$10 Angus Steak In Sydney

Can you get $10 Angus steak anywhere? I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw the sign when I embarked at Darling Harbour! Apparently it is some lunch special that they do serve medium Angus steak with a dash of salad for only A$10!

I went into the restaurant and enquired, and true to their word, the Angus steak was really only A$10! But that would just be the main course, not the set. Since it is such a good deal, I decided to order the steak.

 

However, the steak is not as big as I thought. I guess for A$10, what can one expect right? And the medium steak I ordered is more well done than medium. In fact, the salad side looks bigger than the steak itself!

 

I took a bite and the steak tasted a bit burnt. So it is well done after all, not medium as I ordered. It was quite a disappointment, but since I was hungry, I just ate up the whole piece. As I said, one should not expect much for A$10.

Angus steak with side salad

 

Still it was a good lunch. Sitting alfresco at a restaurant in Darling Harbour, overlooking the waterfront, enjoying a piece of steak, now that is a blissful life indeed!

Drinking Tea In Leura

There is this little quaint village around the Blue Mountains region of Sydney called Leura. It is really a cosy place to live in as it reminds me of a little English village. In this village, there is a Treasured Teapot Museum, where teapots of all kinds of variety are on display and sale. There is even a little cafe for guests to have their English afternoon tea.

 

I stepped in there after my Blue Mountains trip to enjoy their Devonshire Cream Tea. The interior is so pretty and the display really captivate my attention!

Some of the teapot displays

 



I really like this country style tea set!

 



The fireplace

 



The menu, which I fell in love with

 



My Devonshire Cream Tea set

 

True to style, the Devonshire cream tea set consists of English tea (what else?!) served in a pot, with a little jug of milk, scones, cream and jam spread. Delicious, and just the way I like! However, I would prefer it better if the tea set also comes with a quaint container for sugar cubes. That would be more authentic.

 

I would recommend going to the Treasured Teapot Museum if you are ever going to the Blue Mountains region of Sydney. Even if not for the tea, the teapot display, as well as the surroundings are really pretty!



The Biggest Burger Ever!

On my last day in Canberra, my brother took me to a burger place where he professed they serve the biggest burger ever. The place is just next to the Canberra Glassworks, called Brodburger. Since it was a Friday afternoon, the place was packed with people on their lunch breaks. We had to wait for a while before being able to get a place, and even then we had to be out in the sun. It was a particularly hot day that day.

We went in to make our orders. My brother ordered for me the bacon burger, which is supposed to be the smallest size already, but I still find it big. After ordering, we went to our seats and one of the staff then served us our food a few minutes later.

The burger is really big! I cannot even bite it in my mouth even when my mouth was opened to the fullest! I had to eat layer by layer. That is how big it is. I wonder how the others manage to eat like that? Perhaps they have bigger mouths than me.

We also ordered large fries to go along with the burger. After just half way through the burger, I was so full that I could not eat anymore! I had to pack it back for dinner that night. Unfortunately, I was still so full from lunch that I had to force myself to finish up the burger for dinner.

 

It was really the biggest and nicest burger ever! Now why can we not have burgers like these back here?

Partaking An Australian BBQ

On my second day in Canberra, I visited a farm where there is a kind of an outback experience, complete with a barbecue lunch and boomerang throwing. The barbecue consists of big sausages, steak, salad, potato and drinks. A staff was on hand to barbecue the meat for us.

 Sizzling of the barbecue

 

My barbecue lunch of steak, sausage, potato, bread with butter and salad

 

It was a really delicious Australian barbecue. After all, what can go wrong with a little outback experience and having the rugged life? One must partake a real Australian barbecue when one is there!

Attempting To Fry Noodles In Canberra

When I was in Canberra recently, I ate at least one packet of instant noodles daily, either for supper or breakfast. My brother stocked up on Mie Gepeng, Indonesian noodles, so I helped myself to a few packets.

 

Living in the hostel, there are almost no facilities for real cooking. Hence I had to make do with whatever that was available. Luckily, the noodles are mee goreng style, so I need not worry about hot soup and water.

 

The instant mee goreng I am used to is you cook it in water, then drain the water out and pour the noodles into a bowl, then mix the ingredients and seasoning together. However, for Mie Gepeng, you put all the seasoning into the bowl first, and then drain the noodles over it after it is cooked.

 

Since there was no pan or pot available in the small kitchenette, I had to cook the noodles in the microwave oven. After boiling in the water for three minutes, I had to then drain the water out. Since there was no strainer available, I had to pour the whole bowl of water into the sink, at the same time trying not to let any of the noodles come out. It is not as easy as it sounded! More often than not, some of the noodle strands fell out and I had to scoop them out again.

 

When the water was finally drained, I poured the noodles into the bowl with the seasoning. After that I mixed the noodles and the seasoning together. Since the noodles were poured over the seasoning, I really had to mix them up well in order to ensure the seasoning go to every part of the noodles. But of course, some parts are more bland than others.

 

My verdict? It was not a bad feat attempting to fry the noodles. Even though there were not many utensils available, I managed to make do with whatever that was available, and so quelled my hunger pangs in the middle of the night (or early in the morning)!