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Paddys Markets Haymarket.

I’ve never understood the hype around it.

Every stall is repeated 3 or 4 times, peddling the same crappy Chinese made merchandise, designed to suck in tourists to be $20 shirts that are probably made for 5c each.

Sadly, I found Camden Markets in London was the exact same. Food was much better though.

Cause when you’re after a particular piece of crap, it’s pretty good.

Upstairs Foodcourt is the dog’s bollocks

I think the food court is gone?

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There was a malyasian place in there that had the best nasi lemak in Sydney.

Theyre trying to redevlop downstairs for actual hawker markets arent they?

No more upstairs food court as we knew it, it was redone into fancier individual restaurant or restaurants I believe.

Bollocks to that
Old man yells etc

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The whole thing is getting a huge refurb anyway

Will be similar, but a lot more expensive.

Same but different. Chatswood Chase is doing a massive refurb. The food court now has 4 places you can buy sushi and one place where you can buy a $20 sandwich. The chicken place does $13 wraps, but if you want to make it a meal add $15 for chips, salad and a drink. The Thai and Vietnamese places are sit-down restaurants and charge accordingly. There are still a few places yet to open. Not sure what they’re thinking. Chatswood people didn’t get rich by spending money on food.

they’re trying to compete with the Westfield. We ate at Chase the other week. The Sandwich place was disappointing. They also had some sort of weird water that we couldn’t figure out whether it was water or not…

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Thanks for the Sandoitchi review. I was like, a little bit curious.

But not any more.

That’s correct. They just won the court ruling a few weeks ago

Actually you can still be curious. The one we went to was Calipress. Dont bother. The sandwiches were ok, but definitely not worth the price. Way too small

I only tried it once but it was incredible. There was some deal that had in uber eats or we wouldn’t have tried it, but it ticked all the boxes on flavour and texture imo.

Wearing a blood pressure monitor for 24 hours. Annoying as fuck

Wearing a Holter monitor for 24 hours is really irritating. Especially as I fall asleep on my side more often than not.

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Should have thought about that before you got a dodgy heart.

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To be fair, I wouldn’t mind just an entire body replacement while I’m at it.

Please tell me more. I have my own(normal BP test monitor) but every time i go use it my BP goes up like crazy in expectation of it being too high, then the peeps when it is too high (As expected) make it even more higher.

I’m always fine until i have to take the test. What i’m worried about with the 24h BP monitor is that i will know it’s there and it will cause the same thing. Me being anxious for 24h.

How long can we keep that thing? If i got used to wearing it over time i might forget about it and actually get a ‘normal’ reading.

Same happens when i’m at the doctors and they want to check it, i instantly go crazy.

It’s called white coat hypertension. I’ve got it and have had to do the 24hr monitor twice now.

Just lay down or stick your hand in the air when it goes off

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