merry christmas!

With my cousin and older sister at our family Christmas lunch LOL we all pretty much look the same age...

Christmas coloured roses from the bf, thank you!

SoooOoOoOo much food hehe omg I need to diet for Japan ahh

How awesome is this house! If you guys wanna see it it's still open until 5th January at Cambage court, Davidson. Bring a donation for their brain cancer campaign too so then you can go into their backyard! We didn't have any money on us so we didn't feel right if we went inside :(

Anyways hope everyone is having a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!! Stay safe and drive carefully LOL we got pulled over today for not indicating......

excited

Just booked flight tickets, will be travelling to Japan again next year woooo!!

Friday

Friday was a very eventful day! In the morning I went to uni for a work meeting and it was pretty awesome because they supplied us with lunch and chocolate covered strawberries eheheh. I had five hours to kill afterwards so I went to the staff christmas party in the new building omg I was literally the only student there but it was ok because at least I wasn't by myself.. There was sooooo much delicious food, even a giant cake that looked exactly like the new building we were in lol ????¿¿¿¿ not even kidding

This was taken after the waiters went around and gave everybody some cake.... Literally not even 1/10th into cutting the cake and everyone's already had a piece haha. The most embarrassing thing happened before they cut it though omg this fucking cake was in the middle of the room and it looked so realistic that I thought it was a model of the building.... I poked it and realised shortly after it was the fucking cake aghhgh hopefully nobody saw me fml

Looking gr9 for the photobooth LOL

These photos are so funny hahahaha the left one is with my tutor/boss and the right one is with some of the accounting staff 

Five hours later and it was finallllly time to go and eat dinner then meet up with everyone for karaoke! We tried this heart attack of a dessert after dinner HAHA it was pretty good, worth it if you don't mind the calories

Whipped cream, buttered peanuts, krispy kreme donut, cookies and cream ice cream, and oreos omg

With Gina at karaoke :-)

ume + sokyo (again sorry omg)

I know this is another food post hahaha sorry I'll post more interesting things once something interesting actually happens! I've been the biggest hermit so far these holidays like last night I played the sims until around 2 in the morning when I asked myself what am I even doing with my life lol... Today I went out and tried some baby food, that was pretty interesting.. oh and I bought a car too!

Anyway alright back to business last weekend I ate at a Japanese restaurant in Surry Hills called ume. We saw it on instagram and it looked pretty good so we had pretty high expectations of this place! Apparently since it was the weekend, we were only allowed to have either a 5 or 7 course set menu. The 7 course sounded nicer to me, the 5 course one had too much wasabi on the menu and I really don't like the taste of wasabi.. I can't remember the exact price but I think it was around $80 per person?

Ok first course - kingfish sashimi! Everyone's taste buds are different so some of you guys might have really enjoyed this, but me not so much.. The table next to us said this was really good and they loved the flavours so you know each to their own..

Scallops with butter and other stuff LOL this was the dish we saw on instagram! It looked so yum and I love scallops mmmm. It wasn't as great as I expected it to be but it was still pretty nice

Next was octopus with cucumbers and some other vegetables - this was pretty good, first time I've properly eaten octopus haha takoyaki doesn't count 

4th course was smoked eggplant. This was sooooooo smoky you can still taste it even after you're done! It was kind of like smoking a cigarette but nicer and not bad for you

Omg things picked up from this course onwards. This wagyu beef thing was so fucking good. I can't remember exactly what it was but we ate it with rice and it was d bomb

Dessert time!!!!! I loved this dessert and how much effort went into it - they even had a dehydrated strawberry leaf on it like wtf so retarded but pretty cool! It was Poached Strawberries with Caramelised White Chocolate, Shiso Custard, Gingerbread, Matcha (copied and pasted this from their website I can't remember things for shit)

Last but not least, mango sorbet with some mochi and rice cakes (couldn't copy and paste unfortunately HAHA) this was also pretty nice but the picture doesn't really do it justice. Everything we had was nicely presented but the photos I took were just bad oops..

Now for sokyo eheheh you guys are probably so sick of me posting photos from sokyo but this time we tried new things so I wanted to blog about it again! 

Kingfish sashimi again - this one was much more friendly to my taste buds compared to the one from ume. I really liked the textures in this dish - the yellow things on top were little pieces of fried potato which was pretty cool

This duck dish was delicious too (even though it looks like a murder scene). Everything else we ordered was the same as before so I won't post about it again.... That's all for what I've been eating recently.. hope everyone is well and I'll blog again soon :) 

catching up with good food :)

On Wednesday I met up with one of my high school friends to eat lunch. If you follow me on twitter, I tweeted about how sad I was that I have no friends who love food but yay Helen does!!!! We decided to check out the grounds of Alexandria since there's always so much hype about it and neither of us had been there before. My first thought was that it would be a small hipster cafe like the ones in Newtown HAHA but it wasn't like that at all omg when we were trying to find it we thought we were in the wrong place because the whole area was so industrial.. The actual grounds place was huge and they even had a farm??!?!  We were told there was a 45 minute wait so we went and explored the place and take selfies heh. Good place to take photos, it was all nice and floral and decorated and rustic (did I use that word right lolol) 

Took these on an app hahaha we look so flawless and our hair looks so smooth omg I wish 

I got a rose lemonade while we were waiting since I was so hungry. Really floral tasting but it was quite nice!

