Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Friday 21 October 2011
Autumn is here. I love the transition between seasons, how the previous lingers and the next emerges. Crisp mornings and deciduous trees shedding their golden leaves, interspersed with surprise bursts of sunshine. A couple of locals have mentioned Row House Café and we meandered over to South Lake Union for weekend brunch. Located on Republican between [...]
Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Thursday 06 October 2011
From Southeast Asia to the Mediterranean, and North Africa to South America, Sydney is a multicultural city with cuisines from across the continents. Authentic or fusion, rustic or formal, the eateries are diverse and neighbourhoods specialise in Turkish, Vietnamese, Lebanese, Italian, Korean and beyond. But I have never eaten a Filipino meal until the Thrilla in Manila pop up dinner [...]
Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Wednesday 31 August 2011
After a lovely brunch experience a few weeks ago, we returned to re:public for dinner. The restaurant was lively with a convivial after work crowd enjoying the happy hour. We were seated at a booth and the relaxed atmosphere was conducive to good conversation. Mr and Mrs W shared a heart of romaine salad for an appetiser while Mr S had [...]
Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Tuesday 30 August 2011
If I have to draw how my brain functions, it would be a mind map with intersecting and criss-crossing lines in all directions. I make idiosyncratic associations and perplexing connections. The challenge for Mr S is that I think it but I don’t verbalise it. I ask questions or make comments that are seemingly out of [...]
Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Monday 08 August 2011
We’ve had meals with several Australians in the last couple of weeks. Some were visiting for work, others were on holiday. There’s a homely comfort to hearing an Aussie accent, laughing at a sarcastic comment and understanding a cultural reference. Our sunburnt country is girt by sea and with the exception of New Zealand, it takes many [...]
Posted by: Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs on: Thursday 21 July 2011
I have a vague memory of visiting the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, evidenced only by a souvenired exhibition guide. The temporary accommodation during our first month in Seattle was at the barren wasteland that is the west bank of Lake Union. Going into Downtown by foot necessitated a walk along Westlake, pre Amazon occupation. On those wintery [...]