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Chocolate Skull Decorating – Melt Chocolate Festival

Dearest Readers, do you know anyone who doesn’t like chocolate? I remember once I bought a chocolate mango cake for a friend’s birthday and was so excited about giving it to him. At midnight we sang happy birthday and gave him the cake. He politely accepted but then said “I’m sorry but I don’t eat chocolate, mango or cream, it’s ok I ll take it all out and just eat the sponge cake”

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I was bewildered! Never in my life have I met someone who doesn’t eat chocolate! Turns out when he was growing up his mum was very strict and wouldn’t let him eat chocolate and as a result now he feels sick if he eats chocolate! Wow… Until this day it still shocks me hahaha
Melt Chocolate Festival 26/5

Melt Chocolate Festival 26/5

Anyhow in contrast, I eat chocolate lots and lots of it in fact :D that’s why I couldn’t pass the opportunity of going to the preview of the Melt Chocolate Festival at the Immigration Museum. They are currently holding displays and exhibitions of immigrants from Brazil, Mexico, Belgium and their communities in Melbourne. The festival held this Sunday, will feature a wide range of chocolates and sweets from these three countries.
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Mr Bao and I started at the Mexican stall and tried their hot chomparrado, which is their version of hot chocolate which is thickened with corn flour, it had a light chocolate taste and wasn’t too sweet with notes of cinnamon. We were also offered a sweet bread that had a texture of a scones and a biscuit, where we were told to dip into the hot chocolate.

Mexican Champurrado (Thick Hot Chocolate)

The lovely lady then told me that this is a traditional breakfast dish in Mexico and surprisingly the men wake up and make it ~ now I d like to have that tradition here in Australia ~

Mexican short bread

Mexican short bread

We then moved onto the Brazilian brigadeiros  which is there version of chocolate truffles, we tried a variety of flavours – chocolate, coconut, strawberry and one with sprinkles. They have a very soft smooth texture and a familiar sweetness which I think comes from condense milk. I may or may had 3 in a row sooooooo addictive.

Brazilian brigadeiros - white chocolate, coconut, chocolate, sprinkles

Brazilian brigadeiros – white chocolate, coconut, chocolate, sprinkles

The Belgian community was also represented and of course Belgian chocolate as they are famously known for. The chocolates were supplied by Van Nunen who has been making handmade chocolates for the past 25 years. He explained to us, Belgian chocolates are of such a good quality because by law all chocolates sold must have at least a 35% cacao solid, compared to most supermarket brands that have much lower cacao contents.
Belgian chocolates

Belgian chocolates

We were spoilt for choice, ending up choosing the hazelnut, caramel and red hot lips hehe. The hazelnut was coated in dark chocolate with a crushed hazelnut filling, the red hot lips was made from white chocolate with a milk chocolate filling. The caramel was definitely our favourite it was a sweet velvety caramel covered in dark chocolate. Van said he makes the caramel himself and pies every single one before coating it with chocolate. Divine! A shame he mainly sells wholesale because I really need to find a way to get more of those caramel chocolate!
Chocolate Skull Decorating

Chocolate Skull Decorating

Then to finish up we were given chocolate skulls to decorate! This is actually a Mexican tradition in November when families will get together to make and decorate chocolate skulls to make them to commemorate and remember those who have passed away ~
My chocolate skull :)

My chocolate skull :)

I thought the skulls looked pretty scary before decorating it so to make mine a little more approachable I gave it a little heart, blue star and flower on its forehead. I then gave it some pretty white eyes and red lips what do you all think? :p
Mr Bao's kissable skull

Mr Bao’s kissable skull

Mr Bao did a great job, first he did a skull that looked liked a pirate with the headband on its heaps and a chocolate ponytail. But it completely transformed when Mr Bao decided to give it huge red hot lips hahaha he super proud of his creation!
Ash's pretty skull

Ash’s pretty skull

Ash skull was definitely by far the prettiest and so colourful it looks like it has a tattoo on its face ~ that’s nearly too cute to be eaten!
Unfortunately, I probably won’t have the time to go to the Melt Chocolate festival this Sunday 26/5  but if you are a chocolate fan you should definitely go check it out there will be more chocolate, more stalls, more activities and most importantly Belgian waffles!
For more information please visit the Melt Chocolate Festival website ~ Hope you’ll also get to decorate your own chocolate skull!
Daisy@Nevertoosweet and Mr Bao attended this event as a guests of Immigration Museum. 

