You can see other versions of this cup here.Ī gift from the Tea Centre store in Sydney – Jardin Peony by Ashdene. This cup has a very plain saucer so I used the pattern on the plate and made an improvement to the design. The first fine china teacup that I was gifted from my friend V – Hong Kong Blue by Coalport. Moonlight Roses by Royal Albert which belonged to my Auntie Lexie. Keep reading for some of my ideas and a question for you! I’m wanting to have a few more themed weeks while this current Sydney lockdown lasts.
There are more gifts than what I was able to get through last week, but it was a fun theme as it made me think of people and events. Especially at 2am.Last week I used the theme of Gifts to help me decide which teacups to use and sketch.īy gifts, I mean cups that have been given to me, including teacups I inherited from relatives who have passed away. It's a family affair, and to their credit the prices are incredibly reasonable for the Starry location. There's no concessions to tricky modern cuisine, on the menu at least. On this occasion, the recommended dish is the braised mud crab with diced pork and vermicelli hot pot (price varied on weight, average $70) – messy but satisfying.įorget desserts, that's not on The Century's agenda. Seafood is the zinger here, especially the pippis, abalone and crab. Starters run the palate amok with san choy bow (two serves for $10) and sauced eggplant cubes ($7), before very traditional serves of Peking duck ($40 for four half serves, $73 for eight), which come as a shock due to the lack of fusion confusion imported by Sydney's newer upstarts. The menu, to be honest, has been imported wholesale from the Golden Century, so there's familiarity in unfamiliar surroundings, and there's nothing wrong with that. The owners are sensitive to what to expect from a Chinese restaurant – communal round, white table-clothed seating, private rooms with head-swimming carpets, noisy, chatty ambience – but there's also smaller, private "sun rooms" looking on to Pyrmont that offer more intimacy. A great wall of 89,000 chopsticks and upended tea cups as lighting are quirky and clever without screaming obviousness, and the bank of fish tanks greets diners on arrival.
It's not a gamble due to a built-in clientele and a reputation of authentic cooking, with some Hong Kong oomph in the interior design, courtesy of young guns Paring Onions. This stalwart of Chinese dining has been rattling the pots and pans for decades so the Star, in not much of a gamble, invited the owners to become part of the casino's food mafia.
you have no doubt ended up in front of a glass wall of crabs and prawns at the Golden Century. It's 2am, it's Chinatown, you're bleary-eyed and hungry at the weekend.
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