http://birdiegolfblog.com The Travels & Adventures of Birdie Golf Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:45:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://birdiegolfblog.com/review-pier-restaurant-sydney-australia/ http://birdiegolfblog.com/review-pier-restaurant-sydney-australia/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:00:27 +0000 birdie http://birdiegolfblog.com/?p=4014 Share|It was Chinese New Year (初一) and we tried to book Tetsuya’s, but could only get a table the day after, so we tried Pier Restaurant…with no regrets. Since it was the first dinner to celebrate the Year of the Dragon, we started off with a glass of Laurent-Perrier Rosé immediately after sitting down at [...]]]> http://birdiegolfblog.com/review-pier-restaurant-sydney-australia/feed/ 0 http://birdiegolfblog.com/review-oyster-18-hong-kong/ http://birdiegolfblog.com/review-oyster-18-hong-kong/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:00:55 +0000 birdie http://birdiegolfblog.com/?p=3091 Share|We headed to the eastern part of town to Tin Hau, Hong Kong to try a new oyster place appropriately named Oyster 18. We were greeted by the maître d, Wilson, who was very attentive and helpful. He started us off with some homemade black truffle butter and freshly baked French bread. A very good [...]]]> http://birdiegolfblog.com/review-oyster-18-hong-kong/feed/ 0 http://birdiegolfblog.com/review-oyster-wine-bar-hong-kong/ http://birdiegolfblog.com/review-oyster-wine-bar-hong-kong/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:00:13 +0000 birdie http://birdiegolfblog.com/?p=3014 Share|We haven’t been to the Hong Kong Sheraton Hotel for eons. Tonight, R had a meeting in Tsim Sha Tsui and thought we’d try the Oyster & Wine Bar on the top floor of the hotel. The lifts only go up to the 17th floor and a flight of stairs took us up to our [...]]]> http://birdiegolfblog.com/review-oyster-wine-bar-hong-kong/feed/ 0 http://birdiegolfblog.com/finally-a-place-to-buy-great-steak-in-hong-kong/ http://birdiegolfblog.com/finally-a-place-to-buy-great-steak-in-hong-kong/#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:00:51 +0000 birdie http://birdiegolfblog.com/?p=1902 Share|Ever since our favorite butcher, Fentons Gourmet in Happy Valley closed its doors we lost a great place to get high quality beef for our barbecue nights. Even the high end supermarkets (Great, Oliver’s, City Super) couldn’t satisfy us. Then our friend at Geoff’s Twitchen posted a writeup of his winter barbecue and mentioned an [...]]]> http://birdiegolfblog.com/finally-a-place-to-buy-great-steak-in-hong-kong/feed/ 0 http://birdiegolfblog.com/review-the-seafood-restaurant-st-andrews-scotland/ http://birdiegolfblog.com/review-the-seafood-restaurant-st-andrews-scotland/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:00:18 +0000 birdie http://birdiegolfblog.com/?p=1624 Share|We arrived at St Andrews, Scotland today and we were surprised to see fairly calm skies, just cloudy. No rain or snow here in February? Maybe it’ll be sunny enough to play some golf? Dream on… Well we headed out to one of The Seafood Restaurants – the one at St Andrews naturally (they have [...]]]> http://birdiegolfblog.com/review-the-seafood-restaurant-st-andrews-scotland/feed/ 1