Te Anau

Although it was late in the evening by the time we'd finished the Gertrude's Saddle walk, we decided to press on back down the long Milford Road to the town of Te Anau for the night. This is another town which exists only because of the tourist traffic to Milford Sound, and looks as if everything in it was built last month.
After all the drama of the climb up and down the mountain it was an anti-climax to be back in the orderly campsite with its regimented plots and mown grass, then (without bothering to shower first because we were too tired and hungry) to cross the main road to walk into town along  neat tarmac roads with streetlights and neon lit shopfronts.
There were two Chinese restaurants in one road. We chose the one that was full of Chinese families, thinking that this had to be a good sign. It was, because the food was good, although more hot and spicy than we were used to; obviously Chinese food NZ style.
Because everyone in the place was eating with chopsticks I made sure first that a knife and fork could be provided for me. That's something that's been on my list of skills to be learnt for some time; using chopsticks. I must get around to it!
While sitting at the table waiting for the food to arrive I noticed the name of the road we were in;  it was Wong Way.