I thought I’d take a few photos while I was shopping in Flemington today. As I was merrily clicking away, this post just grew and grew! So please, grab a cup of tea, there’s nearly forty photos to look at.
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I don’t speak Mandarin or Cantonese.
I do speak a little Hokkien (my mother’s native tongue) and can manage to order at Yum Cha, but that’s about it. Being Chinese, it’s quite a handicap – taxi drivers in Hong Kong laugh at me, waiters in restaurants shake their heads, and shop attendants will often just stare blankly at me. When I shop in the Mandarin speaking grocery stores in nearby Ashfield, I often struggle to communicate what I’m after.
That isn’t the case in Flemington. The Asian stores here were established far earlier than in other suburbs (I think by the Vietnamese community), and almost everyone speaks English reasonably well. On top of that, parking is easy and free, folks are friendly, and prices are the cheapest I’ve found anywhere in Sydney.
Despite taking so many photos, I’ve only showcased a couple of the shops in Flemington. There are at least half a dozen good Asian grocery stores, stocking Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese and Malaysian supplies (and a few other cuisines that I’m not familiar with), as well as a couple of Indian spice stores. There are two fishmongers, several butchers, traditional herbal medicine shops, and lots of restaurants. If you ever find yourself in the area, it’s definitely worth a visit!
My favourite grocery store is the Tan Hung Long Supermarket, located in a small arcade off the main street…
The wide aisles are packed with produce from all over Asia…
I’d popped in to pick up more dumpling supplies – I came home with two packets each of gow gee and wonton wrappers ($1.69 each)…
There are rows of traditional Chinese herbs and spices. I’ve tried most of them over the years, but have no idea what any of them are or what they’re supposed to do…
Soup bases for invigorating tonics are available – the entire packet of roots, herbs and spices are stewed for hours with meat (usually chicken)…
I have no idea what these tiny rosebuds are used for, but they were very pretty (I didn’t buy them)…
Oodles of dried Chinese mushrooms – I bought a packet for my next batch of dumplings…
This is my favourite Malaysian curry paste, and I’ve only ever found it in Flemington. It’s preservative free, sealed in two layers of foil, and costs just $2. It contains enough paste to make dinner for all four of us…
There is an entire aisle dedicated to religious paraphernalia for traditional ancestor worship. It’s not something we practice in our family, so I’m not sure what the ceremonies involve, but it was fascinating nonetheless.
I do know that all these items are made of paper and designed to be burnt as an offering to ancestors – there is paper money, gold bullion, electronic equipment (note the paper iPad on the top shelf), clothing and more…
An entire paper outfit, complete with gold watch…
Colourful incense known as joss sticks are widely used in religious rituals…
In Flemington, you can buy a 4½kg (10lb) bag of MSG…
An aisle full of hot sauces, including our favourite Lingham’s, a Malaysian product which can be hard to buy elsewhere…
Fresh fruit and vegetables on offer include exotic dragonfruits…
…and spiky durian…
Salted jellyfish is (I think) soaked and then sliced up and served cold. It’s an acquired taste, but I love it. I’ve never seen it in its raw state before though – it reminded me of bacalhau…
Bitter melon is another acquired taste, but the Chinese believe it’s very good for you…
A wide assortment of Chinese mushrooms, including oyster, shiitake, straw and King Browns…
Locally made rice noodles sit unrefrigerated by the door. They must turn over very quickly, because all the packets had long expiry dates on them…
Salted duck egg is a delicacy – I grew up eating this on boiled rice…
I won’t buy quails’ eggs any more – they’re too hard to peel!
Dried shrimp is used extensively in Chinese and Malaysian cooking. Here it’s sold by the kilo…
…as are dried scallops ($78/kg!)…
For the folks who take gingko biloba to help their memories – this is what the nut looks like. My mum adds it to soups, and it’s delicious…
There was a plethora of fresh desserts on offer…
One of the things I love most about shopping at Flemington is that foodstuffs from a wide variety of Asian cuisines are on offer.
