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

Chow Chow's 1st 21st-Bday-Anniversary

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*standing ovation*
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Ladies and gentlemen, let's give a round of applause to Miss Chow Chow!!! *clap clap clap*
*imagine CC doing a queen wave*

Okiee, enough of crap from me *snap finger* Chow chow celebrated her 1st Anni of 21st Bday (a.k.a. 22nd Bday) on the 05.11.2010. Yes, peoples..she's 22 now, no longer a baby *wipes tears* The TBS came up with this BRILLIANT IDEA of giving her a surprise as the clock strikes 12. Before that, FDQ ordered a green tea mousse cake from Delectables (for more information, please "fb" Delectables Couture Cakes and Gifts).

04.11 night, we (Miss Von, Stewie and FDQ) headed over to CC's place. Before that, we gathered at Stewie's place to prepare water bombs. Goodness gracious, it was HAVOC. Imagine Von trying to shove water bomb balloons as small as ur fingers under the tap which is triple the size of the opening of the balloons, juggling between filling the balloons up and tying a knot all by herself. U must be thinking the maths doesn't really match up as 3 person standing in the bathroom but only ONE person working on it? Yeah, u are absolutely correct. I, FDQ have a confession to make. I'm phobic towards balloons (except cute ones where you get from fun fairs). Stewie was rolling around her house in her wheels. Her current fav activity and maybe for the coming two months as well. Haha.

*fastforward* *fastforward* *fastforward*
So, after all the havoc, BBMs and water bombs, we arrived CC's and Miss P's apartment (yes they're sharing a place together with Mr. I-Love-Magnum-Minis). Managed to sneak into the house, lit the candles and barged into CC's room to find her sleeping in the most GLAMOROUS way.



Om nom nommmm
So, yeaa... The cake is delicious! It's green tea-ish, soft and moisture. Probably it wasn't chilled enough due to the fact that it has been in and out of the fridge for the past hour. The healthiest dessert to consume in the middle of the night. (Read: anyth with green tea = healthy).

CC was all drenched from the waterbombs by the end of the _______ (fill in the blank) It was 1am when we did a water-bomb-attack on CC. Considered day or night? Anyhoo, u get what I mean, dont u? =P

Later that night, CC treated us to a scrumptious dinner at Billy Lee (northbridge) together with her parents who flew all the way in from Indo to celebrate her Bday. Review on that later.

Sayers - Leederville

The TBS members had breakfast at Sayers today, which is located on 224 Carr Pl, Leederville. I'm not sure if one is called an early riser for waking up so early on a Saturday morning and drove all the way to Leederville for breakfast. But I'm glad we did, cos by the time we finished our meals, the place was packed and there was a queue outside. The place itself is small, but they sort of turned the alley next to the building into a dining area as well, which was where our table was. I actually liked our table, and there was a family sitting next to ours: husband and wife with their ohhhh soooo adorable son, James. Not that we talked to them, we just spied on them, we are busy body, enough said. Chow-Chow particularly likes this kind of spying and eavesdropping thing, probably to satisfy her curiosity.

For drinks, both Chow-Chow and Miss FDQ ordered mocha, the difference being Miss FDQ had her mocha skinny while Chow-Chow had hers "fat" (if there is such a thing). But hmmm...that doesnt actually explain their physique, if you're wondering..errr...kinda..

Stewie & I ordered french hot chocolate, which I forgot to add "soy" on Stewie's when I was ordering..I should have known better, considering she's a soy freak.

For the meals, each of us ordered a different dish. Stewie wanted the same thing as Chow-Chow, but we managed to convince her to try something else so we can have more photos on our blog.

Miss FDQ had the wagyu beef sausage with baked egg, oven roasted tomato, spring onion & cheddar open omellete, and lemon scented rocket

Chow-Chow ordered the Bubble and squeek cake with fried eggs, bacon, rosemary scented tomato, and sourdough toast

Stewie had the Cumin cod cake with poached egg, rosemary scented tomato, toasted ciabatta, wilted spinach, and hollandaise

I had the potato rosti with poached eggs, bacon, onion jam, and lemon scented wilted spinach.

Overall, we all loved our food, portion was of the right size, presentation was fancy, taste even fancier, not a single flaw in our opinion. Wouldnt mind coming back again :)

I always forget the name and the price of each food that we order, so I took the photo of the menu :)



Ambience was nice and rather comfy, tho it was quite windy today :)




French hot chocolate. It was really cute because you were supposed to pour the chocolate chips into the milk. I wonder if that's how they do it in France??




Miss FDG's Wagyu beef sausage. According to Miss FDQ, the baked egg was very filling, but lovely nonetheless.



The potato rosti was awesome, although I reckoned the bottom was a bit burnt.



Stewie's cumin cod cake, which she thought was a bit fishy, but the crumb was superb and Stewie eats anything, so she can't really complain.

Chow-Chow's bubble and squeek cake.

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

Afternoon tea @ Cafe Hyatt

After having tried their lunch and dinner buffet, the TBS members decided to give their afternoon tea buffet a try. It's more of a semi-buffet style with free-flow sparkling wine, tea and coffee. Finger sandwiches were ala table-serving and sweet varieties were buffet style. Didnt get to try all of them though as we were all stuffed to the brim by the end of the session. To cut things short before I go on and on and on about the food, let's cleanse our eyes with photos!!! XD

Array of finger sandwiches

sparkling wine

Left to right: lemon meringue, some-berries cheesecake; strawberry start; profiteroles; mango cheesecake; pavlova; fruits

From top: Peach cake, chooc layered cake with choc ganache, almond choc cake (if im not mistaken)

Some jelly-shots; choc mousse; tiramisu and some other forgot-their-name-cuz-i-didnt-try =P

TBS fav station! Scones, waffles, ice creams, sticky date pudding, vol au vents with mushroom & cream, puffs, filo sheets with savoury fillings, mini savoury muffins

Introducing the TBS members (clockwise): Miss S, Miss P, FDQ, Chow chow

cute lil preserves served on each tables.

Overall, foods were impressive. Few hits and misses (oh....i LURVEEEE this phrase). Carrot & cucumber sandwich needs more butter as it was a tad dry to my liking. Did i mention beforehand i love my butter? *hug butter possesively* Oh and the scones, goooooooooooood although will be better if it was warmer. Avo & prawn and egg & julienne carrot sandwiches were top notch. The TBS likey!!

And before i forget, there's stg worth mentioning about vol au vents. Although FDQ finds their VAV brilliant, she was told Chow Chow makes wayyyy better VAV. CC, now u owe me a tray of VAV, i dont care!!! The cute lil' filo pastries were delicious as well. CC helped herself with 53860385 helpings (well, i lost count.. =P ).

Cakes....well well, where should I start with? Let's just say their cakes were norm. Nothing to shout about. In fact I find most (99%) of the cakes were from their lunch buffet session. Okay, did i miss out anything here? Ahh, the ice creams...they go best with the hot waffles. Speaking of waffles, Miss P reckons the waffle we had was a bit gosong(?) a.k.a. burnt but no complaints from me tho cuz' I like it that way. Haha.

Forgot to ask the rest of the TBS members for their ratings but I personally would give:

Food - 7/10 (butter please!)

Ambience - 8/10

Service - 9/10 (way better than their lunch and dinner sessions)

Let's end this post with a photo of Miss S's poor leg. She gets to be served like a princess throughout the whole session due to her...hmm..walking difficulty.

Signing off with much love,

FDQ *runs to hug her butter*

Miss Stewie, the member with *cough* walking *cough* difficulties *cough*