Food and Recipes: December 2014 Archives

Yeah a few months late getting this online.  Aside from a sloppy waiter who kept splashing drinks all over the table, another wonderful lunch with EffanC at Grazing.

.. entrees ..

Duck

Rainbow Trout

Mushroom

Tuna

.. mains ..

Kangaroo

Lamb

Pie

Beef

.. desserts ..

Chocolate Fondant

Caramel Salted Hazelnut

The other week in Sydney I was wandering through the upstairs Westfield food court in Sydney and happened across Din Tai Fung.  It *had* to be tried out - to compare with Taipei.

There was a little bit of a queue, and at the beginning of the line there was a pile of these order cards that you fill out while waiting in line.  This makes the ordering process quite efficient and you just pay when you get to the register.

They give you a buzzer then you wait.  This is the production line for filling orders.  They were powering through orders, but my dumplings took *forever* to come out - almost fifteen minutes. 

Finally got my order and found a seat in the very crowded food court.

The pork xiao long bao (left) were pretty much as good as I remembered them in Taipei.  Little parcels of flavour in delicate pastry.  Yum yum.  The shrimp and pork jiao ze were pretty good too.