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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G.K. Chesterton

Tuesday 30 August 2011

7 years - the seasons and reasons, and Zaia

Hubby and I celebrated our 7th year of being married on the weekend. It is slightly unbelievable to note that this blog has seen us journey from our first anniversary, and oh, how much we have experience since then. It hasn't been smooth sailing, but one thing's for sure: we haven't had a dull anniversary yet. Allow me to indulge in a trip down memory lane, as the journey will serve to give readers a fair idea of the seasons and reasons of this blog and the name she bears.

* On our 1st anniversary, we were still living in Perth, and had gone on a trip to Kalbarri where we went horseriding, abseiled, 4WD-ing through the sand dunes and sandboarding! Wow, I had so much energy back then!
* During our 2nd year of marriage, we'd moved to Japan and were living in the rural countryside where I did my 1-year tenure on the JET program. That year was one of our most memorable time, accompanied with amazing scenery, fantastic food and awesome rural Japanese festivals. I most probably wouldn't have gone to live in a rural area if Rob hadn't agreed to accompany me.
* We spent our 3rd anniversary in New York City, a place I hadn't expected to love so much! We spent two months living in the heart of NYC while hubby completed his orientation training for his then-new job.
* By the 4th year, we were expecting our first child and living in Tokyo.
* We celebrated our 5th anniversary as a family with our 10-month-old boy, who'd put on his best behaviour at the restaurant (we were both pleasantly surprised by that too).
* Our 6th anniversary was within weeks of our move from Tokyo to Hong Kong, and we asked my younger sister (who'd lived with us in Tokyo for a year) to babysit our boy one last time so that we could go on a date.

And here we are, 7 years on. We celebrated this year's anniversary by heading into Macau for an overnight trip together with our boy as a family, and we took the opportunity to watch Zaia. This was my first time watching a live Cirque du Soleil show, and I thoroughly enjoyed it (and so did the boy - our seats on the fifth row from the stage helped the experience). I took several videos of the performance, and I had so much trouble choosing only one to feature on my blog. This is a 52-sec clip of the end of the lion dance act, where three "lions" (i.e. six performers total) balance on one ball and 'walks' a see-saw plank from end-to-end - a pretty amazing feat!


I am sorting through and working on the photos I took during our trip, and soon I will have up on the blog the photos of the yummy Portugese food we got to eat on the weekend in Macau. Stay tuned!

Friday 26 August 2011

Cheesy Bacon & Spinach Muffins

Today, my almost-3-year-old boy made lunch, and a big mess as well. He's no stranger to making muffins or helping out in the kitchen, but it is my first time asking the toddler to help cook without hubby to give me a hand. We used my Cheesy Muffin recipe, and added chopped red onion, bacon, ham and spinach to make the muffin more substantial for a lunch meal. We put the muffin mixture together in the living room on the coffee table, which is just the right height for Zak. He was keen to put all the ingredients together, and especially enthusiastic when it came to mixing the wet and dry ingredients together, as evident by the splotches of batter scattered across the coffee table and the living room floor. We both had fun, and quite enjoyed the delicious finished product fresh and hot out of the oven.

(My kid also made some amusing expressions.)


Cheesy Bacon & Spinach Muffins

(This recipe makes more than the usual 12 due to the additional ingredients - we made 16 muffins in all (it does help to have extra muffin cups in addition to the 12-muffin tray), but I think the remainder batter would have made a tasty free-form scone/bun on a small oven tray or loaf tin.)


Ingredients

1 tablespoon oil (I used grapeseed)
3 bacon rashers (~50g), finely chopped
1/2 red onion (~75g), chopped
4 thin slices of ham (~50g), chopped
150g frozen chopped spinach, prepped according to packet instructions
2 cups (250g) plain flour
2.5 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup (~75g) coarsely grated cheese
1 1/3 cups (275mL) milk
1/4 cup (50mL) grapeseed oil
2 eggs

Before cooking, we had to get the ingredients first from the supermarket:

Method

1. Heat oil in a pan over medium heat, and cook the onion, bacon and ham for a few minutes, stirring often, until the bacon is lightly crisp and the onion is slightly caramelised. Add the chopped spinach to the pan and cook briefly (less than a minute). Remove from heat and allow to cool while you assemble the rest of the ingredients.

