Sydney Eras Tour 2024 Day One: Mother Chu's

Hello friends, a non-Midweek Munchies post! Remember I mentioned going to Sydney last month to see Eras? Well, now is the time to share some food photos with you. And a sprinkle of Taylor photos, of course.

We arrived into Sydney on a Saturday afternoon, and once we were settled in our hotel room we headed out for dinner. We went to Mother Chu's Vegetarian, a vegan restaurant that was only a short walk away from the our hotel. This is what we ordered.

Steamed BBQ Buns, because I can never go past these on a menu.



We also shared some Tofu with Sweet Miso Sauce, which was incredible! The sauce was dengaku sauce, but on tofu instead of eggplant. This dish normally comes with chilli on top as well, but they left it off for me.



My friend ordered this Birds Nest style dish, which had chopped vegetables, mushrooms, and vegan ham in it, plus cashews, served in a crispy noodle nest.



I continued to be the most basic b*tch (/aff) (god I spend too much time online these days) vegan in the world by ordering some tofu, assorted mushrooms, and snow peas in a brown sauce. It was delicious! My favourite sort of dish to order at vegan Chinese places.



On the way home, we stopped by a Woolworths and got some vegan ice cream sandwiches, not pictured. And then spent the night making friendship bracelets on the bed, eating ice cream sandwiches, and listening to Taylor Swift songs like the 42 year old adults we were, living out very best life!

I'll share some of the bracelets tomorrow, but this post I want to show you the fun decorations our hotel had! They had gone full Eras themed, Taylor Swift stuff everywhere, staff wearing Taylor Swift t-shirts (ala Red Era), and non-stop Taylor Swift music in the lobby.









More Taylor and Sydney coming to you soon!

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Eloise, being very helpful while I was packing to leave.

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It's that time of the week again! Nature's Kitchen at Coles has a vegan pesto, and I ended up with a jar of it. I'm not the biggest jarred pesto fan, I find them too oily generally, but I gave this a try. I made some pasta for it with tomatoes, peas, and butter beans, plus I added a bunch of nooch as well.





Ferrero Rocher had an accidentally vegan giant chocolate ball that I found last Easter but didn't end up eating until several months later. It is a hollow ball, with bits of hazelnut stuck in the chocolate.





I really enjoyed this Pana Hazelnut Chocolate. Unlike Vego spread, that I find far too sweet, this had a much better flavour for my preferences.



Still on the chocolate spread train, this Mayver's Hazelnut, Cashew, and Cocoa spread was also quite lovely, and even less sweet than the Pana one.



Loving Earth brought out a range of kind of silly superfood chocolates. Of course I bought them all to try. The blueberry one was a bit meh, and the one with lemongrass one tasted medicinal, almost like eating a Strepsil. But the other two flavours were great and I would buy those ones again!



I got these Keep It Cleaner protein bars on sale, and will never buy them again. They just taste like chalky protein powder. Yuck! Unfortunately I still have some, I need to foist them off on someone who likes that kind of thing.



Finishing up with these Chocolate Buttons, which were very much like Smarties. Not the US kind of Smarties, the Australian/UK kind of Smarties. Which are similar to, but have a different vibe from, M&Ms.



Hope everyone is hanging in there!

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Flash back photo to Dim Sim. I just wanted to share her with you all again.

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Hi friends, thanks for being lovely. Here are some munchies.

This is the KM Foods Lemon Meringue Cheesecake. I got it from the freezer section at The Green Edge, and it is lovely! As with all the KM cheesecakes, the base needs some work. It tastes good but is a bit too soft. But the tart lemon filling and the fluffy sweet meringue, delightful!



These vegan wontons were hanging out in my freezer for AGES. I had plants to make some wonton soup with them, but then that all became a bit much and I ended up just cooking them and eating them. After all that anticipation time, they were kind of bland.



There's this great little Japanese grocery store just down the road from me, and one visit there I picked up this vegan friendly soy milk corn soup. It was SO GOOD! It is like a cream of corn soup and just delicious and I need to go back there and buy a bunch more. Incredible with toast spread with a little nuttelex for dipping into it.



Chicken Flavor Ramen Noodle Snack sounded nice, little crunchy bites of chicken flavoured ramen noodles. BUT, oh my gosh friends, these are SO SALTY. Imagine just opening up the seasoning packet from ramen noodles and putting it straight into your mouth. I died. I ended up putting them in a mug and covering them with boiling water to turn them into a noodle soup, which was much better. That flavour needs some dilution.



Balsamic Vinegar and Caramelised Onion Seed Crackers were really nice. They had a really good flavour, and were great with hummus.



OmBar is a newer chocolate brand here, and I got this Fruit and Nut chocolate on sale. It of course was a bit too sweet, but I do love a fruit and nut chocolate bar.



My favourite Fry's Vegan Brioche Buns have vanished, but this new brand is around now. They are not as good as the Fry's ones, but they are not bad. RIP Fry's buns.



