I want to show you today what would be a traditional small town in Australia and
what you might expect this town is so good they named it twice
we're entering into the ylang ylang
so the first shop on this corner is ylang ylang fish and chips and pizzas so
I like the artwork on the side of this building actually Bishop's just a
standard single-story the sort of all the way along the street here you'll see
this standard single-story this is very common in Australia but they've done
some nice artwork so it kinda has a look of a double storey fish and chip shop
with some little little railings on the top there it's kind of cool so we're
only about maybe 25 minutes maybe 20 minutes drive from Phillip Island has a
sign there and there's a the Palace Hotel this is the entrance to the town
centre you got the Palace Hotel here says Curran Bora Phillip Island my aura
the police drone primary school community center and McDonald's track so
you're gonna find most small towns going to have places to eat commonly you're
gonna find a fish and chips shop the noise of these big sand trucks is not
going to be too noisy the other shop almost every small town in Australia has
is a milk bar milk bar is a little bit like a corner shop or a small grocery
store today
so this is the traditional often family-owned small independent this one
I think is possibly owned by an Asian family because it sells fried rice
noodles dumplings which is not also uncommon so little corner stores so I
was right this actual this store is actually owned by Chinese lady of
Chinese family and got the usual sort of hardware and bits and pieces you'd
expect to see it's not a traditional milk well although it is in a sense it
sells all the all the bare essentials that you need in a small town like this
it's quite a big milk bar actually what do you think she'll knick knacks oh
video surveillance so yes the milk bar itself is owned by a
Chinese family from Jang chul and China I got that right Jang soo I think and so
thank you yes yeah yes yeah for show me around your store
so another real common shop you're going to find in any high street even in the
smallest of talents January is the op shop or opportunity shop this is like a
secondhand shop selves all sort of second-hand bits and pieces recycle
stuff there's a little sign at the front there we're most grateful for goods that
are left here at the store but please note that stuff that's left here outside
of shop hours will be most likely stolen most small towns going to have a
pharmacy see up here there's a card English ship or a used car dealership
that's interesting it's got a an old wheat nothing is holding you
it's a high-tech special vehicles so I didn't actually film James there I was
chatting with him I should have filmed it maybe Michelle's got a little that's
James own this high-tech they just sold that really nice little pickup there I
thought it was an original color but it's actually not quite the original
color I forget the name but there was a color in the mid 70s youths were done in
but that's it's close we've not quite and they've sold that to a buyer in W a
sight unseen so the guys bought it and he's going to have it shipped over there
for about fifteen thousand dollars plus the shipping so it's amazing people buy
these old Utes like that without seeing them but obviously they take them some
photographs and share lots of information about it so yeah you're
buying it sight unseen but he said he's so quite a few vehicle sight unseen so
people will buy their cause to the bean modest renovation on them tidied up he
sold a few up in Queensland this one going over to W ASOS pretty fascinating
and you're gonna have a smattering of commercial buildings and residential
buildings as well so all along this little high street and I'd say this high
street is probably only about maybe three or four hundred meters long you've
got a combination of retail laundromat over there and residential living now
this place I saw sign posted from the main road driving out to Phillip Island
this is auntie's place country crafts so this is a arts and crafts store just
turn around and get a nice shot of it and this is a an antique shop not an op
shop technically a lot of the stuff is second-hand obviously cuz it's antiques
so this is quite well signposted so it's obviously quite a well-known store
auntie's place yes we are open
all the usual bric-a-brac that you'd expect to see in a antique shop
oh not just antiques because some of this stuff is clearly new sort of
bric-a-brac I'm just going to cross over the road here the traffic has slowed
down a little bit because over here this is quite interesting just the
ylang-ylang District Historical Society you they said so a memorial
statue here in the center they've also got this gun look at the history behind
why there's a gun here in ylang-ylang so a 25 pound qf quick-firing gun the
british designed the mark ii 25 pounder the gun had a maximum range of 13,000
400 yards
Annie muzzle velocity over 1,700 feet per second at 518 meters per second the
type of shells used with these guns were a chi smoke and B II and colored star
and ap chemicals and propaganda this information was supplied by the original
members of the second 12th Australian Field Regiment of the 9th division the
relocation of the refurbished Garland was proudly undertaken by the members of
the kuru Europe ylang-ylang Rotary Club in 2006 so when they talk about the
actual the shells that were used and they're talking about star AP chemical
and propaganda and guessing the latter the propaganda one was shells that were
actually firing propaganda materials into perhaps whoever they were at war
with at a time so information Lee blitz propaganda leaflets were fired in that
fascinating from these guns and they would land it would scatter the shells
that propaganda material were down in the language of the troops that they
were at war with now it's not all about war they also have here this is a I
think looking at it it's a clay pigeon firing device for shot practice so you
can correct me if I'm wrong I think that's a
a peacetime clay pigeon device let me know down below and this is a
traditional old plough a little hand Pat plow I think this one was probably
pulled by a cow or a bullock so it's quite interesting the kids I saw up the
park explain to me what Liang Liang meant it's an old Aboriginal word for a
clump of trees so there's a little bit more information there about Liang Liang
for you to read if you want to just pause the screen now a smaller town like
this is unlikely to have might have but generally they're not going to have your
