Day 16: Good bye Melbourne~!

Last dinner of this trip with the girls and their men~!

The Kodiak Club

Address: 272 Brunswick St, Fitzroy VIC 3065, Australia

Carl's ordered this and a Kodiak burger (AUD17)

Mac ‘N’ Cheese Balls (AUD10) 

Macaroni rolled into four large balls with plenty of stringy cheese then coated with crumbs and fried. Served with a mild spiced mayo

Kodiak’s famous buffalo wings, half dozen (AUD10), dozen (AUD19) 

Crispy fried chicken wings tossed in American hot sauce. With celery sticks and blue cheese sauce.

Watermelon salad (AUD12)

Wwatermelon, cherry tomatoes, goat's cheese and a little lettuce, with a drizzle of honey rosemary vinaigrette.

Grilled cheese sandwich (AUD4) 

White bread & Kraft singles, toasted with butter and cut in triangles.

Overall, the food was interesting as I've never really had bar food before.

After dinner, we walked past a doughnut shop and spotted this huge giant glazed doughnut!

After dinner desserts at N2 extreme gelato

Address: 329 Brunswick St, Fitzroy VIC 3065, Australia

The cute chalkboard menu

I ordered the big fat baklava~

....which came with honey spiced walnuts and puff pastry, served with pistachio praline dusted whipped cream and a syringe of salted caramel. But since I'm not a fan of whipped cream, I opted for mine without it.

Best liquid nitrogen ice cream I've ever had~! I've never quire enjoyed the local ones as the texture was always not that good. But this one here is amazing!!! Plus with all the extra condiments, the gelato was to die for......which explains their long queues~

A perfect sweet ending to my amazing Melbourne trip~!!! :)

Day 16: Mount Dandenong

Last day trip for this round of my trip to Melbourne....

Here we are at SkyHigh Mount Dandenong~

Address: 26 Observatory Rd, Mount Dandenong VIC 3767, Australia

The place is so happening!

When we were there, we witnessed a marathon, a wedding ceremony, plus there were so many activities there for tourists.

There's even a little garden that we could explore~

Best part of all, the weather was really nice when we were there!

The sun was shining brightly but the weather was cooling~

Hence, we were able to snap so many pictures there.

There's also an observatory there where great views~

Truly thankful to have these 2 with me throughout my trip! Thanks to them, my trip has been filled with so much fun activities~!!! :D

hahahaha~

There's also a cafe there and a souvenir shop!

After that we explored around Mount Dandenong in search of some food~ and found this! hahaha....

We stopped by Miss Marple's Tea Room~

Address: 382 Mount Dandenong Tourist Rd, Sassafras VIC 3787, Australia

Devonshire scones~

Miss Marple's famous light and fluffy scones

We ordered two plain scones (AUD9.5) which were served with delicious home-made strawberry jam and lashings of freshly shipped cream

Really like this raspberry jam~ went super well with the scones~

The whipped cream was light and fluffy~

Belgian waffles that were served with creamy vanilla ice cream, topped with berries and a delicious berry sauce.

We also ordered their Yorkshire Gold tea (AUD4/pax)

Overall, it was a good experience as the food was really yummy. But beware that you might need to wait a while for seats due to the crowd.

Day 16: Breakfast at Beatrix

Beatrix

Address: 688 Queensberry St, North Melbourne VIC 3051, Australia

Meat-free Casablanca with roasted cauliflower, spicy harissa, rippled labne, chopped chickpea salad, herbs + toasted almond dukkah (AUD15)

I really enjoyed this dish. Healthy and delicious! I could eat this every morning~

The cakes at Beatrix are really interesting and I've never seen flavour combinations like these before.

Pear-a-misu cake! Layers of mascarpone crema, poached pear, pear jelly, sponge and coffee

I'm usually not a fan of tiramisu, but I really enjoyed this, especially the pear!!!

Apricot crumble cheesecake with cinnamon cookie crust

Love this as it has everything that I like....cookie crust, cheese, crumble, apricot and cinnamon!

Black forest cake with sour cherries~

I'm not a fan of black forest too but this was good.

Haven't seen this gal since our Kpop days like 7 or 8 years ago! hahaha.....looking back, I can't believe some of the silly things that we did but they were definitely fun.

Day 15: Yarra Valley

Yarra Valley Chocolaterie & Ice Creamery

Address: 35 Old Healesville Rd, Yarra Glen VIC 3775, Australia

Delicious looking chocolates~

Any chocolate you want, you can probably find it there. There's just sooo many different chocolates!

It was near Easter when I was there......

...hence all the bunny chocolates~

They're all wrapped really nicely and are perfect as gifts!

The kitchen was behind these huge bunny chocolate statues!

There's also a cafe there where one can order food or ice cream.

There's also some free tasting available at the chocolate counter. You can get a taste of milk chocolate, dark chocolate and white chocolate. I absolutely love the dark chocolate! So much that I bought some~

Plus the view there was lovely~

See this Lulu~ She just cannot sit still, climb here, climb there.....and in the end, rests on my feet! hahahaa

My tourist shot~

We spotted some horses near the entrance and went down to say hello~

So handsome~

Us attempting to pet them~

They were all very tame and friendly~ :D So happy that I got to pet a horse for the first time!

Yarra Valley Dairy

Address: 70-80 McMeikans Rd, Yering VIC 3770, Australia

hahahaa....Pancy! What are you doing?!

Wow~ gold mustard!

There's even free cheese tasting available~ so you get to taste the cheese before deciding which to buy

Yarra Valley Gateway Estate

Address: 667 Maroondah Hwy, Coldstream VIC 3770, Australia

This is the place to visit if you want to buy fresh produce or pick strawberries!

Coldstream Brewery

Address: 694 Maroondah Hwy, Coldstream VIC 3770, Australia

Pancy and Lulu picking fruit off this tree~ hahahaha....

After that we dropped by Costco where  I found the biggest bag of Lays I've ever seen!

We were there to buy some ingredients for a little root top BBQ at Pancy's place! Super happy as I haven't had BBQ in a long time! :) Plus we had some of Pancy's lovely home grown fresh produce~