2. Preheat oven to 180°C (for fan-forced ovens. Use 200°C for conventional ovens).
2. Sift flour and baking powder into a bowl, then stir in cheese.

Checking out what mummy had previously prepared and pre-measured:

4. Combine the wet ingredients (milk, oil and eggs) in a bowl and whisk lightly.

A look of concentration as he makes sure the oil lands inside the bowl:

5. Add the wet mixture and the bacon mixture to the bowl of dry ingredients and combine well.

Shortly after this shot, the boy started mixing a little too enthusiastically, and that was where the photo-taking stopped, at least until the muffins were ready:

6. Spoon mixture into a 12-muffin tray (and additional muffin cups, if needed) to only 2/3 full.
7. Bake for 15 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre of a muffin comes out clean. Stand for 5 minutes in pan before turning onto a wire rack to cool.
8. Best enjoyed fresh and warm out of the oven, and freezes well.

Chomp:

Wednesday 24 August 2011

Lunch @ Gold by Harlan Goldstein, Hong Kong

Gold prices may be the talk of the town these days, but I'm writing about an entirely different Gold, by Harlan Goldstein. From a quick search on the internet about the (former) New York chef, I get the impression that he's a fairly big personality in the Hong Kong dining scene as well as 'chef to the rich and famous'. I believe that it's his name that brings majority of the people to his latest restaurant, but we were not among that group of people. We were just hungry for lunch but the place we'd originally intended to lunch at was not open for lunch, and Gold was just upstairs from it. It's a fairly swanky space, as it needs to be if Goldstein is to continue wowing his clientele of tycoons and prominent entrepreneurs. The service was also suited for fine dining, and we couldn't help but feel a little under-dressed in our casual attire and sneakers.


During the lunch period, Gold has the Executive Set Lunch (HK$258) which includes an appetiser buffet, a choice of main course from six selections, and a dessert from a list of four, as well as "Graffeo's Famous Coffee or Tea" (no, I have no idea who or what Graffeo is). There is a nice variety of salad, seafood and other dishes in the appetiser buffet, although I did find the arrangement of the dishes a little awkward (most of the dishes were placed on the central bar, but the seafood sat quite lonely on a separate counter - which meant that Rob totally missed the seafood on his first round). The quality was good enough, but nothing outstanding.

Some of the salads and appetisers:

The seafood (the cold cuts and melons were next to the seafood):

Wholesome salad and beans:

Rob's second round - salami, nuts, melons, and seafood:

One of my plates of seafood, prosciutto and melons, pate on toast:

We were rather underwhelmed with the main courses, and I get the impression that the main draw of the executive lunch set is the appetiser buffet, and the main course is only to supplement.

Hand-crafted Pizza with Organic Chicken, Pesto, Mozzarella and Aged Provolone. It was very hot when the pizza was brought to the table. Quite tasty but ordinary. We actually got this for the boy, but he was already drowsy for his nap and ate only half a slice:

Slow-cooked Salmon, Tuscan White Beans, Sun-Dried Tomatoes and Spinach. Also nice, but nothing special:

Dessert was beautifully presented, and enjoyable to eat, but nothing outstanding. At this point, my camera battery had completely died, and so I had to use the camera function on Rob's HTC to take photos of dessert. I'm surprised they turned out okay.

Banana Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Ice-cream - the banana flavour was strong and overpowered the chocolate flavour. Thankfully it didn't taste at all like fake banana flavouring. The vanilla ice-cream had tiny specks of black vanilla seeds:

Vanilla Parfait, Chocolate Cumb and Crispy Honey Crunch - this, I think, is what French parfait is like. In any case, it's not like the American-style layered parfaits. Safe combination of flavours, and quite enjoyable:

Impressively decorated restaurant, but the food was ordinary. Still, it was a lovely experience.

Gold by Harlan Goldstein
Level 2 LKF Tower
33 Wyndham Street
Lan Kwai Fong, Central
Tel: +852 2869 9986

Friday 19 August 2011

Galler Noir 85% Profond Chocolate

Very occasionally, I would wonder if I eat too much chocolate. But that thought would last only a millisecond as I grab a piece of dark chocolate to savour slowly in my mouth. After my recent chocolate experience with a 100% (Criollo) chocolate, I am getting more confident to venture out into darker territories, and these days my everyday chocolate treats are the those with 85% cacao content. Galler Chocolatier's Noir 85% Profond is one that I'm really enjoying at the moment. Galler hails from Belgium, and is the official Belgian Royal Warrant Holder since 1994 - I think that means that Galler is the official supplier of chocolate to the Royal Court of Belgium! The packaging has a tongue-in-cheek blurb on the back (in French, English and Dutch): "Once upon a time there was a delicious tablet with a mind of its own, it broke only where it wanted. Chocolate with an attitude. Only for chocolate lovers."


