Showing posts with label Eating Out. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eating Out. Show all posts

Saturday, 1 September 2012

Late Night Food

I actually had something to look forward to after work tonight - the Pakuranga Night Markets! Leonie, our friend, had never been there before, so we offered to take her, her brother Winston and her mum after I finished work.

Work was quite quiet, but at least the pharmacist I was working with was quite nice and taught me a thing or two!

Work finally finished, and they were all waiting for me in the car outside!


When we got there, it was already quite packed! The markets are held at the Westfield Pakuranga carpark. There were heaps of food stalls and other stalls selling all sorts of goods. We spent most of the time looking at the food as we were all starving! Leonie was the first to buy something, getting a Chinese pancake. Winston went for the Japanese pancake, and then it took us a long, long time to decide what we wanted! I ended up deciding to take the plunge and bought a Chinese pie!


Our parents came back later on and had bought some dumplings and some dim sum.


There was a Christian stall that was wanting people to fill out a survey in order to get a chocolate bar. My mum and brothers completed it and got their chocolate bar.

It was then that we realised we were running out of time as some stalls were starting to pack up! We had a look around at what was being sold. Most of them were selling cellphone accessories and clothes.

There was one last thing we just had to try - Churro's! I've tried them before, but I don't think anyone else had! We went over to the Churro stall only to discover that the girl who was there was one of Aonghas's primary school friends! That was pretty cool!


Winston got a jumbo one!


It was time to go and we were full!

Sunday, 14 November 2010

Out for Dinner

After church today my mum dragged me along with her to do some shopping at the nearby Kathmandu with some of her church friends. I would have much rather preferred to have stayed back at church and hang out with some friends, but she insisted on me coming with her, so I ended up tagging along.

Fortunately Winston and Nadine, along with Jessica and a couple of younger kids came so I had some people to talk to!

There was a big sale at Kathmandu, so the adults (a bit weird still calling them adults when technically I'm an adult now!) were looking at all the clothes and outdoor gear on sale. I had a quick look around before I got bored. Winston, Hamish and I decided to go to the nearby Rebel Sports store and two of the kids followed us. We had a wander around to look at the stuff while the kids played around. We eventually got to the foosball tables on sale and we ended up playing a bit of foosball on it using a ping-pong ball we found nearby! I kept looking over my shoulder just in case any of the storepeople came over and told us off!

After a while we decided to go back to Kathmandu, and when we thought they were almost ready to go, they ended up buying these outdoor folding chairs and tents! They only finally left the store when it closed!

 A decision was then made on the spot that we would all go have dinner together! We went to a nearby restaurant where we had rice, sweet and sour chicken, lemon chicken and egg. Oh, and soup!



Once we finished dinner, we had a little walk to a nearby Chinese grocery store and then to Pak n' Save before heading our separate ways.



Well that was a different Sunday!