IRL: Sydney bloggers' yumcha

With regular photographic :P knowledge of each others' lives, it seemed about time that Sydney bloggers put names to handles, and faces to blogsites.

We had a Sydney bloggers yumcha today, forcibly drawing back the curtains from the anonymous stage of cyberspace.

In attendance was pinkcocoa, ShinChan, BHR, R, R's sibling, Casey, and of course yours truly. The rollcall was modest, but the appetites--happily--more than compensated.



We had yumcha at perennial favourite, East Ocean, whereupon a frenzy of urgent finger pointing and vigorous head nodding quickly resulted in a groaning table of delectable delights.

There were dumplings with prawns (har gow), dumplings with garlic chives (gao choy gow) and dumplings with snow pea sprouts (dao miu gow).

We had sticky rice, bean curd parcels, beef siu mai, Chinese broccoli (gai lan), long prawn noodles (har cheung fun), fried rice noodles (jin cheung fun) and pepper beef.

There was tripe. There was chicken feet. And then there were desserts.

Coconut jelly, almond jelly, mango pudding, mango pancakes... *sigh*

It was hard work but we had commitment.
We had integrity.
We had emergency stomachs.

Pinkcocoa took on the onerous task of photographing each dish. Check out her post here.

All in all it was great fun in the midst of like-minded company. The tastebuds are always heightened in the company of foodies and it was fantastic to finally meet the people behind the blogsites.

And it seems like we're not the only city to turn URLs to IRLs. Seattle bloggers also met for the first time last week.


Sydney bloggers doing what they do best!