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Japanese on the cards tonight....

Delish Japanese last night!

Started with Sashimi, then onto:
ebi tempura - large hairy prawns wrapped w crispy thin cut pastry served w warm ginger soy dashi sauce
sukiyaki - thin sliced beef, shintake & oyster mushrooms, vegetables and vermicelli noodle in soya dashi sauce served in a hot pot
abeyaki udon - udon noodle soup with a soft poached egg, prawn tempura and diced chicken in a hotpot

With glasses of a lovely little 07 Villa Wolf Pinot Gris

Outstanding food, fresh, subtle, light everything you want Japanese to be...

^^ YUM!!!

I had japanese last night too.... great

Where did you go???

I tried a new place - thanks to a Recommendation...

http://www.hako.com.au/

I went to Wood Spoon on Smith St

that Hako place not have much veg options...

Nah not much for the veg i am afraid love...

Ohh i have not been to Wood Spoon either, will have to check it out...

on a side note Farkin LOL at your sig!

wood spoon is good. they do mad onigiri there

i carusi broccoli and chilli pizza takeaway is about as exotic as i'm getting tonight

Wood Spoon is awesome!

The menu looks fantastic!

That is deffo next on the hit list

if you want quality food vote for the pizza

http://www.pimpmypizza.com.au/contest-entries?page=1

it is gang to the star!!

lolz

i thought it was funny and i want money for nothing!!!!

checked out the newly done up yorkshire hotel in abbotsford on the weekers

really good noms, nice wine list, ranga on tap and good service, even for a rowdy bunch like us

recommend

i got friday on my mind! where to go for weekend noms? cheap but intimate. not i carusi.. northside noms

noticed tom phat is expanding into next door... bigger space to serve shit food in great environs. such a shame- has sooo much potential. needs new cheffage imo

gnat wrote:i got friday on my mind! where to go for weekend noms? cheap but intimate. not i carusi.. northside noms

noticed tom phat is expanding into next door... bigger space to serve shit food in great environs. such a shame- has sooo much potential. needs new cheffage imo

Agree!

i used to love Tom Phat, but talk about a stale menu, i mean come on, when it is over 12 months since a last visit and NOTHING has changed, lazy, lazy, lazy IMO

^^ vegiebar haven't changed their menu in over 10 years afaik

what not at all in 10 years!

HOLY surley there is stuff they can add and leave off??

the menu is not my issue though - the food is terrible, was good for years and then nosedived

ah OK i stopped going cause the menu was BOOORING, had it all before....

but been well over 12 months so no idea on quality

yeh we got to that stage too- had all of this 10 times over

too convenient is the problem. if only the foodz were good again!

we go to a place that has opened on Sydney Road near Moreland Road, the do cracking eggs, and i LOVE the 3 beans in a clay pot, i add chorizo to it... mmmmm delish

http://cafesmelbourne.com/2007/12/minimo/

at least tom phat's food is HEAPS better than veggie bar's. seriously could not for that place, every time i reluctantly get dragged into going i end up in an existential funk for like a week.

lol dan i haven't been to vegie bar in years

fooishbar wrote:at least tom phat's food is HEAPS better than veggie bar's. seriously could not for that place, every time i reluctantly get dragged into going i end up in an existential funk for like a week.

wanna go to vegie bar dan??


it ok, it good if you wanna get your shit/standard veg offering while stoned.

not even then tbh. the garlic bread is a disgrace too! we're not going there again ever pete.

Vege Burrito is good.

fooishbar wrote:not even then tbh. the garlic bread is a disgrace too! we're not going there again ever pete.

actually there fake chicken wrap is fair mad

yeah, that was actually alright. but not worth going back yet again.

http://www.rainbowcafe.co.uk is next door to work, pretty dang good. the idiots can't spell gluten tho ('gluton' indeed).

well we have parents in town wanting to take us to dinner tomorrow (5 people all up including a pretty well behaved 4yo) and they are seeking a la carte - I'm thinking something definitely worthwhile french (i.e. not cheapmonger) but not totally glitzy excessive

I just don't got to go that sort of thing often! any ideas for us ? northside or city??

tips much appreciated

if i cant find anything, maybe we should suggest something else nice and spanish as an alternative? movida?

bistrot d'orsay most def

http://www.bistrotdorsay.com.au/

went to il solito posto on weekend. overrated imo- great space and ambience, ordinary food and wait staff just going through the motions, saving their best service for the lawyers ordering $500 bottles of wine

wouldn't bother

Home made green curry with home made flat bread...

mmm noms

out drinking with Champions (Waves Caz and Mecka) then home to the smells of fresh green curry and flat bread on the stove - shanks babes!

anyone know a good chicken parma recipe... i want to crumb the chicken myself... using corn chip goodness.. show these germans some great melbourne food

corn chips AND polenta

cool cheers, recipe would help if anyone knows one

just make it up man. you'd need some parmesan or something similar kind of cheese for the crumb too i reckon. and some herbs and a couple of eggs to make that all stick to the chook.

then you have to worry about the napoli sauce. huhu

quick wrote:anyone know a good chicken parma recipe... i want to crumb the chicken myself... using corn chip goodness.. show these germans some great melbourne food

Gwarn Stevie, show them Krauts how schnitzel is done...



PS. Chicken schnitzel lasagne or GTFO

my palami (parama with added salami goodness) :

chicken breast, butterflied and flattened
wizz up a 50/50 mix of cornflakes and nacho cc's really fine
coat chicken with egg and roll in cornflake and cc's mix
shallow fry until golden
remove from pan and spread napoli sauce on as thick or as thin as you like (any napoli sauce, just jar stuff)
one layer of ham, one layer of salami
Top with cheese
grill under over till cheese is golden brown and is bubbling a tiny bit.

awesome fents, cheers for that, sound brilliant!

Fents wrote:my palami (parama with added salami goodness) :

chicken breast, butterflied and flattened
wizz up a 50/50 mix of cornflakes and nacho cc's really fine
coat chicken with egg and roll in cornflake and cc's mix
shallow fry until golden
remove from pan and spread napoli sauce on as thick or as thin as you like (any napoli sauce, just jar stuff)
one layer of ham, one layer of salami
Top with cheese
grill under over till cheese is golden brown and is bubbling a tiny bit.

I'm cooking this bad boy tonight - well played Fents.

i may use this element in my chicken parmigiana lasagne shepherd pie.

go forth and palami my friends.

Fents wrote:my palami (parama with added salami goodness) :

Holy shit, it's like the turducken of parmas . Sure you can't squeeze some beef on there too?

Feigan wrote:i may use this element in my chicken parmigiana lasagne shepherd pie.

Ah, couldn't remember if that were down to you or Fents (no idea why I'd get confused.) May the chicken palami lasagne shepherds pie lovechild of your combined genius do you both proud.






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Apparently there is somewhere that serves a triple deck parma.

I feel bloated just thinking about it.

Ever been to The Commercial Hotel in Alexandria? They've got about 30 parma's on the menu (ie. Parma with 30 options of topping). Don't think they have a triple deck though.

great northern does a triple parma but it's just 3 halves. still massive tho.