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Introducing Tonight's Dinner

Proposed – Upcoming AYCE Events

Upcoming events are being booked now so we get our numbers up.  It’s a recruitment drive, people!

Week 4 – Wednesday, August 20 – A South American BBQ Meat affair.  This event is confirmed, and itr looks like it’ll be a good turnout!

Week 5 – Wednesday, August 27th – Sushi and Sashimi.  $35 per head

Week 6 – Day not yet set.  Sheraton Buffet for the Chocolate Fountain!!!

What’s your input folks???

Korean A+++

I have few words to add to Jeff’s excellent plate by plate coverage.  I have too much digesting to do.

In short, this was an excellent event.  Team work is definitely the way to strike fear into a restaurant owner’s heart.  I could feel his eyes burning into my back everytime I giddily approached the buffet with a gleaming clean plate.

The AYC drink tea was a bonus, and hte orange wedges were loved by all!

Aussie Gold!

Korean BBQ live updates

It’s a team effort this week. The A-Team. 5 people aiming for Korean BBQ glory. Sure, there were only 4 in the original A-Team, so we doubled up on Mr T. If you’re in trouble… If nobody else will help… If you happen to be in an AYCE restaurant… Call the A-Team.

The tally:

MAINS
1 plate Bulgogi
2 plates of marinated squid
1/2 plate of scotch fillet
1/2 plate of beef spare ribs
1 plate of bulgogi, tongue, beef brisket and giblets
1 plate squid, spicy chicken, and rice cakes
1 plate bulgogi
1 plate scotch fillet, spare ribs, and pork belly
1 plate fish parcels, pork belly
1 plate pineapple, chicken wings, pork belly
1 plate scotch fillet, unseasoned scotch fillet, squid
1 plate bulgogi, pork neck, one giblet
1 plate bulgogi, seasoned scotch fillet, beef tongue

DESSERTS
1 plate chocolate bananas
1 plate orange wedges

SIDES
13 bowls of side dishes, 3 bowls of pineapple and 6 bowls of rice

Confirmed – AYCE Korean BBQ on Wed. August 13

How do people feel about AYCE table barbecues?

$23.50 pp according to eatability at the Charcoal Plaza BBQ Buffet (196 Victoria Street, Kings Cross).

22 Plates Consumed

A good showing this week. 10 folk sat down, 10 people waddled away.  Govindas offered us a somewhat random selection of dishes all undoubtedly vegetarian, but the cuisines varied.  We had pasta, battered cauliflower, a couple of curries, a fake meatball thingy, several salads, wedges, dahl, brown bread and an assortment of sauces, condiments…  Oh, and a rather inexplicable wasabi mayonnaise which stymied those expecting a minted yoghurt! It all felt like it would somehow wash down a bit more easily with a nice cold beer really.  I opted for the mint tea, while others headed down the mango lassi path.  After last week’s capacity-reducing mango cocktail thingy, I thought I might play it safe and have tea.  Apparently it made not a whit of difference to my overall score of 2 plates!

The time constraints presented barriers to those looking for breathing time between rounds, but Kirstin wows us all with a fantastic 3 Plate win. 6 of the team carried on to the movie, off to digest Sex and The City along with their lentils.

Good show team – I’m looking forward to next week… perhaps some meat may be on the cards?

Govindas live updates

The night has started with a promising sign of what is to come: a toilet seat held together with gaff (see photo). Clearly the spicy vego delights have gotten the better of foolhardy explorers who have gone before.

Scorecard of Vegan Varieties (by the plate):

Pete – II
Ali – iII (but how much lettuce…?)
Kirstin – IIIi (yellow jersey this week)
Jeff – IIi (poor showing this week)
Jen – II
Nick – II
Adam – II
Matti – Ii
Warnie – II (plus a stolen bowl)
Debbie – II

Lots of things that look like meat are not meat at a vegetarian restaurant. We were also confused by the “non alcoholic drinks” section of the menu, which seemed to suggest that there might be the other kind too (there weren’t).

Warnie stole a bowl of pappadums from a child. Kirstin came into her own on a stage that played to her strengths. The rest of us put in a showing, but are saving ourselves for the meat rounds.

Pics from Zanzibar Taco Night, Wednesday July 30th ‘08

Here, let me show you Wordpress on an iPhone, sexy huh! …Canadians…

Seen in Green.

quack quack

That makes 5!

rock paper scissors

Nerds.

empty plates

half time streches

Live updates via the iPhone

Happy Nerd.

8! Yeah, rock on!

That makes 8!

Cheers!

The Winner!

Stack o’ plates… End round 1.

Thursday 7th August – Govindas for AYCE Vego and Sex and the City

AYCE Vegetarian at Govindas has been mooted as a possible next option, with a film to follow. That means AYCE with time constraints team!

The current film options are slim pickings, but this night seemed to be the best compromise.

What do people think?

Tacos Tackled!!!

Thanks to Jeff’s excellent on-site reporting, I am now discovering that as a team we downed tacos very close to a rate of $1 per taco… and that’s 63.5 tacos as a group total, by the way!  In other ways of putting things into perspective, we’re talking 1 taco every 1.8 minutes at the table.

It was a totally ridiculous evening heightened by excessive amounts of really quite average tacos… tacos which might not actually be called tacos in certain Central American regions.  Where was the salsa?  Points for consistency though – each one really did taste just like the last.

And many points to Jeff, Colin and Yaui who managed to ingest TEN tacos.  While we all started off the night with high expectations of our own personal taco counts… it turned out that the high refried bean content was far more filling than we knew.

It was an excellent starting point, however, and we look forward with shining eyes and slightly larger stomachs to next week’s conquest…

More photos to be posted shortly.

Must go digest in a horizontal position.