Sydney 2007 Holiday Day 5

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9:12PM - Marigold Restaurant, Casa Asturiana, Starbucks, 5 Star Kebabs.

This morning, CB and I decided to have dim sum (or yum cha as they say here and some places in Perth) at Marigold in Chinatown, which is only a few doors down from the hotel. With a supposed capacity of 800 (on two levels), we rocked up and were seated straight away.

We had a pot of tea served up quickly, and the food trolleys started coming round. The first two plates were entirely for me, pork spare ribs and chicken feet. These were just like the Perth versions except with a hint of chilli.

The next dish was also all mine. Some Siew Mai. This was also like the Perth versions, they stuck together a bit so when I went to eat them, the wonton skins ripped off. These were fantastic with the sour chilli sauce which we received.

We shared some radish cake. This was a little different, the radish in layers and not in one mush. It also had spring onion in it, along with the little dried shrimp.

Next was some octopus tentacles and some prawn wontons. The octopus was a bit weird. It was sweet like the Singapore variety, but not deep fried crispy like the Singapore variant. I must say I much prefer the Perth deep fried kind. The prawn wontons were pretty good, although nothing new.

We also shared some chee cheong fun. Each sheet had 2 prawns, and it was garnished with some snow peas. This was also the same as the Perth variety, although a bit fatter and not as long.

 

For sweets, we had these little rolled up mango pancakes. Inside was some tinned mango slices and some sweetened whipped cream, inside a thin crepe. It was pretty good, it's just too bad they don't have it in Perth.

 

After brunch, we went back to Paddy's Markets. I wanted to buy a pair of thongs. Then we caught the bus to Palm Beach, which was a 2 hour bus ride from the CBD. We stayed for a couple of hours before catching the bus back just in time for the rain.

After a light refreshing, we headed out for dinner. We walked around Chinatown for a bit, and then finally decided on Casa Asturiana, a Spanish place. We decided to go for the tapas menu and ordered eggplant, chicken wings, mushrooms, baby octopus and chips. Unfortunately, the dining experience wasn't that great, with the food being quite bland and overpriced, especially with the uber small serving sizes.

 

Since we had not yet had Starbucks for the day, we stopped by. I had a vanilla cream blend. It was pretty good, although I prefer coffee.

Since the dinner was mediocre, we hit the kebab shop near the hotel for a touch up. I had a mixed kebab (both "lamb" and chicken), with chilli sauce. It was a lot better than dinner, and we could've eaten 8 between us for the same amount of cash .. oh well....