There’s belacan (stinky prawn paste) from Malaysia…
Indonesian palm sugar (gula melaka)…
…and an entire stand of Thai curry pastes…
It’s Chinese New Year until this Friday, so the lanterns are still up…
An aisle full of interesting teas and drink mixes…
And finally, something very unusual – these sea cucumbers are an expensive delicacy. This one kilogram bag retails for $280…
Just across the arcade from Tan Hung Long is the K.W. Barbecue Shop, selling roast ducks, char siu, roasted belly pork and more…
My sons have declared this to be the finest takeaway roast duck they’ve ever eaten…
Squid, chickens’ feet, giblets and all sort of other (ahem) treats are laid out behind the counter…
The roast pork boasts rich brown crackling…
The suburb of Flemington is located about sixteen kilometres from Sydney’s CBD. It’s easy to get to – either by road, or by train – the station is located right between the shops and the fruit and vegetable markets. One tip if you do decide to explore the area – buy yourself a bubble tea from the shop at the entrance to the arcade – they’re delicious!
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I love your photos! They are so beautiful and inspiring! Now I want to go food shopping :-D
Thank you! That’s where I go for window shopping – I don’t go to clothing stores! :)
Ooh I love quails eggs! Luckily my kids love peeling them, and they are much better at it than me. Lovely photos, wish I had an area like this near me!
Thank you! I don’t mind quails’ eggs, but I never end up with much leftover after I’ve tried to peel them!
Yes, it is a lot of effort for not much egg! I love your blog’s focus on exploring local food. There’s so much available locally, isn’t, there, once you start to explore…
Thanks…and you’re right, there’s so much available just about everywhere, although we are especially blessed with so much variety here in Sydney!
I am so reminded of the little markets I used to go to around Quarry Bay in Hong Kong. The only thing missing are the live chickens and fish!
Misky, no live chooks, but there were some live fish and abalone on sale. I have a funny story for you. A friend of mine (expat Aussie) was based in HK and then had to move to Jersey. They took their maid with them, and on the second day they were there, she went to the fishmonger to buy dinner. She came home, all distressed, and said, “Ma’am, all the fish are dead! What should we do?”… :D
:) Fresh, fresh, fresh!
How lovely! We only have one Chinese food shop in Halifax though there are good supermarkets one town across. Fortunately, our general supermarkets sell most basic chinese ingredients, including wrappers and so on.
Pat, the flip side is that you get amazing Indian ingredients, which are much trickier to source here! :)
Celia,
You so lucky to have such an amazing choice of Asian products!
On the Quails eggs I saw a tip by Michel Roux Jnr the other night where after boiling them for 2 mins he put them in iced water to stop them cooking, and then he soaked them for 10 mins in vinegar (the cheapest you can find) and the shells then peeled off really easily!
Thanks for the tip, Tony! I wonder if it affects the flavour of the eggs?
I grew up around the area and would visit Flemington on a regular basis – the variety of veggies on offer is amazing and you could definitely get lost choosing dumpling/wan tan wrappers. Mum would only ever buy her roast duck from K.W Barbeque shop for her stir fries….Oh the memories!
Wow, that bbq duck shop has been there for a long time then! It’s really very good!
I walk through shops like this one in NYC and feast my eyes. I am always visiting and since I am not really sure if my children would like me to cook (usually not at their home- they think I cut things up too small and don’t cook in an authentic style)
and I don’t think I will have space in my carry-on luggage so I never buy very much.
We have some good shops in Cleveland- but I’m not fond of driving in large cities so I don’t go there very often.
Thanks I feel like I went shopping with you- a virtual tour and it was great fun!
Thanks for coming along Heidi, I just kept clicking away with my iPhone – everything was so colourful and interesting!
Wow, so much variety! I guess you are hooked on making dumplings now eh? how about some duck dumplings? That duck looks amazing.
Bernie, I promised my folks I’d try to make them some this weekend. Now I’m a little apprehensive, they’re pretty fussy.. ;-)
I know that growing post feeling! Worth reading right to the end Celia.
Thanks darling! xx
Hi Celia, I know exactly how you feel!!! I’m Chinese too, born and bred in NZ, don’t speak Mandarin and only a little bit of a Cantonese dialect learnt from my parents – and I get the same reaction from native Chinese speakers.
I just love your photos and envy you so so much having all these Chinese shops close by.I went back to Auckland 4 years ago after an absence of nearly 12 years and was stunned to see the same shops had sprung up everywhere. I live in the countryside outside of Toulouse, I have to do about 40 kms to get to one of 2 Asian/oriental supermarkets, so I stock up every time!
Anyway very happy to have found your blog.
