Adam Liaw
@adamliaw
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Cooks food. Writes books. Makes TV. š 7 Days of Dinner š½ Adam Liaw Everyday by Noritake šŗ #TheCookUpSBS
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Joined April 2009
EXTREMELY proud to announce this. I designed Everyday to be a practical dinnerware range specifically for modern life. Itās manufactured by Noritake, one of Japanās oldest and most respected dinnerware brands. I hope you love it as much as I do.
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My children are currently trying to murder each other because my 8 year old son wonāt stop telling my 5 year old daughter that her real birth name is āBig Jimā.
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The absolute easiest thing most people could do to immediately improve the taste of their cooking is start using MSG. No kidding. It should be as basic to seasoning as salt or sugar, and that most of us don't use it based on old, debunked misinformation is quite ridiculous.
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If you think the biggest band in the world is known to only 0.01% of the general population, the problem is with your characterisation of āgeneral populationā. Thatās the xenophobia.
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Imagine if every day dozens of children were being killed by poison darts and the National Poison Dart Association said, "Actually what we need is MORE poison darts" and half the country was like, "That seems right.".
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Guys, itās important to note we donāt *know* Djokovic got an exemption because heās a famous tennis player. It might have just been because heās rich.
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Home security reminder. A lot of people are going away for Christmas which makes their homes easy pickings for burglars. For security reasons I strongly recommend leaving one of your children behind to construct a series of elaborate booby traps and defend your interests.
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Calmly managing my transition from pandemic anxiety to world war anxiety.
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How do people who get absolutely furious at gender-neutral bathrooms go to the toilet in their own homes?.
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September: Children should stay in school rather than striking over the climate. October: Speeches like these give children unnecessary anxiety over the climate. December: Please come and pick your children up from school because the air is poison. *sings national anthem*.
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If you think itās ridiculous that people refuse to accept the 97% of climate scientists that agree on anthropogenic global warming, try explaining that 100% of food scientists agree that MSG is safe.
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American recipes are always like. 1 oz prime-grade meatsteak .42 fl oz cream-reduced Quamā¢ļø (or mid-sodium).1 monkey paw onion powder.2 monkey paws powdered onion.1 pound ramps.1 br apartment.1 stick butter-free butter.2Ā¼ packs (11 oz) frozen spinach .kosher salt.
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Imagine if both Trump and Pence go onto ventilators, making Pelosi acting president for a few days. and she nominates a Supreme Court justice.
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I know there's been a lot of talk about Australia separating from England and becoming a republic, but just throwing it out there that with all they're going through at the moment why don't we consider invading?.
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Thereās a very teachable moment for children in this Djokovic saga around how the more lies you tell the more difficult it is to keep them straight, but you might have to leave out the part at the end where he gets a huge trophy and millions of dollars.
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If you are one of the people who has panic-bought a 6-month supply of toilet paper I think you should go home and look at your enormous pile of toilet paper and think about what youāve done.
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On a day that Australia's two largest cities went into lockdown, our Prime Minister was also on radio clarifying that he didn't soil himself in a McDonald's. Australian politics is truly a gift.
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My favourite (if controversial) summer barbecue hack is to buy a half loaf of bread and get them to run it through the slicer lengthways instead of sideways. It produces a sausage-sized piece of bread that makes for perfect āsausage in breadā. Youāre welcome.
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One weird thing about Australia is that there is absolutely no consensus on how to dress for the weather. There are guys walking around in shorts, t-shirts and thongs at the same time people are in full snow jackets and to us thatās just completely normal.
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The best move for the government now would be to free all the refugees in indefinite detention.
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That every supermarket is sold out of pasta, tinned tomatoes and olive oil reinforces my belief that the only thing quite a lot of Australia knows how to cook is spaghetti bolognese.
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The interesting thing about the democracy sausage is that we have compulsory voting so there's no need to entice people to vote. Therefore the democracy sausage exists for no political reason. It exists solely because we, as a nation, love putting sausages in bread. #ausvotes.
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Ash Barty living her life entirely on her own terms is genuinely inspiring. š.
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I am in Melbourne for the first time in nearly 2 years and it is my duty to inform you that it is amazing.
