Archive for August 2013
Day Trip of Wine Tasting - Hunter Valley
This weekend gonna be sunny and very warm. it great to run out city and have some fun in somewhere else~~ :)
Lastly, for people who ready to go there, there's some hint for you guys.
1) Hunter Valley such a big place, therefore it's better to go to their information centre first and ask for recommendation.
2) Their wine factory actually has delivery of wine, therefore, if you LOVE that wine, must remember ask for their delivery form or details.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKENDS GUYSS XO
There's a good short road trip to a place called Hunter Valley. Hunter Vally is place contains a lot of different kind of wine factory. Also, there's a chocolate tasting and cheese tasting, therefore, it's not just for the adult, kids gonna love that place as well.
To Hunter Valley from Sydney is only 3 hours drive.
In Hunter Valley there's a place called LOVEDALE <3
People can catch the helicopter and view the HEART Shape land on the sky.
Then, heres some of the wine factories. You can taste all the wine for free.
But it's good bargain to buy their wine in Hunter Valley, cause personally i think their wine tastes much better compared with the wine in Sydney liquid store.
The price in Hunter Valley normally around 30 -40 dollars.
Kids gonna LOVE this place :)
This chocolate shop has a lot of interesting design chocolate, it;s good to buy it as a gift to your friends ^^
1) Hunter Valley such a big place, therefore it's better to go to their information centre first and ask for recommendation.
2) Their wine factory actually has delivery of wine, therefore, if you LOVE that wine, must remember ask for their delivery form or details.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKENDS GUYSS XO
Spice I Am
Spice I Am
90 Wentworth Ave Surry Hills
Once the preserve of expat Thais, this little red-hot chilli pepper now has queues out the door. No wonder, as everything we’ve tried from the 70-plus dishes on the menu is superfragrant and superspicy. It's been so successful that they've opened the upmarket Spice I Am – The Restaurant in Darlinghurst.
90 Wentworth Ave Surry Hills
Once the preserve of expat Thais, this little red-hot chilli pepper now has queues out the door. No wonder, as everything we’ve tried from the 70-plus dishes on the menu is superfragrant and superspicy. It's been so successful that they've opened the upmarket Spice I Am – The Restaurant in Darlinghurst.
House is proud to introduce cuisine from the traditional area of Isaan in
North Eastern Thailand, so that our customers may understand deeply the
connection between the Isaan way of life and their folk wisdom.
Open for lunch and dinner everyday, takeaway available.
- Spice I Am, Sydney's Multi-Award winning Thai Restaurant, possibly the best Thai food outside of Thailand. Thai travelers have told us you can not get as good, and authentic, food as this even in Bangkok anymore.
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State library of NSW
State Library of NSW
| State Library of NSW Macquarie Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia |
The estimable State Library holds over five million tomes, including James Cook’s and Joseph Banks’ journals and Captain (later Governor) Bligh’s log from the mutinous HMAV Bounty. The main reading room is an elegant temple of knowledge clad in milky marble.
Also worth checking out are the temporary exhibitions in the galleries, and the elaborately sculpted bronze doors and grand atrium of the neoclassical Mitchell Wing (1910); note the map of Tasman’s journeys in the mosaic floor. Beneath one of the windows on the Macquarie St side of the building is a sculpture of explorer Matthew Flinders with his intrepid cat Trim.
Exhibitions & events
The State Library of New South Wales provides dynamic, informative and entertaining exhibitions and display programs from over one million pictorial images as well as maps, manuscripts and ephemera from our collections.
Five historic galleries in the Mitchell Wing enable visitors to see many treasures through a changing exhibition and display program.
The State Library of New South Wales also hosts inspiring talks, tours, movies and courses covering subjects as broad as our own collections. Join journalists, artists, writers, historians, researchers, curators and even food critics - there's something for everyone's taste.
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Sydney Harbour bridge
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a steel arch bridge between the Sydney central business districe and the North Shore. And this bridge is the 4th longest arch bridge in the world. So this place becomes popular to tourists.
