'Just thought I'd share a few shots from our experience at the Sydney Fish Market this past weekend. We decided it'd be fun to hit up a Sydney landmark or two for a tourist-style outing (more importantly, we decided we needed to find some free/cheap entertainment because we took our car in for it's first maintenance experience and walked away with significantly lighter wallets!) We'd planned to go to the Harbour Bridge, but we left a little later than we'd planned, and we maaaaay have taken an extra trip or two over the Anzac Bridge trying to get to the fish market. So, we only did the one stop this weekend, but the detour made for a nice photo op. We found free parking (woot!) on a side street and strolled through Wentworth Park, which boasts a fantastic view of the skyline and Sydney Tower. The Sydney Fish Market was (spoiler alert) full of fish - not just fish, but all kinds of fresh seafood as well as breads and pastries, cheeses, fruits and veggies, and well, just about everything but meat and poultry (although there were plenty of happy seagulls and ibises hovering around the picnic tables and raiding the rubbish bins)... They had several sashimi bars where you order deli-style by weight - a whole new experience for us. We were like fish out of water (it's ok to roll your eyes). We debated the whole way through the line how much to order. Not gonna lie - our first time at the grocery deli counter, we bought 1 kilo of turkey breast...turns out, that's a LOT of turkey breast (2.2 lbs. to be exact). So while we've since honed our deli meat projection skills, we weren't exactly sure how accurately that would translate to salmon sashimi. It was priced by the kilo - maybe we could just ask for $20 worth? No, Pickle decided that wouldn't fly - we definitely needed a weight. We decided on .25 kg as our best estimate...but how to order? Since it's priced per kilo, Pickle asked for ".25 kg" - didn't translate..."1/4 of a kilo"? Nope...he tried "a quarter of a kilo" and then ".25 kg" again to no avail. English was not the young lady at the counter's first language, which wasn't a problem except that our foreign ordering skills were not translating well. Luckily, the kind Aussie next to me relayed that we wanted 250 grams of the salmon sashimi. All parties were grateful for the assist! Besides the sashimi and some seaweed salad, we ordered some just-caught, just-torched cheesy scallops that were scrumptious. For dessert, we had a chocolate-covered fig, strawberry, and mango on a stick....aaaand then two more chocolate-covered figs :)
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Diane/Mom/MiL
20/4/2015 03:15:46 am
Holy mackerel.......forgot you were in the "land of the metric system" which basically is most of the world!! Even though I taught it, I would "flounder" if I had to give up good ole USA customary units:) The Sydney fish market looks wonderful, but Dad and I went to Red Lobster last week and enjoyed their grilled salmon!! Just sayin............although there was NO mango on a stick:) Love, Mom
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Jamison Lorraine
20/4/2015 05:07:30 pm
I have to say, it'd be nice in modern times, as the world continues to become smaller and we cross borders more frequently and with greater ease, if there were some things we could just all get on board with...nothing to homogenize the world's diverse cultures or anything - but some simple, agreement on logistical issues like on which side of the road we're all going to drive and what units of measurement we'd like to adopt might be beneficial. IMHO, I think in Australia, we could probably go ahead and give up the antiquated driving on the left side of the road tradition (we're outnumbered by right-side-of-the-roadsters globally and there aren't many of us mounting horses and wearing swords on our left hip anymore), and we could probably hop aboard the metric train in the U.S. (seriously - what's the hesitation there?? we're not exactly astounding at math as a general population, and we'll get to count by ten). Just putting that out there... ;)
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Mom Denise
25/4/2015 06:20:25 am
Love the fish market,and glad you had assistance in ordering or that could have been a catastrophe.
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