Last night Suga and I and a few Saatchi crew went to the Burlington Centre in Chinatown for hand made noodles and dumplings. It’s been a haunt of mine for over 10 years now. There’s always a queue to get in there… in fact in all these years I’ve never ever been able to just walk in and grab a table. There’s a glass window where you’ll usually see a sweaty guy whacking some noodles (not whacking his noodle), there are strange carpets on the wall and plastic grapes hanging off the ceiling (something to do with the French overtaking part of China? I’m shit with history). The food is dirty but sooo yummy. I’d recommend the pan fried pork and chives dumplings, or a dumpling boodle soup, the combination noodles and the eggplant dish.
Pre-dinner drinks. Shaun and little Justin, Christine’s cousin who’s ‘turning 16′ (ie: he’s not 15!) and on work experience at the stock exchange. What a little shark!
Best dumpling noodle soup in Sydney.
The crazy grapes (now that’s a cool band name!).
Pan friend pork and chive dumplings.
I call this the Asian Spaghetti Bolognaise.
On another note, my Chain Reaction Cycles order came in lightning fast once again (1 week from the UK!). I love the idea of supporting local but when these guys can slash prices by 50% and ship for free it makes it hard.
Whilst I dreamt of getting a porn Industry 9 wheelset I ended up getting a set of Mavic 819’s which are UST/tubeless ready with double butted DT spokes and Hope hubs. They weigh in at a hefty 1944g a set. No more weight weenie for me!!! I’ll be running them non UST as I like my current Stick-E and DTC rear set-up and the UST Nevegals have had some bad reviews.
A lot beefier than the 717’s but a lot heavier too at 1944g the set.
Tubeless ready.
13.26kg – going up!
Also treated myself to this massive fuck off pump. It’s awesome!
And I finally got myself a light wind/rain jacket that scrunches up into a tennis ball which I’ll always have in my Camelbak when riding from now on.