Tony's On Lorne St(Auckland/NZ)

Only spent one night in Auckland CBD, me and my friend decided to have dinner at Tony's On Lorne St, as one of her friends recommend it. it locates on the Lorne st, not on the main road but still quite easy to find. the decoration there is like contoury style. btw, the waitress is very pretty. ^^

a nice and quite environment.

Its menu can be found on its website : http://www.tonyslornestreet.com/

we had the $35 early bird deal which is quite worthwile.

Green lipped Mussels – Pan fried fresh mussels glazed with a Thai green curry sauce with a hint of tomato salsa

Half dozen Oyster Natural

Lamb Shanks – braised lamb shanks served with golden kumara mash, seasonal vegetable and mint gravy.

Pork Belly – Free range pork belly roast with crackling, served with a bacon & onion potato gratin and seasonal vegetable.

overall, the food are good quality. worth the money spend. i wont mind go there again.

Fish seafood Grill

To celebrate one of the fellow finsihing up his master degree, our group decide to share him a dinner. i suggest the super tuesday deal at dockland, and everyone are happy with the idea.

one of us is muslim , he only eats halal meal, so we choose to go to a seafood place.

the place we pick is Fish Seafood Grill. i did bit search on the place, someone really likes it, some review said the service was horrible....em,,,we just take the risk, and so we can have our own word.

anyway, made the booking on the morning, and was told to must have main and dessert each person to recieve the 50% off super tuesday deal. why not, we love to have some sweet.

after work/uni, got the place by tram, it was not too busy, good!

yes, i have looked at menu online from http://www.fishrestaurant.com.au/ before, so i know what i am going to have, the spanish seafood rice /paella:

others had salmon, yellowtale kingfish, fish & chips, etc.

we all enjoyed our food, but i still think mine is the best, lol. they do know how to make the seafood, my paella is nice and hot(both temperature hot and spicy hot) full of flavour from seafood, sausage. others said thier fish are nice too,

here comes the deseert, all of us order Bombe Alaska, the ice cream on the fire, lol~

Overall, the service is good, the girl seving us is quite new, but she is okay, always with a smile.

the food is well presented, good flavored, and what i love the most, the price is in half.

Burwood Teppanyaki House

Ting and i went to Burwood teppanyaki house the other day. i have been driving pass the restraunt for couple times, and always wanted to have a go.

so we just randomly decided to have dinner out. we arrived around 8pm, no booking since its just a weekday, we recon it wouldnt be too busy.

after looked at the menu, we chose the "Aka Matsu", which i have no idea what does it mean,,,but the food looks good, inlcuidng steak, duck, lobster,,etc, sounds a big treat though it is expensive, $88 per head exclude drinks and dessert.


firstly, came the seaweed salad and soya bean. the salad is atucally quite nice, i was expected the green type seaween salad you can buy from those japanese takeaways,,,no they are not, it was nice and refresh. the dressing is different, taste like some sort of peanutbutter in in.


Then, we were served the miso soup,,,another suprise, the soup was thick, i have never had miso soup like this before. dont know how they cook it, the beated egg looks perfect. then you can either choose grilled oyster or sashimi, since we have two person, we order the both. it seems the sashimi portion is bigger than the oyster(only one piece). Both taste all right.Here comes the seafood: lobster and fish. we were given sauce plates once we were seated, but when we asked the chef which sauce we should use for the seafood, he told us all the food are cooked with sauce.....basically the suase plates are for decoration. lolthe following picture is the duck, and you might also see the beef steak being cooked on hot plate behind it.

the last are the fired rice. the chef asked we if we would like to play some catch games, we didnt do, but the other tables did, they seem to have great fun.

we were so full, and could finsh all the food, the waitress kindly gave us takeaway containers, and she also suggest their ice cream are really nice.....we were tempered, so ting ordered green tea ice cream(her long time favourite), and i had the sticky rice ice cream.

the waitress suggested us to try those little color balls,,,she said its juicy balls,,,and yes,,,,she was right,,,there were some kind of liquid/juice inside the little balls....i have never tasted this before,,,very interetsing.

Overall, its quite expenerice, but the food is nice, staff are friendly, and you might want to play some throw and catch games.