I Love Saturdays!!

Saturday rockz!! It’s the only day of the week that I get to go around and spend money! Not that I like spending money, it's just that I've worked so hard the entire week and I deserved to be rewarded! And also because Nelson and I need to go get food at:

That’s right. Queen Victoria’s market, our weekly routine. This week we’ve got no ride down to the market. We’ve gotta take our “limo” instead. It’s pretty simple actually. Take a train straight down to Flinders Street Station, catch a tram at Elizabeth Street and get off at the station where a lot of people get off. And you’re right in front of Victoria’s Market :) The ah sum in the picture is me.

Let me give you a slight introduction to this market. I’ve mentioned this market several times in my previous posts, but haven’t really tell you how cool this place is! Queen Victoria market is Victoria's premier open-air market and has stood since 1878.  It is divided to several market precints: the Deli Hall, Elizabeth Street shops, F shed laneway, Vic Market Place Food Court, Fruit and Vegetables, The Meat Hall, Organics, General Merchandise, Victoria Street shops and the Wine Market. If you want to learn more bout this market, you can visit their official website. I'm just going to share my five-cents worth of experience here. You can basically get anything from this place! From food and drinks to clothes to footwear to kitchen ware to posters and collectibles to souvenirs and to all kind of unique stuff you’ve never seen before (e.g. cards made of hand rolled papers, soaps carved into beautiful flowers). Unfortunately, they don’t allow us to snap any pictures of the products. You just have to come see for yourself! I can only show you how busy it is:

It’s always packed with people. We were looking around for a few stuff when we got hungry and saw this:

Spanish donuts!! We have been eyeing the donuts for weeks now coz there’s always a long queue waiting to buy the donuts. But strange enough, this week we don’t have to wait in a long queue to buy. It costs $1 each or 7 for $6. Not too expensive. Affordable-lah. How is it so special? For one, it’s long instead of round, I can tell you that. Taste wise, I don’t know how to describe it. I can just say “You’ve gotta try it!!” While we were munching our donuts, we heard music. It sounded Spanish, but I wasn’t sure.

After buying a few stuff (from our ever growing to-buy list), we headed to the vege & fruits section, and guess what? It’s banana week again! Whee~ Didn’t really get much food this week coz we bought too much last week. Just bought some fish and prawns. Wanted to buy a chicken to cook herbal soup, but they ran out of boiling chicken. Too bad! I’m craving for soup! Just thinking of it makes my stomach growls. Oh yeah, we haven’t have lunch yet!! So we went to the food court again. This time, we tried the Fisherman’s basket from Funk Fish. It basically includes fish, calamari, scallops, prawns, potato cake and chips. They are all my favourite!! And it only costs $15.50. Not too bad eh? There’s another Sri Lankan cuisine at the other end which looks really nice. Perhaps next week! After satisfied with what we bought, we headed back home:

Oh, yeah. I was in a sleeveless shirt. It’s officially end of winter. It’s freaking hot today. Almost like back in Malaysia. I was sweating like nobody’s business. I’m beginning to miss winter already! So we stuff all our food into the fridge, and there’s still one thing missing. Chicken soup for the soul!! How leh? Emmmm..let’s go to Boxhill. “Kia-la” And so we went and come back, again with a lot of stuff (not just the chicken!) So we dabao dinner from Boxhill (only costs $11 for the both of us) and went home to “pou” soup. My field of expertise. Yummy~

Another weekend with full stomach and a smile on my face! I’m gaining weight like crazy! I’m starting to have double chin liao. Cham liao lah! Anyway, to sum things up, these are the things we bought today:

Super cheap baking utensils (Non-stick baking tray for $2.99, 3 sets silicon spatula for $1.99, set of measuring cups and spoons for $2)

A bag for myself

A jacket for Nelson

A pair of engraved heart keychains for both of us ($10 each)

AND

A pair of running shoes for each of us ($15 a pair! Super cheap! Diadora-leh!)

All I need is a mixing bowl and a kitchen scale, then I can start baking! Whee~ I really need those running shoes. Gotta start exercising. Otherwise I’ll be double my size by the time I get home for Chinese New Year!

It’s been a lot of fun. Don’t you just love Saturdays? :)