Hockaloogie

So...exactly one week after visiting Hako (on Little Collins St), this blog has begun. Now to backtrack to last week...

Excited and jovial...Cheese and I, with Cheap Eats Guide in hand...headed to Council House 2 for a quick briefing and coffee. After much deliberation and page flicking, we settled upon Hako as our first destination from the Cheap Eats Guide (from here on in, known simply as the CEG).

Baffled and a little lost, we finally stumbled upon the mess-hall-style restaurant. We were greeted and seated at our miniscule table by a motherly [possibly] Japanese lady. What to drink? We decided to go something Japanese...as we were in a Japanese restaurant afterall. What the hell! EBISU! I welcome change to the usual [boring] beer selection.

Still feeling a little uncomfortable and "new" to the surroundings, we open our menus. The waitress, who is of African-possibly-Jamaican decent, had long unwielding dreadlocks down to the small of her back. She informs us that it's wise to choose a selection of entrees as opposed to getting an entree and main.

Scanning down the menu, the prices caught my attention. Not that they were horrifically high, nor was it because I am frugal...but I immediately questioned why his restaurant had been listed in the CEG? Anyway...not to worry.

The food came promptly and we ate. In the sea of cluttered plates on our miniscule table, one was screaming out at me. The pork belly. I heart pork belly. Everyone hearts pork belly. (Except for Chee Chee because she's a vegetable.)

I'm going to cut this short. One, because I'm at work and should not be blogging. Two, because I'm rambling. And three, because as nice as the meal was...it was not outstanding, with the exception of pork belly...but that might just be because I like anything with pig fat.

We'll go back there one day. But not by recommendation of the CEG. Nice, but really, technically not a "cheap eat".

Huge.

PS: The Asahi's we had at Robot after dinner was more exciting. And I'm not just saying that because the bar owner's sister was giving me "the eye". ;)

Solarino (lunch 1/5/10)

A welcome spot to rest the legs after a mammoth Saturday morning CBD shopping effort - and not a bad place to people watch either. When we stopped there around 1-ish there wasn't much in the sandwich counter for us vego types, except one lonely pumpkin piadina that was sold from right under my nose! I opted for the goats cheese omelette (pretty good) and Eug had the spaghettini with asparagus, chilli, egg, garlic and other fun stuff. The pasta was definitely tasty, although there were some random bits of mega-saltiness involved. javascript:void(0)