Memories

Nine days in Sydney flew by so fast. We had a pleasant stay in SiauCern’s boyfriend, Matthew’s Uncle’s house. His name is Uncle Francis, with Auntie Gloria and their children Charmaine, Felix and Tim in the house.

They have 3 dogs too, which stayed indoor most of the time! :o) I’ve never realised humans and dogs can build such intimate relationship. However, I’m still not inclined to have any pets in my house, because of my hypersensitive nose.

Although we were in no way related to them, but all of them treated us so well! In our 1st night, while we were asleep, Auntie came in to our room and put on another layer of blanket! Even the heater was on full blast.

Most of the nights, we had home cooked dinner prepared by Auntie Gloria. After half a year of hostel food in a foreign country, home cooked Chinese cuisine can really bring you into tears. From char siew, to roast duck, to steam fish, to soup.. :o)

There was a night uncle brought us for a Japanese dinner in King’s Cross, which is the red light district in Sydney. The restaurant only opens at 630pm and reservation is compulsory to have a meal in there. Since we arrived at 600pm, uncle decided to take us to a walk around King’s Cross. :o) Interesting..

The restaurant is built underground. Thus, there’s only a small uninteresting door on the ground floor. But after walking down a long staircase, the interior was magnificently Japanese. We had sushi, salmon steamboat, sashimi and many others which I couldn’t name. Everything was so good! But of course, the price was even better!

On Saturday morning, they brought us out for dim sum (better known as Yum cha here: i.e. Let’s go for yumcham..). It seemed like wherever you go for meal in Sydney, you need a reservation, which fortunately we had. The queue was so long. Inside, the restaurant was double storey and each storey was as big as a football field. And they were packed! And they were all Asians, which sometimes make you forget that you were in Australia. :o)

Auntie would buy fruits for us everyday and before we leave, she would make sure we have refilled our bottles and brought our umbrellas along.

I wanna express my gratitude to uncle and auntie here again! They have inspired me to treat my future guests with similar hospitality! :o)

Everyone! Welcome to my place.. wherever it may be! :o)

Bondi Beach

Hyde Park

More pictures of our trip to Sydney can be seen on Steph’s blog! www.stephwong.blogspot.com

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