Hog's Breath Cafe

Location: 21, Lake Street, Northbridge, Western Australia.

URL: http://www.hogsbreath.com.au/


It's one of the famous Australian Restaurant that serves great pork ribs. Hog's Breath has got a good number of branches all over the main cities in Australia, you won't find it hard to visit one of them.

People said, "You've never been in Australia if you haven't tried Hog's Breath!"

Rib and steak Combo @ AUD 29.50

~ a smaller serve of sirloin steak and half a rack of sticky ribs smothered with Hickory Smoked BBQ sauce. Served on Cajun rice with Hog Tail fries and house salad. A carnivore's delight!

One of the best pork ribs I've ever tasted! The pork ribs were cooked overnight for 18 hours for the tenderness, juiced and marinated well thoroughly. This serving can well fit 2 Asian tummies!

Garlic Prawns @ AUD 12.95

~ 5 marinated tiger prawns pan-fried with crushed garlic on a bed of cajun rice and flooded with white wine cream sauce.

A very big portion of yummy starter. This is how big an Australian tummy can be! It's really good taste!

Poppo - Korean & Japanese Restaurant

Location: 137 Barrack Street, Perth Western Australia


Australia is definitely a peace country for both Japanese and Korean. Back in their original countries, Japanese and Korean used to be unfriendly to each other. But, in Australia, they always like to have fusion restaurant of both Japanese and Korean style or Korean works in Japanese Restaurant, or Japanese works in Korean Restaurant.......

Vegetarian Roll @ AUD 10

~ cucumber, avocado, apple slices in rice roll topped with smashed sweet potato and pumpkin, tomatoes, pickled ginger and zucchini.

Haemul Jyeon @ AUD 8

~ Korean style seafood pancake. It's pan-fried to crispy, tasted like a chinese pancake as well. Nice to serve with the sour sweet chilli soy sauce.

Vegetable Bibimbap @ AUD 9

~ a big bowl of rice topped with fried egg, seasoned mixed vegetables (kimchi), soy sauce, dried seaweed and chilli sauce. Comes with a small bowl of miso soup.

A very good bibimbap which is actually very appetising and healthy, not oily at all.

Jaeyuk Pokkum (Pork) @ AUD 13

~ stir-fried thinly sliced belly pork and vegetables with spicy sauce with a big bowl of rice. Comes with side dishes (kimchi, sour radish, pickled zucchini) and miso soup.

A generous serving of thinly sliced belly pork, so juicy and tender yet chewy.... drooling.

Money-back guaranteed life??

A lady brought her kitten into Murdoch University Veterinary Hospital today for a vaccination today.
While the vet was examining the kitten physically, she had some brief chat with us.

She told us that she just bought this cute little Cream colored Burmese from a petshop a couple of weeks ago. The petshop has actually promised that any pets purchased from the shop are money-back guaranteed within the 1st 7 days as purchased.

And the lady was actually quite surprised and disappointed. She started to wonder what will happen to those pets that were rejected within 7days? which the most possible reason to reject them could be due to sickness, handicapped or some other problem. Would the rejected ones be put down? Throw into the rubbish bin??!! Or sold to other buyers again without telling the truth?

This is really a good point to ponder about on. Beat me, I have no idea what would happen to those poor little lives too. Those petshops are trading pets (more precisely, lives) like merchandise, like good, like toy... Those are living creatures! They also have feelings and can definitely be moving about!

Pet owners should be aware that the minute they had chosen the one particular animal to be their pet, the pet's life is then in their hands since. They should take good care of their pet, provide adequate medication whenever they are sick instead of dumping them on roadside...

money-back guaranteed? Imagine do you ever get a money-back guaranteed new born baby or a marriage as well? ridiculous....

Taka Japanese Restaurant

gLocation: Murray St, Perth City

It's a self-service, fast food japanese restaurant, serving big portion of set bento and noodles at cheaper price and great taste.

Teriyaki fish rice @ AUD 6

Fried potato cakes @ AUD 3, Japanese Tofu Curry rice (big )@ AUD 7

Japanese Chicken Curry rice (small) @ AUD 7 and salmon rice roll @ AUD 3

This restaurant serve great taste japanese curry! I used to dislike the funny taste of curry that other japanese restaurant serves, this restaurant changed my opinion.

It's always crowded and fulled for its quick service and cheap prices. Long queue is inavoidable.

Lancaster Wineyard@ Swan Valley, Perth

Location: Swan Valley, Perth

West Australia has got too much land, wineyards in here are all covering a very large area of land... flat landscape. If we were here in spring, the view would have been much more colorful....

Cheers! for alcoholics....

free wine tasting! as much as u like

A token of guilt after getting alot free drinks from the yard.

Best recommended wine from this wineyard (for my tastebud): Sparkling Rose AUD 48; red wines here are better than their white ones...

Little Caesars Pizzeria @ Mundaring, WA.

Location: shop 7, 7125 Great Eastern Highway, Mundaring, West Australia.

"Award Winning Pizzeria"

URL: www.littlecaesarspizzeria.com.au

Business hours: Open 6days a week, 4pm till late, closed on Tuesday.

Vegetarian Spaghetti (AUD9.00)

~spaghetti pasta in a cream sauce with mushrooms, capsicum and onions. Also available in tomato sauce.

I really like this pasta, the cream sauce is very special and taste nice that I finished all the sauce.

Smashing Pumpkin Pizza (AUD11.50 -Small)

~ Garlic cream sauce, mozzarella cheese, roasted cashews, butternut pumpkin in pesto, parmesan cheese, parsley.

It's a good vegetarian choice, whole chunks of pumpkin with tinge of sweetness, together with the saltiness of cheese, they combined well.

