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Spied in downtown Osaka

Osaka and Melbourne became sister cities in 1978, which was our towns first sister-city relationship.  So I probably shouldn’t have been surprised to stumble across Melbourne House restaurant in downtown Osaka (right next to the Aquarium and Ferris Wheel). Specialities of the house included Australian Beef, and they even had VB!  Impressive.

On a side note, be sure [...]

Written by mellie on August 19th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , | One comment | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Bodhi Cafe

241 Victoria Street, Richmond Phone 03 9416 1889

Prompted by a review over at where’s the beef, I decided to drag this post from the depths of my drafts and put some words to the photos (only 70 odd drafts to go!).

Anyway, just like Claire and Michael, EG [...]

Written by mellie on August 17th, 2008 | Tags: , , | 3 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Trunk

275 Exhibition Street, Melbourne Phone (03) 9663 7994

Prompted by Claire over at the fabulously revamped Melbourne Gastronome, I’ve dragged this post out of my drafts to finally see the light of day (nb. I have been somewhat remiss in blogging due to life getting in the way of [...]

Written by mellie on August 13th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | 8 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Prahran Market – Falafel

Cart 123, 163 Commerical Road, South Yarra Phone 0414 724 578

When I worked in Prahran a few years back, one of my all-time favourite lunches was grabbing a quick falafel from the Falafel Man (not his name, just what I call him) at the Prahran Market. On a [...]

Written by mellie on August 12th, 2008 | Tags: , , | 3 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post

Bento No.4

Top tier: Japanese short grain rice sprinkled with roasted black sesame seeds, umeboshi plum.

Bottom tier: Edamame in their pods, cherry tomatoes, sauted carrot and burdock kinpira, sliced and steamed broccoli stems, mini hamburg sitting on top of sauted spinach leaves with a teriyaki onion sauce.

I think this has been [...]

Written by mellie on August 6th, 2008 | Tags: | 4 comments | Print This Post Print This Post | Email This Post Email This Post
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