By the time we reached Adelaide’s Chinatown we had been walking around the city for about four hours and were famished. It was well and truly time for lunch.
As I indicated in my separate review on Chinatown, the area is comparatively small. That said it has a number of eateries of various Asian ethnicity, not just Chinese though we chose the T.Chow Chinese Restaurant for lunch. Continue reading “T.Chow Chinese Restaurant: “Yum Cha in Chinatown””
In 1860 around 2000 Chinese prospectors were drawn to Young, lured by the possibility of making their fortunes in the goldfields. Within months gold reserves were dwindling and European miners, resentful of the well organised and successful Chinese miners, banded together to drive Chinese prospectors out of town. See my Reading the Riot Act review for more detail on the shocking treatment meted out to the Chinese at this time. Continue reading “Lambing Flat Chinese Tribute Garden”
The last place I would have ever expected to find a Chinese temple would have been tucked away in the leafy, well to do, backstreets of Glebe but to my surprise that is exactly where the Sze Yup Chinese Temple is located, on a block of land acquired by early Chinese settlers for 325 pounds. Continue reading “Sze Yup Chinese Temple”
Perhaps my title conjures up illusions of grandeur and fine dining in Sinuiju. Perhaps the less ostentatious title ‘eating in Sinuiju’ might have been more appropriate. Continue reading “Tourist Guide Centre: “Dining in Sinuiju””
When Chinese people first came to Australia in the early 1860’s, lured in by the prospect of finding gold, those that settled in Sydney settled in the Surrey Hills area, the far side Central Station from today’s Chinatown. Continue reading “Chinatown”
There are very few places in Jamestown open on a Sunday Night for dinner and this in one of them. As such, we were surprised when we went to dinner at around 7.30pm and no one was there and apart from one person to pick up a takeaway order no-one came in all evening. Continue reading “Orange Tree Oriental Restaurant: “Booking not required!””
The Rambling Wombat 