Easter’s Over – Cacao Easter Egg Masterclass

Greetings everyone :) Hope you’ve all had an amazing Easter and have indulged in too much chocolate (if that’s even possible!). I didn’t have time to blog during Easter because my parents and sister (Win Win) was here to visit. But unfortunately, Win Win had to leave after a week, while my parents are still here for another 2 months yay!

Humpty Dumpty displayed used over 40 kgs of chocolate!

Humpty Dumpty displayed used over 40 kgs of chocolate!

Even though Easter’s over now…I still wanted to blog about the Cacao Easter Egg Masterclass I was invited to by Cacao and Tink PR a week before Easter ~ It was like a mini reunion for us bloggers because most of us had attended the Pizza Competition at Grosvenor Hotel a couple of weeks before. At this event I was joined by Shellie, Cherrie, Ashley, Lianne, Peach Water, Brunch Addict Agnes and Amy. So good to see everyone again :) Special thanks to Lianne for letting me use some of her photos xox

The class was held at the Cacao store in St Kilda, which is actually their first store and everything use to made here until the demand outgrew the capacity ~ I’ve driven past this store many times but never visited and was surprised to see that they did not have their delicious macarons and chocolates, but also a range of cakes. I’m definitely going to come back and try them sometime soon.

Dark Hot Chocolate

Dark Hot Chocolate

Cacao was very generous and offered us a drink to start the night ~ After seeing photos of the ice-cream chocolate Shellie and Cherrie had, I was so tempted to get it. But it was getting a bit chilly that night so decided to go for the dark hot chocolate instead, it was deep, rich and smooth everything I imagined ~

Canapes

Canapes

They were also very thoughtful and provided us with some savoury canapes such as mini quiches and mini salmon rolls :) Great as most of us had gone straight from work and hadn’t had the chance to grab dinner, while I had been working from home and grazing on snacks all day ~

Julia then introduced us to Tim Clark one of the co-owners and creator of Cacao Fine Chocolates along with Laurent Meric. I was quite flattered when Tim actually recognised me as I have visited the Cacao store in Doncaster before and had tagged him in my Instagram posts ~ he immediately said “You have a sweet tooth don’t you?” LOL how awkward…everyone knows!

Tim Clark

Tim Clark

We were then led into the kitchen where it had a large marble bench, Tim explained that we were going to make a very special Easter egg that had a tiny sphere inside that was filled with salted caramel and chocolate. Even thinking about it makes my mouth water :D

Spread spread spread ~

Spread spread spread ~

First things first, tempering the chocolate which it an incredible shine and also that ‘crack’ sound when breaking into it. To temper the chocolate Tim melts the chocolate, then spreads it over the marble bench top and uses a bench scrapper to push it back into the middle and then spreads it out again.

Swish Swish Swish

Swish Swish Swish

He repeats this a couple of times until the chocolate cools to around 28 degrees. Tim said the best way to check this is with your lip as it is around body temperature or with a thermometer if doing this at home :)

Easter egg moulds & salted caramel crystals

Easter egg moulds & salted caramel crystals

Once the chocolate has been tempered it is now ready for use and can be used to make the egg shells AKA molding. Note it’s important to polish the molds with some cotton pads before using them to ensure it gives a shine to the eggs shells. Using a ladle fill the molds to the brim and then using one swift move tip it over and scrap it clean with the pastry scraper.

