Category: eats
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Mother’s Day 2015
I don’t get to celebrate Mother’s Day with my own mum because I live overseas, but this year I get to do that with R mum, who prepared chicken casserole for dinner and apricot almond slice for dessert! I know, I know. It’s totally wrong of us to let her cook dinner on Mother’s Day,…
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Sammy’s Restaurant, Gymea
Sometimes it’s hard for me to tell whether it’s my overly strict and traumatising upbringing that influenced my views, or some parents just don’t parent. Your toddler won’t stop pointing and yelling at someone at the next table, you smile at him and let him continue through the night. Your toddler throws his dummy at…
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Hakiki Turkish Ice Cream, Newtown
We still had a bit of time before our comedy show tonight and I was predictably still hungry after the dinner. We randomly strolled down Enmore Road in the light rain looking for nothing in particular, and stumbled upon a little place called Hakiki Turkish Ice Cream. “Turkish ice cream?” We asked each other. “Probably…
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Japan Village, Enmore
We had almost 2 hours for a proper dinner before our comedy show at Enmore Theatre tonight, and it’s hard to pick one restaurant out of the hundreds in the area of good eats. Richard previously read pretty good reviews about Japan Village, so when we walked past, we thought, why not? (In hindsight, we…
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He Cooks: Homegrown Butternut Pumpkin Soup (Batch 2)
More homegrown pumpkin soup prepared by the him! Vegetable stock this time instead of chicken the other day, and equally delish. Perfect dinner in for this dreadfully wet and windy Sydney storm of the century.
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Din Tai Fung, Westfield Miranda
Everyone’s favourite Taiwanese dumpling place Din Tai Fung (鼎泰豐) opened yet another branch in Sydney. We previously visited one in Hong Kong, and later at Central Park after discovering for the first time that the franchise existed in Australia (yeah, we know). We’d been talking about trying this new Westfield Miranda branch, and tonight was…