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When Iām Prime Minister I want journalists to ask me what 10kg of rice costs.
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I would like the #Wimbledon crowd to understand that a great kid with a heart of gold and big dreams is doing her best and if they continue to cheer when things go bad for her Australia will be a republic by Tuesday.
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I genuinely find it hard to wrap my head around the fact that we've created a financial system where, when ordinary people find it hard to make ends meet, our main mechanism of economic control is to force them give more of their money to private banks making billions of dollars.
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I don't know who needs reminding of this but across the world and throughout the entire history of humankind there has literally never been any correlation between how much money you have and how hard you work.
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I used to believe all the scientists in the world when they said climate change was real, but recently a guy on Twitter with the handle Davo075677643 or whatever with a fish as his profile pic recently told me climate always changes so I guess there really are two sides to this.
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The same people who have spent the last year calling Joe Biden 'sleepy' and 'senile' are now insisting (without evidence) that he organised a massive multi-state electoral conspiracy involving thousands of both Republican and Democrat operatives, in a pandemic, from his basement.
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Let us never forget that One Nation Senator Malcom Roberts was humiliatingly removed from office because he was from. Two Nations.
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my 4 year old daughter wants to dress as a cat for Halloween and I'm trying to explain to her that Ruth Bader Ginsberg would be better for my Instagram metrics but she's acting like the spreadsheet doesn't even matter despite the data being very clear.
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I submit to you that mac'n cheese was nowhere near as iconic in the childhoods of most Australians as TV shows and food writers would have you believe.
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If I'm not mistaken about the timeline, Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump fell in love in 2018, broke up in 2020, and now in 2021 this is his revenge body.
LOOK: North Korea's Kim Jong Un showed off a thinner frame and a trace of a tan a military parade celebrating North Korea's 73rd anniversary Thursday
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Not surprised so many tennis players are anti-science when the sportās scoring system is so fundamentally anti-maths.
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Pubs should charge an extra $2-3 for a side salad with a schnitzel. Reduce food waste. The extra charge allows them to put a bit more effort into making the salad actually good. Frees up plate real estate for more chips without having to put the schnitzel on top. Everyone wins.
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The weird thing about opinion columnists in Australia is that for 99% of them you already know what their opinion will be on any given topic, thereby removing any actual need for them to even write a column in the first place.
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I guess in many ways Meghan and Harry not wanting to be constantly and racially abused by the British public and tabloid press IS worse than Prince Andrew having a billionaire friend traffic underage girls to him for sex. Hmm, yes potentially much worse I think.
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Everyone talking about how they did badly on their ATAR and went on to succeed, so Iād like to counter that I got very good marks at the end of high school and now I demean myself nightly on television cooking potatoes.
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We need more diversity in Australian politics. We keep electing the same kind of people, and keep expecting them to care about and address issues of which they have no understanding or experience. It's madness.
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Honestly, that someone as obviously mediocre as this guy could even rise to becoming the failed leader of a major political party, before eking out a sad and angry twilight attacking grieving mothers and minorities, is a perfect illustration of the point.
Australia has been terribly racist to millionaire cook Adam Liaw . We said if he stirred a few things in a pot he could live in luxury and then lecture us on how terribly racist we have been to him and others . .
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Americaās inability to accept and address systemic racism in its history, society and governance is its greatest weakness. One exploited from both outside and within to devastating effect. We look in horror from Australia but fail to understand itās our greatest weakness, too.
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Here are some covered with gold in case your kids go to a private school.
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Racing to Chatswood Westfield to buy Gladys a North Face jacket.
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TV networks had too long to plan for the Queens death. They made too much content and now they feel like they have to air all of it. All the time. Forever.
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How does a country that eats prosciutto with rockmelon get so weirdly mad about eating ham with pineapple?.
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Last night I ate at a restaurant where I had to create an account online (with password) so that I could order and as a result today I am going to throw my phone into the ocean and return to life in the trees.
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March: THERE IS NO TOILET PAPER OR PASTA ANYWHERE. December: Please limit yourselves to 4 lobsters per person. 2020, hey?.
