17 Dec

On the way to the Moeraki Boulders we stopped at the Victorian town of Oamaru. There’s mainly art and craft shops, bookshops, artisan stores like limestone carving and glassblowers, a bakery, ice creamery and also a steampunk museum, which looked interesting, but there was a $10 entry fee and we didn't have much time to spend there, so we didn’t enter. Harbour St Bakery had bread, nice-looking pies and sweets like custard-filled croissants and other pastries. The two that caught my eye were the macaroon (gevulde koek, $5)...

14:34 / Dessert/Sweets / Harbour St Bakery / New Zealand / Oamaru / Travel
17 Dec

Since it was 7:30pm and on the way to the hotel, we visited Miga Korean BBQ and Japanese for dinner. I ordered gamjatang, which was spicy pork bone and potato stew with vegetables. Dad wanted either the bulgogi or the o-sam/o-jingoh/buldak/buldaejie (pork+squid, squid, chicken, pork: they were all stir-fried with a gochujang-based sauce, so basically the same but slightly different because of flavours imparted by the different meats used). I suggested the pork and squid because I thought they’d add nice flavours to the sauce. I also didn’t...

12:38 / Dunedin / Korean / Miga Korean BBQ and Japanese / New Zealand / Travel
16 Dec

Because we didn’t have breakfast I was rather hungry when we got back from our Tasman Glacier kayaking trip at 2pm, so we just got lunch at the Old Mountaineers Café and Bar. I had the Local-Farmed Aoraki Smoked Salmon Bagel With Aioli, Cream Cheese, Lettuce, Red Onion And A Wedge Of Lemon ($15) and dad had the soup of the day, which was Pumpkin And Ginger Soup ($13.50). Kind of expensive, but I just wanted to eat something. My bagel wasn’t bad, although the bagel wasn’t very dense....

14:18 / Mount Cook Village / New Zealand / Old Mountaineers Café and Bar / Seafood / Travel
16 Dec

We'd bought an accommodation package that included a meal voucher together with the room. The voucher for the Chamois Bar and Grill entitled us to any main meal and a drink each. I had boysenberry cider with Mackenzie rib eye, potato mash, pureed pumpkin, green beans and roasted tomato with red wine jus ($27). The other options for steak sauces were garlic butter and mushroom. The rib eye was more medium than medium rare, but it was still tender and tasty. I quite liked the red wine jus which...

12:30 / Chamois Bar and Grill / Mount Cook Village / New Zealand / Travel
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