We actually got up early-ish this morning. First stop: Manchester Press for some cold drip and bagels!
Reuben was good, more meat would have been great!
Sweet naughtiness on a plate. Bacon, maple syrup, bananas and mascarpone!
We then caught a tram to Collingwood and dropped in to see my old friend Dom Bartolo who runs a killer motion graphics company called 21-19.
Dom was pretty excited to see if I could guess what this letter “O” came from.
Yup. PORSCHE. I was pretty upset I couldn’t spot it! The guys could see Porsche Melbourne closing shop and removing their huge neon letters. Amazingly they scored a few! One of the guys has the letter “P” working now in his house. Amazing, right?!
Hey, how you doin’?
Jess then suggested we eat fried chicken at Belles Hot Chicken, damn it was farking amazing! I’m 100% going to make it a pitt stop every time I visit Melbourne now!
Chapel Street Bazaar.
An unlikely find at the Bazaar! Fave car in that movie. Had to have it!
Mojitooooooo.
Drug dealers, many drug dealers.
akid one from Malaysia.
So rad!
We then finally made it to Hakata Gensuke. Yes there was a queue outside but we got in pretty fast. Hearing big claims of this place being the best ramen in Australia had me psyched for the past week.
You choose your broth, noodle hardness and toppings. My (rather small) bowl came to $21 from memory which was a little pricey I thought, and man, hype is a very dangerous thing. I really hated the thin straight noodles (wavy noodles FTW!) and the broth was nice, but so plain. I didn’t think it was anything special. Manpuku kills this joint, no doubt, their broth is just SO much more complex, and the aftertaste of Manpuku hangs around with you all day (so too the smile).
Jess went for the hot ramen (low heat) and also thought it wasn’t mind blowing, suggesting that the tantan-men at Ichiban Boshi was better (I can’t eat anything with a hint of chilli in it but have an Ichiban Boshi tantan-men once a year and just deal with the pain haha).
After Ramen Jess and I took some pretty rad shots around the city. I want to edit the raw images though, and since I can’t edit raws on this laptop I’ll have to wait until I’m back in Sydney.
Fuck yeah!