Oh boy could you be fed up with Sydney by the time I've finished? I've been out most of the day but have spent the rest of the time sorting photos. I've decided that
Harry's Pie Truck or Harry's Café de Wheels merits a post of its own simply because it's an iconic Sydney eatery down in Woolloomooloo (don't you just love the name?) on the wharf where the navy vessels berth (and where we met lots of the navy guys and gals getting a pie after their watch). The pie was good but the ambience and the photos of past customers were even better. The location is on the map I posted on Day 1.
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| Harry's with, immediately behind, Woolloomoolloo Wharf and the CBD in the background |
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| A service counter with Mo surveying the menu in an untypically quiet moment |
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| A familiar name to Americans I'm told. I'd never heard of Colonel Sanders. |
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| Those must have been the wild days - a suit on a night out. |
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| My pie! |
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If I'd just seen the pictures I don't think Sydney would have been my first guess! (But then iconic eateries around the world is not really my special subject...)
ReplyDeleteNo Monica iconic eateries are not really my speciality either but when one is shown around a place old-established institutions tend to get shown regardless of what they are.
DeleteKeep them coming. This reminds me of the stall on the Barbican in Plymouth. I wish I could remember what it's called.
ReplyDeleteLike you I enjoy travel. It inspires us to use the camera.
PS. Cap'n Jaspers is the greasy spoon on the Barbican.
DeletePPS. Colonel Sanders does to chicken what Hitler did to the Jews. You are lucky not to have tried a KFC massacred bird full of fat and the fries are wee thin sticks of an excuse for a chip.
DeleteI've never been in a KFC Adrian. I did hear on the radio in the UK last summer that they were not permitted to use the term Kentucky Fried Chicken because it contravened trade descriptions legislation.
DeletePies and Peas, who could ask for more....it sure looks tasty......hope it was as good as it looks.
ReplyDeleteAren't you happy you now know who Colonel Sanders is? Anyone (not only Americans) who enjoys KFC knows who he is.
Virginia it was as tasty and wholesome as it looked. I have never been in a KFC but from what I've been told 'enjoy' is not an adjective I'm likely to ascribe to the experience. I can imagine the experience being a reason that I've been a non-meat-eater for quite a lot of my life.
DeleteThe website makes the little place seem much grander, I have to say. But I think I wouldn't be able to simply pass by.
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Mersad Donko Photography
Mersad in recent years I think the owners have capitalised on the name and it's now a 'brand' with 'establishments' in various cities.
DeleteI wouldn't have picked you for a pie and mushy peas guy! I probably ate from there back in the day, can't remember, can only remember the beach really. At least my interests have broadened since then. I really like the first shot.
ReplyDeleteI like a good pie Pauline.
Deleteso it makes a pie of any mix of ingredients? love that Colonel Sanders imbibed here.
ReplyDeleteNorma they have a wide range of pies and most of them sounded pretty good to me.
DeleteIt's nice to see something completely original. Now it took me a while to get the "pie" thing. You can hit me!!! Canadians don't have the meat pies.
ReplyDeleteGosh Red I'm surprised that Canadians don't have pies. They are very much a Scottish thing and also a Northern English thing. Here in New Zealand and Australia pies are eaten a lot too. Given the number of Scots in Canada I'm surprised they didn't take the idea with them.
DeleteA bit if trivia GB. The apartments behind the Pie Cart are where Russell Crowe has his penthouse , also where poor Charlotte Dawson lived and was found....
ReplyDeleteCraft the apartments certainly look swish and expensive (photos to come soon) but I didn't know those facts.
DeleteThose pies look hugely filling! I bet they are just what one needs if one wants to get a full day of walking around Sydney's sights. After that, no more food stops are needed, just the occasional drink.
ReplyDeleteMeike I love my coffee stops. Not necessarily for the coffee but because I love the café culture and sitting on the pavement in the sun watching the world go by.
DeleteAnd did you enjoy it ? It certainly looks great!
ReplyDeleteHelsie I enjoyed it because it was part of the experience (and I do like pies occasionally!).
DeleteI am a little surprised you didn't know who Colonel Sander was. Surely you must have KFC in New Zealand? Young master Sanders was supposed to have cooked chicken in his mother's kitchen using a variety of herbs and spices. By the way he was never a Colonel. He just adopted the title.
ReplyDeleteYes Bill we have KFC in NZ. In fact I believe we have the smallest one in the world at Dannevirke. We have them in the UK too. I have never been in one. Fast food is not my 'thing'. It does seem, though, that I'm about the only person in the world who didn't know who Col Sanders was.
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