amazing stuff from "lush"

lush is a nifty little store by the entrance to the myer building at rundle mall. They specialize in making amazing/creative soaps and sell other great smelling bath time/ skin and hair products.

the texture of these soaps were kind of like grainy/sandy but OMG they smelt AH-MA-ZING! especially the gingerbread house one that looked and smelt almost good enough to eat!

doesn't that gold soap look glorious? i do wonder if it would leave your skin gold though!

then i came across this!it smells so gooood and it feels like putty looks like jelly but it's shower jelly! it's so entertaining and unique too O.O

the chocolate bar looking thing is henna hair dye and each little section is about half the size of my iphone, which makes the full bar MASSIVE and for medium to long hiar you'd need to use the full bar. The large bucket to the right is an amazing body scrub like gel for your hair and it gives it amazing "bounce" and volume.

these bath bombs were gorgeous! theres even a santa shaped one. Some of them released flower petals too.

so yeah if you get the time and your in rundle mall you should definitely visit this great little shop! you'll never know what interesting products you'll stumble upon

sugarbowl

This place isn't quite as noticeable as the crepe story and is easy to miss due to it being crammed with other restaurants by the side of a main road. When you enter at first the 50's decor and random pillows/plush toys in the cubicle like spaces may have you feeling as though you've gone back in time (it's a little outdated). Although admittedly the prices were a bit high and the drinks lacked flavour it was still around a 3.5/5

I was disappointed with this white lychee and citrus skin tea, it lacked such taste i felt like i was just drinking hot water -.-"

I'm a HUUGEE fan of green tea ice-cream and it is so unfortunate that you can't buy it in large tubs here in Adelaide >.<, i was super disappointed the green tea ice cream tasted not as good as the ones you can get at the HongKong grocers.. for what i payed the portion was quite small too. The angle the picture's taken at makes it look larger lol Overall i was expecting it to be better.. but then again i didn't really try that many desserts so maybe my next visit will be better. (oh and as i mentioned before it can be easy to miss so here's a map of where it is)

the crepe's story

ive always been a massive fan when it comes to sweet foods and desserts, and combined with cute decor The crepe's story is a favorite place of mine to stop by.

The crepe story is a cute little "hole in the wall" style shop at the end of rundle street near chatime, it's hard to miss it with the cute logo and pink wallpaper.

There's such a great variety of sweet and savory crepe's, and every time i go past the crepe story i can't help but drool over the "cheesecake deluxe" and "brownie deluxe", alongside the original crepe you choose there's a ton of extra's you can ad (such as ice cream, cream, nutella, fruits ect.), it's also quite affordable with crepe's ranging from $4.50-$10.00

Morning glory

Morning glory is by far one of my most favourite asian stores/ gift store chains in adelaide (maybe the whole world? :P)
every time I'm in the city I can't help but go into one of their stores to marvel and fan girl over their cute Totoro,domo, angry birds and other asian stationary and plush toy goodies!

store front always is colourful and inviting!

I think this highlights just how obsessed asians are with angry birds almost every morning glory has 1-2 shelves dedicated to angry birds merch
I believe I died a little inside knowing I didn't have enough money to buy what i saw next...

oh aren't those yoshi slippers glorious?

and these mario mushroom slippers are "asdfghjkl" keyboard spazz worthy!

Yum cha @ Citi zen

so for those of you who don't know (although everyone should know!) what yum cha is it practically means to "have tea" or "drink tea" its where delicious asian dumplings, cakes, tarts, vegetables, meats and everything and anything else nomy is either pushed around on carts to tables or they are offered by waiters/waitresses (usually you'll only have yumcha during morning/early afternoon time).Food is mainly steamed and extremely tasty and comes in small portions since the idea is to have "light meal" with he pleasure of tasting alot of different foods.
So yeah.. i went to yum cha with some family friends, my dad and grandmother yesterday at Citi zhen (located near kinng william st.)
lol here's some pictures for you to drool at :P

The decor in the new Citi zhen was so pretty ^^

forgot what this is called but the filling is crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside, its wrapped around by a silky prawn rice noodle. Textures great and is a pleasure to eat! was a bit bland though..

Pan fried raddish cake! nice and crisp on the outside and soft and nomy on the inside wheen it came to us it was cold, how ever it was still super nomy!

i dont know why so many people think chicken feet are gross -.- seriously if you haven't tried well seasoned well cooked version of this you're MISSING OUT its the perfect balance of spicyness,saltiness and sweetness

Once you unravel these banana leaves the stickiest nomiest most fragrant and equally flavoursome sticky rice is revealed! It was uber hot though.. i had to blow on it before eating

This is probably one of my favourite dishes served at Yum cha, the pork is so succulent and is overflowing with delicious flavoursome juices once you bite into it, although there's really very little meat wrapped around the bones lol

This is pork wrapped in bean curd skin, the meat is so tender and juicy and is matched with the perfect balance of seasoning and vegetables texture is great too and it feels like it melts in your mouth!

