Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Around Melb Central basement

There's lots of stuff at Melbourne Central, of those notables include Mrs. Fields, Mac and KFC, bubble tea, jap places, KK and Michel's. Wenzi and I stopped for Michel's and Yoyogi en route to 'chiong'ing to occupy a boring day.

My capable model of the day Wenzi holding her fav futomaki


This sushi pack is pretty value for money if u like inari. Cos the cali rolls, tho nothing spectacular and made of cheap ingredients, they go down very nicely. With soya and ginger pre-packed, it's a ready-to-go office desk companion @ $5.80 only.
Off to Michel's Pattiserie after stuffing my face with rice. We ordered three things:


Left to right: Black Forest cheesecake, Tiramisu, Chocolate Cheesecake

The choc cheesecake was a reco from me after being wow-ed at during vinh's party. The others just looked fancy enough to try. Think we had more fun choosing and taking pics of the cakes than anything :P plus wenzi just giving me dagger stares for my flawed photography, make her look "fat". watever :P
Final verdict: choc cheesecake is a cheeselover killer. yums. But too heavy for the average bloke. the other two is bad. The tira's cookies on top were just that; hard rock cookies. The black forest cheesecake was just too adventurous i think. Great idea but sloppy. Price of cake: 4.95 with a slice and coffee.
Melb central is fun. There's even breadtop and bubble tea. happyness.

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Best tofu burger around

Address: Chapel Street, blue lil cafe on corner of anchor pl. (near the High St end)

My friend Ning and I decided to pop into a nearby food place to eat, something simple and cheap perhaps. Decided on this lil blue coloured place cos it looked cheap. Decidedly, it was not but we just sat down and ordered anyway. We shared Turkish bread with dips and a Tofu burger.

The menu of this place is pretty simple, they have few items, but all looking special. I had a caffe latte as well, decently made.


Model: Ning. Food: Turkish dips.

Turkish dips were nice, very well liked by Ning and I. The bread was toasted well and were served in large bitsizes. Dips were fresh and looked homemade. Some were slightly chunky and hard to actually dip into, but that didn't trouble me. Price: ~$8


Tofu Burger, lost in the salad jungle.

The tofu burger looked messy, with leaves sticking out everywhere and looking impossible to eat. I actually had to sit there and think of a strategy to eat it. But that said, the bread was no Mac-toasted muffin, it's just a piece of thick toast, buttered well and toasty. It's hardness and crispyness blended well with the vegies' crunchiness and the tofu's softness. The tofu patty itself was slightly spicy, had alot of stuff blended into it and basically was just yums. And although it was fried, it wasn't oily too. Price: ~$12

Good stuff. Bring a friend and have some sunlight join you for brunch.