Left - Plum.
Right - ?

When I first looked at it, I thought it was a mini apple.  It looks exactly like an apple but it isn’t.

It is called nectarines - a cultivar group of peach that has a smooth skin.  The skin looks like the apple’s skin.

When I put it near my nose, I can smell a very nice and sweet peach smell.

We bought it from the Fremantle Market.  I checked the photos that I have taken, it was labeled with “very sweet white gold nectarin”.

I can’t find it in my hometown, have you tried it before?

We bought different types of mushrooms from a supermarket.  Mushroom is our favorite.  :D

These are flat mushrooms in brown and white.

The brown one was larger whereas the white was smaller.

This is called button mushroom.

Again, we have a smaller button but longer stem, whereas the fatter button mushrooms has shorter stem.

These were the mushrooms we bought.

Yes, we only bought 4, 1 for each type because we were afraid that we could not finish them before they expired.

The supermarket provided a special paper bag to store mushroom instead of using a plastic bag.  In order to save the environment, we tried to ask the staff if we can put all them in a same paper bag.  The reply was no.  So we took 3 paper bags.

“Place mushroom in a paper bag and store them on the lowest shelf in the refrigerator.

For best results do not wash mushrooms before using. Trim stem then gently wipe with a damp cloth or brush off any visible dirt with a pastry brush.”

Big mushroom in a small living room.

We went to Fremantle early in the morning without taking breakfast, the first thing to do there was looking for some food.  We were suggested by SiewPeng’s sister, MY to try the Fish ‘n’ Chips there.

This Fish ‘n’ Chips claims that it is the best Fish ‘n’ Chips in WA.

Since SiewPeng and I are vegetarians, we can only eat the chips.  When we got our order, we had large cut potato chips.  When we bit it in our mouths, it was still crispy.  Nice, and we ordered one more set right after we finished the first set of chips.

There is a long aquarium containing different types of fish.  Many visitors including us were taking photos there.

This was their ordering system.  We lined up in the queue to order, paid the amount and we were given this device.  We went back to our seat to wait, when the food was ready, it beeped and the light brightened, then we proceeded to the counter to take our food.  Cool huh?

This was their menu.

There are more tables outside.

And seagulls could be found there.

And I found a sign to warn the visitors not to feed the seagulls.  Do you know what S.O.Y stands for?

My GPS guided me to exactly where I should park our rented car.  We just walked along a road called Parry St. and we reached the famous Fremantle Markets.

Colin and SiewPeng at one of the entrances.

When I first stepped inside the hall, I thought I have gone back to Malaysia.  There was a big crowd, many stalls were selling souvenirs such as key chains, shirts, toys etc..

We continued to walk to another section selling food and we found a delicious thing to eat in the hot Saturday afternoon.

This was the delicious sweet chocolate coated fresh strawberry.  It was juicy.  The little sourness of the strawberry and the sweet chocolate melted in our mouths.  4 strawberries on a stick cost us AUD2.50.

We walked further and found many stalls selling fruits and vegetables.

I bought the “Very Sweet White Gold Neltarin”.

I was holding a large egg of Kalbarri Ostrich.  Each egg cost AUD7.99.

I asked the permission of the stall owner if I could take photos, a young Asian gentleman said no problem.

We spent about an hour inside the hall, and we walked all the way back to the entrance that we came in.  Later, we discovered that there are many doors which we could use, but we have taken longer routes and turned a big round to get to it.

This is one of the doors which was closed.

It shows that the Fremantle market was established in 1897.  It is 114 years old now.

Before proceeded to our next destination, I continued to shoot photos.

It seems that part of the wall has collapsed.

This is the junction at Parry St..  Again, I heard the familiar traffic light sound for pedestrian’s turn.

Coming up next, I will show you more about Fremantle, WA.

Dark chocolate is my favorite.  My sister just came back from other states for the Chinese New Year break, she bought us a packet of dark chocolate.

I found that the packet of the chocolate is semitransparent with warm and attractive colours.  Here, my camera put its head (lens) into the packet of the chocolate and looked at the purple skinned dark chocolates closely.

This is the making of the dark chocolate photo.

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This year, I still have a chance to meet my sister.  Last year, we meet at the airport before Chinese New Year.  The time she came back to Kuching was the time I left Kuching to Perth.  This year, we can have a gathering dinner on the coming Monday evening before Chinese New Year.

Yes, I am going to Perth again this year during Chinese New Year.