Rainy Day Shennanigans: Food, Food, Food

It rained all day Sunday, and so our activities were limited. Trixie and I dropped Charles off at church, and then we walked a short distance over to Butter & Toast, a Vietnamese immigrant-owned cafe that had some unusual donut flavors. I had pandan donut and Trixie had Thai milk tea donut.

After collecting Charles from church, we drove northwest to Gawler for lunch with Ryan (another Singapore emigrant) and his husband Anthony at The Java Hut. I’m not much of a meat eater but I had to have bacon as it is so much better in Australia; I’ve never really liked American bacon which is often burnt to a crisp. After almost two hours of conversation, we went for a short gander around Gawler before making our way back for a short nap; there wasn’t much else to do.

For dinner, we drove out to Truly Malaysian Village where we had a hearty feast of Malay food. Ryan drove from Gawler to join us. The Malay kuih (cakes) were particularly memorable, as well as the satay. It was a sedap (Malay for delicious) experience and a rare treat for me since Singaporean and Malaysian cuisine isn’t readily available in Hawaiʻi. The restaurant itself was well patronized and it seemed almost all the customers were Asian immigrants.Read more