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Tuesday 29 November 2011

Late night dumplings at New Flavour Restaurant, Dominion Road


I often tell S how lucky we are to live in Auckland whenever we go food hunting at night. At 10pm on a Wednesday night, you are spoilt for choice if you live in Auckland. At least, our choices are not limited to Maccas, Wendy's, kebabs and greasy pies from a petrol station.

We have walked past New Flavour on numerous occasions but have only tried it's food recently. We were often put off by the crowd but that's a good sign isn't it? This place is a real gem and you can tell words had spreaded like wildfire. About 6-12 months ago, you will only see mostly Asian people on this part of Dominion Rd but of late, it's transforming into a Ponsonby / K'rd 


All the dumplings here are handmade. We saw a woman making these by hand while we were waiting for our food. The menu is extensive, you can choose from a variety of meat and vegetable combinations i.e pork  & chives, lamb & fennel,etc, steamed, boiled, fried or combination of fried and steamed. We chose steamed pork and coriander dumplings. 20 morsels of these handmade goodies for only $8 ! They were delicious. Generous amount of pork meat and not just just fats with coriander, dipped in chilli oil and vinegar. The skin of the dumplings are really good too...NOT doughy and thick like some that we have come across.




Also on the menu are chinese pancakes. They come in sweet & savoury . We chose a savoury option - spring onion pancakes. 


These were stunningly good ! Thin and crispy and not greasy at all. Every bite is so light and the best surprise is they are only $1.50 per portion. Each portion are 6 pieces, enough for 2 to snack on while waiting for the dumplings. 
We also ordered a portion of cucumber and tofu salad and it was really good too. So light and refreshing. The tofu strips are not the usual soft cubes you get in Chinese restaurants, these resembles spaghetti and tossed with soy sauce, sesame oil and some chilli oil but not overly oily at all. 

If you are craving for dumplings after this post, the address is  541 Dominion Road, Mt Eden, ph 638-6880.
Opening hours are 5pm to 3am.
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Thursday 24 November 2011

A hearty vegetarian dinner from Revive Cafe !!



Whenever I try to be a vegetarian for a meal or two, I was always hesitant because the lack of options.
Often you can only opt for a carbo rich meal i.e  vegetarian lasagne that tastes like cheese on cardboards and
dodgy sandwiches with very little fibre. S and I try to have a few meat free meals a week because we think that it's good for us and eating less meat overall is probably a good thing for the environment.We went to Revive to take out 2 meals and 1 salad meal and then went for my short run in Cornwall Park before coming home without the stress of thinking what to make / buy for dinner.


I've recently bought a few $6 vouchers from Grab One and has been to Revive a few times to pack some dinners and I have to say that I really enjoy their food. Lots of veg, lentils and whole grains. I bought a hot pot of the day : Italian White Beans in a Romesco Sauce on Brown Rice which is Gluten Free too. I really enjoy the beans and sauce. I have only used white beans in salads and sometimes made into a dip but cooking it in a tomato base sauce is pretty good. I might cook mine with Barilla's Arabiata sauce for my pasta..yum!

Quinoa salad with broccoli. I never knew what to do with quinoa but making a salad with is so delicious and easy. Must try !


Moroccan Chickpeas (gluten free) and Fresh Vegetable Medley w Spinach, Carrot & Cauliflower . There was lots of food, no doubt but I don't mind refuelling my body with loads of goodness. Will definitely be getting more take-outs from Revive on weekdays. They different menu each day to keep the options interesting. Go to their website to view their latest updates: http://revive.co.nz/.  
p/s: I don't work for or benefit in anyway from them. Just an honest recommendation especially if you are vegetarian and lives in Auckland Central.

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Wednesday 23 November 2011

Ombre Hair with Kevin Murphy Color Bug



I have been craving for something fun to do on my hair especially with summer coming up. But I have never been a fan of spending more than 5 mins on my hair in the morning when I can barely even get out of bed after
hitting the snooze button for the gazillionth time ! I found this photo on Pinterest and absolutely adore it. Recently found out that an Australian haircare hairdresser /company, Kevin Murphy that sells a temporary hair  call Color Bug that  you can DIY on the weekend and achieve pink/orange/purple hair and can be washed off easily to go back to work on Monday ! I have to get it soon! I am not really fond of pink hair but maybe orange? 
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Wednesday 16 November 2011

Back in Action !

Sorry for the long absence. I have been so busy with work lately but that's not a good excuse I know.
Also, to top it off, I have so graciously-accidentally deleted some of my older posts. It was absolute horror. Sure I can re-post the blog but it's not the same. Thanks to a lot of dedicated geniuses out there who know how to retrieve silly mistakes like these. So in the case that you might have an unfortunate accident like this go
to this link for a life-saving tips: http://www.bloggertipsandtricks.com/2010/04/recover-accidentally-deleted-post-part.html. Thank you Peter @Enviroman.


I will be back soon with the next exciting post. Meanwhile, enjoy this short post about Fauja Singh who'd just competed in the Toronto Marathon at the young age of 100 !! Now there's no reason not to run ey ?
Ok, I need some tea to calm my nerves until the next post!

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