Perth, Western Australia (Day 4)

Today, we have a local tour guide (Mr.Wong) to bring us explore few places around Perth City.

After having breakfast, our first stop was Market City. What is so special about this market until Mr.Wong think we shall pay a visit as usually tourist won't be coming here? This is a market distributing all sort of goods or shall I say grocery for resell purpose. It's just like our Selayang Market. The only differences are they only open to public every Saturday (to get rid off those balance stuff before they off on Sunday), they sell everything in box, tray or bulk and you will find majority of buyers are Asean. Why? Asean like to pay little for more things, to increase profit especially for those who run business in restaurant or even for housewife, they can save money through some good deal over there. Mr.Wong said you will not find yourself in "ang mo" country as you can see so many Asean here.

One big basket of apple costs AUS10-15.

Not sure what kind of fruit is this, AUS20/tray.

Walnut : AUS10/bag

Mushroom : AUS30/box and Persimmon : AUS20/tray (price drops as it's getting late)

After that, we went to Kings Park, a reserved garden at Perth city center. This delightful parkland is big and you feel so greats and comfortable walking around. The grass there was so green and soft. For natural lover like us, we enjoyed the peacefulness there so much.

Perth City, view from Kings Park

Next, we drove to University Of Western Australia (UWA). To study overseas used to be my dream. Since I've missed the chance, I felt so good to walk around there for some fresh air. UWA is the oldest and one of the famous university in WA. I wish my girls will have opportunity to study here one day.

University Of WA

Then we moved to Fremantle which took about 45 minutes drive from the city. We arrived Fremantle before noon and straightaway went to Fremantle Market for shopping. This is another market that only open on certain day. From here, you are able to find many different types of souvenirs with reasonable price.

Fremantle market, selling all kind of fruits.

Restaurant Cicerello's

Anyone who visited Fremantle will definitely try their famous food, fish and chips. Mr.Wong told us that his children like the fish and chips here so much and find it's the best. So how can we miss that? We went to a restaurant called Cicerello's for fish and chips. The restaurant was full of people and luckily we managed to find places to sit. This is a self service restaurant, we have to queue up for order and to collect it when it's ready. The business was so good and we have waited for almost 1/2 hours to get our food. Emm..... the fish was fresh and so tasty. This was the first time we use bare hand to eat fish & chips and chili mussels, no cutlery at all.

After filling up our stomach, we left Fremantle and heading towards Lake Monger. From far, I could see a lot of "black spot" floating on the lake. Wondering what was that? When come closer, it's black swans! Lake Monger is a natural attraction and home to the famous black swans. All the black swans here are being protected. They were so friendly and weren't afraid of human. They walked closer to us for photo shooting...... cheeseeeee!

This is our last stop before we wrapped up today's itinerary.

*Mr.Wong brought us to an Asean food court for dinner. If you miss curry laksa, cantonese fried mee, Kajang satay, chay kuai teow, bak kut teh, etc, you could have it all here. And if you are home sick (for those migrated), you will feel better as you can find some home feeling from here too.