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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Crust ‘Simply Better’ Launch

Brought to you by Nuffnang and Crust Pizza

Whilst pizza classics like supreme and meat lovers will always hold a place in my heart, lately I’ve been more interested in more unusual flavour combinations. With pizza flavours like pulled pork, tandoori chicken and peking duck becoming more mainstream, it seems like any dish can (and will) be recreated on a pizza these days!

So when I was invited to attend Crust Pizza’s event to sample their new Simply Better range, with three new exciting flavours, I was quite keen to attend! And what better way to sample good food than relaxing by the beach with live music?

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Travel: Kyoto, Japan | Green Tea Desserts and Okonomiyaki

by Von at 5:53 PM 2 Comments

What's a holiday without a bit of a adventure?

Yasaka no To Pagoda

Our next stop on our Japan trip is Kyoto, only a short train ride from Osaka plus a taxi ride to our guesthouse. We split between two taxis as we had two big luggages, but it wasn't until we got onto the taxis and that we realised how little known the location of the guesthouse was. Neither of our taxi drivers knew where it was!

Having the address in Japanese and a screenshot of Google maps seemed little use and we thought for sure that we'd be stranded (separately too as the taxis had each taken their own routes) until luckily we caught a glimpse of the other taxi and decided to follow behind. Eventually we made it there, by which time our stomachs were grumbling so took the 30 minute walk back down the hill to find food.

Mendoraku dai 麺道楽大

There wasn't much within walking distance of the guesthouse- a small sushi train, a bar and a noodle restaurant. We'd chosen the noodle restaurant but because of the confusing signage, we walked into bar instead of the small stairway down into the noodle bar and embarrassingly walked out ten minutes later.