Interesting noms

One of my favourite things about winter (apart from having the excuse to dress up in lacey leggings and peacoats) is what it does to my metabolism. I'm always hungry (which most would say is the norm for me anyway) and am able to consume abnormally vast quantities of food with no or little effect to my waistline. It's eat, eat, eat from the word go. Friends disagree with this theory, but in my case, I'm more likely to get fat during summer than now.

Here are some of the more fancy things to have graced my tummy recently.

I flew to Sydney over last weekend for training and a quick getaway (more on that later). Back in 2007, X and I were simply too poor to savour the long list of Sydney Must Eat's given by well-meaning friends. This time round, I still haven't tried Hurricane's (sorry Juju), Marigold (sorry Brian), Kelly's (sorry Eliss) or Sydney Fish Market (sorry Wei Sze), but I did manage to get myself a hot Chocolate with Waffle Balls (AUD5.50) at the Bondi Junction Max Brenner's Chocolate Bar...


...which brings us to my next point. Max Brenner can now be found in Gold Coast! We now have a chocolate bar AND Border's! Hurray for capitalism! After a so-so dinner at Groove Train (I conclude that Paella wins Risotto hands down), we shared some dessert at the fancy-schmancy new waterfront dining area at Robina Town Centre. This waffle thingamajig (AUD16), whose name I forget was scrumptious. There were crunchy bits embedded in the waffles. The only pity was how it wasn't made on the spot hence a little soggy.


The Chocolate Dip (AUD8) was pretty good too. Wish the strawberries were a wee bigger, but the yummy chocolate dip more than made up for it.

Apart from that, I'd had tea with a new found friend at a Balinese/ Thai cafe in South Bank. It was really interesting - they give you a tray with a glass and hot water. There's a ball of unappetising looking dried stuff in the glass which literally blooms upon application of hot water (like Gremlins, but more pleasant).