Baked Ricotta Cheesecake, Haberfield

As I drove past Haberfield, I remembered the baked ricotta cheesecake which is highly recommended by my colleague. It has also recently reviewed by Sydney Morning Herald as one of the top cheesecake shop. I have to quickly find myself a car park near the shop.

Pasticceria Papa

Lucky there wasn't a queue at the shop. I browsed through the cake display and checked if I missed out some other goodies. Thinking back of my mind, I have to consider my waistline. I just placed an order for a piece of the cheesecake and a cup of green tea.

Their cheesecake is different to others. It is covered with icing sugar and cinnamon. The cheese filling is cover with baked sponge cake and the filling is soft and gooey. When I put a bite in my mouth, I cant use any word to describe it. I am sure I will come back for more. :) The green tea is organic type. It is good to wash down the cheesecake.

Baked Ricotta Cheesecake

How can I miss this opportunity to go to another Pasticceria to try their goodies? Browsing their display, it is not as nicely display as Pasticceria Papa, but still attracted me to buy their almond biscuits to try at home. Unfortunately, I didnt try a piece before my dad finishes them all for me!! :O Now I have to imagine how good each one of them taste like by looking at this photo.

Variety of Almond Biscuits

Pasticceria Papa Continental Cakes & Bread
145 Ramsay Street, Haberfield NSW
Phone (02) 9798 6894

A & P Sulfaro Pasticceria Italiana
119 Ramsay Street, Haberfield NSW
Phone (02) 9797 0001

Cupcakes Night

Today is my friend's birthday. She prefers to have cupcakes instead of the normal birthday cake. I placed an order to her favourite cupcake shop so that we will get her choice of cakes! This year her cakes are limited to chocolate, so I have ordered, Rocky Road, Strawberry & Chocolate, Cookies & Cream, Dark Chocolate, Tiramisu and Chocolate Sundae.
The cupcake is only $2 each. However, it also comes in a smaller version than the others. Basically, it is a bite size. These cupcakes are a lot nicer than the previous one that I tried which tastes like plastic and fake. These cakes are moist and full of chocolate taste. Next time I know I will only pick the chocolate range! :D


Cupcakes on Pitt
Sydney CBD: Shop 2, 323-327 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW and 61 York Street, Sydney NSW
Other stores are at Parramatta and Chatswood

Flame Grilled PERi-PERi Chicken

I walked past Nando's at World Square and I can smell their flame grilled chicken. I was thinking... Peri Peri sauce... should I get one, should I get one? While I was thinking, my legs were already walking toward the cashier and about to order!! hahaha...

While waiting for the chicken ready, the wall shows how did Peri-Peri discover. It was introduced to the Portuguese explorers by the African. The African called it Pili-Pili but the Portuguese unable to pronounce it and transform to their version, Peri-Peri. This name has been used until now.

Finally the chicken is ready. When I opened the takeaway box, I can smell the Peri-Peri and a little bit burnt chicken. :) Inside the takeaway box, it shows different part of chicken that they made. It also "free" of so many things, which I didn't know, interesting read! :O
Here is my meal, whole chicken with mild Peri-Peri sauce. It is just nice!! :)

I also made myself some garden salad to go with the chicken. Ummm... full! :D


Nando's
Shop 9.19, World Square Shopping Centre, 644 George Street, Sydney
Phone (02) 9283 6444

From Peking Duck to Seafood Feast...

Thanks to the advertisment and reading one of my favourite food blog, Eve Loves, I would love to try the peking duck at Beverley Hills one day!! In order to try a few variety of food, I must organise a large group to go. This day has finally come. I was so looking forward to the peking duck dinner! :)

When I was driving to Beverley Hills, my friend called, she forgot to change the booking time with the restaurant and the table has been cancelled!!! (Initially we were planning to go there an hour earlier) Oh no more peking duck for the night!!! Where shall we go?? Apart from the peking duck, we have also talked a lot about when is our lobster feast, so we went to our usual seafood restaurant at Beverley Hills.

I was quite lucky to find a car space located behind the restaurant... no need to walk too far to my car... yeah! Reading the menu and "Today Special", we found that the price for lobster at that night was way too expensive, comparing to previous time. After checking with the waitress the Seafood Combo, Mud Crab & Coral Trout. The price is for just under 2kg mud crab and just under 1kg coral trout which is good size to steam. We thought it is reasonable and go for this Seafood Combo, plus noodles (saang mein) with the mud crab. We can picked the way they cook the mud and we chose ginger and shallot. We have also ordered the Black Goat Hotpot (one of the favourite dish for winter).
The waiter showed us the fish and the mud crab before taking them to the kitchen. The fish was so fresh that it's almost going to jump out of the plastic bag!!! I was so looking forward to taste the mud crab and coral trout. I havent had a seafood meal for awhile.

First they served us the mud crab with noodles. We cant wait to grab hold of the claws of the mud crab but my friend reminded me to take photos! :p You can taste the freshness of the crabs and the noodle infused with all the favour of the crabs. Argh... so happy! :)

Ginger & Shallot Mud Crab

When we were almost finishing the crab, the fish arrived. It is better to eat the steam fish when it is still hot. They cooked the fish just right, it's not over or under cook! The taste of the fish is just so sweet. We have quickly killed off the fish... even the fish head, fin and tail!!!

Steam Coral Trout

By the time the Black Goat hotpot arrives, we were almost full. It also comes with a very large dish of vegies, which you can cook in the hotpot, and dipping sauce, tofu cheese (腐乳). The goat meat and tofu cheese goes well with each other (It can be very salty if uses a lot).

