Today is the first day it rained since we touched down in Australia. Everyday for the past few weeks had just been cooling and breezy. It is just colder at night and early in the morning. Officially today, it rained for the whole day.
We went off to SunnyBank this morning. Adrian heard from his friend that there are lots of Asian products at SunnyBank and we decided to go today to take a look. Upon reaching SunnyBank, it was raining cats and dogs. We did have a bit of problem searching for a parking lot as there were many cars around that day. I guess it could be due to the fact that it’s a weekend and people just flock to get their weekly groceries.
Finally we managed to get ourselves a lot and we went to the supermarket that was situated just at the car park. The first thing I noticed was that the crowd mostly consisted of Asian. From their speech among themselves, I think the shop is run by a group of China nationalists. The patrons are mostly Asian and they conversed in Chinese, Cantonese and some in English.
So off we went to shop round the supermarket. There is truly a place for us, Asian to go to buy things if we want stuff from our country of origin. Sesame oil, light and dark soy sauce, kalian, lotus. Imagine our joy when we see the lotus roots. We have not been able to find any while grocery shopping at Westfields. Adrian loves it especially in soups. However it is also very expensive. It is going at A$7.50 per kilogram. Anyway we just bought it since it is only available here. Bought more things like kalian (again another vegetable not available at “Ang Mo” supermarkets), Caixin, Yan Yan (Chocolate biscuit sticks).
Next, we went off to SunnyBank Plaza which is just beside the car park. Again the majority in the crowd is the Asian community. As we entered the plaza, we were greeted with a big fish tank filled marine fishes. Sabrina was so happy at seeing that. She just loves watching fishes swimming in tanks.
SunnyBank Plaza is much smaller in size as compared to Westfields near our place at Chermside although they do have Coles, Big W and Kmart. Anyway by now, we were a little hungry so we went in search of food. Finally we decided on having roasted meat and curry rice at a shop run by some Hongkee. This is the first time we have taken Chinese food since we came to Australia on the 17th. Basically, we feel that Chinese food is not really nice and extremely expensive especially at ang mo countries and moreover I can cook Chinese food at home. Luckily the food at this shop was pretty nice as compared to the Chinese food that we took few years back when we came for our honeymoon.
After a sumptuous meal, we went walking round the plaza. I found another Asian supermarket at the mall that sells slightly cheaper things as compared to the shop at the car park. Adrian saw fishballs and asked me to buy for our little girl. We saw Pokka drinks and bought them as well. Just then, Sandy called and informed us about their flight details. We had around an hour plus to go before we need to go to the airport to fetch them so we continued walking round the plaza till Sabrina fell asleep in her pram.
Off we went to the airport to pick up the 2 big kids. Then we went off to Hungry Jack at Kedron for their lunch or dinner at around 4plus in the evening. Sabrina was so tired that she went off to bed at around 8pm. Meanwhile the 2 kids tested the entire DVD that they bought on their trip at Sydney. Basically, they really spent their money unwisely buying things that are so expensive and not worth buying especially in Australia. It would have cost so much cheaper in Singapore. Anyway, they are not my kids. If they had been my kids, I think they would have got it from Adrian. Hahaha…Off to bed now and to a brighter tomorrow.
We went off to SunnyBank this morning. Adrian heard from his friend that there are lots of Asian products at SunnyBank and we decided to go today to take a look. Upon reaching SunnyBank, it was raining cats and dogs. We did have a bit of problem searching for a parking lot as there were many cars around that day. I guess it could be due to the fact that it’s a weekend and people just flock to get their weekly groceries.
Finally we managed to get ourselves a lot and we went to the supermarket that was situated just at the car park. The first thing I noticed was that the crowd mostly consisted of Asian. From their speech among themselves, I think the shop is run by a group of China nationalists. The patrons are mostly Asian and they conversed in Chinese, Cantonese and some in English.
So off we went to shop round the supermarket. There is truly a place for us, Asian to go to buy things if we want stuff from our country of origin. Sesame oil, light and dark soy sauce, kalian, lotus. Imagine our joy when we see the lotus roots. We have not been able to find any while grocery shopping at Westfields. Adrian loves it especially in soups. However it is also very expensive. It is going at A$7.50 per kilogram. Anyway we just bought it since it is only available here. Bought more things like kalian (again another vegetable not available at “Ang Mo” supermarkets), Caixin, Yan Yan (Chocolate biscuit sticks).
Next, we went off to SunnyBank Plaza which is just beside the car park. Again the majority in the crowd is the Asian community. As we entered the plaza, we were greeted with a big fish tank filled marine fishes. Sabrina was so happy at seeing that. She just loves watching fishes swimming in tanks.
SunnyBank Plaza is much smaller in size as compared to Westfields near our place at Chermside although they do have Coles, Big W and Kmart. Anyway by now, we were a little hungry so we went in search of food. Finally we decided on having roasted meat and curry rice at a shop run by some Hongkee. This is the first time we have taken Chinese food since we came to Australia on the 17th. Basically, we feel that Chinese food is not really nice and extremely expensive especially at ang mo countries and moreover I can cook Chinese food at home. Luckily the food at this shop was pretty nice as compared to the Chinese food that we took few years back when we came for our honeymoon.
After a sumptuous meal, we went walking round the plaza. I found another Asian supermarket at the mall that sells slightly cheaper things as compared to the shop at the car park. Adrian saw fishballs and asked me to buy for our little girl. We saw Pokka drinks and bought them as well. Just then, Sandy called and informed us about their flight details. We had around an hour plus to go before we need to go to the airport to fetch them so we continued walking round the plaza till Sabrina fell asleep in her pram.
Off we went to the airport to pick up the 2 big kids. Then we went off to Hungry Jack at Kedron for their lunch or dinner at around 4plus in the evening. Sabrina was so tired that she went off to bed at around 8pm. Meanwhile the 2 kids tested the entire DVD that they bought on their trip at Sydney. Basically, they really spent their money unwisely buying things that are so expensive and not worth buying especially in Australia. It would have cost so much cheaper in Singapore. Anyway, they are not my kids. If they had been my kids, I think they would have got it from Adrian. Hahaha…Off to bed now and to a brighter tomorrow.
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