After 45 minutes (or maybe even less, it didn't feel that long) we got a table and ordered our food. I got the 'breakfast burger' and Helen got beef ribs. Both were pretty good! I would definitely recommend this place if it's a nice and sunny day and you don't mind waiting.

We were both so full from lunch but there is always room left for dessert! Messina opened up this new dessert bar in Darlinghurst so we headed up there only to find out the dessert bar wasn't open until 5pm :((((( so we got a whole tub of icecream instead HAHA.

Left to right - honey I burnt the kids (fucking so embarrassing to say out loud), bounty, and pandan coconut mmmm

Overall a pretty good day with lots of delicious food. Hopefully I'll be able to try out more restaurants these holidays ^-^

shopping! + holidays are soon

I finally got a chance to visit the new h&m store in Sydney and like everyone else has been saying, it's kind of overrated.. The store itself is pretty small compared to Melbourne and overseas and it was so packed (even though the hype has died down) I couldn't be bothered shopping properly haha. Nevertheless this is what I managed to pick up while I was there!

I thought these shoes were really nice idk I don't have any shoes like this and they caught my eye. Only $14.95 too!

This dress was only $29.95! Not sure about the sizing though, it's an AUS 4 but I pretty sure I'm not that little so maybe the Australian sizing in h&m is a little off LOL

Omg bought these daily underwear because they were at the counter and at the time I was like hey this is such a good idea haha. The whole pack was $20 so only like $3 each

I also went online shopping recently on this website I saw on facebook called tobi. They have this 'first purchase half price' thing but it's bullshit because they make the original prices so unreasonably high so after the discount it's like normal price??

First time buying something mint coloured, and also first time buying a playsuit! It's pretty comfortable and convenient because I don't have to worry about the wind or accidentally flashing everyone

Also bought these shorts from the website - haven't found a top to wear them with yet (hence my diy pink top)

Just realised nearly everything I bought is floral hahaha what can I say, flowers are really pretty especially in warmer weather! Anyways exams are almost over so I'll be able to post a lot more once I'm finally finished for the year. These holidays are going to be soooo full on:

• I'll be working three jobs so hopefully I'll have heaps of money to spend on a holiday
• Speaking of holiday, I might be going to Hawaii in February wooooo!!! I'm so excited *u* 
• We're considering jetstar to save money - has anyone flown overseas with jetstar? Is it uncomfortable (we'll be on a 787 dreamliner not an a320 like domestic flights so it shouldn't be that bad right)? If you have any advice please inbox me on ask.fm!
• I'm also supposed to be going to Melbourne but no one's really saying anything so I don't know if it's still on anymore lol shit like this always happens!
• I have lots of work to do anyway so it's not really a big deal if Melbourne doesn't happen anyway
• Wooooo I'm so ready for these holidays, seriously need of a long break away from uni and stress..

I love food

This year I went to the night noodle market six times....... To be fair two of those times didn't count because the lines were too long and we didn't get to eat anything LOL. The other four weren't enough omg I wish it was open for a bit longer, there were so many things I didn't get to try!

Wonderbao - I forgot what each of them had inside but this was really goood

Ramen burger heheheh I also got to try the rice burger this time too, both were pretty good

Baostop - lobster, pork, and chicken baos mmm

Messina - bangkok holla! this was so yummy if only the actual Messina stores sold desserts like this

Chips on a stick!

Hoy Pinoy omg such a long line for this but it was worth it 

I don't think that's even all the photos ..............

Anyway hehhehheh more food, last week I went to cho cho san with Patrick because we kept seeing it on instagram and the food looked so gooood. It didn't disappoint! The food was nice, the atmosphere was pretty cool and our waiter was so funny LOL

Ok my photos are horrible because it was dark inside but you get the idea

Hokkaido scallops with corn and some black sauce and flakes idk what half the things on the plate were but they tasted nice

Tofu with tomato dashi soup and tempura things on top - Patrick didn't like this that much because it was too simple but I did!

THIS LOOKS LIKE POO HAHAHAHA BUT IT WAS REALLY GOOD!!!!! It's king crab omelette curry omg

Soy glazed wagyu beef mmmm

These little buns were $8 each...... but they were pretty nice so it was worth

Green tea soft serve to finish off - kind of tasted like a slightly sweeter version of chanoma's green tea ice cream LOL