This week I had visitors from Melbourne, Scott, Meg and Baby G. This became a great excuse to eat out and try different restaurants. We tried the fantastic sushi platter as takeaway from Makoto Sushi Bar which always have huge line-ups and similarly, Chinese food from the popular Taste of Shanghai. Meg and I ate out at Spice I am, one of the top Thai food places in the city according to Time Out Sydney. We had the deep fried mini spring rolls, the recommended Red Duck Curry and Pad Prik King with Prawns. Both dishes were quite spicy and delicious. We ended the night with Asian ice-cream (Lychee Rose and Coconut flavours) from PassionFlower. For Scott who was babysitting that night, he had the Pad Thai take out

Red Duck Curry and Pad Prik King

Saturday was a big day for us, we rented a car and headed up to Hunter Valley to explore the famous wine region. The first stop was to Brokenwood winery. Our first taste of the Brokenwood products was last year on our graduation party where one of our consultants opened up 2 bottles of Graveyard Shiraz from his cellar. We got a chance to taste quite a few of their wines and Scott managed to find a way to ship wine from there tax free back to North America, which is a big achievement!

Our lunch stop was at Mojo's on Wilderness. This restaurant has been rated as best restaurant and cafe overall on the eatability Sydney website, which is quite impressive as they have quite a few big name restaurants on that list. We stopped there for lunch and that was the best decision of the day. Not only was the food fantastic but also the setting was perfect for us. They have a large yard and they have set up multiple beanbags on the grass so not only did we get to enjoy the weather, it also meant that Baby G had her own little beanbag as a highchair! The food was also wonderful with mushroom, Gruyere cheese and prosciutto pizza and Thai beef side salad for my lunch and a great tangy lemon tart as dessert. A must-do for anyone going up to Hunter Valley!

Apart from wineries, we also stopped at the Binnorie Dairy cheese tasting store. I am not the biggest cheese eater I actually enjoyed this cheese enough to buy it. This is Labna cheese which is cheese from yogurt marinated in chilli, garlic, rosemary and olive oil. The taste is fabulous and quite unlike anything I have tried before. I will be making chicken stuffed with Labna this week!

The perfect setting in Hunter Valley!