Dao Vien, Northbridge - Lunch

I have been to this Vietnamese restaurant many many times. This first time I came was with DC while i was doing my Master degree here in Perth. He brought me here just simply because this restaurant is always empty, ie the NO waiting time; and there was a big FREE parking space behind the restaurant, we can easily park our car and eat :) And of course the food here is not too bad. 


Through out the years the HUGE parking space at the back has been converted into Wilson Parking, however still I continue visit this restaurant mainly because it's still always empty. Hubby and I love coming here especially on Sunday afternoon for lunch. After trying a few items of the menu, our conclusion is the dry stuff is much better than the soupy stuff :)


Hubby and I love Vietnamese coffee, so we normally will order 1, either hot or cold, for sharing. 

Hubby loves this dry noodles with pork. The meat is well marinated with punch of flavors.

And that day I was just craving for wanton noodles... to be honest, it is really good! Really yummy wanton with few slices of char-siew. The seasoning on the noodles is just nice.

Worth trying if you are not looking for good ambiance and environment here as this restaurant just does not have. However if you want to have authentic Vietnamese food and reasonable price, give it a try :)



Dao Vien Vietnamese
Add: 3 Fitzgerald St Northbridge, WA 6003
Tel: 08 9227 8037

fasta pasta, Morley - Dinner

Hubby and I went to fasta pasta on one weekday night. We picked this restaurant just because it is very near to our house and we are really hungry. It was pretty empty when we walked in so we thought the food might be just normal or not nice at all. However we decided to give it a try as we are just too hungry.

We have been greeted once we walked in which we felt really warm. The waitress said we could sit anywhere we like and soon after we were seated they brought us the menu. I like the picture on the menu.

 Some of the items on the menu. Hubby said the pricing is pretty reasonable.

The bread is complimentary. Just nice to fill our hunger.

We order 1 large pizza and a pasta as main for sharing. Cant really remember the actual name of our pasta and pizza but i have to said both are really delicious.


The pizza is freshly made. The dough is very soft and light with lots of air in it. And it is just so different eating this pizza and those Domino/Pizza Hut's pizza! Hubby said this is the difference between the freshly made pizza and those commercial made one. 

And the pasta is so good as well. Pasta is freshly made as well. Dont ask me how can i tell, i know it is so soft. And this pasta is come with both red and white sauce. Really tasty!

We couldn't finish the pizza so we get the waitress to pack it for us. When we opened it at home, we realised that it was nicely pack with a little instruction card in it. We could feel that the restaurant really care about their customers!

Overall, it was a nice experienced having meal in fasta pasta. We will definitely come back again.



fasta pasta
Add: 196 Walter Road Morley WA 6062
Tel: 08 9375 5900

Sittella Winery & Cafe, Swan Valley - Wedding lunch

We are very blessed to be invited by Tiffany and Nathan to Sitella Winery to attend their wedding on 22 October 2011.
It was a beautiful wedding, beautiful scenary, beauitful weather, and of course beautiful couples. Since this a food blog I wont go on further about the wedding, let's go straight to the lunch reception! :p


The lunch started at 12.30'ish. It was a 3 course lunch:
1. Entree - King prawns with pink grapefruit segments salad provencale and herb vinaigrette

Really nice entree. King praws are really fresh and go really well with the passionfruit and vinaigrette.


2. Mains
We are given two options for the main, either the
Roast Harvey Beef Loin with mustard crust, wooland mushroom and roasted shallots in Shiraz glaze

or
Altantic salmon lemon salted  and seared on lemon risotto with king prawn, asparagus sears and orange hollandaise

I got beef since i dont like salmon and hubby got the salmon. To be honest, i dont really like the beef as it's too tough although it's still quite rare in the middle. We reckon it was because of mass cooking and it wasnt a proper steak, but instead it was cooked in a big piece and cut it to small pieces for serving.
As for the salmon, it seems that who order it really enjoy it :)


3. Dessert
Here comes the dessert which i long for~~~~~
Sittella Strawberry Brandy Snap Basket filled with cointreau ice cream, smothered with strawberries and crusted passionfruit

Sorry i didnt manage to get a good picture of this delicous dessert as i am too eager to have it! Ha! It is super yummylicious~~~~~~ The brandy snap basket is so sweet but with the bitterness of the caramalised, and the sourness of the strawberries and passinfruit, it went really well~~~~


Overall, it was a great lunch. If we were not invited to attend the wedding, we wont really know there is such a nice place to enjoy the beautiful afternoon. Thanks Nathan & Tiff :)





Sittella Winery & Cafe
100 Barrett St
Herne Hill WA 6056
Tel: 08 9296 2600