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Deep Seafood and Oyster Bar at the Sydney Fish Market

The Sydney Fish Market is a seafood lover’s haven. Sydneysiders and tourists flock this place to have a taste of Australia’s freshest seafood produce.

Located at the entrance of the Fish Market, a neat-looking restaurant called Deep Seafood and Oyster Bar will welcome you. It offers a wide array of cooked (for those who want to dine in) and uncooked (for those wanting to buy a bargain) seafood.

My Husband and I like the ambience of the restaurant because it is clean and there’s no foul odor from fish, etc. even if you’re eating in the midst of uncooked seafood. The place is well-lighted and there are two big wide screen TVs for entertainment. Customers can also dine al fresco as tables and chairs are placed outside the resto.

Now let’s start with the food, shall we?

Australia’s known for Fish ‘n Chips because they simply are the best. It is almost always one of the food we order when we hang out in the City. Deep Seafood and Oyster Bar has one of the cheapest Fish n’ Chips for only AUD$7.50. Just one of these deep-fried Barramundi Fish is enough to satisfy one’s appetite, not to mention the abundance of Chips (a.k.a. fries) on the side. It comes with a delicious small pack of Tartare sauce to serve as dip for the fish.

The main reason why I love dining at the Fish Market is because I love lobsters!!!! And it’s here at Deep Seafood, you can buy cooked lobster for only AUD$19.00. Twice, I have ordered Deep Seafood’s very succulently cheesy Lobster Mornay, oozing with buttery juice. I love it especially that it has a siding of salad and chips. Very filling and satisfying.

Oysters at Deep Seafood are abundant as well. I tried their Oysters Kilpatrick for only AUD$2.50/piece. Seeing the photo below, you can say that it’s bacon overload!!! Yes, those are bacon on top of the oysters. Lovely to look at, but sinfully delicious. Rawr!

My seafood pig-out will never be complete without the Scallops, so I also ordered two pieces of Scallops Mornay (AUD$3.00/piece).

They also offer rice, so yay!!! Together with rice we ordered Salt ‘n Pepper Calamari. I like eating small Calamari (most Calamaris here are big) because they’re easier to chew.

Husband and I also shared a Salmon skewer, very juicy. At first bite, you can taste the freshness of the Salmon.

Deep Seafood also offers several seafood packs that you can share with a partner or the whole family. Prices of the meal packages start at AUD$12.00. If your Tartare sauce is not enough, you can buy additional packs for only AUD$1.00/piece. We usually buy two to three packs and bring it home.

There are a lot more cafes/restaurants at the Sydney Fish Market. One of these days, we’ll visit again and try them too.

Have you been to any Fish Market in any part of the world? If so, what are your favorite seafood dishes?

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Upcoming Event: The Rocks Aroma Festival 2009

For Coffee, Chocolate and Tea Lovers in Sydney, this is the event you’ve been waiting for….

The Rocks Aroma Festival!!

Happening on 19 July 2009 at Sydney’s Heritage Precinct, The Rocks

From 10:00AM – 5:00PM

Stimulate your senses with the aroma of freshly ground coffee and spices and savour fine chocolate and tea at the annual The Rocks Aroma Festival.

The Rocks Aroma Festival features the smallest of roasters next to bigger coffee houses, all offering their roasts and blends to the public. Enjoy comparing the different roasts as you wander through Sydney’s heritage quarter. – source

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Keeping A Piece of MJ

I have a rule about buying magazines so I rarely buy them but these past few days I made an exception for Michael Jackson.

On Sunday, amidst a hang over from a party my Husband and I attended the night before, we made a quick survey of our neighborhood’s news agents to look for Time’s Michael Jackson Special Commemorative Edition. As it turned out, there wasn’t any Time MJ SCE we could find. I panicked so I picked out the two most worthy magazines to buy.

On Tuesday morning, I was able to get a hold of the magazine I wanted.

I haven’t read it yet…I haven’t even read the first two magazines I bought. I’m thinking of saving it and when the right time comes (the right time for me, that is), I will savor reading it.

We all know that MJ’s everywhere right now. TV networks are showing his concerts and MTVs and running past interviews and TV specials about him. Even in newspapers, never a day goes by that they never run a whole page for him. Fans cannot get over his sudden death…the world is indeed missing him now that he is truly gone.

When the world becomes silent somehow of him and his stories, I’d probably be able to read the magazines I bought, to help me remember him again.

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We just finished watching MJ’s Memorial Service on TV (thanks for replays!). It was indeed a very touching way of remembering the King of Pop. I was especially touched during Brooke Shields’ speech as she talked of how their friendship blossomed and the anecdotes she shared.

What about you? When you watched MJ’s Memorial Service, what part of the show touched you deeply?

