Bali

Hi again, it's that time of the week where i share an amazing experience from my life! :)

In July, Ryan (my bf), me and my friends went to Bali for ten relaxing days - it was so nice to do nothing but lay in the sun and eat more than 3 meals a day!

My friend Sammy D has a villa right in the heart of Seminyak so we all stayed there and it was luxurious i tell you....luxurious!

It was so nice staying here again, we had our own chef that would cook us breakfast (note: Do not eat the bread in Bali...it's sweet!) and we never had to make our beds - it was just like a hotel but it was our own private house!
Everyday we would wake up reasonably early and head straight to the beach or go shopping, ahhhh being on a beach again was sooooo nice. Bali beaches are not the nicest but when it is hot and there is water around, i do not care!

We had a driver for a few days and he took us on day trips to places we could not get to by foot. One day we went to a water sports beach, i was not that inclined to do that many water sports as i am a woos and am always scared i am going to hurt myself but Sam, Ace and Ryan did so many different activities, it looked like awesome fun!

Matilda and i did however go on the Banana..it's a banana shaped blow up thingy that is attached to a boat by rope and the boast takes you on a ride, it is a lot of fun and you always fall of and have good laughs! Unfortunately this time the driver did not go fast enough for us to fall off but it was still fun anyway!

When we were not at the beach, we were out at night eating delicious food and drinking delicious cocktails...mmmmmmmm i still crave sitting on lounge beds drinking amazing concoctions of flavours. One night we went to a place call Potato Heads, its a large complex that is right on the water in Seminyak and it has a restaurant, cocktail area, pool, spa. We got there just in time to see the beautiful sunset and then we were ready to hit the cocktails!

We sat on a huge lounge that was right near the big infinity pool and chose so many cocktails by the end of the night we were a little drunk but i think more hyper from all the sugar in the cocktails!
This photo is me after sooo many photo's were taken and i was totally over it!

So my time in Bali was amazeballs, when we left, we had a flight up to Singapore then we had to get on a horrific Jetstar flight all the way back to Melbourne...it was hell! Then as soon as we landed, i got home and had fifteen minutes to get ready for Blogopolis....it was one crazy night and day! I am going to leave you with a few more photo's because who doesn't lurrve a photo :)

Peace and love xx

Oriental Tea House

Hi to everyone that reads my blog (which is no one! ha!)

Last night me and some lovely people, Grace, Jen, Dave and Erwin, went to Oriental Tea House in Melbourne Central to attend a night of learning how to make dumplings and eating them! Oh how delicious they were.

We were a few minutes late...trust...but when we got there we were greeted with a glass of champagne at our table - great way to start the night!

mmmmmm delicious champagne...Grace and I wished we could have refills...we even drank Daves (Thanks Dave!)

The main dude David Zhou who is the owner of Oriental Tea House got straight to work as he showed us how to make the perfect filling for your dumplings - at this point i was getting very hungry and the champagne was making me a little tipsy! We already had filling made and it was on our table and after he showed us how to wrap the perfect package of amazingness it was our turn to try!

It was harder than what it looked but we all finally got there with most of our dumplings looking like tortellini! We all got a steamer each to ourselves and there was enough mixture for us to make four dumplings each, it was good fun! Even David came round and showed us how to do it the master way!

These were my dumplings raw, i think they looked pretty good and now i can take my skill back to my kitchen!

Our little group were the last to get our dumplings back from being steamed - it was torture looking at the people sitting next to us munching away on theirs! Here are mine cooked!

They don't look much different apart from the wrinkly parts on the balls!! hehe. David had made a special sauce to go with our homemade dumplings and with the dumpling and the sauce together it was amazing....i want dumplings right now just thinking about it!

After we were all done munching away on our dumplings never wanting them to end, we had a small little course of Tea and spicy peanuts which was very delicious - the tea had a nice aroma to it.

Half way through drinking our tea and eating our nuts more DUMPLINGS! came out :) They were seafood mix and we all had 4 each and they were delicious!! Jen showed me the proper way to holf my chopsticks, I hope I do not forget :s.
The music that they were playing was hilarious - it's like they had on Love song dedications on 101.1, it brought out the love in all of us and Grace and I even sang a little bit!

After a bit of chatter another plate of food came out!

Unfortunately it was not more dumplings but it was still delish! I could not even finish it i was so full.
After this meal many people just got up and left - I could have not moved at this point i was very full! We decided to stay a little longer and lucky we did as we were asked if we would like a glass of wine and dessert! yay!

These Chocolate dumplings with ice-cream were amazingness! so delish but very filling.
On a whole the night was a great success - the lighting was perfect for people to take photo's, the music could not have been better and the atmosphere was great! If Oriental Tea House have another night like this you should all go...I certainly will be and I will be the dumpling master!

Until next time...Peace :)