Before it sets, we sprinkled the Salted Caramel crystals Tim had previous made for us ~ so pretty like brown diamonds hehe

Now that the shells are done, we had to make the salted caramel chocolate spread that will be used to fill the chocolate spheres also going into the Easter Eggs. I have bought this salted caramel spread before and still have a jar at home, it is so delicious and addictive, I’m warn you not to make it unless you have very good self control. I clearly don’t hahhaa :P If you’d like the recipe let me know and I’ll email it to you ~ Tim said it’s ok to share if not I will try and blog about it soon ~

Once the spread was made it was time to pipe them into the pre-made chocolate spheres, we first filled it with salted caramel, then topped it with melted chocolate then closed them together. This keeps getting better!

Tim had placed our Easter eggs into the fridge to help them chill and set, but he said that ideally it should be left in room temperature for 24 hours to allow it to set naturally to create the shiniest finish ~

Rub Rub Rub :)

Rub Rub Rub :)

Once the Easter eggs were removed from the molds, we placed one of those salted caramel spheres and placed it in the middle of one shell. Then this step surprised me, I had always wanted to know how the egg shells stuck together, and it’s actually done by placing a baking sheet into the oven and warming it. Then gently rub the egg shells onto the warm baking sheet and as the edges have slightly melted, gently place on shell on top of the other. And if all works well…they stick together :D

Assembling the Easter Eggs

Assembling the Easter Eggs

There you go! That’s our finished product! Milk Chocolate Easter egg with a secret salted caramel surprise! I am so proud of us :D Team work! Also I am never ever going to take an Easter egg for granted ever again! It’s a long process and requires a lot of skill, which I don’t have yet :D But I have promised myself that I am going to practice and next year I am going to make my own Easter eggs to give out to my family and friends!

Finished product

Finished product

Unfortunately, I don’t think you can buy this Easter egg anymore since but you can still buy Cacao’s other chocolate goodies and if you haven’t tried their macarons, you definitely have to go try! The pisatchio flavour is my favourite.

Cacao's macarons

Cacao’s macaronsl

I would like to thank Tim and everyone else at Cacao as well at Julia for inviting me to such an interesting, fun and chocolate-filled class :)

Daisy@Nevertoosweet attended this event as a guest of Cacao Fine Chocolates and Patisserie and TinkPR

World’s Largest Yum Cha – Melbourne Food and Wine Festival

If you’re currently in Melbourne :) You may know that the annual Melbourne Food and Wine Festival (MFWF) is on and running from the 1st to the 17th of March ~ Even though I love eating out and experiencing the Melbourne food scene, I’ve never really gone to any events and with Mr Bao working so much lately, I didn’t want to book into any events and have to drag him there ~ But I was very lucky and Libby (The Very Very Hungry Caterpillar) invited me to be her guest at the World’s Largest Outdoor Yum Cha event held by Chan’s Yum Cha at the Treasury Gardens last Saturday (2nd March).

Chan's Yum Cha at Treasury Garden

Chan’s Yum Cha at Treasury Garden

It was the perfect day to hold this event at the Treasury Gardens wasn’t too hot but around the mid to high 20 degree and with lots of trees around to provide shade.

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Apart from the rows of tables for patrons participating in the World’s Largest Outdoor Yum Cha, there were also marquees outside providing face painting for the kids, a photobooth and the The Teo Chew Association was also there to play songs using traditional Chinese instruments throughout the event. It reminded me of Chinese New Year festivals we had a couple of weeks ago in the City ~

Lion Dancing

Lion Dancing

They even organised Lion Dances to be performed throughout the yum cha ~ But to be completely honest with you…I am terrified of lion dances lol I’ve never liked them growing up as a child and use to hide behind my parents :P Now that I’m an adult…they are tolerable but I still DISLIKE them and prefer if they didn’t come near me hahaha

Attempting to beat the Guinness World Record

Attempting to beat the Guinness World Record

As the name of this event suggests, it was an attempt to break the Guinness World Record of the largest outdoor yum cha :) The record before was 500 people, this time there were 800 tickets sold so as long as we had more than 500 people seated and eating at least 2 dim sums, we’ll beat the record! Doesn’t sound too hard :)