Oh, you’d love this place. I went in and said, “excuse me, do you sell the tassels for attaching to the paper lanterns? I don’t want the whole lantern, just the tassel, and some of the beads and flowers,” and the lady behind the counter said, “hmmm…I think you might need to try Spotlight..” :) No confusion, no trying to explain I didn’t want the whole lantern, just the tassels, it was so simple. :)
How fabulous to live in the French countryside!
Wonderful post, and no effort at all to make it through to the end. I was mesmerized. I love wandering through Asian etc grocery stores and checking out the wonderful variety of things I usually have not a clue what to do with. And the aromas… as I read through, I could almost smell them.
ED, as you know, I love Fiji Market, but the prices in Flemington were 20% less on same items. There was so much variety there as well!
This whole post made me want to eat my way through an Asian market. Really lovely pictures! Thank you for sharing. :)
Thanks for reading! It was one of those days when everything I looked at was photo-worthy! :)
I loved this post almost as much as your recipes! I want to go and check out out the chinese stores in Birmingham, UK now. I have no idea what I would do with what I buy but it would be fun :)
I’m sure you have wonderful ones in Birmingham! Have fun! :)
Yum! We have what I think is a pretty good Asian grocer in Geelong, but it’s nothing like those, and it’s just single shop. I love stocking up every now and again on different ingredients to use.
Clare, there are so many ingredients in there that I’ve never even contemplated cooking – it’s like going exploring every time we visit! :)
Great post. Celia. That’s a lot of stuff to choose from. I went shopping with a friend of mine in Marrickville one afternoon after work. It was amazing. Linda took me through the Chinese supermarkets and green grocers. On a couple of occasions she even had to drag me out. So much to look at and explore. It was my kind of shopping.
Thanks…I love Marrickville too, but for different shopping – I buy a lot of bulk supplies from wholesalers there (flour, nuts, paper supplies, plastic bags, fish, berries – Marrickville seems to have it all!). :)
Tony and I often shop in Flemington, then have lunch, we love it. The tiny roses are tea, pop a handful in the pot and steep for a few minutes…delicious. btw…I think I’ve found purslane in the garden, keep meaning to take a photo and send to you to check…one day soon…
Rose hip tea? It’s a great place, isn’t it! :)
Given that I’m having a weekend in Sydney with a friend in a couple of weeks, I’m deciding I’ll need a week! I so want to go to the markets here, love your photos and I would be filling up my iPhone with lots of pics too!!!!
If you go to Flemington on the morning to early afternoon of a Friday, Saturday or Sunday, you can visit both the fruit and veg markets on one side of the station, and all the Asian grocery stores on the other! :) Have fun!
Flemington for these sorts of goods? Terrific, it’s on my Sydney list, thanks Celia.
I have a funny story for you Celia re people’s assumptions about appearance and language. In the fifties and sixties (when I was a child) many new immigrants would get work as bus conductors in our area, the Italian and Greek fellows always greeted me in their native tongue and were surprised to find I was Anglo-Saxon. In the 70s we lived at Punchbowl and Belmore and — you guessed it — the Lebanese people would greet me similarly. I’ve always enjoyed the experience and shared many laughs and exchanges — I’m kind of multi-cultural myself. :)
Rose, that’s so nice, everyone wants you to belong with them! :)
I’ve been going to Flemington for years. They’ve renamed the suburb “Homebush West” – fancy I know!. We lived there for a little bit and even now when we can’t get things for making Vietnamese meals (like vietnamese mint – kind of hard to come by in Sydney North West), we just drive over to Flemo as we call it.
That explains why the store sign said “Homebush West”, I wondered about that! But the street signs still say “Flemington Shopping Centre”! :) I love going out there. Have you ever tried growing Vietnamese mint? Apparently it grows like a weed! :)
Wow what an adventure looking through all those goodies Celia. You would have to really, really love sea cucumber to pay that much for those quite ugly looking things! I’ve never seen salted squid sold like that either (or any other way in fact). And Indians also think that bitter melon is very good for you. I really want to check out those isles of condiments. BTW that would be durian not jackfruit.
