Eden & Skye
Categories: family, friends, food
Date: 19 September 2009 21:45:12
My beautiful nieces on holiday [an indoor shot mind you] in Fiji via MMS -- ah...technology: Skye has had her hair braided as can be seen. They are back this afternoon [I'm going to the airport with mum to pick them up this afternoon] and it will be great to see them again. A week away, which is only 1 or perhaps 2 visits, but I notice their absence keenly.
And thank you for all the kind comments yesterday: particularly on the work lunch issue but also on my blogging. Greatly appreciated. I will be sure to cause more tummy rumblings with more food related posts; the friend whose place we went to yesterday mentioned Food Tours of Fairifeld and Cabramatta [my area] -- so you can look forward to a blog, or several, on those. And regarding Ferijen's comment on restaurant blogging, I'll try and at least remember the name of the them when I wax lyrical about the food I've eaten.
Last night it was "Bau Truong" at Canley Heights [they also have a restaurant in Cabramatta]: great food and a great "buzz" in the place as per most restaurants in Cabra or Canley Vale/Heights: background conversation of various volume, busy staff rushing around, people coming and going... And you have a rather wide selection of food -- there were at least 120+ items on the menu [numbered for convenience for English speakers :) ] -- and with most meals around $10 - $13, and big servings at that, very well priced too. Friday lunch was "Tat Viet" [there are diacritical marks on some of those letters but I cannot remember what and where]: famous as I mentioned for its crispy skin chicken with noodles. Again: a good selection of dishes all very reasonably priced, and a definite hum to the place -- none of the relative silence of Western restaurants and quiet conversations here.
One thing we all do notice though, my friends from SE Asian or China, and Anglo-hangers-on like me, is that compared to "Western" restaurants, service is not as 'friendly': rather abrupt. Not rude: not in any way -- just abrupt. But to me that is all part of the experience.