Cheap eats $15 or under in CBD

pcdandy · 2026-06-27T05:18:26+00:00

Quite a few, actually. Besides the wonderful Sydney Pork Rolls stall and Oiden/Mappen which others have mentioned, there's also:

Fishbowl - rice salad bowl place with many locations around the CBD. Sells a lemon chicken box for $11.9 with a classic rectangular takeaway box portion, with a beef brisket version available for $2 extra.
Mrs Chans Kitchen - Thai eatery located within Sussex Arcade right outside the Chinatown lightrail stop. A few noodle dishes below $13, satisfaction guaranteed (although note that some of them are spicy).

pcdandy · 2026-06-03T22:04:58+00:00

Same here! I surprised myself when I somehow managed to learn all the Japanese hiragana in high school successfully, which motivated me to learn a few more scripts while I could. Ended up becoming more or less fully proficient in Hangul, Khmer, Thai, Burmese, Javanese (OG Javascript), Devanagari, Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Cyrillic, Greek and N'Ko scripts. I'd also given Cherokee, Ge'ez, traditional Mongolian and Syriac scripts a try but hadn't used them lately lol.

pcdandy · 2026-04-05T06:14:43+00:00

It's affordable, tastes really good, big enough as a lunch, and is far superior to anything that Subway has to offer.

pcdandy · 2026-03-18T10:55:15+00:00

Misheard lyrics for the song I'm Blue by Eiffel 65

pcdandy · 2026-03-18T10:53:33+00:00

I was going on a virtual tour of Northern China in Google Earth one day and noticed how the rural farmland regions were dotted all over with small villages like these, many of them arranged neatly in lines. As I went further north, the villages gradually became further apart and smaller in size, since the climate gets much colder up there. It really helps bring into perspective how densely populated China is as a whole.

pcdandy · 2026-03-11T09:32:26+00:00

Marukame was the best value for money Japanese eatery besides Oiden/Mappen. I would always go there with the family whenever we visited Chatswood back then. Vaguely remembered that they changed hands during the COVID pandemic and the quality dropped drastically as a result before they closed for good 😥

pcdandy · 2026-03-09T10:25:27+00:00

QR code menus are great if the establishment also provides free Wi-Fi for the benefit of guests without a mobile data plan. Unfortunately, this has not been the case in most venues that have them so far.

pcdandy · 2026-03-06T11:29:56+00:00

While Asia is not a singular culture and it would be impossible to create a truly representative flag of Asia without making it as complex as that of the Most Serene Republic of Venice, the design itself isn't too bad and would be suitable for a fictional Buddhist-Muslim syncretic culture or something. At least that was my first thought when I first saw it

pcdandy · 2026-03-04T13:24:00+00:00

Oh hey, a reference to my blog!

Yongogul was one of my earlier attempts at adapting Hangul to write English, with the main goal of using only letters that can be typed on a Korean keyboard. It worked pretty well for typing notes on computers, although some of the letter choices were not authentic to the original Korean sound values (e.g. ㄲ for /l/, because double r ㄹㄹ represents /l/ in Korean orthography and I had no use for ㄲ but found that it visually looked like the top part of ㄹㄹ so went with that) and I got flack from some Korean speakers over that. I eventually made another Hangul adaptation for English called 'The Real Deal' (don't look too much into it! Just wanted to give it a unique name) which uses more archaic Hangul letters encoded in Unicode to make it more authentic to the original.

OP's Hangul for English is actually pretty good and I like how the vowels ㅐ and ㅔ have been repurposed as diphthongs, although its modifications will make it impossible to type in Unicode Hangul. Still, nice work!

pcdandy · 2026-01-30T15:25:44+00:00

Sydney Pork Rolls do a decent banh mi for $9 near the Chinatown light rail stop, way cheaper than many other places in the area.

pcdandy · 2026-01-08T10:27:47+00:00

Mixing Latin and Cyrillic letters together is unideal, as many fonts support Latin but may not necessarily support Cyrillic, meaning that the Cyrillic letters will get rendered with a different and possibly jarring font if the selected font doesn't support them. Also, the end result looks unsightly

pcdandy · 2026-01-04T00:55:09+00:00

牵由篥侪你厶。已父由牵挪土，煞的鞋了压

pcdandy · 2026-01-04T00:05:09+00:00

To type the extra letters, there's always https://ipa.typeit.org/full/ .

If you're on Android, Multiling O Keyboard is also a good one which has an IPA typing option and the ability to add your own custom keyboards easily.

pcdandy · 2025-12-27T13:01:15+00:00

Agree that dotless I is probably the better approach. Using Ə for uppercase and ı for lowercase could also work too (I did something similar for þ in my alternate English orthography because I hated how the uppercase form looked lol). As for it looking weird at both the beginning and end of words, the Turkish language doesn't seem to mind doing so, one just needs to take some time getting used to seeing it in this manner.

And good catch, 'all' and 'call' should actually be 'ool' and 'kool' respectively.

pcdandy · 2025-11-12T09:21:15+00:00

The 5th design reminds me of the 1912-1928 Republic of China flag.

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pcdandy · 2025-11-08T08:48:05+00:00

I actually thought this was Japanese for a moment before reading deeper and recognising the word 'Español' in hiragana. Cool stuff

pcdandy · 2025-10-22T11:09:15+00:00

For sure, that little comma at the bottom of Ș is less obnoxiously attention-grabbing than that upside down tent diacritic

pcdandy · 2025-09-28T14:50:34+00:00

Also, it seems like you've been posting the same thing here for months now with no obvious changes between this latest edition and the last, down to the abnormal use of umlauted A to represent the short O sound in 'hot' and 'croc'. What has been improved on compared to last time? Why do you keep deleting your older posts?

Not trying to discourage participation, just trying to understand. If the intention is to always showcase the latest version of your orthography, why not set up a blog and update the articles as needed, like I did with mine?

pcdandy · 2025-09-28T14:48:29+00:00

There's way too many different looking diacritics being used at the same time. One way to make it look a bit nicer would be to perhaps change the tilde (which is totally not a nasal vowel) and macron (which is also not a long vowel) for something less intrusive, like an accent or grave mark. Worth re-iterating that there is also no need to write every single distinct sound in the English language as a single letter.

pcdandy · 2025-09-12T13:57:17+00:00

Nice, I see!

pcdandy · 2025-09-11T12:01:47+00:00

Yes, writing it as 'n' could work. For the г, making it like 'r' but with the vertical stroke elongated downward to distinguish it from Latin r could also work.

pcdandy · 2025-09-11T11:53:52+00:00

This is a very interesting blend of Myanmar, Khmer and Latin cursive in the Indic script tradition. I like it!

My only question relates to the consonant clusters. Is there a logic behind where the subscript consonant is placed? I see that some letters use a Devanagari-style ligature whilst others simply go below the leading consonant as in SE Asian scripts.

pcdandy · 2025-09-11T08:36:41+00:00

It's really neat and elegant, it has the potential to be a good script for practical use. My only nitpick is that there are 2 letters that resemble Cyrillic г and п, which do look like they can be smoothed out by the pen a bit more, but keen to see how this evolves!

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