Banzai Sushi & Noodle Bar

When you feel like good, tummy-pleasing, reasonably priced sushi, ramen, udon, teppanyaki and nicely Japanese, then this is the right place to be. You can even surf the net as you enjoy your food! The staff are friendly, providing excellent service and the servings are pretty large (although, I still think it's not as big as Matsuri).

The restaurant is small, but it's decorated with astro and japanese anime. It's very cafe like - minus the coffee and I simple love staring at the anime photos. But truth be told, it's trying to resemble the noodle bars of Japan, except there is no "bar" in the middle, like they do back in the land of the rising sun!

I've been here twice, I think their ramen noodles, although the portion is big, the noodle itself felt like they were the two minute noodles, but then again I maybe comparing it to what I've had in Japan, and it's just not the same. Their Teppanyaki on the other hand is excellent - so definately have that!!

Chicken Ramen - it looks and faintly smells like laksa??!

Chicken Teppanyaki.. *yummies*!!

K's tempura and his side of salmon sushi

Their gyoza is quite a good start to the meal (unfortunately I have no photos!), or their tataki (also no photos!) seeing as it does take a while for the mains to arrive so if you are hungry, getting an entree is recommended. I'm not a fan of their japanese tea - only because it's not macha, instead it's rice tea - but if you like rice tea then that's fine, I'm just being fussy.

Having said all that, I do like Banzai (hence I've been there twice!), it's a good place for a casual catch up, as the food is nice, portion size a large, the atmosphere relaxed and the price is resonable. It's like better than your fast food japanese, like taka, but not as great as Matsuri. It's the perfect middle, for a quick (tasty) bite to eat.

Little Caesar's Pizzeria - Mundaring

I've been slack, I admit, there are still so many restaurants, cafes, etc. that I haven't talked about. I've just been a lazy sod. So this little place up in the hills - Mundaring to be exact - way too far for my liking. I've been dying to go there for ages to try their dessert pizza but alas it took me almost 4 years to be bothered enough to drive 40minutes up a hill where it becomes pitch black and hey thank GOD it'd be the last time I be doing that, because *drum roll* Little Caesar's is now in LEEDERVILLE! YES YES YES!!

It was one of those really really really HOT days - perfect beach weather (in fact I came up from Scarborough - to make this trip - thus was about 1 hour to get there.. *grumbles*) and my first thought was ... "OMG it's sooooooooooo FAR this has better be worth it!!" OK so I get there and it's somewhat hard to find in the dark, but at least we have some friendly people in Perth so they pointed us to the right direction (we just happened to be right behind the shop! - there is massive parking behind civic video store!).

The shop is tiny, open pizza kitchen so you can observe their pizza making skills, a huge billboard with all the pizzas (which is the same in Leederville - except for the fact that there are so many billboards, compared to just the one Mundaring - I'm actually yet to eat at the leedy one, but I've walked past it). The restaurant only sits very few people so either get take-away or prepare to fight out for seats. Mundaring shop also doesn't open until 4pm. It also does NOT have ventilation so I strongly recommend sitting outside on a hot summer's day/night because it's literally like an oven inside the restaurant - I even had a thought about how the girls there can work in such heat!

cam-whoring while waiting for our pizzas

J getting re-fills of our drinks. EVERYTHING comes in glass bottles - i likey. It just makes the soft-drinks so retro.

The Smashing Pumpkin - from the vegetarin range

Mediterranean Squid - from their seafood collection

The Siesta Pizza - for the carnivours who likes a little spice in their life

The Max (The LOT) - for the Carnivours with a health conscious!

All arriving at our table in different sized tiers.

The Apple Strudle - Dessert Collection

As for their world best pizza? it's good, especially the pumpkin pizza, and possibly their dessert pizzas, which unfortunately I only had the chance to try one. I really didn't see the difference between their savoury pizzas and any other's wood-fired pizzas (like woodpecker's wood-fired pizzas in subiaco is pretty good!) - except for the pumpkin pizza that was just smashing! The Apple Strudle Dessert Pizza wasn't the best, in fact I really didn't like it. I should have tried the upside down cheesecake dessert pizza or the mudhoney dessert pizza or the eskimo joe dessert pizza, oh wells,  but that just means that I have to go back and this time I will NOT be going up the hill but heading to leederville. YAY!

Perth Zoo

Today was a lovely COOL summer day - the breeze that blew perfectly complemented the beaming sun. Actually it was the perfect weather for a Catamarane adventure, but it was also a good day to be at the zoo - not too hot.

We rode the Red Cat from Golden Hay Supermarket (Hay street), where we got our supplies of drinks, before heading to barrack street, walking down to the foreshore - waited for the ferry, which there was none due to something or rather happening/happened - so we had a free bus shuttle instead (not complaining!).

Perth's Wheel on the foreshore - *SIGH* so short T_T

The Bell Tower - which SHOULD have been taller, larger and grander.. but then some stupid people said it was too big and now it's tiny and short! (hmm.. I'm seeing a theme here??)

My cousin G laughing her head off whilst waiting for the bus hehe ^_^

The two girls sitting on the swans near the Swan River.

So having crossed the Swan River (via Narrows Bridge), walked straight down pretty Mead st ( I find this street pretty.. there's this certain charm about it!), crossed Mill Point Road, passed an art-concepted tree statue thing and there was the zoo.

Ok - Perth's Zoo is no Torango in terms of size but it has it's share of interesting animals - granted the variety isn't as great as some others, but hey it's pretty good for us. I LOVED the elephants and the Sun Bears (sooo cute!!). Happy watching. ^_^

G and her obsession with the coin stamps @ the enterance of the zoo.

FLUFFY penguins!!! ^_________^

A crocodile - which I thought was really not real - it just didn't move!! No wander why people and animals have mistake it for logs! (JUST THINK OF ALL THOSE MOVIES!)

Then we got really tired after all that walking to the foreshore then walking to the zoo and seeing the wetlands and birds we decided we needed our morning tea - bananas and apples! Totally healthy - we all need to lose weight.. except G! ^_^

The magpie was also having its tea - was digging around for worms..

Being all posey - because we can!

hehe I LOVE this photo that I took of my bro - he looks like a comic character - the one from Betty and Veronica comics - so funny

Time to continue exploring..

Posing in the bamboos - which had all these carvings of people's names and whatever on it.

G posing outside the Galapagos Tortoise compound

Orangatuns!! <3

Turtles having their lunch - whiles are tummy grumble..

Meerkets!! - So cute.

Lazing Rhinos - they were BIG and fat!

Us slowly trudging to the main cafe area for LUNCH! - seeing us there were hardly any animals on display - I guess they were also too busy eating!!

G wanted to write on the 90 year old carousel but then we all were against it so we went to the AUSSIE carousel instead.

Posers - I think it runs in the family...

FINALLY THE ELEPHANTS!!

All Girls Photo!

Sun Bears!! ^_^

After making our way seeing the big cats - we got really tired so decided to make our way out of the zoo and back to North-side of Perth. And thank God this time around the ferry was in service - because although the bus didn't take long to get to the zoo - it's always more fun to try different types of transportation (and I wanted to go on a ferry! hahaha XD~~~)

On the Ferry way home.

Thus ends our day at the Zoo and my present/outing for my bro - seeing as it is his birthday too!

* All photos were taken by Chiro & C or J and totally unedited because I'm yet to learn to use photoshop properly! hahha - so it's all naturale!