dinner at atlantic street, clayton

ivy prepared dinner for five people today - herself, myself, ida, valerie and suzanne, ida's bukit view schoolmate. we were told to go over at 6.30 p.m. but i was there one hour early. ida had gone shopping at chadstone with her two friends. they were late, reaching ivy's place at 6.50 p.m., when it was quite dark.

ruth was working late; swee was having dinner out ; so was rachel. so, we had dinner by ourselves. had to help ivy clear the table and set the table for dinner.

ivy had cooked a soup, in australia, unlike in singapore, they use chicken bones rather than pork rib bones for preparing the stock for the soup. she fried chicken in some chilli paste. there was also steamed salmon with bits of ginger, cai xin and toufu with mushroom. we had mixed rice - brown rice and long grain thai white rice.

we managed to finish half of the cooked food; the leftovers were sealed with glade wrappers. ivy told me that swee and rachel would normally have them for their lunch.

after dinner, ivy dropped her laundry to dry at blackburn, dropped valerie at arnott, dropped suzanne at huntingdale station and ida at lantana. i went back with her to the laundramat to collect the dried clothes before she sent me back to ida's place.