Foodie's Paradise: Instagram Edition #1

So, I got an iPhone over Christmas, and of course, no iPhone app collection would ever be complete without Instagram. Having browsed through most people's photos, I've deduced that there are a few categories of pictures which never get old: selfies, cute animals and...FOOD.  

I was an Instagram skeptic...but I think I've been converted. Join me and indulge my descent into sinfully delicious consumerism. Enjoy! 

 

When I went back to China, we visited the ancient City of Xi'an. This city is home to the Terracotta Soldiers, but also some of the tastiest food in China! They make amazing noodles with the most indescribable elasticity and texture that make them so different to all other noodles. Here we ate cold chilli noodles and a special jelly noodle thing that sounds really gross, but trust me, tastes farking AMAZING! (I will be uploading my China and Singapore food posts, so keep alert!)

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Holiday Food Porn: The New Zealand Edition

Better late than never, that's what I always say...because I am about 2 months late on this bandwagon.  I've amassed so many food porn photos that I've just dreaded having to put them here because y'all know how lazy I am when there's a backlog... Anyways I've given myself a kick up the butt and decided to trawl through all my holiday photos to give you the pleasure of foodgasming.

My stomach was particularly pleased this holiday season because of the travelling I did around Asia. My general rule of thumb for travelling is that, where the food is, I follow. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that China and Singapore definitely more than satisfied my appetite. 

I experienced so many foodgasms over my holidays that I've had to split it into 3 editions: one for every country I ate in. The first edition is dedicated to the tucker in Kiwiland.

So, in true, lazy me fashion, I'm just going to lump a whole load of pictures here and hope that your stomach explodes with the amount of amazing food on display...(remember to click on the food for larger pictures!)

My friend and I had a cute lil' lunch date in a quaint and tucked away Japanese restaurant in the heart of Auckland CBD. There was a student special for $9.50! I ordered the tofu-don because I got my wisdom teeth out a few days before and I still couldn't chew anything. The best thing about this place was that there was UNLIMITED PICKLED GINGER REFILLS!!! SAY WHAAAAT!? I always hate it when the ratio of pickled ginger to everything else is off. The acidity and sharpness of the ginger is an important component of any Japanese dish, and I need it in EVERY MOUTHFUL to counterbalance the saltiness and richness of the meal.

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Please Accept More Food Porn from this Lazy Blogger

So....I guess I was being a bit ambitious when I committed to writing regular blog updates. It's been almost 5 months since my first blog update, and my life's just been too crazy busy for me to dedicate much time to this project. This is rather unfortunate, as some pretty awesome things have happened in the meantime and the whole point of this blog was to pinpoint events in my life.

Anyways, it's now the summer holidays and I have oodles of time to update this thing. So I'm going to start by bombarding you with heaps of food photos from the past few months. There's a mix of everything and all of it was delicious. So yes, it tasted amazing as it looked.

TO THE FOOD!

This beauty was originally slated to be in a blog post titled "Brodburgers and Batman'. The post was about going to watch the Dark Knight Rises and eating at the locally famous Brodburger restaurant in Canberra. I almost completed the blog entry, but I gave up in the end. It wasn't very exciting; it was just a rant about how ridiculously good looking everyone in the movie was, and how delicious Brodburgers were. Instead, I've salvaged the most important thing from the entry: A VEGGIE BURGER! Grilled haloumi, courgettes, eggplant, roasted peppers, lettuce and aioli in a toasted bun...absolute heaven. 

❤ Come and Roro My Boat! ❤

So you've either stumbled upon here, or you've been roped in to reading this by me. Either way, welcome! :)

This blog has been a long time in the making. And by that I mean I'm too lazy to get started on anything and even lazier to keep it up. I created this blog around March of last year, right after I moved to Canberra to study at the Australian National University. Back then, I really wanted to document my new university life so that it wouldn't fade into the abyss of time, but, unsurprisingly, it was still blank more than a year later.

But recently, I came back from a trip to Sydney and I had all these wonderful photos I wanted to share. My friends have been harping at me for ages to start a blog, but I never did get around to it. However, my trip to Sydney inspired me to try my luck at this and I hope that you all enjoy reading it. This blog is pretty much where I chuck photographs of food and other cool things. I'm pretty lazy and sloppy when it comes to writing (even writing this much is seriously a chore...) and I'm sure everyone likes pretty pictures more than a poorly written blog post by a tired university student.

Just a little about the me: Made in China, raised in Auckland, New Zealand. 2nd year student at the Australian National University in Canberra. Roro My Boat was the name on my leaver's jersey at high school. It was penned by my amazing group of chums and I thought it would be a fun title for a fun blog.

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But enough of me - onto the good stuff! Below are the food photos from Sydney I'd like to share. Sydney is fantastic - the food is ridic cheap. Seriously, not one day was spent without being in the delightful company of Chinatown eateries and Emperor Cream puffs. One night we passed a takeaway shop selling dinner boxes for $5. Upon seeing this, my friend and I immediately stared at each other in wild disbelief. FIVE EFFIN' DOLLARS. Lordy, it was a fantastic food paradise for students on a budget. Moreover, the portions were gigantic. You would think that the logical way of making a profit would be to serve smaller portions, but surprisingly no; we always got served massive dishes hich could probably feed the 3 of us. In any case, food is always the highlight of any holiday.

Drool away!

My first ever meal in Sydney! Lunchtime on a Sunday, I enjoyed this delicious cold udon noodle dish with cucumbers, spring onion, fish cakes, fried crumbs and seaweed. THE PORTIONS WERE GIGANTIC. IT WAS SO HUGE. LOOK AT IT, IT'S A MONSTER.