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This was probably one of the biggest whirlwind days in recent memory! Strap yourselves in, dear audience – this is a long blog entry with plenty of photos.

My sister Sarah and I headed out to the Rocks, just under the Sydney Harbour Bridge for an awesome lunch of food trucks with tacos and Don Julio Tequila. The food was made by (now) celebrity chef, Roy Choi. He’s famous partly for the Kogi food truck, his contributions to essentially feeding the Marvel Studios crew during their Marvel Cinematic Universe adventures, and his adventures with Jon Favreau in “Chef Show” on Netflix. The movie, “Chef” (also directed by Favreau) was also based loosely around his life.

Chicken tacos on the left, Fish tacos on the right

I know right, the tacos don’t look like much to look at – but somehow, they were amazing. The tortillas were fresh, the recipe clicked together so well, and they were hot and tasty. Definitely impressive, especially considering there were other “great mexican food trucks” there who partnered with Roy on the event, and they served their tacos – side by side, Roy’s food was still trumping theirs. 😲

The box trucks food trucks were really cool despite
wet weather!
A giant boombox DJ set – you could see the inclement weather ominously approaching

Despite the wet weather that crept up on us around the start of the event, by the time things were well underway (and PACKED with way too stylish people and hipsters) – the sun came out and everything went smashingly 😂

Kimchi loaded fries, and a smashed cheeseburger – accompanied by some tasty cocktails
(tequila and pandan on the left, tequila and spicy watermelon on the right)

But by far – this was the highlight of my day 😱

Yep. Roy Choi (left), and myself (right)

Being able to meet Roy was amazing, we exchanged only small pleasantries and I thanked him for helping me see more of the world of food; he was soon mobbed by at least 30 other people.

If you haven’t seen his show – this is good watching, people: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81288533


Then what happened?

I topped off the day with Korean BBQ with the Snacks gang.

What should have been a night at Mjolnir – a viking pub in Sydney, ended up turning into a visit to our group’s fave Korean BBQ chain – this time instead of being at the CBD, we went to the one in Strathfield.

That’s a lot of people! – Photo by Steve
Snacks Gang Assemble!
(L->R): Chris, Anneke, Rebekah, James, Steve, Tanja, Gaetano, me

Lesson learnt – we had a huge group so we had to wait a long long time to get seated. Easily an hour. We did eventually get in though, and they spread us cross two long tables

A fantastic night was had by all. Great food, better company – it was an awesome night to enjoy lots of food and drink 😇

Whoosh our hefty bill…!

We then had a brief wander around to chill and cool down from the heat of the BBQ, and digest our food a bit.

The full gang!

Plenty of memes were had. A good night all round, and a fantastic day that I’ll look back on for a long time to come.