It’s Melbourne Cup day. This is the day the whole city is on holiday for a HORSE RACING competition. Unfortunately, the university has no holiday, which is fine with me as I have tonnes of dateline looming.
Julien, the exchange student from France (which we had a farewell) had graduated and got himself a job as an engineer in Australia. FYI, this is not a celebration for his job (he has been working for almost a month) but instead because it’s a public holiday, we had a chance to meet up over dinner. Nothing to do with celebration 
So, since we never tasted Moroccan food before, we decided to head towards that direction. La Paella was chosen by Nadia (reason unknown – probably nearby? nice picture on the internet?). For me, La Paella was perfect for the reason it’s only 7 minutes walk from my house.
A to B only about 7 mins.
We ordered a banquet as it has lots of variety that we can taste most of the Spanish Moroccan Cuisine.
Entree – Breads with Dips
Mix Platter of Chicken Kebab, Pan fried Cheese, Spanish Omelet and Grilled Mushroom
Beef Raif – Deep fried bread with minced beef and yoghurt
Lamb Shank Tagine (this is very Moroccan)
Main – Seafood Paella (this is Spanish though)
The food was not bad. The lamb tagine was very tender. Paella….ok. I thought the rice is a bit soggy compared to the one I tried before. I would give the food an average rating.
It was nice catching up with Julien. Our next meet up probably will be over Lebanese cuisine.
From left: Julien, Me, Flora, Nadia & Yuping
