Ishizuka Melbourne Cuisine for Randomosity

 

Expensive meal for Joel's Birthday. We were still hungry afterwards, so we went to a dumpling alley. 

I realised the photos would be buried in my hard drive forever after the occasion. I might as well post them here like a diary. 

Sony A7RV + FE 24mm f1.4 GM

This is Joel and I 

Linking Randomosity and FACE OFF

Creme Brulee

This desert was a great delight before I went to bed!

So wonderfully done

Winter food

Main course at Enoteca

Ox tongue ravioli - Italian

A restaurant discovered in the boring Richmond of Victoria. Very nice winter food though. One hat restaurant.

Quail smoked and onion boiled

At traralgon Neilsons. A very delicate dish

Desert assorted at Neilson's

Traralgon Neilson's

Lamb tenderloin

Traralgon Neilson's Lamb

Smoked quail at Neilson's

At Neilson from Traralgon

Pork Confit gone wrong!

This supposed to be a delight with delicate fat to melt on the tongue. Instead, this spanish restaurant was all failure through and through. Look at that thickness of uncooked fat!!! What a rip off. This was at Warrambool.

Fusion dish, Kobe Jones, Dockland

It was once said ...

Fusion cuisine is something when a chef is not well trained in 2 fields, combining half learnt skill from 2 styles of cuisine...

Sad existence.

However, this one did taste great. A bit of Japanese and French.

Kobe Jones, Dockland., Melbourne.

Lobster Paela

Good food never fails to imrpove depression scale :)

Toro- adbomen part of the fish

Beautiful dish tried at Nobu. Refreshing and wonderful tasting.

:)

Love Lamb

Delicious food :)

This Greek lamb stew is beautiful

King Salmon

This dish is so luxuriously seasoned. It made my day

Steamed Shark, Lake Entrance, Victoria, Australia

This image is taken by Voigtlander 40mm f2 SL

This is a dish hard to forget. The reason being so unforgettable is the way it is discovered in a tourist coastal town of Victoria - Lake Entrance.

This place is reknown for its estuary exit of a river called Murray. The place is nothing but wattle trees. Yet most of the shop keepers liked to consider me as a Japanese speaking the twisted Japanese to me "O denki Deska?" Whatever. I even treated your regional health director in your regional hospital and stopped generalising me as a tourist!

This dish is sampled locally from the local fish market. Usually shark cannot be steamed for the very reason that it has contained high urea concentration within the flesh. The taste is not really pleasant if not deep fried like the good old time fish n chips.

But this plate of food was one of the best dishes I had in the region. Cost like 39 dollars but it was well worth it. Again, this type of refreshing bright colour can only derive from Voigtlander lens. So much clarity and rich intense colour.

Well, the restaurant had a chef that was originally working in a French restaurant in France. My question to the chef was why the heck he wanted to move to such a coastal town at all?