Taipei - Airplane food!?

In Taipei, and with my sister and her daughter, we come across a very cute restaurant in the mall by 101. It looked like the interior of a jumbo jet. And all the waitresses were dressed like flight attendants!

My sis sitting in "first class" haha

We were exhausted! So many shopping bags!! haha (And I'm carrying Jasmine's Build-A-Bear)

Although the restaurant was cute, the food was not the best tasting. This was a typical kid's meal

But the important thing is that the kids enjoyed it like Jasmine!

Convention Centre Dinner of BLACK TRUFFLES

Sitting and can't wait for dinner to start!

Set Menu for each guest!

Barbequed Black Truffle Served on Polaine Toast with Brie Cheese and Honey

Terrine of Root Vegetables, Mushrooms and Black Truffle

Truffle Hunter's Potato Icy Granite and Caviar

My sis enjoying her dinn dinn! =P

Porc Duo "Le Noir de Bigorre" Truffle Jus

Vacherin Cheese Tart with Blueberry and Black Truffle

This dessert was truly scary for me because I thought (or we all thought) that it was some whipped cream on a blueberry cheesecake. But it turns out that the cream was made from really smelly cheese. And it was not the most appetizing dessert...(disappointing! Cos I love a good dessert!!)

The dinner was wonderfully hosted and I enjoyed a wonderful night with friends and good food!

Creative Cakes

For My 21st Birthday, my sis helped design this adorable and HUGE pink Ipod cake for me!

It had headphones and everything. =) Pink is my fav color and I lahv listening to music! She totally surprised me, and now every occasion, we always try to think of new ideas for more creative cakes!

For my nephew's 1st birthday, my sister decided to get the cake with a baby on top of a cake. It was absolutely ADORABLE and it looked exactly like JAMES!

For my BDAY, I wanted something that was very nice so I found this on the pic of the cake on the internet and asked the cake shop to do it. They did a wonderful job and I LAHVED it!

Shanghai Hairy Crab!!!

In Hong Kong there are not many different changes in the season in terms of weather, but in terms of food, there is always a special time for something particular. One of my favorite seasons are: Hairy Crab Season!

It typically starts in late September and can last until January (depending on the temperatures of the waters that the crab live in).

Below are pictures of one the best quality hairy crabs of the season (which are usually the months right in the middle of the season.)

Look at the Fiery RED color! Mmmm...

You can see the Wet Tissue behind cos you've got to get down and dirty with your hands.

My Foodie Janice Jann enjoying for crab!

The inside of the crab with the shell lid off. This is a particularly good one cos of the large amount of yellow yolk and it's bright color!

It's steaming hot, cos they are all steamed fresh.

My sis LAHVING it. She skipped the shell fish during pregnancy because some doctors believe it's not good for the baby's skin.

ME! I was one of the luckiest that night cos I got one of the best pick of the crab!

Slithering Soup...

In HK there are a lot of different types of delicacies... such as bird's nest, shark's fin, abalone. Etc.

This day we were invited to go eat Snake Soup.

I'm not sure what type of snake, I think it's a form of sea snake.

The texture is more gritty than fish but it was interesting to try!

~ SNAKE SOUP ~

Below is just a pic of how many different types of drinks we had for that night. I thought it was really funny...

Let's count: tea, hot tea, red wine, diet coke, Chinese yellow wine...not counting the water, coffee later and dessert soup!

It runs in the family...

Being the youngest in the family has its advantages and disadvantages. One of the great advantages is that I am always in the presence of good food, as my mom is a wonderful cook, as well as my dad and if worse comes to worse my sis can always whip up something good.

The disadvantage of this is that I never needed to learn how to cook. EVER! My first (and only) fried egg I've ever done was in my first year in college...Yup that's right. WOW.

So as I had promised my sis that I would cook her an entire meal when she was pregnant with her 2nd baby, I didn't manage to try it until the baby was about 6 months old. Well better late than never! So I went into the kitchen and spent a good time in there cooking for 6 adults and a 5 year old.

Alright so I didn't do much of the 'cooking' as I did more of chopping! I made them a great big meal of MEXICAN tacos! It was actually very tiring. And from the looks of the pics you can tell that I have no experience in portion control! As I prepared way too much for the amount of ppl eating...but in the end it was all well worth it!

The rice always smells better next door...

Although I'm already EXTREMELY blessed with two awesome parents who love to cook as much as they LAHV to eat it, sometimes you still go out and find food that tastes better than home food! And most of the time the best food is always found in the warmth homes of your close friends. For it is there that you will taste something unique and different than the food at home, even if they are just cooking a simple bowl of white rice. This is extremely true from the old Chinese saying of "the food always smells better next door".

One of the most wonderful experiences I have ever had with beef noodles in soup was made by our very good family friend May. She is from Si Chuan and naturally she LAHVES spicy food. And if you can't take spicy don't try to stomach anything from Si Chuan!

She made her famous beef noodles in soup made with her own homemade spicy sauce and marinated beef. It was AWESOME. But of course EXTREMELY spicy and I had to down 2 glasses of coke lights!

By the time I finished my wonderful bowl of noodles (which I downed after my full coursed dinner) my lips was red and numb like a goldfish!

Mami's Bday 2008

I know it's already 2010...but I didn't start my blog until this year so just a recap of my mom's birthday back in October 2008!

This is my beautiful mother, and also handsome dad giving her a bouquet of roses! She loves flowers and doesn't she just look radiant?!

We chose to have a small dinner party with close family and friends at Lawry's Steakhouse in Causeway Bay. We got a private room and it was very cozy and pretty!

My sis then ordered some beautiful flowers of pink and ivory to put as center pieces along the long table to add a little femininity in a minimal way!

Of course we didn't make a set menu, we let everyone order a la carte!

Janice (my cousin and also one of my foodies) is enjoying the lobster bisque! Mmmm..

We had to have one of my favorite pink bubblies: Laurent Perrier Rosé, mmmm...

See how we are enjoying our wonderful steaks! Although this is not one of my favorite places for real good steak, it was a great night and we had lots of good fun!!

And of course last but definitely not least is THE BIRTHDAY CAKE! As I mentioned before as a tradition, we must have a birthday cake for the birthday girl/boy. We also started the habit of making it one of the highlights of the night to surprise everyone and the birthday person on how creative and thoughtful the cake will be. So for my mom's birthday we chose to do the CHANEL box design! Check it out!

My mom had a wonderful night and she absolutely lahved the cake. Of course these gorgeous cakes are more to look at than to be eaten! Although it is 100% edible, we want to be careful with our figures and not get into a super sugar high!