Friday, September 30, 2011

Sydney Part II - So Many Restaurants, So Little Time

Dinner on Monday night was at Chef's Gallery, a Shanghainese restaurant that I've read good things about in one of the food blogs I read. That's right people, I read food blogs. That's just how I roll. This remained one of my favourite meals in Sydney so I'll definitely be going back for more in the next 2 trips coming up.

Fried rice with three types of eggs - normal, preserved and salted. This was nice, good comfort food. I have a soft spot for fried rice, probably a childhood thing as it always seemed like a special occasion when Mum ordered fried rice instead of normal rice when we went to restaurants.

Handmade noodles with cabbage, mushroom, chicken and chunky egg bits. I love chunky egg bits in fried noodles.

Flaky bread with pork floss - told you I love pork floss.

Spare ribs in peking sauce - one of my top 5 chinese dishes.

Boss chose this. I didn't like it. Fried eggplant. Bleh.

Nomnomnomnomnom...

Last but definitely not least, dessert! Little piggyssssssssssss!

Backsides of the girl and boy piggies.

I'm too cute to be eaten!

Errr no you are not. Oozing black sesame goodness.

Tuesday night, we hit up Din Tai Fung, the McDonalds of dumpling restaurants.

Check out the wall art made of steamers.

No the chefs aren't praying. They are busy making dumplings!

The ordering system was the same at Chef's Gallery. You are given a menu and you write down what you want.

The minute I sat down, the waiter brought this and put it next to me. I wonder what it's for.

Oh looksie, my bag is hiding under it, well-protected from any accidental spills and splatters.

Over-ordered as usual.

Super cold tofu topped with pork floss (again!) with preserved eggs. The coldness was a bit disconcerting but so nice with hot rice. Preserved eggs AND pork floss? What's not to love?

Spinach. One of my favourite veges.

Handmade noodles with mince. Meh, this was only ok. I preferred the noodles from Chef's Gallery.

Taiwanese-style pork chop. Deep fried..... L.O.V.E.

It would be wrong not to order dumplings so we did. They were yum and soup-a-licious.

Dinner on Wednesday night was an Indonesian affair at some random pokey cafe.

Chicken satays. These were amazing. They had that char-grilled smokey smell and taste that's had to explain and replicate. YUM.

Beef rendang. A tad tough. Check out the oil!

Chicken something or other. Nice and tender.

Spinach with a crazy hot sauce.

We thought we deserved an ice-cream since that was such a healthy dinner so off we went to Passionflower, an Asian ice cream parlour.

I got the Superstar, which I'm sure you'll say is very fitting for me. Black sesame, sticky rice and azuki red bean ice creams with black glutinous balls and sprinkled with peanuts. The red bean was so yummy.

Boss got the Eastern Sunrise - Japanese green tea, taro and sticky rice ice creams with banana wedges topped with an orange lychee compote.

Korean BBQ was on the menu on Thursday night.

There was a random cash machine opposite where we were sitting. Check out the wallpaper.


The usual complimentary little side dishes.

Meeeeeat!


Eel rice.

Part 3 coming right up.

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