How do we celebrate Anzac Day?

How do you celebrate / fully utilized last week's ANZAC DAY holiday?

I don't know you but I believe you can guess mine!!

BINGO!!! We had SALMON hotpot at home. 

Since my parents had bought this electrical stove to Adelaide, 

me and my family always have hotpot. 

You know it ~ Self-served, put everything in the pot and just wait, 

it is much easier than thinking what should we cook tonight. 

Therefore, we decided to have hotpot while inviting our friends to come over ALWAYS. 

First of all, I have to declare that I have no idea and never tried to have salmon in hotpot ever. 

While I heard about the idea that we were going to have SALMON hotpot, 

I was totally like "Are you kidding me?? That's SALMON, man!! Should have sashimi instead!!"

However, it turned out we had the SUPER-EVER DELICIOUS soup base.

{ We were told to put the food on the skewers }

And our chef kept saying we were having BBQ pot instead of hotpot 

{ Skillful helper helped putting the prawn on the skewers }

Did you see our main character of today? SALMON!!

We are trying to put pieces on the skewers so that we can have the BBQ pot. 

{ Everyone was helping with the preparation}

I tried to relax and do nothing but it failed.

{Started by having some Shiraz champagne } 

Luckily not all the salmon was being thrown into the hotpot, 

our chef gave us a luxury entree - Salmon Sashimi !!

They were fat enough and tasted fresh. 

Although the flavour of salmon is not as strong as those we ate from sushi shop, 

they were fine for us with this reasonable price. 

Everyone couldn't wait to have that, 

and honestly I was hungry as well. 

Totally forgot to take pictures during the process, 

plus forgot to take photos of the they-said-it's-sweet-but-I-did-not-try apple crumble. 

How did you enjoy your long weekend last week? 

Hope you have had some good moments like us:)

With Love, 

Vagrantgirl

Wow.. I think I can cook too!!

I was reading my Maria Claire this afternoon, and personally, I don't know the reason as well, love to read from the back to the front. While I flipped through the lifestyle section, the little title "WEB WATCH" caught my attention. It was introducing the food blog which developed by Melbourne foodie Pat Breen and Sean Fennessy. I was dragged into the whirl by the cherry pie picture, therefore I did pay a little visit to

Eat This Food.

Wow!! The site looks extremely attractive.

First thing: attracted by the creative font

I fond of getting perfect font for my designs, always spend most of my time finding the suitable font for each design. Once I saw their font(design), oh I can tell you I totally fall in love with this website. I believe font is always the first thing to keep your audience, as it gives the first impression for the viewers. I told myself, "it must be in my bookmark!" (Just because they have creative font)

Second: attractive pictures and creative design

Look at those pictures!! I really want to jump into the screen and taste those delicious yummy food. There is no complicated, grand setting, but family-like warm frame. It seriously makes me feel like I can make those dishes too!! Great job!!

Lastly(the main point): the variety of dishes

I believe they had just developed the blog for a short time. They do not have hundreds of recipes, but quite a number of them. MAIN POINT: they all sound good and EASY !! I think we can make every of them!!

In all means, I LOVE THIS BLOG !! Its simple but creative design attracts the attention. I believe, it will have lots of fans in no time. Good job:)

With Love, 

Vagrantgirl

Should love "yum cha" as a hongkie

Home safely, and of course, back to the city which known as shopping paradise, I would not only stay at home. However, overwhelmed by the hustle bustle, I walked around for 2.5 hours after church yesterday, I officially gave up. Better took a good rest at home.

As a 'tradition', every time I came back from Australia, once the flight landed, I would meet my parents in the 'cha lau' ( place especially for yum cha). But since I promised my friend meeting her in the airport and having lunch with her, I did break my routine. And finally, I had a chance to yum cha today. I miss this so much. The varieties of food in cha lau in Adelaide is not as many as in Hong Kong, so as the taste.

We didn't go to the cha lau that we usually go today, although the food is not as wonderful as the one I like, it still delicious. Just me and my mum, so we could not order lots of food. As I remember, once me and my classmates went yum cha during lunch time while I was still in secondary school. We ordered lots of food, I think more than 30 dishes!! I miss those days honestly.

"Cha Lau" usually looks like this. With lots of tables and elderly.

Ordering Sheets, fully of all varieties of food

Below: Some of the dishes that I had and like :)

With Love, 

Vagrantgirl

Stay tuned, I will bring you more interesting things I had in Hong Kong. 

Making a cake !

I just got inspired to bake cake from my workmate.....I decided to go to the Asian grocery to buy the ingredients to do it. The hard part of making this cake is kneading the rice flour for 20 minute, this is very good exercise for those who want to lose weight like me hehe,. the rice flour supposed to be very firm after you knead it for a certain time but I do not know why my rice flour is still very watery. I cant do anything with it. My hubby said "you'd better throw the whole things away" cause if i keep doing it i will waste the coconut milk and sugar.....haha.....so bad my dear. .....do not give me a chance to try but I still give it ago....I mixed the rest of the ingredient: the mixture of sugar and milk into the knead dough. Then I put that mixture into the big bowl and steam it like 30 mins...........There you go, my cake turn out perfectly.....

Lesson learnt: never give up....Nothing is impossible......Yummy cake

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