A Day In Sunnybank

Sunnybank is a suburb to the south of Brisbane, about 100k's from us and is known for its Asian Community. Trish and I took a drive to Sunnybank today mainly to have a nice Asian meal for lunch. We thought we might travel through the new Clem7 tunnel recently opened which travels from the north under the city of Brisbane and the Brisbane River to emerge south of the city. It is a new toll road. Today as we drove through the tunnel there was very little traffic. It was a quick quiet trip. The south tunnel is only two lanes wide with limited stopping lanes on either side. Each tunnel going under Melbourne is a full three lanes wide one way with full emergency lanes on either side.

On our return trip we missed the tunnel and finished up driving around the city using the Inner City Bypass road. The trip back was quick with no traffic holdups. I think the new toll road will suffer from lack of patronage because the holdups outside of the peak period are minimal!

It was a short drive to Sunnybank when we emerged from the tunnel. This was the first restaurant we spotted and having lived in Malaysia our mouths began to water in anticipation. We had a brief walk around the cluster of shops looking in and enjoying the wonderful aromas. The grocery shop had heaps of chilli paste, curry sauces and other Asian cooking necessities. It did remind us of Springvale, a suburb we always visit when in Melbourne and well known for its wonderful Vietnamese food. The photo below gives a quick glimpse of what Sunnybank is like.

"Little Singapore" was the name of the restaurant at which we ate. We ordered a huge serve of Char Kuay Teow, our favorite Malaysian dish followed by Hainanese Chicken Rice. The Char Kuay Teow was sensational and the chicken rice was OK (we had better in Penang, Malaysia). After paying the bill of $24 we walked out fully satisfied! The bill included drinks too.

On the way back home we had a quick stop over at Chermside Shopping Centre. This shopping centre is to Brisbane as Chadstone is to Melbourne.

It appears our ISP change over will occur tomorrow, Friday.