Meidi BBQ House

Hi Everyone,

This has got to be the most exciting post I've done all year (hehe and it's just the beginning, 2011 is going to be so good!).

On Tuesday night, S, A, L, J, M, R, M & I visited Meidi BBQ House for their all-you-can-eat meat skewers.  Freaking awesome. Milo is also freaking awesome. Thanks for the photos!!! (they look yummy!)

Uber glad I finally found time to try this place. I've been excited about it since Chocolatesuze's post after her visit, and when I discovered a few fellow meat enthusiasts were available on Tuesday night, I hurriedly created a fb event, and before I knew it, we were standing outside Meidi's.


Meidi BBQ is actually located next to the former Tingha Palace in Parramatta.  I think that place is renamed Prince's Seafood Restaurant now. i.e. The Asian side of Parra. :)

When I got there, everyone was waiting outside, with very impatient faces. Haha! I don't blame them!

We walked straight in, dropped off our bags, and attacked the open meat fridges.  There were strange contraptions on every table. Burning charcoal is put into the middle and you stick your skewer into the slot and VOILA watch your skewer turn. Imo, the best part was watching the chicken wings turn and turn and turn and turn, and eventually turn a beautiful golden colour... dripping with chicken fat. Mmmm.

Wide array of meats- lamb, mongolian lamb, spicy rice cake, fish balls, sausages, vege (mushroom + capsicum), wagyu beef, terriyaki marinade, sardine...

The list continues... satay chicken, chicken gizzard, intestine, terriyaki chicken, chicken heart...

They spin!

Another option is to place a rack over the heat to cook non-skewered items.  We started cooking these mini-steaks, but chatted for way too long and forgot about them. Haha.

Spin, spin, SPIN!  Such a genius idea. Serious props to anyone who invented the spinning machine. So practical!

Towards the end of the night, our end of the table had this many skewers. (End count > 100 skewers between the four of us)

The other end of the table needs to seriously reconsider spending $26.80 each for a meat buffet if they can only manage that many skewers =P

But not only do they have meat skewers, and vege skewers, and FISH skewers, they had cold sides- preserved carrot and radish, marinaded seaweed, sweet tofu skin, and some other cold salads (the carrot/radish one is my fave by far- really easy to make, will try these hols!), and desserts- red bean "soup", snow fungus sweet "soup", and ofc good ol' vanilla ice cream!

Rex is jealous. I can see it in his eyes.  Of my Winnie the Pooh spoon. (And yes, I realise I look immensely constipated in this photo)

Anyway, we've reached the end of the photos.  If anyone wants to go again/for the first time, feel free to invite me, because I'm definitely up for another good night.  The number to call for a booking:

(02) 9635 9098

Man, this post was such a joy to write.  It is almost 3am. I cannot fall asleep because I'm so incredibly full. My annual leave is almost up.  I hope my remaining holidays are just as good as today.

Thanks for reading and putting up with my gluttony!  I promise I'll exercise soon and stick to my new resolutions for 2011!

'Til next time folks!


P.S. This is some footage of two chicken wings which refused to turn. :)

Camels, sheep and 1m long pizza

Had the best lunch break ever today.

Allow me to explain.

So when I walked into World Square this morning, I saw them setting up a marquee tent with Sex in the City 2 posters stuck up everywhere.  Her signature white dress of the film is hanging up on a mannequin, so I thought I would be seeing Sarah Jessica Parker in from of Marcs during my lunch break.

But I was wrong.  I took an early lunch with a cadet, an intern and a bunch of grads. I walked into world square and SAW A CAMEL OMG! Then went super high because- I mean seriously, it's not everyday you get to see a camel on your lunch break!

We ate at Mr B's (by the way, the $10 thai/jap lunches are no longer $10, but $12! Just FYI :) and then after bumming for a bit we headed back into the office to do some "work" on a Friday afternoon.  If you are wondering why M & I are in casual, it's CASUAL DAY TODAY! I.e. clean up the junk in the office.  A good example shown below.

This desk cannot be used due to the huge-frickin-normous amount of paper/files on it. Crazy.  It is also missing a chair.  After our clean up session, the desk was clear, and a chair was allocated to this poor lonely desk.  Also, far far in the bg, you may see many cartons of Boags/Pure Blondes.  Due to finishing my work 1 day early (yesterday), I pretty much had nothing to do today, so helped out with the cleaning of the above desk, and the unpacking/icing of the aforementioned beers.

But before that, I headed out to get a glimpse of the new Westfield. In my opinion, I don't really see what's so great about the new Westfield EXCEPT THERE ARE GOING TO BE FREAKING HEAPS OF SHOPS SOON! YAY!  I wish it was closer to the office :(  but it's only about 15 min walk away.  On the way back, I bought a cake.

