Genta Japanese Dining Bar, Auckland

Last Friday I again went for a dinner with my colleagues. That time my Japanese colleague suggested to us Genta Japanese Dining Bar, a Japanese restaurant which is located at Auckland city.

We arrived at 8pm and the restaurant was so crowded. Lucky we made booking before we go. All of us were very hungry and my Japanese colleague decided to order a few dishes for us.

Healthy tofu

Fried chicken (quite oily but still nice)

Mixed tempura

Japanese styple curry on rice

Fried tofu with seaweed

Fresh spring rolls - salmon and prawn

My favourite - eels!! super yummy ^^v

Before we go home, picture picture ^^

It was really nice to hang out with them plus with good food. I really enjoyed that night :)

Zap2 Thai Cafe & Bar, Auckland

3 days after eating at KK Malaysian Cuisine Restaurant, I had another dinner with my colleagues at Zap2 Thai Cafe & Bar which is located at Dominion Road, Balmoral ^^ It is just about 10 minutes drive from St Lukes. It serves the most authentic Thai food in Auckland.

I am currently working at St Pierre's sushi store and the manager shouted us dinner as we successfully hit our sales target ^^

Satay

Curry puff

Sweet & sour snapper

Snapper with vege

Seafood tom yam

Fried noodle

Sweet & sour seafood + vege

Say cheese ~

Overall, foods were nice and it was a nice dinner gathering with them. I am looking forward to our next gathering with good food ^^

KK Malaysian Cuisine Restaurant, Auckland

Last two weeks I went to KK Malaysian Cuisine Restaurant for dinner with my colleagues. It is located at Epsom, Auckland about 15 minutes drive from St Lukes. Daren's sister goes there often and she said that food there is really nice. I have wanted to go for a long time and finally got a chance to eat there woohoo ~~

The restaurant is quite small and therefore it is recommended if you make booking before you go. BUT, that night we decided to try our luck and went there without a booking. And what did you know we were very lucky to get a table because one of the customers decided to cancel their booking ^^

Ferron brought her own wine..gan bei ~~~


3 beautiful ladies: me, Ferron and hitomi ^^

Tadayuki vs Nicholas

We ordered

Nasi goreng

Char kuey teow

Ipoh steam chicken

Asam fish

The foods overall were nice except for the char kuey teow. Until today I haven't really find a nice char kuey teow in New Zealand. I really miss eating Malaysian food a lot and this restaurant has one of the best Malaysian foods in Auckland which is close enough to Malaysia. I will definitely go back to try other dishes ^^

February and March 2011 in a nutshell

Celebrated Chinese New Year in New Zealand.

• Had a reunion dinner with Daren, his sister and cousin brother at My Stop Restaurant, a Malaysian cuisine restaurant which is located at New Market.

Fish head soup

Chicken

Tofu

Pork

• Went to skycity to see Chinese New Year celebration event

Celebrated Valentine's Day

• Daren and I went to La Porchetta, an Italian Restaurant to have our dinner.
  

Spaghetti

Chicken satay pizza

Celebrated my birthday

• Had a simple steamboat with colleagues at Mt. Albert

Ferron & Nicholas

From left: Tadayuki, Hitomi, me, Ferron and Nicholas

Gift from Daren #1

Gift from Daren #2

Gift from Daren #3

Gift from Raesher, Keli and KK

February and March were really packed with lots of event and celebration. Also moved to our new place and started my new job. A new year to start a new chapter for my life ^^

Devonport Fishing #3

One week after fishing at Mission Bay, we went to Devonport for fishing AGAIN haha. Devonport is a harbourside suburb of Auckland and it is located at the North Shore. It is a famous destination not only for tourist but also for local residents. We drove there from Auckland city and it took about 25 minutes to reach there. By ferry, it takes around ten minutes from downtown Auckland direct to Devonport village which has many shops, cafes and restaurants.

We arrived around 6pm and we could see many people fishing there and some of them got big fish!!

Daren can't wait to fish! :p


They got a snapper when we arrived!


Another people got snapper!

Ferry ~

We couldn't really get a good spot to fish because we arrived late. All good spots were taken. After fishing for 3 hours, we AGAIN couldn't get any fish and went home empty handed lol.