The Poets

We decided to go for a different approach. Here's a quick review of the The Poets in Top Ryde.

Chocolateria San Churro

 Address: 47 Glebe Point Road, Glebe NSW 2037Tel: (02) 96920119

You may not be able to travel in the world to taste different delicious, but that cannot stop our footsteps to find delicious in Sydney. The Chocolateria San Churro is a dessert restaurant which located in Glebe. The retro decoration can make the restaurant always reveals a nostalgic mood, the Spanish-style. Even just sitting near the windows, it can take you back to a few years ago with sweet and happiness memories. The Chocolateria San Churro is a good place for you enjoy a sunny and lazy afternoon.

The featured dessert of this restaurant is Churros. The Churros in Spain is also known as the “donut”. It looks a little bit like a smaller deep-fried dough sticks but the taste is fantastic. The Spanish are having it as breakfast. After fried, you can put it with sugar or cinnamon. Then eat it with some chocolate sauce. It taste really good you should try it!

Many different tastes of dessert is the consistent of Chocolateria San Churro. Expect Churros, there also has lemon cheese cake, chocolate cake and mocha mambo. These are the most distinctive recommended dessert. It is better to come here to have a dessert and enjoy the quiet and leisurely.

Ippudo

      Ippudo was first started in Fukuoka, Fukuoka by Shigemi Kawahara, the CEO of Chikaranomoto Company. "Ippudo" in direct translation means "one wind hall", and this is named because at the time, there were dark clouds over the Kyushu ramen industry, and the founder CEO Kawahara intended to "blow wind and revolutionise the era". Now, we have it in Sydney! It is located at Westfield Sydney Level 5(Shop 5021), 188 Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW.

Shiomaru Chashu

       Shiromaru with simmered pork belly. This is the Ramen I ordered. It’s not spicy at all because I cannot have spicy food. However, it tastes good as well with long time cooked soup and their unique ramen. It is fantastic!

Ippudo Pork Bun

       Steamed bun with braised pork and Ippudo original sauce. This one is the one I strongly recommend. As an entry, it contains different tastes such as sweet from steamed bun, oily from pork belly and a taste hard to describe from their original sauce. In a word, it is perfect entry and you shouldn’t miss.

Bakuretsu Tofu

       Spicy tofu and minced pork in sizzling hot stone pot. Soft tofu with a little bit spicy soup just gives you another feeling of having tofu.

Ippudo Gyoza

       Hakata-style pan-fried dumpings. Well, the truth is, it is just normal dumplings… Not really special but still good to try.

David Tofu

       Flash-fried tofu with a thickened agedashi broth, topped with grated radish. To be honest, I didn’t have a chance to try it because my friends took them just after it arrived and finished them in less then 10 seconds. But I think it should be good as it looks good at least.

      At last, I need to say it is a nice restaurant you should try if you like Japanese Ramen. Just like what I introduced before, it is a well-known ramen restaurant all over the world. Just trust others and be there, you will have a wonderful night I promise.

Mamak

A malaysian restaurant set at the heart of chinatown, often long queues could be seen as a huge crowd of people eagerly wait to get in and taste one of Sydney's finest. What could be annoying is that there are no bookings available, therefore its first come, first served. The waiting was tiresome. Seriously would you wait in a line as long as this?!

Let us in aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!

Once we finally got inside (almost), the waiter escorted us through a jungle of people busy chatting their night away while gorging themselves on fine malaysian cuisine. The interior decor of the restaurant was excellent for a restaurant of its rich asian culture. Our orders were placed and we waited in growing anticipation while stealing glances at the food served all around us.


The nasi goreng is probably the best dish that's a bang for your buck With fried rice, prawns, fried eggs, cucumber, tomato and half a slice of lemon you cannot go wrong with this dish! Ofcourse if you fancy a little spice sizzling on your taste buds then this is a must.
Overall, really nice, well presented though I wish it could have been spicier.






The ayam goreng is fried chicken. But don't be fooled by its appearance. This delicious succulent chicken is just bursting with flavour, the outer skin, crispy but not too overdone.


