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Garden Villa Ishiuchi, Niigata, Japan
For my second ski trip, we went to Ishiuchi Maruyama and stayed at Garden Villa Ishiuchi (ガーデンヴィラ石打). The lodge was only a 10-minute taxi trip from Echigoyuzawa Station (越後湯沢駅) and was located very close to the ski fields (5 minutes of walking?), so we never wasted any time travelling to and from the place. We…
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Balena, Ishiuchi Maruyama, Niigata, Japan
Balena (バレーナ) is an Italian restaurant near the summit of Ishiuchi Maruyama (石打丸山) that required skiing to and going up several ski lifts, so it wasn’t quite an everyday restaurant that I could just pop in to try. The group had been there before and told me the food was really good; actually, they used…
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Fruit Platter on Qantas Flight QF21
Who’s privileged enough to go on a ski trip from Sydney to Japan for the second time in the same year, only two months apart? I am! bigsmile It’s probably my last trip for a while, though. Not many days of annual leave left! This time, instead of skipping the flight meals altogether, I decided…
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He Cooks: Pasta with Home-Grown Tomato Sauce
This wasn’t something very elaborate, but it’s the first dish (of hopefully many!) Richard ever cooked for me. Greatly appreciated; now forever immortalised. The tomato sauce was home-grown, too! Super yum. (I should have fixed the cutlery that he accidentally laid out wrong first. tongue )
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City Extra, Circular Quay
I invited Richard out after work to the Sydney Opera House for rePLAY, a video game music event performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. We were going to have dinner at the Opera House before the event, but we postponed it because the place was completely packed and Richard was still quite full from a…
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Misc Sydney Eats: March 2014
Dear Visitor! You are currently viewing a food blog entry written in the old “been there” style, likely an imageless compilation post. Newer entries are more detailed and have delicious photos, too! These restaurants deserve a proper post, but here’s the old entry, anyway! Jump to: Imperial Peking, Blakehurst Rice Paper, Newtown Thai Passion, Newtown…
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Hurricane’s Grill, Darling Harbour
Benny, one of the Indonesian friends currently living in Singapore whom I made from the amazing ski trip in Japan (confused yet? tongue ), visited Sydney for business. I’ve been dying to find an excuse to try Hurricane’s Grill, and seeing as they only had branches in Sydney, I decided to drag Benny there despite…
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