Cheese

I like cheese, french people like cheese, Melbournians like cheese, Sydenysiders do not like cheese. That is very very sad

sushi

it is really weird, but people in Sydney who are mostly weird and do not like sushi to start with, are now completely unable to talk about sushi without also talking about whale meat.

eating food habits

People in Sydney have one eating habit that I find really weird. They think that eating the same food as someone shows that you like them and support them. I have never come across this before in all my travels of the world and in all the other places I have lived. Even the people in HK think that it is really weird. Unfortunately for the people trying this, it usually results in one or more of the following:

1. They have to really worry about what I will like and spend lots of time trying to limit what they are likely to have to eat.
2. They show they have no idea of what food I like, and even less idea of why.

Both of these end up being farcical. I agree with the rest of the world. This approach is very stupid and doomed to failure. If you try to do this, I will, at best, think you are being patronizing.

food

People in Sydney are very selfish when it comes to eating Chinese food.

of paddington

the people who for so long told me what a bad place paddington is, and how you get sick if you eat there have done a most amazing and inexplicable u-turn and now say that the same said places are really good. 

 

chickens

People here in Sydney make a big deal about the difference between chicken breasts and legs. I just don’t get it. I prefer breasts, but still like the legs. I am ok about the feet and the giblets. But I am formulating a general theory about the need to choose sides in a diametric manner to differentiate… More on that later.

Prawns

I want to cry! Everything that is good is ruined by prawns. I first was shocked to see one of my favorite dishes (Grandmother Bean-curd) at the Chinese place in Cammeray destroyed by adding prawns. I got a takeaway container and just had to ditch the lot. Later I found Malaysian classics such as ChaHorFun being destroyed by adding prawns. Where in ChaHorFun does it say prawn, I ask? No where! Now I know to be suspicious and ask. But it is annoying to get doctored dishes like this and to have to ask.

dim sims and fried rice

It is like traveling back in time into the 1970’s. People here still think that this constitutes Chinese food. The rest of Australia moved on decades ago. It is as Chinese as the American Outback restaurant is Australian. Just ask for a bloomin onion. You cannot have one without the other.