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Raffi Balmanoukian wrote:
The best pho I've ever had, anywhere (including Viet Nam) is at the Mekong - IIRC it's in Little Bourke street, but if not it's somewhere around there (follow your nose). Now you mention it. I bet it must be just down the street from the Gordon Place Hotel where I stayed last week. I didn't stop into any Vietnamese restaurants while I was there. I ended up eating at allot of Italian and Japanese places instead. ALV |
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Raffi Balmanoukian wrote:
The best pho I've ever had, anywhere (including Viet Nam) is at the Mekong - IIRC it's in Little Bourke street, but if not it's somewhere around there (follow your nose). Now you mention it. I bet it must be just down the street from the Gordon Place Hotel where I stayed last week. I didn't stop into any Vietnamese restaurants while I was there. I ended up eating at allot of Italian and Japanese places instead. ALV |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:52:34 GMT, Andrew Venor
wrote: Raffi Balmanoukian wrote: The best pho I've ever had, anywhere (including Viet Nam) is at the Mekong - IIRC it's in Little Bourke street, but if not it's somewhere around there (follow your nose). Now you mention it. I bet it must be just down the street from the Gordon Place Hotel where I stayed last week. I didn't stop into any Vietnamese restaurants while I was there. I ended up eating at allot of Italian and Japanese places instead. ALV You'll find the best Pho near the city - and the biggest concentration of Vitnamese restaurants - in Victoria Street Richmond on the Eastern suburban fringe. There are other concentrations in Footscray in the inner West and Springvale in the outer South-East. Little Bourke Street, between Swanston And Spring, is Chinatown although it has a sprinkling of other Asian restaurants. Lygon Street, Carlton is the place for Italian restaurants (extension of Russell Street to the North). Lots of Lebanese and Turkish in Sydney Road, particularly up the Coburg end. For the sheer variety and range of cultural culinary styles, there would be no place in the world like Brunswick Street Fitzroy, just to the East of Carlton. They change all the time, but last year when I was there I saw African, Afghani, Indian, Thai, Italian, Spanish, Lebanese, Nepali etc. I drove a cab 'round that city for 17 years. Cheers, Alan -- |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:52:34 GMT, Andrew Venor
wrote: Raffi Balmanoukian wrote: The best pho I've ever had, anywhere (including Viet Nam) is at the Mekong - IIRC it's in Little Bourke street, but if not it's somewhere around there (follow your nose). Now you mention it. I bet it must be just down the street from the Gordon Place Hotel where I stayed last week. I didn't stop into any Vietnamese restaurants while I was there. I ended up eating at allot of Italian and Japanese places instead. ALV You'll find the best Pho near the city - and the biggest concentration of Vitnamese restaurants - in Victoria Street Richmond on the Eastern suburban fringe. There are other concentrations in Footscray in the inner West and Springvale in the outer South-East. Little Bourke Street, between Swanston And Spring, is Chinatown although it has a sprinkling of other Asian restaurants. Lygon Street, Carlton is the place for Italian restaurants (extension of Russell Street to the North). Lots of Lebanese and Turkish in Sydney Road, particularly up the Coburg end. For the sheer variety and range of cultural culinary styles, there would be no place in the world like Brunswick Street Fitzroy, just to the East of Carlton. They change all the time, but last year when I was there I saw African, Afghani, Indian, Thai, Italian, Spanish, Lebanese, Nepali etc. I drove a cab 'round that city for 17 years. Cheers, Alan -- |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:52:34 GMT, Andrew Venor
wrote: Raffi Balmanoukian wrote: The best pho I've ever had, anywhere (including Viet Nam) is at the Mekong - IIRC it's in Little Bourke street, but if not it's somewhere around there (follow your nose). Now you mention it. I bet it must be just down the street from the Gordon Place Hotel where I stayed last week. I didn't stop into any Vietnamese restaurants while I was there. I ended up eating at allot of Italian and Japanese places instead. ALV You'll find the best Pho near the city - and the biggest concentration of Vitnamese restaurants - in Victoria Street Richmond on the Eastern suburban fringe. There are other concentrations in Footscray in the inner West and Springvale in the outer South-East. Little Bourke Street, between Swanston And Spring, is Chinatown although it has a sprinkling of other Asian restaurants. Lygon Street, Carlton is the place for Italian restaurants (extension of Russell Street to the North). Lots of Lebanese and Turkish in Sydney Road, particularly up the Coburg end. For the sheer variety and range of cultural culinary styles, there would be no place in the world like Brunswick Street Fitzroy, just to the East of Carlton. They change all the time, but last year when I was there I saw African, Afghani, Indian, Thai, Italian, Spanish, Lebanese, Nepali etc. I drove a cab 'round that city for 17 years. Cheers, Alan -- |
