Food Budget

When we were in San Francisco, Fay was a bit frustrated and befuddled by my restaurant habits. I tended to rotate between a fairly small number, spread across town. "You need to try new things!" She didn't understand that those restaurants were the result of at least two years of search - there was a price point, and there was a quality factor. The research involved food poisoning more than once with the goal to find the cheapest food that was still ok quality. If you eat out very often, the cost adds up quickly. Now, here in Sydney, two years in, I've really only settled on two places - sadly both chains. Sometimes I walk for hours past dozens of restaurants and nothing looks like it's in the range. It's largely a price thing - but if there's one thing worse than bad food, it's paying too much for bad food.

Last night's California roll? No wonder it was so cheap. There was no avocado in it.