Food in Perth

Every country or place that you go to, there is a food of their own.

Is there a thing like the Australia food?

No, there is no such thing called the Australian cuisine.

They have a bit of every thing.
You find fish and chips as much as you would find sushi in Perth.
Potato is as much a part of Aussie food as noodles are.

However Barbie is some thing that every Aussie party would try to fit in.

Now what is a Barbie?

Like you, I also thought Barbie is some thing to do with girls only, not quite in Australia.

Barbie is not only a doll, here its the abbreviation for barbecue.
Australians love the outdoor and they love to barbecue there food.Almost every Park in Perth has a barbecue set up, where you could grill a sausage or a portion of meat or fish. 

This part of the country has people from Philippines, Vietnam, all of Europe, Arab, India and where not.
This has resulted in this wide range of food options.

However none is accessible unless you go to the hot spots of the city. All restaurants are concentrated around few major places, like the Perth Central, Subiaco, Freemantle etc.
Outside of these places, all you can find is a pizza shop or subway or a junk food stall ( McDonald, or KFC or Hungry Jacks).

These three junk food stalls will be your best bet, if you get sudden hunger attacks like i do.

Hungry Jacks is very Australian and there is one thing that I must tell about the Hungry Jacks.
They sell Organic beef.
Now wait a second, I never knew beef could be inorganic. Is there some one who could make beef with phosphorous and sulfur. 
If you are a couch potato on weekends, browsing TV, you will sure have Hungry Jacks coming up on your screen and tell you, they sell Organic Beef country burgers.

If this is hard for you to believe check the commercial at this link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=peE-ltfTvVE


There are a few Indian food options too.

The most note worthy are two places.
The Govinda's near NorthBridge
The Annalakshmi by the banks of Swan river.

Both these places sell vegetarian Indian food, and the price makes it even more inviting.

As on November 2011, a meal for one in Govinda's would cost you no more than 4 dollars and Annalakshi does not charge you anything unless you want to pay some thing.

Yes Annalalshmi does not ask you to pay any money for the food you eat, you need to just contribute what ever you think is best.


That was about the restaurants that impacts me most, while I am here.

The supermarkets cater to your daily needs, where you could find almost every thing that a person could ask for. Vegetables, Meat, Fish cereals, sauce, spice every thing.

There are few major chains of supermarkets that cater to Perth and Western Australia.

The coles, Woolworth and IGA. They are pretty well spread and available in every suburbs of Perth.

If you are hungry, now you know where to go, but what do you don't know is when to go.
Yes that's very important.
Most places in Perth close by 6 o clock in the evening, except for Wednesdays, when the shops are open till 8 o clock in the night.


!!! Bon Appetit !!!

Transport in Perth

 

People always ask me, how do I like Australia, I thought I shall start with things that i did not like before I say anything good about this place.

The country is a continent as well, and hence its immensely vast and dispersed.

Perth, has kept the spirit.  It makes you realize how difficult it can be to live in Australia when you do not submit to the Australian ways.

What is the Australian way?  Watch this space, soon you will find a lot about the Australian ways posted here.

This part that I post today is about the transport system in Perth.

The city is spread vast, with very limited public transport. 

You should refer this website http://www.transperth.wa.gov.au/ as frequently as possible, in your initial days of living in Perth, to avoid unexpected delays while you commute.

Parts of Beckenham or Jundaloop or any of the other suburbs in Perth has places to which the nearest public transport would be 2 to 3 kms away and the bus or the train runs, once in an hour, even on week days.

The good thing that you could say about the transport system in Perth is that buses within the city (Red and Yellow cat buses) are free. 

The red and the yellow cat runs with a radius of 3 to 4 kms from the Perth central station, more commonly known as the Perth Underground station are completely free, no matter what time of the day you get on it.

The trains during busy hours (morning 7:00 A.M to 9:00 A.M. and evening 4:30 P.M to 6:30 P.M.) are quite frequent. 

As you move out of the busy hours, there could be an hour’s difference between two trains. 

However not all is bad about the trains in Perth.

Outside the busy hours there are few good things as well. 

The last train on weekends is free. 

You can get on the train with a bicycle, more commonly known as a push bike in Australia, when its outside the busy hours.

Taxi is a rich mans fancy, in Perth and for Indian's like me it never comes to mind. The only time I have used a taxi is while i was shifting my luggage from one house to another or from airport to a house. 

Practically every one who intends to stay in Perth has to have a vehicle or live within 3 kms from the Perth Underground station, because other wise you will land up complaining much more than me. 

I have bought a push bike, you would complain even more, if you don't buy one.

The city has a river, the Swan River, dividing it into two. The water ferry is very relaxing and the view from the ferry keeps you occupied for the 15 mins that it takes to cross the river. This is one other member to the diverse but infrequent transport system of the city.

That is all about public transport in Perth. It has it all, but too few in number and the city is too little connected.