Perth (Year 2012) Day 1: Catalano's Cafe @ Victoria Park

(Source: from internet) 

I did not take a photo of the restaurant, sharing this to show you how the restaurant looks like.

Friends brought us to this restaurant for dinner on our first night. Catalano's Cafe is an Italian restaurant. Almost full house when we were there. Our friends made the order. So, our duty is to sit and wait for food. :)

Generous portion of big prawns

To me, everything was nice! Haha...Probably I'm hungry. You know, you'll easily get hungry in cold weather. LOL.

Catalano's Cafe

266 Albany Hwy,

Victoria Park

WA 6100, Australia.

P: (08) 9362 1121

Opening Hours: Daily 7am - 11pm

Website: http://www.catalanoscafe.com/

Perth (Year 2012) Day 1: Kailis' Fish Market Cafe @ Fremantle

Do visit the Fishing Boat Harbour when you're at Fremantle! A Beautiful place.

Make sure you visit Kailis' Fish Market Cafe! Recommended!

G.P. Kailis and sons was founded in 1928. Today, Victor, the youngest son of the founder, and his family continue the tradition at Fishing Boat Harbour, Fremantle. 

Located on the waterfront at Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour, Kailis' provides the finest seafood available and excellent service in a working fishing industry environment, creating an ambience that makes Kailis' unique, and one of the most memorable dining experiences in the world. 

(Source: Kailis' website: http://kailis.com/fremantle/index.html)

Queue to make your order at the counter and this thingy will beep you when your food is ready.

We ordered this seafood platter to share among 4 of us. This platter is truly big and a lot of chips were given. Thumbs up for this!

KAILIS FISH MARKET CAFE 

(Open 7 DAYS: 8AM TILL LATE)

46 Mews Road, Fremantle, WA

P: (08) 9335 7755

F: (08) 9430 4695

E: seafood@kailis.com

Perth (Year 2012) - Day 1: Fremantle

We reached Perth International Airport very early in the morning. It's very very cold outside even it's not windy. Our friend pick us up and we head to Hungry Jack's for an early breakfast since there's no other shops opening at that time.

Hungry Jack's is a franchise of Burger King operated in Australia. Nothing special, they are selling the similar items like other fast food restaurants.

Then we headed to our friends' house to have a rest before we depart to Fremantle, our first destination of our trip.

Look at this cute little guy, its name is Muffin, belongs to our friend. So hyper-active and friendly.

Fremantle is a city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River. It's a distance away from the Perth City. Some of the must visit in Fremantle include Fishing Boat Harbour, Fremantle Markets, Fremantle Prison, Maritime Museum and The Round House.

We had a walk at the beach before we visit the attractions of Fremantle. Such a beautiful beach! Blue sky, blue sea... I love it!

Let me tell you something about the weather here. It is very very cold in the morning but when the sun rise and near to noon, it's going to be hot, and again when it comes to evening, the weather turns cold again. This is Spring in Perth.

We had a morning tea after a walk at the beach. Our friends just simply pick one cafe.

Here's the main entrance of the Fremantle market. Oh, I love this market. It is so big and everything were arranged neatly at every stall. You can buy some snacks to eat too while "shopping" in the market. 

This is the entrance of the Fremantle's Prison. Nothing much to show you. You can see the layout of the prison and there's a mini museum displaying the old age items from the prison.

This was taken at The Round House.  From here you can have a nice sea view.

Big submarine

The end of the tour for Day 1. :)

Perth (Year 2012) - Itinerary

This is my first trip to Perth and my first visit to a place of 鬼佬. :)

Full details may not be available as the itinerary was planned by our friends staying in Perth and so sorry that I did not jot down much details. Hard to recall as well as this trip was way back in year 2012. 

We were staying at friend's house and hence, there will not be any accommodation information available in the coming blog posts about Perth.

Do remember to apply VISA and you can had your VISA done online. It's easy. You may refer to this website: http://www.visas-australia.com/visas/etavisa.asp

And please get your research done online what you can bring into Perth and what you should not.

This is the itinerary of the trip:

2012-09-09
Airport - Friend's home - Fremantle 
Breakfast: Hungry Jack's; a cafe in Fremantle (no details available)
Lunch: Kaili's
Dinner: Catalano's Cafe

2012-09-10
Perth City: St Mary's Cathedral - Perth Concert Hall - St George Cathedral - Perth Town Hall - Swan Bells - London Court
Breakfast: Croissant Express
Dinner: Atencion!

2012-09-11
Perth City: State Library - Western Australian Museum - Shopping Mall
Brunch: King Street

2012-09-12
Breakfast - Perth Zoo - Little Caesars Pizzeria - Chocolateria San Churro

2012-09-13
Brunch at McDonald - Kings Park - Bentley Hotel

2012-09-14
Perth City: China Town - The Perth Mint - KTV
Breakfast: Dome
Lunch: Jus Burger
Dinner: Viet Hoa

2012-09-15
Wild Dolphins watching - Penguin Island - Winery visits
Lunch and dinner: No details available

2012-09-16
Back to Malaysia

Coliseum Cafe & Grill Room @ Jaya 33

"Established in 1921, Coliseum Cafe & Grill Room is one of the oldest in the country and is a walk down memory lane for KL in the early 1920s. Over ninety years old and it's one of the best examples of the city's colonial heritage.

The furniture and decorative memorabilia creates a wonderful nostalgic feeling. The old furniture and decorations are preserved from when it was first opened in the 1920s when at that time, the Coliseum was the finest cafe & grill room in Malaysia."

