Food Fantasy - Gold Coast

In order to celebrate our graduation, my friends and I drove to gold coast to eat their  famous buffet : Food Fantasy!

Food Fantasy is one of the famous buffet restauran in Queensland that provide infinity seafood meal and desserts. . The location is inside of Conrad Jupiter Hotel in Gold Coast.

Long drive from brisbane and queue in the restaurants is pay off when we see the menu

They provide sand crab, prawn, salmon, scallops and others!

The taste is also good! the best buffet that I ever visit :D

Koh Grill and Sushi Bar (Japanese Cuisine)

My friend who is living in Singapore recommend me a good Japanese Restaurant : Koh Grill & Sushi Bar.

Most of their menu is pretty similar with other japanese restaurants, so I order what I think is unique.

First, I ordered Asparagus Buta! The portion is quiet small and  the asparagus is to oily . . but, who can resist the delicious of pork belly? :D

Then I move on the their famous dish:  Shiok Maki. it consist of charcoal grilled eel wrapped with lightly roasted salmon and melted cheese. . After take a first bite, I can say that this can be one of my favourite dish! You can feel the crispy of salmon that melt perfectly with cheese and smell the eel that grilled with charcoal!

Name     : Koh Grill & Sushi Bar
Location: Wisma Atria, Singapore 238877

Peach and Strawberry Verrines

This recipe originally from Irene Sangadi
I made some changes according to ingredients that easy to find in Indonesia :D

Ingredients

• 200g of Strawberry 
• 480g of peach (I use can fruit)
• 1 Sachet of Agar - agar
• Juice from 2pc of lime
• 200g of Plain Yogurt 
• Sugar

Method

• Bottom Layer (Peach Puree)
• Put all of peach into the food processor until smooth
• Heat the pan in medium, then pour 3/4 of peach puree, 1/2 of lime juice, 1tsp of agar -agar and 2tbsp of water.
• After the bubble apear in the pan, turn of the heat and let cool it in room temperature
• Divide into the cup equally and put it into the fridge until set.
• Middle Layer (Peach Mouse)
• Heat the pan in medium, then pour another 1/4 of peach puree into the pan, 1/2tbsp of agar -agar and 1tbsp of water.
• After the bubble apear in the pan, turn of the heat and let it cool in room temperature.
• Pour the puree slowly into the yogurt and stop it after you get the right consistency.
• Top Layer (Strawberry Puree)
• The method to make strawberry puree is same with peach pure :D

Ribbetts (Fine Foods)

There is a day when I want to eat something delicious, traditional and wild. After asking friends and searching from Internet, I found this restaurants in Brisbane that near with where I live Ribbetts

Well, let the picture shows how delicious this food!!

You can see, 2 pieces of big ribs serve with homemade special sauce!! If you love to eat ribs, you will absolutely go insane with this food!!

Moreover, if you can eat a looooot of foods like this, you can choose all you eat menu with $35 AUD!
or try their famous 1 meter pizza (110slices) !

Red Velvet Cakes

I've always wanted to make a Red Velvet Cakes and I know the real Red Velvet Cakes is hard and consume a lot of time to make it, so I just simplify by substitute one of the main ingredients which is Bit Root with Food Colouring >.<"

Ingredients

Cakes

• 1 1/2 Elle & Vire Plain Sweet Yogurt (+-125ml)
• Egg
• 1tbsp White wine Vinegar
• 2tbsp Red food colouring
• 180ml of Sunflower oil
• 200g Self raising flour
• 225g Caster sugar
• 2tbsp Dark choco powder

Frosting

• 100g Cream Cheese
• 50g Butter
• 200g Icing Sugar
• 1tsp vanilla essence

Method

1. Whisk egg in a bowl

2. Add yogurt, vinegar, vanilla and sunflower oil

3. Add flour, sugar, cocoa, salt and food colouring and mix together until smooth

4. putt it in cupcake or muffin cases in about 3/4 full.

5. Bake for 25minutes in 180C or until cooked.
6. Icing: Beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla in bowl. Add icing sugar and mix well together. .

Zam Zam (Indian Cuisine)

Hello again to everyone whom read my blog! This time I will make a short review about one of Indian Restaurant that I try when I was in Melbourne : Zam Zam

I ordered Dhal, Chicken Butter, Tandori Chicken and Brivani Rice with yogurt for my lunch. .

Dhal is a soup that has made from several kinds of seeds, I'm not sure what it is but the taste is unique. A little bit spicy and sour!

