Pappa Rich

so its the new craze, or has been the craze for quite some time but as the place is always packed we delayed the trying of it until now.
a week ago, as i was browsing facebook had a friend post that they were there having laksa, with the weather being hot and cold i was craving it too!
so as i always do, i look up the menu and started to see what i would eat if we went... i came across deep fried chicken skin! have a friend that we go dining with that whenever we go to a particular pho place she orders crispy chicken and ONLY eats the skin! so i saw it and immediately thought of her!
as quickly as i did i messaged her about having a plate of deep fried chicken skin! we tee up a time and off we went!

thinking it was tuesday night at 7:30pm didn't think we needed to book anything as it was mid week, how wrong was i! queued for about 25 min, and got seated and showed how to order.
have pads to write down the code next to each dish on the menu, quantity you want and any "requests" if any. has a bell on the table to ring when you finish writing and they take it away.
the 5 of us we ordered WAY too much food!
3 had laksa, 1 had rice with curry and chicken, last had deep fried chicken skin with rice and roti. we also got some satay sticks to share!
within... 10 min the first laksa starts to arrive.
it was weird that the mains came out and the roti to share and satay sticks took longer.

sorry no photos of this night.. was so hungry everyone dug in as soon as something arrived!
it was about $100-105 for the 5 of us. so it was a pretty good deal considering there was 1 roti dish we barely touched!

our return trip today, we enjoyed greatly!

seafood laksa with prawns, muscles, eggplants, fish cakes, fried tofu, bean sprout.
price was amazing! $14.90

overall we love it and will go back despite the lines! :p

hippo out!

Rashay's

today our adventures took us local to Rashay's at North Rocks, it is new and just opened a few months ago. the place wasn't busy i guess because of the location it was upstairs in the shopping centre where people dont really go except for dining. 

the place is very clean and the staff was great.

the kitchen was behind glass so we could see the kitchen's operation, very clean.

coconut hot chocolate $4.90

had a range of different hot chocolate and coffees flavours.

bruschetta $4.90

i really enjoyed the bruschetta, sweet tomatoes, tangy sticky sour balsamic vinegar and the basil on super crunchy bread. just the way i like my bruschetta with super fresh onion. 

veal schnitzel $10.90

very nice seasoning on the veal and very thin and crunchy. nice small bunch of rockets in a balsamic dressing, nice and tangy to balance the bitterness. very clean and fresh rockets, crunch chips with amazing buttery mushroom sauce! the sace was soo yummy. 

chicken burger $14.90

peri peri sauce was very good, the burger was made very well overflowing with sauce and all the yummy goodness. we will definitely will be returning there for another mean. 

the above items were ordered from the specials menu which is i think of a decent size and value. however they do come in bigger portion at the main prices which i would say round the $20-25 mark.

there are pizzas and pastas, the desserts look good too... i think it will be good to have a gathering there for good food and drinks. 

hippo out!

1 pan cooking

i am a 1 pan 1 plate 1 fork, super fast clean up type of person.
unlike the asian way of life where you have 3 dishes and a soup, eat with bowl, plate and chopsticks... in this day and age no ones got time for that!
my kind of fast food is steak & veg

1 pan cooking makes it fast clean up and everything is cooked pretty much at the same time. 

so east meets west and my veg are cooked but still super crunchy, steak is done medium rare (the real medium rare)

sometimes might even like it a little blue if the meat was super fresh! 

not only is my 1 pan for dinner

also for breakfast!

i think the trick is to have the timing right for whatever you are cooking. to catch the timing so everything is ready for plating. bon appetit!

hippo out!

1st baking adventure

todays baking adventure starts with a chocolate fondant with ice cream

200g dark chocolate

200g butter

100g brown sugar

4 eggs

4 egg yolks

50g flour

20g cocoa powder

hippo out!

1st food-ing adventure

the first place we decided to go is the famous Wenty leagues club.
$5 membership for 12 months to join a club that has 5 dining areas and 3 bars.
non members are welcome with members so there are prices for members and non members, not big differences.

we made track to the Wenty cafe, the menu had a big range of all day breakfast, salads, light meals, hot and cold sandwiches, from the grill sandwiches, pizza and drinks.

big breakfast m: $13.50, nm $15

meatball sub m: $12.50, nm: $13.90

chicken avocado open grill m: $11.30, nm: $12.50

gotta say portions are good for buck, however the wait is bit long if you are hungry enough to eat a hippo. with that said we were unable to completely finish the food on the plate.

all in all, we are definitely going back there to try the other dining areas.

hippo out!