Its official, we are having a joint Chinese New Year celebration with the Gay Asian Proud. The celebration will be partially funded by the grant we received from the AGMC (Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council). This lead me to think about the menu and what we should get for our Chinese New Year dinner. Apart from the roast duck and pork (maybe suckling pig), what else should we look at getting for the dinner?

Happy New Year to everyone. I can’t believe its 2010 already. It is an exciting year for Yellow Kitties this year. It is our 10th anniversary of the group. We have already have a few exciting activities planned for this year. So far we are going to have a Chinese New Year party and a weekend away for those interested in fishing and pipping. Also, one of our member is planning to make a couple of short film. It all sound very exciting (if a bit daunting).

I hope everyone had a great start to their new year.

Since food is one of our most attended activity I thought it is about time we explore the topic further. First I think we should talk restaurant. A group of us were talking about restaurant you would want to try and restaurant you know are good. So I was thinking of starting a list here of resaturant you would like to recommend for Melbourne and the surrounding areas, and a list of restaurant you think are good. That way, we can take inspiration from the list and maybe use it to plan our future outing. So don’t be shy, post your suggestion and I will add them to this list.

Restaurant worth trying

• La Luna (suppose to have good ‘aged’ steak and apparently a fabulous dessert platter)
• Yu-U (Japanese, been trying to get in for ages but still haven’t managed to get a booking)
• Woi Ga (Korean Charcoal BBQ house, the food smells fantastic every time I walk past)
  

Restaurant recommendations

• The Point (absolutely the best steak restaurant around)
• Authentic Thai (pretty decent Thai food)
• 7 & 7 (cheap and cheerful Korean food)
• Chocolate Buddha (modern Japanese, quick and tasty, not cheap)
• Bismi (Indian, cheap, cheerful, tasty and quick)
• Mezza (lebanese, very tasty, have some unusual stuff like ‘aged yoghurt’ on their menu, definitely not your run of the mill Lebanese restaurant)
• Tom Phat (modern Vietnamese? not sure but I do love their Uncle Ho’s breakfast!)
  

Next year will be Yellow Kitties 10th anniversary. It is good to see that the group is still going strong after so many years. I’ve had many great memories of all the things we’ve done as a group and all the people I’ve met over the years. At the mini golf challenge, request were made to upload some of the old photos I had of the group. So I am going to progressively upload some of the photos up on the Yellow Kitties’ flickr site. Feel free to leave comments with the photos. I had fun reviewing the photos from my photo library for the upload. If you have Yellow Kitties related photos you want to share contact me and I will arrange for your photos to be uploaded on to our site.

Enjoy!

It has been a while since I posted, so a big apologies from me. In September we held the annual Yellow Kitties Mini Golf challenge. The turn out was fantastic, we had all our past champions present to compete for the title. There were some brillant putting by our champions, including Marie’s multi tier shot which has to be the shot of the day. Marie managed with a single putt, put her golf ball down three tiers. She putted, the ball bounced off the side into the first hole, rolled down to the second tier, bounced off another wall into the second hole, and finally down the third tier into the third hole.

The tophy was hotly contested and the course was challenging, there were some unusual putting style on display, and some creative use of snookering type techniques. Unlike previous year, there were no reports of golf balls ending up in the next hole or launching itself at some poor unsuspecting spectators. We must be getting better.

The competion was very tight this year and not many stroks separate the winners from the runners up. The winner (with an 5 stroke improvement from last year) was our reiging champion Fran, Hsiu came second and Marie (a former winner) came third.

As per usual, we ended our eventful day with food. This time it was Mexican. For those of you interested. I have uploaded the photo on the flickr.

Next month we will be having Yum Cha with GAP (Gay Asian Proud).

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’twas a nice weekend – Y&Y, congrats on your new place!!!   i also just wanted to say thanks for people who popped by for hot pot….and maybe i’ll have something else soon? like…sushi and takoyaki?

I just wanted to say this had to be one of the best weekend in quite a while. It definitely made up for the slow June and July. It started with Judy and Shermaine’s house warming, where as previously reported there were quite a bit of sword play (I am still kicking myself for not brining a camera)! This was followed on the next day by Double Y’s house warming. Yenni, you are a great cook! The food was fabulous we all want the recipe for the curry. I hope you don’t have too much left over (maybe you can bring them to Badminton and share it with the girls). During the party young Junior (the dog) proved to me once again that his nickname should be “Mr Killer”

Taeko and Esther get together on Sunday really capped off a great weekend. We managed to catch up with lots of people and we got to see Taeko and Esther’s wedding pictures! Quite a bit of discussion were had on future events and activities so keep an eye out for upcoming events.

for those that couldn’t make it to Judy and Shermaine’s hot pot housewarming, you missed a good night of food, conversation and checking out their array of Japanese swords.  Well, Judy can’t re-heat a Sara Lee pie, but don’t piss her off – she’s good with a sword!!

We survived the night intact…

Hi All I have been asked to provide a list of what’s happening this month:

Friday 7 Aug, 6pm onwards Judy’s house warming – Hot Pot

Saturday 8 Aug, 6:30pm onwards DoubleY house warming – Yenni is cookin!

Sunday 9 Aug, 1 to 5 pm, catch up with Taeko and Esther at Don’t Call Tom (aka Penny Black) 420 Sydney Road Brunswick

Sunday 16 Aug, 12:30 at MSAC, Badminton with the Sporty Dyke follow by lunch at “Hot Honey Cafe” afterwards

and a heads up for next month I think September is the Annual Yellow Kitties Mini Golf Challenge. Also, we will be organising a get together dinner to welcome back Karen from Singapore. Hope I will see you at one of these event.

Cheers Peggy

Well, since we missed out on activities for June and July we are going to make it up for August. In planning are a group movie night to see the latest Harry Potter movie and yum cha, badminton with the Sporty Dykes and more importantly Judy’s house warming!

Coming up soon is the Yellow Kitties annual Mini-Golf challenge. Watch this space for up-coming events.

Harry Potter
Well the trailers do look very interesting so we are going to arrange for cheap tickets and go off to see the movie after all the ankle biters have been. Also, we are planning to do lunch before hand. This might be the perfect time for us to try the new Yum Cha place in Doncaster. I’ve heard the new place has received a number of good write up. Now, the name of the place sounds familiar, I do wonder if it was the restaurant that was in Sydney. The one that got into a bit of trouble when it was discovered their staff has been skimming credit card. Mind you their Yum Cha was excellent. This restaurant did one of the best Yum Cha in Sydney.

Sporty Dyke
Sporty Dyke is a group dedicated to trying out new sports. They approached us a while ago proposing a badminton session. They have booked three courts on one of the Sunday in August. I have been told they don’t have much experience with Badminton so it will be interesting. Not that we are that good but we have been playing social badminton for years! Lucky for the Sporty Dyke our one and only competition player is going to be unavailable. Of course being a Yellow Kitties event we are going to do lunch afterwards.

Judy’s house warming
Great food and great company. Judy is having a house warming, a chinese steamboat dinner. Yum. Congratulation Judy on the new house.