A cool, food-related day

Wiedikon is the last train station before the Hauptbahnhof Zürich if you're coming from our direction.

We'd done a bit of research and discovered that there were two Asian food shops in the Wiedikon area and so, armed with addresses, we set off... into the skull-numbingly freezing day.

We assured ourselves (through chattering teeth) that it wasn't that cold. Just like a cool Canberra day...

Wiedikon turned out to be a mix of old and new - old houses being torn down, new apartments being built, and rather a lot of trams at one particular junction.

Once again, it was joy to the Hausfau's senses to enter the New Asia Market - all the wonderful smells of various Asian cuisine in one supermarket. We stashed up on curry pastes, fish sauce, coconut milk, chilli sauce and so-on. We made ourselves feel so hungry that we decided to head off again to a place not far from our favourite Turkish supermarket (in the Industriequartier-ish area) to eat falafel, Swiss-style.

Now, we all consider ourselves to be seasoned falafel-eaters, but we were somewhat unprepared to discover - in the falafel rolls - cabbage and pickles (sliced gherkin kind of pickles). It seems that they also put hot chips in some of the other rolls. (That kind of greeny-grey chip-shaped thing is actually pickle.)

I have to say it was downright yummy, and we all ate with gusto. Not least because we were frozen solid by the time we got to the eating part of the expedition.

When we looked online later at the temperatures in Zürich we discovered it had been 5 whole degrees that day.

Welcome to Winter!