Please excuse our absenteeism..

Hey Readers,

We just wanted to say and apologise of our absenteeism lately. Whilst we have been away, we have been getting in touch with our creative side and employing the knowledge of making a short video to promote what we are about and what we do.

So, here it is: 

Have a look and tell us what you think! Comment, watch, watch again, and perhaps even share the video!

Love Thyme-forfood :) x

Coffee on a rainy Saturday - The Coffee Club

Although it was raining and stormy this morning (which is Saturday), I still had to get up early for a group meeting at Uni...which is sad...but anw, after all the hard work, we (me and my group partner) decided to have a quick lunchtime at The Coffee Club in Macquarie Shopping Center. Just a few steps away from the campus, getting cozy and chit chat away, shouldn't be better!

There weren't too many people when we arrived, although it was lunch time. I got myself a Cappuccino with a Smoked Salmon & Light Cream Cheese sandwich. The sandwich was quite good, very fresh ingredients with good seasoning. However, the coffee wasn't up to my expectation. It tastes bland, despite its nice presentation.

My friend chose Hot Mocha and one slice of lemon cheesecake. I tried the cake and loved it! The sourness of lemon curd lifted up the creaminess of the cheese. A brilliant choice to have with coffee! However, again, the mocha wasn't that good compared to the cake. It's weird, since I know that The Coffee Club has good food, but since it's named as 'coffee', the coffee should be up to some standard, shouldn't it? And it wasn't cheap...but it might be because of the franchise?!

p.s. we couldn't wait to tuck into the food, so sorry for not taking photos of them this time. But they taste good, seriously!

Thai cuisine at Satang Thai

Since I have friends who are also enthusiastic foodies, we are really keen on trying out different cuisines. This time, the theme's Thai food. There are so many good Thai restaurants around Sydney: Chat Thai, Sailors Thai (previously called Oy), Spice I Am, Yok Yor, just to name some! Luckily enough because one of my friends is from Thailand, so we got great food guide from him!

We went to Satang Thai Exclusive in Central (Sydney) for a quick dinner before heading to Event Cinema. In fact, Satang Thai actually has 2 different stores - one sells takeaway food (called Satang Thai Takeaway) and another one is the Exclusive. They're on the same street!

It was Thursday night and the restaurant was packed. We had to queue up for about 15 minutes. We got eight people and decided to have all kind of meat (e.g. pork, chicken, beef, duck) and also seafood! My friend made some suggestions and we were more than happy to try on those. 

The food arrived shortly (about within 15 minutes). They were served with steamed jasmine rice. Our first dish was Yum Neua - the beef salad with spicy sour dressing. The crispiness of the veggie and tenderness of the marinated beef make a good combination. However, nothing special, to be honest...

The main dishes came at once. We got Sweet chilli fish, Panang - Chicken Curry, Chilli Duck and Keang Som Cha Om - a kind of soup. Thai food's quite spicy and salty (that's why you usually eat them with jasmine rice) so you should prepare! 

The sweet chilli fish is quite tasty! The fish is deep-fried to golden and drizzled with Thai sweet chilli sauce, garnished with baby sprout and carrot. The skin is really crispy while the fish is still moist and tender. I can taste the saltiness of fish sauce, the sourness, sweetness and a hint of spices in the sauce. 

The Panang - Chicken curry is my favorite dish of the night! The chicken is so moist, soaked in creamy, smooth, nutty curry sauce. Everything is so well-seasoned! I just love it! 

Chilli duck is another great dish at Satang Thai Exclusive. It's stir fried duck with Thai chilli sauce and fried Thai basil leaves. The dish looks so appealing and we couldn't wait to tuck in! I especially love the deep fried basil leaves! So creative and yummy! And look pretty on the plate too. 

We also ordered a soup for the meal. It's called Keang Som Cha Om. The soup is quite spicy and hot (we were warned at first), containing egg cake, prawn and mixed veggies. I didn't enjoy it much since I can't have too spicy-hot food. I prefer my mom's veggie soup instead (lolz)

The whole meal costs us around $100 (for 8 people). Looking at the generous amount of those dishes, it's quite cheap actually! Not a fancy, fine dining Thai restaurant  for special occasion, but a good idea for weekday dinner with friends or family. 

Satang Thai Exclusive 

Address: 204/107 - 121 Quay Street, Haymarket, NSW

Phone: (02) 9212 5885

N2 Extreme Gelato - Stressed backwards is Desserts!!!

Last night, I went to the city with my friends for a catch-up dinner. After having some Thai food at Central, we decided to walk to Darling Harbour for some coffee - nice work out after dinner!

And fortunately, we ran into this little ice-cream store called N2 Extreme Gelato (Chinatown, Sydney CBD). I have been seeing a lot of my friends been at N2 and actually became a fan on their Facebook official page (lolz)...We didn't have any intention to get some ice-cream (since we were about to have some coffee)...However, I was just so excited and couldn't let this perfect chance go by. So were the other girls - seriously, who can deny a scoop of ice-cream for dessert?!

The front cabinet caught my eyes with full of oversized science-lab flasks with flavours and colors

The little shop was packed with excited customers (just like us) watching every movement of those 'scientists' through the glass display walls. And it doesn't look like a normal ice-cream  store (in a positive way)! Fog is everywhere and the creation of those goodies is like making magic! Dry ice and maybe...liquid Nitrogen (I'm trying to be a geek here lolz but this's what I heard from Masterchef) are used to make yummy ice-cream from fresh ingredients. You will have to wait quite a while but it's totally worth it! And you might not even notice since there are so many cool things happening around the store (I was so busy watching those 'scientists' lolz)...

Candy coloured KitchenAids, waffle cones, lab flasks, paper cups and cool 'liquid Nitrogen fog'!!!

We came around 9pm. Some of the flavors were sold out (but I'll definitely come back to try next time because I really want to try the 'cough syrup' flavor). They have Butter Popcorn, Berry Blue, Coconut & Tea and Earl Grey Caramel just to name some.

Creative blackboard Menu - $6/scoop 

I got 1 scoop of Earl Grey Caramel served with waffle cup while my friends got Butter Popcorn and smoothies. I didn't try those but they gave a lot of compliments. After 2 minutes of waiting or so, my Earl Grey Caramel came out, looking fresh! The ice-cream gives me a real taste of tea (Earl Grey's tea, fair enough!). Not too strong. Overwhelmingly fresh and a hint of French Earl Grey tea. Just so sensational! And the ice-cream is really smooth, soft, creamy and silky. It is so big that you really don't need two scoops. But you have to lick it fast since it melts quickly!

Earl Grey Caramel on waffle cup 

$6 for one scoop of ice-cream! Kinda expensive, but it's freshly made, and totally worthy as a whole experience


Address: Lot 43, 1 Dixon Street, Sydney, NSW (upper end of Dixon Street)
Opening hours: 14:00-23:00