Really? Sigh… #failedAsian…couldn’t tell jackfruit from durian! Thanks for the headsup, I’ve fixed the post.. :)
Four and a half kilos of MSG makes you think! I love your pictures, this supermarket looks amazing. I wish ours were as comprehensive. GG
It really does, doesn’t it! My mouth was drying up just looking at it! :)
Flemington look a lot like Victoria St Richmond, an Asian food wonderland!! Viet mint does grow like a weed, it likes lots of water and regular cutting back, though it’s best confined to a pot. You can’t replicate the wonderful flavour so it’s worth growing. It strikes easily from a cutting too. Look forward to the duck dumplings recipe!
Ha! Won’t be a duck dumpling recipe – the roast duck gets devoured straight out of the takeaway container the minute it gets home! :)
Oh I understand!
Thanks for a lovely look at an area of Sydney I’ve never been to. I just don’t seem to get to Sydney anywhere near often enough!
It’s a fun place to lose an afternoon, Amanda! :)
I’m lucky in that I can find these items anywhere in Singapore, but I rarely buy them! It’s easier for me to eat at the local foodcourt (and probably way better)! I used to buy rose buds in Hong Kong and make a tea, it’s very delicate, I can’t think what else you would use them for except pot pourri! p.s. LOVE roasted belly pork, buy it from the market here…
Food courts in Singapore are AMAZING – I have family over there, and I can’t believe the variety and quality you get there. I’ll have to pick up some rose buds for tea next time I’m in Flemington, thanks! :)
I hope you enjoy them (and I hope it’s the right advice too)!
Wow, I love this Celia. What an amazing array of good things! Those roast ducks look incredible, as do the rice noodles. I cannot believe that bag of MSG…
I am keen to have a go at making gow gee wrappers after watching your video, looks fairly easy doesn’t it? Thanks for sharing all of these things Celia. From my part of the world it feels like a trip to the big smoke…without catching an expensive flight x
So happy to be able to share with you Jane, especially if it saves you a trip! I figure most of the fun is in looking rather than buying anyway (I’m not buying salted jellyfish or sea cucumber), and I’m just glad that I can blog about it! :)
We used to have a jackfruit tree in Darwin, and it was very interesting to get the fruit from, due to a sticky latex-like substance around each of the fruits once you peel it. We learned that if you oiled your hands it was much easier to deal with. Probably an acquired taste but we loved it. That post really takes me back to our days in Darwin where there is so much Asian food. I really, really want to eat one of those ducks now!! Thank you.
Ardys, there must be amazing Asian food in Darwin – such an old established community up there! The ducks are glorious! :)
I must say this post brought me so much joy
I now want to jump into the photos
Thank you! Comments like yours make it all worthwhile! :)
great post, i love shopping at flemington esp for the roast duck and banh mi!
I didn’t see the Banh Mi shop – will have to look out for it next time. I’m hooked on the bubble tea they have there! :)
My TCM practitioner (whose name is also Celia) sells dried rosebuds to make a tea as a digestive aid. I’m sure they have more uses.
Thanks Kim, I’ll have to give it a go! :)
I hate shopping EXCEPT for food. I would love to go to Flemington and I will one day! Love, love, love your post Celia!
Rachel, I’m not a huge shopping fan, but exploring food shops is a whole different thing. I love it too! :)
What a wonderful day out. All those delicacies reminds me of when my often picky eater son called one day to tell me about his new girlfriend. “Mom, she’s Chinese and she’ll eat ANYTHING. Scary.” To Ming, everything is a delicacy. He just rolls his eyes when she feeds their kids things that make him squirm. :)
Hahaha…I like her already, Maureen! :) Pete is still a tad squeamish when I’m eating things like fish guts or raw squid.. :)
These wonderfully abundant stores are where I encounter a culture clash, I’m afraid! :-) There are many huge Asian Supermarkets in my area city and on occasion I’ve gone in, but I have a really hard time with ducks hanging from hooks in the meat section and fish and animal parts that are unfamiliar to me. I try to be open, but I get a little squeamish. I am not a very adventurous cook or consumer. :-)But I enjoyed your shopping adventure with the colors and variety and really unusual things–paper clothes? And I’d love to know what those rose buds were used for…those do appeal to me. :-)
Ah well, it’s not for everyone! :) In nearby Marrickville, there is a great Greek taverna style restaurant, and on certain nights, there are whole roasted lambs’ heads in the window, complete with tongues sticking out. I’ve never been game to try one of those! :)
Thank you for reading through the post anyway! Weren’t the paper clothes interesting! And I believe the rose buds are used for tea!
