Chinese and Lemsip

Off we went back into the city for food. First meeting up with a friend of Jen's cousin Jackie called Virginia who is over here on business. A very nice person who knows Perth well and was able to make suggestions about what to see and where to go.

Now the free bus service I mentioned before - the Blue Cat - only runs until 7.00pm on Sundays so although we got a lift into town we would have to make our own way back to the hotel (just a thought - wasn't there a Magic Roundabout film called 'Dougal and the blue cat'?)

After meeting we went walkabout, through the city to the same street as last night. It was a whole lot quieter and had a lot less thigh on display. As is normal when meeting and asking about where shall we eat the conversation went something like this:
"What do we fancy?"
"I don't mind"
"I'm easy as well"
"What is there here?"
"How about Pizza?"
"We had pizza last night"
"What would you like?"
"What would you like?"
"I really don't mind"
"I really don't mind either"
Now by this time we had walked most of the street. The conversation could have gone on forever but for Calum who proudly announced "I want Chinese!".
Thank heavens for youngsters.
Chinese it was then. The last restaurant in the street was a Chinese and looked pretty good. As we entered I noticed a fish tank full of fish and eels swimming about. 'Nice' I thought, just like the fish in Uzzals. We sat down and ordered a dish each and a rice each. Even better, no MSG at our request!
You may have picked up from previous Blogs that eating out is not cheap here, what you have to say is they make up for it with quantity! Last nights pizza's were huge and each of these portions would have been enough for four and we had one each!

The restaurant was quite quiet, the main customers being a large Chinese family of about 10 at another table. They had the fish. We know they had the fish because the waiter fished it out of the tank into a tray and showed it to them before taking it to the kitchen for execution!

When we left the restaurant it had just started spitting outside. Very light so not a problem. It was still warm. We walked Virginia back to her hotel and decided as the weather was now dry and warm to walk back to our hotel. We are so close to the centre it only took about 20 minutes. Once back we popped into the bar for Jen to have a wine and Les and Calum to have Coke and a Lift respectively whilst planning what to do tomorrow.

Why 'Lemsip' you ask? Well that goes back to Les's last few days at work when his co-trainer had a rotten cold. "Don't go giving that to me" Les told him "I don't want it in Australia". Famous last words. Sore throat, chesty cough (not the Russian footballer - Chesticov) and blocked nose - thanks Andy. Anyway, we walked past a pharmacy on the way back so first thing tomorrow it's off to the Chemist's for Lemsip'.

More soon - cough, cough!

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