Christmas Feast 2009
Sunday, December 27, 2009 - 12:48 am English | 日本語
How was everyone’s christmas? Big family feast, christmas in vacation spot, or working?
I was pretty busy and not prepared at all, especially after coming back to Sydney on the christmas eve. My fridge was (well, still is.) pretty much empty and all I had was a bottle of milk that I brought on my way back from the airport.
Last year, me and my bestest friends in Sydney managed to book a table at Tetsuya’s on the christmas eve, and it was such a fantastic place to enjoy our christmas dinner. And this year? One of the reasons I came back on the 24th instead of spending christmas in Japan was to have a christmas dinner at Golden Century seafood restaurant in Chinatown and party with my Japanese gang! Came to think of it, it’s my first time having a christmas dinner at Chinese restaurant. Feels a bit odd to be honest.
Highlight of the night was this big chunky fresh abalone. (Market price) How fresh? It was ALIVE. It then gets sliced thinly, and our waiter dipped the slices in a boiling hot soup. Just like shabu shabu. OH MY GOD, it tasted AWESOME. Look at Hisae going “woo” in the picture LOL
All abalone slices were quickly gone, and lettuce that came with the abalone were tossed into the leftover soup. Damn, the soup tastes like heaven. And for some reason, we became addicted to this cold cut cucumber with garlic sauce. ($6)
San Choy Bow ($9 per 2) and live coral trout. (Market price) Oh man, the coral trout was so tender and went really well with the ginger & shallot sauce!
Live pipi in XO sauce. (market price) And after the fantastic seafood dinner, we went down to Passionflower for our sugar fix.
Thanks again for being such great friends throughout the year, guys.
So that was a christmas dinner on the 24th. Following day on the christmas, we also had a food filled christmas get-togehter.
Oh my god, look how beautiful these sushi rolls are!! No wonder, these were made by Kaori – a sushi roll chef at Busshari! Mayuri’s Karaage and ‘italian sushi roll’ with cream cheese, cucumber, semi-dried tomato and balsamic vinegar sushi rice, and Lily’s Thai prawn salad.
And now we are talking. Fresh wagyu beef tataki with shisho leaves! My favourite! We were planning on doing BBQ as well, but with unfortunate rainy weather, wagyu beef were cooked in a pan. But that didn’t disappoint me at all, all the fat layer and tender wagyu beef. Hmmmm.
Hisae the santa girl and I found a red box sitting on the kitchen counter. We initially thought it was a traditional fruit cake or something, but it tuned out to be a muffin looking bread – as big as our heads! “monster muffin, monster muffin” we chanted, and decided to kill it ;p
There’re many other unpictured food everywhere on the table. Just like other eating gatherings we had in the past, our stomaches were stuffed with all these goodness and booze. I know everyone must be using “but this was a special occasion.” as an excuse.
Hope you guys had a great christmas this year!
Golden Century Seafood Restaurant
393 Sussex Street, Haymarket NSW 2000
02 9212 3901
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aww heart sushi is so cute and oh baby the beef is calling to me! merry xmas yas and glad youre back safe and sound!
Glad to know you had a kickass Christmas! And omg, it sounds heavenly to celebrate with Chinese and Jap food! Might do that next year as a change from turkey and co.
Catch up soon yeah? xx
Hahaha! The pic of you peeking!!! Gold!!! Yah I used to celebrate Xmas at Chinese restaurant and was a bit odd. But then is kinda nice that u don’t gave to cook n someone has done it all for u
have a great xmas. i haven’t really tried abalone before but maybe i should the way you had it — was it very expensive? i thought it looked like ravioli or dumplings at first. the flower and heart sushi designs are so cool
LOL at ‘monster muffin’! I think it’s a panettone =)
wow! amazing looking food all round, especially, the abalone, sushi & wagyu.
looks like this would have been an amazing christmas to be around for. I can see why you’d want to come back for this!
Aww what an awesome spread of food! Fabulous stuff Yas and that’s so great of you to come back early so you could have a dinner with your Japanese gang!
Welcome back to the country yo! Liking those heart shaped sushi. Although…check out your sneaky peeking…LOL oh dear Yas.
Shiso Leaves!! Where do you get them?? We used to grow them in our backyard but they’re all dead… from being neglected for too long…
Love the pipis (in XO Sauce) @ Golden Century. I’ll be more than happy to order just that and rice.
Haha, I thought the same thing when I saw your post saying ‘Christmas’ and I expected all the sushi and stuff for your party but then saw Chinese stuff! Odd but delicious right?
And wow with the heart shaped sushi! How did she do that!? Now that you’ve plugged her, I will have to pay a visit to Busshari! Haha. Looks like you guys had heaps of fun for Xmas! Happy New Year Yas!
What a feast! You had a great christmas. Welcome back and happy holiday!
Wow looks like you had fun! happy new year Yas, and more good food to come in the new year
Looks like a great Christmas feast to me! Love the pic of you peeking and haha at monster muffin!
@choclatesuze
Is that cute?! She promised to teach me how!
Hope you had an awesome xmas and new year
@Karen
Hehe Asian style xmas that is! Hope yours went great
@Billy
That’s so true LOL plus I totally wouldn’t mind having a whole roast pig!
@Simon Food Favourites
Thanks! Hope yours went great too!
I can’t remember how much the abalone itself was… total came to roughly $120 each.
@Mademoiselle Delicieuse
Ahhh that’s it, I couldn’t remember what it’s called LOL
@Simon
Hehe, and my friends surprised and wonder why I bother to come back straight away. They don’t know how things go in Sydney LOL
@Lorraine
“You really came back for the dinner, not for us, dind’t you” – they know me too well. Hope you had a great one Lorraine!
@Adrian
Oh I was just looking for more food in there LOL
@Ayana
Tokyo Mart in Northbridge sometimes carries Shiso leaves. But my friend actually grow them in her garden!
@SK
Ohhh i totally know what you mean! that sauce ftw!
@AY
Hehe never had totally asian-ed xmas before, but it was soooooo goood! Hope you had a great one, and happy new year to you too duuuude!
@Ellie
And now I know from what I saw in your posts, I MUST BE INVITED to your xmas feast next year!! LOL
@ladyironchef
Thanks Brad! Hope you had a great one! Hope to see you real soooon!!
@Helen
Monster muffin scared us. ;p Looking forward to see you in 2010 with alot more food to come!
Lucky you, sushi from Busshari chef-I love it there!
I found Shiso leaves at a small Japanese grocery store in Artarmon (on Elizabeth St, just in the little paved courtyard there)in Dec last year…