See Woo.. Who? Woo!

One of the best things about being here is being able to hang out with Shan! =) (yes you Quack!)


Had a typical English meal the first night we arrived -- Indian food! Quack, Ben, Jon & I headed to Brick Lane for a yummy dinner complete with lassi :) Every restaurant there has touts standing outside trying to lure you in with free drinks, free this or that. It was quite funny, there was even one man who said something like "hey! i spoke you guys earlier! you coming here now?".. but it was our first time walking down the road! =)

Next day Quack and Ben brought us to See Woo - a Chinese supermarket (or warehouse more like it). They sell 20 litre barrels of cooking oil, 25 kilo sacks of MSG, among other gimongous proportions. It's like they plan for everyone to feed an army of people. Thank goodness they have smaller sacks/packets of things :) We didn't buy that many things as we hadn't yet moved into our permanent place. But we got a 1 litre bottle of cooking oil, and jon & i have a bet riding on it - if we finish the bottle of oil by April he owes me one teh, if we don't I owe him a teh :) He thinks its too much for the 2 of us. We'll see, we'll see :) [The bottle of oil made it's appearance in a photo in one of my 18 Oct postings!]












Ben: "Why is this crazy woman taking a photo of us buying groceries?"








Actually one of this nicest things about heading out to See Woo was the scenery. We drove past Shooters Hill. It was a lovely open field where people could fly their kites (some of which were quite large!). As the backdrop there's a beautiful town setting with the classic church spire standing elegantly tall among the rows of houses. Didn't take a photo of it tho, was just enjoying the view (to which jon said "wah! i'm impressed you are not taking photos") :)