Sailors Thai

After a sleepless night (thanks to an unforgettable catch up with Jean and Kyna) and struggle to stay awake on Friday morning, I got my second wind after my third coffee and the anticipation of another great catch up!

The October Good Food Month is coming to an end, and I have not

yet had my chance to appreciate Sugar Hit. To maintain my "gourmet" reputation I managed toorganise a last minute scramble, got Anne on board for the special event.

We dined at Sailors Thai restaurant at The Rocks. This restaurant is

famous for its authentic and creative cuisine, and unlike the usual Thai

restaurants, you won't find the usual items like pad thai or green curry

chicken or mesamum beef, and the menu list is nowhere near as long as that of any usual Thai restaurant, but the amount of thoughts put into the menu made sure that each dish was tantalising enough!

Anne went for the fragrant salmon salad with green mango. I don't

normally go for dishes filled with mint and coriander leaves, but this this dish was fragrant but subtle, and very refreshing thanks to the tangy and slightly crispy green mango. The salmonroe in the salad was so fresh it

burst with flavour! Nothing like the

salmon roe on sushi - you had to really bite it to burst it! I went for the silken tofu stuffed with crab meat and pork mince. The tofu was so tender and silky and went so well with the lightly crispy fried tofu. The mince was savoury with subtle coriander fragrance. I really loved this dish because it's has such delicate and sophisticated taste, yet the idea is so simple! Wine - we had sauvignon blanc with our food. Light and crisp and easy to drink.

We had a very tough time deciding on the dessert destination. As we decided to dine at The Rocks, we had two finalists - The Four Seasons Hotel and the Park Hyatt. We made our final decision by means of flipping the coin... which led us to The Bar at Four Season Hotel's. The dessert sampler had three offerings - the spiced chocolate pot de creme, passionfruit pound cake with vanilla mascarpone, and hazelnut praline parfait with sesame snap. The chocolate pot was like chocolate ganache spiced with cinnamon and cloves, and I thought it could also have been szechuan peppers that gave it a tingly aftertaste. The pound cake was like a good butter cake which was delicious but not outstanding. The hazelnut praline parfait was the winner - absolutely gorgeous, it was like a semifreddo, with excellent smooth melt in your mouth flavour. Wine - Browns Brothers orange muscat, reminds me of the miranda golden botrytis, but not as syrupy.

A great night was had by all. Delicious.

Dolcissimo, Haberfield

Kyna is one of my best friends from high school, we've known each other for 16 years now! Her visit this month was very exciting to us, and since she is our guest of honour, we asked what she wanted to eat. PIZZA she said, AT THE PLACE CINDY TOOK US TO LAST YEAR! So its off to

DOLCISSIMO at Haberfield.

We were very pleased when the waiter showed us to the nice side of the restaurant and we happily settled

in by the window, and started our girly chat. For some reason I decided to order a spider (Sprite with vanilla ice cream) - it's very unlike me but I felt like one and thoroughly enjoyed it! Pizzas are great as always, but we were a little disappointed with the

tiramisu (sigh... Napoli in Bocca is closed for renovation) which would have been nicer if there are more sponge biscuits. I do like the pizzas at Dolcissimo, but you need to know that you go there

for the food, NOT the service, which can fluctuate from very

attentive and friendly to ignorant and negligent.

I'll certainly go back