catching up

You guys must must must try this! It's Godiva's Chocolate-dipped Pirouettes and it's really very nice. Although it's looks thin and crumbly, the biscuit is actually harder and crisper than it looks. And sweeter. Yet it still retains that buttery goodness. It's really fantastic because I actually can't decide which is nicer, the chocolate or the biscuit, which is a very rare occurence indeed, haha.

Anyway, we have a new fridge upstairs, and it's terrible. Snacking is so much easier now! Before we got this, it was alright because I'm always too lazy to go downstairs to look for food. But now, the chocolate pirouettes are just a corridor away >.<

Okay, now for the very overdue updates. First up, food from patty's birthday dinner at equinox. Food wasn't too bad, had a funny waiter and loud comments from Maddy about the food/place/service just as the waiter walked by. Food was a very Asian though, wasn't expecting it. My brother said it's always been like that. Well, was my first time there.


Okay, let's see if I remember what's in this: Rockmelon, honey figs, asparagus, rocket leaves and parma ham with orange conserve. This was pretty good, other than the conserve which tasted alright but really looked like soy sauce.


Some tomyam tasting (but without the spiciness) soup. Was alright I guess.


Foie gras with honey cake and kumquats(?). The foie gras tasted alright, just that I couldn't stop thinking about how it was liver and bloody. I'm probably never ever going to eat one again =/ the honey cake was nice too, as were the orange peel/kumquats.


Main course! Wagyu beef with mushrooms and choy sum. And they had thin slices of fried lotus on top, quite pretty. This dish was good, I liked it a lot =) Although it mostly tasted like the mushrooms, choy sum plus gravy dish that you get at chinese dinners, haha. Think the other alternative main course was some fish dish, can't really remember.


Next is dessert, which I don't have a good picture of. Chocolate bar with mint ice cream. Chocolate cake was really good and rich, the sort I like, but cannot always finish, haha. Loved the crunchy biscuit layer at the bottom and the absence of sponge cake, it was so sad that I couldn't finish it, not after all the food before =(


Okay, next, Hainan Island! Not gonna show much pictures, just the more interesting things. Cos well, there weren't many pretty things at all =p


We stopped at a restaurant for lunch on the first day. This is how they serve their rice! Cute right? It's lor mai kai-sized, so quite small. You need about two bowls each, maybe more for guys. But it's cool, because they cook the rice in those individual claypots, not scoop it over when it's cooked. Not sure if it actually tastes better, but it was cute, haha.


A sign in the hotel bathroom. 'Natural spring water please don't be drunk usefulness'. This is the hotel we stayed in in the city.


This is called a san jiao mao (3 legged cat), because it has 3 wheels, which makes for dangerous driving. Our transport from the hotel to the village. It's usually used to transport goods, not people, but that doesn't stop anybody. It's terribly bumpy, and apparently it used to be worse cos there weren't those wooden benches to sit on, but metal poles. Talk about numb butt O_O Okay, but what's truly special about this vehicle is not it's red-blue-white-auntie-plastic-bag roof, but the fact that it runs on a lawnmower engine! And believe me, it feels and sounds exactly like you're riding on a lawnmower! Fancy that! These chinese are pretty ingenious, I'm impressed. Oh, and because the road to the village is mostly clay (we can't take the highway cos the lawnmower's too slow), the dust cloud is incredible! It's about 2 storeys high, and blurs the road so much I'm surprised the motorists don't all die of suffocation. Didn't get a good picture, but it actually is quite pretty, in the stark way.


Elena's horrifying angkukueh-turtle thing. She actually ate it.


One of the estates in the city. Looks like how I imagine hongkong to look like, haha. The photo on the left reminded me of Kungfu Hustle! Most of the city is like this though. The village is even more rundown, haha, but looks more like china.


Oh yeah, had tea at Royal Copenhagen in Takashimaya with Maddy recently, think she has the pictures. The cakes are alright, scones not so much. Overpriced though, so I wouldn't particularly recommend it. Maybe the food is good, but as far as tea goes, there are better places.

Okay that's it for now, time for another biscuit =D