Part One
What to you call a pack of food bloggers? This was something that was asked the other night. A feast of bloggers? A degustation of bloggers? A flog of bloggers?! Whatever you might want to call it, there were a lot of bloggers packed into a room at Wagaya next to Chinatown for Chocolatesuze's birthday dinner. Suze declared it to be masquerade themed so everyone brought a mask along for the night. Mine was a piece of crap, but the funniest would have to be the Masterchef judge masks that the boys brought along!
It was a fantastic night but I will spare you the details, because there are others who have covered it much better than I could and with much better pictures. To be honest I was too busy enjoying myself so I didn't pay a huge amount of attention to the food. The novelty (and convenience) of ordering by touch screen and the sushi roulette are the cute standouts at Wagaya:
Who's going to get the wasabi bomb?
I managed to escape the wasabi hit, but Trina who was sitting next to me did not :) Here's the other food that wandered its way down to the far corner where I was perched, I managed to hog an entire plate of lotus root chips to myself, the were my favourite of the dishes. The chicken cartilage was interesting but I still prefer chicken softbone!
Wafu pizza
Lotus root chips
Tempura prawn
Assorted sushi and sashi
The pizza was intriguing, I didn't expect to like it but the crisped mochi on top added some interesting texture. I did manage to get it stuck to the roof of my mouth though! It's hard to get that stuff off your gums while trying to keep up a conversation. Whoever was in charge of the touch screen gets a big thumbs up, I was very well fed!
Masterchef!
Happy Birthday Chocolatesuze! Hope you had an awesome night, I know that I did! And thanks so much for the invite :) Oh, and the lollipop ring haha! Finally, a big hug goes to Trisha for the sweetest idea ever; she made personalised cupcake pops for all of us. So cute! (And yummy too!)
Here's everyone who came that night, please check out their blogs for a much better version of the story :P
The birthday girl, Chocolatesuze http://www.chocolatesuze.com
Helen: http://www.grabyourfork.blogspot.com
Billy: http://www.atablefortwo.com.au
Howard & Minh: http://www.eatshowandtell.com
Shez: http://www.onebitemore.blogspot.com
Richard: http://www.herecomesthefood.com.au
Karen: http://www.citrusandcandy.com
Simon: http://www.theheartoffood.blogspot.com
Lorraine: http://www.notquitenigella.com
Reem: http://tummyrumble.net
Leona: http://pigged-out.com
Mel: http://www.fooderati.blogspot.com
Jen: http://www.jenius.com.au
Belle: http://ooh-look.blogspot.com
Jenny: http://www.panda-n-cakes.blogspot.com
Lili: http://www.pikeletandpie.com
Betty: http://betty-thehungrygirl.blogspot.com
Betty & Richard: http://bettysbites.blogspot.com
Ellie: http://almostbourdain.blogspot.com
Chris & Tim: http://blogs.thewayitcrumbles.com
Trina: http://foragingotaku.blogspot.com
Trisha: http://sugarlace.fragiled.net
Tina: http://foodboozeshoes.blogspot.com
Pete: http://kitchendecanted.com/
Eden: http://nutsaboutmynuts.wordpress.com
Grace: http://www.foodchaser.me
It was great to catch up with everyone and to meet some of you for the first time. I'm sad that I didn't get to chat to everyone but I'm sure we will get to meet up again in the future!
Most of us, minus a few (Thanks to Karen for the photo!)
Part Two
Not long after Wagaya, the awesome Shez invited me along to a tupperware party at her place. Tupperware and afternoon tea? My inner granny was jumping up and down with glee! Asian Gaga looked aghast when I told her about it and said, "How old are you?!" Haha bugger that! We arrived to the most enormous spread of yummies...
So many cute goodies...
Look at the purple plates and napkins!
Chef Simon expertly making his own katsusando from scratch
Katsusando
Chocolatesuze's t-shirt: "I'm blogging this."
