Rare yes!yes!yes! Posted January 1 Author #176 Share Posted January 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare yes!yes!yes! Posted January 1 Author #177 Share Posted January 1 we shared the pork belly. so glad it wasn't my main dish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare arxcards Posted January 1 #178 Share Posted January 1 Charcuterie & Lamb shanks for me please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare yes!yes!yes! Posted January 1 Author #179 Share Posted January 1 13 hours ago, arxcards said: Charcuterie & Lamb shanks for me please yes. I like the lamb shanks. won't have the pork belly again 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare yes!yes!yes! Posted January 1 Author #180 Share Posted January 1 we are getting off in Melbourne for 6 nights. it looks like a miserable day. any suggestions of things to do? names of any good dimsum or dumpling places in China town please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Yaya_in_Oz Posted January 2 #181 Share Posted January 2 4 hours ago, yes!yes!yes! said: we are getting off in Melbourne for 6 nights. it looks like a miserable day. any suggestions of things to do? names of any good dimsum or dumpling places in China town please. Enjoy your time in Melbourne. Its a sunny day out here on the fringes and I've just been out to Coldstream to drop off the furbies. Will post if anything of excitement happens on board this next week. I hope the storms don't hit and we get stuck in the Bay this evening. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resordanis Posted January 2 #182 Share Posted January 2 6 hours ago, yes!yes!yes! said: we are getting off in Melbourne for 6 nights. it looks like a miserable day. any suggestions of things to do? names of any good dimsum or dumpling places in China town please. I have enjoyed your posts and look forward to the next instalment. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
possum52 Posted January 2 #183 Share Posted January 2 2 hours ago, Yaya_in_Oz said: Enjoy your time in Melbourne. Its a sunny day out here on the fringes and I've just been out to Coldstream to drop off the furbies. Will post if anything of excitement happens on board this next week. I hope the storms don't hit and we get stuck in the Bay this evening. It's been sunny in southern bayside too. Warm, about 25 I would say but a but humid. I think the storms are on the way. 6 hours ago, yes!yes!yes! said: we are getting off in Melbourne for 6 nights. it looks like a miserable day. any suggestions of things to do? names of any good dimsum or dumpling places in China town please. I haven't been to Chinatown for a while but there was a good one on the left as you walk up the hill maybe halfway up. Can't remember the name sorry. Ypu may have to plan indoor stuff for the next couple of days with rain and storms forecast. At least it won't be cold. Museum, art galleries? Vic Market (not open tomorrow though). If into sport, a tour of the MCG or Melbourne Park. Or a show, of which there are plenty on in Melbourne at the moment. There's a couple of websites where you can get last minute tickets. Enjoy your time in Melbourne. Hope you continue your posts while here. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare yes!yes!yes! Posted January 2 Author #184 Share Posted January 2 went to secret kitchen in China town. was packed. very good 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare yes!yes!yes! Posted January 2 Author #185 Share Posted January 2 2 minutes ago, possum52 said: It's been sunny in southern bayside too. Warm, about 25 I would say but a but humid. I think the storms are on the way. I haven't been to Chinatown for a while but there was a good one on the left as you walk up the hill maybe halfway up. Can't remember the name sorry. Ypu may have to plan indoor stuff for the next couple of days with rain and storms forecast. At least it won't be cold. Museum, art galleries? Vic Market (not open tomorrow though). If into sport, a tour of the MCG or Melbourne Park. Or a show, of which there are plenty on in Melbourne at the moment. There's a couple of websites where you can get last minute tickets. Enjoy your time in Melbourne. Hope you continue your posts while here. we plan on the markets on Thursday. we both haven't been there for about 10 years. we will check out the shows. we might get the ferry to Williamstown one day, we haven't been there. we went to international cakes on londsdale for tonight's tea. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare yes!yes!yes! Posted January 2 Author #186 Share Posted January 2 secret kitchen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
possum52 Posted January 2 #187 Share Posted January 2 4 minutes ago, yes!yes!yes! said: we plan on the markets on Thursday. we both haven't been there for about 10 years. we will check out the shows. we might get the ferry to Williamstown one day, we haven't been there. we went to international cakes on londsdale for tonight's tea. I forgot Williamstown, lovely historical suburb. My paternal great grandparents settled there when they arrived in Victoria in 1874 and my grandfather and his siblings were born there and some buried there as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare ceeceeDee Posted January 2 #188 Share Posted January 2 21 hours ago, arxcards said: Charcuterie & Lamb shanks for me please Love lamb shanks, but I'd have had a problem with most of the main courses. All of them featured rosemary which certainly doesn't agree with me. Rosemary means 'remembrance' and believe me I can't forget it if I inadvertently eat it.😯 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare yes!yes!yes! Posted January 2 Author #189 Share Posted January 2 28 minutes ago, possum52 said: I forgot Williamstown, lovely historical suburb. My paternal great grandparents settled there when they arrived in Victoria in 1874 and my grandfather and his siblings were born there and some buried there as well. Williamstown ferry brochure looked good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
