Fish&Chips@Fasta PastaI and my wife quite like Harbour Town, there are a lot of factory outlets. We went to there for shopping every few months.

Last Saturday, we went to there again. After shopping for a while, I felt hungry and tired. I really needed a place to sit down and have a lunch. The best place for those purpose is  Fasta Pasta which is a very comfortable dine-in restaurant.

Moreover, there are discounted lunch sets just around $10. I had a Fish&Chips for $10.90 and a coffee too! They were very tasty! I love the chips, they were very crunchy!

Lastly, I joined RAQC Dinner Reward, I can get 20% cash back!

I think the most of times we went to Harbour Town, we chose Fasta Pasta for lunch!

Fasta Pasta

Harbour Town Shopping Centre (At the Reading Cinema Entrance))
Cnr Gold Coast Hwy & Oxley Drive
BIGGERA WATERS
QLD 4216

Tel:07)-5537 5778

 

Good Value Deal Lunch Set @ Lok Fok Restaurant

In Sunnybank area, that is around $11 for lunch. That is a bit hard to find any lunch set under $10. Well,  I found at New Lok Fok Restaurant. A lunch set included a hot drink is only $9.8. A few weeks ago, I had a lunch set, which is a crispy chicken noodle soup with a hot milk tea. That was not bad at all. I think that was value for money!

New Lok Fok Restaurant
Shop 19A/20C, Sunnypark Shopping Centre
Cnr Mains Rd and McCullough St
Sunnybank Qld 4109

Tel07- 3323 3919

Australia is a multicultures country, there are a number of ethnic groups, such as Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Each of ethnic group brought their tasty cuisine to this country. Thus, we have a lot of chances to taste authentic cuisines from various countries.

Yesterday, we went to Gold Coast for a relaxing day trip. At night, we had our dinner at  YOU(雄) Japanese Restaurant in Surfers Paradise. That is one of my favourite Japanese restaurants. I highly recommend their Sashimi Rice.

Sashimi RiceThis dish contains tuna, salmon,  fish eggs and squid Sashimi. They are so fresh! We mixed them with sushi rice, soy sauces and  wasabi. That is prefect! Very tasty.

Eel don

My other favourite dish is Eel don. Eel is cooked in a prefect way, the soy sauce on top is very very tasty! I believe you mush love it!

You must ask they are tasty, so are they very expensive? That is not too expensive, around $15.80 each!

If you go to Surfers Paradise, I will recommend you go to there for dinner.

YOU(雄) Japanese Restaurant
Shop 10
RSL Centre
9 Beach Road
Surfers Paradise
QLD4127

Tel : 07-5526-7266

 

Australia has a lot of Vietnam migrants. They brought the tasty Vietnamese food to Australia too! Even they opened a lot of tasty restaurants.

There is a Vietnamese restaurant I like. It calls Rice Paper Vietnamese Cuisine(漢記) which is in Runcorn, the area close by my house. That is the reason I go there frequently.

In the most of times, I order Chicken noodle soup. The soup base is very tasty. Moreover, I paid a dollar extra to upgrade the noodle to clear noodle, which is a traditional Vietnamese noodle. If you are going to have Vietnamese cuisine, you must try this kind of glass clear noodle. I love their sticky texture a lot!

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Besides the noodle soup, you must try Vietnamese black coffee!The coffee taste is very very unique! I felt the taste of this coffee is quite rich!

Vietnamese black coffee

 

Rice Paper Vietnamese Cuisine(漢記)
Address:
Shop 10
Warrigal Square
261 Warrigal Road,
Eight Mile Plains,
QLD 4113
Tel:073219668
Open Hours
Mon, Wed-Sat:11am -9pm
Sun :11:00-8pm

Okonomi House

On this Tuesday, I and my wife went to Garden City for afternoon tea. When we found there is a student discount in Okonomi House at 8 street food court. This discount is from 3pm to 5pm Monday to Friday. For all student, you can have 20% off during this period. Therefore $3 for the green tea ice-cream and $8 for the Japanese Pizza. That is a good deal! Moreover, the pizza tastes good, I love their pizza, which is very cheesy!

