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Although the costs of living is rather high in Sydney compared to most other places, you can find cheap good food in Sydney if you know where and know how. There's this pub at this hotel opposite Unilodge that has $5 meals if you order a drink. And the drinks are quite cheap. I got this James Squire Golden Ale (really good, smooth ale) and a steak burger meal (steak burger with chips) for just $9.50. Gladys got lemons and bitters, and a pizza (actually, we just shared out the food) for just $8.80. And the food was good.
Groceries can be really cheap too. Today, we went to this Flemington market to get groceries. It's a wholesale market. We bought a lot of stuff for just about AUD$40. We bought a kg of really sweet and nice cherries for just $12, FOUR kg of fresh mushrooms for $12, 2 boxes of sweet strawberries for $7, 8 bunches of green/red oak lettuce $4 (we saw the same things selling for about AUD$2.50 per bunch in another supermarket), a kg of salmon bellies for $4, 3 boxes of cherry tomatos for $2, and 20 HUGE eggs for $5.80. Really cheap. I think we bought enough to last us for the next 2+ weeks we have left here. Oh. And I don't think we ever saw any eggs that can be compared to the ones we bought. We had one for lunch, and there were two yolks in it. It was so big that the two of us shared the one egg.
And then there are the cheap bread if you get them after 8pm ($1 for a big roll, or $0.50 for 6 hamburger buns), the cheap purple cabbage we bought etc. There was one day we had kangaroo meat burgers, with cheese, egg, mushrooms in them, and we estimated that each burger cost us around $1.50 each.
For those of you who are wondering after all the cheap and good food whether I put on weight, yes, I did. I put on about 2+kg since I came, and my waistline... erm... Haha. With all the gardening and groceries shopping, luckily my upper body became bigger as well.
Although the costs of living is rather high in Sydney compared to most other places, you can find cheap good food in Sydney if you know where and know how. There's this pub at this hotel opposite Unilodge that has $5 meals if you order a drink. And the drinks are quite cheap. I got this James Squire Golden Ale (really good, smooth ale) and a steak burger meal (steak burger with chips) for just $9.50. Gladys got lemons and bitters, and a pizza (actually, we just shared out the food) for just $8.80. And the food was good.
Groceries can be really cheap too. Today, we went to this Flemington market to get groceries. It's a wholesale market. We bought a lot of stuff for just about AUD$40. We bought a kg of really sweet and nice cherries for just $12, FOUR kg of fresh mushrooms for $12, 2 boxes of sweet strawberries for $7, 8 bunches of green/red oak lettuce $4 (we saw the same things selling for about AUD$2.50 per bunch in another supermarket), a kg of salmon bellies for $4, 3 boxes of cherry tomatos for $2, and 20 HUGE eggs for $5.80. Really cheap. I think we bought enough to last us for the next 2+ weeks we have left here. Oh. And I don't think we ever saw any eggs that can be compared to the ones we bought. We had one for lunch, and there were two yolks in it. It was so big that the two of us shared the one egg.
And then there are the cheap bread if you get them after 8pm ($1 for a big roll, or $0.50 for 6 hamburger buns), the cheap purple cabbage we bought etc. There was one day we had kangaroo meat burgers, with cheese, egg, mushrooms in them, and we estimated that each burger cost us around $1.50 each.
For those of you who are wondering after all the cheap and good food whether I put on weight, yes, I did. I put on about 2+kg since I came, and my waistline... erm... Haha. With all the gardening and groceries shopping, luckily my upper body became bigger as well.
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