Briefly introduce the Harbour Bridge, total length is 1,149m, width 49 and height 134m.
You can reach the Harbour Bridge at Ciqular Quay or Milsons Point.
Habour Bridge Climbing. There are 2 courses. 1) Discovery Climb 2) Bridge Climb
In Discovery Climb course, you can climb stairs and look all the structure of the bridge. (3.5 hrs)
In Bridge Climb course, you can walk above the bridge and can see all the view of Sydney. (3.5hrs)
Price
Peak
Briefly introduce the Harbour Bridge, total length is 1,149m, width 49 and height 134m.
You can reach the Harbour Bridge at Ciqular Quay or Milsons Point.
Habour Bridge Climbing. There are 2 courses. 1) Discovery Climb 2) Bridge Climb
In Discovery Climb course, you can climb stairs and look all the structure of the bridge. (3.5 hrs)
In Bridge Climb course, you can walk above the bridge and can see all the view of Sydney. (3.5hrs)
And every end of years, there is a huge fireworks festival in this bridge.
Peak
ADULT
CHILD**
Night $228 $158 Day $258 $178 Twilight $318 $208 Dawn*** $318 $208
ADULT
CHILD**
Standard
ADULT |
CHILD** | |||
| Weekday | Weekend | Weekday | Weekend | |
| Night | $198 | $198 | $148 | $148 |
| Day | $235 | $245 | $158 | $168 |
| Twilight | $298 | $308 | $208 | $208 |
| Dawn*** | $308 | $308 | $208 | $208 |
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The Rocks Market, Sydney
The Rocks Market which is located at the north end of George Street, this is the major tourist Market in Sydney. With the backdrop of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and nestled within the historic Rocks area it's a perfect place for an enjoyable day browsing.
On market days you'll be surrounded by colour and movement from the wide variety of stalls, be tempted by the smells of the food stalls and be entertained by the talented street performers who wander the streets to share their music and performances.
The market, open on Saturday and Sunday between 10:00 and 17:00, caters for all things arts and crafts.
Browsing under the distinctive yellow sails you'll find arts and crafts, photography, australiana, indigenous artware, jewellery, books and much more. In all there are something like 150 stalls.
Address:Jack Mundey Place, Playfair and George Streets
Website: www.therocks.com
Phone:9240 8717
Hours:Every Saturday and Sunday 10-5
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Josephine(Kin Ming) Wong,
The Royal Botanic Garden
Today. i am going to introduce The Royal Botanic Garden located in the middle of Syndey City.
It is just next to the Opera House and Cirqular Quay. You can approach about 5-10 minutes by walking.
If you are busy living in city and need rest, come to this garden.
Normally, there are many people jogging around.
And the impressive thing is bat in this park. Noramally, bats are living in dark something place like cave, but bats are living in this park. And this tree is the place that bats are staying. .....
Mrs Macquaries Rd
Sydney
+64 29 231 8111
Sydney
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Cherry Blossom Festival in Sydney
If you like Cherry Blossom, known as Sakura in Japanese, you may be want to go to Japan at April to enjoy the cherry blossom.However, you may not be able to ask for a leave from your boss to travel to Japan. Now, you can go to Auburn at August to enjoy the Sakura!
The Cherry Blossom Festival is on Sat 17, Sun 18, Sat 24, Sun 25 August 2013, 12pm-4pm at Auburn Botanic Gardens and Peacock Gallery (Chiswick Rd, Auburn). The festival is on around the same time every year!
You maybe still remember some movie scenes that family and friends having picnic under Cherry Blossom trees. You CAN do so here!!!
You not only can enjoy the flowers here, but also there are some festival programs available on the day.
A full program includes
Japanese themed demonstrations such as Ikebana, Kendo and musical performances such as Shakuhachi, Koto and Taiko drumming.
For the full program time:
please refer to the official website: 
Cherry Blossom Festival at Auburn
There is a PDF at the bottom!~
For the ticket fee:
It is free for Auburn Residents and children.$5 charge for visitor outside the area.
