Football
Everything here is called football (soccer, Aussie rules and any rugby), so we had hoped to get to see a game of some sort of football at some point while we were over here. Mike fancied this too, so we went to see the NSW Waratahs play the Cape Town Stormers at the Aussie Stadium tonight.
The stadium
We went early to the entertainment quarter and got ourselves a decent early dinner at Arena. Mike and I had crab lasagne to start with, which was amazing and Mike had a pretty nice-looking steak. Also high quality petit fours, including chocolate truffles and lemon meringue balls.
The petit fours did take us over the time when we should have been leaving and we just missed the kick off. We were sat 3 rows back from the front and had a great view.
Some people playing rugby
We were behind a stag party, which caused us much amusement, particularly as the stag was wearing an England shirt and being constantly berated for being "a Pom". The 'Tahs didn't do very well, they kept dropping the ball and lost 16-10.
In other news (stop reading now if you're not interested in what I've been eating...) I went to an exciting cake shop for lunch on Friday. It's in China Town and is an Asian bakery chain (from Malaysia, although I think it is similar to other bakery chains from Singapore and Hong Kong). I've passed it a few times but have been too scared to buy anything. I spent a good 5 mins wandering round on Friday and then purchased a custard puff and a mango tiger roll. I was intrigued by a purple yam pastry, maybe next time.
Custard Puff (left), Mango Tiger Roll (right)
I was so carried away by the excitement of it all, I went to the scary iced tea shop that I have previously run away from for being over-exciting and bought the most exciting thing I could find - a red bean and taro crushed ice drink.
The custard puff was quite nice but the mango roll was a bit tasteless - I think I will definitely have to go for the yam pastry next time. I could taste the red bean in the red bean and taro drink; I'm not sure what taro tastes like so I couldn't identify it. The texture was pretty good, it was basically cake in a drink format but it was really sweet and I had to give up about as third of the way through.
Still, I think I shall make it my aim to go through all the exciting shops in China town before we leave.
Everything here is called football (soccer, Aussie rules and any rugby), so we had hoped to get to see a game of some sort of football at some point while we were over here. Mike fancied this too, so we went to see the NSW Waratahs play the Cape Town Stormers at the Aussie Stadium tonight.
The stadium
We went early to the entertainment quarter and got ourselves a decent early dinner at Arena. Mike and I had crab lasagne to start with, which was amazing and Mike had a pretty nice-looking steak. Also high quality petit fours, including chocolate truffles and lemon meringue balls.
The petit fours did take us over the time when we should have been leaving and we just missed the kick off. We were sat 3 rows back from the front and had a great view.
Some people playing rugby
We were behind a stag party, which caused us much amusement, particularly as the stag was wearing an England shirt and being constantly berated for being "a Pom". The 'Tahs didn't do very well, they kept dropping the ball and lost 16-10.
In other news (stop reading now if you're not interested in what I've been eating...) I went to an exciting cake shop for lunch on Friday. It's in China Town and is an Asian bakery chain (from Malaysia, although I think it is similar to other bakery chains from Singapore and Hong Kong). I've passed it a few times but have been too scared to buy anything. I spent a good 5 mins wandering round on Friday and then purchased a custard puff and a mango tiger roll. I was intrigued by a purple yam pastry, maybe next time.
Custard Puff (left), Mango Tiger Roll (right)
I was so carried away by the excitement of it all, I went to the scary iced tea shop that I have previously run away from for being over-exciting and bought the most exciting thing I could find - a red bean and taro crushed ice drink.
The custard puff was quite nice but the mango roll was a bit tasteless - I think I will definitely have to go for the yam pastry next time. I could taste the red bean in the red bean and taro drink; I'm not sure what taro tastes like so I couldn't identify it. The texture was pretty good, it was basically cake in a drink format but it was really sweet and I had to give up about as third of the way through.
Still, I think I shall make it my aim to go through all the exciting shops in China town before we leave.
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