Category: Finding Myself – Adelaide

My journey in discovering myself in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia while fulfilling my dream to study overseas.

Port Adelaide

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I met some new friends when I joined the ballroom dancing introductory class. Instantly we clicked. Last week I didn’t continue with the class because need to start paying and I don’t have that money for it. AUD10 a week for two hours. Too much for me. I’m trying to spend less than $10/week for food until I manage to find ways to make some extra money for my entertainment and more food ;p

Anyway, back to this post. One of my new friends offered to take us to Port Adelaide on Sunday but too bad the other friend couldn’t join us so there were only 2 of us.

We met at Adelaide Railway Station and took the 11am+ train. On the train I lost $2.05, most probably it fell out from my coin purse when I took it out which was unzipped! I managed to pick up some coins that fell out but guess I had missed out some. Sigh… I’ve never lost any money my whole life. $2.05 is a lot to me, at least can cover my one day meal(if cooking at home)!


Anyway, going to share the photos with you… Quick post coz need to wake up early tomorrow for early morning class. Many interesting architecture around. Even the signboards were interesting, just like going back in time.


Walking towards the port…


Left: The trees are changing colour.

Right: The lighthouse of Port Adelaide.


Thought of going on the dolphine cruise but after seeing the price, AUD6 per person, we decided to skip and God was probably kind to us… Just as we decided not to go on it, we saw dolphin! No need to go on the cruise anymore and besides it’s not guaranteed to see one too. I did take video of it, will upload it when I have the chance.


Nice scenery, nice weather.

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Collection of Food I Cooked in Adelaide (2)

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Left: 29/3/2011, dineer. Noodle in egg and bok choy soup. The soup was chicken stock.

Right: 30/3/2011, lunch. Fried egg with bok choy and plain rice.


Left: 30/3/2011, dinner. Pot sticker with bok choy fried rice.

Right: 31/3/2011, lunch. Noodle and dumplings in seaweed soup and egg. My egg was supposed to be a whole perfect egg but it broke during the cooking process, I adccidentally pierced the yolk.


Left: 31/3/2011, dinner. Cheese rice(it’s from the packet but I forgot to take picture of the packet, just add water and cook, bought it at the supermarket) with boiled vegetables.

Right: 1/4/2011, dinner. Cheese rice with pot stickers and stir fry vegetables.


Left: 2/4/2011, dinner. Cheese rice with french beans served with sauteed potato slices.

Right: 3/4/2011, lunch. Got lazy, sautéed the rest of the potato slices from yesterday and bought a loaf of wholemeal bread to be eaten with it. The bread was toasted and spreaded with canola spread.


Left: 3/4/2011, dinner. Leftover potato slices from lunch, added into chicken carrot rice. Basically, I added some canola oil, chicken stock powder, and carrot into the rice cooker. Then stirred in the potato. As simple as that.

Right: 4/4/2011, Noodle and dumpling in vegetable soup. Again, the soup was chicken stock *LOL*

More to come…

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Collection of Food I Cooked in Adelaide (1)

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Expect this kind of post more than me dining out. it’s too expensive to dine out. So cooking at home is much economical. It’s meant to be a collection of food that I had cooked and experimented when I’m in Adelaide and to see how many variety I could make during my stay here with minimal ingredients that I had purchased each week. I don’t stock up, I make sure I clear the food I bought before buying new ones to ensure no wastage. There will not be any duplicate posting of the same food.


Left: 24/2/2011, dinner. Bought Continental Savoury Tomato & Onion Pasta & Sauce. Cooked it with cherry tomato.


Left: 25/2/2011, dinner. Plain rice with lightly marinated(barbecue powder) beef and cherry tomato. The cherry tomato was sautéed in the juice from pan seared the beef.

Right: 26/2/2011, dinner. Plain rice fried with bok choy and sizzling beef lightly marinated(salt and pepper).


Left: 27/3/2011, dinner. Noodle in seaweed soup with bok choy.

I don’t remember why on those days I didn’t cook lunch *LOL*

Right: 28/3/2011, lunch. Pot stickers with bok choy.


Left: 28/3/2011, dinner. Dry noodle (flavoured with chicken powder stock) with bok choy.

Right: 29/3/2011, lunch. Dumplings and noodle with bok choy in seaweed soup.

The seaweed soup was from the packet, all I did was open up the packet of seaweed with the seasoning in there and pour into the boiling water with the noodle and other ingredients. Nothing fancy.

More to come…

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Elder Park

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As I mentioned before, I found this place accidentally. I went there again 2 Sundays ago just to sit there and see the world go by and enjoying the sun.

Going to keep it short, just to show you the photos:

Colourful…


See how people here spend their weekend with their loved one.


Left: My first time encountered black swans. In fact all the swans here are black.

Right: Very nice blur sky. It was really bright and it was abour 4pm. The sun was quite harsh too.


Left: Random shoot.

Right: Me again…

Basically, that’s all for now on exploring Adelaide posts. There’s still many places I haven’t go in the city what’s more the suburbs and the outskirt. Wait till I have the mood again or found people that want to go with me.

Enough for now, need to shift to study mode for now. This is my very first time attending a university. Did my degree via e-learning that’s why. This is a totally whole new experience for me.

Finding Myself - Adelaide, Going Places