Sichuan Dining Room

Tuesday 2 Feb,2010
From the outside, the restaurant looks just like any other suburban Chinese restaurant (which was why we’d never been) but the dining room was large and spacious (I guess it also helped there only three tables were taken up) but the inside was rather nicely decked out. We, of course, have a TV playing Hong Kong movie in the corner (i like that). The corn kernels were yummy. It was piping hot and crunchy with sandy, salty egg yolk ‘batter’. It was the best thing since sliced bread. I swear if they sell this at the cinema instead of pop corn, I would be in heaven. The corn used, I suspect, was frozen corn kernels. I was actually expecting tinned corn and was pleasantly surprised. Yum. We were also given segments of sweet navel orange at the end.

ALVIN 2

Monday 2 Feb,2010
In the “Squeakquel,” pop sensations Alvin, Simon and Theodore end up in the care of Dave Seville’s twenty-something nephew Toby (Zachary Levi). The boys must put aside music superstardom to return to school, and are tasked with saving the school’s music program by winning the $25,000 prize in a battle of the bands. But the Chipmunks unexpectedly meet their match in three singing chipmunks known as “The Chipettes” - Brittany, Eleanor and Jeanette. Romantic and musical sparks are ignited when the Chipmunks and Chipettes square off.

Camberwell Sunday Market

Sunday 31 Jan,2010
Camberwell Sunday Market is an extremely popular trash and treasure market.It is held every Sunday by the Rotary Club of Balwyn, in the carpark at the rear of Burke and Riversdale roads, Camberwell.It attracts hundreds of stall holders and thousands of bargain hunters every Sunday. The Market has been responsible for raising over $7,000,000 for the community since 1976.

The Palace

Saturday 30 Jan,2010
Luke Mangan, one of Australia’s leading chefs has returned to his hometown to open a modern gastropub at the old Palace Hotel site on City Road, South Melbourne. The interior, overseen by leading designer, Neil Bradford, features contemporary furnishings along side the refurbished historical finishes of this old worker’s pub. The Palace by Luke Mangan is the latest offering from the chef entrepreneur and his first restaurant in Melbourne. The Palace is a contemporary urban gastropub serving modern Australian pub food. The kitchen is overseen by Head Chef MJ, who has been working with Luke at his restaurants since 2004.

AVATAR again

Friday 29 Jan,2010
The film was great so i saw twice. After the film i did some research on the Internet. The director is a genius.
Development on Avatar began in 1994, when Cameron wrote an 80-page scriptment for the film. Filming was supposed to take place after the completion of Titanic, for a planned release in 1999, but according to Cameron, the technology was not yet available to portray his vision of the film. Work on the language for the film's extraterrestrial race began in summer 2005, and Cameron began developing the script and fictional universe in early 2006.
The film was released in traditional 2-D, as well as 3-D, RealD 3D, Dolby 3D, and IMAX 3D formats. Avatar is officially budgeted at $237 million;other estimates put the cost at $280–310 million to produce and $150 million for marketing. The film is being touted as a breakthrough in terms of filmmaking technology, for its development of 3D viewing and stereoscopic filmmaking with cameras that were specially designed for the film's production.
Avatar premiered in London, UK on December 10, 2009, and was released on December 18, 2009 in the U.S. and Canada to critical acclaim and commercial success. It grossed $27 million on its opening day domestically (in the United States and Canada) and $77 million domestically on its opening weekend. It opened two days earlier internationally and grossed $232 million worldwide in its first five days of international release. Within three weeks of its release, with a worldwide gross of over $1 billion, Avatar became the second highest-grossing film of all time worldwide, exceeded only by Cameron's previous film Titanic. In response to the film's financial success, Cameron confirmed the possibility of two sequels.

Quanjude Roast Duck

Thursday 28 Jan,2010
During the 144 years, QUANJUDE has experienced business vicissitudes and survived the arduous ordeal of time. Throughout the years, QUANJUDE dishes have been greatly enriched due to developing and innovation.

With its long history, Quanjude roast duck enjoys a high reputation among domestic and overseas consumers for the peculiar roast technique and outstanding quality. It ranks the first not only in Chinese Famous Dishes, compiled by all-China famous chefs under the organization of Ministry of Commerce in 1958, but also in Elite of Chinese Famous Dishes, published by China and Japan in 1982. In many cases, Quanjude lists the first among famous restaurants.

In China, the well-known All-Duck Banquet is headed by QUANJUDE roast duck and supported by over 400 dishes with QUANJUDE characteristic flavor. Government leaders, officials and VIPs from nearly 200 countries and regions have visited QUANJUDE roast duck restaurants and had dinner here.

Dainty Sichuan Food

Wednesday 27 Jan,2010
Chongqing hot pot appeared in TaoKuang period in Qing Dynasty, around 1820 to 1850. Frist eaten by poor boatmen and dock workers of the Yangtze River in Chongqing area, the affordable but delicious dish soon spread to the rest of Chongqing. The labourers used to boil cheap ingredients like cow offal in a small pot together with a lot of chilli and Sichuan pepper for seasoning and get rid of the smells. In 1934, the frist hot pot restaurant appeared in Chongqing. The mud stove remained, but the partitioned iron port was replaced with smaller copper pots, the customers picked their own soup and dipping sauce for hygiene and choice.