Hi Baabaa Sheep! 

Yes, at this point, my day was pretty fantasmo.

Just to recap, what I had done up till that point:

1. Saw a camel
2. Got a photo WITH the camel
3. Had pad thai for lunch.. AGAIN
4. Saw the camel AGAIN
5. Saw the new shops
6. Bought a sheep cake
7. Month end drinks

Month end drinks is always good. I end up seeing colleagues for the first time in weeks because we're always stuck at the clients'.

Anyway, afterwards I get a buzz from who else but Borbs who is impatiently waiting for us in the lobby to go to dinner. Our walk there was highly entertaining, as he serenaded (more like spammed) us with "Now if you want to take a picture of the fascinating witches who put the scintillating stitches in the britches of the boys who put the powder on the noses of the faces of the ladies of the harem of court King Caractacus YOU'RE TOO LATE!!!!!!  BECAUSE THEY JUST PASSED BY!".

Before today, I had NEVER heard this ridiculous little song before, but it's quite catchy :)

ANYWAY, after our walk, where do we end up?

CRINITIS!

We ordered:

1m long pizza with three different toppings.

Wedges

AND I FORGOT TO TAKE A PIC OF THE PORK BBQ RIBS WE HAD.  But man, it was so good, I feel like I can still taste the bbq in my mouth. OMG I WANT MORE. I WANT TO GO TO HURRICANES!

For all those that don't know, Crinitis charges cakeage- meaning they charge a fee if you bring a cake and cut it in the restaurant (which is reasonable I think), and they send you singing/bongo playing men to drum a err whatever cultural version of happy birthday. Hawhaw.  Because we didn't want to be billed extra, we told them to NOT bring out our cake and we just want to borrow their fridge for a few hours.

After dinner, we headed to the Harbour, sang 'happy birthday', cut the sheep and I napped while the others cuddled up to their other halves, or went to watch an asian street performer pretend to swallow a burning torch.  At that point, I felt quite pooped out, as I had woken up especially early to get to training this morning, and I guess all the excitement of seeing a camel and eating a sheep cake kinda got to me, so I departed and took the train home.

When I was on the train, (listening to SHINee of course), a bunch of asian guys were dragging an unconsicous looking guy onto the train. They smelt STRONGLY of liquor and were loud and rowdy.  As a result, I moved into the upper carriage so I could play NudeRunner and Coin Frenzy in peace.  Turned out that guy wasn't as unconscious as I thought, because halfway through my train ride, I heard him wretch and cough and spew. Hahahaaa. Lucky me.

ANYPOOS. When I got home, it was about 10.40 and there was a package waiting for me (YAY! BEST FRIDAY EVER, RIGHT?)  I was opening it up, thinking it was Eat, Pray, Love ,or Grimms Fairy Tales, or the short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", OR a second copy of Tom Sawyer (left my copy in Orange when I went there for a bs trip earlier this year). BUT IT WASN'T. Infact, it was a purchase which I forgot I made, but I'm very glad I have it. It's quite entertaining.

Presenting...











The playbook!

Ok. So I guess this book wouldn't really come in handy for me ;D but being quite a fan of the show, I felt quite obligated to buy the book as it was under AUD 10.

So congrats to me, overall a very good day.  Perfect end to an up&down week!

Now, to finish my marketing poster and hopefully I'll be able to go out this weekend.

Hope you all have a nice weekend!

2-0

It was a fun game to watch last night. Fast paced :D Really looking forward to the South Korea v Argentina game.

Yesterday was pretty good, I think. I was a bit buggered by one question which asked me to draw up a cash budget. I had skipped my tute that week and didn't do my homework. :| And obviously I didn't study that chapter, but oh well. I made something up and it looked kinda.. alright.  After that, I had lunch at Kura. Seafood Yakiudon, Beef Udon, Karaage Udon, Salmon + avocado california, and soft shelled california! Yummo. 

After lunch, bludged around the city for a bit, and then we had dinner at Din Tai Fung. I regret not bringing my camera- but I guess the food didn't look particularly interesting.  We got 2 tiers of the xiao long baos (dragon buns?), a fried pork noodle, beef noodles, a mango pudding and black sesame icecream for dessert. Oh, and they charge for tea. The bill ended up to be just under $70. The service was good, staff were really friendly and helpful, however the prices are really pricey.  The portions weren't entirely great either. :/  At least the dumplings were good?  Just to sum it up, Din Tai Fung is not a place I'd go to for dinner. Perhaps supper. But definitely not dinner.

