Rembrandt Restaurant - Inglewood

A few weeks ago, the TBS members paid a visit to Rembrandt restaurant in Inglewood.
They serve polish food and because none of us had ever tried polish food before, so the idea was quite exciting.

I remember being earlier than miss FDQ (which is unusual, because it's usually the other way around), and while we were waiting for miss FDQ to come, we were served with a plate of rye breads and lard. I honestly think the lard was gross, but the rye bread was pretty good.
Our theme for the day was "sharing is caring", so we shared all the dishes.
For our entree, we ordered vegetarian croquette with mushrooms and cheese fillings. As for the main, we had duck old polish style with red cabbage stew; pork hock served with potatoes, saueurkraut, and condiments; and "Pierogi" or traditional polish dumplings with meat (pork and beef), herb, and spices.
Lastly we shared 3 dishes of dessert, which were: polish doughnut, apple crumble with vanilla ice cream, and honey cake. We all agreed that the best dessert among the 3 was the polish doughnut. The apple tasted a bit funny although when eaten with the ice cream it tasted quite nice. I reckoned the honey cake wasn't so honey as I couldnt really taste the honey, but Stewie said she liked the honey cake just fine...well..she pretty much likes everything, if you know what I mean?

Dinner was nice and cozy & by the end of it we were all well fed and feeling fabulous. So, no complaining from me :)


Vegetarian croquette with mushrooms and cheese fillings


Rye bread with lard

Pierogi or traditional Polish dumplings

Duck old polish style with red cabbage stew

Pork hock with potatoes, sauerkraut, & condiments

Polish doughnut

Apple crumble with vanilla ice cream

Honey cake

Pre-Xmas Dinner @ Olive Tree, West Perth

Hi Peoples! Apologies from the TBS for the long hiatus (IF there's anyone still following this blog). We have been pretty swamped with work, manuscripts, pickling, eating, rotting, codewords and whats not. BTW, this is totally random BUT I HAVE TO SHARE THIS. CODEWORDS ARE ADDICTIVE!!! This is the most well-spent $2.49 in the entire 23 yrs of my life.. It helps to prevent dementia, Alzheimer and *insert any sickness linked to old age*.

*heavy post ahead*

Since some of the TBS members will be away during the festive season, we have decided to bring forward our Xmas Dinner. Er, bring forward x 10 considering we had it more than a month in advance. The awesome one (forgot who) came up with the idea of having Secret Santa! Wohohohoho.... All of us behaved like lil' girls awaiting for our SS to present us our gifts! Speaking of which, I should do my part to help prevent the risk of dementia amongst my friends by getting Miss Von 20 codewords book instead of a Country Road shawl as xmas present! Hahaha

Twas was a fun night with loads of laughters, giggles, vain pictures, non sense, craps and POLAROID!!! FDQ hereby declares that POLAROIDS ARE THE BEST INVENTION AFTER CODEWORDS! Wokiee, i seriously need to stop mentioning about codewords before I get sidekicks from the rest of the members.

Food at Olive Tree was so-so. Nothing much to rave about. Considering the price we paid ($65 for premium 4 course), the amount of food we had were quite worth the price. More of a quantity over quality type. We ordered a bottle of moscato from T' Gallant Juliet to be shared. A light citrusy, crisp wine with a sweeter note. For starters, a basket of sad-looking garlic bread was served. Just a personal opinion, I expected the garlic bread to be thicker, toasted and more flavourful. Entrees were quite big in portion, mains and desserts were alright. Scroll down for pic of the foods.
The Menu
not-so-awesome garlic bread
Ravioli with spinach and cheese in nap. sauce

300g sirlion steak with mash and red wine jus
Roasted vege with 3 cheese filo parcel
Grilled Tasmanian salmon with mash
Apple crumble with berries coulisTiramisu
Long live polariod!!!!You can never get more vain than this! XD They look as if they're doing camera advert

Thanks for the awesome get-together, girls!! Hope there are more to come in 2011!!! *cheers*

Signing off with love,
FDQ
*off for more codewords*

Lo Zucchero , Dalkeith

Helloww everybody On this lovely free Saturday Let me have the honor to blog about Lo Zucchero because I wan't to introduce you to our special univited guest of the nite... Introducing....

