You know one thing i wish we could get here, though, is iced coffee. Not the milkshake stuff, but brewed coffee on ice (yeah it melts the ice a bit but you just use strong coffee and heaps of ice and it stays cold). I have never seen it here. I can't get an iced mocha or an iced americano (long black). well maybe in starbucks but not in most places. what a bummer. i loooove those in the summertime.

What about making your own? :p I do occassionally.

And speaking of coffee drinks, there used to be a cold, carbonated, black coffee drink (in coke-like bottles). It was just like drinking cold fizzy coffee. The last I saw them was probably a decade ago.

I should be working. :(

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I actually found the Lamyong site through a newspaper clipping. The adress for it on that was 12/575 Woodville Road, Guildford.

OA - Gloria Jeans makes good brewed iced coffee over ice. They make good everything :D
And I went to homebake too.

Guys - how freakin' hot is it today!!! The internet is telling me there is a high of 32 degrees in Brisbane - but I am on the Gold Coast which is usually a couple degrees cooler and it is at least 35 still. I am hiding in my air conditioned office (doing a lot as you can see) trying to avoid driving out to meet clients.

I've been indoors all day, thankfully. I did have things to do, but I couldn't remember any of them when I woke up, so oh well.

The tax office called about some obligations I have been failing to meet, and when I apologised for being slack, the woman said "that's okay, it keeps me in a job".

What about making your own? :p I do occassionally.

And speaking of coffee drinks, there used to be a cold, carbonated, black coffee drink (in coke-like bottles). It was just like drinking cold fizzy coffee. The last I saw them was probably a decade ago.

Actually, I did today! I typed my post as i was drinking my homemade iced coffee. :) I made a big plunger full and drank half of it today. I put the rest in the fridge for tomorrow. :lick: (no, i don't mind day-old coffee at all!)

In the states, starbucks sells bottled & canned coffee drinks. The espresso ones are in cans (the size of V or Red Bull cans I think) and the bottled ones are the milky ones. I tried the milky one once (mocha I think) and it was sooooo sweet and milky - it was like drinking a candy bar and left my mouth phlegmy and gross. blehhhhhhhhhhhh!

Des, I tried one of GJ's iced coffees once and it was also sweet and it was almost all milk! Did I get the wrong thing? I just asked for an "iced coffee" (or coffee chiller? or something) and it was like coffee-flavoured milk. it wasn't very good :( maybe i got teh wrong thing. I just want strong black coffee over ice. guess i'll have to make my own. tsk! *pout*

I'm a bit puzzled by the Lamyong pizza. It has non-animal derived cheese (whatever that is?), but contains milk. Doesn't make sense to me.

Speaking of food, you can get lots of yummy vegan sweets and things at numerous asian supermarkets like Thai Kee at Market City in Sydney (First floor). There's these mung bean/tapioca sweet cakes that are very hard to resist. Whenever I see them I can't stop myself from buying one. They're brown and shaped like a slice of cake, but on white foam tray (like those used for meat?) with glad wrap over the top. They have a 'baked' look too. There's plenty of others aswell. Stripey square shaped ones in different colours, coconut balls, containers of 6 round yellow things with a Chinese symbol or lettering on them, fried red bean balls, coconut cakes etc. Lots of other shops sell these in other areas like Bankstown, Hurstville, Marrickville, etc. They're made somewhere around Cabramatta.

Speaking of Bankstown. There's a few shops there in Vietnamese fruit street area who sell fresh daily tofu. That is the best tofu! Find a recipe for Indonesian peanut sauce, and eat it with that.

In the snack food aisle of Thai Kee there's a lot of yummy snacks. Try the Crispy Bits (I think they're called that?). They're like chips, but made from taro, jack fruit, sweet potato, pinapple, and banana. Of course the Jack Fruit chips are the nicest. It's hard to open a pack of those and not finish them! I've even tried some that my fiance's sister bought in Singapore that were made from vegetables like carrot, green beans, green raddish and mushroom. Very nice!There's also Japanese rice snacks which are swirly shaped and have little spots of seaweed on them. They are really nice too! Although there's a few different types. Just one or two I really like. There's also quite a few different types of coconut chips in that aisle too. So much food.

If you go to a couple of the Korean grocery shops in Pitt street Sydney they have these Korean Style cookies. Nobody else I know likes them, but I love them! They may be stored in the fridge. They're individually wrapped in plastic in clear plastic containers, are brown and shaped like flowers. They look really oily, but that's actually corn syrup that gives them that look I believe. Well worth trying! I used to eat so many of those that it got so bad that I had to promise to my fiance that I'd not eat anymore. Then she bought me some for Christmas. I then realised that the amount of fat they contained wasn't that bad after all, since what we thought was oil was actually the corn syrup.

This isn't very exciting, but one of my staple sweets are date and coconut rolls from the health food shop. I don't like any of the commercial vegan cookies - they just don't cut it. And although I ate all that chocolate at Pronto Brontos, I cannot have cocoa coz of the caffiene (I was ill all night but it was worth it!)

Soylati cream caramel icecream is so dreamy!!!! Anyone tried it? And there is a place in Melbourne called Trampoline that sell the most amazing vegan sorbet.

I'm a bit puzzled by the Lamyong pizza. It has non-animal derived cheese (whatever that is?), but contains milk. Doesn't make sense to me.

Most cheese is not vegetarian The Rennen/rennin/rennent in it used to set the cheese is made from stomach (cow, goat or sheep I figure).
Vegetarian cheese, or cheese that has non-animal rennent in the ingredient list means they use enzymes to set the cheese. So while its not vegan (milk products) it is vegetarian.

This link (http://www.vnv.org.au/Products.htm) will show you some vegetarian and vegan cheeses

Thanks for the link Banana1.

Your font is soooo hard for me to read - it makes me feel like my eyes are blurry!

What if I make it bigger? :shifty:

Better - I am astigmatic in one eye and certain fonts look blurry to me - yours is unfortunately one of them :p

Iceflower, thanks for explaining that!

By the way, I just bought these frozen burgers from Woolies by a South African company called Frys. They're vegan and are quite nice actually.

For burgers I like the Blue Lotus Macrobiotic rice burger :drool:

very amusing!

heh.

Sorry I didn't mean to be - I did that in a hurry and I must of pressed the wrong size

:)

NP. I actually did think it was kinda funny.

By the way, I just bought these frozen burgers from Woolies by a South African company called Frys. They're vegan and are quite nice actually.
I've just tried these too and thought they were yummy.

A lot of generic cheese are veggie too. And dominoes pizza cheese:
http://www.dominos.com.au/web_pub_site/content/pizza_menu/allergen.asp

Except even when I was a meat easter, cheesy pizza made me gag lol.

Descentia, you have the coolest eye.

re BDO tix
Thanks, it's all good. I would have probably done the same thing if I couldn't find a couple good friends to offload to.

:)

even worse about the cheese thing [well for me anyway], doesn't rennet come mainly from calves stomach lining? So I assume from veal? Or am I wrong?

You are correct. But not all cheese has rennet, Australia has quite a few vegetarian cheeses. The calves are killed anyway, but thier stomach acids just don't go into your cheese, that's all.