home-cooked dinner in melbourne

had a taste of ida's first home cooked meal in australia. she had picked up some cooking tips from joel who was back in singapore for the varsity break. she cooked a pot of soup using chicken bones, carrot and onion. she fried vegetable - cabbage - with lean chicken meat.

late this morning, we drove to danedong weekend market to buy the foodstuff. danedong is about 12km from clayton. it is quite easy to get there as it is also along the princes highway. i bought some donuts and ida bought a doner (lamb) kebab. she had it for her lunch. danedong market is no different from victoria market or any of the weekend markets in australia.

we were at danedong for about an hour only as ida also wanted to visit springvale to get some asian foodstuff. i think saturday is not a good time to go to springvale. although there are more than 1000 parking spaces in the vicinity, we were unable to find a single unoccupied lot. gave up and headed for clayton. bought sesame oil, oyster sauce and soy sauce from the asian grocery in clayton. had my lunch in the chinese vietnames restaurant.

we finished all the food; there was no leftover.