A month before this visit, my friends and I just finished off having Korean BBQ down at Tosung Firewood BBQ and ventured off for somewhere to chill. We sat in the toasty Sweet Memory on the high chairs by the window, it was interesting - a part cafe and part stationary shop! I was sick with an itchy throat, my mates asked if I wanted anything, I ran up to the cakes display and looked through them carefully. I saw the most beautiful cake, layered with so many flavours and coated in almonds, I love almonds! But my friends wouldn't let me order it because it was coated in almonds, which they said would only make my throat worse! Nothing else from the menu appealed to me, so I skipped around the store, which was filled with cute Korean stationary, checking the prices and continually being shocked, hehe.

A month later, I went for an impromptu catch up with a few friends. I got so excited when someone mentioned My Sweet Memory! Yessss! The Espresso cake!

Super filled from our meal at Mario Tokyo, we crossed the street heading for either Sweet Memory or Hello Happy. Hello Happy was a lot closer.... (than walking a few stores to the left), so, we went for Hello Happy! It was nice and toasty inside, displays lit up with along either sides of the store filled with sweets.

Look at how inviting that sign is! All cutesy!

We only wanted one thing. There were so many to choose from!

Out of the overwhelming choices, we settled for a Mocha Cake ($5.50) to share.

The question was, where would I want to eat if it was one of my last few days on this planet? 

On one of my last remaining nights in Sydney, a friend of mine and I went for dinner at a place I've always wanted to try. 

A fusion of Italian and Japanese, we have Mario Tokyo. Mario Tokyo is situated along the street directing straight towards Strathfield station.

Our plans were to go for dinner at Mario Tokyo and head across the street to Hello Happy for dessert!

Seated, we were the only two in the restaurant, with a few students outside on the patio - it was freezing this day! A retro feel of decor, red, black and white with graffiti-like drawings along the walls. 

We decided to go for the Couple set ($33.90), which consisted of and two pastas, risottos or pizzas along with two soft drinks. We  added $2 each to replace our soft drinks with a lemon lime bitters of course.We also grabbed an entree for a nibble!

The menu consisted of breakfast items, five types of bruschetta ($5~6), five entrees ($5~6), mains ($10~16) ranging from risottos, steaks, salads, pastas (there were also prawn and avocado spaghetti), pizzas (menu items either cream or tomato based), and even folded pizzas! 

If you're from the West, I'm pretty sure we've all eaten once, twice, three times, or more times than we can count. Cooks Hill moved down to John St with the same management under the name J's Kitchen Steak House. They have certainly upgraded. This place is certainly different from the dim, danky and crowded Cooks Hill.

Their standard $10 meals consisting of 

pork/lamb/spaghetti/kransky/steak/calamari/fish with a side of chips and their delicious salad. They have more added on to the menu, shown up on an LCD screen to the side where you order, I haven't tried anything aside from their $10 meals and garlic bread. Maybe one day.

I've been to J's Kitchen two times before since they've opened, both times I ordered Lamb, both times I had horrible cuts. This time, I went for Kransky and Pork, where my friend and I halved our meats each (because we're cute like that).

Nine pm and hungry. I've moved to this area more than six months ago and only now decided to explore the strip of Thai restaurants on the other side of the station.

They sell both Vietnamese and Thai & Laos. There are also a few desert options.

Past 9 pm and empty.

One of my favourite things to eat is this. (I took twenty minutes to venture off googling what the name of this is in Viet but ended up getting sidetracked within the first new tab opened. Whoops)

D.I.Y Rice paper with Sugarcane prawns, beef, shredded pork, spring rolls with delicate lil noodles

A windy day out in Liverpool, after a browse at the shops for a few hours which flew by pretty quick, we made use of our group buying coupon down at Monster Steakhouse. I was pretty sure Monster Steakhouse was in one of the smaller streets in Liverpool.... That hidden place with massive doors? 

They moved down to Macquarie Street, not far from their old place.