The Noir 85% is smooth-textured and contains just the right amount of sugar to take away any bitter edges. It has a gorgeous chocolate flavour that is unadulterated by added flavouring or milk. In fact, when compared with Lindt Excellence 85% chocolate, the added vanilla flavour in the Lindt stood out quite obnoxiously, and because of that, I much prefer Galler's 85%. At HK$40 for an 80g, it is still a bit pricey to be an everyday treat, but perhaps I can compromise by having a smaller piece each time.

Wednesday 17 August 2011

Charming casual French @ Saint-Germain (Happy Valley), Hong Kong


These days, when I think of French cuisine, my mind invariably would go in the direction of haute cuisine-types like Robuchon or a few of the other nice French restaurants we've had the pleasure of dining at. At any rate, it's not usual for me to relate casual eating with French food, but as Saturday's experience at the newly opened Saint-Germain would attest, homey French can certainly go down very nicely. When I say "homey", I certainly don't mean to imply that the food was rustic or even homecooked and similarly presented. Quite the contrary, the dishes were excellently executed and thoughtfully presented. And very delicious. The floor manager and at least one of the waiters are French, so I don't doubt that the food is as French as it can get. The menu was kept simple and featured timeless French dishes, and I imagine that this is the sort of food that the French would go out and eat when they want a casual affair with reasonable prices. During our lunch, I heard a lady customer chat away in French to the manager at the bar, and I wouldn't be surprised if this brasserie is already a favourite amongst the Euro expats living in the area. This little brasserie is tucked away in a quiet neighbourhood of Happy Valley, and while it isn't the easiest restaurant to access (a good 20 minute walk from the nearest MTR station), it turned out to be a gem worth seeking.

Our boy fell asleep in the stroller during the walk to Saint-Germain, and woke up just after we finished our dessert. I felt bad that he missed out on a delicious lunch, but we appreciated being able to have a little impromptu lunch date without having to fuss over a toddler:

Hot entrée: Galette de Feuilleté Perigueux au Foie Gras (puff pastry galette with homemade duck liver and summer truffles) - big flavours on a small plate! We really enjoyed this. I could only taste the rich earthy flavour of the truffles and hardly at all of the foie gras, but I'm not complaining:

Cold entrée: Cannelloni de Celeri au Grabe et Vinaigrette de Mangue (celeriac cannelloni with crab meat and mango dressing) - a great refreshing entrée for a hot summer's day. Mild flavours, but great combination of textures: crunchy celeriac (not celery as suggested in the menu - lost in translation?), soft crab filling and silky mango sauce. :

Rob's main course: Duo Gambas et Saint Jacques à la Plancha, Cocotte de Légumes et Coulis de Crustacés (duo of prawns and scallops "a la Plancha", vegetables cocotte and shellfish coulis) - excellent flavours, perfect for any seafood lovers. Loved the vegetables, and we did not waste a drop of that delicious coulis but mopped everything up with bread:

Black Cod Rôti, Pommes de Terre Ecrasées Fines Herbes, Marinière de Moules (roasted black cod with herbed crushed potatoes and moules marinieres [aka mussels cooked in white wine]) - the juicy flavoursome cod was indeed the star of this dish. The chef certainly knows how to treat seafood right!

Nem au Chocolat Accompagné d'une Soupe Froide "Chocolat, Gingembre, Orange" (chocolate spring roll accompanied by a cold soup of "chocolate, ginger, orange") - rich, decadent and sweet:

And very chocolatey. The mint leaves rolled between the crêpe layers was a nice touch and gave a lovely subtle minty flavour. The chocolate soup was milky with a touch of orange flavour, but I couldn't taste any ginger:

I absolutely adored the seafood and the fish. Although Saint-Germain is not easily accessible for us, I think that the food is worth a second trek out to this little French brasserie.