Oh no! The lambs’ heads? I’d probably not be okay with that. I have such adventurous friends who tease me. They travel and will try anything and I think they are the best for not being somehow rude and culturally insensitive. Now stick me in the vegetable and fruit aisles and I have a wonderful time. If it’s different, I’m game to try! :-)
I’ve never been to Flemington! What a disgrace. I love the look of the ducks and the pork and all those Thai cooking pastes. Did you say, ‘wide aisles’? I’ve never been to an Asian supermarket that is anything but squishy – you should see the one in Dee Why – I have to fold myself up to get inside. Lovely tour, Celia xx
Hon, it’s not a disgrace! It’s just an adventure waiting to happen! Do take a trip out, there’s heaps of stuff there, and the aisles were wide enough to drive a trolley down, I reckon!
Don’t do this to me!!! I live in country Victoria, and think back to when I lived in Sydney and Melbourne and had access to all these wonderful, amazing, tantalising foods! Today for the first time I went to a new shop in my closest provincial city, Ballarat, where there is now an Indian food shop. Didn’t have all of the things I recollect from when I lived in Canberra and went to a fantastic Indian shop, but it was good enough to have me drooling and buying. There is still no s/e asian shop in Ballarat. So many foods that I haven’t cooked in so long, because the shops are hours away!
Sorry Lorelle! :) Maybe a trip into the city to stock up is in order! But we are very spoilt to have so many choices within easy driving distance!
This is a great post and a wonderful way of showcasing the delicacies – and curiosities (paper outfits?) – on offer in Flemington. I’ve never actually shopped there, but it sounds like somewhere you could easily spend a good chunk of the day … with some Asian sustenance thrown in, in the middle, of course. Great job, lady.
Thank you! The paper items were fascinating – apparently they all get burnt to provide the ancestor spirits material things in the after life. What on earth they need an iPad for then is beyond me… ;-)
Hi Celia, I love Asian grocery stores the green veges are always so fresh and cheap! Dad often buys the dry scallops overseas where they can be cheaper, a little goes along way and it’s delicous in fried rice. I love wandering the aisles of these stores and always find new and interesting things to buy. I speak teochew but I have found that after leaving home I am now struggling sometimes to remember certain words, I only speak it to my parents and occasionally with my siblings and I was only commenting to my sister not long ago that we should speak in teochew more often so we don’t ever lose it. I love duck egg with rice or congee, it’s comfort food for me!
Stef, my dad is Teochew, so I technically am too, and I can understand it a bit (it’s quite similar to Hokkien). Do you ever get out to the Flemington stores? They’re fabulous! :)
Hi Celia, yes Hokkien is similar isn’t it. My brother lives in Singapore and when we visit I hear lots of locals speaking Hokkien and I find I can understand it quite well. Yes we have been to Flemington quite a bit, the shops are great and we always have a good cheap lunch afterwards. I’m quite lucky that my husband who is French Canadian loves Asian food as much as me :)
Pete does too, but he draws the line at anything too dodgy! I can’t get him to try any dish with the word “intestine” in it.. ;-)
Now this is a store where I could spend the entire day! I see a few familiar labels from when we were living in Mauritius!
Have a super day Celia.
:-) Mandy xo
Mandy, isn’t that great? I love that we can buy the same things from opposite sides of the world! xx
WOW! What a treat Celia! I love when you do posts like this because I get a virtual tour of your fabulous city. As I was looking through the photos, I felt like I was in an Asian-style Costco- is it big like that? How inspiring to walk through all of the different aisles… I can’t believe that bag of MSG by the way.
Looking forward to seeing what you make for us with all of your new ingredients :)
Em, it’s not nearly that big, more like a large supermarket. I’m so glad you all enjoy these posts – there are so many adventures to be had in Sydney, especially food ones! :)
Hi Celia, Sometimes I think we are psychic, I was in Northbridge the other day – our equivalent. I wanted to by a cleaver for a friend. I don’t think we have quite the variety but it is very, very good. I bought some Jimmy’s sate paste on your recommendation. Now I need instructions please :)
Glenda, here you are:
https://figjamandlimecordial.com/2013/11/09/jimmys-sate-sauce/
There are heaps more recipes on their website!
Thanks Celia, I am on to it.
It’s like another world, which is amazing when you consider how global everything is today with the same brands popping up everywhere. Rather taken with the rosebuds.
