At around 9:30am this morning, a company-wide announcement was made regarding my departure from CiSRA. (Oh, you were thinking of something else being official? Sorry to disappoint…)
I mentioned in my previous post that one of my aims in 2008 is to “tie up loose ends, and finalise things”, so I’m now at a stage where I’m wrapping up my work here at CiSRA. It’s been a fun 3.5 years here — great working environment, great people, and I get to play with cool stuff 
However, I feel that it’s time for me to take on new challenges. As such, I’ve taken up an offer to work at another software company in the CBD.
In the spirit of tying up loose ends, I’ve also finally put up some photos that I took in 2007. You’ll find nine new albums all in the gallery.
Waqu is a stylish, modern and dimly lit Japanese restaurant located in Crows Nest and features the $45 6 course tasting menu. Delight your palate with sashimi, steak, fish, chicken, beef tataki, soft shell crab, sushi and some sweet sake creme brulee - interesting…
The food was healthy, thoughtfully presented and left you comfortably full (about stage 1.5 on levels of fullness). Each course was served only when you had finished the preceding one which meant that conversation and food were comfortably intertwined with each other.
A highlight was the lemon mustard sauce that accompanied the sashimi. This was a fresh, tangy alternative to the usual soy sauce with wasabi. I wonder if I could make it at home…?
Service was professional - the very Japanesy waitresses explained what the dishes were and let us know how to eat the soft shell crab taco. Even though one of them only gently bumped (or brushed against) Ka-shu’s shoulder, it was followed by a very apologetic “I’m so sorry!” They also asked how we were finding the food a couple of times.
In summary:
Food: 8/10
Service: 8/10
Atmosphere: 8/10
Cost: 7/10
I recently visited a very unique restaurant called Zen Oasis. It is a vegetarian buffet restaurant outside of Sydney, in Berrima. If you think that vegetarian is not for you, you may rethink after visiting this place…
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