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Skriven 2008-01-19 16:56:57 av Carol Shenkenberger (6911.cooks)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson (6902.cooks)
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 >  > and vanish frequently, but the best - Hanuman's - remains.
 >  CS> Like here, the Mia Casita mexican place has been here for 2 decades.
 >  CS> They dont have a huge menu, but all they do is well done.
 > 
 > You need at least one restaurant you can rely on, so you can take
 > friends there and know they won't be disappointed.  Mexican food is
 > good in that it has something for everyone's tastes.

Yes.  This one is not too americanized, perhaps because Mexican has been
around so very long, it 'is American' if that makes sense.  It isnt tex-mex.
More the west costal mexico type.

The menu is if I recall, about 2 pages of food and 2 of drinks (with desserts
in with the drink pages).  They have combo meals, lunch specials, and fancy
stuff.  The refritos you were looking for?  Probably you would find these
quite good if not the best you have ever found.

Thats true of most of their menu.  Little is 'the best you have ever found'
but all of it will rank up there highly close except we didnt like the
'spanish rice'.  I suspect that is because we are used to more highly spiced
rices and theirs was more authentic to the cookery so a bit blandly 'there'
as a filler.

They mostly specialize on the beans and beef recipes with sauces.

(OZ place in Darwin)
 >  >  CS> Average problem with meal requiring send back:  Male =0, female =37 
 >  >  CS> 50.  Definate problem there right?
 >  >
 >  > That indicates something consistently quite weird in the mental
 >  > attitudes of the owners or management.
 > 
 >  CS> That was our thought.  Either way, they were not listed on subsequent
 >  CS> trips and the word was out quietly that they werent good for us to stay
 >  CS> at.  The crown Casino is *much better* and doesnt cost much different.
 > 
 > I have been to the Crown for breakfast a couple of times when my
 > daughter was working there.  Quite a good spread.



I've never stayed there but been there to meet with friends.  I had good
reviews all around and that last time was set to stay there but some friends
I also wanted be be with wanted the backpacker prices so we stayed there
again and had a good time.

 >  CS> Humm, there are several big banyons.  This one has a simple stand type
 >  CS> restraunt and some little possum family critters living in it.  It's
 > 
 > Ah, now I think I know the place, at the back of some shops in Mitchell
 > Street. Just by the bus terminal.  There are some friendly small

Yes, that would be it.

 > eateries around there, and several back-packer hostels in Mitchell
 > Street. Some of the street trees have resident possums, which delight
 > the tourists.

That they do!  There always seemed to be at least one mommy possum with baby
at any time I was there.  Sometimes, more than one.  Dunno if it's good for
them, but they like french fries.  Reminded me of a McDonalds someplace on
the north east USA where we used to feed the squirrels the same.

 > On New Year's Eve and some other occasions Mitchell Street is closed,
 > and for several blocks is turned into an entertainment area, with
 > bands, dancing, food, drink, and sometimes acrobats performing on
 > apparatus suspended by mobile cranes.  On those occasions I have seen
 > the possums looking down from the trees, wondering what all the noise
 > is about.

Hehe I can see'em peeking out just that way.  By Xmas season though, we were
always in port except that one time we were in the gulf (2004-2005).
              xxcarol
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