Jam and Cream

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Cam-whore for the day:



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And so, as a celebration to mark the end of my honours year, I was happy to join my friends for a tea-party at Jam and Cream. Thanks to the organiser Ashley Lau.

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I was greeted by the lovely vintage girly inspired design..
& it made me really really happy!

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They even have a chicken coop where they get their eggs. Not sure if it is for all of their baked goods though.



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And omg! Their pink caravan in which I was looking forward too when I read their blog.

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I must say, it is a really really pretty place for girls' tea party. I can imagine myself holding my 21st birthday celebration there. Or holding my future daughter's birthday parties.

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Some photos with my lovely friends.

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and the organiser!



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And now, the main highlight.
FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD.

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Savoury ♥









Pretty decent savoury food. Not much of a unique wow factor tho but still decent. At least they served them piping hot!


Sweets ♥







As much as I LOVE DESSERTS, I enjoy desserts for its flavour; desserts that are too sweet = no-no for me. Probably the reason why I do not like candies and cheap chocolates.
Their sweet treats are a little too sweet for my liking. Had to even scrape off the strawberry layer on the vanilla slice. :O
The sponge cake is definitely moist (yum!) but I am definitely not in favour of their icing. Made me a little sick after everything. Sorry!
BUT BUT BUT!!
I love the scones. Better than Miss Marples!! (Never really like Miss Marples except for their yummy jam and clotted cream.)
Will definitely go back there just for the scones.

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One thing that I would like to note is that they charge for refill for hot water to their tea.. which is a little unreasonable.
But well, I will go back for their scones if I were to bring my family/friends around Melb if they are here for holidays. Very pretty place with yummy scones.
Will be interested to try the rest!
Unless I'm around that area, I would prefer baking them at home. Also because I love baking.


PS// Argh. So annoying. Blogging this is making me really HUNGRY.

Luxbite

Luxbite.

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Applause to their creativity! They have this Kaya Toast flavour. Yes, kaya (coconut pandan jam, popular in SG and some other asian countries) with a slab of butter sandwiched in between the macaron shells!

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I l♡ve l♡ve l♡ve their orea and hazelnut... will try the others next time!

One of my favourite macaron place. Sadly they do not have the dark chocolate flavour so nothing for the BF!

And yes, they made it to the Top 20.. why am I not surprised :)

PS// Another good place would be Cacao, rated Top 1 in Melbourne. YUMS!

My Lil Bday Celebration!

Been really busy the past few weeks (coming to a month). Always OUT for most of the times... exhausting but enjoyable.

Roadtrips, etcetc.

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Just a little short post on my bday celebration!

A simple one with good company.

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Oh yes, dental appointment too for my wisdom tooth extraction. There is/was/is/was inflammation on my gum.

Yup, that bad.

So, I had to get that remove.

Just when I thought that I dont have to BECAUSE IT WAS GROWING UPRIGHT! But my jawline is NOT BIG ENOUGH and therefore, my gum decided to grow over the wisdom tooth to try and conceal it (something along that line).

It will be my first tooth extraction!!!!! （ﾟдﾟlll）

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Anyway,

had a surprise bday cake at midnight, in the car, ON OUR (me, bf, sop & jerm) WAY TO DINNER.

Super late dinner because we got kicked out of the house by the boys.

6 hours! In a dead shopping mall.

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Got kicked out at 5pm after our Dandenong trip.

Andddd all shops (except for supermarket, cinemas and SOME food joints.) closes at 5pm (unless Thurs & Fri)

So, in a dead mall, we managed to do the following:

• Caught Super 8. >>>> WE DIDNT LIKE IT! Was pretty disappointed with the movie. It was like some kind of exaggerated train explosion w a mean ET)

• Hang around Kmart.
• A ball-throwing-at-rodents/ghosts arcade game.
• Watching HP fans dressed up for the premiere! Something like this:

Secretly snapped a photo.

There were others, including Voldemort!

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ANDDDD

Bday lunch w Sophieeeeee because the boys had some errands and couldnt make it back on time!

Then, HP7 Part II!!!!

As usual, the book would have been more detailed.

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Andddd dinner at Kagu Ra Zaka.

Some of the food that we gobbled:

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And our (quite horrible) dessert.

At this Monga sweet house.

Did you see the whole egg in the dessert soup!!!!

Unless it's some HK traditional stuff?

The black sesame.... ARENT GOING BACK!

Or might give them a chance by trying their other desserts.

Only BF's yam dessert was good. Tasted like "Orh-nee" though their description just doesnt match!

PS// They have got no steam milk pudding!! T___T

Tiamo II

Missed out on this night-out entry with one of my favourite girl, Sophieeee!!

Usually, we will meet to go for a mala indulgence because BF is so anti other places,

BUT

This time it's different!

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Managed to convince BF for a pasta night.

