| | I know it's been a really back to the back dated post but sadly, unfortunate people like me, who have no freaking internet access from work (I work in a financial institution, so there's all the confidentiality crap), with very rare free time, can only manage to post them up now. So here, I present to you, food porn all the way from Sydney, Australia. After spending 10 days there, what you see here are merely just a very brief summary of what went on down there. Day 1: Upon landing and after dropping our luggage at his place, we dived into a really huge bowl of vietnamese pho. Krispy Kremes was right after next. Then after a quick stop at Nike + Adidas factory outlet, it was back home for some a huge feast of homecooked dinner. There were just 6 of us for dinner, but I swear his mom prepared for 16!! Day 2: Breakfast was served, which was again, total overloaded for me. We drove into the city where we picked up my friends who were there for vacation as well and headed for The Rocks. We had one HUGE chocolate covered strawberry and bloody (no pun intended) good angus steak sandwich. Next stop was Bondi Beach and had the best Vanilla Slice and Raspberry Strudel I ever had. There too was the biggest Rum Ball ever. Sorry guys, if you lived where I live, you'll too find that everything here is super upsized!! Dinner was at a small, quaint japanese restaurant with some of his friends. Fresh sashimi and whitebait tempura... yummy! And then, supper time!! Picked up my friends again and headed for Pancakes On the Rocks @ The Rocks. Verdict: Totally shiok-a-doo-doo (in other words, freaking awesome)!! Chocolate milkshake, pancakes with strawberries and chocolate pancakes, I could so do this every weekend.  Day 3: is shopping in the city, stopped by for some pretty cupcakes. Dinner was supposedly at a nice tapas restaurant he wanted to recommend, but it was shut down. So went to another tapas restaurant nearby which was still good for us. And of course, that cute french girl working at the bar made it even better. After a short break at home, we were out again.. for Meat Pies @ Harry's Cafe de Wheels! Munching on piping hot meat pies, by the pier in 16 degrees weather, oh yea.. life's good.  Day 4: Manly Beach outing! The ferry ride out was really fun and taking in the sea breeze, clear blue skies and seagulls flying above, is just... aaahhhh... Life's good. There, I had a really good takeaway fish & chips by the beach, and that people, is what I call, chilling out...! Oh yea... I'm so loving Sydney. Dinner was at this small and cozy Thai restaurant, somewhere in Randwick. Chat Thai was the place, and yep... people were chatting away, conversations bouncing off the brick walls. For us, it was silence because we all were too immersed in our dinner. 7 dishes for 4 people, we finished them all anyways.  Day 5: We went to my new favorite hang out place - Sydney Fish Market!!! Slabs of freaking fresh sashimi, fresh oysters by the cartons, freah prawns by the buckets... oh yes... this is where I like to be. The best part is, the market doesn't smell fishy at all! Unlike the markets back home, the smell is.. eerghh.. intolerable. But over here, I likey... In short, I never had so much fun eating sashimi, oysters and prawns, and oh did I add, eating by the pier..?! *grins* Dinner was at a italian restaurant @ Gioia for some really good authentic pizza and pastas. And since then, I've sworn off commercial pizza outlets.  Day 6: was spent mainly at home coz I got sick.. ergh.. blame it on the weather. But dinner was really nice with really romantic ambience, at Jonah's, all the way at Palm Beach. A really classy restaurant where I had a damn good piece of medium rare steak. Are you thinking of charming a girl..? This is the place. On the subsequent days, there was shopping, shopping and more shopping at factory outlets, a chocolate feast at Max Brenner, which by the way, the Max Brenner back home is NOTHING compared to the one here in Sydney, more driving around in his little maroon Integra. A family dinner at his sister's place where she annouced that we're all gonna be auntie, uncles and grandparents, where tears of joy were shed and celebration took place. A very short clubbing session followed after that at Ivy's. It was short because the music, sadly, wasn't that great. And then, back to hot, hot Meat Pies for supper at 1.30am by the pier in the cold. And finally, a BBQ house party with loads of family friends gathered around to celebrate birthdays and arrival of a baby on our last day.
Damn... I'm really missing Sydney right now. I can't wait till December, coz guess what'll happen then... I'm back to Sydney again baby!!! This time, it's Christmas celebration and New Year's Eve Party there!!!! WooOoOooo HhooOoooo!!
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