As you guys may have probably known, the World Cup can really consume a great deal of time off your daily schedule; not to mention the amount of energy it consumed to stay awake at 2.30 in the morning almost daily to watch the more interesting matches on telly.
Thus, the 3 days break before the Semi Finals provide us with a welcome break to finally get back to our normal life. It's time for football to take a back seat, and to spend some quality time with the GF instead.
We both had a sudden cravings for Malaysian food and chicken rice in particular the previous day. So we woke up early (early as in 11 a.m.) and took the bus to the City. It is winter season now in Perth, and even in broad daylight we still feel the chill right down to the spine. At night, it can get even worse as the daily night temperature rarely exceeded 2 degrees Celsius.
There is this Malaysian restaurant smacked right in the heart of Perth CBD that serves reasonably delicious and economically-priced foods.
We reached there around 1.15 p.m. and not surprisingly, there was a good queue of people lining up for some cheap, delicious Malaysian fare.
Vivian ordered the Garlic Roasted Chicken Rice, as it's the closest semblance to our usual chicken rice back in Malaysia that you can possible get here.
I've tried the chicken rice before, so I ordered Roast Chicken but with noodles instead.
It looks really tempting upclose and the chicken was great and never disappoint as usual. However, the noodles were a bit bland and soggy - which wasn't exactly to my liking.
Anyway, the total meal cost us A$ 12.00 which is something you don't usually get here as a plate of Nasi Lemak can easily cost you A$ 10.00 (not to mention there is no 'santan' in the Aussie's version of Nasi Lemak...*Huge sigh*)
Later on, we wandered around the city to burn off the calories. =)
There is a new Apple store that just opened in the city and it looked pretty inviting. We went inside and took the opportunity to try out the new Apple iPad. It's a cool gadget, something like a bigger version of an iPhone and so I don't see myself owning one anytime soon since my iPhone pretty much perform the same tasks for me. But for those using Blackberries, perhaps iPad is the ideal complement to compensate for what the iPhone has and the Blackberry is lacking.
We also went to an Oriental groceries shop in Northbridge and it's possibly the biggest one I've ever been into. They have an impressive array of all things Asians and we were excited to find that they actually sell Salted Fish as we've been looking for it for a very long time yet to no avail.
One thing about Oriental supermarket is that their owners or cashiers aren't really friendly. They always seemed to be annoyed when you're paying for your stuffs at the counter, rather than looking happy and friendly that someone actually contributing to their overheads! Perhaps it is an 'Asian thing' as well? Hmm...
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