Category Archives: Food

My uncle Bernard had his 60th B’day at Peter Gilmore’s Quay Restaurant today. Amazingly he booked out the entire restaurant, carpark too!

What a view.

Mudcrab was great, subtle flavours, moreish!

My cousin Nicholas’ speech was heartfelt. Loved it. My Uncle Bernard’s on the right, having a good laugh.

I went for the beef. Cooked to perfection and again, subtle flavours… all the textures were perfect!

My cousin Nicholas with his girlfriend Romina and Miles.

Miles was awesome, all day! No hissy fits until Michael Jackson came out.

All of a sudden the DJ cranked the music up and a Michael Jackson impersonator took to the stage with his minions. Miles screamed, jaws dropped. I didn’t really know whether to laugh or throw up. Was that a he? Or a she?! It wouldn’t get off the stage either, every time he did get off the stage he’d jump back on in another (cheap) outfit and proceed to kill another classic Jackson song. Tragic. SUPER TRIPPY but hey the oldies loved him!

MJ finally got off the stage. Creme Brule.

My Mum’s sister Helen took to the stage to Tango with her guy Michael.

The kids loved it.

Then all the oldies raged on to the “everybody in the house tonight/renovators soundtrack”. They were having so much fun, it was awesome to watch!

We are family.

Miles was a champ today!

Sergio came into Zen the other day with a huge Garlic Chicken feed for us all. Legend! I’ve become such a huge Garlic Chicken fan haha.

Lobster Mornay on Norton St. Leichhardt. Ooh yeah.

Cold Plate.

Hot Plate. 4th Fish & Chips for me this week, out of control…

Ah Sydney.

As the sun went down I grabbed my GF1 only to realise I’d run out of batteries. NOOOO! A DSLR without batteries is like a broken down car. Useless! I took this shot with my iPhone 3GS, so upset I couldn’t use the GF1 though.

GoodGod.

The Lev’s Dawg, best hotdog I’ve ever had, period.

Long time JDMST Moderator Mike V. was in town last night and a hook-up to have Pho was in order. Pakula know’s his Pho (and food in general). He suggested Pho Pasteur in Bankstown. I was buggered, it was pissing down rain (traffic) but I’ve never been to Pasteur. I love Pho too and I had to eat in any case right so I made the trek.

Pho was good. Thicker/darker soup was tasty and different to Pho An across the road. I was still thirsty by the time I put my head on the pillow later that night. I wanted MSG. I got it!

All new. I like it.

Didn’t try it this time but damn I am so going back to grab it next time!

This shop had lots of dogs to try, gah yum yum.

We grabbed a Wagyu Burger + fries in cheese + truffle.

And a chilli dog. All yum but I was still craving the Reuben Sandwich!

Dropped into Kino too and got some R32 GT-R goodness.

Suga and I spent the day in the city today. I just wanted to check out the progress on the new Centrepoint/Westfields. Found the food court this time, blew me away, so much stuff to try. I’ll have to go back for more!

Jamie and Richie cooked up this insanely naughty chunk of pork with plenty of the good sauce to go around.

This speaking and moving cookie monster toy begs for cookies which are stored in his backpack, you then feed him and he goes “om nom nom”. Haha love it.

We smashed this pav. So good.

Paul & Laura.

Had a lovely chilled dinner last night with Jamie, Richie, Paul & Laura. Paul’s one of Richie’s good mates and the last time I met them was about 5 years ago at my wild NYE house party. Fell in love with the two straight away, both such awesome people. They’ve been living in the UK but Paul’s landed a job in NZ and they’ve made a quick stop-over in Sydney to visit Miles. They were doing great considering they just got off the plane from London last night!