13D Australia Summer Trip: Dovetail, Sydney
The problem that we found during our trip to Sydney is...we don't know what to do when the clock reached 7PM because most of the stores start closing up at this timing (okay, some even close earlier at 5 or 6 PM). This is the time when we usually end up wandering around before the sun really sets for the day. We saw what seems to be the Broadway of Sydney in our wandering near Haymarket.
A few blocks away, we managed to find a big shopping mall named World Square. The Square is just a short distance by walking from Town Hall station, Chinatown district and other major attractions. The three levels of the shopping mall offers a unique selection of fashion (like Glue Store), homewares, lifestyle shopping and restaurants sich as Din Tai Fung, Guzman y Gomez and Grill'd. The supermarket in World Square, Coles, is also one of the spot that we often visit at night in Sydney (simply because we have nowhere else to go). But if you are into grocery (or chocolate shopping), you may want to check different kind of supermarkets that the city has to offer because different supermarket may have different products.
Since the theme of our travel to Australia is to celebrate my birthday and his birthday 10 days later, Lee insisted that we should really get a cake because that day was the eve of my birthday. I was telling him that I don't really have to eat cake on my birthday night since I am no longer a child. In addition, there may not be any cake shop which still open around 9PM in World Square. But I was wrong and he was able to find Dovetail which happens to have a selection of doughssant (which seems to be a fusion between doughnut and croissant) and cake. For the doughssant, Dovetail offers a variety of interesting flavour such as Strawberry and Pistachio, Hazelnut, Salted Caramel and Blueberry (all priced at AUD 6.95).
Meanwhile, for the flavour and type of the cake selection, Dovetail offers a variety of selection from Tiramisu, Mango Blondie, Carrot Cake, Blackforest and Vanilla (all priced at AUD 6.50). The price for a slice of cake at Dovetail seems to be pretty reasonable considering the fact that a slice of cake can cost to SGD 10 in Singapore. Gone are the days where I can eat cake on daily basis.
Eventually, we decided on a slice of chocolate cheesecake (AUD 7.60). But because I was still so full after our Thai food feast at Chat Thai, we only celebrated my birthday by eating the cake for breakfast the next day. Hahaha happy birthday me! The chocolate cheesecake from Dovetail is moist and not so sweet but at the same time, I did not get any fantastic feeling from it so yeah. I make it sound that eating food is an orgasm feat. I suppose that's how you get the term "foodgasm".
Dovetail is located at:
9/644 George Street
Sydney, Australia
Opening hours:
Monday to Saturday 7AM - 9.30PM
Sunday 7.30AM - 9.30PM