For the transport:
There is FREE shutter bus operating from Auburn Station to the Garden from 10.30am-4pm on the day of the festival!Hope you could visit there sometime! Pretty nice place to have picnic!
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Shiqi Liang (42912598),
Sydney Fish Market
Sydney Fish Market
Sydney Fish Market is a wholesale, retail and dining in one of the seafood market. On the species, it is the southern hemisphere's largest and world's second largest seafood market (the largest in Japan). In addition to Christmas, it is year-round; 7 o'clock every morning and open the door to almost 16:00 Off files. Not only tourists like to come here bites, locals often come here to buy seafood; seafood being sold with the urban ratio, but here is cheap and fresh.
Oyster is one of my favourite sea food, if you go to fish market, you have to try it. It locals at the left hand side when you enter the main entry.The Oyster is cheap and fresh, in my opinion, it is the greatest Oyster shop in fish market.
the adress of fish markt is
247 Bank Street
PYRMONT, NSW 2009
Australia
the esaiest way to get there is take a taxi, it just cost 10-15 dollars to get there from city
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MinQuan Chen (chmif1201),
The Most Creative and Delicious Ice-Cream Cake Shop -- Gelato Messina
Gelato Messina
The Gelato Messina starts its business in Sydney at 2002. This ice cream cake shop could be recognized as the most Creative and Delicious cake shop in Sydney. They concentrate on the quality. Their products are made FRESHLY every day. They offer over diverse range of over 40 flavours at any one time, and a select number of bespoke gelato cakes and single serve pieces. they have a Creative Department (Messina's Laboratorio and Patisserie) to create complex and intricate mono-portioned pieces that will simply blow you away. From there, you could have a feeling -- I could be satisfied by an ice cream cake!
There are 3 Shops around Sydney. They are all around the train station. So the place is easy to find.
DARLINGHURST STORE
Shop 1/241 Victoria St,
Darlinghurst NSW 2010
Opening timesSunday to Thursday: 12pm to 11pm
Friday and Saturday: 12pm to 11.30pm
Darlinghurst NSW 2010
Opening timesSunday to Thursday: 12pm to 11pm
Friday and Saturday: 12pm to 11.30pm
THE STAR STORE
Cafe Court, Level G,
80 Pyrmont Street,
Pyrmont NSW 2009
80 Pyrmont Street,
Pyrmont NSW 2009
Opening times
Monday to Thursday: 11am to 11pm
Friday and Saturday: 11am to 11.30pm
Sunday: 11am-11pm
Monday to Thursday: 11am to 11pm
Friday and Saturday: 11am to 11.30pm
Sunday: 11am-11pm
SURRY HILLS STORE
389 Crown St,
Surry Hills
NSW 2010
Opening times
Sunday to Thursday: 12pm to 10.30pm
Friday and Saturday: 12pm to 11.30pm
Surry Hills
NSW 2010
Opening times
Sunday to Thursday: 12pm to 10.30pm
Friday and Saturday: 12pm to 11.30pm
Here are some delicate cakes:
Dr Evil’s Magic Mushroom
The top dome of this cake is filled with Dr Evil gelato (dark chocolate gelato, peanut cookies and dulce de leche) and is topped with layers of vanilla cream, chocolate sponge, a red ganache, and white chocolate buttons to finish. The stalk is filled with dulce de leche caramel surrounded by dark chocolate gelato. The whole mushroom sits upon ‘grass’ made from popping candy and crushed biscuit.
Black Forest
Our Black Forest cake has a bottom half of chocolate fondant gelato, kirsch semi freddo with amarena cherries, and a chocolate crackle disc. The top half contains a cherry sorbet hemisphere encased in a crisp dark chocolate dome. All finished with a dark chocolate spray.
Not enough for the creative impress??
Go to their website: http://www.gelatomessina.com/
to check out more!!
Feeling Hungry??
Grab your wallet and go! They open till late!!
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Shiqi Liang (42912598),
