Archive for November, 2009

Dinner – fried curried herring fillets, salad and chips

More herring fillets! This time, Jac coated them with seasoned flour again, but not seasoned with just salt and pepper – this time she used curry powder too! She served the fish with oven-fried chips, blanched broccoli, fresh grape tomatoes and cucumber on a bed of cos lettuce. I had tomato sauce to go with […]

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Japanese chicken takeaway lunch

My takeaway lunch from Jaws Mint (East Perth, opposite the Perth Mint) – a large teriyaki chicken and rice, which includes a side serve of spaghetti salad. Workmate J’s lunch from Jaws Mint – sauce katsu chicken, rice with sliced chicken katsu in teriyaki sauce. This dish includes a side serve of seaweed, one of […]

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A shared bacon and egg burger

We went to swapmeet a few Sundays ago. I was a little grumpy about it at first. Usually, I find it hard to sleep in on weekend, even if I’m tired – I wake up for apparently no reason much too early and once my eyes open my brain gets going and refuses to let […]

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Teriyaki fish

Teriyaki fish from Jaws Mint, East Perth (opposite the Perth Mint). It comes in one size with the fish, rice and pickled ginger. I always give my ginger to whoever I happen to be eating lunch with – I love ginger and like pickles normally, but for some reason I’ve never liked the Japanese pickled […]

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Work lunch – noodles and a free dim sim

I enjoyed these honey soy & chicken noodles from Noodlebox. There was chicken, baby corn and bok choy along with the thick egg noodles. And they were really saucy. When the girl handed me my brown paper bag it felt extra heavy. She smiled and said “We’ve given you a free dim sim.” Just like […]

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McDonald’s Grand Angus burger

Continuing with the burger theme… Jac tried the McDonald’s Grand Angus burger for the first time and was very impressed. She said it was the best McDonald’s burger she’s ever eaten. She liked it because: 1) the beef had a great flavour and was a decent thickness – a really good, meaty chew, just how […]

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Work lunch – chicken katsu burger with fries

We have noodles, curry, Japanese and sandwiches in East Perth but what I’d like is a real burger place. Or even a junk food franchise burger place. I know having easy access to junk food would make bad days so much better. Of course, I’m not talking “nutritionally” better – I’m talking about the shameless, [&hell…

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