Shakib Al Hasan vs Ian Botham / Burgey vs *****

[cnerd123]

TBF, who wants to play cricket on dead flat pitches against home track bullies with a ****** cricket ball in a country full of bugs and insects who want to kill you. Plus the terrible food. All orchestrated by a corrupt and money hungry cricket board.

Australia is an awful place to tour.

 

[Burgey]

Don't forget the terrible disadvantage for touring teams here of actually having safe drinking water from a tap. Must be hard for them.

Compare that to TOTAB who not only made a ton in his first tour to India, but did it while surrounded by an open sewer in Chennai ffs. That's how tough he is.

 

[Athlai]

TBF, who wants to play cricket on dead flat pitches against home track bullies with a ****** cricket ball in a country full of bugs and insects who want to kill you. Plus the terrible food. All orchestrated by a corrupt and money hungry cricket board.

Australia is an awful place to tour.

You can't say Australia has terrible food, they're one of the few countries in the world that understand what a pie should be.

 

[Burgey]

We generally understand it as anything tossed down the wicket by a visiting Indian or SL seam bowler.

 

[jimmy101]

I'm liking where this thread has ventured. Much more interesting than a Shakib/Botham comparison.

 

[Burgey]

Not to mention Australian Masterchef is the envy of every other food show on the planet.

Nigella week atm. Makes old Burgey a very happy man, I can tell you.

 

[cnerd123]

Not to mention Australian Masterchef is the envy of every other food show on the planet.

Nigella week atm. Makes old Burgey a very happy man, I can tell you.

omg you don't actually think this do you Burgey

 

[Burgey]

Oh yeah. It's a core belief.

 

[cnerd123]

Oh yeah. It's a core belief.

Disappointed in you. After all these years I thought you'd know what good flavours are.

You really need to do a proper food tour of Asia someday. While you can still manage it.

 

[Burgey]

I've done all that mate. You might think it's terribly novel as an experience but it isn't.

Aside from the culinary wonders of Indonesia, I of course spent many years in the 1990s in Mumbai, drinking bottled water and hoping against hope I wouldn't be served salmonella in a bowl.

That aside, The Indian Palace, Chon, Blue Ginger, Efendy, The Bald Viet, Le Tran, Mushiro, Thai Yai, Kazbah all provide me with an excellent taste of pan-Asian cuisine. Don't even have to leave Darling Street to get it. Plus the Balmain Hotel does $1.00 dumplings of a Monday night.

Why would you live anywhere else?

 

[cnerd123]

I've done all that mate. You might think it's terribly novel as an experience but it isn't.

Aside from the culinary wonders of Indonesia, I of course spent many years in the 1990s in Mumbai, drinking bottled water and hoping against hope I wouldn't be served salmonella in a bowl.

That aside, The Indian Palace, Chon, Blue Ginger, Efendy, The Bald Viet, Le Tran, Mushiro, Thai Yai, Kazbah all provide me with an excellent taste of pan-Asian cuisine. Don't even have to leave Darling Street to get it. Plus the Balmain Hotel does $1.00 dumplings of a Monday night.

Why would you live anywhere else?

This has to be one of the most depressing posts I've ever read

 

[Burgey]

Look son, I won't be lectured to about diversity of culinary experiences from anyone on here who hasn't worked as a professional chef in more than 30 countries ffs.

You might think grabbing a bowl of street food in some back alley in Honkers, Mumbai or Bangkok makes you the gastronomic equivalent of an extreme sportsman. It doesn't, any more than grabbing a piece of smear ripened cheese instead of Saint Augur in a Parisian deli does. FMD I've had meals here and overseas which range from the bland to the tremendous. Some of them were cheap and excellent, others cheap and awful. Most cost more than your education, and many of those weren't that great either. I mean, "Oooh err, have something cooked on the street in a thriving metropolis. Be edgy." Yeah, no one has ever done that before.

 

[Burgey]

This is so much more interesting than talking about sHACKib Al Hasan btw.

 

[cnerd123]

Look son, I won't be lectured to about diversity of culinary experiences from anyone on here who hasn't worked as a professional chef in more than 30 countries ffs.

You might think grabbing a bowl of street food in some back alley in Honkers, Mumbai or Bangkok makes you the gastronomic equivalent of an extreme sportsman. It doesn't, any more than grabbing a piece of smear ripened cheese instead of Saint Augur in a Parisian deli does. FMD I've had meals here and overseas which range from the bland to the tremendous. Some of them were cheap and excellent, others cheap and awful. Most cost more than your education, and many of those weren't that great either. I mean, "Oooh err, have something cooked on the street in a thriving metropolis. Be edgy." Yeah, no one has ever done that before.

Your understanding of Asian food is so depressing

Don't know why I expected different from a 175 year old Australian lawyer tbh.

 

[Burgey]

Look *****, you seem a nice* kid, but in this you're both misguided and mistaken.











* not really.

 

[cnerd123]

Look *****, you seem a nice* kid, but in this you're both misguided and mistaken.











* not really.

Am I really though?

 

[Burgey]

Yeah I think you're nice enough.

 

[cnerd123]

I'm also correct about your lack of taste buds

 

[Burgey]

Oh you’re talking about that? No, on that you’re sadly mistaken.

 

[cnerd123]

Allan Border sounds like a guy who wouldn't be able to appreciate a good curry. Or some good sashimi. He probably thinks raw fish is the lazy chef's way out.