Perth Restaurants and Bars - Eat Drink
From morning to midnight and back again, EAT/DRINK is SixThousand's guide to cafes, bars and restaurants in Perth. We know the best coffee because we drink 20 a day (each), we know the good restaurants because we can't cook, and we'll tell you where to find hidden bars and other places that still let you smoke so that we can ask you for a cigarette when you get there. EAT/DRINK is as voracious as our appetites and a much better filter than our livers, which stopped working a long time ago. Email your EAT/DRINK suggestions to: talk@sixthousand.com.au
DIY Jam
When I came onto a bucket-load of figs from a friend's garden recently, I promptly ate half of them, let quite a few go rotten, then decided to save the rest by making fig jam. It was really quite enjoyable.
I cut the fruit up into acceptable chunks and threw them in a pot with the same volume of sugar as fruit.
Good Fortune Roast Duck House
Is it just me or are there less ducks in Hyde Park this year? I asked the Noongar Patrol and they said ‘Mos def.' Contrary to Fly Away Home, our fine feathered (well for now) friends haven't flown South for the winter. Pfft! No, they're hanging in the window of the Good Fortune Roast Duck House.
Tan Po Po Japanese Tea House
We like places that are a wee bit hard to find, and amaaazing value. Once in a while an eatery ticks all these boxes so damn hard the pen goes right through the paper. Then the lady at the new science library yells at you for ruining their nice desks with your overly eager box ticking. Tanpopo Tea House is one such eatery.
Celebrity-Non-Chef #2, Peggy Wang
Peggy Wang plays keyboards and sings in Brooklyn pop quartet The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - a band which Lauren from FREEWilliamsburg describes as having "a fuzzy, pop sensibility that recalls My Bloody Valentine but puts me in a much nicer mood." Peggy is also the editor of BuzzFeed‚ which, if you know anything at all, is where we get all our COOL links, except the ones Max finds.
Tak Chee House
Do you remember Tak Chee opposite Kakulas? Word has it that Mr. Tak Chee's plan was to sell the place and go back to Malaysia, let the new owners run it into the ground, come back, buy it for cheap and do it all over again. What an inane plan, huh? Oh, but it actually worked. After a decade of silly business games, the original Tak Chee is back to stay (albeit up the other end of William Street) and has a flashing neon sign to tell everyone about it.
Celebrity-Non-Chef #1, Beci Orpin
Beci Orpin is a national treasure. Her folk-art inspired artwork adorns clothing, stationery and accessories aplenty through her Beci Orpin and Tiny Mammoth labels, as well as gallery walls. She is the proud mum of Tyke and Ari, loves good food, is a mean op-shopper - and now she's SixThousand's first ever Celebrity-Non-Chef.
The Food Store
Seeking out West End Cake Shop one day on SixThousand's advice, I spied The Food Store across the street and ventured inside for a simple coffee. Taken aback by a display case filled with appetising savoury treats, all prepared within the open kitchen behind the counter, I decided upon lunch (even though it was 10.
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