Turkey/Cappadocia 土耳其...卡帕多其亞之精靈的煙囪

Turkey, a beautiful country! Some people think go to Turkey alone is pretty dangerous, well, wrong! I think it's safe to travel alone in Turkey as long as you look after yourself then it wouldn't be a problem.

土耳其，一個美麗的國家。有些人認為一個人到土耳其太過危險，我想是錯誤的觀念，我認為獨自在土耳其旅行蠻安全的，只要你好好照顧自己，就沒什麼問題了。

I have been to Turkey alone in 2004 and I have stay in Istanbul, Cappadocia and Pamukkale, They all awesome!! Today I wanna show you guys the pic about Elf's Chimney in Cappadocia. Check this pic, it actually looks like mushrooms, stone on the top the color is darker and bigger. Do you know why? Long long time ago in Cappadocia, there were basalt and sand stone on the ground. After a long time the soil erosion by rain and wind seriously that's why it looks like the pic now. The basalt top is bigger because basalt is harder and not so easy get erosion as sand stone. But local turkish call it Elf's Chimney because turkish in long time ago they think it's impossible to put the basalt right there it must ne Elf done that.

我曾在2004年到過土耳其，曾停留在伊斯坦堡、卡帕多其亞及帕姆卡雷，它們全都太棒了！今天我要展示關於卡帕多其亞"精靈煙囪"的照片。看看這照片，它其實看起來像香菇，在上層的石頭顏色較深也比較大一點，你知道為什麼嗎？在很久以前卡帕多其亞地區的地層含有玄武岩及砂岩，經過長時間雨水及風力的侵蝕某些部分就開始往下侵襲而不見，比較硬的部分就還留在原地，玄武岩之所以比較大的原因是它比砂岩較堅硬也比較不容易被侵蝕。在很久以前當地土耳其人並不知道這原因，只覺得靠人力是不可能將玄武岩放在那裡的，那一定是精靈的傑作，所以才稱這現象叫"精靈的煙囪"。

Now we know The Mother Of Nature own incredible power to make things so unique. If you don't believe it just go and check.

現在我們知道自然之母擁有不可思議的力量讓事物變的獨一無二，如果你不相信，就自己去看看吧！

Merry Christmas!! Brisbane!!

Merry Christmas!! My first Christmas in Australia! Me and my aussie boyfriend and his mum had a simple but great Christmas Eve. We had turkey and champagne and it was nice.

This morning my aussie boyfriend want me to open my gift. You know, I am new in the town but I got many gifts and I am very grateful about it...

Hope you guys have a great Christams as well!!!

Food culture in Australia 澳洲的飲食文化

A net friend ask what's australia's food culture in Yahoo knowledge. Well, we have talked about that before, right? In Australia you could have normal western food such as steak, burger, sandwich, or chinese, japanese, korean, indian, turkish even greek food. It's all because here has lots people from oversea moved to Australia in long time ago, that's why the food culture so diversified in Aus. Of course, I have stayed in Australia for 4 months only, I could not understand the real food culture in Aus, but I could share what I have seen about it. Ready?
有網友在雅虎奇摩知識發問關於"澳洲的飲食文化"，我之前已經有稍稍講述過這部分對嗎？在澳洲你可以品嚐到一般的西方食物如牛排、漢堡、三明治等等，或是中餐、日本及韓國料理、印度、土耳其甚至希臘料理，那都是因為在澳洲有很多海外移民在很久以前就已經搬到澳洲定居，那也就是為什麼澳洲的飲食文化非常多元的原因。當然，我只在澳洲住了四個月，還無法真正了解到真正的澳洲飲食文化，但我總能分享我所看到的，準備好了嗎？

About this question, I don't have completely information or pic about it, but I still do my best to figure out. I think you could find out main aussie food culture in supermarket. I was so surprising about aussie love frozen food pretty much, in every famous supermarket such as Coles, Bi-Lo and woolworths, they all have 2 paths of freezer for frozen food. My aussie boyfriend love frozen food as well, we even had an a argument about this before. The frozen food companies in australia make many different products and very convenient, you only need to use microwave or oven to cook it, but be honest I don't really crash on it.
關於網友的問題，至我在發表此文章的同時，我也還未得到完整的資訊及照片能提供，但就是盡力完成囉！我想你可以在澳洲的超級市場發現一點澳洲的飲食文化，我非常驚訝澳洲人蠻喜愛冷凍食品的，在知名的超級市場裡幾乎都有滿滿二排的冷凍櫃，陳列著無數的冷凍食品，我的澳洲男友就很愛，我們還曾經為了這個問題有過爭執。澳洲冷凍食品製造商生產了各式各樣不同的產品，你只需要放入為波爐或是烤箱就一切搞定，但說老實話，我並非十分鍾情冷凍食品。

