Kangaroo brunch

It’s not as exciting as tarantulas, but it’s still pretty cool.

In celebration of an impromptu visit by my old friend Marianne – from Thailand/London/Maryland – we decided to do some touristy sightseeing and treat ourselves to an awesome meal.

After a night of romping around Darling Harbour, we took a recommendation from Marianne’s backpacker friend and went to check out the Sydney Tower.

The tower itself isn’t significant at all, it just provides spectacular views of the city.

Since Sydney’s surrounded by water and bays, it’s actually a pretty amazing skyline. As you can see.

For $25 we could just go up and down on the tower. For $50, we could sit for a couple of hours and stuff our faces on the all-you-can-eat buffet while getting a 360 view at the rotating restaurant.

Sold.

Along with a beautiful assortment of meats, salads, pastas, rice and amazing desserts, there was one key item on the menu.

That’s right. Kangaroo roast.

As you can see, it wasn’t THAT gross. But after my second bite I did get a really strong gamey aftertaste and got a little grossed out. Unfortunately we had stopped taping at that point.

Just watch for the shudder at the end.

It looks a lot like beef, but it’s a different color. And the grain is really big.

Would you call it a grain? Like wood? We didn’t really know.

In any case, you can eat kangaroo. You know, if you like that kind of thing.

They’re roadkill here. You can see them dead on the side of the road. Like deer in Michigan.

Weird, huh?