Chicken butter and Tandoori is my favourite combination for Indian Meal! Never had enough with butter  >.<"

And also, this is my first time eating rice with yogurt . .  usually eat yogurt with fresh fruits :D
 Just be honest, I feel really weird eating rice with yogurt  hahaha

Egg Benedict with smoked turkey slice

In this post, I would like to share my favourite dish for breakfast : Egg Benedict :D

This recipes was inspired by one of the judges from Masterchef Australia : Gary Mehigan

Ingredients:

• French Stick - Diagonally sliced
• Eggs
• Smoked turkey slice / pork etc (from market)
• Sorted Vegetable - Baby spinach, bay leaves, fresh thyme
• Butter
• Rice Vinegar

Hollandaise Sauce:

• About 150Gr butter
• 3 egg yolks
• Salt & Pepper
• 1tbs Lemon juice

Method:

1. heat the frying pan with butter and put the french stick for about 15seconds, to make it more tasty. you can add salt if you like.
2. Poached egg*
3. Make hollandaise sauce: Melt butter in saucepan, pout the butter in to the jug. Place egg yolks and others hollandaise sauce ingredients. . Whisking all of it into jug together and add a hot water in bottom of jug to make it perfect while whisking. Don't make the yolks become cooked!
4. Cooked the smoked turkey slices in a pan for awhile.

5. Places the vegetable, turkey slice and poach egg in top of french stick slice and pour the hollandaise sauce.


For you who ask how to make a good poached egg:

Sam & Jolly - Jakarta

Sour Sally is a well known cafe with their yogurt, especially in Indonesia and Singapore. Now, they open a new restaurant that called "Sam & Jolly"

Sam & Jolly is a unique restaurant that use yogurt as their trademark in foods. .

This time, I have a chance to taste from their branch in Central Park Mall - Jakarta

I order main course platter to taste most of their dishes in a small portions



Unfortunately ,  I don't think that their food platter is really that good. All of the dishes in the plate has a similar taste. It is because , they pour the sauce all over the plate !!! (see pict above). More over, I personally think that their tofu that mixed with shred chicken and wrapped in noodle is bland @_@
Their presentation also not as good as their picture in menu list.



After that, I moved to the desserts that they recommended which is Lava Mountain with adFUNture.
The ice cream suppose to be a vanilla, however they said the vanilla already sold out (as I know, the store itself is open from 11AM and I arrived at 12PM. How come the Vanilla sold out while no customer in this restaurants?).
Ok, back to the desserts! They replace Vanilla with Raspberry ice cream yogurts (See pict below).  Shortly I like the ice cream, garnish and of course their choco lava melt perfectly while I cut it off :D




Next dessert that I personally choose because their looks in menu : Green Tea Lova!



I love everything that made from or has a green tea scenes! This dessert use Green Tea Yogurt Ice Cream and tiramisu with butter cookies on top. They also use passion fruit sauce, strawberry and nuts to make presentation looks really good. .

Overall, I recommended most of their desserts! Not only looks good but also taste really good!
However since the portion is big enough, I'm full only eating their desserts hahaha

Name: Sam & Jolly
Location : Central Park Mall - UG outdoor terrace #216

Stalacities (Greek Cuisine)

When I was in Melbourne, I found Stalacities in CBD with their long queque.
I'm wondering what makes this restaurants has a long queque, so I decide to join and wait for the table :D

After waiting for about 15minutes in queque and chat with some customers, they said it is one of the famous restaurants in Melbourne CBD! Well, I consider my self as a lucky person because I found this restaurants accidentaly haha

Shortly, I get hint from several people in there about what should I order!

Firstly,

I choose Mixed Girro Platter which consists of marinated spring lamb and chicken from the spit.

Finished the main course in no time and I move to my favourite parts in eating = desserts!!! I always choose platter desserts if the restaurants provide it because I can taste several desserts at once with small portion.

The desserts that I ordered are baklava, galaktoboureko and creme caramel. served with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream! Yum . . .



Galaktoboureko is really tasty and smooth. . I like the custard texture in this dessert !
Baklava is also really good with layers full of walnut and honey. . The only problem that all of this desserts suppose to eat by 3-4 people and I eat by myself! So, I had more than enough sweet taste at that day >.<

Macaroni Cheese (Quick and Easy)

There are many variations to cook Macaroni Cheese. In this case, I use what is available in my kitchen. . .

Ingredients

• 350g of Macaroni
• 1tbsp Margarine / butter
• Oregano
• Cheese (I use cheddar kraft quick melt)
• Slices of Chili
• Onion & Garlic
• Salt & Papper

Method:

1. Heat Margarine in the pan, add onion and garlic. Cook until almost brown, pour slices of chili and oregano.

2. Add Cooked Macaroni and Cheese. Stir until the cheese melt and combine perfectly with macaroni.

3. Places the Macaroni in bowl and add another cheese and oregano to make it perfect!
4. Put it in oven for about 10minutes at 180C (I use heat from top in my oven, so it will crispy on the surfaces).

Tips: You can put some cheddar kraft (normal) to make cheese on the surfaces become more crispy or slices of ham if you like it.