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Some Sydney Food

开记美食轩 @Flemington

Spicy Pork Stock Ramen @Ryotei Ramen, North Sydney

weekend brunch

We were planning to have fish n’ chips @ Fish Face, Darlinghurst. The place was recommended by Terry Durack in Sydney Magazine (Oct. Issue) amongst ‘the 50 things every Sydney food lover should try’. Sadly, it is not open for lunch. The week-long wet weather was another pissing-off thing. So we decided to sit down quickly in a cafe called ‘Recess’, opposite where we parked the car.

Blueberries are in season now. This was my first time to have the fruit in a smoothie version. And again, my favourite breakfast menu item: egg benedict! They do not serve it with bone ham. So I went for smoked salmon. yum~

Sugar Hit

Today is the day for me to be fully loaded with sweet treats!

Sprüngli House Tin – my personal order from Michael’s trip to the home office last week. Two years after the big boss brought us the nice tin of assorted Sprüngli praline as a treat, I can never forget about it every single night. Though Sprüngli and Lindt are actually brothers!

Koko Black’s chocolate & orange – my personal order from Sarah’s weekend trip back to Melbourne (thanks Sarah!). Pure dark chocolate over candied orange segments: this goodie is so yummm!!!

Koko Black’s gift box chocolate selection – another treat from heavenly nice Sarah!!! They look too good to be eaten.

Shelf life for those fresh chocolates are rather short. So I have no excuses!!! hahaha~

周五晚，Chinatown见。

几个腐女相约周五晚下了班一起去唐人街排队吃鲜芋仙。腐女这个名称帽子是扣大了，也就五块五一碗的芋圆，你能指望腐败到哪里去？开在原来‘大娘水饺’的地方，隔壁就是Mamak，好么，两条队伍长得都排到一块儿去了，一开始还排错。当然我们果断得排在了鲜芋仙，吃甜品肯定要快一些的。

左上角黄白色的团子就是芋圆么？我记得Eastwood的新人人就有卖冰冻的哦，没吃出来糯米以外的味道。噱头就在这些五花八门的topping上吧。一开始不懂，以为一号到七号代表芋圆的size，就琢磨这七号得多大啊？现在才了解到号码指的是不同配料而已。还有仙草和豆花的单子可以选。排到我们，三、四、七号已经售罄，那时才六点多。

天气还没热，晚饭也没吃，所以我们仨都点热的，幸好Sarah点了冰的仙草，否则根本没法儿拍照。

Echo点的热豆花，味道不错，下面没有了刨冰，换成了热甜汤，所以看上去好少。

吃完甜品该吃晚饭了，冏。望着各家饭馆门口的人龙，不得不感叹现在在悉尼吃个晚饭比上海还难，就选food court吧。唐人街地下的那家，以前没有去过。居然在最里面的角落发现一家上海武昌路妯娌老鸭粉丝汤，大碗，九块八。味道不错，汤鲜美，过后也不会口干。只是，这么粗，能叫粉丝吗？

上海人的鲜肉月饼

每逢中秋佳节，上海人除了热热闹闹排队买杏花楼的豆沙月饼、功德林的苏式素月饼外，最具特色的就属鲜肉月饼了。中秋前几天，老大房、黄家沙门口通常天天会排起人龙，等候热乎乎刚出炉的鲜肉月饼。外地人一般都不能理解，鲜肉的馅儿也叫月饼？这就是上海人难以替代的一种情愫。

想要吃到普通的广式或苏式月饼，在国外已经不是难事。可惜上海人的鲜肉月饼却走不了那么远，酥皮讲究现做现吃，简直就得离了锅就吃。一直寻觅悉尼哪里可以吃到正宗的货，印象中‘小上海’Ashfield有卖，可朋友说不是现做的，完全不对味。难得今年中秋，美丽厨娘Sarah经不住我们的几番纠缠，挽起袖管亲手制作。值得一提的是，Sarah是七岁便随父母移居澳洲的小ABC，难得有如此传统的兴致，在此作揖佩服。

