2022
As from my previous post a few days ago, some of Sydney's Local Guides hosted a few meet-ups to gather people who have the same interests or passions of one of the greatest things ever in the world: FOOD. Foodies unite as we ventured along Newtown, NSW one of the most renowned fashion and food districts in Sydney, albeit Australia!
So come one, come all! Hope you don't get too hungry reading this post. Go eat something if you can.
Saturday, 17th June 2017 (Burger Food Crawl Meet-up)
At 1:00pm I ventured into Mary's. Through the rock-n-roll music and atmosphere waiting to flirt with disaster, there I saw @TimothyVdp and one of his housemates. His friend had already ordered the Mary's burger, so eventually we got to ordering as well. He got the classic Mary's Burger whilst I got the cheeseburger. One thing I like to do is to fill up the burger with chips as well, and my goodness my love for chips is everlasting. You can see the picture of those chips and burgers in the image above. Eventually, another one of Tim's housemates came by, along with Miguel, who really just loved Mary's buns. Really. Note: you can find Miguel on his YouTube channel here.
I myself arrived at Jack's Newtown only to find Tim and Miguel halfway through, filming their bliss as they sunk their teeth into these quality burgers. Another local guide also joined us too (I think his name was Carl, I am very terribad with names) and took a burger out. All in all, this day was just epic. "Epic day was epic!" as what Tim would say. We took a group-portrait, admired Tony's octopus anchor (it really clings onto anything fully solid brah!), exchanged contacts and went our separate ways.
That's part one done. Let's go to our second meet-up!
Sunday, 18th June 2017 (Gelato Food Crawl Meet-up)
This meet-up was planned mostly on our Sydney Local Guides Google+ community. I was already in the Erskineville area looking around and admiring the train tracks and eventually met-up with Peter at Newtown station. He shared his location for about an hour, just waiting for a while to see if any other local guides came up. But as it was only accepted and listed in the Google Local Guides meet-up page for about a week, it was a tad bit of a last minute thing. So eventually it was only Peter and myself. But hey, it's food! And I love food.
Our first stop was at Gelato Blue. Can you believe that their gelato is non-dairy? How do they even make the cream if you have no milk? It's no secret, but apparently it's coconut water? But hey it was outright delicious. A bit of a sweet start to the crawl, while getting to read about the local fashion journal. We had a lot of time to spare, before taking snaps of a few things before heading our way to the next venue: Hakiki Turkish Ice Cream.
The ice-cream flavours here were a little bit different, and for some people who aren't so adventurous, nerve-racking. They had flavours such as baklava, melon and feta, pomegranate and mandarin, to name a few. All these strange flavours made me somewhat nervous, but as I had the pomegranate one (see the cover photo), the taste eventually grew on me, to the point that it was quite enjoyable. Not bad for some turkish ice-cream!
To conclude, this weekend we had two Local Guides meetups in Sydney. It doesn't happen very often, but man am I glad it did! I got to meet some new awesome people, discover some amazing solid food, learn so many new things only connoisseurs would know and reignite my passion for people again. Newtown is such a beautiful place, I highly recommend familiarising yourself there, it's just truly a breath of fresh air and life for your soul, almost literally!
That's all from me today. Until next time, peace!
