Walk to Hyde Park and Breakfast @ Mother Chus

the fountain that we search high and low for at hyde park.

went on a walk one morning to Hyde park with Mil. I love the shades the tree provide. the one thing i noticed about the park was the lack of the ramp..now that i have a stroller to push, i had to spend extra time searching for ramps ..when we couldn't find it, the two of us just carried the stroller and walked up the stairs ..

then we went to have breakfast at mother chu's in chinatown. mother chu's or chumama in mandarin is a taiwanese eatery. the above is their noodle. I forgot their name..it's a bit like kampua in soup. the other one is 'zak bing you tiaw' (it's something like the yaw cha kuay being stuck between a longish kompia). we also had hot soya milk served in bowl..

Hillsong LiIve Recording at Acer Arena

it was a coincidence for our sydney trip to clash with the Hillsong live recording.

Jake has been to their recording 2 years back so he was excited to go again this time round.

after our sydney fish market episode, we left N with grandma and we took the train to Homebush area. the staff at train station were incredibly nice to us too..giving us more direction..

The recording was due to start at 5pm. We got there at 4 15pm and it was already jammed pack with mom and dads, toddlers, teenagers, young adults, youths ....it's just so packed...We got in there at 4 30pm..we sat quite near to the stage...and by 5pm, the places all filled up!!!

The performance was great. they even had string accompaniment and wind instrument accompaniment together with the band. I really liked the drummer and a few of the electric guitar 's playing. they blew my mind away!

Check out the excerpts


This is my favourite song

more of sydney fish market

again the pic has come out single-ly instead of in the collage.. we tried the baby abalones from one of the restaurant.

N resting in his stroller while we eat. :P this is the 2nd stroller we got him ..it's so much more mobile and lighter compared to the travel system that jake got him. he's kinda watching the boats etc

another seafood platter from Doyles. The lobster mornay is quite nice although we think it could be better. thus, we learn that we shan't buy from Doyles next time.

Sydney Fish Market

on 3rd day, we took the tram to Sydney Fish Market ..it was convenient. saved us walking under the scorching sun with all those unnecessary perspiration. seafood were in abundance..

besides selling fresh seafood, each shop also operates a 'restaurant'...most of my seafood pic were taken at Peter's ..i like the layout of the shop..it's also the biggest shop at the market. pic are all self-explanatory (see the label ) :P

i also discovered that we have eaten the 'bugs' in the seafood platter the night before. Kinda wish they could have name the 'creature' better rather than "BUGS" ..i mean Bugs like insects but it's actually almost crab like ...i notice there's at least 3 types of 'BUGS" for sale..see the pic above...

i made this into collage but somehow came out without collage..oh well...
the night view i was talking about

Jordons Seafood

we stayed close to darling harbour during oursydney trip. 2nd night dinner at Jordons with pinkcocoa and shinchan. We were lucky Jordons were able to accomodate us at short notice. we sat outside to a good nite view but photo of food is not as good ..
again, we had seafood platter, and I had the seafood pasta. t

Yum Char at Zilver Restaurant

Sydney has a big Chinatown so on the saturday that i meet up with pinkcocoa& Shinchan, she brought us to Zilver . It is a new Chinese restaurant. The decor is contemporary and we ate the usuals and also a few of their signature dish. Some of them were pictured below. Eg watermelon jelly salad, waterchestnut jelly, porkfloss and egg roll with mayo wrapped and presented like sushi and black sesame roll.

I can't remember the names of the dishes but they are named appropriately.. The watermelon jelly lady with her cart and big watermelon 'cauldron'. (see 1st pic)

Sydney Part 1

just pics from trip to Sydney. Mostly foodies pics. we had dinner at i'm Angus at Darling Harbour. I liked how they name al the parts of the cow. We had mixed platter and I particularly liked the passionfruit sauce. Later, we had dessert at the Lindt chocolate shop.

N at 15 weeks

N during his tummy time ..