EVERYONE knows what these are! EGG TARTS om nom nom.. the filling was so soft and smooth... but it was slightly too sweet.
Okay so LOL here's a sum up of citi zhen i guess
service: 3/5 (the waitress walked right past us at times even when we clearly wanted to the dish lol)
food:4/5 not the best yumcha i've had :/ but its still REAALLLY good
Dunno what else im meant to rate them on O.o haha now i feel all "food critiquey" X]

Kangaroo island trip pt.2

SealBay
so then at around 9:30ish the "highlights tour" bus came to pick us up (i swear i didn't tell the driver to pose or that i was taking a picture he just stood like that when he got out)

LOL okay okay.. one more selca before going to seal bay

so after a 2 hour drive from penneshaw with the driver informing us of all the different tree's and wildlife we finally arrived at the gorgeous seal bay, where we were greeted by a guide and some cute, lazy looking locals ^.^

protect them damn seals!!

the beach is so beautiful! and don't those seals remind you of the 3 musketeers?

because those guys gorge themselves on food for 3 days straight then sleep on a nice sunny beach for three days straight and they don't have to worry about dieting or oversleeping and waking up looking like the beast from beauty and the beast (on a bad hair day). Except the femles are pregnant for 18 months and once the pups are born the fathers give no support! >:( lazy bastards lol

Remarkable rocks
after spending about 30 minutes going "naaaaaw" at the seals and pups (although admittedly after 10 i was bored ^^") we hopped back onto the bus and were off to "remarkable rocks" which was another hour drive.

They truly were remarkable...

(the inside of one)

LOL at my crappy "pokeball" edit.. this rock was awesome though!

Admirals arch
after remarkable rocks and a 30 minute drive down the winding dirt road we ended up at "admirals arch", at first you couldn't see anything but what seemed like a long wooden pathway and stairs leading down from the beach, but as you got further down the path you discovered beautiful parts of the ocean...

then as you reached the bottom of the last flight of wooden steps the most amazing sight was unravelled this left me speechless for a while (or maybe it was the fear of sea water entering my mouth? LOL)

After the amazing experience of admirals arch we took another 2 hour bus drive through Flinders chase national park which was unfortunately slightly bare looking due to a fire 4 years ago, but it was nether the less still beautiful. It was another 2 hour drive back to penneshaw after going through the national park and stopping for some walking on the trails (although we didnt really see anythng). When we got back we had some fish and chips and relaxed for the rest of the night.

Day3
So we didn't really get to see ALL of kangaroo island which was a shame. I woke up late today and thought we would be late for our ferry but turns out the ferry was having some technical difficulties and we were delayed by 30 minutes or so... it was okay though we got free coffee! ^^ but yeah.. while i was bored i was just making retarded faces on my iphone and taking pictures.

LOL FAIL at trying to be cross eyed..
but yeah i tried to sum up kangaroo island as fast as i could! i hope you enjoyed this post and i highly recommend you going there during spring or summer! its great! xx

day out in the city

It had been while since i was last in the city for a full day, so i asked my friend Amy if she wanted to visit all the Asian stores and go to kbox with me ^.^ (what we asians do yoo~). First i wanted to get ice cream from the marijuana er.. mariana market (practically an asian grocery with everything that you wish other asian grocers had that even has its own smoothie stand in it) lol the buildings big and green and from across the road the sign looks like it says "marijuana". Inside there are so many samples for everything, and being the curious person i am i was quite interested in the "sheep's milk yoghurt" so i tried it.. and BLEH its gross

but yeah Amy got a chocolate mochi icecream pack and i got this weird um.. icy pop? bottle? icy bottle? anyways it was a strange pear flavour and eating it was so difficult and i bet i looked like a complete freak (meh.. oh well twas nomy)

Anyone that's been with me out to town will know i have an uncanny admiration for everything in morning glory so that's were we decided we had to go! I saw this big cuddly looking soft pink teddy bear.. that i couldn't afford -.-" (hint for early christmas present *wink *wink)

so yeah then after that we got crepe's (amy had the strawberry cream and i the warm nutella and mango which was a pain to eat due to the nutella melting everywhere>.<), went to kbox and i stalked a guy down hindley street to get a picture of behind his head cause it was the first time i'd ever seen anyone have a footbal pattern cut and coloured into their hair. All summed up in the following photo collage

adelaide central markets

Although often I whine about how boring and small Adelaide is I've come to realization that there are many small treasures in this great city and cute old stores that keep it feeling very hm... whats the word.. towny? Anyways my boyfriend and i were completely lost as to what we should do so we decided to look around the central markets, and we came across one of a few Blackeby's candy stalls in Adelaide city (well.. there goes my diet)

Other than the large brightly coloured swirly lollipops, gumballs, fairy floss and gummies I was being tempted by the ultimate chock block full of carbs and sugar.. ah damn you american candy bars

There was also this very interesting setup of drinks that i'd never seen before O.O i'm curious as to what the green "coola" tastes like (does this remind you of a hospital setup slightly?)