Mr.Frankenstein

We'll talk further about him but now let's talk through the restaurant ... it's in Dalkieth and along the way we were mesmerized by the area and houses at that suburb... wishing one day we can live there too... there's a house that looks like a cottage and mimics the white house and other semi mansions(correct me if im wrong)... the houses just looks so grand and out of reach *rich People*

So the Cafe and Restaurant along the area also looks very nice. Lo Zucchero is a cafe/restaurant/hangout place/woodfire pizza place that has very inviting and relaxing atmosphere... the staff are very friendly, caring and they pay attention to the customers. It is a cafe coz u can see their range of coffees and teas that looks very temping, looks like they're quality stuff they also sell em raw or in take home packaged one if you like. And it has range of cakes and biscuits to go with em. It's a restaurant offering italian food that taste clean and fresh, also authentic... By autehentic i mean it's unique and one of a kind for example the duck rissoto and squid ink liguini.

And they offer, again very tempting range of wood fire pizza made before you eyes and they are quite uniqe as well we tried the soy sesame honey chicken one and don't mind going for a second for the brie,avocado etc one (Confession, they are 2 of my fave things in the world!!! hence can only remember them 2 ingredients only, haha). They are very light, fresh and just delicious...!

Soo Now Let me talk through the food with the pics

Our Entree, Soy Honey Sesame Chicken Wood Fire Pizza. The Base is very Thin. Chicken tender and moist. Nice smoky gourmet pizza...

Entree No.2 Calamari. It's very tender, the crumb is crisp and clean, it's not oily, served with lemon mayonnaise with Rocket bed.

Duck Rissoto... that get everyone so excited. Miss FDQ and stewie is rissoto fans... CC is duck fanatics... so little wonder we order this! It's Stewie's best food of the nite.. it's not rich, it taste light and fresh (stewie thinks there's basil there which she loves). There's also shitake mushroom in there... The rice is just the perfect consistency, overall it's a champion.

Squid Ink Liquini with spinach, fish and cherry tomato with lemony and garlicy oil dressing. It's probably the least impressive dish of the day according to most of us nevertheless still okayy. A bit Bland, Just nice after we add a bit of salt and pepper.

Around about this time is when Frankenstein come to our table and wondering why in the hell are we taking picture of the food. He is --- Im not sure chef there or just a staff... but he keeps coming back to the table asking why are we taking picture, what are we doing with the picture, Are we gonna put it in internet, and do we like italian food.. and If we're Italian
*Err... 4 Asian Chicks helooww* lols

And He ask what happened to Stewie's foot then he share us some history of his own. His Son broke his leg and he has to take care of him for 8 months... He doesnt sounds too impressed by the whole incident, not impress at all. He say, "I have to take care of him for 8months!8months!! "THen He murmurs to himself "HE better take care of me when I'm old" Which he is already...

*Hope Mr.Frankestein never read this blog or if you think u'r Mr. Frankenstein my apologie...We're just kidding around =P*

By now you're probably wondering why is he Mr. Frankestain at the 1st place- easy- he looks like one.

*Sorry again Mister..if you happen to be as unfortunate as to have read our blog*

*If you think You're Mr Frankestein'son, here's a message 4 u ,TAKE CARE OF UR DAD! lols*

Menu

Hot Mocha and Bacio cake that we all share

Range of Biscuits and cakes

Range of G-e-l-a-t-o

That's the chef making pizza at the back

Overall... It is a VERY NICE LITTLE DINING PLACE --- I PERSONALLY HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT

AND SPECIAL CONGRATULATION TO FDQ AND MISS PETITE WHO JUST DID THEIR HONOURS PRESENTATION!!!ANOTHER MILESTONE HAS PASSED

- WELL DONE GUYSS!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU GUYS DESERVE A BIG CLAP AND A WAVE DANCE AS WELL

*CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP*

*WOOOoooOOOooohhHHhhoooOOOoooOOOOo*

eVEN mR frankenstein Is VEry Proud

Jacs - Apple Cross

What best to end our meals other than to have, desserrttt....!! but Vu's doesnt have any appealing dessert... so we were planning to go to Guchee as chowchow suggested, unfortunately we'r late and the place was closing so randomly we went to Jacs.