In Aus, you could see they sell kangaroo meat in supermarket as well, I think kangaroo meat is real local food in Aus, because maybe you only could see kangaroo in the zoo but not eat it. I have tried a peice of kangaroo jerkey, but I spat out immediately, because it tastes smell. I don't know, maybe that's just what I felt, maybe other people love it and treat it like delicacy.
在澳洲他們也在超級市場裡販賣袋鼠肉，我想袋鼠肉應該就是最道地的澳洲料理了吧！因為在其他國家你只能在動物園看到袋鼠而不是吃他們。我曾經嚐過一小塊的袋鼠肉乾但我立即吐了出來，因為它帶有一股說不出的腥味，我不知道... 也許那只是我個人的感覺，也許其他人喜愛袋鼠肉並視為珍饈。

Besides, westerner like to bake food as well. Yesterday I baked potato with cheese. Wow! It really tastes yummy. I boil potato until it cooks and chop it to half, put butter, salt, ham and cheese, the put it into the oven. It get well when the cheese melt and become brown. Of course home made pizza is popular as well. My point is lots aussie mum like to cook home made food, I think it's really good and you could use your own idea at food.
另外，西方人喜歡烘焙食物。昨天我烤了起司馬鈴薯，哇！真的好好吃！我先煮了整顆馬鈴薯，煮到熟透後切對半，放上奶油、鹽、火腿或培根、起司，放入烤箱等到起司融化及稍微焦黃，就可以取出了，當然，自家手工製的披薩也一樣受歡迎，我的重點是很多的澳洲媽媽喜歡烹調自家食物，我想那真的很好，你也可以加入你的創意在食物上。

One more thing is turkish food "Kebab". it's really popular in Australia. I have made it at home usually, home made kebab is easy and yummy, of course, cheaper then restaurant. The price in 1 kebab I could make 3 even 4. You can get kebab bread in supermaket very easily and sauce as well, add the vages you like such as tomato, onion and lettuce, roast it by sandwish machine... It really yummy! No wonder my aussie boyfriend like it so much. But I didn't make kebab for a while, so no pics could offer.
還有一點我要提的，就是土耳其傳統食物Kebab，那在澳洲真的很後歡迎，我常在家裡自己做，自家做的kebab不但簡單美味，而且也很便宜，同常在餐廳買一個的價錢，我在家可以做三個甚至四個，你可以在超級市場買到口袋餅和醬料，加入你喜愛的蔬菜如蕃茄、洋蔥及萵苣，再用烤三明治的機器烤一下，真的很好吃，難怪我家男友那麼喜歡kebab，不過我有一段時間沒做，所以沒辦法提供製作的照片。

There still many things I didn't mention about cause I have no pics, but if I could take more pics, I would try to offer Cherry more information.
仍然有許多事我沒提起因為我沒有足夠的照片，但是如果我能拍攝到更多，那我會試著提供網友Cherry更多的資訊。

Year of the Rat

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle all the way.....

Hohoho! Merry Christmas!!

I am not Santa Claus but I am pretty exciting, because it would be my frist Christmas in oversea, especially Christmas in summer. But you know for Chinese, Chinese New Year is more important for us. I have read news paper in chinese today and it said Post office of Australia produce stamp for Chinese New year, it really looks cute. Opps, forgot to tell you guys next year would be year of Rat, the first of the twelve animals symbolizing, it represents wisdom someone said, I guess that's why it's difficult to catch them.

Do you know which animals you are? Start to check on line and maybe you could figure out if you would have a good next year.

PS. The pic is RAT in chinese...

My hometown HuaLien

I don't know why but my aussie boyfriend keep sing a song and changed the lyrics, he put my hometown's name on it, HuaLien. For someone don't speak in Chinese I am very impress that he could remember it. So I asked him if he knows the meaning about HuaLien. Of course the answer is no, no wonder, I think I never told him before. After I checked some information about why HuaLien names HuaLien, I found the corret answer.
In the outfall of HuaLien river, there is Japan Current pass through from south to north, and it crash the rock on coast. When HuaLien river's water into the ocean right here, people call this view "Hui-Lan" in taiwanese, and harbor in here names "Hui-Lan Gang(mean harbor)". In Ching dynasty, the government renamed it "Hua'Lian Gang" because it sounds better, but japanese renamed it to "Hua-Lian" only during japan control Taiwan.
But do you know, if you say Hua-Lien to Lien-Hua, it would has different meaning. Lien-Hua means Lotus in chinese. In long long time ago no one would like to live in Hualien, because it too far away form city and very unconvenient to get here, that's why people call here "Back of the monutain". If you don't understand why and let me tell you. Taiwan has a main mountain between east and west, but people lived in west of Taiwan in long time ago because west is near by China and there is where they from. But more and more people came to Taiwan and west part was getting crowd, so some people decided to find a new land to live.
Anyway, because HuaLien is far away from city, and that's why HuaLien doesn't has much environmental pollution. Just like Lotus grow up in mud but still look so purely.
Now my aussie boyfriend keep call me "Lotus girl", but have you seen Lotus has dark skin before??