And after reading some blog reviews on where's good at Lygon,

Sadly, realised we went to Tiamo II instead of the original Tiamo.

They are just next door! & we went in to the first one that we saw.

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Nevertheless, it was the best pasta so far that I've tried at Lygon.

Just Lygon.

Apparently, Lygon is too over-rated for having good pizza and pastas just because they are known as "Little Italy".

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Previously, the other places that we've tried arent that good. Especially the last one that I went!

Sadly I forgot the name of that place. ARGH.

Atmosphere - check.

Italians - check.

Crowd - check.

BUT WHY MY PASTA STILL TASTED LIKE CHINESE CHAO-MEIN?

Yet, my order with BF was different - one was white wine vongole and the other one was cream pasta)

and ours tasted similar!

I wished I had remembered the name of the place to serve as a warning to people who happened to stumble onto my blog while searching for "Lygon good pizza or pasta restaurants"

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Papa Gino was the other one that I've tried. Apparently the pizza is good which we (or rather BF&I) tried only the garlic pizza. AWWWW.

Can't say much for the main dish though. But I guess the good garlic pizza is an indicative judgement on the quality of their other pizzas!

Regardless, Sophie had tried and said that it's good!

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OK soooooo

Tiamo II was not tooo bad!

I ordered the TORTELLINI TARTUFO (Ricotta filled tortellini with cream, mushroom & truffle)

Don't expect visible truffle for that price. But pretty not bad! The pasta arent soggy.

I wished they give fresh Parmesan instead of the dried ones.

BF's and Sophie's pizzas were pretty decent!

Harvey's RISOTTO NERO (Rice with cuttlefish ink & thinly sliced cuttlefish) had strong squidy taste which I love!

And they agreed that it was nice too.

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NOW,

Disappointment >>>> Desserts

Despite raves on how good their Tiramisu was.

Initially, my few bites was pretty okkkk and I think that was the middle

BECAUSE when I ate the other side, IT'S SO DRY!

The nutella pizza? Don't get be started.

I licked off the nutella, ate the supermarket icecream and threw away the crust. Left the badly whipped whipped-cream behind too.

'nuff said.

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Unsatisfied, we went to Koko Black! (HEHEHEHEHE)

My dessert compartment seemed to be like some kind of overblown pouch.

Forgot to take photos of the dessert but really, hot chocolate looked alike. So no point, right? I had a skinny hot chocolate (HAHAHA, TRYING TO EASE MY GUILT EVEN THO I KNOW IT DOESNT HELP MUCH) and Sophie had her Iced-Chocolate.

Girls can never have enough of sweet treats!

Oh yea, why not Ganache?

We finished our dinner damn late!!! And they closes at 10pm. SADDDDD. Ok, that's beside the point.

Koko Black is my other favourite hot choc place anyway.

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And photos taken at Kokoblack!

LOL at BF's expression.

We were trying to capture some nice shot of something like that:

Original photo is with Sophie though.

And yesssss. A photo with her!

PLUS we were wearing a somewhat similar style!

Another photo!!!

Closer take, just in case you can't see.

(HAHA, excuses to post up another photo of us.)

LOVE!

PS// Sosososososossooo excited for our June-July roadtrip! WHEEEEEE.

Love Ee Ling Day

WHY?

WHY?

WHY?

Free parking ticket by a uni schoolmate who was leaving the campus when I just parked my car.

And yup, an Ang Moh stranger. シ

My presence in school is like only once or twice a week so..

Even though I saved only like AUD5, it still brightens up my day!

So cheapskate right! HEHEHEHE.

Oh well, what can I say?

The life of a poor student. (へーべ ✿)

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Next!

What are the odds of strangers approaching you to offer you FREE 3D tv (worth 5k?).

(Boyfriend is still grumbling why I rejected them since even if they did deliver to our place, he will be around.)

It happened when I was walking towards the carpark after doing some mid-week grocery shopping and this company delivery van with two delivery men (late 20s) stopped to speak to me.

They said they had extra stock thus why.

Apparently, they find it a waste to return them back? Even opened up and show them to me. AND.

They even helped me to carry my groceries back to the car. HMMM.

Still,

I find it odd and fishy so I decided to turn them down.

Was kind of cold to them too. Oh boy.

Its not like I know they are my suitors but they are strangers!

I'm not that greedy afterall. (✿´ ψψ `)

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Finally!

My day was ended with lovely treats from Charlene at Koko Black.

(Of course, we gave her a treat the day after at Ganache!)

She was here on her company lil retreat and we met up at night after the tour to bring her to some yummilicious dessert place in Melb.

As it was late by the time we met, we could only bring her to Koko Black.

Ganache's definitely the first choice but we left it for Saturday instead.

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Nevertheless, can I officially declare 15 April 2011 to be

Love Ee Ling Day?

(Even tho I declined the free 3-D TV offer I know.)