Posted March 28th, 2011 in Eat out in Perth | No Comments »
D has been having such a big craving for a sweet bun with icing… He loves sweets, especially sugary ones and buttery ones. I really think he should cut down his sugar intake! I can’t believe his favourite flavour of ice cream is cotton candy. The vivid colour (blue? pink? purple??) really turns me off…
Anyway, the other day he wanted to grab some icing buns from somewhere. It was mid afternoon and Hiro was awake but quiet, so we decided to go out to get some fresh air and buy some buns. Somehow, we headed to Miami Bakery in Melville. (I wrote about this place before here)
To be honest, I don’t really like their pastries… they look great, but are not to my taste. Pies are nice though, they have a variety of flavours. The pie of this month “chicken green curry” was tempting.
….. I did it again. I thought “hey this apple turnover looks nice” and ordered one. The pastry was too dry and hard (I think it was more than 2 days old…), and the cream was tasteless. I think I had this experience here before, and I totally forgot about it. I should not order anything with cream here…
I thought D was going to have something with icing, but he ordered chocolate croissant instead.
They do hight tea now. (only at Mandurah and Melville shop) It’s $27 per head, and includes warm savoury pastries, finger sandwiches, scone with jam & cream, and a selection of desserts and cakes. Ummm, if you chose a right dessert/cake, I think it’s a good deal.
* Miami Hight Tea $27.00 per person
* Sparkling High Tea (with a glass of sparkling wine) $33.00 per person (only at Mandurah)
Mandurah Foreshore: Saturdays & Sundays from 2PM (08 9581 3000)
Melville: Sundays from 2 PM (08 9319 3555)
Posted February 18th, 2011 in Eat out in Perth | No Comments »
Atrium is one of the places where my in-laws often have breakfast at. Since I’m not working anymore, they took me to have breakfast buffet there during the weekday.
It was such a hot day – the sunbeam was quite strong even at 7 AM. There’s a construction going on at Burswood complex when we went.
At Atrium. Compared to weekends, there’re less people (of course) and the place was quiet. We sat down, and waited for the coffee and tea to come around. We arrived there around 9am, and I was starving… ready to devour!
etc etc.
It just so confuses me what to eat when there’re many kinds of food around. I felt like eating bread, egg and mushroom (normal breakfast items) and coffee (decaffeinated), so I did. I wanted to have one more bun, but I thought I should eat something else, so I tried bit of everything…
There was a showcase of desserts at the bread counter, and I asked the chef if I could have one of the cake. He said those cakes are actually for display only. I guess they don’t serve cakes in the morning.
I could ask for fresh-made juice at the counter, and also fresh-made eggs and French toast. I’m not as fussy as before (around the first trimester), but I still don’t want to have freshly-squeezed juice (as they might be bacteria on the fruits/vegetables) in the public. I also didn’t ask for well-done scrambled eggs and well-done poached eggs, as I know the soft-cooked eggs are the best. Probably next time.
Posted February 10th, 2011 in Eat out in Perth | No Comments »
Han’s Cafe is a casual dining restaurant chain that you can find across Perth WA. They serve Asian cuisine – mostly Malaysian, Singapore, and Vietnamese.
Actually, Han’s Cafe was the place where I had my first date with D! It was Han’s Cafe Northbridge, and it was my first time to eat something Malay/Singapore/Vietnamese in Perth. I remember we both ordered broken rice with pork chop. (I just ordered what he ordered as I had no idea what the food were like on the menu) I could barely speak English at that time.
Despite the sweet memory, I have to say that not all the Han’s Cafe restaurants serve the same level of food… I really don’t like the one in Willetton – every single visit I made in the past, I regret that I spent money on the food there.
Although Han’s Cafe is not really in my favorite restaurant list, I do go there sometimes when I feel like something Asian (non Japanese/Korean/Chinese). Among over 20 locations across Perth, my favorite one is the one in Carousel shopping centre.
It’s just because of the atmosphere. The place has many tables inside, and there are sofa seats with screen where you can place and check your order without leaving the seat.
On my last visit, I had pad thai and D had char kway teow. The place wasn’t busy at that time, so the food came out really quickly.
The foods there are not really special, but it fills me up when I want an easy, quick, reasonably-priced food.
Posted February 8th, 2011 in Eat out in Perth, Perth WA | 8 Comments »
Yey, week 35! ♪ It’s finally the last month of my pregnancy…
I’ve wanted to take some photos of myself with this biggest-ever belly. At first I was thinking to take a pregnancy photo shoot at a studio, but I rather have it for my baby after he is born, so I asked D to take me to Kings Park and shoot some photos of me and belly. Kings Park is the place where we had our wedding photo shoots too.
It was a shiny day with cool breeze – actually it was rather windy. The sunshine was strong though – so we had to walk in the shade. My pelvic bone hurts when I walk too much, so we sat down several times to rest during the 1 hour walk, and took around 50 photos. I’m quite happy with the result. 
We needed something cold to chill our body down afterwards. First I was thinking about Gloria Jeans, but we headed to San Churro in Subiaco instead.
We had an iced chocolate and a kid’s churros. The smell from Jus Burger next door was really tempting, but we were after some sweets only – probably we eat burger then enjoy the sweet chocolate next time!
Posted January 24th, 2011 in Eat out in Perth | No Comments »
The weather was cloudy with light drizzling rain on Sunday. I had a 1 hour massage appointment at Mayumi’s at 1:30pm, but my in-laws wanted to have lunch together at Bintang Cafe as one of the sister was going back to Jakarta on Monday afternoon.
The sister and D went to church in the morning. While waiting I was getting myself ready for the lunch, massage and meeting friends at C15 in Applecross. Around 10:30 the sister and D came back… with Mcdonald’s bacon egg muffins and pancakes! ”I thought we’re going to have lunch soon” then she said “Yeah, this is just breakfast.”
After eating the muffin I was pretty full, but still joined the lunch anyway. I ordered bihun goreng (stir-fried rice noodle) and D ordered a rice dish (Nashi something Champur). Very full… but I’d gotta go to get 1 hour massage!
This time Mayumi had prepared a big donut-shaped cushion for me so I could get massage while lying face down. Starting from my back to neck & shoulders, then my legs… It was again, a 1 hour of heavenly massage. As I told her that my legs kept getting cramped, she concentrated on my calves. I was almost asleep half-way through the massage because it was so great and relaxing.
After the massage I headed to C15 in Applecross. My friend just came back from Hong Kong and Japan trip, and she is returning to work soon after 1 year + 3 months maternity leave. As both of us will be busy in the next few weeks we decided to catch up while we still have our time.
Friend and I wanted to order pancake (we love pancake at C15!) but it was impossible for my stomach to take another solid food. My friend also decided not to eat pancake this time, so we just had drinks and stayed there for 2 hours non-stop talking. As she gave birth at St John of God in Murdoch (where I’m giving birth to my baby) I had lots of questions to ask!
I love this cafe – not only the food, drinks and services, but also even customers are friendly. Great place to pass the time. I’m not surprised this place is always full of people.
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