Little Birdy (AUD13 - small)

~ roasted turkey slices, caramelized onion, mozzarella cheese, cranberry sauce, brie cheese.
the name is special, but the taste is just so-so. can merely taste the tiny turkey slices, but the cheese is really rich.

Eskimo Joe (AUD10.50)

~ Malt Chocolate chip cookies crispy base, icing sugar, topped with a large scoop of vanilla ice cream, and raspberry fruit sauce.
It's a must-try and famous dish in the restaurant. We didn't feel cold even eating it in the cold winter night as it is so tasty!

didn't manage to finish all, and this was our take-away.

* it is definitely worth trying, quite very true italian pizza you can find here, and of course alot better than Malaysian commercial local franchised pizza brand.

** this restaurant also serves Soya Based Cheese (Lactose free) and gluten free pizza bases. So thoughtful, rite?

MeiSum Restaurant @ Chinatown, Perth

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Location: Chinatown , Perth

a variety of dimsum choices, no lesser than what we can find in Malaysia. Taste really good, with whole real fresh prawns in them, with reasonable prices. A really good place for Asian Chinese who are craving for ASIAN breakfast. It is always crowded with alot of ASIAN here.

eggtarts, which neither really look good nor taste good

it's yao char kuay rolled in cheongfun

hm.... no good... the best 1 I ever had was in Shanghai

The Margaret River Chocolate Company @ Swan Valley, Perth

Location: Swan Valley, Perth

Business Hours: Every day (including weekend) until 5pm.

A chocolate factory, not a "big mass"-production, but has got a big varieties.

A cosy cafe attaching beside the company, serving chocolate delicacies, cheesecakes, coffee, and chocolate drink.

Once entering the front door, you will be served with unlimited free-flow of tiny chocolate bites, comes in 3 choices - dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white chocolate. The best 1 is the dark chocolate.

Delicately made chocolate, nice to see, too costly to buy, i wonder how tasty it is...(AUD1.50 per piece)

chocolate milk.... nice taste. but i think not chocolatey enuf...

Pancakes On The Rock @ The Rocks, Sydney

Location: The Rocks, Sydney

URL: www.pancakesontherocks.com.au

a must-try restaurant when you are in Sydney, Australia.

the menu

BBQ Pork Ribs @ AUD 23.95

~ comes with fried potato wedges and fresh mixed lettuce salad. It's a very big serving, which can well fit 2 or 3 Asian stomach without fail. One of the best pork ribs I've tasted in Australia. It's a must try in Australia...

Seafood Savoury Crepes @ AUD 15.95

~ fillets of fish, scallops, prawns, mushrooms and spring onions wrapped in the crepe, comes with mixed lettuce salad and topped with seafood sauce and hollandaise sauce. Taste so-so only..... it has got a bit fishy taste in it.

Chicken & Mushroom Savoury Crepes @ AUD 15.95

~ creamy chicken and mushroom folded into crepe pockets, topped with a crunchy coat of Parmesan Cheese, comes with mixed lettuce salad and tomato sauce and sour cream. The strong cheesy crepe combined well with the chicken and mushroom, but it's too creamy in the content.

Chicken & Bacon Pizza @ AUD17.95

~ chicken breast pieces and bacons, tomatoes and mushrooms, tomato salsa on a guacamole and mozzarella cheese base. Topped with sour cream, guacamole and shallots. It's a good try that the pizza base is crispy and thin.

Italian Salami Pizza @ AUD 15.95

~slices of mild italian salami and italian sausage with red capsicum, spanish onions, black olives on a tomato and mozzarella base. Topped with fresh oregano, mixed lettuce, onion rings and a dress of caesar dressing.

Devils Delight @ AUD 13.95

~ genuine strong chocolate flavored pancakes topped with chocolate ice-cream and cream, served with sliced strawberries and drizzled with chocolate syrup. Whoever likes chocolate, will definitely like its super duper chocolatey taste.

Hot 'N' Troppo @ AUD 10.95

~ Buttermilk pancakes topped with chocolate ice-cream and cream, served with grilled bananas, walnuts and drizzled with chocolate syrup.

The Fish Market @ Sydney

Location: Bank Street, Pyrmont, Sydney


How to get there: Alight at Sydney Fish Station by taking Light Rail; by Monorail to Fish Market; by Bus 443 from Circular Quay.

Business hour: Open 7 days, from 7am.


These are all the varieties of seafood you can find in the fish market. And they are actually alot more. Price range quite wide according to the standard of serving of the restaurants.

Belows are the seafood from Christie's Seafood Restaurant. Mostly more oriental style.

Baked Cheese lobster - Half (AUD18.50)

Garlic grill scallop - AUD 20.50/dozen

Calamari rings & chips (AUD8.50)

Salt & Pepper Squids (AUD8)

Freshly opened raw oyster - AUD 13 /dozen

Fresh salmon sashimi (AUD6.00/100gm)

-from the japanese sushi restaurant. It's really cheap and definitely worth it. Very fresh.

Cosmopolitan Cafe @ Bondi Junction, Sydney

Location: Oxford Street Mall, Bondi Junction, Sydney.

~ nice ambient, cosy... it is quite a famous cafe around bondi area, but I do think it has nothing more special than a normal cafe.

Hot chocolate (AUD4.50 )

Butter scone with strawberry jam and cream (AUD5.00)

~ this is unlike the scone that I used to eat, more like a sweet bun....

Baked cheese cake (AUD6.00)

~not as good as the one in Queen Victoria Market, but still, it is a nice cheese cake.

Earl grey tea (AUD3.50)

Nepolitan spaghetti (AUD6.50)
~ just a normal, standard pasta... no comment

Mushroom omelette and chips (AUD8.50)

~ crispy omelette with alot of mushroom slices comes with chips (australian's favorite...). and it is a promotion item, good try.