Meidiana Kusuma

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It's been a year since we officially can't travel around freely because of COVID-19, sad, I know! You will never know how MUCH I MISSED book a flight and do all the impulsive and spontaneous trips. As a result, starting from this post I will have one blog series about "pretending" to travel around the world without even leaving Sydney. I called it #roundtheworldSYDNEY. I will go to different restaurant or cafes who serve different cuisine from all over the world. So buckle UP and enjoy the JOURNEY!!

On this first post from the series, let me take you to a narrow street in Hong Kong, around Kowloon area as I will take you to KOWLOON CAFE, Haymarket

Located exactly on the alley between Dixon street and Sussex street, with those vibrant neon signs and all traditional HK hawker food shop front designs. I admit that they have a big range of menu from snack to main dish. It wasn't my first visit so I've tried some of their other dishes already.

On this #roundtheworldSYDNEY time me and my friends visited Kowloon for their snacks, and this time theme was EVERYTHING SAVOURY

Here what we ordered;

Swiss Chicken Wings Mix Instant Noodle $15.8

HK Style Steamed Rice Roll with mixed sauce $7.8

Fish Siu Mai $6.8

Curry Fish Balls $6.8

Red Bean Ice $8.8

HK Style Milk Tea (Cold) $6.8

The HK style milk tea is my must buy item every single time I visit this place, I really love their HK milktea and yes with lots of ice. I do recommend you to try their steamed rice roll, as for me I already familiar with this Cheong fun since my travel time to Singapore and Malaysia, this one also has peanut and soy sauce in their mixed sauce and of course their curry fish balls.

There is actually another HK famous street food that I really wanna try despite the mixed review, which is Stinky Tofu. I'm not sure on how does it taste but probably want to try that one some day, somee dayy!

SO where is your go to HK cafe in Sydney?

KOWLOON CAFE
shop 7A-9A 421-429 Sussex Street, HAYMARKET

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Oh Hi! I know it's been a while since my last post but hey here I am again. Now I'm trying to summarise my current addiction about white rabbit. For those who don't know, White rabbit is a milky candy originally from China and now available in some other flavours like matcha and redbean. Oh! and you are absolutely not crazy if you eat its transparent paper after the bunny wrapper because it's edible (or at least I hope so).
So here you go some of the white rabbit inspired dishes and desserts that you can find in Sydney (disclaimer: some might be not available anymore and some I got from an invite from the place)

1. White Rabbit Ice Cream

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Some of you might know my crazy addiction to supermarket aisles. I can spend hours in supermarket and Asian supermarket to explore all those snacks, lollies and desserts. A couple months ago, I WATCHED THIS on Thaikee IGA Instastory and next thing I know, I already in Market City, Haymarket and running to their ice cream section. It was really good, good price and also good portion. I'm not sure about the price now, but it was $9 for 5 pieces of ice cream when I bought it. Just for your information, it is sold out pretty quick, so whenever they are restock make sure you get it to try.

2. White Rabbit Roll Cake

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I saw this kind of roll cake for the first time on one of Melbourne Foodie's post. It was a year ago, she posted a cake from @moonshine_au . This year I finally found a similar cake being sold at Bubble nini tea, Central Park branch. Guess what, you know me, I ordered it straight away and voila I turned IIKO's table to my flatlay table (Thanks, Mish). I believe you can still buy the cake in store or contact them first to secure your order. They also have white rabbit cake in a cup version. I like the roll cake better than the cake in a cup version, maybe because on how they packaged the cake but if you want to get more cream in it, I suggest you to try the cake in cup one.

3. White Rabbit DIY Milk Tea

This is just another Asian Supermarket haul. I found these cups at Thaikee IGA, Market city for $2.55. You can also find these DIY milk tea at most Asian Supermarket in Sydney I guess, the price range is $2.55 - $3, yes some other place sell it on higher price. There are 3 different flavours of the White Rabbit DIY Milk Tea, French milktea, Peach oolong milktea and Seasalt cheese milktea. The instruction is actually in Chines, thanks to google translate I got all the directions right. Tips: to make it sweeter pour less water than the suggestion line and I always add on ice cubes.

4. White Rabbit Milk

Milk with "white rabbit candy" flavoured? seems weird? well not really, to be honest the white rabbit candy flavoured is a bit subtle on this milk. It basically just like a normal milk and my serving suggestion, serve it chill to taste the white rabbit stronger. Where to find it? of course Asian Supermarket, I found this for the first time at J&J Asian Supermarket in Mascot.

