My brain is fried. I worked on my current chapter all day (and made some progress, thankfully) and was also kept busy replying to emails from students which kept trickling in. They have an assignment due on Friday, and it’s obviously panic stations for some of them.
We had a visitor this evening – Colin, who is the brother of one of Jac’s friends. He’s from England and is travelling around Western Australia.
We all went to our favourite asian food hall for dinner. Colin had vegetarian stir-fried noodles.
Jac tried the gado gado from the Indonesian stall for the first time. It looked like a complete mess but Jac assured me it was very tasty. The sauce was like a satay gravy which drowned the boiled eggs, bean sprouts, tofu, cabbage, green beans and some sort of crackers – they didn’t taste like prawn or fish crackers to me – mystery crackers.
I had char siu wantan mee, dry style. Actually, I waited so long I ended up politely asking them about my order and as it turns out they’d forgotten about it, which sucks as I was the hungriest out of us three.
While I was waiting for my food to arrive, I went to my favourite stall and ordered some stuff for takeaway – one glutinous chicken rice for my breakfast tomorrow, a serve of yong tow foo for my lunch and a serve of loh bak (five spice pork roll) requested by Jac. We ended up cracking open the container of loh bak and feasting on it as we ate our chosen dishes.
We got back to our house and had a cuppa and talked about travelling along the Northwest coast of Australia. Pixel and Billy Lee could tell that Colin’s a cat person, and they rubbed all over him. Pixel even jumped into his lap. She also tried to search in his bag for goodies. He was rather taken with Pixel as she looks just like his cat (or a cat he once had?) named Josh. Heheh, so now that’s two people with Pixel lookalikes.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh! And I just saw the ad on TV for the new Hungry Jack’s Bacon Double Cheeseburger with mushrooms!
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My brain is fried too, I have a dissertation proposal defense draft due in a week.
Your brain must be even more fried than mine then! Poor us!
Same here. Exams preparation on driving me crazy. Speaking of fried, your pictures really support my theory that anything fried is good :).
The mystery crackers are made from something the Indonesian called “Melinjo” (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnetum_gnemon if you’re interested to read a bit :D). I wish there’s an Indonesian restaurant here .. *homesick* … :(
BTW, I enjoy looking at your food pictures .. hoping one day my collection will be as extensive as yours .. :)
Ooooh the Double Cheeseburger with Mushrooms is as close as i get to the BK’s Mushroom Swiss Double, found here:
http://www.friedchillies.com/review.php?id=33
*drool*
Does the Thornlie line now run to Spencer Village?!!! That is fantastico! I can get there without getting lost on the wrong bus number!
I agree with your assessment of the gado gado looking like a “complete mess.” It looks like they threw everything together and squirted chocolate sauce on top.
Damon Z, definitely, fried = good.
Carolina, glad you like the pics. And thanks for solving the mystery of the unidentified crackers! They did have a slightly bitter taste as the article says.
C, yep, catch the Thornlie train, get off at Thornlie, cross the street and voila, Spencer Village goodness.
Passionate Eater, funny, you are the second person who likened the sauce to chocolate sauce. It didn’t look appetising at all to me, but Jac assured me that it was delicious and she will not hesitate to order it again.
the char sui wantan mee is sublime. the pork looks vaguely bird shaped and the dumplings look like jellyfish in a pond. the red spoon sets it off. very pretty.
Quite embarassing, but I couldn’t help but comment.
I’ve been re-reading your past blogs, and couldn’t contain myself.
Those indonesian crackers look like the ones that my mum makes.
I don’t know what it is as well, but it’s really addicting.
Kind of reminds me of the Pringles jingle (heh, it rhymns), “once you pop, you can’t stop”.
Honestly. It’s really nice while you start eating it, but the after taste is horrid. Really bitter. Hence why you can’t really stop eating it unless you have something to ‘remove’ the taste.