Good Food and Wine Show Sydney 2009

Last week I attended the Good Food and Wine Show in the Convention Centre at Darling Harbour. It is the one event where thousands of chefs and awesome food exhibits get together and create hype about...well...food! and wine, of course!

Eventhough throughout the day, after laying my hands on every free sample that I could stuff myself with, I still couldnt resist when I saw...

The Lindeman's Early Harvest Restaurant!

What?? A restaurant in the middle of a market of food?
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NOT only any restaurant, but one of a kind, because never in any other place will you find Matt Moran, Gordon Ramsay, Alastair McLeod and Tobie Puttock cooking in four stalls, side by side

We had to purchase food 'coupons' first before entering the restaurant area to order our food, so that it was easier and faster to get our food. Each celebrity chef had set three course meal (entree, main and desert) and you get to choose either just one course, two or all three! We were contemplating going the full ride but....to be honest, I started this meal on a full stomach!! So, a three course meal was definitely impossible!! so...we settled on two courses...!!!!

I chose Gordon Ramsay's entree and main course: Blue-eyed cod broth (I think?) and Ocean trout on a bed of radish and baby spinach.

I chose Gordon Ramsay because there has been so much hype about him and since I couldnt get a ticket to his show, I thought this would be the next best thing. Personally, I dont really like him, only because he is a little bit vulgar (from what I see on TV, of course). Both entree and main was really good because it wasnt overwhelming with flavour. It was nice and light. The ocean trout was GOOD! =)

We also chose the entree and main from Alastair McLeod's food stall: a selection of Antipasto plate and a sort of beef salad thingy...

Both were good, but they felt more like eating snacks, and I wouldnt really pay for this in a real restaurant =(

Both meals were $16 for entree and $24 for main, including a glass of accompanying wine for each course. Reasonable, considering the meals were made by reputable chefs.

Missing out on the Gordon Ramsay show, we settled for the Masters of MasterChef Australia, Gary and George. Which is hardly 'settling for' considering I'm super obsessed with MasterChef right now (Go CHRIS!!!)...the only reality TV show that I'm absolutely hooked on!

Surprise appearances: Matt Preston - the food critic who cant cook, and Justine - contestant of MasterChef. The prettiest of all the contestants, but I found her abit boring which was disappointing. Matt, on the other hand, was very entertaining and humorous; very different from his harsh persona on the show!

Couldnt see them quite so well, so I took pictures of the screen instead! XD

Both Gary and George cooked their separate dishes in the 30min show, with Matt tasting (of course!) and when Garry made his deep-fried jam filled doughnuts, I screamed and screamed, along with the many audience sitting on the left side of the stage...and he came to our side AND I ATE HIS DEEP FRIED JAM DOUGHNUTS AND THEY WERE AWESOME!!! omg so fresh and hot it melted in my mouth!!!

After watching all of them on TV for the past 9 weeks, it was so surreal to see them in real life!!!

NOT only that, after the show, we caught sight of Matt on some far off site....and I ran up to ask for a photo!!!

*Matt Preston*

He even shook my hand and I told him "I love you on Masterchef!!!"!!!!

Well, there wasnt much time to say much else, there literally was a line leading up to him, to talk, take a photo, book signing etc.

Yes, I really did say that!

SO cliched! haha I dont even "love him" on Masterchef lol I dont know what came over me! Just psyched that I saw him I suppose XD and you know, he really is HUGE in real life! Like MASSIVE! and he poses like that on purpose!! wtf! Looks as if I'm standing in front of a poster of him and taking a photo (what a loser!) because of the flash...but, no, really, I SAW HIM!!

Anyway, was walking around abit more...and spotted...

CUTE!! haha this little dwarf thing is some mascot for Smith's Chips..? Dont ask me why! But its literally half my size!

Yeap, and I still had room for Movenpick Ice Cream!

Such an eventful day! I cant wait for next year!! Roughly $30 pp, extra for celebrity chef shows!

more info: www.goodfoodshow.com.au/