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All I could see were rows and rows of tables and so many people seated at the tables! There was definitely more than 500 of us! :)

Doing it right :)

Doing it right :)

Even though this was an outdoor event with so many people, Chan’s Yum Cha was trying to do it right, with chopsticks and a tea cup for tea :) There were no forks, spoons or knives in sight, so for those who weren’t good with chopsticks they’d have to practice ~ Thank gosh they have the instructions in front of us hehe

5 Course Yum Cha

5 Course Yum Cha

It was going to be a 5 course yum cha with a variety of dim sims, dumplings, buns and dessert :) Tickets to this event was $20 per person, which I thought was definitely good value considering the amount of food we were getting ~

Prawn Hargow

Prawn Hargow

First course was the most traditional and popular prawn hargow ~ which I’m sure most of you would have heard of and tried. I was quite impressed with the flavour of the filling and the crunchiness from the shredded bamboo inside, however, I would’ve liked it more if the dumpling skin wasn’t as dry and sticky. But I guess this can’t be helped as the kitchen was trying to pump out dumpling for 800 people!

Sesame Prawn Toast

Sesame Prawn Toast

I haven’t had Sesame Prawn Toast for the longest time! My parents never liked it and said we should avoid ordering too much fried food when going to yum cha. But I remember we would order it for my Caucasian friends when we went to yum cha together ~ I was quite impressed with these as it was freshly fried and had a good amount of prawn paste spread over the toast, I also liked the toasted sesame flavour!

Ginger Prawn and Shiitake Dumpling

Ginger Prawn and Shiitake Dumpling

Third course was the Ginger Prawn dumpling which had a yellow wrapper, it reminded me more of a HK style wonton and even though I liked the flavours, I found them quite similar to the prawn hargow and my throat was slightly ticklish after eating it. So I suggest that there was some MSG in it :( I quite liked the Shiitake Dumplings though, the filling the Shiitake mushrooms and also bamboo shoots and carrots, I’m pretty sure this was the only vegetarian dumpling too :D

BBQ Pork Bun

BBQ Pork Bun

I’m a fan of buns :) Love their steamed fluffy texture ~ These BBQ Pork Buns had a good sweet Charsiu (BBQ Pork) filling, however, Libby found it a little too sweet not me :P But we didn’t really like the buns itself, it had a very doughy and dense texture and kind of stuck to our teeth >_< Once again I’m not sure if it’s because of the lack of time the kitchen had to prepare these, I think they would have tasted better if they were steamed for a couple of minutes longer.

Banana Fritter with Vanilla Ice-cream

Banana Fritter with Vanilla Ice-cream

Last course and of course most important was dessert, which was Lady finger banana fritters with vanilla ice-cream. I was worried that the kitchen wouldn’t be able to fry these fritters in time and when it reached our table it would be soggy, but it was actually still quite fresh and hot when the waiter placed it on our table :) It really brought back childhood memories eating this dessert, as my parents would order it for me whenever we went out for dinner ~

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Overall, I thought this was a great event and WE BROKE THE RECORD :) Out of the 800 tickets sold there were 726 or so people seated and had yum cha in the outdoor! WOO HOO! I’ve never helped break a guinness world record before hehe YAY! Also if you’re interested in trying you can buy Chan’s Yum Cha dumplings at large supermarkets and Costco in Melbourne ~ This isn’t the first time I’ve had Chan’s Yum Cha hehe because Mr Bao and I usually stock up on a few yum cha items and leave them in our freezer because they’re so convenient when we’re too lazy to cook dinner or go out :P

Once again would like to thank Libby for inviting me to such a fun event ~ and hopefully  one day I’ll even break or create my own Guinness World Record :P

Daisy@Nevertoosweet attended this event as a guest of Libby (The Very Very Hungry Caterpillar) 

Please VOTE for me :) – Bloggers Pizza Competition at Grosvenor Hotel

Dearest loveliest Readers :) have you ever made pizza from scratch at home before? I sure love pizza especially those with a thin crust and baked in a wood fire ovens with that smokey flavour. Anyhow, I got an email from Julia from TinkPR a couple of weeks ago asking if I’d be interested in learning how to make pizza from scratch and also enter a pizza competition with some other food bloggers?!?

