MAMRE HARVEST FESTIVAL

Its Mamre Harvest Festival. Ive seen this flyer posted by a friend in facebook. I got interested coz of the title, harvest. How i love to eat fresh as in organic fruits and vegetables. I went to their website and this festival is one of the events being organized in Mamre House, St. Marys, NSW. Said it will showcase the produce grown in Mamre and also from within the 160 km from the property.

There will be foods...yes there were Turkish, Asian, Poffertjes, Pizza, Ice ream, coffee, lollies, Fruit pies and the Restaurant was open too. I wanted to go to the restaurant and would like to try their foods. Im adventurous. I would like to try different foods by different people as long  as its ritually clean.There was a cooking demonstration but not able to watch it coz my husband saw someone eating noodles and we, just me and him, haven't have breakfast yet and twas already 12:30 pm. So we looked for that food stall selling noodles.

We bought fried noodles for $6.00, 3 buns for $6.00 and 6 dumplings for $6.00. Noodles was too oily and no meat or anything just a few vegies. The buns, i could hardly eat it coz they were too oily. Twas steamed bun but i think they re heated it in the flat grilled pan. And no taste at all! We asked for any sauce for it and they gave us sweet chilli sauce. At least we've finished it rather than throwing it in the bin. Maybe we are only used to our traditional siopao which is a steamed sweet bun with pork asado filling. The dumplings? I don't know my kids were the one who ate it all. They said twas bland. They asked for soy sauce. I wanted to eat more coz i was not satisfied at all but i was full coz i had to eat most of what we've bought otherwise twas a waste of money.

Jeep Ride, $10.00/jeep/ 3 mins

Segway Ride, $5.00/person/5 mins

We bought some lollies and nuts, 3 home decors and i've got 2 hats as well, brown and pink ☺. I was not impressed with the vegies they were selling. There were only few varieties. My kids just enjoyed the rides. That was the only thing that made them happy in that event.

After a couple of hours, kids got hungry but they didn't want to eat again there and they didn't want Maccas, coz that was where they had breakfast already. My husband suggested that we visit Twin Creeks, Private Residential golf & country club on our way back to Penrith. It's in Luddenham farther than Mamre. We know that there's a restaurant there but i think before twas only open to the members. But now they're OPEN to the Public! And so we ate there.

Korean Bibimbap, $16.00

Chicken Salad, $16.00

Prosciutto Pizza, $16.00

Gelato, $9.00

Korean Bibimbap is barbecued beef, egg, rice and shredded nori with hot sauce. I liked the beef coz the marinade was similar to the Filipino barbecue marinade. My husband liked the Chicken Salad but i prefer the salad i've learned to make. The Prosciutto Pizza was salty as expected. The Gelato, combination of vanilla and strawberry with cream and fresh strawberries and sauce, i just liked the vanilla. I didnt like the strawberry gelato and the sauce coz it has little seeds  and got stuck into my teeth.

We finished the day eating again in Outback Restaurant in Penrith for our dinner but with all the members of the family present. We just took 4 kids with us, 1 went to work, the other 2 stayed at home sleeping the whole day we were gone coz they went home 6:00 AM from work working like 12 hours.~♥~ ☺  ~♥~