Melbourne Part I

Melbourne here I come!!! Have always wanted to visit the Victoria state, don't ask me why. Perhaps my pal is there - she happens to be in KL of all times. Melbourne is what I would describe as "A World on a Plate". To add on to that the cold winter weather is something that I and I believe many fellow Singaporeans yearn for - trust me, your skin and hair just takes a change for the better, or at least for me my pores that always in awe have taken a sit back and my hair is silky smooth. I LUV WHAT THE COLD WEATHER IS DOING TO MY SKIN AND HAIR!

First meal of Day 1 - Spinach Kebab with Chicken filling. The generouos filling and toasted wrap made a nice, warm and filling meal to kick-start my vacation.

Alas! I stepped foot into the RMIT campus. The compound is massive and seems never ending. I walked all the way from building 1 to maybe 30+ all the way from La Trobe Street to Lygon Street and we talking about a 2 to 3 tram stations mind you.

Yours Truly in the canteen of RMIT waiting for my smoothie

Of all times there was an industrial action undertaken by the National Tetiary Education Union enforcing work bans at Universities DownUnder on the day my exam results are to be release and 1 of my exam result was affected by it and since I was in the area I decided to inquire at the student info counter. But to my disappointment, nothing was posted, not even locally of my WER result : ( Looks like I have to wait for God knows how long. So, yours truly is not quite there yet and not sure if I'll get to convocate in August : (

Not quite there but no harm taking a pix I guess

St Kilda

Next stop was St Kilda that is known for their pastry outlets and so we popped by Monarch and savoured their Blackforest cake (Charsiew, it was not bad...) and Monarch's famous chocolate kugelhoupf that goes well with my earl grey tea. It was a little sweeter than I would have liked it but the chewy bit was nice, just the way I like it.

Mighty Melbourne (juicy) burger @ Grill'd that was made up beef patty, beet root, etc, plus a serving of thick cut chips with tomato salsa. Yummy-liciosu!

Freezing cold at St Kilda, even my toes were screaming cold...

Lygon Street aka Little Italy for the foodie

Dinner @ Universal Pizza, Lygon Street. This is the place to go if you are craving for authentic Italian food. This restaurant was voted as Best in Lygon.

Me, not a fan of bacon has never eaten so much bacon in a trip. Baked, oysters in wine and generous portins of bacon on a bed of sea salt. The pix says it all. Slurpy-licious.

Carbonara risotto. It has a smooth texture with a tad of sweetness that doesn't shout ger-lat!

Dockland's Habour Town

Breakfast is the most important meal of my day so no way am I going to compromise with mediocre meal, so I braced the 30m-minute wait at The Coffee Club for my serving of egg benedict with spinach and mushrooms. And boy! It sure was worth the wait... it was done just the way I like it and the mushrooms and spinach went well with it. It was so good I devoured every bit of it right down to the last bread crumbs. Great start to the day before I hit the stores for more shopping.

Hubby's order of Lifestyle breakfast of ham with melted cheese and avocado and poached egg

Victoria Market

This is the place to go for fresh produce. Our first stop was the seafood section and because we late many of the stalls were preparing to end the day and the seafood was going at irresistable offers. We couldn't resist and succumbed to the temptation; bought a dozen oysters (shucked) for dinner. It was so fresh I could taste the saltiness of the sea. Pray hard my tummy won't protest tonite.

Being Singaporean our "passion" to queue led me to this mobile doughnut station. It was nothing near to melt-in-your-mouth krispy kreme and I thought they could do more justice with the sugar coating.