I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do it at first…I mean what do I know about pizza making? Turns out that all my closest and dearest food blogging friends were going – Ash, Thanh, Shellie, Sabrina and Scott, Lianne and Cherrie! It’s been a while since we’ve all caught up so it was going to be like a little reunion hehe ~

Julia and Chef Emile :)

Julia and Chef Emile :)

The event was held at the Grosvenor Hotel in St Kilda East, I haven’t heard of it before, but was surprised that it was such a modern and spacious restaurant on a quiet street. We all gathered up at 6:30pm where we got to meet Julia and Chef Emile  which told us the run down and the most importantly the rules for the competition and that was ‘have fun and play fair!’ :D

Chicken liver pate and antipasto

Chicken liver pate and antipasto

The Grosvenor Hotel was very kind and gave us some nibbles to start our night off, starting with the super smooth and addictive chicken liver parfait which was a Marco Pierre White recipe and their chicken arancini balls with what I think was aioli ~

Chicken Arancini :)

Chicken Arancini :)

Then it was these hand cut chips that takes 3 days to make! These were seriously one of the best chips I have had! Normally I’m not a chip person lol I can resist the fried goodness but not for these chips, no matter how long you left them they were still crispy! And pair them up with the Bernnaise sauce yes please!

Hand Cut Chips

Hand Cut Chips

After some delicious nibbles and drinks, it was GAME ON! The actual pizza making time ~ we were led into the back of the kitchen to start making our own pizza dough from scratch. We were all given some 00 flour, fresh yeast, room temperature water and olive oil. Stefano the pizza making guru started instructing us, starting by mixing the yeast and waster together and then sprinkling the salt over the flour and slowly forming a dough. Now this was the easy bit…the hard bit was the kneading it!

Pizza Making

Pizza Making

Stefano teaching us :)

Stefano teaching us :)

It took a very long time and lots of assistance from Stefano and Emile to form this perfect looking pizza dough :D My hands felt like they were going to fall off!

My pizza dough :)

My pizza dough :)

We took it in turns to make the pizzas, first up was Shellie with her Banhmigeddon pizza which had her homemade Vietnamese chicken and Sriracha sauce. That chicken is SO damn addictive! Then Thanh also bought in some special ingredients and made a Kaarage chicken pizza with roast capsicums and rocket on TOP so it didn’t burn in the oven hahaha. Ashely also bought some homemade ingredients and that was BAKKWA and zucchini on her gluten-free pizza ~ the base was amazing couldn’t even tell it was GF :) I could already tell competition was gonna be TOUGH!

Shellie, Thanh and Ashley's pizzas :)

Shellie, Thanh and Ashley’s pizzas :)

Next lot of savoury pizzas were from Sabrina and Scott competing with each other as they’re from the same blog Brunch Addict :P Scott made a vegetarian pizza with fennel and caramelized onions while Sabrina topped her pizza with lamb, some special cheese which I can’t remember the name of and Moroccan spices ~

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Scott and Sabrina’s pizza

Now to the battle of the dessert queens! I knew I wouldn’t stand a chance making a savoury pizza, so definitely sticking with a sweet one. But I was up again Cherrie who is known for her amazing desserts on her blog and OMG Lianne who is like the domestic goddess! Cherrie’s pizza was a sweet and savoury combination of bacon, banana and dulce de leche!

Lianne's 'Banana Nut Cracker' Pizza

Lianne’s ‘Banana Nut Cracker’ Pizza

While Lianne’s ‘Banana Nut Cracker’ was hard to resist too with a butterscotch base, sliced bananas, flaked almond, almond crunch, walnuts and last but not least cinnamon sugar! Okay…we’re competitors but this was so damn good!

