Fail

Mirjana was horrified when she caught me checking up the nutritional content of a cape seed roll on bakersdelight.com.au. I was horrified that she was horrified. She needs to visit Kirribilli and watch certain individuals play certain games that score in 4's and 6's.

Met up with my boy for dinner at whatsits ... Urugy? Urghy? Ulguy?

It was an interesting mix of God-knows-what. Chinese and Middle Eastern?

Well, it was at Chinatown, sort of. Outside Chinatown, near Darling Harbour but not.

Looks like I won't be able to recommend this restaurant to anyone.

We ordered:

Lamb skewers - delicious 'cause of the spices. One complaint - there were like five pieces I found impossible to chew. This is saying something because I don't think I ate more than ten. Out of politeness I only spat out two and ended up swallowing the rest whole. The waiters will probably find soggy bits of semi-chewed-up meat inside napkins thinking that I'm one of those anorexic chew-and-spit freaks.

Hot and sour vegetable soup - When Jez ladled some into my bowl I amused myself for a moment imagining eating here with Abhi, who being a vegetarian would probably have ordered this - only to discover (possibly after consuming half the content) that at the bottom of it were several giant fatty pieces of meat. I ordered the soup expecting the typical Chinese 酸辣汤 but was very unpleasantly surprised. It was extremely watery with a dull spiciness that exacerbated the chili from the lamb by too many times to contemplate.

Hand-made noodles - I could definitely detect the handmadeness from the uneven thickness, but other than that it's pretty much a plateful of unseasoned, plain-boiled, chock-full-of-refined-carbohydrate noodles. It served the purpose of temporary relief from the other two spicy dishes but nothing further.

Jez was sweaty sweaty. This couldn't have been a less appropriate meal for someone with a sore throat, but at least he has Cepacol to get him through the night. Twitch.

We fought a bit on the train. Jez is such a jerk. Yes you are. You really are. Really. Uh huh.