Finishing off with this Super Vegan lasagne. You can see from the photo that instead of making a regular vegan lasagne, they decided to cram as many superfoods into it as they could. And I must ask, why? Just make a regular vegan lasagne. The miso mornay part was good!



That's it from me this week! How are you all holding up?

In three and a half weeks I will be on my way to the UK! So that's something that is happening.

Also just started planning a visit to the US for next year.

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Please enjoy this photo of Mirabelle making Eloise lick her head. It happens several times a day, Mirabelle just presents to Eloise with her head down. LICK MY HEAD PLEASE! How long it takes Eloise to get sick of it and bop Mirabelle instead varies.

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Hey friends.

Today I am writing with sadness. We got the news that Our Flag Means Death will not be being picked up for a third season by another network. They have already started auctioning off things from the set. The streaming industry right now is in freefall, and getting the show picked up straight away didn't work out. The OFMD community is very, very, very sad. Just clinging to hope that I will get to see my blorbos again one day, maybe in a few years when the industry has hopefully improved. In the meantime, I will just be very sad about it forever.

Let's look at some munchies. Chips and jams and a few other things.

Ninja vegan chips, these Sausage Sizzle chips were a bit underwhelming at first. I always want more flavour. But, if you stick a bunch in your mouth at once, then you get great flavour. I really liked them. Of course, they were limited edition, so I can't get anymore... Just like OFMD.😭



This St Dalfour's French Grape jam was a bit strange. Much sweeter than other jams, and with big grapes in it, which made it a bit big for spreading on things. Did you know there is a character in OFMD called Frenchie? He's not French. I miss him already.



Vitasoy's soy yoghurts are so good, so I tried these oat ones then they came out. Unfortunately they have pea protein in them, and leave a bad aftertaste in my mouth. Kind of like the bad taste about the way WBD/Max threw OFMD under the bus.



These Thins Outback BBQ chips were really good, they had a great strong flavour! Once again, limited edition, because why keep something great around when you can just kill it instead?



Some Loving Earth chocolates. The Dirty Rose was nice, but no surprises the Berry Wild was not to my tastes. Give me cocoa poweder in my chocolate or give me (our flag means) death.



Another St Dalfours jam, this time kumquat. It really enjoyed this in overnight oats and also with peanut butter. It was like a fancy marmalade. Damn good marmalade, one might say, and then cry about Ed and Stede eating marmalade. Marmalade has a special place in the hearts of OFMD fans.



This St Dalfours Heritage Peach jam was quite lovely and sweet. I used it mostly in overnight oats. Edward Teach, arse like a peach, you would have loved this.



Finally, this Veef Pulled Beef. Which I guess was OK? I don't have much of a memory about what it was or what I did with it. I think I put it into some pasta sauce, possibly. As you can see I got it on sale, and it was deep in my freezer for a long time. Sort of a shredded meaty/mushroom texture. Shredded like the hearts, hopes, and dreams of the OFMD community.



Friends, I am really really sad. You might scoff at being so cut up about a TV show, but the way I have found a new community through this show, they representation this show has that is just so unique and diverse, the fact that it is a love story between two men discovering themselves and each other in their late 40s... I honestly can't describe how important this show is and will continue to be. Anyway, I'm sad.

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Here is an Eloise belleh, for comfort. Also possibly may be a trap, you have to stick your hand in there to find out.

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Hello hello!

Love being back, it is nice to have something familiar and comforting to return to, which is what this blog is. Easing myself back in with another midweek munchies post!

I love Bennetto chocolate, the raspberry one in particular is my favourite! But I finally got around to trying some other flavours. The hazelnut one is fine, I am just not as big a fan of hazelnut and chocolate as a lot of other people I think. The sea salt amaranth one was lovely, salty and cruncy and delicious.



I tried this new flavour from Plantry, their carbonara meal. It does NOT have coconut in it, which is exciting. But it is pretty bland, which is less exciting.



Tomato and Mushroom Smoked Salt is something I didn't know I was missing in my life, but it is so good!



These Lifesaver Grape Peelies are accidentally vegan (obviously they are vegan, they are on my blog), but the flavour is the gross kind of fake frape flavour and the texture is too hard, do not recomment.



Sometimes you raid the freezer for a very silly dinner. Like this one, with Pie Society Meatless Party Pies and Not Nuggets. I'd heard good things about the nuggets, but I found them pretty meh. The party pies were great! I love Pie Society's vegan pies.





My friend from Scotland sent me this very deliciously dark chocolate. I hope I will be able to get some myself when I am there in... SIX WEEKS! You know I love my chocolate dark, and you can't get darker than this. SO GOOD.



These Vegan Cheddar Cauliflower Puffs had some sort of weird taste to them. I wouldn't get them again.



Finally these vegan lentil chips, which a friend told me about. I got them from The Reject Shop, and I don't know if they're available anymore. Which is a shame, because they are so good. I love both flavours. They also had a third one but it was spicy.



Before we move onto the cats...

I am once again just a girl, standing in front of the internet, asking everyone to please sign and share the Our Flag Means Death.

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A very thoughtful Mirabelle.