My "Sweet Attack" Pizza

My “Sweet Attack” Pizza

Okay, finally my turn with my ‘Sweet Attack’ pizza hahaha I named it ‘Sweet Attack’ because I knew it was going to be a sugar and sweet overload and not everyone could handle my pizza! I had a THICK dulce de leche base (swear I used nearly half a bowl), dollops of fresh Italian Nutella, flaked almonds and almond crumble to give it some texture and finished it all off with super sweet and crunchy honeycomb!

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I know it’s super sweet and not everyone can stomach it but at the same time lol I LOVE IT :P Yes I am bias hahaha either way it was my perfect sweet pizza!

Julia announcing the winners

Julia announcing the winners

It was actually quite nerve wrecking when Julia and Emile stepped out to deliberate hahaha reminds me of Masterchef and how we’re being judged ~ Finally the results were out! *DRUM ROLLS* Shellie and I tied, we were both the highest!!! WOO HOO *HIGH FIVE*! Lianne got second place and Cherrie was third! YAY! Super happy :)

Our Pizza On The Menu

Our Pizza On The Menu

The competition hasn’t ended though! The top 3 pizzas are going on the Grosvenors special menu and the pizza that gets the most votes on Facebook and in the restaurant will remain on the menu for a MONTH and the blogger can go back and eat as many pizzas for FREE :D

Grosvenor Facebook Page :)

Grosvenor Facebook Page :)

Now my Dearest most supportive Readers, can I PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ask you to vote for me :) It’s super simple, you just go to the Grosvenor Facebook page and find the picture of my pizza and press ‘Like’ and that’s it!!! And if you’re in Melbourne please go try out my pizza it’s on the menu for two weeks! Every pizza ordered is also counted as a VOTE :D

No matter who wins this was such an amazing event :) We all had so so so much fun! Would like to thank Emile, Stefano and Julia for organising this event and inviting me!

Daisy@Nevertoosweet attended this event as a guest of Grosvenor Hotel and TinkPR

Vegetarian Friendly – Lord Of The Fries

A few months ago, before I left for HK, Kathyrn from Lord Of The Fries (LOTF) invited me to their tasting event and that they have a vegan chocolate mousse waiting for me ~ I had never tried LOTF so thought it’ll be nice to try it out and there was dessert :P  LOL I love how everyone knows dessert and sweets are my weakness. It was a plus-one event so automatically, I was going to invite Mr Bao. But then I realised from Kathyn’s email that LOTF was a fully vegetarian fast-food store with vegan options. Now Dear Readers do you remember the LAST time I took Mr Bao to a vegetarian-only restaurant at Trippy Taco? He was so depressed and cranky afterwards, I have vowed to never let that happen again :P

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I wasn’t sure who I was going to invite, but then a light-bulb went off and I knew who would LOVE this event, Miss D. Who I think is my only close friend who is a vegetarian and she’s told me how much she loves LOTF especially their chicken nuggets ~

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The event was held on a weeknight at their Fitzroy store and we immediately felt like VIP’s when we got there as the store was closed for us :) I did feel slightly out of place as most bloggers there were vegetarian and vegan bloggers, I think I was the only ‘ominivore’ blogger :P I did meet the lovely Adele from Vegie Head, I had no idea that there were vegan and paleo recipes ~

Other Vegetarian and Vegan Bloggers :)

Other Vegetarian and Vegan Bloggers :)

Upon walking in, Kathyrn greeted us and immediately introduced us to the owners Mark and Sam, then led us to our table where we got a booth to ourselves ~ We noticed that they already had all their sauces laid out on the table. Miss D was a veteran and started telling me the ones she’s tried and the ones that were her favourite.

Different types of sauces

Different types of sauces

They wasted no time and immediately a bowl of fresh fries appeared in front of us and we immediately started to dip in the different types of sauces. The fries were the thick cut style that was piping hot, crunchy and not greasy :)  I think my favourite sauces would have to be the Parisian sauce which is their aioli garlic mayo, it was seriously smooth, creamy and addictive :) Then it was followed up by the Thai Sauce which was a golden satay sauce. Miss D really liked the American which had a Southern BBQ flavour and also the Indian Sauce which was a spicy mango chutney with sour cream.