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Roger Federer Makes History Once Again

6 July 2009 5 Comments Category: Sports

From winning his 14th Grand Slam in the French Open…

Ultimately nothing was going to stop Federer gliding back to where he belongs. Not just again to the top of tennis but, beyond, at the summit of all sport as the world’s pre-eminent athlete. The acclamation for his emotional landmark triumph here at Roland Garros could not have been more universal.
Yes, people are in awe of Tiger Woods’s wizardry and resilience, they laugh open-mouthed at Usain Bolt’s athleticism and marvel at Michael Phelps’s greedy annexation of titles.
But yesterday, it was possible to sense from the reaction of everyone here something extra for an athlete who showcased all those trio’s qualities so effortlessly again; that is, a deep affection bordering on adoration for a man who demonstrates, more conclusively than almost anyone, that nice guys can be winners. Supreme winners. – source

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“He’s never shown us with pressure that he won’t step up,” said 1999 Roland Garros champion Andre Agassi who presented Federer with the winner’s trophy. “He had to deal with this one guy named Nadal who has been his Achilles heel, but every time it was thought he would not step to the plate again or that the achievements and the records would get the better of him, he’s always risen to the occasion.”Federer had been seriously tested this year, losing a heartbreaking final to Nadal at the Australian Open, suffering a back injury and taking losses to Murray at Doha and at Indian Wells, to Stanislas Wawrinka in Monte Carlo and to Djokovic and Miami and Rome. He returned to form in Madrid, scoring his first win over Nadal in five matches and when he arrived in Paris, he felt that he could negotiate the rough waters. He may have been roughed up along the way, but his spirit was not broken.“That’s the true test of a champion and it’s so fitting that he won here,” Agassi said. “He deserved it, earned it, he’s come across in a generation where he was the second greatest clay courter for five years and dominating everyone except one guy. You can call it unlucky or say he stepped up to the plate and he dealt with his challenges and achieved it.”

…The world No 2 became only the sixth man to win all Grand Slam titles and just the second, after Agassi, to win majors on all four surfaces (both Agassi and Federer won Australian Opens on Rebound Ace before the tournament switched to a more traditional hard court two years ago). Whether he is the greatest player ever will be debated well into the next decade, but he is certainly a major part of the conversation now and at the age of 27, might well have a few more majors left in him. After all, Sampras won his 14th crown when he was 31.Perhaps the last word should be left to Federer’s opponent on Sunday. “I’ve never played anyone playing that fast,” said Soderling. “He’s a great player. He doesn’t have any weaknesses at all. He really deserves to be called the best player of all time.” – source

to winning his 15th Grand Slam in the Wimbledon….

This was the day when Andy Roddick’s serve was broken just the once, in the 77th game of a 77-game Wimbledon men’s final. That one break of Roddick’s delivery, after more than four and a quarter hours of play on Centre Court, was all that Roger Federer needed to take the fifth set 16-14, to become the first man to win 15 grand slams, and to regain the world No 1 ranking.
“Roger is a legend, an icon and a stud,” said Pete Sampras, who had flown in from California to sit in the front row of the Royal Box to see his 14 slams being superseded. – source
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This may not have been Federer at his most artistic but it was Federer at his most ferociously determined.


Poor Roddick tried everything he knew – and lots that he had not known until he hired Stefanki – to chase his Swiss rival but Federer was unshakeable. He soaked up every charge and attack from the American and looked calm and collected as he did so. And with the advantage of serving first in the deciding set, he could leave Roddick to feel the tension while he concentrated on breaking the American’s serve for the first time in the match.
The longer that set went on, the better Federer looked. As Roddick started to tire, the Swiss kept up the pressure. He swatted away two break points in the 17th game and suddenly looked as relaxed and as fresh as if this were the first set. Roddick could not catch him and he knew it. As he started to pick away at Roddick’s serve, Roddick knew it, too. – source
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  • Roger Federer is now hailed as the greatest tennis player in the world with 15 Grand Slam titles, surpassing Pete Sampras’ 14 Grand Slam titles.
  • He is now back to being the Number 1 seed.
  • The finals game lasted for more than four hours. The final set scores were 16-14.
  • This was the longest Wimbledon final of all time, plus the longest final played at any of the four majors, and the 30-game fifth set was the longest played in a title-match at the majors
  • I love his outfits!!! This year he wore pants and a jacket. During his entrance to the court, it made him look like “royalty”. When he won in the finals, he was given a jacket that has an embroidered number 15 on the back, meaning 15th Grand Slam.
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Affirmation for the Week: The Universe Will Take Care of Me

5 July 2009 2 Comments Category: Affirmations

No matter what happens,

the Universe will

take care of me.

This affirmation is about believing that the universe has a way of helping us. It is about putting faith in the universe/God that whatever happens, it has all been planned and there are answers already, given that we also do our part. Whatever challenges and/or concerns one is facing, he/she should be comforted by the thought that whatever he/she needs, it will be given in time.

This affirmation is very helpful during times of anxiety; when one is longing for someone to come along or wishing for something to happen or when one is lifting his/her worries to the universe/God/fates.

Child of the Universe (a poem by L.C. Brown)

The universe exploded,
A piece became the earth.
I rode in on a meteror,
Its crash was my birth.
Lava took me for a ride,
To cool in the sea.
I waited for millions of years,
For nature to use me.
I became a child of the universe,
With no place to go.
Then God gave life a meaning,
That’s how I got my soul.

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Wishing everyone a great week ahead!

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