lunchie munchies

  25 October 2010


Lunch munchies of the week from my new work hood starts with the awesome roast pumpkin & halloumi with spinach wrap ($7.90) and a can of my new fav energy drink mango iced tea Tiki ($2) from Lovebite Cafe (66 Goulburn St, Sydney). I love roast pumpkin but oh boy do I have issues with sun-dried tomatoes! The wrap was a bit on the oily side but still relatively healthy. Relatively. Let’s not mention the rhubarb tart I scored for an arvo snack. Or the Caramello Koalas.


Was a bit late to lunch the next day so missed out on my usual wrap and so tried the corn fritter, swiss cheese and tomato wrap ($7.90) and a can of double shot cola ($2) which oddly tasted just like rc cola. And not in a good way. The corn fritter was more of a corn pattie, not crunchy but still filled with tasty corn nubbins.


Short walk over to Mappen (11/537-551 George St Sydney) near 85C for a super cheap bowl of ontama bukkake with udon noodles ($4.90). Normally I get another egg ($1.50) plus some assorted tempura but hey nothing beats a <$5 meal! Stab the perfect soft boiled egg and watch as its golden innards coat each strand of noodle. Interestingly Mappen now has a 1 spoonful of shallots policy!


Palate in World Square (Shop 17-18, 123 Liverpool St, Sydney) also has a takeaway section away from the main entrance of their restaurant. Displayed at the front are boxes of different types of salads and because I am uber indecisive when presented with pictorial menus and/or food displays I was stuck on the roast pumpkin, eggplant & zucchini salad and the salt & pepper calamari on greek salad ($7.90). So I asked for both to be combined and a short pause from the cashier and an extra $2 later I was all set for a super delish lunch woot each curl of tasty squid was coated in a light batter and there were enough of em to make me full along with the huge chunks of pumpkin and the slices of zucchini and eggplant hidden beneath.


Cafe Ish (Shop 1, 82 Campbell St, Surry Hills) is but 1 block away from where I work and the soft shell crab omellete features quite heavily in my lunch schedules. Unfortunately their famed all you can eat ribs will be ending this Wed and will return next winter so make a booking if you want to eat some delicious meat!


And something not edible- check out my new cupcake earbuds!

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