possum52 Posted January 2 #190 Share Posted January 2 33 minutes ago, yes!yes!yes! said: Williamstown ferry brochure looked good. It will be a lovely day out, there are plenty of places to have lunch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare arxcards Posted January 2 #191 Share Posted January 2 1 hour ago, ceeceeDee said: Love lamb shanks, but I'd have had a problem with most of the main courses. All of them featured rosemary which certainly doesn't agree with me. Rosemary means 'remembrance' and believe me I can't forget it if I inadvertently eat it.😯 Could be worse - if your parents named you Rosemary. 🤣 Barb has a significant allergy to mushrooms, and those are those nights where your eye drops straight down to the more generic "favourites" part of the menu. I showed her the menu photo last night, and she said crispy salmon cake for starters, crispy salmon cake(s) for mains, crispy salmon cake for dessert. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare ceeceeDee Posted January 2 #192 Share Posted January 2 6 minutes ago, arxcards said: Could be worse - if your parents named you Rosemary. 🤣 Barb has a significant allergy to mushrooms, and those are those nights where your eye drops straight down to the more generic "favourites" part of the menu. I showed her the menu photo last night, and she said crispy salmon cake for starters, crispy salmon cake(s) for mains, crispy salmon cake for dessert. I'd probably go with the watermelon and fetta and the sweet and sour prawns. Acceptable, but not something I would salivate over. Some of the offerings earlier in the cruise looked pretty awesome, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Yaya_in_Oz Posted January 2 #193 Share Posted January 2 (edited) I haven’t tried uploading from my phone so I‘ll see how it goes. I’m happy to add in paperwork and leave food to others. How interesting is cabin breakfast? 🙃 So we have the Patter and Ports and Elite Lounge. Edited January 14 by Host Kat Removed one of the images per Member's request. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Yaya_in_Oz Posted January 2 #194 Share Posted January 2 Two differences from my last cruise- the cabin door no longer has full names. Just Mary A and John B. At security they were checking the alcohol as the bottles appeared on the scanner. Checking what I had was indeed wine and I heard one guy get questioned about 2 bottles and he said ‘my wife’s over there’. Possibly random as I arrived around 3.15 pm so not busy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare yes!yes!yes! Posted January 2 Author #195 Share Posted January 2 1 hour ago, Yaya_in_Oz said: Two differences from my last cruise- the cabin door no longer has full names. Just Mary A and John B. At security they were checking the alcohol as the bottles appeared on the scanner. Checking what I had was indeed wine and I heard one guy get questioned about 2 bottles and he said ‘my wife’s over there’. Possibly random as I arrived around 3.15 pm so not busy. yes I prefer the first names on the door 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare OzKiwiJJ Posted January 2 #196 Share Posted January 2 13 hours ago, yes!yes!yes! said: we are getting off in Melbourne for 6 nights. it looks like a miserable day. any suggestions of things to do? names of any good dimsum or dumpling places in China town please. There is a Din Tai Fung restaurant in The Emporium shopping mall, on one of the upper levels at the Lonsdale St end of the mall. They have some of the best dumplings in the world. Hochi Mama is excellent for pan-Asian cuisine, and offer a great range of small dishes. Gyoza Gyoza can be a bit variable but has some really nice Japanese 'tapas" dishes. Both are in Chinatown at the upper end of Little Bourke St. For exceptionally good upmarket Thai try Longrain but it's quite expensive. Also upper end of Little Bourke St. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Yaya_in_Oz Posted January 2 #197 Share Posted January 2 But wait there’s more……. Haven’t had one of these since before Covid. I think I’d rather a choccy on the pillow but still ….. a lot of happy people. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare arxcards Posted January 2 #198 Share Posted January 2 3 minutes ago, Yaya_in_Oz said: But wait there’s more……. Haven’t had one of these since before Covid. I think I’d rather a choccy on the pillow but still ….. a lot of happy people. 5 x Princess since restart for us. We had one Coral cruise where we scored one of those old totes, and another on Majestic we scored a nice mini toiletry pouch with a fair few emergency goodies inside. Nothing on the other three cruises. A pillow choc or two would be awesome. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare yes!yes!yes! Posted January 2 Author #199 Share Posted January 2 14 hours ago, OzKiwiJJ said: There is a Din Tai Fung restaurant in The Emporium shopping mall, on one of the upper levels at the Lonsdale St end of the mall. They have some of the best dumplings in the world. Hochi Mama is excellent for pan-Asian cuisine, and offer a great range of small dishes. Gyoza Gyoza can be a bit variable but has some really nice Japanese 'tapas" dishes. Both are in Chinatown at the upper end of Little Bourke St. For exceptionally good upmarket Thai try Longrain but it's quite expensive. Also upper end of Little Bourke St. thanks will Google these. we are on little Collins, very close to china town Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare yes!yes!yes! Posted January 2 Author #200 Share Posted January 2 13 hours ago, Yaya_in_Oz said: But wait there’s more……. Haven’t had one of these since before Covid. I think I’d rather a choccy on the pillow but still ….. a lot of happy people. yes we got those last Christmas 2022 also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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