20190418 Bun Cha and Brunelli + Life of Brian

We were eager to meet this Thursday, the day before Good Friday. It was a good feeling for me to have this as the last day of work before the long weekend.

Stephen, myself, Chad and Con all met around 5pm in the Elephant. Richard was close behind.

Tonight was a big night because we were off to see the 40th anniversary of the movie, 'Life of Brian'. To be honest I had forgotten most of the movie and was keen to view it again.

It was Con's turn to choose tonight. Richard was off to the footy but he was available to come to eat with us and was happy to come along to Bun Cha. It's a quirky restaurant tucked away in the alley. It usually doesn't have many people in the cafe when we visit. I really don't know how they survive with so few people eating there at night.

Stephen and I ordered Laksas - chicken and vegetarian. Con had a pork and noodle dish. Chad had green chicken curry and Richard had chicken and cashew nuts. The famous Bun Cha brown sauce came in handy as Richard used a bit on his meal.

So... what did we think this time around? Richard, as usual, wasn't too impressed with his meal and gave it a 6. Con, Stephen and I gave our meals 7 out of 10. I only gave 7 because despite the flavours being there, it didn't have many noodles or vegetables. I was left wanting more. It was mainly the soup. Stephen ate all of his Laksa, slurping up all the soup. Chad gave his meal an 8 out of 10 - very happy with it (sorry Chad I forgot you) :-)

We were graced with Albert's presence tonight. We met him outside the Elephant on our way to the Palace Nova.

The theatre was buzzing and the queue for the movie snaked down the hallway and around the corner. Quite a few people dressed up for the occasion - as Judeans or beard wearing women!

We had a quiz before the show and a give away for the best dressed. It was all a bit of fun and I learnt some trivia about the movie whilst being entertained.

The movie itself is - you've guessed it - a classic. There are wonderful classic lines that never age.... Blessed are the Greeks and Cheesemakers... What have the Romans ever done for us...

Wonderful stuff - thoroughly enjoyed the movie.

We decided to go to Brunelli for our usual coffee afterwards. We slowed our pace to the cafe to keep up with Albert who had his walking stick.

Stephen bought a chocolate mousse cake and was reluctant to share it with me, but in the end did. The coffees took ages to make - there was one waitress doing everything behind the counter and we had to wait a good 15 minutes for the coffees as they came out in stages.

Albert talked about losing it at work the day before. We talked about the dangers of motorcycles and we even touched on politics! Yes, politics - how surprising for both Stephen and Albert to engage in conversation about the political system :-)

It was a pleasantly warm evening and we enjoyed just sitting around and gas-bagging about the world. I asked Con for more Asian movies as I thoroughly enjoyed the ones he gave us a couple of weeks ago. For anyone out there, see Tampopo - a Japanese film about food. All I can say is watch out for the egg yolk scene :-)