Cold in Chinatown

It seems that spring is postponed for now, and weather has been miserable and cold ever since we started having visitors from Finland. Still, there are flowers everywhere, and in a spur of the moment I decided to take a walk with the mother in law in Chinatown. Weather was bearable when we got there, but by the time the tour started at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden it started raining. The tour and the garden were interesting, but it was starting to get very cold - so by the end of the tour we were more than happy to sit inside for a moment and drink couple of cups of the complimentary tea.

On our way back home we stopped at T&T Chinese supermarket - this is the most fantastic supermarket I've ever seen: at one glance it looks like any other supermarket, but once you get inside it's like nothing you've seen before. It's like directly stepping into another country, everything you see here is different. People don't come to this supermarket just for the enormous selection of imported groceries - just the live seafood section is better entertainment than your local pet store. Sounds wimpy enough, but I just got some noodles, Peking duck for Dragon who loves it and some honeyd chrysanthemum tea drink.

The instructions for making the drink go as follows: "Take a bag of this and dissolve in 200 ml of cod or boiling water". I didn't have any cod though, so I just used boiling water... drink was very sweet and had a flowery smell (no, really).