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wrote in news:BDB9887E.28386%walkabout@TAKEOUTTHETRASHTOREP LY.ns.sympatico.ca: in article , Richard at wrote on 11/11/04 4:20 PM: s. Pho? Dare I ask?? Now you tell me about the delights of Little Bourke Street. Don't know Pho Diddly? Oversimplified: Vietnamese noodle soup but there's a real art in it. The actual address is 241 Swanston (took a while to dig through the archives) but I was in the right neighbourhood. I knew I was onto something when I saw the melamine tables with thermoses of tea...... Love Vietnamese food, I'll be sure to check it out next time. Melbourne is my second-fave city in Aus; a lot of people give me grief because Adelaide is #1 - it takes some time to get to know but well worth it. Richard, do yourself a favour if you haven't done this already: take the Ghan. The Ghan is scheduled for the third trip (at a stretch, the fourth :-) The second is strictly Northern Australia, going east to west and ending up in Darwin. Checked out those folks you put me onto, and they have some very interesting tours, definitely worth looking into. One from Cairns across to Darwin, then Darwin down to Alice Springs; fly to Broome, then the third tour (safari) across the Gibb River Road etc to Darwin. Now find a way to Thursday Island, and fill in a few other places... Adelaide surprises me as your favourite city. I liked Glenelg, at least the beach (the camels tho' looked a bit tired) but found little of Adelaide to rave about. Maybe three days wasn't enough? Hmmm. Could have been the hostel we stayed in (Shakespeare, the absolute pits, and the only hostel we stayed in for the whole trip) coloured my opinion of the city. At least it was a free stay ... we got an entire room of beds to ourselves (wife and I) and then during the night the alarm went off, for a long time. Long story short, my wife complained about the obvious laws being broken had a fire really occurred - we ended up getting the room free. And even then it wasn't worth the price. |
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The Ghan is scheduled for the third trip (at a stretch, the fourth :-) The second is strictly Northern Australia, going east to west and ending up in Darwin. You do know the Ghan now goes to Darwin, just under a century after it was promised in the first place? Checked out those folks you put me onto, and they have some very interesting tours, definitely worth looking into. One from Cairns across to Darwin, then Darwin down to Alice Springs; fly to Broome, I didn't like Broome at all. Overpriced (lots of pearl money), overhyped, and full of ferals waiting to go down the GRR. However, like your hotel experience in Adelaide, my impressions may have been coloured by a rip-off Toyota dealership and a quarreling backpacker couple who spent the night in a drunken rage while I sweated away the 90% humidity night.... Now find a way to Thursday Island, and fill in a few other places... Adelaide surprises me as your favourite city. I liked Glenelg, at least the beach (the camels tho' looked a bit tired) but found little of Adelaide to rave about. Maybe three days wasn't enough? Hmmm. Not by a long shot. First time around, I would have agreed with you. Adelaide bills itself as the "largest country town in Australia," which to my mind is more appropriate than the "festival" slogan on the license plates. If you're a come-from-away just passing through, you won't pierce the shell and it will come across as the Land of Wowsers. Dig a little deeper and you will find the friendliest people in Australia, where you don't have to work 90 hours a week just to meet the mortgage (although that changed quite a bit in just a year), and there's a genuineness you will see in few other places (and that's saying quite a lot in WYSIWYG-dominant Australia). Of course, the fact that 20 minutes from the centre will put you on the edge of bushland probably makes me a tad biased.... |
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