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I live within a minute walk from a very good (but very expensive) butcher, 2 minutes from 2 supermarkets (and 10 minutes walk to 4 others)and 15 minutes walk to the market so I do try to shop almost everyday. It's not so much because I want the freshest things or anything like that- it's mostly because I never quite know what I feel like having that day and because shopping once a week means we throw a lot of things out. Things happen or we don't feel like eating what we'd planned and it ends in the bin. Spoilt, huh...

For steak, Prime at Le Meridien is said to be the best!

When I go out for dinner, it's with people I know and I usually do not like communal tables. However, it also depends on the occasion, the people I'm with and the 'other' people. If I'm with my boyfriend, I never do this communal table thing. If I'm with these 2 girls I'm really good friends with, then definitely a YES. We backpacked when we were younger and communal tables tend to be the norm. In general though, if I'm having dinner in a nice-ish place, I want to eat with my partner(s) and definitely do not want our conversation heard or to hear anyone else's conversation...

Yum, nothing better than fish & chips. Think I'm gonna get myself some tomorrow! I agree with another poster that the Aldi near you seems to be well- stocked up. The one where I live only has the 'crappy' stuff. Not particularly tasty, lots of additives but extremely cheap. Actually, these days, the meat and fresh items aren't cheap anymore compared to the normal supermarkets (when they are on sale). Looking forward to the rest of your entries!

The canales look lovely. I've never actually tasted them but I imagine a caramel-y, densed cakey-pudding sort of texture. Yum. I've never seen it in the bakeries here but who knows..someday... Baked a chocolate chip pound cake today. Recipe here

Looks like quite a few of us had Indian last weekend! I love Indian food, could eat it everyday. My boyfriend doesn't like spicy stuff though so we mostly make bastardized dishes like Tikka Masala and Butter Chicken. I usually eat it with rice, he eats it with naan or prathas. This time, we had jasmine rice instead of basmati because I couldn't find my bag of basmati. Of course, once I put some water into my jasmine rice, I saw my bag of Basmati sitting right in front of my eyes.... Also made a bastardized stir-fry. Onion, red chilli, curry powder and a pinch of salt with green beans. Saturday's Dinner Lamb Chop. This will not happen often. Lamb prices are so high. Can't justify 11 euro for 2 lamb chops for a simple dinner!

Everything looks so yummy here.. Haven't actually decided what to have for dinner yet and you guys are making me hungry!

I visited a toko (Asian grocery store) earlier this week so we've been eating Asian almost every evening (and sometimes lunch for me as well!). Besides pho, I also ate kimchi fried rice, Pad Thai, UFO noodles (out of a box) and nasi goreng. Tonight, I had curry laksa. My boyfriend had pizza as he's not a noodle person haha.

Beef Pho

It depends if the skin adds flavour. Sad to say, I almost never discard the skin because of health or caloric reasons. I probably wouldn't bother cooking chicken (unless the skin doesn't add anything to the dish and the chicken is supposed to taste 'that way') then! I could never eat a roast chicken, Hainanese chicken or fried chicken for example without the skin. I find chicken skin in curries quite pointless though (unless it's a dry Southern Indian one then it's yummy).

Baked a rustic but oh-so-beautiful cake today. I just love the texture and the bittersweet richness of it. It's an adult cake so probably not the best for children birthday parties. I felt like I was eating good chocolate from the chocolaterie hehe. Recipe for the Earl Gray Torte here

dcarch : BEAUTIFUL! love the colours

Made a pot of this and it was so good! Salsiccia & Savoy Cabbage Soup Recipe here

I miss eating out at night. My parents, aunts,uncles, cousins, kids etc. would often have a meal and drinks at 1am..sometimes even 3 am. We'd have Indian-style bread with curries, fried noodles, tandoori chicken, claypot lou shi fun and whatever else anyone wanted. Where I am in The Netherlands, after clubbing, you either grab a kebab, fries and recently, there's this wok place (bad Chinese food in cardboard containers) which opens til about 3-4am on Friday & Saturday. It's probably unhealthy but then again, if you live in Asia, you generally don't drink on a regular basis so that kinda evens that out, I guess! Here in NL, we probably go through 2-3 bottles a wine a week between the 2 of us (and that's excluding clubbing). I never drunk anything back home except at weddings (and even then, not much) or when out with friends (also never to the dying puking terrible hangover stage).