Anne, it’s funny you should say that, I’ve been chatting to Joanna from Zeb Bakes on twitter, and we managed to find the same brand of low protein flour that I bought here in a Chinese grocer in Bristol (who is also on twitter)! But I know what you mean – shopping in Flemington IS like another world, even to those of us who are only a short drive away! :)
You took us shopping, love it Celia! The shop reminds me a bit of an Asian grocers I go to in Soho, central London – so many packets of things I haven’t a clue about but marvel at anyway :)
I’m so glad you all came along shopping with me! Usually Asian grocery stores confuse me, but this one was so well laid out, and everything labelled in English, that it was a joy to shop at! :)
I LOVE this post. I love trawling the Asian grocery stores for new and exciting ingredients and trying to work out how to use them. I, too, love dried mushrooms and find that they work out to be much cheaper than fresh in both cost and convenience. You never have to worry about running out of them as they are always there and seem to last forever. I did a bit of research about the large jellyfish that zoom up and down the Tamar River and found out that they are exactly the kind that are dried and salted for sale! We find them washed up on the shore drying themselves…how considerate of them! ;)
My daughter bought a winter melon (fresh) and grew some from seed. Sometimes it pays to try little grocery experiments. I have it on good authority that you can actually grow those small peanuts that they sell in Asian Grocery stores in your garden. My daughters buy large bags of semi dried Chinese Red Dates and they are full of seeds…I wonder if I could grow my own jujubes?
Ginkgo biloba are very easy to grow also but you have to get past a fruit that smells like parmesan cheese crossed with vomit before you can get to the seed. The pulp is also highly caustic and you have to wear gloves to peel it off.
I do miss living on the mainland and being able to head to the city and go nuts in the Asian grocery stores. We have a couple here and at least we can get good bubble tea here now. That almost makes up for it ;).
Wow, you’re so clever to grow all those things! I’m not sure I’d be game to eat beached jellyfish, and how interesting that gingko stinks when it’s fresh. The actual nuts are delicious when cooked – mum always added extra just for me. I tried making bubble tea last week, but it wasn’t anywhere near as good as the bought stuff – must try again! :) Year ago, we used to buy wine from Tamar Ridge vineyard – is that near you?
Right around the corner from us Celia :) (The winery) Gingko’s are male and female and the fruit really smells bad but as you said, the nuts are delicious. I am assured that the jellyfish in the Tamar are the edible kind BUT I wouldn’t eat them as the oysters in the Tamar are full of heavy metals so no doubt the jellyfish are probably the same. I like to grow as much as I can as that gives you access to all kinds of things that you either can’t get in the shops here or that are very expensive. :)
I’m in awe Celia and I love how you think…’I’ve tried most of these spices but I have no idea what they are’ – that cracked me up. I think I would have bought the rosebuds to just display in a pretty bowl
Di, I didn’t do it on purpose, as a small child growing up in a Chinese family, I just ate what was put in front of me! :)
What a fabulous foodie shopping adventure! As well as being a tea in their own right, brewing a tsp of rosebuds with black tea makes a glorious musky tea that’s beautiful with milk and sugar! xx
Ooh Jas, you DO make that sound tempting! I’ll pick up a bag next time I’m there.. :)
What a treasure trove indeed Celia! I just love exploring such fascinating shops and ingredients. Dried shrimp and scallops are lovely, but I’m not sure about the sea cucumber. I buy little roses like that and add them to tea mixtures, use the petals in cakes or as decorations, and have an upcoming rosewater chicken recipe where I used them as well- yummo! Xox
Becca, they’re so cheap compared to regular edible flowers too – just $2.60 for the bag! Your chicken sounds intriguing! xx
Beautiful pictures.
I love the amazing range of fascinating food I can find at asian grocery stores :-)
Sandy, there’s some really interesting stuff – every time we go, we find something new. Last time it was bags of black sesame paste (we didn’t buy it, though).
Come to New York and i will take you places….
Woohoo, now there’s an offer.. ;-)
That’s a lot of interesting stuff to explore! Also, I am interested in trying out Chinese medicine. There are a lot of shops in and around Flemington but I’m not sure which one to go to and how they work. Is that something that you’ve tried or would suggest?
Oh I really can’t help you, I’m sorry, I know nothing about Chinese medicine. I believe there are quite a lot of herbal medicine shops in Burwood!