Month: July 2017

Food

HOT Star Large fried chicken@Garden City

HOT Star Large fried chicken@Garden City

Two weeks ago, when we went to Garden City for our Night Shopping, we found that the HOT Star Large fried chicken which is popular Fried Chicken chain stores in Taiwan opened a new store in this shopping center, near the Daiso. In fact, they already opened a
Branch in the Sunnybank Market Square, but Market Square is the lack of parking spaces and too many people, so I am not very keen to try that store. Garden City store is in a different situation, there are a plenty of parking spaces, and there are a lot of major department stores or supermarkets, such as Myer, David Jones, Coles and Woolworths so you can eat chicken, but you can do your grocery shopping during the same trip.

Because of the location of the convenience, so you can try to HOT Star Large fried chicken this times

I believe that Thursday, this shop should be opened for only a few days, so there are a lot of people wish to try this new store. I spent some time to wait. After I had waited for a while, finally I got my large fried chicken breast.

Chicken Breast@HOT Star Large fried chicken

This is a huge chicken breast, almost the size of my face. Also, this is very tendering too. However, that cost $ 8.5. Also, I got a small tip for you about this chicken breast, On Thursday, we bought the takeaway to home, although it is very delicious, that is not sufficient. On Sunday, we bought a chicken breast again, we ate that right away, the taste was different, that tasted very very good.

Chicken Wings@Chicken Breast@HOT Star Large fried chicken

Besides of chicken breast, their chicken wings are good.It cost $3.90 for three.

Sweet Potato Chips@Chicken Breast@HOT Star Large fried chicken

Of course, you think you had too much chicken; we wish to try some things differently. I tried their sweet potato chips, and they are also very crisp.

All the above things are very delicious. We had their fried chicken twice a week.

 

Address:

Level 1,
Westfield Garden City
Logan Rd  and Kessels Rd,
Upper Mount Gravatt
QLD 4122

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Events

Good Food Month – Night Noodle Markets 2017

Night Noodle Markets 2015

The annual food festival, Night Noodle Markets, comes again, according to their website, the night market will be started today! And until 30th of this month, it will open in South Bank’s cultural forecourt every night. During the period there are 23 Asian restaurants where stalls, such as:

Philippine skewers – Hoy Pinoy, there is a big charcoal oven to do skewers!

Hoy Pinoy

 

Hoy Pinoy

Charcoal grills

And Blackstar Pastry x n2 Gelato, Teppanyaki Noodles and so on. Also, I checked their menu, The last year favor, a watermelon Strawberry cake, will be still available.Last night, that was very popular. There was a big long queue in front of the stall.

 

Also as in the past, during the event, there are some live music entertainments.

Summary of the above points, it seems this year’s night market will be desirable.

But according to previous years of experience, the portion is not big. Also, we need to spend around twenty dollars to feel full. Please remember, this market is cashless. You need to bring your bank cards along

 

Fee: Free to entry

Date: 19-30/7/2017

Time：

Mon to Fri： 5pm til late
Sat, Sun：4pm til late

Location:South Bank, cultural forecourt

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Events

Regional Flavors in Southbank

This Saturday and Sunday in Southbank, there will be an annual food festival, Regional Flavors.
During the event, there will be 80 stalls touting gourmet fare from chocolate to fruit across Queensland.

Also, there will be free cooking demonstrations from celebrity chef and industry experts and live music.
I believe that will be a good family activity for this weekend.

Date:15-16/7/2017

Location: Southbank Brisbane

Fee: Free to entry

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Living

Drewvale New ALDI-Upmarket Supermarket

Drewvale ALDI

Yesterday, ALDI opened a new store in Drewvale. I heard this is an Up Market Version, which is different than other ALDI stores.
Thus, I visited this store when I was off from work. Yes, this store looks different. The store entrance looks more high-end and a lot of parking space!


For the inside of this store, the shelves placed more neatly; the aisles are wider than the others stores too. The light is also specially designed. That is softer! The signboards are also big, very clear.
It looks fresh. It looks an upmarket supermarket rather than other ALDI which looks a budget store.
As for the goods, same as other Aldi, there are a lot of their home brand products and the most popular weekly limited specials. However, it seems to have more major brands products.

Perhaps, I have high expectations for this Aldi, I think this store is a little bit small, and the mall where the store located only have one other store, a medical center, there is no other shop, that is quite inconvenient.

In summary, the store is not bad; I like this store.

Address:

27 Illaweena Street
Drewvale
QLD 4116

Trading Hours:

Moday to Friday 8:30am to 8pm
Saturday 8am to 8pm
Sunday 9am to 6pm

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Living

[Tips for living in Australia] Handling the someone else’s mail

Source:Open Clip Art Using Under Public Domain Attribution

That is not unusual to receive some letters with the correct address, but the recipient is neither you, your family nor your housemates. If you are just moving a new house, that will happen at all. Usually, the old tenants forgot to change the address to all companies which they used their service; you will receive the letters from the companies related to him/her. The solution is simple, if you are living in Australia, you just need to write on the envelope, “No Such Person” or “Return to Sender,” even you can add “Please Update your record,” then you just need to put the letter to any AusPost postage outlet, without stamps, that is a free service. So that you can send back the return address, and they will know your home without this person, should not send any letter to him/her. However, please remember not to open the letter, opened lettered will require the postage again, and other people’s letters are not allowed you to open that. Also, you should not put those letters directly in the bin; this is someone else’s property!

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Food

Steak Monday @ Calamvale Hotel

Steak Monday @Calamvale Hotel

I saw a number of my friends tried the steak in Calamvale Hotel. Finally, I had a chance to have that few weeks ago with my family.
That was on Monday. In every Monday, there is a special on the Steak. There is a steak meal on special, just $14.50. You do not need to buy any drinks at all; you still can have this special. That is a good deal. On that day, a Rump Steak main course was on Speical. That is a good deal. The main course included a steak, a bowl of Salad and chips. The portion isn’t small. I do not eat beef. Thus, I do not know whether it tastes good. But my relatives ate that, their feedback is good. For myself, I ordered a chicken breast. It tasted not bad and looked good!


Besides of food, the environment is good. This restaurant looks clean and fresh too. I will recommend you to try their Steak Monday.

Calamvale Hotel

Address:

Corner of Compton & Beaudesert Roads
Calamvale
QLD 4116

Trading Hours:

7 days a week
10.00am – 10.00pm

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