#COME TO MELBOURNE

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bestie im going to melb and as a local do u have any recommendations for stuff we should do while were there?

FYCK YESSSSSS COME TO MELBOURNE!!!!!!! okay heres my exorbitant mostly food related list (note these places are almost all in the CBD):

coffee/matcha:

if you like coffee, best locations in the CBD are little rogue on drewery lane nearby melbourne central station, and tbh any coffee joint along flinders lane

if you don't like coffee but like matcha or houjicha, drop by little rogue or tori's on niagara lane!! puzzle coffee (there's one on swanston st and in melbourne central station) is also tasty

i've also heard good things about naau's matcha - they're off russell st but i haven't been there myself

breakfast/brunch/bakery:

if you want to try a classic melb brunch, try hardware lane! there's a few places in the laneway and it feels very melbourne

also on drewery lane is bakemono - an adorable little bakery that does amazing melonpan! but they sell out quick and get busy, so you want to get there by 10am at the latest

(can you tell laneways are our culture)

okay i know they opened elsewhere in australia now but LUNE is great... love the croissants....... JC patisserie boulangerie is further north but a quick train ride away - heard great things!

if you want a fun time........ hopetoun tearooms!! SOO CUTE even just the cake window is worth a look. if you want high tea you gotta book out ages in advance, but if you don't mind waiting a little they take walk ins! perfect for an afternoon pot of tea and tasty cake

more lunchy-places:

look, anywhere on degraves st will get you there, and it's also a classic tourist spot! walk down and see the most quintessential melbourne laneway there is!

if you want american-themed fare, bowery to williamsburg FUCKS i had a stunning reuben there.

tbh i rarely actually have lunch, i just get brunch... so all the recommendations above can double

dinner or lunch restaurants:

soooo i love ramen so if you do too, ikkoryu fukuoka ramen is top tier! i love their yuzu ramen. hakata gensuke is good if you like chicken ramen, and shujinko ramen (rip the flinders st store) is good if you're going up elizabeth st and want affordable

mensho tokyo ramen opened recently but uhhhhh the wait has been 3 to 5 hous somedays. ITS POPULAR. ippudo in QV is probably easier and more convenient

outside of ramen, if you want more fancy fancy farmer's daughters is STELLAR. delicious food, great cocktails, mm. nice modern aussie dining. longrain nearby is also very popular!

also vaguely upmarket is chinchin - good curry! the waiters market is a place that my mum hugely recommend before shows but ive never managed to get there myself lmao.

not ramen but still japanese is dohtonbori.. ever wanted to mix and flip your own okonomiyaki? now's the time

I WANT TO GO TO THE NATURAL HISTORY PUBLIC BAR. it's also a restaurant set to look like the american museum of natural history, if you go pls have fun

bubbletea, its own category:

this is just a list.

milksha, the alley lujiaoxiang, machi machi, coco. these are all good. chatime is fine but gongcha is better but theyre the chains so... i really want to go to choulee!! i heard theyre good

desserts:

hokkaido baked cheese tart, black star patisserie, pafu, kurimu, uncle tetsu's, brunetti's for cakes and later nights, sulhwa, and bingsu.

further out or more expensive but fun:

i need to go to milk the cow so BAAAD. there's one in st kilda, which is a short tram ride from flinders st station. if you go lmk

places to visit:

the botanical gardens!! pretty, always a nice time

the NGV likely has some free exhibits going on! always a nice wander

you gotta stop by hozier lane. you gotta. and wander around fed square while you're at it

drewery lane also has some artwork!

a walk down birrarung marr is also nice, sometimes there's night markets going on by the stadiums

the docklands has some alright places, but i know less about it... but they have a ferris wheel rn! check it out!

if you wanna spend thirty or more bucks, go up the eureka tower!! tallest building, and you can get a cool view of the city. the edge experience is a little lift that sticks out the building so you can stare down through glass to the ground below. fun if you aren't afraid of heights

if you like shopping, emporium is fancy and has a MEEQ store where you can buy jellycats

you can go to the queen victoria market if you wanna.... its a classic destination after all

THE LUME is a classic experience here too rn - more exxy but if you want a fun visual experience, do it!

if you want comics - check out all star comics! best LCS in the area.