8 Street
Westfield Garden City
Logan Rd & Kessels Rd,
Upper Mount Gravatt QLD 4122

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I am in Australia for around 15 years.  I had a number of chances to move other states. Every times, at the end, I chose to stay in Brisbane.

I think I made a right choice so far. Last Monday, I went to Canberra for a business trip. I arrived at 7.50 am, that is so cold. The temperature was only minus 4 degree. When I walked out from the airport, that was freezing.

For weatherwise, Brisbane is much nicer. In winter, there is a quite warm, at morning, that is only 11-15 degree. Sometimes, if the weather is good, we have plenty of sunshine, the temperature can be over 20 degree.  That is a good place to live!

I am glad to settle down in Brisbane!

WokaWoka@Warrigal Square

Recently, Runcorn area have a lot of newly opened restaurants.  Beside of the ramen places I tried last week, there is another one I tried recently, Woka Woka at Warrigal Square.

This restaurant opened about two weeks ago and it is a branch of Coffee Square(榮記) in sunnybank. I love there one in sunnybank a lot. So, I was looking forward to try in this new restaurant.

Two week ago, I got a change to have a lunch in there.  I had squid balls noodle soup. That is not bad at all.

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They claimed those squid balls hand made by their own. This is the reason of it tasting good.

Lastly, I had milk tea in there, that is really authentic hong kong style.

Milk Tea @Woka Woka

That is a point you should aware, their menu is a bit expensive than the one in sunnybank. The noodle I had costed $12.80. The total bill I had for that lunch is $16.80.

For myself, the price and food quality is not bad at all. I have lunch in there again(Actually, I will have lunch in there today 🙂 )

P.S. there is two choices of lunch set everyday, that is $12.80. The set included a hot drink, main dish and a soup. Note that, these lunch sets are not listed in their menu. You have to ask the staff about that!

Address:

261 Warrigal Road, Eight Mile Plains QLD 4113

Recent months, there are a lot of new restaurants opened in Runcorn area. A few days ago, I found there is a new Japanese ramen restaurant are opened in Runcorn Plaza. It looks very authentic Japanese ramen. I was keen to try.

Yesterday, I got a chance to have lunch in there. This restaurant was quite busy, I arrived before noon, there was already almost full. I tried their Miso Ramen.

Miso Ramen@Genkotsu RamenThat was very nice. It has some sweet corns, japanese style bbq pork (Chashu) and half of eggs. Quite a lot of ingredients. Moreover, miso soup base is super tasty too! Ramen has a great texture too! I love it.

Moreover, the interior of shop looks very authentic Japanese, the spoons, chopsticks and bowls look like from Japan too!

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Although the price is quite expensive, $12.50, you need to pay $1 for extra noodle. Some other ramen restaurants offer free extra noodle. Well, the portion of noodle is not small, that is good enough for me as a lunch. And it offers a loyal card.

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After you ordered one ramen, you can earn a stamp(double point on Tuesday and Wednesday). At 9th and 18th stamp, you can have a free side dish, 27th and 36th stamp, you can have a free ramen.

That is not good, I go there for lunch regularly.

Genkotsu Ramen

G25/258 Warrigal Road, Runcorn Plaza

Runcorn QLD 4113

Open hours 11:30-14:30, 17:30-21:00

Tue-Sun

 

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Last month, Wheel of Brisbane closed. All pods on the wheel are taken off. Some friends even asked whether it will close down for good.

Actually, that was its first major maintenance, it closed down for about a month to do the maintenance, that is essential to ensure that is safe.  On early of this week, I was in Southbank. I saw it opens again, it lighted up too! It looks new and shiny!

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wpid-p_20150603_192727.jpgThis morning, Brisbane only has around 3 degree, at the night, there is around 15 degree. That is . I need somethings to warm up. So, we went to Sunny Seoul for dinner. We had korean charcoal bbq. We really warmed up!