Saturday 26 May 2012

Yummy Yumcha!

Hi!

So we're back with our first videoblog. We decided plain blogging was just too boring! Now you're able to see our faces as well!

So last week we went to Chinatown to have Yumcha at East Ocean Restaurant. Yumcha is a Chinese cultural tradition where many families gather together in the morning at Chinese Cuisines to have a meal and drink chinese tea. The term "Yum cha" literally mean to drink tea! The food are called Dimsum and are usually steamed or fried. The steamed food are oftenly placed inside bamboo steamers.

Here are a few popular foods that we love and enjoy eating. I recommend you all to try it out!!


Thankyou!

Kitty

East Ocean Restaurant
421/429 Sussex Street  Haymarket NSW 2000
(02) 9212 4198

Friday 4 May 2012

Masuya- Fresh and Delicious Japanese restaurant

If you are looking for a place to enjoy a meal of fresh and delicious Japanese food, where you can choose from a range of varieties, then Masuya would be the best choice  for you. I have been to Masuya a few times with my family and it never fails to bring the most fresh and delicious Japanese dishes to us.


The extensive menu provides a range of different options ranging from different salads, entrees, sides, main, sushi selections, to hot pots and desserts. There will sure be something you will like.

For Entree we chose the beef tataki





Our sushi choice was the Spider roll on the left (deep-fried soft shell crab sushi) and
              the Spicy Tuna Roll on the right.






The hot pots at Masuya is a must try. They have about 5 different types of hot pots and the one I had this time was the Chanko hot pot. It had quite a lot of different ingredients including one crab, fishballs, scallops, chicken, vegetables and tofu in a konbu dashi soup base.

I would recommend you to have the hot pot last after all the cold entrees, sushi and other sides and dishes you have eaten. It would be best to finish off the meal with a warm hot pot, especially on a cold day.
Also, if you are going with 5 or more people it would be recommended that you make a booking as most of the tables are usually for 2-4 people and to make early booking if possible as there has been times when there would be a lot of people and you would have to wait for a fair bit to be seated.

Also, apart from the delicious food they make, the customer service is also quite good. All the waiters are Japanese and they are really nice and well mannered and would respond to requests and questions politely.



Price Range $90-$95 (based on an entree, two selections of sushi and a hot pot for 2-3 people for dinner)



Photos and Posts by Catherine



Address:
Basement, 12-14 O'Connell St,
Sydney, NSW, 2000

Phone(02): 9235 2717