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AmiexExchange: Melbourne's Mr Loy's Puff
I have a bit of time while waiting for my chicken wings to defrost itself (ah, the lifestyle rhythm of a housewife) so I am here updating on my food-ventures in Melbourne, starting with the first few...
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AmiexExchange: South Melbourne Market
On Wednesdays, you wear pink. On Thursdays in summer, South Melbourne Night Market (note: the day market opens Wed/Fri/Sat/Sun) happens. So many markets, so little time... how does South Melbourne's...
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AmiexExchange: Spicy Fish Restaurant 渔乡阁 at Melbourne Chinatown (CBD)
We cannot deviate from our Chinese roots, so... just kidding, it was just a very rainy day and it calls for delightful pockets of xiao long baos. Admit it, nobody can resist that! It was a perfectly...
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AmiexExchange: Corner & Bench - Melbourne's Cafes
First of the many cafes to come... Corner & Bench was a very unassuming-looking cafe that was surprisingly bustling with a local morning crowd waiting around for their caffeine fix. Oh, what a...
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AmiexExchange: DessertStory 甜品屋 ... The dessert place you see everywhere
With eleven stores in the Victoria state itself and prominently located on the busiest streets of the city (Swanston, Little Bourke Street), Dessertstory 甜品屋 is probably the number one idea whenever...
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Days of Summer: Brighton x St Kilda Beach
"But I can see you,Your brown skin shining in the sun.You got your hair combed backAnd your sunglasses on, baby."This post features my favourite set of visuals from sunny Melbourne. They are set in...
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A Valentine's Day Flashmob (14.2.2015)
I am probably very late at posting this... understatement, yes? I am posting chronologically so you can imagine how backlogged I am. This flash mob is a lovely example of spontaneity and how everywhere...
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Sunny Boy Cafe - Melbourne's Cafes
I love cafes that are elusive. They shy away from the main streets, and they only reveal themselves if you dare to venture deeper into the alleys. I wouldn't exchange the thrill of finding a cafe while...
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Republica (St Kilda) - Melbourne's Restaurants
Bayside restaurants are the ultimate treat for your beach vacation. At St Kilda's, you have entire troves of good restaurants, cafes, bars and gelato parlors that will get you sighing: why don't I have...
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School of Life - Melbourne's Cafes
For the longest time, The School of Life sits on the top of my favourite Melbourne cafe list. I'm not too sure now, because it seems that awesome is an underlying characteristic of all of them. I guess...
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Guide to Queen Victoria Market (Perspective of an Exchange Student)
Queen Victoria Market (also affectionately known as QVM, or QV, though easily mistaken as the shopping mall of the same name) is the largest public open-air marketplace in the entire Southern...
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5 Essential Truths To Get Ahead Of Your Peers
The world is getting very demanding. Pressure's up to establish a good career and have a fat salary - to buy a good car, apartment, and all the luxuries necessities in life. Yet, the road to success is...
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We all take utterly, useless museum photos.
Everyone is a photographer now. We keep taking pictures of each damn vaguely interesting thing that goes past, documenting every moment of our lives by the minute. What happens when you enter a museum?...
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The Island Bird by Ernesto Neto (NGV)
In an obscure corner of the National Gallery of Victoria, this colossal exhibit suspends itself from the ceiling, with kids pouring in and out of the crocheted rope nest. It is called The Island Bird...
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Visiting the Shrine of Remembrance
The Shrine of Remembrance is only a leisurely walk away from National Gallery of Victoria, so if you're doing a day trip around Melbourne, you can tour these two attractions in an afternoon. The Shrine...
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Little Rouge - Melbourne's Cafes
Stumbling upon a narrow alley, thinking about something else, and then something stopped me in my tracks and then I saw it. I have to admit, I wasn't looking for it when I chanced upon Little Rouge....
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10 Reasons Why Every Millennial Can and Should Be Financially Independent
At the end of my secondary school days, I took up a part-time job with my friends as a photographer. It wasn't easy. It was 5 dollars an hour, we had to stand, squat, persuade tourists to buy photos...
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The Haymarket Place - Melbourne's Cafes
The Haymarket Place is a cafe located very close to the university, and being a combination of curious, bored, tired and cold, I stepped into the premises to give their coffee a try some time in...
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Auction Rooms - Melbourne's Cafes
I have the privilege of staying a 10-minutes walk from Auction Rooms (and another ten from the biggest brother of Melbourne's cafes but that'll be in another post). There is no reason not to pop by the...
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Tank Fish & Chippery - Melbourne's Restaurants
Truth: The entire Lygon Street only had churros, gelato and very expensive Italian restaurants so none of them fit my broke-student budget. I confess, I also went in for the dark blue walls. I have an...
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