It's Spring time...Spring time...That means Tulip time! Armed with a traveller's enthusiasm in venturing all festivals all season in my short time span in Australia, I make it a point to do whatever activities listed on websites at each season! So here goes, our adventure to Tulip Farm in Dandenong! But first thing first, we gotta fill our stomachs right? And our housemate, Lynn, has recommended us this to-die-for place, Miss Marples! It is a quaint English Teahouse that is adapted from a story book and is apparently very famous.
When we got there, I thought, wow, what a fairy-like town! It's totally Hansel & Gratel! :) But all things great require patient people. Miss Marples does not accept reservations, only sincere people who are willing to wake up early can eat there. Though sincere, we were of course not placing Miss Marples above our warm and fuzzy beds. Hehe, so what happened? We had to wait 30mins just for a seat! Patience, my friend, is what you will learn in Australia. Simply because everything requires your patience here with the speed! Tsk tsk.
Off we went to explore the small town of Miss Marples somewhere in the Dandenong Hills. Just beside Miss Marples is a 'out of the world' coffee & tea shop! Such a wide variety of chocolate coated coffee beans, tea pots, coffee bean grinders, coffee makers, beans, and so much more! I felt like I was Alice in Wonderland.
This is just a small area of the store! Though the store ain't big, it certainly exercises great space efficiency!
Just look at the amount of coffee pots, tea leaves and tea plants! :D
Next up is a tarot witchery store! Look at all those voodoo stuff!
Of course, how can a witch store be without tarot reading? Hee, they even had women dress like fairies to tell your future! Ha, how reliable is that man...
Tadah! The long awaited MISS MARPLES! Cool quaint cottage eh?
Check out the size of the table! It's of course not true that we ordered too much. I mean, how can food ever be too much? Haha. Just looking at the cream and jam and you know we are going to have scones! Woohoo! The pot of tea is apparently some golden tea, that actually honestly just tastes like Lipton tea lor. Bleah.
This is the well acclaimed cottage pie! Being Australian, everything just gotta finish off with tomato sauce! Haha, but it's Miss Marples tomato sauce so nobody's complaining!
Just look at this! Can you believe it is actually a scone? I mean, it looks more like some frost tall bread! But then again, who is to tell Miss Marples that she is wrong?
Ha, this. This, my friend is simply mouth watering. It is called fingers. Toast topped with campagne ham and toasted with cheese on top. Awww. I can't even describe the wonder of this dish, except that my saliva is dripping as I'm typing away now.
Now, for the classic story that I will NEVER grow tired talking about. DA DRY ROAD! Haha, after our wonderful meal, we thought, what a smooth sailing journey to our tulip adventure. Little did we know our adventure has only started.
As we were descending the Dandenong Hills, I was manevouring the car like Jay Chou in Initial D. Suddenly, Yishan just announced with the cock sure map reading skills she has acquired in Melbourne.
Yishan: Ok, now, turn left.
I took a look at the dry road (refer to picture above, YES), looked at her in disbelief.
Mich: You're kidding, right?
Looking at me with the unperturbed expression on her face.
Yishan: No. The map says so.
Mich: ..............
Cindy: .............
Haha, so okay...Given that the map said so, we attempted our ascent up the 'dry' road. Ha needless to say, how can our steady 1 litre Daihatsu Charade possibly be able to withstand this blow? So halfway up the road, our car rolled backwards and got stuck at the side of the road, along with bushes.
Yishan and Cindy had to get out of the car and push to break the car free away from the clutches of the Amazon monsters. I was scared yet relieved. As I was at the driver's wheel preparing to start the engine, I had to juggle between not stalling the engine and at the same time, not allowing the car to slide back.
I tell you, never in my life I was so freaked out, trying not to endanger the lives of my friends. I never remember myself praying so hard to God for everything to be alright. Haha, by God's grace, we managed to free the car, afterwhich we had a good laugh and did a spot check on the car. Woohoo the car was fine! So off we went, unscathed, off to the tulip farm!
Ha, as I always told Yishan, it's yet another cockadodo thing we should add to our 'cock' list. Haha, but I'm really glad we escaped safe and sound, only to find that the car was leaking oil afew days later. Bleah. Oh well. :D
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