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Adina Apartments in Perth – Settling Into the Sunny West Australian City. Adina Apartment Hotel Perth, Barrack Plaza, Perth, Western Australia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Adina Apartments in Perth – Settling Into the Sunny West Australian City

Adina Apartments in Perth have two excellent locations in the sunny Western Australian capital that, while close to eachother offer, two different experiences. We check in and test them out, with our family in tow.

As you know, we’ll always settle into an apartment over checking into a hotel when we can – which is why we were thrilled when TFE Hotels invited us to spend five days experiencing two of their Adina apartments in Perth, Australia.

We’ve been fans of Adina Apartments since we stayed at their Surry Hills serviced apartments a few years ago – and had wonderful Hudson Meats packages delivered to our door so we could cook our own breakfast and dinner.

A lot of apartment hotel and serviced apartment chains can be quite cold and sterile and lack personality, yet Adina Apartment Hotels, while predominantly functional, have a certain warmth about them, as well as some of the friendliest staff.

Here’s where we stayed and what we thought of our Adina apartments in Perth:

Adina Apartments in Perth

Adina Apartment Hotel Barrack Plaza

My little sister and niece, who live in Perth, joined us for our first two-day stay at the Adina Apartment Hotel Barrack Plaza, which was not only a great way for us to test out how practical the apartments are for families, but it was also a real joy to have them around and ‘on the job’ with us.

They gave us two separate, contemporary-styled apartments that shared an outer entrance, enabling the inner entrances to be kept open to create one large shared space. My sister and niece appreciated having a bedroom each in the larger two-bedroom apartment with its good-sized kitchen and dining area and comfy lounge room, which served as our main living quarters.

Terence and I slept in the spacious studio-style apartment, which had its own kitchenette, living area, and bathroom, stocked with the wonderful Australian-made Appelles products, which all the best hotels in the country are using right now.

We also had a private balcony – not that we had much time to use it. The set-up was perfect for us, but also would have been terrific for a larger family, several couples or a few girlfriends.

One of the things we’ve loved about the brand from the start has been their fantastic kitchens and the Adina Apartments in Perth were no exception. There was a full size fridge (bigger than the one we have at home in Siem Reap), good quality stove with oven (ditto), microwave (fantastic for re-heating leftovers from the nearby Korean eateries), and a dishwasher (while we love cooking when we travel, we can do without the washing up).

The kitchens are equipped with enough dinnerware, kitchenware, appliances, and utensils to make most meals, from whipping up a quick pasta to frying a fantastic Aussie steak (one of the things we miss most in Cambodia), and decent wine glasses, which are essential. One of the first things we do whenever we arrive in Perth is buy some bottles of Margaret River wine.

Having said all that, we hadn’t seen my sister and niece for a while, and TFE invited us to show them a good time, so we mainly ate out and primarily used the apartment for breakfast and snacks.

Breakfast was included, so we tested out the room service one morning and ate as a family in the dining area, which was super-nice, and the next day we tried the ground floor café-bar, Bar 138, which was just fine for a quick brekkie. It is a working bar, however, so families probably won’t be comfortable sitting inside. Fortunately there is an alfresco area at the front.

Breakfasts are traditional at the Barrack Street property – toast and jams, pancakes, various styles of eggs with bacon, sausages, and sides – and very generously sized. The coffee was also good.

We did make use of the balcony, with its sweeping views of the city rooftops, for sunset drinks and nibbles we’d picked up at Fremantle markets, including wonderful strawberries.

While the apartment was brilliant, the location was unbeatable. Barrack Street is slap-bang in the heart of the CBD (central business district or commercial centre), making it fantastic for exploring the Perth city centre. Green spaces, such as Stirling Gardens, are within easy reach by foot.

Perth’s best shopping is just minutes away on posh King Street and more mainstream shopping can be found in the arcades, department stores and boutiques on Murray Street Mall and adjoining Hay Street Mall.

It’s also a fantastic location for foodies. There are plenty of cheap and cheerful eateries in the area, including Toastface Grillah, which makes Australia’s best cheese toasties.

