dessert again.

I can't say their tofu is very smooth, but I don't get the tofu dessert to eat the tofu. My favourite part is the brown sugar jelly.  They're the brown cubes along the bottom of the ^ photo. Soft and squishy in texture, but so smooth and not too sweet (surprisingly!).  I got that topping with taro and grass jelly. :)

The owner threw in extra sweet potato & glutinous rice balls into my mum's bowl :( They're so nice! The texture is less chewy, and softer than the glutinous balls at Meetfresh)

On the way back to the car, I found PEPPER LUNCH. Next to Wagaya (opposite Maccas Ent. Centre).  ANOTHER ONE?!  It's gonna be full of students during the week.  Pepper lunch is so overrated. But I will probably give it a go because it's so close to uni ;D

Friday night I went out for a uni event. Such a flop.  Met up with L & T beforehand to walk down together.

L, guzzling down her bailies shot at V bar.  They have $4 shots during happy hour - but warning, depending on which bartender you get, your drink may be super diluted!  Not that I can really judge.  Didn't get any because a) I am a cheapass, b) selection is small, c) I have bailies at home and d) it's only fun with LOTS of people.  Was nice to catch up with you guys again :)  Haven't seen you in yonks.

Random photos I also found on my phone.

Helena's birthday cake from 85 degrees.  Was uber nice :)

And I don't believe I've blogged about my visit to Cafe Pacifico? I have so many overdue posts :|  need to find some time to sort through my photos.  They're everywhere. :*(  Basically, a few weekends ago, a group of us headed to Darlinghurst, (pretty much opposite my most beloved client W3$TF13LD) to dine in a super lively Mexican restaurant. It was a really interesting experience, and reminded me of why I love trying new stuff :D 

Speaking of trying new stuff, drove to birkenhead point (no I haven't got my P's yet. I know. I should :( ) and tried on a pair of chucks at Timberland (yes, Timberland. haha).  ALL the shoes they had there from Converse were in my size. I was so tempted to get 3 pairs. Only $30 each!  However the accountant inside me took over the inner fob and I decided against the hot pink, and starry pair :P  (More like my dad was giving me the dissaproving frown when I picked up those pairs !)

And shoes. Brings me back to the day I was walking around in the city.  Noticed this.

People rolling up their pants. Even though it's freezing cold at night. Even though your pants probably fit at the right length.  And it's becoming trendy. Hipsters/fobs do it.  Oh man. Fobs do so many things which offend me. Main one would be wearing denim shorts + ugg boots.  Makes no sense...

/ End whinging

M loved this. ;D

Is anyone, by anychance going to see Hotcha this Saturday?  I'm bursting at the seams with excitement, but I don't seem to know many people who know who they are.

I'm not a HUGE fan. I just like them. :)  I love Charmaine Fong though.  Her new image is kinda punk/jazzy. A nice twist. She reminds me of Ingrid Michaelson or Meiko / Norah Jones even.

Anyway, enough from me tonight. I feel like I've blabbed on for ages.

Hope you all had a lovely Monday and rest of week to come!