Day 3 - Paddy's Markets, Fish Market, and The Rock
We started our day by having
dim sum or
yum cha at the newly renovated
Zilver Restaurant located at
191 Hay Street (corner of
Pitt street). If you would like to find it easily - find the red bricks building just nearby the
Capitol Square. You could see the signage hanging with
Zilver name on it and it was located inside at level 2. We asked around from friends where to go to have a nice dim sum and they recommended us this place.
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| Dim sum at Zilver Restaurant - Sydney, Australia |
We ordered the usual
siew mai, har kaw, chicken feet as starter, followed by century egg porridge (the portion was so small - not worth it),
Shanghai jian bao (pan fried bun), chives spring roll, spring onion pancake, and prawn rice roll (
cheong fan). Most of our order were under big categorize of pricing with two special ones. No medium and no small categorize. They did not put the price in the menu as well. We only found out about the price upon payment. The big size cost AUD$7.40 while the special cost AUD$8.40.
The restaurant was clean and looked new. However, with the price charged, I found it too expensive. The steamer in the cart was not turned on too in the beginning. Our starters were cold. Quite disappointed. We only loved the pan fried bun among the rest. But you could find the same thing in other restaurant with much cheaper price. (Fyi, there was one Shanghai small restaurant next to the Asian supermarket just opposite of the
Wolli Creek train station that sold pan fried bun for only AUD$8.80 for 8 pcs!!! Their noodles and dumplings tasted great too!!). So, dim sum? Next time I would rather eat at another place.
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| Paddy's Haymarket - Sydney, Australia |
After that, we walked around the
Paddy's Haymarket. It opened daily from 10 am to 6 pm except on Monday and Tuesday. There were wet markets selling fruits and vegetables, also shops selling souvenirs and other stuffs. If you wanted to buy souvenir for friends and families back home, this was the place!!! There were many items sold much cheaper compared with Melbourne's Victoria market, for things such as: pencil case, coin purse, tea towels, wine bags, sunglasses, etc. It was also much cheaper compared with many other shops selling souvenirs outside. So, do not hesitate to buy there!!! :)
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| Fish Market - Sydney, Australia |
At 12 pm we took the light rail from
Paddy's Market to
Fish Market. There were few shops selling fresh and cooked seafood in it. Wow!!! It's a paradise for seafood lover!!! You could find anything that you wanted. We walked around from one shop to another to check on the stuff, which one served better variety of seafood, which one served delicious cooked seafood, and so on. There were alfresco (open air) dining too outside but many seagulls would wait by your side waiting for food from you hehehe...
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| Fresh seafood for appetizer at Peter's - Fish market at Sydney, Australia |
We decided to have the spiky urchins and a plate of cooked big prawns with fresh oysters as appetizers plus we bought a small bottle of Jacob's Creek Classic Chardonnay from the wine shop there to complete the taste in our mouth.
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| BBQ Grill - Fish Market Cafe at Sydney, Australia |
From there, we moved to the next door's shop called
BBQ Grill - Fish Market Cafe. This place was recommended by my sister's friend to try their cooked seafood. We ordered
Seafood Platter for two people consisting of grilled scallops,
Oyster Mornay and
Kilpatrick, BBQ baby octopus, calamari rings, king prawns, battered fish pieces, crab stick, and chips (cost AUD$38.50) plus half
Rocklobster Morney with chips and salads (cost AUD$24.50). It turned out to be so much as they gave lots of chips at the bottom, which we could not finish. The lobster tasted great. But I would suggest for you to order other stuffs in a la carte as they did not mention how many piece of those stuffs given in the platter. Overall, we all satisfied with our seafood lunch!!! :)
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| Queen Victoria Building - Sydney, Australia |
My sister left us after that sumptuous meal as she had to catch her flight back to Melbourne. Hubby and I went back to
Paddy's Markets and continued our shopping. I had some time to spend before my appointment with my high school friend, so we walked from there all the way to
Circular Quay and passed by the
Queen Victoria Building (QVB) and many other shopping centers. I bought the Zumbarons again there hehe... simply couldn't resist!!! :P
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| Met my high school mate with her two kids |
So, I spent some time with my high school friend and two of her three children at Circular Quay station's McDonald's who chose to settle down in Sydney over a decade ago. 'Til that, we had not met for twenty years! Wow! We were keeping in touch through Facebook though.
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| Dinner at Lowenbrau - The Rock |
Right after that, I had another appointment with my friend's sister and her husband. I had German food this time round. Since I was still very full with the seafood meal that afternoon, I told them to share our meals. We ordered Chicken Schnitzel with Pork Trotters and two glasses of 500 ml lager beer for four of us. It turned out the portion was just nice. The food tasted delicious. With live music at the background, it made our dinner experience feeling great!!!
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| Four of us with Sydney Opera House at the background :) |
And before we separated, we took another picture of
Sydney Opera House with night light at the background. It was kinda special to commemorate the
Rio 2016 Paralympics. Another great day we spent at Sydney city. Story goes on...
