Category: Going Places

My travelogue.

Dessert Story in Adelaide

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Dessert Story is one of the dessert chains/franchise serving various hot and cold Hong Kong and Taiwan desserts. Heard quite a fair bit about it and finally I managed to go there back in October! Yes! Another October post. So far, went there twice.


Left: Taro ball tofu pudding (AUD6.20), you can have it hot or cold.
Right: Green tea and vanilla ice cream served with strawberry slice and grass jelly in coconut milk (AUD8.50).


Left: Herbal ice + taro ball + cream (AUD6.80), I really like it. Very filling too! You can have it hot or cold. This is cold version with crushed ice. Hot one will have red bean soup base. I tried the hot version and it’s too sweet! Cold is still the best.
Right: Milk snow ice with crystal jelly and mango juice with popping pearl (AUD10.90). HUGE! Have to share this, it’s delicious.

Overall, the dessert here is quite big in portion. I could just have it as a meal! So filling! Seriously! It’s not bad, I would go back. With the portion and the price, I’m ok with it.

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Bracegirdle’s @ McLaren Vale

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Just a quick post.


After having lunch at Vesarelli, we went to Bracegirdle’s just down the road for dessert/coffee.




They specialised in coffee and chocolates.


Left: croissant with straveberries and warm liquid Belgian Chocolate.
Right: Pure Indulgence (The Waffle!) A true Belgian sugar waffle served with fresh strawberries, liquid Belgian Chocolate & ice cream.


Left: Latte.
Right: Horchata (AUD4.30), South American sweet and spicy white hot chocolate. Couldn’t really taste any spiciness LOL but it wasn’t bad.

It’s a great place to hang out with friends. The chocolate was smooth and yummy too!

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Vasarelli @ McLaren Vale

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Celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival with my friends at Vesarelli at McLaren Vale. Only post it now. So long ago! In fact I have lots of posts not release yet. Too many photos, too many things to do, too much happenings too. I’m still trying to make sense and take in all that came to me. I’m overwhelmed. In fact, I feel quite depressed. Trying to be positive but it’s not easy at all.

Anyway, back to the post about the food we had.

We were there early, the place was still empty but later it was packed to the brim!


Left: Calamari Fritti con Sale e Pepe (AUD19 – appetiser; AUD24 – main course), squid fried in local extra virgin olive oil, topped on a bed of mixed lettuce and finished with spring onions, red onions, roasted capsicum and a lemon mustard seed dressing. I like this.

Right: I some how lost this name, it’s rice based starter. Tasted just like our black rice.


Left: Carre D’Agnello (AUD29), chargrilled rack of lamb, cooked medium rare (or to your liking), served with a spring onion Skordalia, chargrilled capsicum, and finished with a warm feta, zucchini, pinenut and Local olive oil dressing.

Right: Salmone al Pinocchietto (AUD28), pan friend salmon with roasted beetroot, asparagus and fennel salad finished with an orange and caper salsa. I should have order this! This wasn’t on the menu, it’s the special of the day.


Left: Risotto con Funghi e Anatra (AUD22 – starter; AUD27 – main course), Arborio rice tossed through braised duck leg, Swiss and porcini mushrooms. Finished with baby spinach, parmesan cheese and a drizzle of truffle oil.

Right: Pappaderdelle Allo Scoglio (AUD23 – starter; AUD28 – main course), ribbon pasta tossed through black mussels, prawns, squid, cockles, scallop & bug tails, finished with a hint of garlic, ripe tomatoes, parsley and white wine and chili.


Left: Taglierini Al Granchio (AUD22 – starter; AUD27 – main course), Taglierini, fine fettuccine pasta tossed through pan seared SA crab meat and cherry tomatoes, flamed with brandy. Finished with a dash of cream, chili and served with half fresh blue swimmer crab.

Right: I regeretted ordered this. Should order the salmon, more worth it. Saltinbocca Alla Romana (AUD28), veal medallions pan fried and topped with prosciutto, sage and provolone cheese and served with cannellini-beans, wild spinach and potatoes.

Overall, the food was so-so. We had expected a lot from here but ended up with disappointment. We later found out that the original chef was on sick leave. Maybe that’s why.

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Under the Weather

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Feel so under the weather sigh…

I’m feeling very angry. Sad, yes, but more anger than sadness. Why oh why always such things happened to me?

I know I should feel relief that I’m being let go now than later so that I can start my hunt again earlier. It started fast and ended fast too. Still, I’m really pissed. Even though we are still friends, I’m still angry for the fact that I’m being given with false hopes and expectations even though I know it’s not on purpose and in fact I had expected it to happen too. Yes, see how nice and kind I still am even though people had wronged me. All my plans just went down the drain and have to start all over again. Also, because of that, I felt like I’m a football now being kicked from one place to another. Supposed to not worry about anything but now have to worry about my life for the next few months being a nomad and it had became uncertain.

I thought that I’ve finally found the right one, has everything I need, perfect! Too bad, what made it failed was the other party’s heart isn’t completely ready. I know I should move on and let go but I just can’t help it. Time will heal for sure just that it’s not now. The wound is still very raw especially after you had put in all that you have into it.

Some more, it happened when I stopped looking for love. Instantly I agreed with the saying “don’t look for love allow it to find you”. It made me believed there’s true love again but now it made me even more skeptical with such theory.

Also, it taught me that one shouldn’t believe the other person’s promises or commitments to you in the early stage, should wait at least 6 months or so to be proven. For my case, everything changed in just 2 months! How fast is that??!?! Tell me! How to trust again?

Seriously, no one had ever made me feel that I am myself, I don’t have to act, and provide me with all the securities I’ve been looking for. This is the only one who made me feel this way. So you see… It’s really not easy. We both tried hard to make it work but too bad, the other person gave up first.

On the other note, I guess it happened because two of us was way too lonely that time and it progressed just like that until one woke up from the dream realizing that it’s not it. Yet, the other one had progressed to believe that it is something certain. That’s why the latter felt so much hurt.

I’m still angry! Grrr… Angry with myself too for allowing it to happen.

It sucks big time to feel this way. 🙁

I know, in the future, I will look back and laugh about how silly I am now. Then again… Please allow me to be negative for now. It’s just part of the process to get me back on my feet.

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