Saint-Germain
1A Wong Nai Chung Rd
Happy Valley
Hong Kong
Tel. +852 2836 6131

Friday 12 August 2011

Mediocre Malaysian @ Good Satay, Hong Kong

I miss good Malaysian food. I had deliberately delayed the search for a good Malaysian restaurant in Hong Kong because I didn't want to be met with too many disappointments. The handful of Malaysian restaurants that exist in HK surely cannot be worse than the sore lack of them in Tokyo, unless it turns out that none of them are actually good. I am no food snob, but like everyone else, I have rather high standards when it comes to my homeland's cuisine. Well, there wasn't much to get out of just thinking about it, so our search began last Sunday. To better our chances of liking the food we were going to eat that day, I selected Good Satay, the restaurant that was the recipient of Time Out's Dining Awards 2010 for Best Southeast Asian. The English reviews on Openrice was a mixed bag of good, bad and neutral, so we knew not to get our hopes too high.

The restaurant itself is nothing fancy, and it got pretty busy and full as the weekend lunch crowd of mostly families rolled in. We arrived shortly after Good Satay opened for lunch, and it wasn't yet full, so we got sufficient service. However, don't expect too much from the service at peak meal time, as the serving girls are probably being paid the minimum wage to wait on an overcrowded and full dining room. People around us were ordering the ever-popular Hainanese Chicken Rice, which I'm sure is good, but this dish is getting too generic (and frankly, boring) for us - you can even get it in Tokyo! I guess the tastebuds of the general population in both Japan and Hong Kong are better tuned for the crowd-pleasing chicken rice, and not the more robust and flavourful dishes that better define the Malaysian cuisine. We ourselves ordered a fair variety of dishes to get an idea of what's good and what isn't. The dishes were a mixed bag of good, bad and so-so (photos and details of each dish below).

Paratha - more like puff pastry and not much like the paratha we know and wanted. It was nice in its own way, but pretty useless in mopping up curry and gravy:

Beef Rendang, or at least a poor version of it. The beef was not tender at all, and the dish didn't have the complex flavours that I love in rendang:

This Chai tau kueh was surprisingly enjoyable, although not quite as good as the plate of fried radish cake (that was more like chai tau keuh than the typical yum cha-style radish cake) we had at yum cha recently. And certainly not as nice as my dad's. This one was eggy (good thing) but a little sweet which is not something I expect from chai tau kueh:

Chicken Satay, probably the most disappointing satay I've ever had. There wasn't much flavour on the meat itself, and the peanut sauce was overly lemony. I'm sure this is perfectly acceptable by most people who come to Good Satay to eat satay, but for me, born in Sate City (i.e. Selangor) and eaten plenty of Sate Kajang (from my dad's hometown), this wasn't good enough:

Stirfried Kangkung with Sambal. It wasn't spicy enough, but I was pleased with the generous amount of belacan in it (although the pungent shrimp paste might be off-putting to sensitive tastebuds). This was a big plate of greens, too much for two, but I did eat at least 3/4 of that plate:

A glass of too-sweet Cendol with too-hard green jelly noodles that was impossible to suck up the straw. The bowl of Bubur Pulut Hitam (black glutinous rice dessert) was actually pretty good, although it would have been much nicer if it had been served warm:

Price-wise, the food was quite reasonable (about HK$230 for two of us), but unfortunately the less-than-stellar food means that it's unlikely we will be back. If this is the best "South-east Asian" food that HK can offer (according to Time Out Magazine anyway), then perhaps I should give up on the search. I don't know how many disappointing Malaysian meals I can put up with. Perhaps we should save our time and money for a more satisfying meal when we go on our next trip to Malaysia (or Australia, where the Malaysian cuisine is quite well represented).

Good Satay
Shop144-148, Houston Centre,
63 Mody Road,
Tsimshatsui
Tel. +852 2739 9808

Tuesday 9 August 2011

Revisit: Mexican @ Café Iguana (Elements), Hong Kong

A couple of Saturdays ago, hubby and I went to watch Kung Fu Panda 2 (3D) at the cinema - our first date at the movies in over a year! I believe the last one we watched was Toy Story 3 (3D) in Tokyo before we moved to Hong Kong, and my younger sister had helped babysat our son. Did you know, about 99% of the dates hubby and I had gone on since our boy was born, was during the year my sis stayed with us in Japan? And we probably went on about six dates during that time despite setting a goal of going on dates at least once a month. Our date statistics went to zero since September last year when we moved to HK, until I finally found a good babysitter that I could trust to look after Zak. We love our son dearly, but - as any parent would understand - we also need to spend quality time together, child-free. KFP 2 was a fantastic movie, and I can't believe how cheap movie tickets are in Hong Kong! It costs almost 3 times less than in Tokyo! Well, seeing as how the cinema is literally outside our door (plus two elevator journeys down and one escalator ride up), we should make movie trips much more often, both on sans-child and whole-family occasions.

