Monday, October 15, 2007

Martha Moss

Gorgeous E called me Martha Moss when we had dinner a few weeks ago and I love it, it's me to a T.

I was just going to have a quiet one on Friday night when A emailed me in the afternoon to see if I wanted to join his flatmate and neighbours for a pizza. OK, so first we tried a new place called The Lager Bar which is just an example of what not to do when you've opened a new place. However, Cooper's Lager is delicious. I mention this because I'm turning into quite the lager ladette. Most of last week I've been coming home and taking the edge off with a beer, and spending the night on the couch. Little could have made me happier. Mind you there is no edge to take off. But anyway. Instead of pizza we ended up at Indian having a banquet. It was all good fun. D's girlfriend was very keen to go dancing, so we headed to The Boatshed. I came to the conclusion that any place with a $5 cover charge is creep central. This had the right number of creeps, which all seemed to perk up even more when the girlfriend started rubbing herself up against me. When I accompanied her to the bathroom, as females are prone to do, she made it quite obvious she was very into JB so the rest of the night, in between tequila shots, was making out with my ex-boyfriend's neighbour's girlfriend. Funny, funny night.

Saturday I was feeling quite seedy and was planning on lying on the couch all day, but had a great lunch at a cafe and fell ga-ga for the waiter. Gorgeous, heard his whole life story. Meanwhile I'm sitting there washed out and in my hangover sunnies. PS when has it become acceptable for casual Sydney cafes to charge $28 for lunch (omelettes; mushrooms with cheese)? It was jam-packed so I guess anything goes in this fair town.

D came over later on bringing nana treats from a fete and we watched My Father The Hero. God I love Gerry Depardieu. Then off to our favourite Turkish restaurant in Enmore for more stuffing before sliding over to a party down the road at feral Newtown.

Went to pilates in the morning, made the most delicious mushroom pasta for lunch, then joined mum and her friends at Forbidden Fruit, an insane Chinese show at the casino. Acrobatics, a plot nicked off Shakespeare, and not one, but two retards in the storyline. All I could think of while watching this colourful spectacle was food, I need Chinese food. Noodles, dumplings, saucy meat. Three of us went down to Chinatown and found a new Uigher restaurant, it being the food of Central Asia, Uzbek, Mongols. Delicious! Handmade noodles, dumplings, lamb kebabs, tea. Massive amount of food for $30. And it was packed. And there is another Uigher restaurant next door. I love Sydney!


Turkish meat and oily grilled bread


Amazing gourmet mushroom pasta (hint: add a little lemon zest and juice to the cream)


Uigher lamb kebabs and cucumber salad


Uigher handmade square noodles with lamb

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6 Comments:

Blogger Sarah said...

all you do is eat!

12:35 PM  
Blogger Julia said...

Pretty much.

12:58 PM  
Blogger Sarah said...

*grrrrr*

not fair!

I love Uigher food (it was just about the only good thing about Kashgar to be honest.) We met this UN economic development bloke and he was so thrilled to find people to speak English with he took us to dinenr three nights in a row to a way above backpacker budget restaurant...very nice.

But then there was the warm fermented yak milk served with great big oily lumps of yak butter...and I already had a crook gut at the time.....

1:07 PM  
Blogger Julia said...

Don't get excited, my days of fast metabolism are over.

Had yak tea the other week, it's interesting!

1:22 PM  
Blogger surfercam said...

I think we need to hear more about you and the other girl from Friday night....

1:58 PM  
Blogger Julia said...

The funniest moment was when she said we should ditch the boys and meet up next week for more.

No actually the funniest moment was the giant creep that followed us into the bathroom. Some people really push their luck

2:42 PM  

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