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Loving Hut: Canley Heights – Revisit.

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Vegan Dim Sims.

I found these to be Mushy and flavourless unfortunately.

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Steamed Vegan Buns.

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In contrast to my previous visit, I did not enjoy the food quite as much as the last time. Generally I do like the food at Loving Hut. As always the staff are very friendly.

As always I intend to provide more reviews in future.

 

Chocolate Bliss

Chocolate Bliss Canley Vale.

 

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Chocolate Mousse Dome with Hazelnuts was pretty nice.

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Oreo Sundae. Nothing to Rave about. Nothing very creative. Just vanilla ice-cream with some Oreos thrown into it.

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Green Tea Smoothie. Not bad.

Overall I found the experience mediocre. The desserts are nothing to rave about. and the waitstaff don’t do anything beyond serving you.

Twelve Spices Lao & Thai

Heaps of people are flocking to Holy Basil within the South Western Sydney Region for some great Thai food. But if you want to avoid the crowds and have something just as good – I would suggest driving about 5 minutes up the road and trying out Twelve Spices Lao & Thai.

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Raw Garlic. Chilli. Garlic. Mint. Fish Sauce. Served on fresh cabbage, onions, carrot. Very intense flavours. The prawns aren’t really overpowering at all.

 

Padseeew_vegies

 

Pad See Ew Vegetarian. Must have at every Thai Restaurant I go to. Pad Thai seems to be the go to dish for most people, but i think Pad See Ew is much better.

Strawberry_Fruitshake

 

Strawberry Shake. Quite Tasty.

Part 2 review coming soon.

Address

197 St Johns Road , 2166

 

 

 

Meet Fresh: A taste of Taiwanese desert

This is the Meet Fresh in Chinatown Sydney.

The entrance.

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Hawkeye.
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Upstairs. Pretty quiet late afternoon.WP_20140101_14_57_36_ProWP_20140101_14_51_09_Pro

 

Taro Desert with red beans, sesame ice-cream and Glutinous Balls. The deserts here are pretty big so I recommend sharing – even though we didn’t.

 

 

Loving Hut: Vegan Restaurant

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Went to the Loving Hut: Vegan Restaurant for Dinner.

 

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They serve Vietnamese influenced Vegan cuisine, which is the predominant style of food around the area. The menu does contain things such as chips, and vegan burgers though.

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Duck (fake meat) wraps with pickled cucumber and carrot with coriander to start. Very delicious. Didn’t realise I wasn’t eating meat.

 

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Vegan Pho Noodles with copious amounts of bean sprouts served on the side. Normally I get the “special beef” Pho noodles, and in comparison the Vegan alternative doesn’t quite match up. They are o.k but not quite as good. I think they tried to intensify the flavour by adding heaps of cardamon which was quite off putting.

 

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Vermicelli Noodles with spring rolls and shredded pork.

Quite tasty. A little dry. Which is offset by some sauce served on the side. Maybe some extra vegies/salad to offset it would be better?

I will be conducting more reviews on this restaurant in the future. 🙂

 

 

Chicken Rice at Glutton Bay Singapore

Singapore is one of those must-do-stopover-type places when travelling overseas. I would recommend giving yourself at least a day or 2 to be able to relax and take everything in.  We had about 6 hours to get from the Airport and back, so we were a little confined to a tight schedule.

We decided to head to Glutton Bay in Marina Bay. Heaps of Hawker style fooderies in an outdoor area overlooking the water. Ridiculously cheap food too, very very friendly people, and if you are concerned about language barriers – pretty much everyone who lives there speaks clear english.

Glutton Bay- Marina Bay Singapore

 

How can you go past Chicken Rice with some iced-tea in Singapore? I eat this in Sydney all the time and just had to try it in Singapore. Very delicious.

Dezzatto

Dezzatto

 

Buying dessert in Japan is really a special experience. We found this place inside a large supermarket/ Myers type place in Hiroshima not too far from the JR station. From what I remember there is a  whole section of different vendors, dedicated to sweet stuff. It comes served in  heart shaped   crockery. Cute!

Ice cream :)

Ice-Cream!

Ice cream

Kagome: Grape Juice and Strawberry Juice

Kagome Juice

Breakfast in Kyoto

Following up from the previous post. Here is our breakfast the next day.

breakfast kyoto