Tag Archives: food
When your gingerbread men don’t sell. Invert and add antlers
When your gingerbread men don’t sell. Invert them and add antlers. You now have reindeer. But, isn’t it the wrong time of year for those?
Cthulhu was here? #photo
Looking down into my bowl of noodles at a restaurant in China Town tonight, I couldn’t help but imagine a bowl of yellow and green tentacles. They tasted very good, but, was the place visited by an Elder God before … Continue reading
How’s your Spanish sausage? (photo)
Shopping for chorizo in David Jones, and I noticed a typo in their sign. Well, a missing first letter. ‘ade in Australia’ Perhaps the sign producer needed some aid, and, unfortunately, I do too, because I seem to have taken … Continue reading
Are you game to eat from those bubble packs?
I understand that the packets of meat heat sealed may have slight bubbles in them, but, it makes you wonder if there is a problem somewhere is the bubbles distort the packaging. Was it packaged that way? Or is there … Continue reading
Sushi Train at Town hall is closing
A sign in the window of Sushi Train at Town Hall (Sydney) announced the continuation of the $3 all plates deal at Sushi Train Town Hall until Sunday 5 September. Good news short term, bad news long term. The sign … Continue reading
$3 August at Sushi Train Town Hall
For the month of August Sushi Train at Town Hall is offering all plates for $3. Go forth and gorge yourselves. Edit: Just noticed the Sushi Train blog post on the deal here.
Strawberry Ice Cream Soup
A plate of strawberry ice cream that has been left unattended and mostly melted. Looks like a bowl of pumpkin soup doesn’t it?
Get real taste? Try something else
Caution writer unloading. On the back of a Coca Cola delivery truck I walked past the other day was an advertisement for the new Goulburn Valley Dairy Co flavoured milk. ‘Get real taste‘ it proclaimed. Well, at the beginning of … Continue reading
fragrant disregard
fragrant disregard \ phrase an obvious, conspicuously bad sense of smell “He showed fragrant disregard at the markets, and bought fish that smelt dreadful.” — The English on this menu in China Town reads “Shredded pork in fragrant hot sauce”. … Continue reading
Yoshinoya in Sydney
Having been in Japan for a year it was interesting to find a Yoshinoya in Sydney, on Oxford street. Apparently it has been there for a years, and I never noticed. Inside it didn’t quite feel like a Japan Yoshinoya, … Continue reading