food, glorious food.

taylor, tarishi and amy.


food. half our lives revolve around it. if you're asian, that figure increases to around 70%. and skyrockets up to 90% when with friends or on festive holidays [the other 10% is money]. think about it. chinese banquet? traditionally something like 18 dishes? when u meet up with friends, no doubt it would be to eat something. at all hours of the day and night, i.e. mamak stores. during chinese festivals, every time u open your mouth someone pops a bun into it.

so on thursday we decided to take advantage of a 'buy one main meal get another one free' offer. bargain! we went to wagamama's, a somewhat trendy japanese noodle bar. we had to wait in line behind hordes of other hungry students. but it was good. eating in hall, sometimes u forget what real food tastes like. your tastebuds go, 'what the...........???' and have a little party in your mouth. it's great. then we moved on the bella italia to have dessert. me and tarishi had 'the godfather', an ominous sounding dessert. it was a brownie, with chocolate ice-cream, honeycomb, whipped cream, nuts, sweet wafers on top. and i'm pretty sure there were choc-covered crispy bits on top as well. and if that wasn't enough, we elected to add a measure of amaretto to it as well. i tell ya, if the movie had been this tasty i would have paid much more attention.

conversation flitted from one topic to another, but there was one that stuck in my mind. it was the 'australian back story' that we came up with, to deal with all the strange questions that we get asked about australia, like if we all have koalas as pets. the story goes like this: yes, we all ride around on kangaroos. but u sit in the pouch when u're little, because it's safer. but when u grow up, u have to strap a little chair to the back of the kangaroo, and u sit there. gets a little bouncy at times, but u get to places quicker.

food.... people bond over it, laugh over it, cry over it, use it to celebrate and commiserate... isn't it great??