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So there i was going through my picture folder to select the next batch of pictures to edit for my blog. Hoongmao hovered over to my station and saw that i was getting started on the pictures from our Krabi holiday back in February ’12 and reminded me that i’ve still yet to finish my post on Melbourne.

He was right. And i was ashamed.

I can’t believe i’ve been putting this off since forever when it’s one of the most interesting things to blog about. And soon, it’s going to be a year since i went to Melbourne. Oh how time flies!

Going to Melbourne was one of my highlights of 2011. I can’t say enough about how it was such an experience for me – from the things that we saw and did to the food that we ate. Speaking of food, we ate so much that it’s only right to make a blog post dedicated to the food we ate at Melbourne.

Here are the food highlights we had in Melbourne.

The legendary Little Mekong

They say that Little Mekong has the best pho in the city and it seems like it’s been there since forever. When we were at Melbourne, there were many things that Hoongmao speaks of with such sentimental value. This was one of them.

But honestly it’s all the same to me. It’s delicious nonetheless, but i hardly compare the tastiness of food cause my taste buds are easily satisfied. Anything that’s good is good enough for me.

That’s the way i roll cause i’m quite the piglet (ღ˘⌣˘ღ)

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When we were at Melbourne, we also had a couple of good people to take us around for some food.

Like this one night when we had an Italian dinner at La Porchetta with Brandon and his kids. Another place that Hoong speaks of that’s just around Victoria Market.

Walking through Victoria Market

Again, i ate like a happy piglet.

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Another friend took us to City Grill Room Steakhouse at Little Lonsdale Street for dinner one night. That dinner was perhaps the most expensive dinner during our entire trip. But nonetheless, that dinner was a good one.

Can’t go wrong with grilled food, especially when it’s meat!

Moscato

This is the most delicious bread i’ve ever eaten. And it’s just bread, i know!

Delicious ribs as well ლ(´ڡ`ლ)

My pick for the night – lamb loin chops

Hoongmao’s Angus Porterhouse steak

It’s huge. It’s thick. It’s ANGUS.

And it’s downright the most expensive piece of meat that he’s ever eaten. So far, that is. It costed almost RM 200.

After dinner, we adjourned to this place nearby for drinks.

I was told that they serve bacon-flavoured beer here at Biero, so i was really looking forward to try it. You know how bacon excites me, right. Ahem. Unfortunately, it was sold out on the night we were there.

Oh well. I opted for cider instead and lucky me, there was one last bottle of cider left! :)

Rekorderlig – by far the sweetest cider i’ve had

Rekorderlig is a premium Swedish cider that comes in a variety of flavours like apple, pear, wild berries and so on. It has such a pleasant taste and it’s very easy to drink. Even Charmander (who doesn’t really fancy drinking) enjoyed drinking Rekorderlig.

Oh how i’d love to have some Rekorderlig again. However i don’t think we have it here in Malaysia :(

Hoong’s drink, which literally means ‘black’

This beer was brewed in Belgium by a brewer called Mikkeller. According to its description, it’s the strongest beer in Scandinavia. Apparently, this imperial stout is the craziest, wildest and strongest beer by Mikkeller to this date.

With ingredients such as roasted barley, dark cassonade, ale yeast and champagne yeast, this little badass of a beer has an alcohol content of 17.5%.

Needless to say, it tasted NASTY!

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On another night, we went out with another group of friends from Hong Kong for dinner. They brought us to a really fancy restaurant somewhere in Chinatown.

Just how fancy was fancy?

Well let’s just say that the whole restaurant made us feel like we were at an extremely luxurious and posh restaurant in Shanghai. We even had our own room with our own seating area.

Sweet Jesus this snow crab was amazing ლ(´ڡ`ლ)

Needless to say, that too was one of our more expensive dinners.

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Then there was one night when one of our friends, Ti (who is a Vietnamese), brought us somewhere off the city for some pho. She claimed that it’s better that Little Mekong’s. The boys were skeptical but i ate with an open heart as usual (｡’▽’｡)

Charmander giving a thumbs up for three colour drink cause it’s yumyums

So is it better than Little Mekong’s?

No idea cause they’re all good. LOL! But i did notice that the noodles here were a lot more slippery. I don’t know what does that say. And i have no idea where this little restaurant is cause we were being driven.

And just earlier on this very day, i went out to meet up with Jason and Cai Jin for brunch. We decided to meet at Animal Orchestra since it was nearby everyone.