Barrack Street itself is something of a ‘Little Korea-town’ with some excellent Korean BBQ joints and grocery stories – although since our last trip a handful of other Asian eateries, including a couple of Japanese restaurants, have also opened. Adina’s helpful staff gave us a great tip: some of Perth’s best banh mi (Vietnamese baguettes) are a couple of blocks away at Saigon Pastry House.

Northbridge, which is essentially Perth’s Chinatown, is just across the railway line (the main city train station is one block away), and it’s main drag is lined with every kind of Asian eatery imaginable: Cantonese, Vietnamese, Taiwanese, Malaysian, Peking Duck places, Chinese bakeries, Asian supermarkets, you name it.

Northbridge is also Perth’s cultural precinct and is home to the superb state museums, including the excellent Art Gallery of Western Australia and the compelling Western Australian Museum, both of which have wonderful exhibitions of Aboriginal art and indigenous crafts and artifacts respectively.

We took advantage of the location by hitting the pedestrian shopping malls, as much for the colour and action as shops – kids running through the water fountain at Forrest Chase, buskers belting out pop songs, Asian students offering free hugs.

Adina Apartment Hotel Perth

The Adina Apartment Hotel Perth, located between Mounts Bay Road and the Esplanade, was the second of our Adina apartments in Perth.

It was also in a hard-to-beat location, a couple of blocks away from Hay Street Mall, and even closer to Barrack Street Jetty, which is the departure point for Swan River cruises to Fremantle, the Swan Valley wine region, and Rottnest Island, and is just a block down the hill.

Located above Perth’s main transport hub, it’s also incredibly handy for accessing Perth’s excellent train and bus network, including the free CAT buses. On our first afternoon we caught the CAT up to King’s Park, which, along with nearby Stirling Gardens, are two of many wonderful Perth picnic spots that are in easy reach.

Our second apartment was a spacious one-bedroom with another excellent kitchen, similarly fitted out to the first. This one had the added bonus of a coffee plunger and TFE generously provided some freshly roasted coffee and cool eco-friendly ‘keep cups’.

The bedroom had a sizeable walk-in wardrobe which lead directly into the bathroom, which was also accessed from the comfortable living/dining area.

This property had a little bit more style about it, with cool touches like funky cow-skin chairs.

It also boasted balconies, but unfortunately for a property so close to the spectacular Swan River, there were no sweeping city vistas. Not that it mattered, as the waterfront is just a few minutes’ walk away, and we were so busy getting out and about and taking advantage of the terrific location.

Within a few minutes of leaving our apartment we were on the CAT and less than ten minutes later we were kicking around Kings Park.

The café downstairs, Metro, where breakfast is available, serves more modern café fare than the first property, including one of the best potato omelettes I’ve ever eaten, although like the first property, the servings were also massive.

Come evening, the lights are dimmed and it takes on more of a bistro vibe and its bar and alfresco area hum with the chatter of guests, many here for conferences and events at the adjoining Convention and Exhibition Centre. There was a university graduation ceremony during our stay that made me a tad nostalgic for our old uni days.

Our Verdict

Both properties are brilliant with spacious, well-equipped apartments with fantastic amenities, and facilities we didn’t have the time or need to use, including compact swimming pools and underground parking.

While Perth’s CBD is compact – it’s possible to walk from one end of the city to the other in half an hour – which property you choose to stay at really depends upon how you plan to spend your time.

The Barrack Street property is best for shopping and exploring Northbridge and eating out in Leederville, while the Mounts Bay Road address is well placed for excursions further afield, whether its by water to Fremantle or the Swan Valley or by bus or train to explore the city’s parks and beaches.

If panoramic views are a priority then you better go for the Barrack Street apartments. Just make sure you allow time to stay in to enjoy them!

Our stays at the Adina apartments in Perth were part of a project in partnership with TFE Hotels who hosted us and organised an array of wonderful activities, including the day in Fremantle, the Swan River cruise, and some wonderful meals. See the links above.

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Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check o Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check out our seafood recipe collection, especially if you celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve with a fish focused meal in the Southern Italian tradition, transformed by Italian-Americans into the Feast of the Seven Fishes, or like Australians, who celebrate Christmas in the sweltering summer, feast on seafood for Christmas Day lunch, we’ve got lots of easy seafood recipes for you.

