We had BEAUTIFUL weather this Saturday, so we headed out and about to Darling Harbour.
It was the first of the 2-day Sydney Taiwan Festival. There were cultural dance performances, art from local school children, Taiwanese puppets and crafts...
Some of the highlights for us, of course, were the cultural culinary options...nothing too unique, but mostly tasty fare. We had cane juice, tofu and mushroom, sticky rice balls (with the sesame seeds on the outside and adzuki beans on the inside...always my favorite), taro pearl milk tea, Taiwanese pork sausage and takoyaki.
My favorite part was seeing the takoyaki being made. I'd eaten it several times before, but never thought about how it was prepared...it's a pretty cool process to watch the skilled cooks deftly wielding their chopsticks as they seemingly magically whip a puddle of batter and squid into a golden ball of deliciousness. I should have shot a video (we used Pickle's phone again, as I left my camera in my office at the campus furthest from us), but it took quite awhile for the whole process to play out. I found a quick one on YouTube that explains the process...
The sunshine turned to rain today, so I'm glad to have made it out for a beautiful Saturday afternoon, though I don't mind a good lazy, rainy Sunday either ;)