Breakfast at Expresso Bagel in QV before work
They have a breakfast special, which isn’t really a good deal but it was just across the road from work. Ham, Cheese & Tomato bagel with a coffee for $7.50. Cream Cheese bagel with a coffee for $5.00. There is a variety of bagels to choose from. I picked poppy seed bagel this morning.

Then boiled dumplings for lunch at Chinatown Dumplings on Swanston Street. I discovered and learnt to like northen Chinese dumplings (jiao zi) from a stay in China. It’s like a staple in northern China. Almost all ancestors of Malaysian Chinese are from southern China so dumplings, especially during the Spring Festival (which is how the northern Chinese refer to the Chinese New Year) wasn’t a tradition to me. The original northern Chinese dumplings contains pork and is boiled. There are more variations now – chicken, lamb, beef and prawn, fried and steamed. The classic is still the best.

And dumplings isn’t complete without vinegar. Black Chinese vinegar. And this is how i prepare my dumplings to be consumed…
back to work. video recording was interrupted by a stranger who, seeing that i am shooting, thought i was a tourist and offered to take a photo for me. I am never a tourist. I am a traveller.


































































































