Foodie Week

Zen - 20 Perouse Rd (the spot), Randwick

Japanese fusion restaurant. I used to love this place and i have friends that RAVE about it but now I'm not so sure.

I went there this week with my cuz, a fellow foodie.

it was ok. the teriyaki beef yum, the udon & Ramen good. I was in a hurry last week and my udon came out in minutes. So very impressed at the speed but the soup was a litttle luke warm, but the tempura was hot ( i think). The tempura is Very GOOD!

Gyoza just doesnt taste the same since i learnt how to make it (Thank you Godfather of Gyoza).  Zen's gyoza were kinda long & thin - this requires double dipping coz the whole dumpling won't fit in the sauce pot! and it's more than 1 mouthful. 

I like my Japanese food bitesized! Sushi - cute little nori rolls that fit easily into your dipping sauce and mouth. YES. now we have fusion and everyone trying to put MORE into everything. In Vancouver, in the land of all you can eat sushi - the rolls were THAT BIG that we ended up daring each other to shove the whole thing in our mouths - it was a quiet moment coz all our mouths were so full we could barely chew, let alone talk.

If you want good Japanese food - here's some of my favourites in Sydney. Otherwise go Vancouver for all you can eat sushi!!

Wasabi Bistro on Stanley St. We spent $70 (tea, no alcohol) for 2 of us and stuffed ourselves silly. it was all delicious even tho a touch pricy.

Sushi Fusion - 7 Belmore Rd, randwick

Ten - 80 Belmore Rd, Randwick.

Sushi-Goi - 230 Coogee Bay Rd, Coogee

ALSO this week - THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST at The Exchange Hotel in Balmain. What a great venue! it's a bar, it's a bistro and it's a theatre space!!! I shared a beer battered fish n chips and the salt n pepper squid - YUM! the squid was amazingly soft, don't know what they did to it but it was great.

THE NEPALESE KITCHEN - 481 Crown St Surry Hills.

a very reasonably priced banquet meal. Momo(chicken dumplings), battered prawns, potato fritter things, beef, beans, curry...i don't remember the names or exactly what we had but it's definitely worth a go. I walked away rubbing my bellyful of yummy goodness.

The CLOCK hotel - 470 Crown St

busy, happening, good crowd, weak drinks and the lights go on at midnight.

The COLUMBIAN - Cnr of Crown & Oxford

upstairs, dj's, dancing and a couple a shots. It was an interesting group last night - we had gay, straight, married, single and mum's. A big up to the Columbian for ignoring all these labels. It was just a room full of people having fun!!!!