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If you’re still looking for food inspo for Chris If you’re still looking for food inspo for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day meals, my smoked salmon ‘carpaccio’ recipe is one of dozens of recipes in this compilation of our best Christmas recipes (link below). 

The Christmas recipe compilation includes collections of our best Christmas breakfast recipes, best Christmas brunch recipes, best Christmas starter recipes, best Christmas cocktails, best Christmas dessert recipes, and homemade edible Christmas gifts and more.

My smoked salmon carpaccio recipe makes an easy elegant appetiser that’s made in minutes. If you’re having guests over, you can make the dish ahead by assembling the salmon, capers and pickled onions, and refrigerate it, then pour on the dressing just before serving. 

Provide toasted baguette slices and bowls of additional capers, pickles and dressing, so guests can customise their carpaccio. And open the bubbly!

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If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I sh If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I shared a collection of recipes for homemade edible Christmas gifts — for condiments, hot sauces, chilli oils, a whole array of pickles, spice blends, chilli salt, furakake seasoning, and spicy snacks, such as our Cambodian and Vietnamese roasted peanuts. 

I love giving homemade edibles as gifts as much as I love receiving them. Who wouldn’t appreciate jars filled with their favourite chilli oils, hot sauces, piquant pickles, and spicy peanuts that loved-ones have taken the time to make? 

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No need for wrapping, just attach some Christmas baubles or tinsel to the lid. I used squares of Cambodian kramas (cotton scarves), which can be repurposed as napkins or drink coasters, and tied a ribbon or two around the lids, and attached last year’s Christmas tree decorations to some.

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This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’ This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’s perfect if you’re just back from the fish markets armed with luxurious fresh crab meat. It’s a little sweet, a little spicy, and very, very moreish.

Our crab omelette recipe was one of our 22 most popular egg recipes of 2022 on our website Grantourismo and it’s no surprise. It’s appeared more times than any other egg recipes on our annual round-ups of most popular recipes since Terence launched Weekend Eggs when we launched Grantourismo in 2010.

If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

And do browse our Weekend Eggs archives for further eggspiration (sorry). We have hundreds of egg recipes from the 13 year-old series of recipes for quintessential egg dishes from around the world, which we started on our 2010 year-long global grand tour focused on slow, local and experiential travel. 

We’re hoping 2023 will be the year we can finally publish the Weekend Eggs cookbook we’ve talked about for years based on that series. After we can find a publisher for the Cambodia cookbook of course... :( 

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I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angko I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angkor Archaeological Park, home to stupendous Angkor Wat, pictured, celebrated 30 years of its UNESCO World Heritage listing. 

That’s as good an excuse as any to put this magnificent, sprawling archaeological site on your travel list this year.

While riverside Siem Reap, your base for exploring Angkor is bustling once more, there are still nowhere near the visitors of the last busy high season months of December-January 2018-2019 when there were 290,000 visitors. 

Last month there were just 55,000 visitors and December feels a little quieter. A tour guide friend said there were about 150 people at Angkor Wat for sunrise a few days ago.

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

The chicken can be marinated for up to 24 hours before cooking, which ensures it’s packed with flavour, then it can be cooked on a barbecue or in a pan.

Terence’s soy ginger chicken recipe is one of our favourite recipes for a quick and easy meal. I love the sound of the sizzling thighs in the pan, and the warming aromas wafting through the apartment. 

It’s amazing how such flavourful juicy chicken thighs come from such a quick and easy recipe.

Recipe here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio): https://grantourismotravels.com/soy-ginger-chicken-recipe/

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

For more on these culinary connections you’ll have to wait for our Cambodian cookbook and culinary history. In a hurry to know? Come support the project on Patreon. (link in bio)

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It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour matches the furnishings of our rented apartment. So, no, I did not colour-coordinate the interiors to match our cat’s eyes. 

I keep getting DMs from pet clothing brands wanting to “partner” with Pepper and send her free cat clothes and cat accessories. Although she did wear a kerchief for a few years in her more adventurous fashion-forward teenage years, I cannot see this cat in clothes now, can you? 

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