other specific stores i recommend:

gewürzhaus! there's one in block arcade off collins st, i love it and the spices

not far from gewürzhaus is essensorie - they discon'd my fave handcream SOB but they have some nice things (this is all in the black arcade, same as hopetoun)

and with that, tbh check out all the arcades? they have fun things going on!! there's the block arcade, royal arcade with gog and magog, tivoli arcade... that is to say they're little indoor walkways with shops and stores, as in an arcade you walk through! they're cute

bourke st mall is worth a wander, and you can see the outside of the old post office that's now a H&M...

i know you said "things to do" but... all i do is eat mostly LMAO!!

really, the best thing to do is give yourself a day or two for the CBD. just wander, it's all a grid and easily navigable, and take advantage of the free tram zone!!!! it'll announce when it isn't so you know to touch on your myki or not, i'm not a cop.

you could also wander down to crown at night, southbank has many restaurants and also the flames outside crown fucketh severely

if you're going outside the CBD, its an hours or so drive but healesville sanctuary is soo fun.. and on the way there you can stop by kuranga nursery, it's a gorgeous little place and the paperbark cafe does a bunch of tasty meals with native flavours and bushtucker

if you'll be in the suburbs i have more recommendations too!! but for those just message ma and i'll share so this list isn't crazier than it is xx HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!

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SHJ ACCIDENTALLY (????) PROPOSED TO HYJ ON HIS BIRTHDAY ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️

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Unfathomable amount of SILLY!!!

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Melbourne, night 2 || 11/13/2024

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Tonight's surprise songs are:

🎸 Come Back… Be Here + Daylight

🎹 Teardrops On My Guitar

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personally I think curly's real name is actually Cuthbert and he Hates it so much and curly is his attempt to seem somewhat cooler and less of a bullying target (Jimmy knows his real name and on Pain Of Death he is never allowed to speak it ever)

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saw 20th anniversary rerelease apparently isnt doing any showings in my area. unforgivable.

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haven't been this fucking insanely furious at Williams since they fired Damon Hill halfway through 1996

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She is DESTROYING us with these mashup Surprise Songs!

Come Back, Be Here….

DAYLIGHT!?!?!

🌞😮🌞

I don’t want one single Hetlor troll coming at me today with “Read the prologue, she doesn’t like Gaylor!”

If Taylor hates Gaylor there’s no way in Hell she pairs Come Back Be Here with Daylight! There is no way she DOESN’T know what that would do to us!!!!!

And then she gifts us with Tears Drops on my Guitar on 🎹 with a GORGEOUS note change that I can’t stop watching on repeat!

Apparently Melbourne is one of the spoiled favourite children!

She also began the acoustic set with a little speech about how all bets are off now. She’s not sticking to playing stuff she hasn’t played yet on the international tour. She doesn’t want to be limited or as she put it take tools out of the toolbox, or crayons out of the case. She wants access to ALL her songs for maximum creativity!!!!! 😮🙌😁

Buckle up!!!

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I love the aus slang discussion! Why does 'forgive me' flag for you?

Oh! Haha, I'm glad it's fun. 'Forgive me' just isn't something I hear people say all that much (although funnily enough, since I heard him say it in interviews, I've heard an actor say it at the theatre I work at, so maybe it's an Aus actor thing). It could also be a Sydney thing though - a lot of Australian vocabulary/slang is regional.

The example that often gets used to explain regional vocabularies is around swimsuit/bikinis - I call them 'togs' as someone from Qld, but the term is 'bathers' here in Victoria, Tas, SA and WA, and either 'cossie' or 'swimmers' in NSW, with the NT calling it a whole mix of things. There's hilariously a map for this (I'm from the yellow part of Aus, living in the bottom right red part on the mainland. Sam's from the blue part, if you're not familiar):

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I hope u all have the best time in Texas 🫶

(I'm still in school down under so I can't do shit 💀💀💀)

Sending love ❤️

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suffering from post-cursed child trip depression as of now (it’s been 4 months i should probably move on). i DESPERATELY need to know everyone’s fave acting choices by the cast which remain on your mind 24/7!!!! so drop them in the comments or my inbox

this is the only way i will be ok. love yall

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currently crying about ollie apologizing for the understeer that put him into the barriers in fp1 and his engineer reassuring him that as long as he’s okay, the car is safe 🥹🥹🥹

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I would like to wish a good day to the bird guy and the bird guy only

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Taylor Swift performs a mash-up of Come Back... Be Here and Daylight in Melbourne, Australia on February 18, 2024.

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IM GOING TO METALLICA BABY

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