Coles has joined Woolworths in imposing a purchase limit of four lobsters per person to manage a surge in demand for the half-priced product - following trade disruptions from China.
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Australian Cuisine by Decade:. 80s - Apricot chicken. Vol au vents. Kabana & cheese hedgehogs. 90s - Sundried tomato focaccia. Wedges with sweet chilli sauce and sour cream. 00s - The Dukkah and Olive Oil Years. 10s - Everybody just eats burgers now. 20s - All food is poison.
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I am going to write a recipe for something that you can make 25 portions of in 5 minutes that can keep unrefrigerated for 8 hours and contains no dairy, nuts or eggs. I don't know what it is yet but I will make it work for the good of us all.
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We season food to our five tastes and keep basic seasonings to achieve that efficiently. Most kitchens will use:. Salt - salt.Sweet - sugar.Sour - vinegar.Bitter - pepper.Umami - stock, soybean/seafood sauces, MSG.
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The idea of booing a vaccine at a tennis match has absolutely sent me and I am about to walk fully clothed into the ocean.
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No words. š.
These South Australian nurses are on their way to Victoria. Theyāve volunteered to help our neighbouring state fight the concerning COVID-19 crisis. @9NewsAdel
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Not to detract from #HakeemAlAraibi's moment of freedom here, but just want to note that Craig Foster, the guy deemed too "divisive" for the FFA Chair, united millions across the global football community and harnessed political power to ultimately save a footballer's life.
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Cathy Freeman winning gold in Sydney was, and still is, the greatest ever moment in Australian sport.
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I hope everyone is OK today. I don't think I've ever seen quite such an honest outpouring of lifelong frustration and anger at a system and social complex that works so clearly in favour of some to the active detriment of others.
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We're coming up to about 2 whole years of near-constant pressure on our mental and physical health so I just want to say be kind to yourself because you're doing amazing. š.
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Eighteen months ago we would've done anything for a vaccine like AZ, but now that it's here we're treating it like an option on a wine list.
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Oh, I get it now. 'Artisan' is the word you use when a middle-class person makes something a working-class person used to make. .
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An absolute moron, wearing a "Free Speech" singlet, during an anti-lockdown protest, punching a horse. Put this image on a stamp.
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Of Jacinda Ardern's many inspiring qualities and achievements, hitting the top and then retiring at 42 might be the one I admire the most.
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BREAKING - South African immigration minister offers fast-tracked protection visas to 11 Australians facing imminent danger of persecution in their home country. #CricketAustralia.
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Itās been a very hard Monday so please enjoy this 4-second video of my son saying āOh my goshā.
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Can we stop calling racists "conservative"? There's nothing conservative in racism. Australia has been a multicultural country for hundreds of years (longer, considering Indigenous cultures are not homogenous). Racists don't want to conserve Australia. They want to tear it apart.
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My son (8) announced this morning that he would like to start drinking coffee with breakfast because there is a kid in his class named "Vincenzo" (also, 8) who drinks coffee with breakfast, and the one thing they never tell you about parenting is how consistently hilarious it is.
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I think racism would be easier to understand if people who have never experienced racism didn't keep insisting they know more about racism than people who have experienced it constantly over their entire lives.
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Hi guys! Adam here! I just wanted to let you know that "the value of hard work" is a myth and a sickness and if you truly love your children you should teach them to find emotional fulfilment through literally any other means. OK, thanks! C ya! āļø.
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What if I told you that you could add crisp, golden cheese to a sausage-in-bread just by frying a slice of ordinary tasty cheese directly on a barbecue and putting a slice of bread on top of it?
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I HAVE MADE A CORONAVIRUS VACCINE FROM TWO PARTS BLEACH, FOUR PARTS ALMOND MILK AND ONE PART TREMENDOUS, VERY POWERFUL LIGHT AND NOW I AM JUST WORKING ON A WAY TO BRING IT INSIDE THE BODY, WHICH I CAN DO EITHER THROUGH THE SKIN OR IN SOME OTHER WAY.
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I can guess what the independents must be feeling now because, having won MasterChef, I know what it's like to go through a period of intense sacrifice and hardship to FINALLY emerge victorious into a job where everyone yells at you and you make less money than in your old job.
