What things are unique to your city? (how much, hotel)

[Trimac20]

What things: customs, features of the landscape, well-loved businesses or names are endemic to your city?

Here in Perth, we have Miss Mauds, which is well-known Swedish bakery/restaurant/hotel. A lot of the food isn't really Swedish, but I've eaten many a baked good for Miss Maud and eaten at the restaurant many times.

We don't really have any West Aussie cuisine as far as I know, but we seem to like chicken in the west. Both Chicken Treat (not sure if CT is WA only, I don't think I've seen it anywhere else) and Red Rooster were founded in the Armadale area in the early 1970s.

Someone said having 'Sunday sessons' was a WA-only thing, but I'm kinda skeptical about that one, seeing how much we all love to drink!

Anyway, I thought I could think of more, but I guess maybe we're not as unique as we like to think!

[Vichel]

Originally Posted by Trimac20

We don't really have any West Aussie cuisine as far as I know

I've been told Chili Mussels is a W.A. specific dish. I only ever came across them here. They'd be vastly improved with a couple of thick slices of good, crusty artisan bread though. Weird thing about restaurants here, charging you for bread, if they even have any. Especially weird when you're eating something that just cries out for some good bread to sop up the juices. Like Chili Mussels. I don't order them anymore, because they don't come with bread. Sorry, it's just wrong.

As far as other W.A. specific dishes, we're such a young state in a young country, full of people from all over the world. One thing going for this place is the variety of locally grown and produced foods - fruit, veg, fish, meat.

Originally Posted by Trimac20

Someone said having 'Sunday sessons' was a WA-only thing, but I'm kinda skeptical about that one, seeing how much we all love to drink!

Yeah, what's so special about Sundays anyway? People here drink every day of the week. I'd say Fridays are bigger on drinking than Sundays. If you ever work late in the city and walk to the train station, every watering hole you pass by is chock-a-block full of very loud people well on the way to becoming inebriated.

[HairyandScary]

Hmmm.... Whats so different about Perth ?
Well the sun sets over the ocean on the west coast
Perth has very wet winters (800mm in about 4 months)
Perth has a very large U.K immigrant population
Were isolated, once you drive out of perth its 2000kl to the next traffic light?
Were very patriotic in the Perth, we view the east coast as another country
Stunning beaches are really only 15 minutes from the CDB (Sydneys traffic doesn't really permit this)
In Perth where in bed at 6 pm. Well we should be, that's the time everything closes over here

[Vichel]

Originally Posted by HairyandScary

... the sun sets over the ocean on the west coast
...
Stunning beaches are really only 15 minutes from the CDB (Sydneys traffic doesn't really permit this)
In Perth where in bed at 6 pm. Well we should be, that's the time everything closes over here

Something particularly special and right about the sun setting over the ocean though, isn't there? Just makes you want to stop and watch it set, down to that last pinpoint of burning orange light. The way it shimmers and shines. And if there are a few tufts of fluffy clouds about they're all psychedelic in colour ... sigh!

Yes, stunning beaches alright. So many of them, too. Uncrowded, clean, warm water where you don't have to psyche yourself up to go into, it's so pleasantly warm for much of the year. And year-round dog beaches as well as year-round horse beaches.

Yup, everything closes up tight here, quite early. Except, strangely enough, bottle-shops. 9am-9pm 7 days a week. Not so easy or convenient buying other things. Bizarre.

[§AB]

Clouds, Rain, cold, freezing cold beaches, Former Lord Mayor who can't speak english, Current Mayor who hates bogans and rednecks, highest observation deck in southern hemisphere.

[koyaanisqatsi1]

Sydney's Harbour. Beaches. Bronte to Bondi coastal walk. Opera House. Harbour Bridge. The Rocks. Centennial Park. Double decker trains. Fast bus drivers. People bumping into each other. Homeless begging for money on very busy streets. Getting talked to by strangers. Friendly. Drunk people on Friday and Saturday nights. Aptly named Rooty Hill train station. Blue Mountains. Horns being honked all the time. Traffic jams. People pouring out of city train stations work Monday to Friday. Kings Cross. Newtown. Paddington. Darlinghurst. Double Bay. Point Piper. Darling Point. My mate's place right next to Bondi Beach. The heavy (and at times flooding) downpours.

[Trimac20]

Originally Posted by koyaanisqatsi1

Sydney's Harbour. Beaches. Bronte to Bondi coastal walk. Opera House. Harbour Bridge. The Rocks. Centennial Park. Double decker trains. Fast bus drivers. People bumping into each other. Homeless begging for money on very busy streets. Getting talked to by strangers. Friendly. Drunk people on Friday and Saturday nights. Aptly named Rooty Hill train station. Blue Mountains. Horns being honked all the time. Traffic jams. People pouring out of city train stations work Monday to Friday. Kings Cross. Newtown. Paddington. Darlinghurst. Double Bay. Point Piper. Darling Point. My mate's place right next to Bondi Beach. The heavy (and at times flooding) downpours.

A lot of those are, unfortunately, not just unique to Sydney lol.

But I think many Aussies have a love/hate relationship with Sydney, who is like the fawning peacock of the family. It has a ridiculous amount of natural and other assets, enough for several cities at least, yet there's an soullessness about the place, a lack of a centre.

[moonshadow]

Hook turns.

[minibrings]

Adelaide:

You will constantly be told that SA was not a convict state.
Farmers Union Ice Coffee
Balfours Frogs
Pie Floaters (SA Heritage listed
Coopers Beer
Holden Commodores and Utes (made locally and Holden started out in Adelaide)
Film locations for McLeod's is towards Gawler, an exurb/suburb of the city
Early minute (Jacqs got lots of those)
Stobie poles
Wine wine wine not just Jacobs Creek and Penfolds
Adelaide accent
It was never settled by convicts (for emphasis)
did I mention the convict thing?

[Trimac20]

^ I took the train up to Gawler and it's kind of a weird looking place, like a strip of suburbia next to a very dry looking paddock. The place itself reminded me of Midland or Guildford, actually.

I didn't get to try a Balfours frog or a pie floater...What's an early minute and a stobie pole?