Black Goat in Hot Pot with Vegies

We were struggling to finish all the food. Since we dont want to waste anything, we stuffed ourselves in with more and more! As most Chinese restaurants come with complimentary dessert & fruits, can I stuff more food in?? I love this restaurant's dessert, bitter melon & sago jelly, I have to eat it!! This dessert is invented by them as I didnt have this anywhere else.

Bitter Melon & Sago Jelly

Although didnt have the peking duck as planned, but still happy with a delicious seafood meal!! Life should be full of suprises! :D

Frock it! - High Tea at Sir Stamford, Circular Quay

Today the birthday girl has organised a girl day out to high tea at Sir Stamford at Circular Quay. This part of the town is normally quiet during the weekend which is totally different during the office hours. It is more relax! :) Although it is quiet, but finding a meter parking is not as easy as I first thought. Finally, found a parking spot... but it costs $6 per hour and limited to 1 hour parking!!! Instead of finding another parking, put the money for 1 hour and change to another one later. The high tea is served at The Dining Room. We have ordered the Traditional High Tea which also comes with a glass of sparkling wine. The tea selection is limited, but then I can easily made my choice! :p Now it's almost time to go back to my car to change to another spot. :( As talked with other girls, I changed my strategy and look for a meter parking on Bridge Street instead. It is also cheaper hourly rate!!! The high tea is served on a three-tiered stand with a plate of curry puffs at the side. The top tier has the scones. The second tier has the sweet petit four and cakes. The bottom tier has the savoury finger sandwiches. I started with the scones. It is so fluffy. Then onto my curry puff. It is quite an ordinary curry puff, nothing special about it. The assorted finger sandwiches which I cant remember them all... but there is roasted vegetables. Finally the desserts, everyone gives a thumb up to the creme burlee. The food is the right balance of sweet and savory. With this ambience and a date out with the girls, make up the rest of the credit. :)

Flying Dough at Mamak

This one is on my friend's "To Eat - city" list. We were thinking, now it's around 8:30pm, the quene outside has gone already? We were at the intersection waiting to cross the road and saw the quene was there but isnt lining up to the next shop. :) Should we wait or not? When we were at the front of the shop, it's not that bad. Majority of the people that we saw earlier were standing there to watch the chef flying the dough. The shop front has a clear glass window allowing the passer-by to see the chef making the roti.

Flying Dough

After around 20-30mins of the wait, we were seated. As I have been to this place a few times, my friend has choosen the dishes for the night. We ordered the drinks first, as both of us were really thristy by that time. We ordered cham and teh 'O' ais limau.

The cham is half tea and half coffee drink. My friend said it is not as sweet as the teh tarik. The teh 'o' ais limau is ice tea with a splash of lime. This is one of my favourite drink, with a hint of lime taste. :)

Cham & Teh 'O' ais limau

The satay sauces is nutty and crunchy. It's not like the usual satay sauce that is from other places. We only ordered half a dozen which I feel it's not quite enough. But then I wanted to try more variety of the food, need to hold off my hunger for satay and its sauce! We used up the sauce at the end. ;)

Chicken Satay

The roti telur bawang is made with egg and onions. It came with 2 curry dips which one of them is a little spicier than the other. Both of the sauces match well with the roti. If you prefer more chilli, they also gave you spicy sambal sauce as well.

Roti Telur Bawang

We have choosen lamb murtabak which the roti is filled with spicy lamb, cabbage, eggs and onions. The lamb version is not as tasty as the chicken which I have tried before.

Lamb Murtabak

How can we miss out the dessert after all these? hehehehe... so we asked the waiter for the menu. Since we have already tried the roti tisu, we would like to try something different this time. After narrow down to two choices, roti kaya and roti bom. We ended up ordered the roti kaya. Kaya is a traditional spread made from pandan and coconut.

Roti Kaya

We were so full by the time we finished the last dish. We walked out of the door with a smile on our face, another tick to the "To Eat" list. :)

Mamak

15 Goulburn Street, Sydney NSW

Phone: (02) 9211 1166

Opening hours: Open 7 days, Lunch 11:30am to 2:30pm, Dinner 5:30pm to 9:30pm, Supper: Open till 2am Friday and Saturday

Claypot Rice 煲仔飯

After a 4 hours plus make up trial for my friend's wedding, so we decided not going to cook dinner and dine out somewhere.

My friend thought of the ad from the Chinese pay TV. Based on its ad, it has 3 branches in Melbourne and now expanding to Sydney, one in Campsie and the one we tried is at Hurstville. It is nice to have something warmth! As we were getting very hungry, without thinking too much we drove there straight away!

Lucky enough we were able to find a parking near the restaurant. Since we were there early around 6pm, we were seated straight away. The menu has 4 catagories, Soup, Claypot Rice, Noodles and Desserts. Bascially we have choosen one from each catagories. Each of us has ordered our own soup. This is the soup I have choosen.

Dried scallop & watercrest stewed with duck's kidney soup

We ordered the main to share amongst ourselves to sample a few different things. :) Claypot rice is rice cooks in the claypot first then added the other ingredient to cook. We have choosen three different type of claypot rice. These claypot rice arrived at our table and it's still piping hot. You can see the steam out of them! It's just so nice to have these in a cold winter night.

Chinese sausage with rice

Salty fish and pork patty with rice

Preserved chinese raddish and fish fillet with rice

We have also ordered a seaweed & prawn ball with vermicelli noodle soup. The prawn balls are handmade and it has the prawn taste. I cant put any word to describe them!

Seaweed & prawn ball with vermicelli noodle soup

We then finished off with 2 desserts, durian dessert and black seasame dessert. What a way to finish a day!

By the time we finished, the restaurant was very packed and some tables have already turned over for another group of diners. Not a bad choice afterall! :D


First Taste
316 Forset Road, Hurstville NSW
Phone (02) 8065 2178