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āMay you sleep like a man on his parentsā sofa after a lunch of ham.ā . - Ancient Australian blessing.
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Tonightās dinner. Pak choy and braised mushrooms. I arranged it into this nice shape and nobody cared. š¤·š»āāļø
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Tonight I had dinner in a country Chinese restaurant where the tables were set with plates and forks and you had to ask for chopsticks. We had prawn toast, sweet and sour pork and the fried ice cream was $6.20. I have absolutely zero regrets.
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Chadwick Boseman was in his 40s and had been diagnosed with colon cancer when he made Black Panther. That guy wasn't *playing* a superhero. He was one.
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In many ways, I feel that the #earthquake could have been avoided if NSW had locked down three (3) days earlier in June 2021.
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as a lawyer and also a realist i can tell you that everyone is entitled to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty and apparently also for a little while after that too if they're rich and white and have lots of important friends.
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It is so extremely on-brand that Melbourne exposure sites always include AFL games while Sydney ones are some investment banker trying to buy a retail barbecue chain.
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Sign my petition to require registered business names on credit card statements so the entire country doesn't have to google SALLYS MUM NOMINEES PTY LTD or whatever to work out it's a cafe with a different name they bought a sandwich from and not online scammers.
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I mean, what is Australia coming to when you can't even publicly proclaim that gay kids are going to burn in the fires of hell without your employer asking you politely to not continue doing that in very clear contravention of your contractual obligations? #QandA.
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Why would you call the Sydney Opera House a "billboard" when it's clearly a "four sail sign"?.
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And here's the whole gang in a Tupperware that your kid will somehow lose even though they spend the entire day in ONE ROOM. Total weight = 400g (including Tupperware).
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I can't believe I have to say this but. hamburgers and sandwiches are foods designed to fit in your mouth, and should therefore be able to fit in your mouth.
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If people are going to question the US Presidentās health just because of how he walks down a treacherous ramp where does it end? I mean, it's a slippery slope.
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Imagine if Bernie Sanders wins the presidency and turns America into a socialist hellhole like Australia where people don't habitually die because they're too poor to afford basic medications for common illnesses.
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Just to be clear, now that the #MarriageEquality results are in and resounding, my tolerance of any politician dicking around with the legislative process on this is EXACTLY ZERO.
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Thank you to all who are suggesting me as a potential new judge for #MasterChefAU next year. I am very flattered even though I know you are only saying that because I am serious eye candy.
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Boomers were born at the start of a period of post-war economic expansion so large they call it the "Golden Age of Capitalism" while Millennials are in the third global economic crisis of their working lives (Dotcom, GFC, COVID) but please go on about how they never had it tough.
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I now regularly do work Zoom calls with one or two of my children on my lap and often think about the BBC Dad thing and how insane it is that just a year ago in order to appear professional we all had to pretend that we didn't have families or social lives.
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It will also fit in a standard Tupperware, cost less than $10 in ingredients, weigh less than 1 kg for transport, and be able to survive a bus ride in a school backpack without destroying its integrity. I GOT YOU ON THIS PARENTS.
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We've been increasingly social distancing for a few weeks now, but the cruise ship and pictures of Bondi were too much for me. Switched to isolation from today and I've never felt better about a decision in my life.
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Stop spoiling the Wordle. Stop making cryptic hints about the Wordle that you think don't spoil the Wordle but which, in fact, spoil the Wordle.
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My son just woke up and before even saying good morning he asked me to check the weather in Melbourne because he's out-of-his-skin excited for the #T20WorldCupFinal. We talk a lot about how women's sport inspires young girls but don't forget how much it inspires boys, too.
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I genuinely thought sovereign state vaccine procurement in a global pandemic would be more sophisticated than, "Anyone know the bloke who runs Pfizer?".
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I think youād be surprised how much hate mail non-white people in the public sphere receive generally, but the email I got this morning from a very angry man essentially demanding that I just be less successful is exemplary within the genre. š.
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There is a pub, bakery and Chinese restaurant in just about every town in Australia and of those three the one that will most reliably provide you with a good meal is the Chinese restaurant.
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