Miss FDQ was there once to have breakfast which in her opionion nothing special but the dessert are nice!
We were quite lucky coz by the looks of it they were closing (9 past, the time we arrived)we were literally the last customer of the day (you know that annoying bunch of people who never leaves when the shop suppose to be closed)

 we only order 2 dessert which take forever to make

Miss Petite (In distress): "Omg!! When is our food gonna come.."

Chow chow (gourmet guru): "It's shouffle dudee... !!do you know how long it take to make shouffle!?"

Miss Petite(Being a B****h): "I don't care! Im a customer."

Miss Stewie and Miss FDQ: "Let's watch this, popcorn??"

Anyhoo, the passionfruit shouffle is nice, it looks amazing... taste.... with cream *bold italic underline that* is quite nice otherwise it's just sour and fluffy with consistency of beaten egg white (foam).

The Chocolate caramel is a beauty!! Unbeatable classic of warm moist chocolate cake with Gooey caramel and chocolate sauce centre than oozes out from the inside, served with vanila ice cream... absolute comfort food.. nothing like classic dessert... everyone loves it. Nuff said.

(plus for not a sweet fan like myself, it's quite light and not so rich. Even the chocolate sauce... which means not sickening and must mean it is a not-so-guilty-pleasure *We'd like to think anyway*=D)

Jacs - dim room feels romantic and cozy- chowchow want a house like this *hint hint*

Chocolate caramel something something

Gooey caramel and chocolate sauce centre - heaveennnnn .......

Look at that soft fluffy cloud-like shouffle, divine....

Vu's - Canning Hwy

G’day my fellow food buddies or anyone else who happen to bump into this blog God bless you for reading , lolss… So today we had dinner at Vu’s, just a Vietnamese restaurant around the corner at canning bridge area near cake’s delight, next to nando’s n thai corner which I’m sure for whoever there in Perth must know!

Anyway… the food is to be frank nothing speciall… but okay, quite nice.. but to come for a second  time, errr maybe nott… We prefers other Vietnamese restaurant… The Food is not very Vietnamese, being a Vietnam restaurant, it’s lack of that vietnames tanginess, sweetness and sourness and that zinc if you know what I mean… It’s just lack of authenticity. They don’t even have broken rice, (orrrr I just wasn’t reading the menu carefully, since chow chow make somebody with walking difficulties to walk such a distance from carpark to the restaurant..=’’’(((( )

So we ordered the bird nest, not really a bird nest it’s deep fried crispy noodle shaped like a bowl, on top are prawns n veges in wat’s seems like oyster sauce..like it sounds, it is quite nice… but pretty ok, nothing wow or spectacular no fireworks at the background …

then the chilli squid… which sauce is exactly like the prawns’ ( except with many many more sprinkling cut chilli), with same vege as well, is pleasant but nothing to get overly excited about… 

then the green curry which miss Stewie most look forward too (curry fetish)not bad… nice… the gravy is just the right consistency, not to thick, not too runny… but plain looking, other member say it look quite sad, inside there’s only chicken and onion, on top 2 snowpeas, sprinkled with exactly 3 cut chilis on top, that’s it!!

Then we have the roast pork (it’s probably the best dish of the day for most of the TBS member, expect stewie who is sticking with her curry all the way!)the roast pork is GOOD.. it taste exactly like the roast pork you get in broken rice, but in plenty amount! With sauce..
one word… YUMMM

Oh, I must, on behalf of TBS member make a mark about the rice, The portion is so little!!! 3 portion is a medium bowl of rice…  If u eat lots or really starving or just plain greedy, u need 3 people portion all for yourself. But that being said we didn’t even finish ours…, we just like to make a fuss and complain about things *hahaha*

So, in a nut Shell

In Stewie’s opinion

Restaurant Rating: 7/10 – for being decent, nothing spectacular, nothing worth coming back for
Ambience: 7/10- again, not bad, nothing to get excited about
Service: 8/10 - what more can you ask for? The waiters attend to you and friendly, nuff said
Food: 7/10 – average-average, pleasant

Everything as it should be nothing less, NOTHING MORE

SO NOW Let’s Feast the eyes and let your own imaginary taste bud to judge =D

BBQ PORK

GREEN CHICKEN CURRY

3 SERVES OF STEAM RICE WHICH IS OVERLY SMALL

CHILLI SQUID

PRAWN BIRDNEST

FISH CAKE

VU'S SPECIAL SPRING ROLl