A week or two ago, Justine and I went out to a local restaurant — Shine Cafe — where I had a jambalaya and Justine had fish and chips. The meals were well-priced, huge and tasted pretty good. A couple of days later I got a mild case of what seemed like food poisoning, but I couldn’t put it down to Shine (though I did have seafood from there, which is notoriously bad for food poisoning); it certainly wouldn’t stop me from going back.

On Saturday, we went to a small cafe — Coco Lounge — in the same local strip to have some lunch. The amount of food we received was so large that we could barely finish it; we should have ordered one thing between us!

And finally, on Monday night, we went to a fantastic Korean restaurant in Carnegie: Kimchi Grandma (they don’t have a website, but judging from their reputation they don’t need one). We arrived at 6:30pm, and the place was packed to the rafters, luckily we’d booked. After we’d ordered — BBQ pork for me and Teriyaki chicken (really traditional there) for Justine — the staff placed seven small bowls of various side dishes in front of us, Kimchi, cucumber, potatoes in a lemony sauce, eggplant, crab salad, and other stuff I forget. All delicious, and all fantastic. When the food finally arrived (it took a while) it too was delicious and disappeared far too quickly, even though I was more than full.

We’ll definitely be going back to Kimchi Grandma (they have restaurants in Box Hill and apparently the CBD too) very soon, except next time we’ll be getting one of their big arse casseroles to share between us; the casseroles sit on the table and cook while you graze on them. Brilliant.