I wish I did take some photos, because it's going to be a while before I go to  Din Tai Fung again. My wallet needs some time to recover. lol.  I can't wait until my last exam is over so I can start reading Huck Finn :D

Enjoy your long weekend!

PS. I currently have zero plans for next weekend. Any ideas? Or is something important on that I've forgotten?

Little Luxuries

Because it's holiday time- I get to enjoy the luxury of sleeping in and spending at least 30 mins preparing/having breakfast. These past few days, I've been having an egg & ham sandwich with a bowl of cereal and a glass of milk- it's kept me going until lunch. No morning tea break- no snacking :O The wonders of eating breakfast. I normally skip cos I love my sleep in the morning and wake late everyday.

Question: Does anyone use the back of a spoon to spread stuff- ie like a butter knife to butter bread?  A couple of years ago, our family & 2 others went on this camping trip up on the Central Coast. In the morning we had breakfast and my duty was to butter the toast. I instinctively reached out to grab a spoon and proceeded to dip it into the butter and used the back of the spoon to butter the bread. When the 4 kids from the 2 other families saw, they were like "wtf lol" and thought it was ridiculous.  The fact is, I've done it my entire life.  I rarely use a butter knife to butter bread.  I think spoons are really useful because they're super versatile.

When I was at Singleton last year, I was again laughed at for being a spoon kinda person.  My knife was made redundant. I never needed it. The edge of my spoon could cut, it could scoop, it could stab (I'm a master-spoon user) and well, it could shovel really well. I used it for porridge, cereal, cutting up puts of potato and pumpkin, scooping up peas, etc.

IS IT ONLY ME?!

WHAT I LOVE SPOONS!

My favourite- sunny side up eggs.

1.  Melt some butter in a hot frying pan.

2. Crack an egg onto it.

3.  When it looks like the egg in the above picture, sprinkle a right amount of salt onto it.

4.  Switch off the heat.

5. Use a ... what are they called.. a flat wooden spoon? (I used a fork) to flip it over and let it sizzle for a couple of seconds.

6. Serve

Or in my case...

PLONK IT ON SOME BREAD :D

I eat this every morning now. 2 slices of buttered white bread (I gave up on wholemeal- left a funny aftertaste), 4 slices of honey ham, generous amount of mayonnaise (mm), sunny egg with pepper. :) It's a great combination.  Egg= good for brain :D excellent choice of food before exams.

Other brain foods are nuts and berries.. but I haven't had those in a while. Should stock up on those next week. Bahaha.

***

I was going to say something about Chupa Chups.. But I've temporarily forgotten, so digressing...

War paint

ISCF End of Term- Capture the Flag. I decided to tag along after spending some time at school studying that day.  It was fun. Haven't done so much exercise in one day. (I have been playing with my dad's dumbells {shuddup} every night now, and seriously, I feel stronger than ever hahaha)  I keep forgetting to bring my camera to important/fun events so I'm stuck with my shakey phone cam.  At leasat you can still see Edward Scissorhands :D and Sam's pandas :D  Actually- I have a similar toilet photo taken with Sam. I'll find it now..

R.I.P Silver Canon IXUS.

People told me I looked like a different person that day . D: I LOOK LIKE ME!

This was taken last weekend- the happy day I finally found my dress. Haha. It was awesome. HUGE moon cake. D stuck his hand into the photo to use as a "comparison". *cough* he has a huge hand. His fingers are at least 5-7cm longer than mine- so. Err. yeah. That's how big it is. If you want to see it for yourself- I hope it's still at Sussex Centre in Chinatown :D  It was there when I visited on Wednesday so.. yeah :)

I REMEMBER NOW! I was going to talk about how my cousin was the face of chupa chups like 25+ years ago. Haha. Yes.  I'll have to do some digging to see if I can find it again.  M tells me my cousin V was a really chubby kid and all she had to do was to suck on the Chupa chup, pull it out and say "Chupa chup".  Damnit. I wish I could have been a part of history like that :D I want to be in an advertisement (Not the Bonds Kaleidescope ones.. but I wouldn't mind KFC :D)

Speaking of KFC- I mentioned ages ago that they would have a new consumer product- Krushers or something - the ads are super annoying; but I really want to try the Golden Gaytime drink. I've never had a GG before. Back in the days when I used to be able to choose an iceblock to buy- I'd always choose the Rainbow Paddlepop (they're different nowadays).  Anyway- I was just going to say; Krusher cups were one of D's project and he took the tester batch home- so we have alot of recycled plastic cups.

