Fantastic foods | Thursday, October 13, 2005 |
A few minutes walk from where we live is World Square, a new complex of commercial, retail and residential space. The ground and lower ground floors are home to a variety of retail outlets selling goods and services (mainly restaurants).
For us, it's quite well appointed. There's Coles and it's associated bottle store for general stuff, a specialist greengrocer, a butcher (AC Butchery, which according to the SMH Good Food Guide that the QB's were kind enough to give us, is rather good) and a wet fish shop (heaps of prawns and a rather decent looking pile of Blue Swimmer crabs). All so far so good.
Additionally, there's a large asian foods specialist with (as far as I can tell) a heavy Japanese and Thai bias. It's like a different world in there. Everything is labelled in English but only in tiny writing and Japanese food packaging tends towards the colourful even in its most restrained forms.
Naturally enough there are rows and rows of noodles that you'd expect. There are also racks of every dried fish you can think off, and some that you can't. Dried Conger maw anyone? Chilli Jellyfish? Packets of alimentary canal (not sure if that one was a translation problem, but it could easily have been the guts of something.
I think the old taste buds may just get a bit of a work out from there (though I doubt I'll start with either the Jellyish or the alimentary canals)
For us, it's quite well appointed. There's Coles and it's associated bottle store for general stuff, a specialist greengrocer, a butcher (AC Butchery, which according to the SMH Good Food Guide that the QB's were kind enough to give us, is rather good) and a wet fish shop (heaps of prawns and a rather decent looking pile of Blue Swimmer crabs). All so far so good.
Additionally, there's a large asian foods specialist with (as far as I can tell) a heavy Japanese and Thai bias. It's like a different world in there. Everything is labelled in English but only in tiny writing and Japanese food packaging tends towards the colourful even in its most restrained forms.
Naturally enough there are rows and rows of noodles that you'd expect. There are also racks of every dried fish you can think off, and some that you can't. Dried Conger maw anyone? Chilli Jellyfish? Packets of alimentary canal (not sure if that one was a translation problem, but it could easily have been the guts of something.
I think the old taste buds may just get a bit of a work out from there (though I doubt I'll start with either the Jellyish or the alimentary canals)
