curly fries & a whole lot of disjointed things

Good evening all.

After a bajillion unfinished posts sitting in my "drafts" folder, I feel determined RIGHT NOW to finish this post tonight.  It will not have photos because that'll just take way way wayyy too long.

Anyway, just a quick recap.  I'm relearning french!  Not really, I'm just working with a secondee from France and it's just a whole lot of fun reciting the whole "Salut Lucille, Salut Mary-France, Cava, cava et toi, pas mal. regard le garcon la ba, qui esq, ce Paul, Il est Australien; Il parle Francais, oui en peu, Il est sympa, oui tres sympa". It's October already, work is steady, uni is taking over, and my social life is at a standstill.  That is, until tomorrow night.

Yep. Night Noodle Markets. Along with thousands of other Sydney siders and tourists, I will be heading to the annual noodle market at Hyde Park. Yayers. Quite pumped.  These past weeks, I've been indulging in all these different foods.  I've been sampling the menu at Meet Fresh (Taiwanese Dessert Store, cnr Dixon & Goulburn), and I've found it to be quite disappointing.

The cafeteria near the building I'm working in serves a lovely array of high cholesterol foods.  Lately I've been getting off my arse and jogging to places away from the pantry and fridge. Haha. Today for breakfast I had two slices of buttered toast with jam and a cup of milk tea.

Lunch quickly came by (my gosh, this week is going by too quickly), and I headed down to the lovely cafe for some of their Chicken Tortellini. So incredibly tasty and fulfilling.  Then work finished relatively early and my colleagues and I headed to the closest shopping centre. They went to do some shopping, I went because I was hitching a ride to the station.

But when we were walking through the shopping centre, I couldn't help but spot BAGEL HOUSE!  Thanks to a conversation I had with another colleague earlier today, I couldn't resist the temptation to walk into the store and order myself a serving of curly fries with Moroccan salt.

I ended up ordering that and a beef burger bagel.  Which was super good if you were wondering.  SO, if I can recall correctly, any of the gourmet bagels on the selection board are $8.90 and the curly fries are $3.90 or something like that. (damn those $0.90- a marketing trick!)  If you're ever in Macq Centre (Megaplex) you seriously gotta check that place out. They make some MEAN curly fries.

Yesterday, I was pretty much killing myself with KFC chicken and the MacDonalds' new "McDouble" burger. OMG cheesy goodness + original fillet burger + chicken salted chips + mountain dew = PIG, but who cares. (Ok I care, but it will all come off this week harhar).

On Tuesday, I also went to cafeteria and had a Thai beef gourmet sandwich. Mmmmm.

On Monday, I had a healthy "left over dinner" lunch as I was so determined on saving money this week for my upcoming sugar hit expeditions.  But then I couldn't resist.  I love working in Macq.  At night, I had my regular cheeseburger-meal-to-eat-during-marketing-lecture.

Thank goodness I've been going out for a run every morning. Otherwise I would have died from heart failure/blockage already :(

On the weekend, I experimented with the different flavours of the Chatime menu, and also the menu from Meet Fresh.  Their herbal jelly flavour is getting more and more diluted every time I go (I've been 5 times since it opened. oh em gee. NEVER GOING AGAIN. It's terrible. Those girls that serve behind the counter are so damn slow it's impractical.  You see a long queue outside the store- don't be fooled. It's not because the menu is interesting and delicious and everyone wants a bit of it; no, it's not that. It's the fact that the girls take about 5-10 minutes to serve a customer (from the time someone orders, to the point where they receive their tray with the sweet goods on it...). It's ridiculous.  Oh and also, they keep running out of taroballs.

The second time I went, they had a small cardboard sign at the register saying "no more taroballs no. 4 and 7" or something like that.

pause.  deep breath. ok.

First of all, if you've run out of something, make your sign NICE AND BIG so people in the long queue can see it so they can start thinking of other things they can order, so they don't have to make a last minute decision at the counter- making it an even longer wait for the person behind.

Second of all, it's okay if you run out of things once.  But after that time, learn to stock more. Stop running out everyday before 2pm. It's not a good business strategy. Sorry, it's not even a strategy. It's bad business planning.  Why let bucket loads of business wash into the drain just like that?  Urgghh.

And lastly, I started lining up at 1pm once, and when I got to the front they said "no more taroballs no. 3, 4, 7".  Wow, I really wanted to strangle someone.  I made a custom order, and guess what, I ordered ingredients from the "sold out" desserts, and I got all of them. Yes. Custom order = 60c per extra topping. I pretty much ordered a no. 4, but for $1.80 extra.  Crafty business, I tell you.  I am no longer their customer.

I realise this is becoming a really, really long rant/post about food, but I can't help it. 

Ok. LISTEN UP!  There's a new place opposite the UTS Haymarket Campus.  I've forgotten what it's called, but they serve savoury (and sweet i think) fondue with the dipping cheese and the meat on sticks.  OH MY GOODNESS. I have tried so many times to google that place to find out the name so I can do some bg research, but I've just failed so miserably.  Google searches include "opposite UTS fondue restaurant", "dipping cheese restaurant sydney", "dipping cheese haymarket", etc, etc.  I am now sick and tired of typing stupid things into Google and not getting anything back.

This weekend, I will take a photo of the restaurant so I can remember the name.

I think it's also Taiwanese, not sure, but they're usually the quirky ones. And I like quirky.  I also happen to love the idea of dipping meat into melted cheese, or strawberries into melted chocolate.  Cost- quite expensive. It's about $12 for a few lumps of meat on a plate.  But definitely a place I want to try out.

I can't remember if I've blogged about Tony Rossi and ribs?  But I'll save that for another day.

I want to get a start on my management essay. It's 3000 words and due on Wednesday (but I have to put it into Turn it in). I also need to look for my camera. (my sister found my old camera in my old schoolbag lol. guess i never emptied it out properly).


ANYWAY, hope you guys have a lovely Friday + weekend. I'll be sure to blog soon about this mysterious fondue place :)

Cheerios!