5. White Rabbit Dorayaki

This is a seasonal flavour from Fujimi Dorayaki. This dorayaki place serves up White rabbit flavour since early 2020 but I just tried this around August, I know I know it's a bit late. The white rabbit flavour is subtle but it is still enjoyable. The flavour called Chucky Creamy Candy and it sold for $4.5 each.

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Maybe you won't believe if I said that I already went to this place 5 times for their high tea, one time back in 2018 for the Spring High tea and another four visit alone this year. Well, what can I say, I am truly a sucker for a thematic high tea.

Petal Met Sugar is a small cake, coffee and florist store which never fail to amaze me with their high tee range. It located in Woolloomooloo area and actually can be reach by walking distance from St James station, you can just walk pass the St Mary Cathedral and voila you will reach your destination within 5 minutes.

I wouldn't say it is a cheap High Tea place though, they normally charge people $52 (weekdays) - $58 (weekends) per person with minimum of 2 people per booking. To tell you the truth, my first ever High Tea experience on this place was actually because I won a Giveaway competition via @itd_be_rude_not_to aka Robbie, the second one was for their pretty Winter Zen Garden that allowed me to empty my wallet a bit as I need to paid $52 for each person and the third to fifth visit I got a discount via CUDO for $49 for two people means $24.5 per person, How amazing the difference, huh?

Ok, let's forget about the pricing first and move on to the high tea experience. On this article, you will see me review the Winter Zen Garden and their current Sydney to Amalfi Coast which will be there until February 2020.

Winter Zen Garden High Tea

This was served during winter season 2019, with a Japanese Zen Garden look as the inspiration. On the Sweet Zen Garden tray, we got Eclair (caramelised apple, calavados creme patisserie, choux pastry, sable and microwave sponge), Tiramisu (mascarpone, lady finger sponge, matcha and hojicha tea syrup, popping candy, matcha dust), Garden pebbles (ealr grey tea infused milk chocolate ganache, cocoa nibs, Callebaut elvet white chocolate), Cronut (croissant-doughnut pastry, caramelised salted popcorn, chocolate cremeux, cinnamon sugar), A pond and a tree (Jasmine tea infused panacotta, coconut, Callebaut 54.5% dark chocolate, housemade orange oil fairy floss) and Scones with housemade strawberry yuzu jam, Rodda's clotted cream on the side.

My favorite one from this Zen Garden set was the panacotta, it was so smooth with jasmine infused flavor which made that one really interesting. Ah yeah, I forgot to mention they also put desiccated coconut as the sand and used the real, I repeat the real pebbles which definitely you can not eat.

On my first visit, the fairy floss on the tree was easily evaporated to the air within 5 minutes but on my second and third visit, it was getting better and could stay for more than 20 minutes.

Sydney to Amalfi Coast High Tea

OK let's talk about their newest thematic High tea for this Spring - Summer called Sydney to Amalfi Coast. In my opinion, this theme is funkier compared to the last two themes I have been. In the beginning they will give you a "passport" with an empty photo and the list of the cakes. While they handed you the high tea set, they will also take a picture of you with a Fuji Instax and you can put the photo on the passport afterward.

In the "in-flight menu" on this journey from Sydney to Amalfi Coast, they will serve you six different cakes and desserts on a clear drawer. Where you can try Olive You to The Amalfi Coast (olive oil gelato, caramel, rosemary, toasted pine nut sable), Not Noona's Gnocchi (mochi, strawberry granita, strawberries, basil), Scones (scones, honey mascarpone, berry black tea jam), When Life Gives You Lemons (lemon mousse, lemon and mint confit, chocolate glaze), Cheese and figs (classic cheesecake, fig compote, candied walnut crust, Callebaut velvet white chocolate and Cioccolato Roccia (hazelnut chocolate mousse, hazelnut sponge, milk chocolate wafer glaze, 24ct gold, caramel chocolate).

I had a great experience again and again from this place. This time, I like their Cheese and figs and the Lemon mousse the most. I lobe how they try to serve you with those different texture of cakes and desserts with a unique flavor and pretty presentation. Now, I can not wait what theme will the have after February 2019.

Petal Met Sugar

68 Sir John Young Cres, Woolloomooloo

NSW 2011