I met my friend C for breakfast last Friday, at Ba Ba Black (Shop 25, 60 Royal St – Cnr Plain St, next to The Royal pub). It was a chilly morning and we were among the first customers that day, arriving at a little past 7am. It didn’t take long for the cafe to soon be filled with happy coffee drinkers and big breakfast eaters. There seemed to be quite a few orders of scrambled eggs on toast that morning and lots of happy sounds – knives sawing through toast with general cutlery-on-plate clinky noises and of course the coffee machine, non-stop in the background.
C ordered the Ba Ba Benedict (AU$17.50) – two poached eggs topped with hollandaise sauce, served on smoked salmon and spinach on toasted Turkish bread. C found the Turkish bread really difficult to cut but really enjoyed her meal – the eggs were cooked perfectly with gooey, soft yolks, and there was a generous amount of smoked salmon and spinach. With all the garnish, spinach and salmon, I thought the dish looked sort of wet and unappealing, but hey, I’ve never been a fan of eggs Benedict or smoked salmon. C loved it, which is the main thing. :)
I’d just like to begin by declaring that I don’t eat such huge breakfasts very often, so please, hold the lectures! :) I ordered the The Entire Breakfast (AU$17.50) – eggs (I chose scrambled), toast, bacon, sausages, tomato and mushrooms. The eggs were soft and creamy, served practically flowing off two slices of thickly cut toast. Like C, I also struggled to saw through my bread. I didn’t end up finishing the toast – it was way too thick and, with all the other things, just way waaaay too much bread. The bacon was really great, with a perfect amount of fat to meat. I ate it all. The sausages were meaty, the tomatoes sweet and soft but not too mushy, and the mushrooms were seasoned well and very tasty. The eggs would probably be on the border of too runny for some people, but I didn’t mind them. They were very nice with a little black pepper.
I had English breakfast tea with soy milk (AU$4.70) to wash it all down. This was one of the most filling breakfasts I’ve had in a while, and I waddled back to the office afterwards. C wasn’t kidding when she told me beforehand that the serves were huge! I found myself wishing I could just curl up under the doona for the rest of the morning until tummy growled once more. I think we both felt decidedly dozey, sitting at our desks back at our separate work places – C, am I right? :) It was great catching up. These days I get so busy I don’t catch up with friends as often as I probably should.
We have a busy weekend coming up with two family events (which, you will be pleased to know, will involve food, perhaps even voracious feasting!) and the state election (voting on Saturday morning). Jac has a party to attend on Saturday evening, but I have a date with the TV – I always watch the election count on TV on election night – I loooooove watching the election count. It’s sort of like watching sport – you like it to be close so it’s exciting and worth watching, but you’d like your team to win in the end. :) Landslide elections (like whitewashes or drubbings in sport) are very boring to watch (the federal election was a disappointment in this respect – the outcome was determined way too quickly/early!).
I'm TFP, a food blogger from Perth, Western Australia.
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I stayed at the Sebel Residences beside Ba Ba Black when I visited Perth in April! I love their scrambled eggs and coffee! :)
Your post on Ba Ba Black brought back fond memories of my holiday :)
I wish there are breakfast places like that in Singapore!
Hi shirley,
Glad to help with the reminiscing! Well, you may not have breakfast places like this in Singapore, but you have more hawker food – as much as I love my bacon and eggs I’d happily trade it for a hawker breakfast. :)
curl up under the doona? a what?
Wow – what a huge breakfast – I totally would have gobbled it all down too.
Ohh and is there a diffrence between a chipolata and a sausage?
Bryan!
You gotta google these things sometimes! :) It answers so many burning questions! http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=doona
Hmmm, good question. They called these “breakfast sausages” on the menu at Ba Ba Black, but yes, they could be probably called chipolatas as well. http://www.ochef.com/747.htm
Those eggs and mushrooms look deliciious!
Ps. Go Labor!!
Gigantic breakfast! How do you put it away? How long until you were able to eat again? =)
Hi tfp – Long time reader, first time commenter :)
I’m also a fellow election night -watcher – all my friends think I’m crazy, but I love it! How nail-biting was it tonight? I think the libs will get it if it is indeed a hung parliament (which it looks like at this stage), but the nationals will hold them to ransom and make them agree to all their demands.. very interesting!
I was waddling through the whole day afterwards. Didn’t end up eating nasi lemak that day as well. Went for lunch with some colleagues and Munch was so crowded when we got there, we couldn’t find a place to sit, so we went to Mai’s instead.
Ate vietnamese char siew rice… i have to say while it wasn’t bad, it was a bit strange.
We should totally do breakfast again… must cultivate a sweet tooth on Friday so you can see the magnificence that is Ba Ba Black’s stack of pancakes. It really is quite awesome
Lauren,
They were indeed delicious. :)
gutomnako,
Generally speaking, I have a big appetite.
I was back in the office at my desk ready to nap, oops I mean work, by 8:30am. I probably had lunch around 12:30pm.
Hi Mandie,
You may be right. Whatever the outcome, I hope they don’t take to long to get to it.
C,
That’s the problem with Munch – unless you get there really early it’s always so busy. I haven’t been to Mai’s for ages. Must go again.
I’m sure I could be convinced to take on the pancake stack – for the food porny enjoyment of my readers, of course. :)
O.M.G. That Eggs Benedict looks amazing! Two of my favourites together – poached eggs a la Eggs Benedict, and smoked salmon. I’m back in Perth tomorrow for a few days, and am staying at a 5 star hotel courtesy of my client, so will probably get to try their Eggs Benedict. Yummo!
Rhonda,
Heheh, glad you like the look of it!
In total opposition to your sentiments, I can’t think of anything worse that could be served up to me for breakfast – eggs Benedict AND smoked salmon! LOL :)
So many people cook scrambled eggs to the point that they are rubberby and not enjoyable at all, but those eggs look perfectly cooked. Yum.
I was glued to the election count as well. Over on the ABC, Antony Green was not a happy camper due to the crazy data going through to his laptop. I wondered if his head was going to explode from frustration at one point. Can’t wait for the final result though…
nat,
Agreed. I can’t stand it when they’re little rubbery beads of overcooked egg. Eww.
Now that we know the (not a surprise) outcome, it looks like interesting days ahead for politics/government.
I hope they are still doing such good breakfasts! My
boyfriend and I are going there 13/2 after a night at the Sebel.
Looking forward to it! :)