Manmaruya - HURSTVILLE

Manmaruya
20 Ormonde Parade
Hurstville NSW 2220, Australia
(02) 9586 3117

193 Beamish St 
Campsie NSW 2194, Australia
(02) 9789 5759

We enjoyed eating here, as the prices are decent and the food quality is pretty darn good.
The Gyoza is the dish to order if you decide to drop by, but i guess it'll depend on your taste buds :D

Enjoy the pics.

Gyoza with dipping sauce.

Hmm.... Gyoza

Miso soup

Salad... YUM!?

Pork Ramen.. filling

Eel Bento Box... I love eel :D YUM!

Signorelli Gastronomia - PYRMONT

Signorelli Gastronomia
Darling Island Wharf (Opposite Star City)
Ground Floor / Accenture Building
Trouton Place, Pyrmont NSW 2009

http://www.signorelli.com.au/

Went here for my mom's birthday, with one of our family friends working as a chef, made it possible to enjoy our lunch even more :D

We had the Market Menu which had a 2 course meal from a selection on the standard menu and we also shared a Nutella pizza. The Nutella they used was imported from Italy and we could taste the difference from the locally available Nutella. So tempting to purchase the whole 5kg jar!!!

The feel of the restaurant was very easygoing with the 'pizza guy' Robbie making the pizzas as you order. But in the end it was Manny, our family friend, who made the Nutella pizza for us. :D it was soooo good!! oh and all the other dishes were also awesomely gooood :D

I was lucky enough to try each of the dishes that came out, and I enjoyed them all. :D YUM!.. definitely need to come back for more :D

mushroom risotto-fontina-nettles


panko crumbed hen's egg-watercress-beetroot cured salmon


fettuccine-braised goat-jerusalem artichoke-chilli


margherita pizza


another pizza with green olives and anchovies


bass grouper-caponata-curly kale-black olives


gnocchi-quattro formaggi-sage


rangers valley scotch fillet-fondant potato-house smoked baby beets-truffle mustard


dobson potatoes cooked in duck fat


brussel sprouts-pancetta-chestnuts


here's Manny making our nutella pizza. check out the size of that nutella


nutella pizza-strawberries-banana-mascarpone.

Floriade 2010 - Canberra

Floriade 2010 in Canberra
Theme - Imagination

Although the weather forecast was cloudy and a chance of rain, well they were wrong... the sky was clear and very blue. So it turned out to be a lovely weekend :D Hooraa!!

Below are only some of hundreds of pics that was taken by K and myself.. too many to go through and post them one by one. If anyone knows how to post a lot photos really quickly, please let me know.

Well enjoy the photos.. :) oh and we hardly ate anything during the day (brunch).... all we had was a bacon and egg roll (shared) and a lemon iced tea.. so sad, it was a shame the other food stalls weren't open when we were there.

Aria Hotel - Dickson, ACT

Aria Hotel
45 Dooring St
Dickson ACT
Aria Hotel website

Aria hotel is fairly new, and the cost per night was really good at this time of the year when the floriade begins, yes we went to Aria for the floriade. More photos of the floriade will up soon :) We also dropped by Canberra Zoo and Aquarium while we were in the area.

So for now check the studio room we got, it was quite flash and details were nice with modern fixtures :)

The room was simple, a bed, table for two, desk, bathroom and wardrobe, but what made it cool was the room design, which made it very fancy :)

Cool extra pillow, doesn't it look nice..

would you call this the bed runner? hehe

The 'Do not disturb' and 'Make up room' is displayed like a switch and it will show in the front of the room. A door bell is also fitted on the same panel outside.  Oh and the doorbell doesn't ring if it has the 'Do not disturb' light is on.

Frameless shower, and raindrop shower head from the ceiling. Plenty of Chrome in the bathroom..very nice :)

Nice looking basin and mirror too.

The ceiling fixtures looked nice too, so i thought i'd take photos of them hehe

The lift was very slick too hehe.

 

And here is our little workstation in the room :D