Producing recycled materials is actually a lot more expensive than making it from raw materials- and it's sold for much less, but in the manufacturing industry- if you can't make products from recycled materials- you can't do business with all the big companies- ie MacDonalds, KFC, Woolies. You need a specific type of machinery- access to  used plastics, etc D: and alot of smaller manufacturing companies are dying fast. People are losing their jobs and the big companies like V*sy are getting bigger and bigger.  I think it's almost a monopoly market now =___=; But alas, it cannot be helped if everyone wants to be "environmentally friendly".  Only the big companies can survive- especially in our currently state (globally).

Oh I hate being capped. I've been capped for the past couple of days and it's been a pain to surf on my mob- I think I have pretty bad reception in my house, even though I live on top of a hill. T_T;

Anyway- hope you're all studying hard. Alot of you have been updating your blogs, my but I've been trying to load the pages for over 25 mins now- TAKEN AGES :@  I shall try again on Sunday- UNCAPPED BLISS.

CURRENT WANTS:

1.  Fixed up sleeping time- it's so hard

2.  SUCCESS ONE BIOLOGY

3.  DRESSING TABLE- I have too much junk on my work table. :(

4.  To go out and eat. D:

5.  For March to begin already so I have my income, food, friends, hopefully dressing table, and HSC will be long gone by then.  :@

HAVE A NICE STUDY FILLED WEEKEND EVERYONE (before the nightmare begins)

:)

We're a bunch of touchy feely homos

Hi everyone!

I don't think I've ever said SO many "I love you"s and "I'm gonna miss you"s so many times in my life. I don't think I've ever heard it said so many times in my life. I've NEVER been hugged so many times in one week (lol Danny's winning- LOL He just pulls people into ginormous bear hugs. bahaha).

Sentimental September. Where magic happens.

• My first HU-freaking-MUNGOUS group hug (jazzog ♥- I know I complain alot- but I will miss it hehe)
• Bryan clean and shaven. Bryan writing a nice message to Winnie in her book. Bryan coming out of the closet~ so much Bryan stuff has been going on. Bryan showing his homoside hugging everyone in sight.
• Marcus becoming un-camera shy. Good thing too. He isn't unphotogenic or anything ;D
• EVERYONE COPYING WINNIE'S FACIAL EXPRESSIONS- WOOO
• People talking to people they didn't really talk to (hehe talk talk talk) in the past.
• BIRTHDAY MONTH :D CAKE, CAKE AND MOAR CAKE
• Lotsa class parties
• Lotsa photos
• Lotsa class photos
• Lotsa teary moments
• Lotsa grade love.

I love you Ruse09. I can't say it enough. You guys have been such a ridiculously hilarious bunch. We're all different, but somehow we're like an enzyme to it's specific binding site- we fit perfectly like a puzzle. I couldn't imagine our grade with other people- I can't imagine being anywhere else. I will miss everyone lots. Damn I'll miss the humour. I think our grade is very based on injokes, cruel jokes and humour. :D We revolve around humour. It's great. :)

Oh gosh- I just wasted some precious sleeping time tagging photos on fb. HAHA It's quite a waste of time :( But I like doing it anyway. It makes me observe photos more carefully.

Speaking of photos...

Here are some from the luncheon.

There's just SO MUCH I want to show you guys- (should check FB) from the luncheon and beach AND birthday bash for Carol and Winnie~ but  just not enough time. I'm feeling DEAD tired today. Super smashed (beer + a day of fun at the beach lol + STEAK AND CAKE RHYMES) tonight.

So yes. Day of luncheon

ECONOMICS

ADVANCED ENG

WELCOME TO THE WHACKY WORLD OF BOSCO

ARYAN 4 BOSCO :D

Geez I took so many luvos.

I JUST REALISED I NEVER GOT A PIECE OF THIS CAKE! D:<

:D

lol

Ohhhyeaaahh

OH YEAAAAHHH x 2

moar luvoing :( I'm turning into such a camwhore :(

:D

SHIRT SIGNING

This is Drew the Poser

:D HUGGING MACHINEE

Damn you Lis. I'll miss you SO much :( SO SO SO much.

Everyone in this photo has a :D smile . Woohoo

TAKE YOUR PICK!

Hehe Marcus- as photogenic as always :)

1 ep of HIMYM before sleep.

I know I always post stuff up late now- D: but i really need to watch himym. HAHA :)

 I LOVE YOU ALL. I REALLY DO. REPLY TO MY FB MESSAGES/COMMENTS/ETC TO MAKE ME FEEL LOVED BACK. UNREQUITED LOVE IS A HORRIBLE THING.

And all you lazy bloggers- HURRY UP AND BLOG. :) And post up old pics :D :D that would be sic.

MUCH LOVE,

TAKE CARE EVERYONE. I"ll see you all in 2ueng HSC haha