Credit where it’s due
Posted by clubwah on April 29, 2008
We’re always moaning on blogs, which face it, are a means to allow us to vent out frustration with the added bonus that a few people might read what ever it is you’re on about. So, for one night only I’m going to mention a few good things, starting with:
The Tullumarine/Calder Freeway Interchange
This is a piece of freeway design genius that has to be experienced to be believed. Once one of the worst freeway bottle necks in Melbourne it is now a free-flowing and impressive looking piece of road that connects two freeways and includes seem-less of and on ramps. Well done VicRoads!
Nathan Buckley, media commentator
I hate Collingwood and took perverse pleasure whenever Bucks did a hammy in his later years. I always figured him to be a hard, humourless bastard but through his football commentary duties with 3AW and Channel 7 Bucks has shown he’s quick witted, intelligent and of course highly informative and reasonably opinionated about our great game. Well done Bucks!
The potato cakes on Platforms 4 & 5, Flinders Street Station
These freshly made potato cakes are fish and chip shop quality despite being made in the pissy little kiosk. These are so yummy they kind of make you want your train to be delayed so you can get in line to get a few. Their popularity ensures you always get a fresh batch and the kiosk proprietors always ensure there are plenty on hand to satisfy the demand. Hopefully it’s like this on all the platforms. Well done couped up seller of battered tater!
The food trolley lady at work
It’s getting on lunchtime, you’re too busy to go down to the food court and you’re still hours away from getting the train to grab a quick potato cake. All of a sudden you hear “MORNING, MORNING TROLLEY” to find a feast of tempting fare including sandwiches, risottos, chicken schnitzel and “cheesy balls” for around the $5 mark. Well done mobile vendor of lunchtime joy!
Srabulous on Facebook
In which I just whipped the arse of Grods Goddess Bron. Well done Wah!
Please feel free to recommend anything that genuinely deserves credit.
Bron said
Yeah, and you’re not my friend anymore on Facebook.
Well, you wouldn’t be if I wasn’t willing to go another round.
Bron said
And I’ll stay your friend if you continue to call me Goddess (don’t worry about the “Grods” bit).
clubwah said
Oh OK then. And you can call me Mr Scrabulous until such time that you beat me.
Bron said
Sure, sure. In fact, I’ll call you Mr Scab for short.
clubwah said
Now worries Oddess
Bron said
Wah wah wah. I’m really crying. Wah wah wah.
raydixon said
Geezus, I feel like I’ve dropped in on a private conversation between two primary school kids. I better get out of here before I’m branded as an internet predator.
Anyway, I was going to say that as a journalist, Wah, you should know that “good news” doesn’t sell – go back to the moaning please. BTW I bet your Flinders St Station potato cakes are not a patch on the ones from our new fish & chip shop in Bright , “Rok Salt” (formerly of Cowes & Byron Bay). I’ve got no idea why these people suddenly decided to move 300 ks from the nearest coast but I’m glad they did.
Dave from Albury said
Fresh potato cakes are both a blessing and a curse. There was a take-away place located next to my last place of employment that made mind blowingly good potato cakes and while my taste buds thanked me daily, my cardiovascular system and waistline did not. It strikes me that had I remained working there I would have got so fat I would have had to start up a green coloured ill-informed blog instead of the stylish and witty one I have today.
clubwah said
Nick’s cafe on Victoria Parade, Fitzroy, between St Vincent’s Hospital and Smith Street does brilliant potato cakes.
Bron said
But, Ray, we ARE primary school kids.
raydixon said
Perhaps a guide to Melbourne’s best potato cakes would be a good seller Wah, a bit like The Age Good Food Guide.
raydixon said
Are you Bron? Can I have a date please?
clubwah said
Great idea Ray. There is an obession with the best dim sims but, like chicken parma is a true measure of a pub’s fare, the scallop entree a guide to a restaurant’s quality, potato cakes are the true litmus test of fish ‘n’ ship shops – if the tater cakes suc, don;t even attempt to try the fish.
John Surname said
I’m at Flinders Street every day (in case my blogging enemies wanna cap my ass, wessside rules, biatch!) and I’ll have to give them potato cakes a try. Normally I stay away from kiosk fried food.
The trolley sounds awesome. We have a cafe where I am, but it’s terrible. The coffees are small and overpriced.
clubwah said
John I can only vouch for the potato cakes on platforms 4 & 5. I would like to think the quality would be replicated on the other platforms.
raydixon said
Well just make sure you include a ‘country run’ in the book Wah. You gotta mention Rok Salt of Bright, it’s one class fish & chippery and the potato cakes are “the best”, a good 2cm+ thick with light, crispy batter. It’s still got me flummoxed why they left Byron Bay though?
John Surname said
Bright is such a fabulous place, who wouldn’t want to move a shop half way across Australia to be there?
clubwah said
They probably tried doing lentil cakes in Byron Bay and failed miserably.
raydixon said
Bright is such a fabulous place
It is John, that’s why we moved here 12 years ago. Like all small towns though it has its drawbacks (they’re called ‘the locals’).
Lentil cakes! Last year I caught up with a mate I hadn’t seen for more than 20 years. I thought he’d moved to Nimbin but I found him living out in the bush near Batemans Bay on the southern NSW coast. He grows berries (among other ‘crops’) and has turned vegie. He introduced me to lentil burgers. Cripes, give me meat any day.
Bron said
Hmmm. Steak. Steeeeaaaak.
Jack Dorf said
My local potato cake maker always throws in an extra one.
Bad for the arteries but great for return business.
The Editor said
Murdering fucken carnivores. For shame.
clubwah said
I also like when they throw in a handful of chips for good measure.
Bron said
“Murdering fucken carnivores.”
Wrong. Omnivore.
clubwah said
Yes omnivore – we eat eat animals that eat vegetables.
raydixon said
Better get working on that book Wah, potato cakes are “hot” property by the look of it. You’d be on a winner with that.
Anonymous said
I 2nd the tater cakes at rok salt in bright. but am even more impressed with their grilled fish.