I‘m starting to judge cafes by their espresso machines. The more serious the machine, the better the coffee. So when you walk into a cafe and you see a six group Synesso longer than a coffin worth some $40,000 and you know something special is going on. It sorta trumps even St Ali’s $30,000 Slayer [...]
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The latest addition to the Crown Casino food theme park is Sho, a Chinese restaurant on the casino floor. It’s $8 million fitout includes giant abacus screens. Plus there is plenty of Disney-style Chinese entertainement.
There is the authentic tea ceremony (which I missed videoing) followed by Kung Fu tea in which a giant [...]
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Sometimes you just need something to calm you down… when you’ve become hot under the collar over teabags. When two interviewees postponed today. As a matter a fact, I’m hot under the collar now.
So it was that I though I had to buy chai, that calming hippy dippy Indian spiced tea.
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