Events

Brisbane Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year

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There are not too many Chinese people living in Brisbane, but we still manage to have a lot of fun come Chinese New Year!

We get to eat a lot of tasty dishes, because there are several special food items that only get served during the Chinese New Year period.

One of my personal favourites is the Chinese new year cake, also known in Cantonese as ‘leen gol’. For those of you who prefer hot food, my favourite is the ‘lor bark gol’ otherwise known as radish cake. Yum!

Having a special dinner together is also a big and important part of Chinese New Year. You get to eat a lot of delicious food, like ‘charsiu (Cantonese for BBQ pork) and roast pork. Oh dear, talking about all the delicious food available for consumption during the Chinese new year period makes me wish that it was Chinese new year again already; alas, it’s just ended!

-Emily

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Events

Happy Chinese New Year

Welcome Chinese New Year Festival;Tomorrow is our Chinese New Year. First of all, I wish to say ‘Happy Chinese New Year’. Our Brisbane has not many activities, that is nearly same as others weekdays. However, we still have some celebrations,such as lion dance in sunnybank plaza at 10.30am tomorrow. Well that is good enough. I am in Australia now.

Note: In the photo above is Welcome Chinese New Year Festival in Sunnybank Plaza Car Park. That is quite interesting.  When I was in there this afternoon, I saw some traditional Chinese Performances in there.

Sunnybank Plaza

Cnr Mains Rd & McCullough St
SUNNYBANK
QLD 4109

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Living

Getting cooler and normal.

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About a week from the storms and floods, the weather is getting normal. Moreover, it gets too cooler. I love this kind of weather a lot. I hope the crazy weather won’t come back!

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Events

After Storms and Floods in Brisbane

After heavy rain and damaging storms on Sunday night, I am ok. For the affects for us, that was just about a day power outage. We lost electrical power since 6pm Sunday to around 4am today. For other parts of Brisbane, I heard about from friends, there were some floods.  This morning, my friend sent me some photos which took in Riverside near Eagle Street last night, the pathway had water.

Floods@Riverside

The restaurant near the citycat pier had some water went inside too.
Riverside-Restaurants@Floods

Moreover, when I drove around this morning, everywhere  had some trees fallen down. I went the park nearby, the pathway had full of falling trees! I did not felt safe to walk around.Falling Trees@After Storm

However, in general, that is not as bad as the 2011 floods in Brisbane. We are so glad about that.

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Events

Super Wet in Brisbane

Super Wet in Brisbane

 

Since yesterday, our Queensland  serves the extreme weather. Northern Queensland has some floods and tornadoes.  That was very bad.

Today, the bad weather is moving to Brisbane.  There is heavy rain around Brisbane. When I went to Garden City this afternoon for lunch, some of roads have very minor floods. Moreover, there were very very strong winds.   After my lunch, I backed to home.  The weather went more worse.  Now, there are strong winds and heavy winds. I suggest  everyone in Brisbane should stay home and keep your eyes on the notification for this extreme weather from Queensland Government Website.

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Events

Australian Day Festival

Australian Day Festival

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This Saturday is our Australian Day. There will be a lot of celebrations across the states. For our Brisbane, i think the largest event is the Australian Day Festival at the Southbank parkland. This event will start at 10am. There will have some live performances.Also, the key part will be the flag raising ceremony at 11.30am. The defense force will raise the flags for Australian,  Queensland ,Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander in the Culture Front. Moreover, 21-gun military salute and F/A-18F Super Hornet flypast will be the important part of this ceremony too.

That sounds a must-go event for Australian Day!

Reference:
Australia Day Festival

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News

Heatwave is gone!!!

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During these few weeks, we got some extreme summer days. There were some 30 to 40 degrees hot days. Sometimes, i felt hot even the air conditioning was on. But today,we got some rains. The weather is cooler. Finally ,we got a break from this heatwave.

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Travel

Melbourne – Iconic Laneways…

Melbourne – Iconic Laneways

Melbourne, a city full of artistic and cultural identity. Can you imagine a place can be unique, lots of fun and activities, full of characters and life? Well, laneways in Melbourne CBD has all of it!

Melbourne – Iconic Laneways- Restaurants, café, boutique clothing and speciality food

Restaurants, café, boutique clothing and speciality food from different county are some of the retail opportunities locals have and Melbournian enjoys.

Events - Melbourne – Iconic Laneways

Laneways have become iconic city landscape that allows for many activities, even brides and grooms take photos for their special day! Many memorable experiences can be found in Melbourne’s exciting laneways.

 

LC

 

(Thanks for the report from LC in Melbourne)

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Living

Heatwave in Brisbane

Brisbane-Heatwave

 

That is so hot today! Some friends posted some notes in facebook about this heatwave. They told us in this afternoon, that was around 40 degree. Moreover,even every state has  bushfires! A few days ago, we even can smell smoke. We believed that was from the bushfires in bribe Island.  We have to prepare for this heatwave.

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Food

Lunch Specials @ Fasta Pasta

penne pasta

I’m what you call a ‘flour head’ in Cantonese. What that means is that I simply LOVE eating anything made from flour, like pasta!
With that fact in mind, it should come as no surprise to anyone that one of my favourite restaurants to dine out at is the Fasta Pasta in Springwood. The location is good and easy to reach. That is near Pacific Highway Exit and there are a ton of parking spots.
Fasta Pasta franchises are located all around the state, but my local restaurant is the one located in Springwood.
Currently, they have this special lunch deal for the low price of $8.90! There are eight dishes to choose from; these eight dishes include a variety of pizza, pasta and salad.
My personal favourite from those eight dishes is the penne bel paese, a penne pasta dish with bacon pieces in a creamy sauce. It’s tasty and good value for money!
-Emily
Address:
Springwood Mall,
34 Fitzgerald Avenue SPRINGWOOD
QLD 4127
Phone: 07 3209 4900

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