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Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Also a must check-out: They Draw and Travel
Yes, I'm one of those people.
This was brunch a while back at the Hardware Societe. I had baked eggs and they were delicious.
Camera: Praktica Super TL2, film: lomography 100
I had some leftover spaghetti from the previous night, so I made some spaghetti muffins. It's super easy and yum! There's a recipe here.
What would your morning routine look like?
Camera: Praktica Super TL2, film: lomography 400
Melbourne has been insanely turning up the heat for the past 9 days. Apparently this is the hottest March on record! Summer sure isn't leaving quietly. We tried to cool down with big servings ice cream on the weekend. Can you tell that's what the photo is? Yeah, my camera messed up a bit there. No idea what happened, I don't think the day's heat had anything to do with it, but it sure seems to fit the mood right now.
Can't wait for the cool change tomorrow!
camera: LC-A+, film: kodak portra 400
I bet any meal would be extra nice when served in a bento box. Seriously. Need to get one for myself.
Camera:LC-A+, film: Fujifilm 400 (I think)
Camera: LC-A+, film: Kodak Portra 400 VC
Cupcakes shall never go out of trend.
camera: LC-A+, film: can't remember, but it was cross-processed
One of the places I had to go to when I was in Japan (*sigh* how I miss it) was the charming little Hattifnatt cafe. I had it written in my must-go-to list ever since seeing it in Spaces magazine and Hello Sandwich. The entrance door is only 150cm high, the wooden staircase are tiny, the ceilings are pretty low, so there'a bit of ducking in to do (but not to the point of it being claustrophobically tight), and the decor uses a lot of timber and colourful murals. It felt like entering a child's playhouse, or better yet - the house of the 7 dwarves or the 3 bears (if they ever decide to open a cafe in a Japanese suburb)! Unfortunately this was one of those awkward times when not knowing a word of Japanese was very challenging. Yet somehow I managed to order a piece of cake and iced tea from their fabric-covered book menu, and learnt from observation that to get the staff's attention, we had to tug on a wooden handle in the middle of the room that didn't make a sound (the kitchen was downstairs), and when we were done, we had to bring the wooden spoon with the painted number on it that was on our table (obviously our table number) down to the cashier downstairs. Quaint and foreign - it was quite the experience!
These photos were my first experiment with cross-processing (which kind of fit the theme of trying something different!). If you'd like to see better photos and descriptions of the cafe, hop over to Hello Sandwich!
Camera: LC-A+, film: Fujifilm 200 push processed to 800
On the weekend, we made a batch of red velvet cupcakes. It was a wee bit burnt on some, but the sweet icing made up for it. Yum! This is the recipe we used, if you'd like to try for yourself.
Camera: LC-A+, film: Kodak 400TX Black and White
One of the best meals I had in Japan was at Burger Mania. The burger was mouth watering, the onion rings were the best I've had in my life, and it may have been the first time I've had burgers served with a pot of tea!
love: making pizza with a pal on the weekend. Of course I had to make mine in a shape of heart! Then I can say "You can have a pizza my heart!" *giggles* I am lame :)
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One of the highlights from my trip home last week was catching up with my best friends from childhood (we've known each other since Primary school and junior high, so it's been a good 10+ years now!), and we made a trip to a local chocolate shop/factory in Jogja. It's called Monggo, and they make the finest chocolate from Indonesian cocoa beans. They taste SO good, and I ended up buying so many! The dark chocolate are to die for, I tell you.
The place was really nice, and hardly looked like a chocolate factory at all. It was more like a cozy little house, and it was decorated with bits of our Javanese culture - and nothing's more Javanese than our Batik and Wayang puppets. The word for chocolate in Indonesian, "cokelat", also means the colour brown, which I also notice is the dominant colour tone of the place. Nice and earthy. There's something nice about getting in touch with my own culture, and seeing familiar sights that I hardly see when I'm living abroad... and to appreciate that with the friends I grew up with years ago, was just lovely.
You will notice that this is one of the very rare posts where I am actually showing my face. I'm the one in the brown polka dot skirt, by the way.
camera: Olympus OM-10, Film: (don't remember)
It's the end of the week! Did you have a good one? Looking forward to the weekend? Yep. Me too. Go and treat yourself to something nice. Like a macaron. Or two.
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