I’ve eaten some awesome food dining out in 2010. Here are the top 5 places around Perth I’ve been recommending to people since discovering them this year. Interestingly, breakfast has been the big winner in 2010. 5.Crumpet, East Victoria Park EDIT, November 2011: Crumpet is now under new management. The menu is predominantly Lebanese an…
Our Christmas feasting began with dinner on Christmas eve at Portofinos Restaurant in Mindarie with Juji and Jay. The Restaurant and Function Centre is located at Quinns Beach, all the way up Freeway North. The dining room is spacious with high ceilings and large windows overlooking the ocean. The restaurant did offer a Christmas set […]
Great news! My nieces Ruby (aged 3+) and Zoe (aged 1+) have a new baby brother! Caleb was born on 27 December 2010. We visited Caleb and his mum Angela at hospital today. They are both doing well. Angela told us that Ruby and Zoe have seen Caleb and were both chuffed to have a […]
This year, our family festivities will take place at lunches on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. The weather forecast is for a typical Perth Christmas Day scorcher – very hot and partly cloudy with a maximum temperature of 38C. Boxing Day will be sunny and windy with a top temperature of 36C. Pictured below is […]
Here’s the list of posts from our trip to Canberra (November 2010), in reading order: The Chairman and Yip, Civic Dobinson’s Bakery Cafe, Civic Ottoman Cuisine, Barton Shanghai Dumpling Cafe and That Pizza Place Best ice cream ever Kingsley’s Steak and Crabhouse, Civic Cafe Essen and sculptures Afternoon tea buffet at the Tea Lounge, …
We stayed at the Hyatt Hotel Canberra for five nights in November and part of the deal included free buffet breakfast every morning at the hotel. We ate breakfast at the buffet on three mornings. Two of those mornings were the two days of my conference, when we didn’t have time to go out to […]
I crashed out for a few hours following afternoon tea. Despite my appetite, I still had a sore throat, blocked head and runny nose and was much lower on energy than I normally would be. When I woke up, it was dark outside and well past dinner time. Our tummies were rumbling again but I […]
One more day of work, and then I’m on holidays for three weeks. I have a lot of catching up to do at home – Christmas shopping, tidying my study, backing up my files then installing Windows 7 (finally!) on my laptop computer, and working through a huge backlog of photographs and writing the corresponding […]
After breakfast at Cafe Essen we walked around the shops with bellies full of bacon. We visited the Canberra Museum and Gallery. When we got back to the hotel in the afternoon, we rested for a couple of hours. We skipped lunch because we wanted to build up our appetites again; we’d booked for high […]
On the Friday of our Canberra trip, we got up early and walked to Civic for breakfast. We’d walked past Cafe Essen a few times and seen magic words on the specials blackboard: corncakes, French toast, pancakes, bacon, maple syrup. It was a crisp cool morning and we enjoyed the walk. It also felt good […]