Happy Birthday to my SIS! =)

Happy Birthday to my dear sis!! Every year when her birthday arrives, I always stress and think about what I could do for her. She always seems to surprise others (especially me) on our birthdays.

This year, due to travel plans, we celebrated her big day in Beijing. But we chose a gorgeous restaurant in Beijing that served their Beijing famous dishes.

Our Beijing friend ordered all the restaurants best dishes!

First were the appetizers and cold dishes:

Duck Liver Patte served cold

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"Saliva" Chicken REALLY GOOD and spicy!

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Sweet pork, sprinkled with snow fallen sugar

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Cabbage

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Spicy marinated Pork

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Small dessert dish: Red bean rolled in glutinous ball with powdered peanut

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Red bean and sweet glutinous

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Red bean cake

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Beijing sweets

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soy bean cake

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Glutinous sticky rice ball

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NICE WINE!!!!

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Chef cooking and preparing this WONDERFUL Fish in Lobster bisque

Fish in Lobster Bisque Soup

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Beijing Duck Sauce and Toppings to put in with the wrap

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Beijing Duck with two types of wraps

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The Chef slicing the Beijing Duck!

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Sliced up Beijing Duck. GORGEOUS..

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Beef

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Spicy marinated Pork

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Chinese dish with Bird-shaped veggies!

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Me and the "bird"

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Crispy ring wrapped around scallops

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The Scallop

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Pumpkin Soup

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Bamboo shoots

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Milky Soup

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DESSERT!!!

Guess what it is? COTTON CANDY!!! And in the middle are ICED Grape in Sugar Syrup!!!!

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Me and Jess posing with our COOL cotton candy!

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Now Diving in!!! SOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOD.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! LOVE YOU JE!!!!

Ringing in the New Year one Glutinous ball at a time...l (Part 4)

We REALLY did ring in the New Year with food and alcohol!

Below was a plate of fries that we ordered in the Davidoff Karaoke Lounge in the Ritz-Carlton. And as I said on that day "THESE ARE THE BEST TASTING FRIES I HAVE EVER TASTED!" (too bad we didn't get to take a pic of it before we devoured it!)

Champagne Rose

(A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!)

Next day we got to go to LAN the Beijing Philippe Starck Restaurant!

It was absolutely really unique!

There were many looooooooooooong tables (but not many ppl)

The food however was not the best tasting and the service was not the best handled.

This was the best tasting dish in my opinion and the first of our lunch course.

RAW VEGGIES rolled in CUCUMBER dipped in a PEANUT sauce

This was the "FISH-LIPS SOUP" (good for women cos of the collagen!) lol

This looked promising but was disappointing. Their too much sauced up Lobster that was too salty and sweet and spicy all at the same time!

This was their noodles, which I didn't try...ha ha

But it was a huge restaurant over 10,000 sq feet and obviously GORGEOUS to take PICS!

VERY COOL!

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DINNER

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We went to Nineteen Forty Nine which was supposedly good for Beijing duck (again)

I liked the deco a lot!

Each place setting had it's own sitting duck!

And everyone had their own personalized Beijing Duck sauce and herbs

Then we all had our own personalized really healthy soup. But I was SHOCKED to find Sea horse in mine! And then Janice found hers too. Eww... I couldn't eat it but supposedly it's very normal to be put into soup in Beijing.

The meal was not too memorable as the dessert was! These were steaming hot and filled with red bean paste!

This egg tart was SOOOOOOOOOOOO Good and freshly made. HOT!