Lord Of The "Fries"

Lord Of The “Fries”

Next up was the onion rings, I immediately thought of Anonymous Sister, because she’s a bit of a health freak and doesn’t eat much fried food, but onion rings is one of the only fried things she’ll eat ~ I think these would have got her approval, they were crispy on the outside but still soft in the inside.

Onion Rings

Onion Rings

I was intrigued when they brought out these Chilli Poppers, I have never had these before and was worried that they were going to be too hot and burn my tongue. Turns out that they were quite mild and I really liked these deep fried chillis!

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Hahaha I showed Mr Bao a picture of these and he said “I am NOT eating one of those, glad I didn’t go to this event’ LOL he’s a chicken :P

Inside the Chilli Popper

Inside the Chilli Popper

Then it was Miss D’s absolute favourite and something she gets all the time and that was the LOTF Nuggets. These are mock chicken nuggets and are made from soy and fried in butter until golden brown. I was truly impressed by not only the taste but also the texture, it really had that ‘chicken’ nugget texture! If I hadn’t known better, I think I would have thought these were chicken nugget of some sort.

LOTF Nugget

LOTF Nugget

Both Miss D and I were so stuffed, but the food wouldn’t stop coming and it was time for burgers. Before coming I had no idea that LOTF’s burger were vegetarian one a veggie patty, I always thought it was any regular fast-food joint which served beef or meat patties.

Mini Original Burger

Mini Original Burger

The Original burger had a LOFT veggie patty, lettuce and Belgian mayo, I’m not too sure what made the veggie patty, but I assume it was soy, flour and maybe beans? It’s definitely does not taste or have the texture of a real meat patty, but it has good flavours and I think it’s a good substitute for vegetarians ~

Tijuana Hot Dog

Tijuana Hot Dog

This was the Tijuana Hot Dog with a veggie dog and jalapenos, cheese, onion, sour cream, spicy ketchup and mustard. Unfortunately, I wasn’t a fan of this hot dog, I thought the flavours were quite nice and the texture of the dog reminded me of tofu, but I didn’t really like the jalapenos and the spicy ketchup. Maybe I’m just being weird about because others seemed to enjoy it :)

Vegan Chocolate Mousse

Vegan Chocolate Mousse

After all that food, it was finally time for dessert ~ they only have dessert on their menu but it was enough to entice me :) It was a vegan chocolate mousse and the owner Mark told it it’s the same recipe post in the New York Times, and that they don’t really make any money from it. As they use the best chocolate and silken tofu they can find.
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I was definitely surprised and impressed that this was a vegan chocolate mousse, it had the silkiest texture and deep rich chocolate flavours. And because it was made with tofu it had gave it a unique nutty aftertaste. Hannah (Wayfaring Chocolate) I think you will be proud that I actually liked a vegan dessert ;)

Mark and Sam owners of LOTF

Mark and Sam owners of LOTF

Before the wonderful event ended, we got the chance to speak to Mark and Sam owners and founders of LOTF. The original concept  came about when Mark and his wife Mandy were living in Taiwan and they were fed up with the frozen fries, therefore, started making their own fries. They then moved back to Australia and shared their idea with Mark’s brother Sam and in 2005 they opened up their first store in Melbourne :) Fast-foreward 8 years LOTF has become one of the most popular vegan and vegetarian friendly fast-food stores ~

Would like to thank LOTF for inviting me and Miss D to their event, it was a wonderful experience. But to be honest, I was slightly skeptical about the food at LOTF before attending, as I am so ignorant about vegan and vegetarian foods. But now I know vegetarian food can also be very tasty like the chicken nuggets and the chilli poppers :) And I’m definitely going to have to reconsider vegan desserts and I have convinced myself that they’re better for us and hence I can have more :P

Daisy and Miss D @Nevertoosweet dined at Lord Of The Fries as guests of LOTF and Keep Left, however, review and opinions are honest and based on personal taste and preferences.

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