Jason being silly as always

Chicken, potato and bacon soup

Mah roast beef panini ლ(´ڡ`ლ)

And somehow i think the cold weather has something to do with making my hair look more fabulous when it’s curled

Cai Jin! (and random angmoh posing behind, haha)

Fast forward to the part where Cai Jin walks me to Max Brenner at QV to meet Hoongmao!

Ermahgerddd why isn’t this is Malaysia yet? :(

In case you were wondering why the waffle looks like it’s been ravaged, that’s cause it was. I didn’t get a “before” picture of it cause i was at the washroom when it came to the table and Hoong just couldn’t resist.

And who could have…

Giant strawberry!

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Dinner date out at Stalactites with Hoongmao.

Stalactite is a Greek restaurant and it’s one of Melbourne’s longest established and well known restaurants right off Lonsdale Street.

Stalactite is famous for their souvlaki – a type of Greek fast food consisting of small pieces of meat on a skewer. Sometimes it comes wrapped in pita breed as well.

B x P

Hoong was in the process of growing his hair out （＾ｖ＾）

Homemade fish soup; fresh fish, rice and vegetables in a zesty lemon soup

Lamb souvlaki; tender lamb from the spit, crisp lettuce, tomato, onion and homemade tzatziki all rolled in warm pita bread

Mixed giro platter; marinated spring lamb and chicken from the spit

Wonderful place for a carnivore like myself (ღ˘⌣˘ღ)

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Lunch at Kenzan @ GPO.

I think we were recommended to this place by Charmander and Ningku’s sister, Krystal. They had lunch at this place earlier and told us that Kenzan had really delicious rolls.

Kenzan @GPO is a very casual eating place that’s tucked in some where at Bourke Street. It’s a popular place for quick and quality lunches.

Rolls and rolls and rolls

Ramennn. I forgot what ramen it was but i didn’t really finish it and it was quite a big bowl of ramen

It’s cute how you have to roll your own seaweed. It’s relatively easily to do since they have explicit instructions.

And my goodness, their rolls are absolutely delicious! It’s fresh and tasty and the seaweed that’s wrapped around it is simply crispy.

I’d totally recommend this place to whoever that’s visiting Melbourne. It truly is a simple and casual place that provides quality Japanese food.

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And last but not least, Victoria Market!

This post would not be complete if it didn’t feature Victoria Market. It is the place to be for breakfast. If you ever visit Melbourne, you have to visit Victoria Market in the morning. You have to.

It’s basically a mandatory place to visit at least once if you’re a foreigner in Melbourne. Plus, there’s nothing wrong with going to a place where there’s lots to see and eat. You’ll never know what you’ll find.

Like this huge crab we saw

Of course, there’s bound to be a couple of highlights to a popular spot like Victoria Market.

One of the attractions in Victoria Market – American Doughnut Kitchen

The American Doughnut Kitchen is a hippie-like van that sells hot jam doughnuts. According to their Facebook page, they been operating at Victoria Market since 1950.

I don’t always eat doughnuts, but when i did, i’m glad it was American Doughnut Kitchen’s jizztastic hot jam doughnuts.

My god. It’s the best doughnut i’ve ever had!

The doughnut is fluffy with the right amount of sugar coating outside, and the hot jam inside just delish.

You take one bite and everything around you goes into a blur. Surrounding noises become muffled and all you can hear is yourself going, “Mmm..”.

All while nodding approvingly at this little hot jam doughnut.

Alright, so i might be over exaggerating. But i did nod approvingly (and perhaps lovingly) at the doughnut.

Another attraction at Victoria Market would be Mezza Table’s boreks.

Boreks are Turkish baked pastries that are filled with yummy goodness like cheese, minced meat and whatnots.

I had the spinach and cheese while Hoongmao had the spicy lamb. Both of them were equally delicious, but i think i like my spinach and cheese better  ( ´ ▽ ` )

We also met up with a fellow DJ friend of the boys during one of the mornings who brought us to this corner stall called Drago’s for breakfast.

They have burgers and pizzas and whatnots, but the real deal is the pork bratwurst sausage.

We asked for a hotdog with all the toppings, and we were presented with this magnificent thing:

It be huge!

There is no way you can eat this thing like a lady. Ahem. Well at least i tried.

*squish*

Just outside Drago’s

LCK & Bass Agents

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And that probably sums up all the food we ate at Melbourne! I really miss it there. Although food here in Malaysia is good, the food there is just different compared to here.

I just don’t understand how Cai Jin can live there and eat so much without turning into a walrus!