(Source: The Coliseum Cafe & Grill Room's menu)

Banana & Chocolate Spring Rolls with Vanilla Ice Cream(RM 11.90)

If you asked me if this is nice, I would say it's quite messy eating this. I don't think it's a good combination.

Fried Ice Cream (RM 7.90)

The fried ice cream comes as a ball. When you cut it, you will be able to see the vanilla ice cream. :) The "ball" itself is sweet, wonder what is it made of. Is it Gula Melaka?

Should come back again to try their sizzling steak. I've seen people ordering and it smells so nice.

Coliseum Cafe & Grill Room
Ground Floor, The Plaza, Jaya 33, 

Section 13, Petaling Jaya.
Tel: 03-7932-3228
Opening hours: 10am-10pm

The Lazy Cook: D.I.Y. Nissin Instant Noodle

又是懒人午餐的时间。单吃泡面很单调。吃泡面也可以吃得多样化。以上材料都可以在超市买得到。这一次泡面的配料有一盒已切成薄片的五花肉、一包金针菇和一盒cherry tomatoes。这些分量可以煮两人份。

材料次序建议先放猪肉再放cherry tomatoes最后放面和金针菇。猪肉是生的，当然煮久一点也比较安全。Cherry tomatoes 煮的皮略裂开了就好了，太软的话没什么口感。金针菇煮太久的话也会绵绵的，完全没有口感，所以等到最后跟面一起煮几分钟就好。

Pao Xiang Bak Kut Teh @ One Utama

宝香肉骨茶已经开了好几家分店了，这还是我第一次在冷气房吃肉骨茶。One-U 的宝香肉骨茶就在商场里唯一的中药店后面。位置并不是很明显，不知道生意好不好。

这里的小菜选择很不错，没想到肉类的选择也那么多。

招牌肉 (右上) RM 16.00

三层肉 (右下) RM 14.50

油条 RM 5.00

菜心 RM 9.50

白饭 （小）x2 RM 3.00

虽然肉骨茶给的分量看起来小，但却能够满足一个人的胃。汤浓浓的，还不错喝。个人觉得油条的价格有点贵，可是，吃肉骨茶一定要配上油条，这是我的个人惯例。:) 

基本上这里的食物都很不错，可是汤不够烧，加上在冷气房，冷气很快就把汤吹冷了。

宝香绑线肉骨茶

Pao Xiang Bak Kut Teh

P282, Lower Ground Floor Promenada, 

1 Utama Shopping Centre, 
Lebuh Bandar Utama, Petaling Jaya.
Tel: +60 3-7725 2599

The Lazy Cook: D.I.Y. Penang White Curry Noodle

这就是之前在市面上很抢手的槟城白咖喱面。我常常看到很多朋友都在面子书上问哪里可以买。真的很好吃吗?

不用特地去找就已经有人自动送给我，原因是买的人吃了一包后觉得不好吃。哈哈！反正都拿了，就试试看。

通常槟城咖喱面都加虾、猪血、豆腐卜之类的。这次我就来点不一样的配料。如下图，我加了猪肉丸、包菜和白菇。

味道不是那么差，就是调味粉的味道太重了。虽然也不怎么喜欢，但还是吃完了。

Steam N Grill Burger @ SetiaWalk

Make your order at the counter. Here, you can choose your preferred flavor for the bun - Original, Charcoal, Spinach and Whole meal.

They are selling all kind of fruit flavoured ice-creams too!

All burger sets come with soft drinks and fries. We had their top recommended burgers which is the Serunding Beef Burger set (RM 17.00) and Otak-Otak Burger set (RM 16.00).

Serunding Beef Burger with Spinach flavored bun. 

Otak-Otak Burger with whole meal bun. Very thick piece of Otak-Otak is given.

Their food is not bad. The only problem they had is the location. They will be able to catch the crowd if they are located at the Ground floor. It was so quiet during dinner time when we visited. And, I've seen the staff giving out leaflet at the Ground floor (where the crowds are hanging around) to create awareness.

Actually, their signboard can be easily seen at the main road, wondering why it doesn't helps to bring at least small crowd.

Steam N Grill Burger 

J-03A-1, Setiawalk, Persiaran Wawasan,

Pusat Bandar Puchong

43300 Puchong 

Selangor

Business Hours: 

Tue – Thu: 11:30 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Fri – Sun: 10:00 am. – 11:00 p.m.

Coconut House @ Jaya One

According to all information from bloggers, Coconut House which originated from Malacca has been closed down many times and finally the owner re-opened it here at Jaya One. I think they are running not bad as I see big crowd during lunch time.

If I'm not mistaken, they had 3 pages of set lunch to select. @@ I've been spending a long time to look through their menu. 

In the end, we decided to go for pasta. One set lunch (Ice Honey Lemon and Lemon and Rosemary Chicken Fettuccine), one Coconut Blended and one Vongole.

Set Lunch: Lemon and Rosemary Chicken Fettuccine + Ice Honey Lemon (RM 13.90)

They made nice honey lemon. The pasta is nice but still far from perfect, it's a little bit too oily. The chicken is very tender and juicy but to me, it's a bit too salty.

Coconut Blended (RM 9.90)

Cute isn't it? Nothing special inside this cute coconut mug, it's only blended coconut. 

Vongole (RM 21.90)

Quite spicy and the clams were all so small. 

Well, we didn't feel satisfied with this meal. Probably we should try their pizza which is baked using wood-fire.

Coconut House

D-9-G, Block D, Jaya One,
Jalan Universiti, 46200 Petaling Jaya.
Tel: 03-7931 9998  

Email: jrock.ch@gmail.com

Operating Hours: 11:00-23:00