Chinese markets

... are a world unto themselves, aren't they?

After getting up early on Saturday, putting through 3 loads of laundry, scrubbing the bathroom and weeding the back garden, we took the tram into the city to the Central Markets.

Man, those places smell and are crowded, but a real eye opener! I was looking specifically for a steamboat, an Asian cooking utensil similar in design to a wok, but with a flue up the centre. After a few false starts I found the Asian supermarket down the back and there I found a little steamboat which one puts a bbq bead inside. This creates the heat, then you fill a moat with chicken broth, and when it's hot you place chicken strips, prawns, vegetables, pork balls, dim sims and wontons in and let them cook. Everyone helps themselves, and dinner lasts for a couple of hours. Everyone sees to be looking forward to trying it out anyway.

When we got home we didn't do much, the weather was lovely so we just sat around.

Sunday was a hot one. I slept in, did some washing, Dobby packed for next weekend away, and that's about the extent of it.

Last week at work was horrific. Our DME plant is experiencing production problems so we are in shortage of stock, and it's end of month. I did not get home on time at all last week, one night working 45 minutes overtime.

I hope this week shapes up to be better...