C'est LA viE

Actually was not just a day off, I stayed at Welly for the weekend and yes I took a day off on Friday...

well, Welly was not that attractive until I could take a leave for going there....

This day off was mainly because i was forced to take leaves as I mentioned in my last blog before, check here

So that's the reason I visited Welly today! It felt so great as I not need to work on Friday...

even it was just a day, I still felt magnificient!

Thanks to Paya, she come to meet me even she needed to finish her thesis asap...we went for lunch straight away~

Since I just recovered from food poisoned, we had vegetarian meals for lunch....I didnt take any photos, since the portion size was really tiny and it dint taste great...=(

Then, I basically just killed remain time at Massey while Paya gone back to her office continued her freaking annoying thesis =P

Actually, I should have gone to Botanical garden to view the blooming tulips....*regret*....=(

Then the Friday night market at Cuba!! That's the reason to stay at Welly on Friday!

I finally bought this famous Hungarian Chimney cake!!!

This was highly recommended by ChyiMei....she was like kept on telling me how great it is...

It was a long queue when we arrived, and since we started lining up, the line behind us was even longer!

here come our turn, some snapshots of the baking process....

basically, they putting a thin pastry on a cylinder shaped baking stick, and put it in the oven...

finally I got it!!

It was real yummy~~  it just like helix-shaped pastry taper towards the end...

Is best to consume it while hot! If u would like to know more, see here (wikipedia is always a good resource!)

I also bought these 2 japanese roll cakes, it was not cheap tho, NZD4.50 for 1. I bought it because, yep is baked by Japanese....

Paya was speechless about that~ But actually they did taste good, good portion and with good filling! ^^

Then, we met up with Paya's fren, Jeanie...she is a taiwanese who moved to Welly from Auckland this year

She is so abdorable, regardless of her age, she is very straight forward and has a 'young-heart'

we had pizzas for dinner, I couldnt believe that Hells pizza had upgraded their vegetarian pizza selection, there are so many varieties to be chosen!

Even sides also provide may options!

See what we had!! We ordered 2 regular pizzas (I really forgot what we ordered), and 2 sides....the corn fritters were so yummy!

yep, I couldnt consume too much greasy food (at this stage), so i just had 2 slices of pizza, and full~==

we chat so long, until 2am on Friday night! Love this feeling, just like girl's night, had a very sincere, deep talk...

This time, despite of staying at Paya's place at town, all of us stayed over Jeanie's place, at Seatoun.

Time flies, on Saturday, weather was amazing!

We went to lower hutt like lunch time, since we woke up so late...haha

This was my lunch, teochew style vegetarian steamed fish....it was yummy even tho I cant taste the real fish. (U might wonder why I had so many vegetarian meals, this is because Jeanie and Paya are both vegetarians)

then was planning to go beach, but the weather suddenly turned bad, typical Wellington weather!!

We end up just staying at home....back to Seatoun

At night, I actually met up Chyimei at town, in a Vietnamese restaurant!

Paya and Jeanie was really nice, they purposely dropped me at town. (Seatoun is far far away from town...)

Anyways, the vietnamese meal was quite pleasant, but i still miss the Saigon's meal at Dunedin.

I had 'Bun cha gio thit nuong', which is a Saigon style combination vermicelli, lettuce, mint with spring rolls and grilled pork.

Unfortunately I forgot to take photos, it must be because Chyimei and I had a good chat and was starving lol

We had such a good conversation, and we continued it in another bubble tea cafe. =P

So that's was basically my Saturday~ ^^

While on Sunday, actually I also spending time with Chyimei because Paya and Jeanie had other stuffs to do.

Chyimei and I went to Regal for dim sum, finally found a good place for dim sum!

Then, we gone to the Sunday market! That's the most favourite place I like in Welly!

Weather was real good, I bought another chimney cake again =P, but this time with extra cherries!!

We had a good afternoon before I departed back to Palmy with naked bus....(is just the bus company, dont be misleaded)

Besides, I finally received the snow skin moon cake (冰皮月饼), yes it is called as snow skin moon cake (try type on wikipedia)

Chyimei bought me one as I harrassing her before when I saw her posting the famous HK brand, MeiXim snow moon cake photos at retail shop at Porirua, where she is working.

So nice of Chyimei, she bought the most popular mango flavor moon cake for me!

 It has a chocolate skin, and with mango paste filling and shreded chocolate chips! YUMMY!

will definitely buy it next time if possible!<3