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My first and most recent experience at this restaurant was just absolutely faultless.

The food was incredible, with the workmanship that is involved with preparing and presenting the food clearly evident when each dish comes out. I would recommend the four-course a la carte menu as it allows you to sample a variety of different flavours and textures.

The restaurant is situated upstairs in the Overseas Passenger Terminal at Circular Quay, so it has magnificent views overlooking the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House. The service is friendly but not intrusive, and they go to great lengths to ensure that you have a great experience. For instance, they reserved taxis for us when our meal ended; however they were taking so long to arrive that the wait staff were down on the road trying to flag taxis down for us! Truly going beyond what was required.

Despite what may look like high prices, the workmanship that goes into each dish definitely makes it worth every cent. My experience there was just so memorable that I’m looking forward to going again.

To be honest, I was a bit underwhelmed at the food when I came here for the first time. I felt that I overpaid for a meal that was frankly nothing special, and the service was slightly abrupt.

Having said that though, the fitout of this place is crisp and fresh and the views over Bondi Beach are just absolutely spectacular. I am keen to go again to see whether I just caught it on an average day. If anything though, it’s worth it just for the breathtaking views.

This restaurant won the Good Food Guide’s Restaurant of the Year for 2007 and it definitely deserves the title. The service is warm and friendly, not pretentious at all, and food is just magnificent. The main course I had, the roasted Bangalow pork belly with calves sweetbreads was just so memorable.

Great wine list also.

I came here back in 2003 and loved the relaxing vibe of the place. Most people come here to go scuba diving. The diving here isn’t particularly great, but easy and cheap.

Peru is a fascinating place with a colourful culture, friendly people, amazing architecture and interesting history.

The Inca Trail is a must-do in my opinion, and it is the best way to see Machu Picchu.

One of my World Vision sponsor children live in Nicaragua. I’d love to meet her and her family, and see their way of life.

This place has some truly spectacular diving. I can’t wait to go back and do some more diving in PNG.

The 2-day tour that I went on from Saigon was disappointing. I had been expecting to be driving or boating amongst green paddy fields with women in conical hats sowing rice. What eventuated was being shunted around from coconut candy factory to rice mill to bad restaurant to rice noodle factory, etc.

I guess that I was looking to see how people in the Mekong Delta lived their lives and instead we just got a tour of various shops and factories.

If you do want to see how people in the Delta, don’t go on these popular tours that all the travel agencies in Saigon are selling.