Coffee Garam, Surry Hills

Coffee Garam is a new Indian-Australian fusion cafe in Surry Hills. First time I heard about the concept, I love it at first-heard (not sight :P). I think there are no other cafe which are having this theme yet in Sydney or maybe even Australia. You can enjoy the cafe atmosphere and menu but in the same times, having those Indian snacks and masala chai. 

When you pass this cafe, you couldn't really see what it's inside. However, when you go inside, you will be amazed with the nice modern interior and very nice colour combination. On the wall, there is a beautiful Taj-Mahal picture. The owner (Harvey Parekh) and the staff are very friendly; they know and remember almost all their customers. 

My friend and I decided to order 2 masala chai, French Toast (of course for me), bacon egg roll for her and my favourite Indian snack bhel puri. I was little bit worried whether my friend will like the chai and bhel puri. Guess what, she loves it! She found masala chai is different but very nice. Bhel puri was spicy but she almost finished the whole bowl by herself :) French Toast was very very good too; the bread was perfect for French Toast. Bacon egg roll is same like other places but my friend likes the sauce a lot and she didn't realize it was bbq sauce only. Masala chai is good but I like my own masala chai better :P My friend and I finished the whole masala chai. I heard the coffee made by the owner was awesome but I don't drink coffee so I didn't order, unfortunately. 


The price is very cheap, looking at the serving size. Bacon egg roll with coffee is only $6. French Toast is $8.50. Masala chai $3.60 for such teapot size was totally cheap! Bhel Puri is $6. With total around $26; My friend and I almost couldn't stand up anymore because we were too full :)


I am really suprised that they can serve such a good food without kitchen. They only have hot plates to prepare everything. 2 thumbs up for them. I really hope more people will know about this cafe because it's such a unique place and have brillliant food. 

bacon egg roll

 french toast

french toast

masala chai

bhel puri

bhel puri

masala chai

scrambled-eggs baquette

scrambled-eggs baquette

Coffee Garam

29-37 Bellevue St

Surry Hills NSW 2010, Australia

0423 917 605

http://www.coffeegaram.com

Lafangey Parindey

When I watched the trailer of Lafangey Parindey, I thought it will be a good movie. I went to cinema yesterday with my friend without any high expectations. I thought it will be good and entertaining.


Surprisingly, the movie was really good. The story-line was awesome although there were some parts little bit unreal but it's Bollywood movie, na? Neil Nitin is such a good actor; he delivered his dialogs brilliantly. I was convinced. My favourite moment was when Nandu (Neil Nitin) taught Pinky (Deepika) how to see although she is blind. He put her head into the water and he said something to her. I couldn't remember exactly what he said but it's awesome dialog. Deepika is improving a lot ... she can show more expression nowadays. Kay Kay Menon is awesome; although it's such a short role for him but his appearance definately gave impact for the whole movie.


My friend and I were expecting that this movie will have sad ending. Because everything is too good to be true. We thought Nandu (Neil Nitin) will die in the end. Luckily, this is still Bollywood movie and don't forget, it's a love story movie produced by Yash Raj. I think it will be a better movie if it has a sad ending; giving unexpected ending to the audience. However, it's allright ... this is really a good movie and I don't mind to watch it again. I don't like the music though.

Wahwah Lounge, Waterloo

When I left home on Sunday morning, I knew I want to go to a cafe but I wasn't sure which one I should go. I decided to drive to Waterloo and chose whatever cafe that served French Toast (yes ... I was craving for French Toast). 


My friend wanted to go to The French House but they didn't have French Toast. We decided to go to another cafe and on the way back, we would stop at the French House to buy bread and pastries (the pastries looked so yummy and beautiful).


We went to Wahwah Lounge because they served French Toast (priority) and the place was crowded ... must be something good in this place, we thought. My friend ordered coffee + bruchetta breakfast and I ordered French Toast + strawberries banana smoothie. I could imagine how good the smoothie would be because it was a nice sunny day. Unfortunately, they run out yogurt and they couldn't make smoothie unless I didn't mind to replace yogurt with ice cream. I thought it would be ugly ... then I started looking around and I saw a lady drinking something green and looked fresh. I decided to order that one, the juice name is the pal (pear, apple and lime) hmmmm sounds good!


The French toast is good although the portion was quite small. The pal was awesome! I think I would come back to this cafe again because of the juice. My friend said, the coffee was good too although his food was allright. The service was great too, no complains about that.

the pal, very refreshing

bruchetta breakfast

french toast

Wahwah Lounge

Shop 2, 1 Danks St

Waterloo NSW 2017, Australia

(02) 9699 3456

Open Mon, Tue 7:30am-4pm; Wed, Thu 7:30am-10pm; Fri, Sat 7:30am-5pm; Sun 8am-3pm

http://www.wahwahlounge.net.au

Cafe Ish, Surry Hills

Cafe Ish was one of the first cafes that I went when I started my food mission in Sydney; it's around 2-3 years ago? I really like the soft-shell crab served there; I couldn't remember the exact name though. 


Finally I had a chance to go there again last weekend for my brunch alone. Cafe Ish has moved from Albion Street to Campbell Street, one block away. Now they have a bigger size cafe; although, I think I prefer the old one, small but cute cafe :) I noticed they have more staff also now. 


When I looked at the menu, I was really happy because the soft-shell crab was still there on the menu ... but there were two now. I decided to choose crab omelette because I tried the other one, crab with hollandaise sauce on toast. I ordered "wild chai" latte as well; I think I ordered the same drink before. 


The food was really good although I prefer the crab with hollandaise sauce on toast (I will definately roder this next time). The chai latte was allright, I couldn't say it was my favourite. 


Cafe Ish is famous in Sydney because their food are different and very good too. I will come back again when I feel like eating soft-shell crab again for my brunch :) Don't forget, to check out different salt that they have and how they serve the pepper (the storage is so cute ....)

wild chai

wild chai

soft-shell crab omelette

Cafe Ish

82 Campbell st

Surry Hills NSW 2010, Australia

(02) 9281 1688

http://www.cafeish.com.au