water in cold which are your big pretty much the only two supermarket chains
throughout Australia apart from Audi you're gonna have an IgA which is an
independent I think the Center for independent grocery association so this
one this town Lang Lang has an IgA
butchers now I'm so pleased they've got a butcher's so many of these towns now
are not supporting their butchers well enough so the butchers are closing down
and moving into the supermarkets nice independent family-owned butchers so
that is fantastic it's a busy little road so here is your
IgA this is the Lang Lang IgA and it's actually got a liquor store in there as
well place where people can buy their alcohol
so that's an one unusual thing I don't think there is an actual liquor store in
this town like an independent liquor store most towns are saying that there
are a few bars now we've got a few real estate agents
we got a tandoori pen during night and I T es so spelt slightly differently but
10 during nights it's an Indian restaurant we'll take a look at that in
a moment and howlers the Brewing Company now I
did go in here yesterday and they're actually building it's still under
construction they've got a an independent Brewer and brewing out in
the back here the building is not built yet they're brewing off-site so it's a
nice little bar serves good food I believe it's got a some Mexican
influence to the food they serve you might have noticed you may not have seen
but back at the center of the High Street there was a post office and the
post office isn't closed but they've just moved it basically so they still
have a post office it's just a little bit past so we've got the howlers
Howler's Brewing Company they're building a brewery on the back and next
door to that we've got another little cafe and the post office now just here
right at the end of the high street right at the end of the high street but
a play park nicely built play park three sort of teenage kids in there at the
moment it's kind of cool got a little climbing wall okay they've got a a
little barbecue pit here there's another thing pretty common in most towns
outdoor barbecue pit
and a little bit of a skate park and also you got a couple of I'm pretty
rundown but but usable tennis courts here so that's not bad for the kids a
ylang-ylang golf course all right okay we'll check that out so I've got to
thank these kids give me some tips of places to see you around ylang-ylang
they're still at school but they're just finishing their exam so they've got a
day off I think it's like a study day or something that's cool I like this old
building here this is that where the breweries going in so you can see it's
like a two-story but a narrow building real real character because most of the
buildings down the high street are single storey so it's unusual to have
this sort of period building here and I believe they're building out the back so
the the brewing will be done on six you here which will be great now I'm coming
to the end of the high street here the new post office but using post boxes
here s'matter in a post box is not like we saw at it through
now this cafe is right on the end and the actually caters for vegetarian a
gluten intolerance food noise actually to see that there's somebody giving that
a go though it's right at the end of the high street so once a walk past here
pretty much pretty much finished so really then if it's marked as
gluten-free it is gluten-free alright and so that's a vegan custard tart
that's tricky yeah so are you making all this stuff yourself well done you and
what's your name hi Wendy beautiful so this caters for vegan any sort of
intolerance is really people who are looking at gluten intolerance you can
get food here delicious food
so that was really nice so Wendy made and
Lester she works really hard in that she's got vegetarian vegan gluten-free
she's got all the different milks therefore coffees cappuccinos lattes so
you can get into Wendy Wendy May at the end of ylang-ylang on the high street
just near the post office and you can check her out
share a bit of love and get in there and she actually does non-vegan hoots as
well so if you've just got a group of friends and maybe one of you is
vegetarian want to use vegan Wendy's the place to go just about another 40 50
yards past the end of the street we've got a railway tractor
now probably is not in use because
there's no there's no tracks going across the road the young kids over here
we're telling me that it's a nice walk down the railway track and there's a
bridge down the end here a place where they often sort of hang out so another
place that interests me on the high street is when you have an Indian
restaurant in such a small community I'm just going to pop in oh they're closed
so we're trying catch Indian restaurant maybe at another time that's the bread
shop bakery in cafe on lang lang also right next door to the Indian restaurant
and here is the butcher's now this is what I was saying to you about I'm
guessing it's a family-owned butchers as as I hoped
this is a independent but just this is bare cellophane packs and things so I'm
sure if I asked this guy for certain cut do you get whole carcasses yeah can't
afford to pay for things like that all
right so real traditional
so like I said before you want to support these sort of places because
without them we're all be shopping in Horsham and colors it's just that it's
going to deteriorate so there you have it that's been the butcher and we
definitely be checking that out we're here for about 10 days or so so we'll be
able to pop back in there get some meats off him the meats here are all from
local sources so you know the quality of the beef is going to be a lot better and
so keep saying support your local stores support your local butchers support your
local green grocers and cafes there's a place for supermarkets there is but if
you don't support these guys they will go out of business so please this
Christmas coming up buy everything from local sources there's an endless train
of these sand trucks going through so I hope you've enjoyed that look around a
small town in Australia ylang-ylang great people really quite a nice town
nice and small compact enough that you can get around it really quickly but
enough in there to keep you entertained I'm actually going to do a live version
of this same video so I'd like to know maybe in the comments you could let me
know do you like this sort of pre-prepared format or you prefer the
live format wait till you see both obviously before you decide now the
truck going by be good share the love and we will see you
if you follow till it leads you back
you'll find that the answer is yes