I was very glad I decided to skip lunch because Shez was an awesome host and made so many tasty things including sandwiches, profiteroles, lemon ricotta cupcakes, biscuits and tarts. Simon had me a little bit in awe with his katsu sandwiches, and I could not stop eating Suze's amazing peach slice. Yeah...I may have stuffed my face a little bit.
Profiteroles
Raspberry and custard tarts
Lemon ricotta cupcakes
Chocolatesuze's peach slice
IKEA candy
After tucking into the food, we settled down for a little presentation from our tuppexpert Michelle. Much oohing and ahhing followed. It was definitely one of those moments when you want to spend on money on things you never knew you needed! I got a very nifty squeezy thingamajig that acts as a very neat piping bag but looked a lot like a boob.
Now that I've been to the tupperware party I'm horribly frustrated with my huge pile of shitty cracked Asian takeaway containers. Damn you, superior quality tupperware for showing me the greener grass!! We also made scones with a whole bunch of tupperware equipment, including the milkshaker, which did a rather impressive job of whipping up the cream for our scones.
Making scones
Scones!
Goodies plate
After a very fun, relaxing afternoon, I headed home with a purple plate (and a belly) full of sweets and an order for some tupperware. Big, big thanks to Shez for inviting me and for being such a great tupperhost :)
It was a fantastic night but I will spare you the details, because there are others who have covered it much better than I could and with much better pictures. To be honest I was too busy enjoying myself so I didn't pay a huge amount of attention to the food. The novelty (and convenience) of ordering by touch screen and the sushi roulette are the cute standouts at Wagaya:
Who's going to get the wasabi bomb?
Chicken cartilage
Scallop
Wafu pizza
Lotus root chips
Tempura prawn
Assorted sushi and sashi
Masterchef!
The birthday girl, Chocolatesuze http://www.chocolatesuze.com
Helen: http://www.grabyourfork.blogspot.com
Billy: http://www.atablefortwo.com.au
Howard & Minh: http://www.eatshowandtell.com
Shez: http://www.onebitemore.blogspot.com
Richard: http://www.herecomesthefood.com.au
Karen: http://www.citrusandcandy.com
Simon: http://www.theheartoffood.blogspot.
Lorraine: http://www.notquitenigella.com
Reem: http://tummyrumble.net
Leona: http://pigged-out.com
Mel: http://www.fooderati.blogspot.
Jen: http://www.jenius.com.au
Belle: http://ooh-look.blogspot.com
Jenny: http://www.panda-n-cakes.
Lili: http://www.pikeletandpie.com
Betty: http://betty-thehungrygirl.
Betty & Richard: http://bettysbites.blogspot.
Ellie: http://almostbourdain.
Chris & Tim: http://blogs.thewayitcrumbles.
Trina: http://foragingotaku.blogspot.
Trisha: http://sugarlace.fragiled.net
Tina: http://foodboozeshoes.
Pete: http://kitchendecanted.com/
Eden: http://nutsaboutmynuts.
Grace: http://www.foodchaser.me
It was great to catch up with everyone and to meet some of you for the first time. I'm sad that I didn't get to chat to everyone but I'm sure we will get to meet up again in the future!
Most of us, minus a few (Thanks to Karen for the photo!)
Not long after Wagaya, the awesome Shez invited me along to a tupperware party at her place. Tupperware and afternoon tea? My inner granny was jumping up and down with glee! Asian Gaga looked aghast when I told her about it and said, "How old are you?!" Haha bugger that! We arrived to the most enormous spread of yummies...
So many cute goodies...
Look at the purple plates and napkins!
Chef Simon expertly making his own katsusando from scratch
Katsusando
Chocolatesuze's t-shirt: "I'm blogging this."
Profiteroles
Raspberry and custard tarts
Lemon ricotta cupcakes
Chocolatesuze's peach slice
IKEA candy
Making scones
Scones!
Goodies plate
Wagaya
Level 1, 78-86 Harbour St
Haymarket NSW 2000
Phone (02) 9212 6068
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