Bastille Day French Festival

A and I went to check out the Bastille Day French Festival, which was held at the North Melbourne Meat Market. We got there at 11am, and the line wasn't too bad. It's a gold coin donation to enter, and inside, there are various stalls selling French clothing, jewellery, books, and some other things that I don't remember. I just went for the food. They had a crêpe stall, as usual, but I think I'm finding that I prefer the ones that I make myself....

Of course, there were a few bakeries that sold bread and pastries. We had to try some. I bought a couple of things for MrFodder.

From the top left: pain au chocolat and crème brûlée, from Choukette Fine Pastries in Brunswick, and.... *drumroll* KOUIGN AMANN!!! (From Gontran Cherrier in Collingwood.)

20th of June is kouign amann day in the US, and I had planned to try my hand at making it, but was busy with something else that day. I first heard of this bread from an episode of Yakitate Japan!!!, where Mokoyama, the sweet bread specialist, makes a Kouign Pudding Amann with the highest quality ingredients. I was drooling even though I had never tried one in real life. So when I saw that they had them, I couldn't pass up the chance. Being the pleb that I am, I asked them how to pronounce it, and it sounds like "Queen Amahn" (or "Amon", depending on which part of France you are from) - though I'm guessing it's meant to be more like "Coo-in". It was amazingly sweet, and I think I'm in love. The bottom was glazed in a honey glaze.

The funny thing about eating with A is that people always tend to mess up his name when he orders, so we were curious to see what he'd get this time. It was a new one for him (which I won't write here, since it'll give away his name and defeat the purpose of me calling him "A").

A and I walked around a bit, and noticed that someone missed leg day.

He seemed to be following us around. A asked me how it felt to be stalked. I said it felt great! (It was actually a bit scary after a while.)

Unfortunately, there wasn't much else to do there, so we left. As we were walking out, there was a huuuuuuuuuuuge line outside the door. So glad we went when we did.