Peter & Sue flew down on Friday night to spend the holiday weekend in Sydney. I think we managed to pack in a lot of activities and show them some bits of Sydney that they’d never been to before.
We started off on Saturday morning with a trip to Lakemba, which is a predominately Lebanese neighbourhood in Sydney’s southwest. Our first stop in Lakemba was Abu Adam’s for some lovely sticky, flaky pastries with pistachio and rosewater. We may have come home with a 1/2 kilo of assorted sweets, but at $17-22 per kilo it’s hard to say no.
Abu Adam was kind enough to give us a lunch recommendation (not to mention offer to fly someone to Mackay to deliver Sue some pastries), so we then headed over to Jasmin for some yummy food. We had hummus, baba ganoush, foule, kofta, falafel, tabbouleh, sujuk sausages, kebbe, etc. . . Everything was absolutely delicious!
After stuffing ourselves silly at lunch, we had a wander around the shops buying coffee, tea, spices and meats before heading back home for a bit of rest.
Saturday night’s main event was Wallabies vs Barbarians at Sydney Football Stadium. The Baa Baas didn’t play as well as we’d hoped, but we still had a great time with 40,000 of our closest friends.
After the match, we headed to Chinatown for a late dinner at Mamak. Mmm. . .roti canai. We had lots of yummy Malaysian food, then dragged ourselves home to bed. A very nice, busy day. 
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