Another year down, another year where my local market, Footscray Market, fails to build a website. Opening hours for the market over the Christmas/New Year’s period are: Saturday 24 December (Christmas Eve): 7:00am-5:00pm 25-27 December: Closed Wednesday 28 December: 7:00am – 4:00pm Thursday 29 December: 7:00am – 6:00pm Friday 30
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Dec 20, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments
Footscray Market Christmas Opening Hours 2010
As my local market still doesn’t seem to have a website, the posted opening hours for the Footscray Market this Christmas are: Tuesday 21 December: 7:00am-4:00pm Wednesday 22 December: 7:00am-6:00pm Thursday 23 December: 7:00am-6:00pm Friday 24 December (Christmas Eve): 7:00am-8:00pm Saturday 25 December (Christmas Day): Closed The market will remain
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Jun 16, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 3 Comments
Tsukiji Market is not just fish.
It also sells fat red chunks of whale meat. Not much of it though. While the cubed cetacean is pretty hard to uncover (I only saw a single vendor), what does tend to get overlooked is that there is also a gigantic vegetable market next door. Compared to the speed
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Jun 12, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 6 Comments
This is where tuna ends
Whole frozen tuna on a forklift at Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo I have no hope whatsoever for the future of tuna. The death warrant for Atlantic tuna was written at the last meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, ensuring that current tuna stocks will have
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May 10, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 3 Comments
The sultry sounds of Queen Victoria Market
I don’t shop for food outside of my ‘hood all too often these days and so a recent visit back to the Queen Victoria Market made me realise the distinctiveness of the aural landscape of Melbourne’s markets. Markets in Footscray are dominated by vendors spruiking their specials in Vietnamese, generally
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Dec 23, 2009 | Post by: Phil Lees 6 Comments
Footscray Market: Opening Hours
My local market doesn’t have a website, so as something of a community service, here is the opening hours of the Footscray Market over the Christmas/New Year’s period. 24 Dec – open 7:00am-6:00pm 25-28 Dec – closed 29-30 Dec – open 7:00am-4:00pm 1 Jan – closed 2 Jan -7:00am-4:00pm Normal
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May 18, 2009 | Post by: Phil Lees 11 Comments
Queen Victoria Market Borek
Having Austin around did act as a handy reminder of the unparalleled diversity of food in Melbourne. For example, I live in a suburb dominated by two of the most disparate of the world’s cuisines: Ethiopian and Vietnamese. As I wander about a market named after an English monarch, I
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May 01, 2009 | Post by: Phil Lees 3 Comments
Meandering through Sheung Wan
Just to avoid the impression that I did nothing but eat dumplings in Hong Kong, I also spent a few lazy hours wandering the streets of Sheung Wan in a dumpling and pork induced stupor, planning which dumpling place I’d hit next and remembering dumplings past. Sheung Wan is where
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