We wanted to enjoy a leisurely family lunch after being reunited with our son post-movie, and it didn't take long for us to agree upon Café Iguana, our favourite restaurant in the neighbourhood (except our "neighbourhood" is actually the rooftop dining area in the mall downstairs from our apartment). I've lost count of the number of times we've eaten at Café Iguana in the past nine months since we moved here, but this was only our second time lunching here. The lunch menu was different to the Sunday Brunch menu we had last time, but no less delicious. Same deal as the Sunday Brunch - for HK$98, we could choose from a small list of starters and mains, and add the optional HK$20 extra to also enjoy the dessert of the day. Judging from the crowd that gathered in the restaurant, we are not the only ones who like Café Iguana!

The 2.75 y/o got what he always gets whenever we eat here - Chicken Quesadilla. He ate two of the four pieces on the plate (he was already working on one when I remembered to take a shot):

Add cheese to anything and kids will love them! The Quesadilla is a popular option for the young ones:

Both hubby and I went for the salad instead of the soup. Simple bacon and avocado salad:

Rob went for the Fish Tacos. Lightly spiced grilled fish strips with salad mix and caramelised onion and capsicum inside crispy taco shells - fun and delicious:

My Chicken Fajita on the hot plate with the tortillas and condiments on the side - another meal that was fun and yummy:

Dessert that day was a Yogurt Mousse with Chocolate Sauce. Light yet rich at the same time, we were happy to share just one:

Another great experience at our favourite eating spot in the mall. I'm quite sure it won't be our last! (Check out my previous blog posts on what the dinner menu is like).

Café Iguana
Shop R004
Civic Square, Elements Mall
1 Austin Road West
Tsim Sha Tsui
Tel. +85 2 2196 8733

Thursday 4 August 2011

Pralus Le 100% Criollo Cocoa

Although I love dark chocolate and will refuse to buy any chocolate that has less than 70% cacao content, I still have my limits, which is usually around the 87% cacao mark. I've tried the Lindt Excellence 99% dark chocolate once a few years ago, but I did not appreciate the bitterness at all. A tiny amount of sugar goes a long way in dark chocolate appreciation, and this is certainly true for chocolates made with the common Forastero/Trinitario beans (which makes up for 95% of the world's chocolate production). The last time I wrote about chocolates, I gave a brief spiel about the rarer and more delicate Criollo cocoa beans, and gave a taste review on Francois Pralus' 75% Criollo chocolate. I described how different it tasted to all the other chocolates we've ever eaten, and how much we appreciated the complexity in flavour and aroma.


Encouraged by the fact that the 75% Criollo chocolate didn't have any bitterness, I tried looking for the 100% Criollo bar - also by Pralus - that I'd seen at the same supermarket, but alas it was no longer on the shelves. I am guessing that we dark choc lovers are a rare breed, and there isn't much profit to be made by selling 100% pure chocolates to the general Hong Kong populace. I'd been keeping my eyes out for them ever since and then last week, one (only one!!) Le 100% Criollo bar appeared on the shelves, which I quickly grabbed and put in my shopping basket along with the rest of my groceries, quickly paid and then gleefully carried it home to Rob, who I knew was more eager than I to taste pure Criollo chocolates.


This chocolate is made with nothing but pure cocoa and cocoa butter - no sugar, no milk and no additional flavour. To be honest, I was a little apprehensive about eating this 100% chocolate bar, but I knew that the Criollo cocoa beans are quite mild and would be much nicer than eating a 100% bar made with the bitter Forastero beans. The Le 100% Criollo was smooth with a creamy texture, and the minty and fruity flavours that we'd found in the 75% were also present in this chocolate. The citrus note was much more pronounced in the absence of any sugar, which would have acted to soften the acidity.


