Mean Ass Vietnamese Food

Mean ass Vietnamese food is how Margot described what we could get in the Marickville suburb of Sydney. Since we've been in search of amazing pho, we ended up walking 6 km in the midday heat (so Simba could nap and so we could work up our appetites) to PhD Pho. Totally the food highlight of our trip to Sydney. We also tried Marickville Pork Roll afterwards, and got especially excited after seeing the quick moving line, but Bahn Mi Saigon in New York is still number one in our minds. That pho though. YUM.

We spent the rest of our last day in Sydney slowly wandering through Marickville and Newtown back to Redfern. So many great neighborhoods in Sydney. But I should probably note the obvious gentrification in so many of these places. Interestingly though it seems like Sydney has some law that requires the "Development Proposal" notice to be posted on the front fence/door of the building under consideration. Seems like better notice at least than in New York. Okay, I'll stop being a lawyer now.

MORE PHO!!!!

One of the nicest things about Australia has been the tasty afternoon coffee break. We used Double Roasters in Marickville as a break from the heat, a feeding spot for Simba, and a changing and washing room for all the poo that came out of Simba's diaper. Multi-purpose stop. 

Educating Simba during story time at Better Read than Dead on King Street in Newtown

As we wandered back to Redfern on Wilson Street, we happened to come across more Sydney Festival art events inside CarriageWorks. Amazing space.

Eveleigh Market is right outside CarriageWorks and open with artists' booths over the weekend so we got to see the empty space on Friday.

We stayed on the first floor of this Redfern building.