Breakfast in Melbourne > The Conservatory

Introduced the fantastic hotel in my previous post, though i m tired from uploading all the pics > i m unwilling to rest and wait any longer! I must post all my pics and let u guys have a feast! Perhaps leave u itching to visit this wonderful city (and hotel) asap! :)

We will wake up at ard 8am (Melbourne time, Melbourne is 2 hrs ahead of Sg), and dressed to go down eat breakfast. Well, i must admit, i wake at 7am coz i need to bath, wash hair, blow and curl, make up blah blah..yah..i dilly-dally la..plus the tv in the bathroom, i gotta watch and do my things tgt le! Granny, being the quicker one, needing only at most 30mins, let me use the bathroom first, while she patiently wait for me. So ppl, if u r sharing a rm with me, let me use the bathroom first (if u want ur breakast), and the person who knows my habits best: Aunt Bee Cheng! She is my best room-mate during holis! :P

Then we troop down to breakfast, with our coats and scarves ard us. Breakfast is served daily from 6.30 to 10.30am at The Conservatory, its buffet breakfast, and there are lotsa things to eat, even for the fussiest eater:

I took a shot of the buffet area. Mainly 6 sections:

• >Egg (sunny side up, boiled, poached, omelette), porridge, kuay tiao soup and fried noodles and rice section
• >Cereal and milk, dried fruits, canned fruits, fresh fruits, ham and cold cuts section, and my fave: Birch museli
• >Juice Section: with apple, pink guava, pineapple, orange, tomato. (plenty of selection, they have all these daily)
• >Hot Selection: baked beans, bacon, sausages, mushrooms, veggie fritters, scrambled eggs, hashbrowns
• >Bread: different kinds of muffins, danishes, bread, buns, rolls, toasted bread
• > Pancake and yohgurt section : with fresh creams, dried fruits, fruit compote (* Jie, if u bring darling Ethan there, he will eat lotsa pancakes with berries and cream, sure love it! :P *)

After eating there for 4 mornings, i can memorize all they have liao. Besides the fruits, cereals and yohgurt, they have lotsa nuts too. Almonds, pinenuts, sunflower, walnuts, cashew..never in my life, did i know so many diff varieties of eggs before! My fave: sunny-side up, and omelette (with bacon, tomato, onions and ham in it). Sunny-side up is my fave too, together on a toast with a cut of ham, but i m fussy abt it, the egg yolk must not be too cooked and must be perfect (i.e. no break, spill etc). In my family, only Granny and Daddy know how to fry a perfect sunny-side up for me! Love u! I feel so blessed :)

Took a snapshot of the dining area in The Conservatory > very big and spacious. French windows from the restaurant overlook the Yarra River and we can see the skyline of the city area. Sunlight streamed in from the windows and spaces betw tables are big, making u feel totally at ease eating. I love french windows, and my future house, must have them!



My breakfast:
Usually i start with a glass of juice (prefer orange or guava, sometimes pineapple). Then omelette, sauteed mushrooms, bacon and a cut of ham. Then i will do for 1 slice of toast, either with ham and sunny-side up, or with butter and jam. Next will be my bread and pancake:



One morning, i opt for apricot danish, and 2 slices of pancakes. My weakness: fresh cream with maple syrup on my pancakes! U see on the table? They serve jam in small bottles, they put 4 different kinds on each table, and u take one, open and use as much as u can. After u finish, they will dump the whole small can..a bit wasteful so Granny and I always bring back the unfinished jar. Haha :)





I had an almond danish this time. With pancake and rockmelon. It looks like their rockmelons are very cheap, huge helpings every morn at the buffet and i eat a lot. About 10-15 slices a day. So sweet and cold! Yum yum!

My last and final helping of the buffet will always, DEFINITELY be this! Yohgurt, mixed nuts, dried apricots, poached peaches, birch museli and some cereal. I love it! I feel that the goodness and fibre are all in this one bowl and it makes me feel healthy after all the food. And i would wash them down a hot cup of tea. :P Nice nice!

More pics of us at breakfast:

Granny is cutting her food into smaller pieces so she can eat. Granny is such an elegant and poised lady, and whenever i m sitting at the same table, eating with her, i feel so un-ladylike. Haha..trust me, if u sit at the table with her, you would cut ur toast into 10 pieces and chew slowly too. And never take too much food, never put big pieces of food into ur mouth, never talk with ur mouth full, twist ur noodles ard ur fork before eating. Never slurp (i dun do that!) ur tea/coffee. I already got quite good table manners, but with Granny, I feel so undainty > Granny spent many years in the US with my Grandpa when he was studying at Florida, so she learnt a lot from the Americans and all the dining ettiquette. From young, she and my Daddy would teach me, haha! So western food, formal dinner> Not a problem! :P

I really enjoyed my breakie at Crown and i love the spread. I indulged in bacon, which i dun eat at home, and i can enjoy my helping of birch museli and yohgurt. I must say that the chef at the egg station fired a good omelette, but sunny side up..he gonna learn more! I almost had to ask Granny to fry for me there..his ah..cmi cmi.. (remember i m fussy). :) Overall we had a good time every morning!

Next coming up... some shots of Crown and the surroundings :P