Sarah正把拌好的肉糜馅包进切成圆形的pastry sheet里，绝对聪明的中西合璧。

第二盘进烤炉啦，要先在月饼表面淋上一些蛋液，这样烤出来的表面就会是金黄色的了。

刚出炉的鲜肉月饼，香！酥！脆！光是那味道，就让人禁不住留口水。

冯小胖迫不及待先吃了，米道暇起好！

再来一张上海老字号哈氏食品厂的鲜肉月饼，是不是马相看上去已经差不多了呢？

We love rice!

It was Qi Xi (the Double Seventh Festival) last Monday. You call it the Chinese Valentine’s Day if you want. We both forgot about the lunar calendar until reminded by a friend. So I kept my promise of making onigiri with mayonnaised tuna. In Japan, people love rice so much that they see it as a comfort food.

David made steamed rice with dry sausage for dinner tonight. Yummy~! The rice was so fragranced from the lard and sweet sauce of the sausages. I think it is a typical Cantonese dish, which from memory I had not tried before.

Victor Churchill

在 Lunch on Lawsons 的北悉尼活动中领到一份好吃的意式三明治，过后对里面用到的prosciutto（即：意大利风干生火腿）念念不忘。尝试在日常生鲜超市买过一包，味道大相径庭，口感如生吃培根。某日跟同事抱怨Coles卖的prosciutto实在难以下咽，才了解到这种特制的熏肉一定要到正宗的butcher’s去买才可以。

Victor Churchill，就是这样一家被冯小胖形容成“把猪肉当作黄金来卖的butcher’s”。

买熏肉必须要排队，因为只有一位师傅和一台切肉机。选好品种之后，师傅就会把火腿固定到肉板，摇动手柄，削成半透明的薄片。

还可以免费试吃，方便顾客选到符合自己口味的熏肉。

上等的意大利风干生火腿制作工艺复杂，往往价格不菲，以每公斤近百元澳币的价格出售。排在前面的一位日本主妇好大手笔，包了好几包，我们抱着尝尝鲜的心态，要了十片prosciutto。

不愧是专业的百年老店，包猪肉都可以让客人感觉像是在高级珠宝店买了一件首饰一样被包起来。

选购生肉的冰柜，完全没有普通肉店里的生腥味。

原来，做屠夫也可以做得如此有艺术感。

吃风干生火腿算是种 “acquired taste”，不是人人都爱。越肥越好吃，因为切得很薄，入口即化，味道由咸而甘。懒人的吃法：夹三明治，或扔几片在pasta上面。OISHI～！

M&M

I never like anything ordinary and always look out for fun, even when it comes to food.

Those US edition M&M’s: almond and peanut butter are one of my favourites. On a boring Monday arvo, I even discovered the special editions coming from the US: coconut and strawberried peanut butter. They inevitably ended up in my pocket immediately. In fact, M&M has linked up with blockbuster movies to make limited editions. And last summer it was with the release of Transformer: Revenge of the Fallen.

What? Strawberried peanut butter?! Yeah, you read it right. This is to tie with the aliens in the movie that are two kinds of robots in one. They also come in seven different wrappers and the one I got is The Twins – Pack 7 of 7. On the package it reads ‘at least we are not identical’.

Being a gemini, I am not afraid of experimenting anything new, even the name of the flavour sounds a bit dubious. Hmmm, it might be peanut butter and jelly? When I carefully cut one in half, you can see inside it is still the old good peanut butter M&M but with a strawberry flavoured milk chocolate and hard candy shell.

As I eat my toasts with half peanut butter and half strawberry jam everyday, I find this new limited flavour acceptable and fun despite the fact that many M&M fans think it sounds and looks gross.

Some nibbles for today

Enjoyed some nice cheese and crackers at the Qantas Lounge while waiting for my flight last Friday night. Just cannot resist to get some more for today. Well, you know, it is Monday.