Lunches and locked out!

Last week, all the girls at work went out for lunch at Reuben Hills on Albion Street. It's walking distance from our Surry Hills office, and it's a pretty trendy, young fun cafe. It's the kind of place with wooden crates along the footpath for you to sit on and they have blankets on hand for when it's cold.

It was half meeting / half eating. I ordered the "not Reuben sandwich" - corned beef with coleslaw and pickles on sourdough - and a salted caramel milkshake. The others girls tried a chilli chocolate milkshake but I wasn't game. 

Walking back to the office, we managed to get to our gate before realising everyone had forgotten their key! So followed an hour of sitting on our doorstep while the locksmith went to work. We all figured he'd only take a minute or two and viola! We would be in! But no. He ended up having to pull the door apart and destroy the cylinder where the key goes. At lease we know our office is secure!

Sitting around waiting to get back into the office

Over the last few weeks, I have been lucky to have 'standing' lunch dates with a couple of beautiful girlfriends. I can't tell you how good it feels to have a regular catch up with your favourite people in the middle of your work day! It just takes you out of the grind for an hour. I always feel recharged afterwards

As its been terribly dreary and wet lately, noodle soup has been my lunch of choice:

Beef Pho from Naughty Chef, Surry Hills

Seafood Pho from Taste, Surry Hills

Speaking of soup, the wet weather has been making me crave Bak Kut Teh, a soupy, herby dish made with pork and eggs. No one makes it like my mother. So I sent a text (via group messaging) to my family saying "Hi Mum, yes we can come over for Bak Kut Teh!"

My sisters jumped on the bandwagon straight away - "Yes we can come too, this Saturday night" and so my poor mother has had her arm twisted into cooking dinner for us all this weekend :).