NutLiquor is a peanut butter-flavoured vodka that is supposed to taste like the centre of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.
Not so keen on the idea of bacon-flavoured vodka, but this? Mmmmm.
Excuse me while I think about the sugar rush mixed with hard liquor.
YES PLEASE!
I LOVE trying new things. So when I spotted the Streets Blue Ribbon 3in1 Fruit Basket Ice cream a few weeks ago..had to grab some, for research of course ;)
The Fruit Basket is vanilla, mango and passionfruit gelato. It is the only one I have tried, but it is super nom! The gelato is the best flavour, I wish it came in a tub by itself! It has fruit in it, so it must be healthy, right?
When I went to buy more (further research was required), I noticed it had some new flavour mates.
The other flavours are…
Chocolate 3in1 is milk, white and dark chocolate with dark chocolate flakes throughout.
And the caramel is vanilla, caramel and honeycomb with toffee crunchy bits.
I am sure I saw a coffee version as well, but there is no info online about these new flavours, so I may have imagined it.
For months, I eyed off the cool new Soda Streams whenever I was in my local KMart. I always assumed it would be a waste of money.
But now that I’ve got one – I LOVE IT.
Here are some tips that I wish I knew before I wasted all those months years of NOT having a Soda Stream in my life.
Meet the newest restaurant at the Queen Victoria Building – Fat Buddha.
We’ve been to the QVB for dinner before; while Cellini’s is a cafe-style eatery, Fat Buddha is a fully-fledged restaurant — complete with the full napkin-placed-in-your-lap treatment. Very noice!
We’re surrounded by all sorts of diners – big family groups, smaller groups of friends, couples and even one woman who comes on her own after a hard day’s shopping.
We loved the introductory paragraph in the front of the menu:
Love, Eat & Celebrate — Celebration plays a big part in Chinese culture, no festivity can take place without food or a banquet.
At Fat Buddha, we strongly believe that food itself is a celebration. We select dishes that we love and are true to our
authentic Cantonese origins. Humble, respect and sustainability is the core of our approach to our sublime menu.
The menu at Fat Buddha is wide and varied. Prices are reasonable with many mains below the $30 mark. We struggled to choose what we wanted to eat (we should have checked the menu on the Fat Buddha web site first to save us some time!). Lucky for us, the staff were very attentive and patient while we asked questions, ummed, ahhed and finally made our choices.
We chose well!
Vegetarian spring rolls (2pcs) $6.80
Fried rice with barbeque pork and shrimps $16.80
Steamed prawn dumplings (4pcs) $10.80
Garlic king prawns $33.80
Deep fried duck with plum sauce $24.80 (our favourite!)
Roasted pork belly cubes with XO chilli sauce $24.80
We were so full from trying to eat everything that we were going to skip dessert. But Fat Buddha’s owner, Kim Yee Joy wouldn’t let us go without trying the dessert. Kim fetched us mango pancakes (Leigh couldn’t believe that I’d never eaten mango pancakes – zomg they’re like mango Weiss bars!) and Coconut Pudding, which has a touch of ginger flavour. Leigh preferred the pancakes and I preferred the pudding – though it was a pretty close contest, to be honest.
Mango pancakes
Coconut and ginger pudding
We really enjoyed having a girls night out at Fat Buddha. The food was delicious, the service was friendly and we loved the noice-yet-friendly atmosphere. It was a treat to meet Kim and chat with her about food as well.
Fat Buddha — Yum Cha and a-la-carte
Monday to Sunday, 10:30am to 10:30pm
Level 2, QVB, 455 George Street, Sydney
+61 2 9264 9558
Disclaimer: We dined as guests thanks to Fat Buddha and Lucy at One Green Bean.
If you are on twitter, you may have already been sucked into the Rekorderlig cult, the curiosity and peer pressure has gotten the better of many. Tried it once to see what all the fuss is about, and instantly fallen in love, me included.
So what is this magical drink?
Rekorderlig is a pear Cider, imported from Sweden. Made from Pure Swedish spring water. It is then infused with a range of delicious crisp, sweet flavours.
Rekorderlig cider comes in 4 flavours. Apple, Pear, Strawberry-Lime and Wild Berries. There is also a Winter cider which is apple, vanilla and cinnamon. In Europe, they have an apple and blackcurrant flavour, I wonder if we will get that one here?
My favourite is the Strawberry-Lime. Best served super chilled, they’re an awesome drink through winter. I bet they will be even more perfect at the end of a hot summer day.
Available at all good liquor stores.
As much as I begged, they said I couldn’t keep it all…suppose I have to share some with you *sad face*.
3 noice peeps will win themselves a pint of each new flavour of mind blowingly awesome Ben & Jerry’s ice cream..read on!
Ben & Jerry’s is a huge fav at That’s Noice…this week we we’re lucky enough to try out 2 new flavours. Some may say winter isn’t the time for ice cream, but any time is a good time for noms I say!
The 2 new flavours….
New York Super Fudge Chunk – Over 25 years ago, Ben & Jerry decided they wanted to bring their ice cream to the streets of the city that never sleeps. To impress discerning New Yorkers, Ben & Jerry set out to create a flavour filled with more chunks than any other flavour before. Introducing New York Super Fudge Chunk, a medley of Chocolate Ice Cream with White & Dark Chocolatey Chunks, Pecans, Walnuts & Chocolatey Covered Almonds.
Sweet Cream & Cookies – Cookie lovers, rejoice! Ben & Jerry’s now has the ultimate flavour for you! Sweet cream ice cream with whole and broken chocolate sandwich cookies. How sweet is that?
Although I am a little nutty,I am not a big fan of nuts, so the New York Super Fudge Chunk wasn’t quite my thing. Manpet however, polished it off in one sitting. I think he enjoyed it ;) The cookies & cream was awesome, just like a big tub of ice cream sammich.
These two new dairylicious flavours will be available in 458ml pint tubs (RRP $11.95) in select delis, around Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane from July. They’ll join the great flavours already available: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Chocolate Fudge Brownie, Chunky Monkey, Strawberry Cheesecake, Triple Caramel Chunk, Phish Food (my all time fav!) and Half Baked. Check the website for locations.
Congratulations to our winners Ryan and Lynda!
