charlie & co | happylab | messina

was ppose to post this 2 weeks ago, but drafted it instead so here: 

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hey y'all
I haven't really done much today, so this post will pretty much be the most productive thing i've done hahahas. 

today me and tina decided to go out and have some sister bonding time in the city cause we espeicially wanted to check out sydney festival at hyde park(especially the rekorderlig booth hahahs). but what was an aimless walk around qvb stocking up on lush and happylab saw us walking to hyde park hungry and desperately for food- then walking out in disappointment as we realised that sydney fest starts at 4.30pm and now 3 hours beforehand. 

so we ate our sadness away with charlie & co. burgers at westfield sydney!

Had to add this pic in cause the fries were too photogenic

me and tina were initially thinking of food hopping, so we'd only order a person's share of food at charlie & co. and grab the rest at someplace else. But urrrrrgh was this so filling and delicious. 

we chose their roadside chicken burger (panko-herb crumbed free-range chicken breat with mixed lead lettuce, rippened tomato and aioli) which was friggin amazing from the first bite. with that, we had parmesan and truffle fries which left us feeling full, satistified, and flabby at the same time.

 Although we didn't have any space left for lunch hopping, we were still keen on desert. So we walked around to museum, caught a bus, and walked for 10minutes all the way to Gelato Messina at Darlinghurst. But it was all worth it.

 We ended trying Blood Orange sorbet and two seasonal flavours: Lychee Martini Sorbet and Alfajores. FUAAAARKING good. the lychee is perfect for just too many ways and the atmosphere itself is adorbs and warm (your server would give you samples non stop) 

Then we went next door and had cake HAHAHAHS

Here "My Big Fat Green Paddlepop" which was like a green paddlepop ( made of white choc) followed by the flavours Cucumber $ Lime, Yoghurt and Blood Orange. 

THAT SEEMS TO BE IT! PRODUCTIVITY x10000

ICE SKATING | FESTIVAL | JAPFOOD

Reaaaally good day today.
A couple of us went out for our last fun trip before hsc year.
Firstly went ice skating and faced my biggest fear. Have not gone back to that place ever since year 6 and fell on my butt and spent the whole time on the wall.
So at first it was fucking hideous and then it got better and ended up being able to skate off the wall solo for a while hahahahas. didn't fall off my buuuuttt! i think thats all that matters HAHAHAHS. 

Then went to sydney fest at hyde park at the messina stall. Sooo fucking good omfg.

So we got the Twist Hot Dog, which was: a milk chocolate gelato hot dog, served in a warm finger bun with essential condiments passionfruit 'mustard', raspberry 'ketchup' and buttercream 'mayo', and coconut 'onions'. It was okay, we didn't like it much hahas. 

Messinaweiner (Pluto Pup)- baton of mapon syrup gelato coated in pancake batter, deep fried and crispy- dipper in plum sauce. 

Soooo fucking good omfg i saw this on a blog and made a mental reminder to get it. sososos good. 

GELATOFFEE APPLES- green apple sorbet, with a caramel milk chocolate glazed candy apple red finish 

Soooo good too! its hard to bite in cause its so cold but yeah so good speechless. 

EYESCREAM LOLLYPOPS- redskin, banana and pop rocks. 

So if you don't know me I'm a sucker for pop rocks and this is just totally awesome. The lollypop looks real good with its pink/yellow swirl and at the back there's a plate of banana pop rocks which is just superb. 

Then went to Kansai and did the all you can eat and had so much sushi and just died in ecstasy. So yeah, don't expect a good pic cause everyone was eatting so much we didn't have a chance to take any ahahahs. this all you can eat 'buffet' isn't like any other normal buffet you'd go to where you'd come out to a stalls of food and pick your portions. It works like a normal restaurant where you'd order plates that have a set price. Yet if you get the $29.50 buffet option you can pretty order as much as you want. overall, pretty good. I've been eatting clean and smaller portions for the last few weeks so i was pretty full by the halfway mark but still kept eatting cause there's so much food and the group wanted to eat more than our price's worth. 

( 6 kids = $180 omfg) 

 their sushi is nice but they overprice every dish, which makes you think that you're eatting more than you paid when it's really not true. For example, one sushi roe nigiri (which tasted crap) was $3 for one! like one piece of cut up sushi roll. so yeah, pretty smart of them. 

Other than the sushi roe nigiri and some soba noodles with the sauce that taste like water, everything was real good ( especially their 'spider' sushi set (crab inside out sushi) ) 

First time in a while i actually went in a food coma where i felt so sleepy on the train and had a food 'walk of shame' to the car. (when you feel bloated and have a food baby)

 Going back home to figure out tina had apple cider for me hehehehehehe.

Good daaaaaay :))