Sydney Day 3: Tuesday 30 October
Sun, Dec. 16th, 2018 01:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annarti
Featuring Hyde Park, the Australian Museum and Korean barbecue.
Weird blobby bronze thing with baby. Also, sun! Hooray!
We headed into the CBD to meet up with Hanh, who arrived late due to being unable to get Monday off, and then headed off for lunch.
This is Marigold, a yum cha restaurant which is so popular you have to book your table.
We had so much food omg. Duck and prawns and various dumplings and so so many sauces to dip them all in. It was so delicious but god I was stuffed after it. This is why there was no breakfast.
Walked around the corner to Hyde Park and the war memorial, which was under scaffolding because I'm cursed.
The park itself was fine, though, so that's okay. Love a big old Moreton Bay fig tree.
Other side of the war memorial, not under construction. We sat watching the ibises for a while cos it was just jolly beautiful.
The fanciest drinking fountain you ever did see.
Because it was right next to Hyde Park, we decided to go have a look at the Australian Museum. This wasn't it. This was a school, as we discovered looking for the entrance. The museum was next door.
Looking back towards Hyde Park and a cathedral of some description.
'"Eric" the pliosaur was discovered in 1907 by opal miner Joe Vida. Hundreds of blocks containing the fragmentary fossils were sent to the Museum, where it took over 450 hours to assemble them. He later became part of the AM collections in 1993 after he was purchased with donations from Akubra and the school children of Australia. Pliosaurs are short-necked plesiosaurs, aquatic carnivorous reptiles that lived in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods (about 200-66 million years ago). Australian opals also mostly formed during the Cretaceous, and Eric's bones--and the fish bones in his stomach--were opalised as he was preserved.'
Opalised dinosaur! Pretty sure this one came to Adelaide for an opal exhibition we had a few years back.
Birds of paradise. Animals seemed to be the feature of the museum, though there was just stuff everywhere. Strangely laid out with side rooms leading to other side rooms, and even the side rooms were filled with stuff.
Tassie tiger! This specimen would be over a hundred years old.
RAR. Their arms always look silly to me. Why did they even have them?
Looking back down to a glimpse of Sydney Harbour. Most we saw of it all trip, because again, seen it plenty of times now.
Back through Hyde Park to bum around the city until Alex came in after work.
We had a bit of time before Alex got in, and around the corner near one of the blobby bronze things, was a place called Yomie's Rice + Yogurt. Being so close we walked past it every time we went anywhere, and there was always a huge queue out the front of it, despite the name of rice + yogurt. What even. So we decided to see what all the fuss was about and stood in that queue for half an hour, placed our order, waited another 20 minutes for it to be made (by which point I was back up in the room) and finally it was made. I got one with oats and Linda got one with purple rice. Because. Why tf not. It was surprisingly delicious, and the texture was really nice, too. No idea how, but yeah. Worth an hour of waiting? Probably not. We figured, because the line was full of people in their 20s, that it was sort of a chore for the housemates. Like, you take the bins out, you do the washing up, you go get the rice yogurt. There's no way it'd have such a queue otherwise, right?
When Alex turned up we gave her the last of it, because like hell wee were getting another one for one more taste, then we introduced both Alex and Hanh to the Emperor's Cream Puffs, because they are awesome. Wouldn't you want some of the emperor's warm, creamy, hot tasty balls? We broke Hanh. It didn't take much.
Back up to that Korean barbecue we discovered last night, Linda and Hanh are ready for foods. This one was particularly good cos they cooked everything for us on the table so we couldn't screw it up.
Aww yummmmm. The veggies and condiments were fabulous, too, especially the probably-bok choy on the left.
Alex is also ready for foods. YAY all the girls together! Tomorrow is when things get reeeally tasty X9
Weird blobby bronze thing with baby. Also, sun! Hooray!
We headed into the CBD to meet up with Hanh, who arrived late due to being unable to get Monday off, and then headed off for lunch.
This is Marigold, a yum cha restaurant which is so popular you have to book your table.
We had so much food omg. Duck and prawns and various dumplings and so so many sauces to dip them all in. It was so delicious but god I was stuffed after it. This is why there was no breakfast.
Walked around the corner to Hyde Park and the war memorial, which was under scaffolding because I'm cursed.
The park itself was fine, though, so that's okay. Love a big old Moreton Bay fig tree.
Other side of the war memorial, not under construction. We sat watching the ibises for a while cos it was just jolly beautiful.
The fanciest drinking fountain you ever did see.
Because it was right next to Hyde Park, we decided to go have a look at the Australian Museum. This wasn't it. This was a school, as we discovered looking for the entrance. The museum was next door.
Looking back towards Hyde Park and a cathedral of some description.
'"Eric" the pliosaur was discovered in 1907 by opal miner Joe Vida. Hundreds of blocks containing the fragmentary fossils were sent to the Museum, where it took over 450 hours to assemble them. He later became part of the AM collections in 1993 after he was purchased with donations from Akubra and the school children of Australia. Pliosaurs are short-necked plesiosaurs, aquatic carnivorous reptiles that lived in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods (about 200-66 million years ago). Australian opals also mostly formed during the Cretaceous, and Eric's bones--and the fish bones in his stomach--were opalised as he was preserved.'
Opalised dinosaur! Pretty sure this one came to Adelaide for an opal exhibition we had a few years back.
Birds of paradise. Animals seemed to be the feature of the museum, though there was just stuff everywhere. Strangely laid out with side rooms leading to other side rooms, and even the side rooms were filled with stuff.
Tassie tiger! This specimen would be over a hundred years old.
RAR. Their arms always look silly to me. Why did they even have them?
Looking back down to a glimpse of Sydney Harbour. Most we saw of it all trip, because again, seen it plenty of times now.
Back through Hyde Park to bum around the city until Alex came in after work.
We had a bit of time before Alex got in, and around the corner near one of the blobby bronze things, was a place called Yomie's Rice + Yogurt. Being so close we walked past it every time we went anywhere, and there was always a huge queue out the front of it, despite the name of rice + yogurt. What even. So we decided to see what all the fuss was about and stood in that queue for half an hour, placed our order, waited another 20 minutes for it to be made (by which point I was back up in the room) and finally it was made. I got one with oats and Linda got one with purple rice. Because. Why tf not. It was surprisingly delicious, and the texture was really nice, too. No idea how, but yeah. Worth an hour of waiting? Probably not. We figured, because the line was full of people in their 20s, that it was sort of a chore for the housemates. Like, you take the bins out, you do the washing up, you go get the rice yogurt. There's no way it'd have such a queue otherwise, right?
When Alex turned up we gave her the last of it, because like hell wee were getting another one for one more taste, then we introduced both Alex and Hanh to the Emperor's Cream Puffs, because they are awesome. Wouldn't you want some of the emperor's warm, creamy, hot tasty balls? We broke Hanh. It didn't take much.
Back up to that Korean barbecue we discovered last night, Linda and Hanh are ready for foods. This one was particularly good cos they cooked everything for us on the table so we couldn't screw it up.
Aww yummmmm. The veggies and condiments were fabulous, too, especially the probably-bok choy on the left.
Alex is also ready for foods. YAY all the girls together! Tomorrow is when things get reeeally tasty X9
no subject
Date: Sun, Dec. 16th, 2018 04:41 am (UTC)i'm sorry, i burst out laughing even when i just got to the picture
no subject
Date: Sun, Dec. 16th, 2018 04:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Mon, Dec. 17th, 2018 04:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Tue, Dec. 18th, 2018 09:59 am (UTC)