Gorgeous cookies! This week, I baked a simple apple yoghurt cake. Recipe here I also went crazy at the bakery this morning. Planned on some croissants for breakfast but came home with chocolate pastries, 10 cream puffs, a chocolate hazelnut cake and 6 apple beignets in addition the the croissants

Some simple dinners this week: Stampot Salsiccia Pasta Steak

It's been quite a while since we came back from HK. Our HK friends brought us to Fook Lam Moon, a 1-star Michelin place, because I mentioned wanting to go to some dim sum place with 1 Michelin star (I meant Tim Ho Wan but couldn't remember the name!). Food was pretty tasty but I suppose it was a slightly different experience as there were so many papparazzi in front of Fook Lam Moon. There were quite a few politicians, models and other figures in there. I have no idea who they were but HK friends later mentioned that the other patrons may have been worried about the photos I was taking (really, I was only photographing the dim sum:-P ). Breakfast was pretty cheap; I think we paid something like 60 euro for Chinese tea and about 8-10 plates of dim sum (har kou, siew mai, steamed cake, don't remember what else). We also had Mango Lo, egg tarts, roast goose and a whole bunch of ridiculously cheap food at a Char Chan Teng. What impressed me is also the sheer liveliness of Lan Kwai Fong at night. We went to some place on the 69th floor and I don't think I saw that much craziness by people in the 30s/40s. It was like they worked hard all week and come Friday, they just went mad. Drinks were relatively expensive.. think a beer was about 10 euro?

Chinese New Year doesn't feel at all like Chinese New Year here. Sorry to say but I had meatballs:P

Lovely blog. I feel like roast tonight, too! I love going to all those little shops but language is still a problem for me. It's hard to be witty in a foreign language! Really gorgeous table setting at the estate. Might just incorporate that to my wedding;)

Oreo Citrus Cheesecake Cheesecakes are starting to get popular here (yes, FINALLY)

mathewr:I thought it was a typo and you meant to say HKD1500 for 2 but you're right! HKD150 is extremely good value. Not sure about the 1.5-2hour wait though... hzrt8w: To be honest, not sure which area we'll be at. Central for sure as our hotel is there. Certainly willing to travel if it's not too difficult to get there. Abalone, shark's fin soup etc. all fine (although these days eating shark's fin soup is so politically incorrect....). It's not that I don't like the food, it's more like "hmm nothing special..what's the big deal...". Thanks for your suggestions! P/S: No comments on the prices of wine? Is 200-300 HKD per glass the going rate in restaurants in HK?

Thanks. We'll be in HK for 4 days. Regarding meals, the majority will be street/cheap food. Looking for perhaps 1 'expensive' dinner (preferably no more than HKD1500), 1 higher end lunch and perhaps afternoon tea. The kind of food we'd be interested in is Chinese but if I were to be completely honest, 'expensive' Chinese food has never been a favourite of mine (you know, like the typical wedding/Chinese New Year food like Four Seasons,Brocolli with scallops, Lotus Rice etc). My ethnic background is Chinese so pretty much ate Chinese food all my life. Streetfood is not problem. Not too worried about that part as partner's friend will probably take us to some local stalls.

Hi, Will be visiting HK in August and have a few questions. Is Lung King Heen really all that good? Is there anywhere else you would recommend? We love street food and will probably have our fill as my partner has a friend working in HK so would be more interested in a meal at a restaurant (not crazy expensive). I was checking out the menu at a few Michelin star restaurants in HK and the prices seem quite reasonable (cheaper than Europe). However, the wine sounds very expensive! A glass of wine at a Michelin star restaurant in The Netherlands is about 6-8 euro (house wine or paired wines). Similar wines at such restaurants in HK seem to go for about 200-350 HKD (+- 22-35 euro) per glass!?

In conjunction with the World Cup finals tomorrow, I present you with carrot cupcakes. Hup Holland Hup!