Pralus' Le 100% Criollo is certainly not an everyday chocolate (definitely not at this price!), but it's a good one to expand my taste knowledge of chocolates.

Tuesday 2 August 2011

Revisit: Turkish @ Ahmet's, Brisbane

I haven't had many opportunities to eat Turkish food since we moved overseas from Australia 5 years ago. In fact, I am quite certain that the very few times I've eaten anything Turkish in the previous 5 years were on trips back to Australia (actually we ate Turkish once in Tokyo). I'm sure that there are plenty of good Turkish eating places in Hong Kong, and I must make a point to check them out because I like Turkish food. On our very final evening in Brisbane during our very short trip there in July, we had dinner at Ahmet's Turkish Restaurant prior heading out to the airport for our return flight to Hong Kong. This was after walking around the CBD of Brissy and then walking to and around the South Bank area, so we had worked up quite an appetite for dinner. This was our second time dining at Ahmet's, and we'd liked it so much last time that we requested to eat there again. We'd arrived just before 6pm on a Saturday evening, yet the whole restaurant was already brimming full of people. Thankfully there was one table available for our group, and even though it was outside in the cool winter air, the gas heater near our table kept us warm. Unlike last time, it was easy to get the attention of one of the waitstaff as we were positioned near the entrance and the waitstaff were constantly in and out to service the large number of tables on the patio.

Turkish bread with Beetroot, Hommus and Baba Ghanoush dips. Everyone at the table each liked different dips, and I kept going back for more baba ghanoush:

Falafel. I still remember the first time I ever had falafels, and that was in NYC (hm, now I think about it, the only times I'd eaten falafels had been in NYC). These ones at Ahmet's were good, but quite different to the ones we've eaten before:

We got the Kid-sized Pide (oven-baked Turkish "pizza") for the boy. He loved it so much that he ate most of the pide by himself. 'Twas a shame that he got a pretty bad reaction to dinner only 2 hours later at the airport (thank goodness I had some antihistamines to administer immediately, but we had such a scare as he had never reacted like that before). We were told that the kitchen used sesame in their bread, and that Zak's pide would be cooked in the same oven, but we decided to be less strict and risk it, as we often have done in the past when eating out with Zak. That night we learnt our lesson and will not be so careless next time, and definitely not just before a flight!

Kidz Pide with cheese and chicken, thumbs up from our toddler's tastebuds (but thumbs down from his immune system):

Hubby's Iskender - oven roasted lamb on Turkish bread with traditional Iskender sauce, yoghurt and rice. Nice meal for lamb-lovers, but I can't be the only person to think that there's just a bit too much carbs on one plate. Turkish bread AND rice? If the generous serving of lamb meat doesn't fill the tum, then the carbs will certainly do it:

My order of Pilic Sehrazat - slow-cooked chicken, sautéed spinach, mushroom sauce with beetroot and pumpkin dips. Flavourful and moist chicken pieces with a creamy mushroom sauce. Thank goodness this one didn't come with any rice or bread as it was already quite filling without any carbs:

The 2.75-year-old and I took a little break from eating to check out the kitchen. Here's the corner where his pide came from...:

... and this is where the rest of the food came from:

Everyone was eager to have some Turkish sweets to finish the meal with, so we ordered the Turkish Dessert Tasting Plate as well as Chocolava (chocolate and hazelnut baklava) and Kazan Dibi (caramalised milk pudding, described in the menu as Turkish crème caramel). Some of us ordered Turkish Apple Tea too. I always find Turkish desserts to be too sweet, and these were no exception. However the rest enjoyed the sweets quite a lot.

The Turkish crème caramel (kazan dibi):

The dessert tasting plate which included baklava, pishmaniye (described as Turkish fairy floss), traditional rosewater Turkish delight, and dried figs macerated in some sweet liquor. The plate of the chocolate & hazelnut baklava is in the background:

We were treated to some lovely belly-dancing too, and I have photos of the performance (and of my FIL getting pulled up by the belly dancer to dance in front of everyone with her), but I'm not comfortable with showing so much skin on my G-rated blog. You'll just have to take my word for it. Great place for Turkish food (although not recommended for those who have nut and sesame allergies).

Ahmet's Turkish Restaurant
10/164 Grey Street
South Brisbane QLD 4101
Australia
Tel. + 61 7 3846 6699

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