The first stab at the chicken brings out the steam that radiates from within. I was too excited so I kept stabbing at it repeatedly.





This is another personal favourite of mine. The kari kambing. Spicy lamb curry mixed with herbs. The waiter was kind enough to make it spicy. The curry sauce went great with the nasi goreng. Best of both worlds all in one plate!



There is really nothing much to say here other than the dish being nothing less than fantastic. It was surprising considering its price which was about $16.

Vitnamnese Cuisine

Eastwood has a lot of restaurant, there are some good and bad, only the bad one changed in couple of months, and the good one can stay for several years, Pho Nam Viet is one of them.

 Pho Nam Viet

142 Rowe Street 

Eastwood, NSW

Speaking of Vietnamese food, the raw beef rice noodle soup is a must to taste. Yes it looks nothing special but indeed a most popular Vietnamese food of all time.

The broth is the key factor of the dish, it give extra favor to the noodle and the beef. It is rich but not too salty, it is just about prefect.

Rice Paper Rolls, another classic dish in Vietnamese restaurant.

If you are hungry, and you are waiting for the main  dish these paper rolls can satisfy your stomach for a while. We ordered it and it took us just about 2 minutes to taste it. First it look beautiful, however it taste so plain despite the filling inside, i guess that why they gave us the peanut dipping.




Service are as expected as Asian restaurant, the food is decent and they come quick, its good for lunch. Overall the restaurant is as expected nothing fancy, just about average.

Sushi Train

Adress: 306-308 Military Road, CremorneTel: (02)99088891

You can feel the different local conditions and customs from countries in the food and feel the way of the nations’ life-style the food of South America is uninhibited passion, the food of European is simple and plain, and the food of Asia is exquisite and rich. For me I would love the Asia food and enjoy it taste.

Japanese food is my favorite. On behalf of the Japanese food is Sushi. The Sushi Train is located in Neutral Bay. This restaurant keeps its own style and combines the flavors of the cuisine of Australia. The Sushi can let customers feel the local conditions and customs from Japan. There is lots of Sushi in the rotary sushi counter. In addition, they are look like different and taste also different. Unfortunately, decorate of the restaurant looks a little dark and sense of oppression. In the restaurant the furnishings also appears to be crowded. Because it is multiple shop, so the food material is not particularly fresh.

The sushi is a plain dish, but in the flat should be wrapped with passion. The tastes of sushi are from the earth, the sky and the deep of Ocean. That’s sushi’s charm and why lots of people come from different places to taste it. Although the taste is more general but it wins in the price. It is cheap and people who live near there want to fill his stomach, it’s a good choice for Sushi Train.

Boombara

Boombara

         Boombara, a seafood restaurant located at 1&2 Fishermans Co-op, Endeavour Drive, Wollongong, NSW, 2500. It is famous for its fresh seafood and nice sea view. We went there on a weekend.

Salt & chilli squid

         With a chilli and sweet lime sauce and salad with honey and soy dressing. This is my favourite dish. Fried squid topped on some black pepper with sweet chilli sauce, that’s really an amazing experience. I am pretty sure that you shouldn’t miss it.

 Pacific Oysters

         Boombara has three different types of oysters which are natural, kilpatrick and batterd. With no doubt that natural oyster will let you feel how fresh the oyster are; kilpatrick which is oyster cooked with bacon is a bit salty with their special sauce; batterd oyster tastes creepy. For all the customers, they can choose only type or they can also have a mixed doz like us. But for my own opinion, you may try mixed doz because there will be at least one type could attract you.

Fish of the day

         Lightly fried in lemon and dill tempura batter with chips & salad. Actually, I have no idea about what kind of we had. But I have to say, it is fresh, soft and juicy. However, the chips is just so so… but after trying the fish, you will find chips do not matter.

    What’s more, we also ordered bucket of prawns and lychee smoothy. I didn’t try prawn because I don’t like it but my friends gave it a high recommandation. Besides, lychee smoothy is also special because it is a mixture of few types of fruits such as lychee, banana etc.  In a word, Boombara is a restaurant worth you try and will not let you regret.