Griffith Fish Market & Clock

There are quite a few good foods in Griffith. Griffith Fish Market and Clock are among the great places I went and tasted for the foods.

 

Front facade of Griffith Fish Market

 

Chefs were preparing meals at the open kitchen

Griffith Fish Market offers variety of seafood meals with reasonable price. I loved the hot served Fish ‘n’ Chips. 

 

Clock is a restaurant serving Modern Australian cuisine. The selections of food are not varied but all the meals my friend and I ordered from the menu were excellent, they were so good in taste and well decorated.

 

We ordered pasta as our appetizer...

Main course 1: Honey Glazed Duck Breast, with cranberry & star anise reduction, potato spring roll, vegetable & crispy garnish ($34)

Main course 2: Char-grilled Scotch fillet, rosemary scented potato cake, red wine jus & caramelized red onion ($29)

Dessert 1: Classic lemon tart with brulee crust & cream ($13)

 

Dessert 2: Affogato, vanilla gelato, espresso, Frangelico & biscotti ($12)

 

I loved the well-organized interior and great ambiance of the restaurant. Glad that I had a very decent dinner on my birthday at Clock! J

 

 

 

Clock Restaurant

239 Banna Avenue, Griffith NSW 2680

(02) 6962 7111

 

Griffith Fish Market

9 Banna Avenue, Griffith NSW 2680

(02) 6964 2015

 



Christmas Celebration

When Christmas was coming soon, the residential area in Griffith was decorated nicely as if to welcome the significant celebration. Consequently, the hostel owner drove a bus and picked us up for a visit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the Christmas Eve, I joined some Hong Kong friends to attend a party belongs to the local dweller - Mick. We knew him from the nursery job. Mick and his family were kind to invite us to join them for a very decent Christmas Eve dinner. See…so many great foods prepared by his wife and son. Yummy!

Appetizer 1

 

Appetizer 2

Appetizer 3

Appetizer 4

 

Some sweets and chocolates

 

Some juicy stone fruits

 

Main course 1

 

Main course 2

 

Main couse 3

 

Main course 4

 

Main course 5

 

Actually there were also main course 6, 7…before dessert, but I know I have already posted too much photos. So, that’s enough. Be frank, the foods prepared were far more than enough for 7 of us. Everyone enjoyed the foods anyway.

We also played some video games after the dinner. Next, it’s time to exchange gift. Oh! I was surprised that I got 2 lovely presents from them, a feminine cup and a pair of silver ear rings. Thanks to Mick and Joy! Thank them once again for celebrating a memorable Christmas Eve party with us.

My first Christmas present...

 

...and my second one

 

On 25/12, I had a great Christmas dinner together with all the backpackers in the hostel.

All the backpackers were waiting for the dinner to start

 

Santa Claus wearing his uniform in short sleeves and short pants

The party was fun and exciting especially during the gift discovering moment… Everyone of us won’t know who’s the secret Santa Claus of our own unless he/she was willing to tell. However, I knew mine and I got a present consisted of lip balm and Cadbury chocolate, nice ;)

 

Working Experiences in Australia (Part II)

 

 

 

Yeah, this is garlic picking! This is a 10-dollar-per-hour job. All the workers couldn’t be slow as a tractor was following at our back.  I hope my friends don't mind me uploaded photos of them :P

 

 

All the workers leaving the field when works done

 

A tractor was carrying containers filled with garlics

Garlics picked by us in a day

 

We love GARLICS!!!

In fact, I tried onion picking as well, I didn't take any photos tough. They were almost the same (in terms of hard work).

Stone fruit picking was much easier for me. Nectarines, peach and apricot seemed juicy and attractive. Many of us worked together and had more fun.
 

Nectarines tree

 

Tasty nectarines

All of us soon filled the containers with the fruits 

 

We love NECTARINES!!!

 

 The job of onion flower picking was none too bad. All the jobs I worked here required speed and energy except this one. The contractor asked us to look in details slowly and pick the ‘female’ carefully. Be frank, it’s pretty challenging to differentiate between the ‘male’ and ‘female’ because they looked almost the same. The onion flowers looked stunning from short or far distance. Anyway, this job only required us to work there for a day. We’re happy with the work of that day.

 

Onion flowers

Close-up of an onion flower



Working Experiences in Australia (Part I)

I had my first job on the second week of my stay in the working hostel. I worked in a small plant where gourmet foods are manufactured. My job was really easy and the wage was not bad. However, the working hours was not guaranteed except the peak season before Christmas. As a result, I hunted for other jobs in between.

My first outdoor work in Australia was……Guess what? Mandarin picking! I worked in a team with 3 Korean guys, picking mandarin from early morning until evening but just earn 30-50 bucks in a day. Hard work!! Yes…I know this was not my first time involved in fruit picking (I experienced it in New Zealand before), it’s still tough for me though. Most of the fruit picking jobs here are paid by contract and not by hourly basis, so you have to work really hard and fast. For this job, we were provided with ladders and we were commanded to pick every single fruit on the trees. End of the day, we’ll get approximately $40 for every full container of mandarin. But don’t forget that it still needed to divide among 4 people. One good thing about working there was we had eaten enough mandarin J

The following job was by contract again. I worked in a nursery field. Every day except weekend, work started at 7 o’ clock while the weather was still cold. I was bending my back, sometimes squatting or sitting on the ground to prune the plants along the rows. Every backpacker was paid according to the quantity of plants they worked on. I still remember that our wage merely worth 10 cent per plant. Thus, we had to prune almost a thousand plants in a row in order to earn $100. Fortunately, I was able to make more than that. Still, the champion was my German friend :)

One thing I really hate about working in the field was the presence of flies. I had no idea where’s the flies came from, they were extremely annoying! The flies stayed on the face or any exposed skin and they came back again and again even I repelled them. Thus, a face net or repellent is well worth prepare if you’re planning on working in the field. Just in case.