Box Hill Central, for a vast choice of Asian foods.

In Brisbane, I have just discovered Adrift café and gift shop in Chelmer, where I admired their  felt animals and enjoyed a lovely, slightly chilli bowl of chicken and vegetable soup,

 

 

At home,  we enjoyed  dried anchovies fried with peanuts, garlic, chilli and spring onions, a mushroom and ginger stir-fry and rice..

 

 

l love going to Box Hill Central, in Melbourne- all those wonderful market  stalls, Vietnamese butchers and seafood shops, Asian grocers and eateries.  So much choice!  I always come home with something nice.  This week, we ate at the Grain Asian café and had a sticky rice bundle

 

Prawn dumpling soup and

 

pork and prawn wonton soup

 

 

We inspected without buying duck blood and duck tongues, silky chicken with their black skins, pigs' trotters.  We bought a lovely piece of pork for a roast at home and some Chinese pork sausages for a gift.

 

The roast was very much appreciated and the sausages will be.

 

 

In Traralgon, we popped into Adie's Café and Restaurant for lunch.  Service was slow because of an unexpected staff shortage, but the food was good:

poached eggs and bacon, hash brownies and bacon

prawn and salad tortilla with hash brownies.

We bought a bottle of their pickled samphire to try out when we get home.