Thursday, June 19, 2003

 
Wednesday: We headed over to the Powerhouse Museum, which was quite interesting. We especially enjoyed an exhibit on "Tokyo Fruit", a magazine on weird, wacky Tokyo fashion. Other than that, the museum focuses on 'power' related things like all kinds of transportation, steam engines, weird planes ... it has areas full of experiments and robotics (one robotic display is especially fun, the robot arm dances to different styles of music, transforming accordingly, e.g. holding a disco-mirror ball when doing 70ies disco). We also visited the exhibits on ecological households and chinatown in sydney.






After 3 hours we were cultured out and went to chinatown for lunch ... we found out that the Thai place we just had been 4 days ago already closed down to be taken over by some other chinese place ... We found a nice, big Dim Sum place (which here is called Yum Cha) and had some great duck, pork buns and seafood dumplings ..


For dinner we finally went to that place that allegedly has the best chicken wings in Sydney (legend has it that they had a "hooters bar" .. but that closed a while ago) .. Arizona Bar at Pitt Street Mall (very close to a monorail station)

Our waitress was a bit helpless and could barely answer simple question like "how many wings are on that appetizer platter?" (she said 5, turned out to be 8) ... so .. we ordered the wings and a 'tower' of ribs ... the wings turned out too sweet, and since blondie, our waitress, ignored me, I went to the kitchen and consulted the chef about hot sauces ... he first gave me Tabasco ... but came back later with what he called, real Louisiana Hot Sauce ... and all that helped the wings and the ribs a lot ...






So, if you ever go there, ask for extra hot sauce ... otherwise you get honey sweet wings ... the size of the wings was actually very nice, the beer was cold .. the place itself was surprisingly empty ... After trying to wash away the sauce from our faces we strolled back to the hotel.


posted by Peter 8:03 AM