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Dim Sum addicts

Ever since K and I found this cheap Dim Sum place we have been ridiculously addicted to it. When we have no idea what to eat, we go for Dim Sum. :D

Oh, well, I have been a big fan of Dim Sum / Yum Cha since I was just a little kid. I just love sleeping in on the weekends and having some Dim Sum with friends or family. When I was younger my family used to go all together every Saturday or Sunday. It was just so warm and nice.

This place is seriously cheap. All dishes are 5 RMB. <3!!!! And 2 or 3 RMB for tea per person. Unbelievable!!!!

I love the shrimp dumplings (har gow) the most. They have 3 real fresh shrimps in it. Yummmmmm. Also the rice noodle rolls there are awesome. We’ve tried shrimp ones, beef ones and char siu ones. No disappointment. I love the beef and porridge there as well. Ahhhhh thinking about it right now is making me so hungry! :P It is definitely the cheapest place I have ever been for Dim Sum and one of the most delicious too.

(Shrimp dumplings / Har gow)

(Egg custard bun / Lau sah bao)

(Char siu sou)

04.03.2010 Food No Comments

Happy Chinese New Year!

OK it is Valentine’s Day as well. But I am actually not a big fan of this day though I sometimes did keep some tradition.

Anyway, Xin Nian Kuai Le everybody! =)

It is always difficult to refuse Chinese New Year because kids can get a lot of red pockets from adults. Well, fine, I am not a kid any more but in tradition, the elders should give young red pockets. I guess it only stops when the young has a baby.

It was a great night last night. Soooooo much food. Lobster, crabs, prawns, shells, pork, beef, oysters, vegetables, fish etc. :D Also we had a lot of cognac and red wine. Love it! =) Lewi and I watched HIMYM and had some great laugh. That was so much better than watching some useless bullshit Spring Festival Ceremony from CCTV.

Now it is the year of tiger. Hope you all have a fantastic year. :)

14.02.2010 Life 1 Comment

LaLa

This is the other dog of mine at my parents place. We call her LaLa or Jumping (her funny English name). She’s a mix, will be 5 years old on March 8th this year.

I got her from a close friend’s grandma. It was May 20th 2005. She was even more tiny at that time.

LaLa is not very friendly to strangers but she’s really a sweetie to me. She follows me everywhere and she only listens to me. Every morning before I got up I’d play with her in bed and she would be so soft and cute. Mum always says that LaLa thinks I’m her only master no matter how others spoil her. I guess that’s some kind of dog’s loyalty.

Seriously I wish I could take her to Australia. =( It is pretty much impossible. She does not eat any dog food, nor dry food or can meat. If taking her to Australia from China, she will have to stay in Hong Kong for 6 months at the minimum first, have 4 blood tests and then in quarantine in AUS for another one month at least. LaLa will not be able to get through that. She is very stubborn and she eats my mum’s special cooked-food only.

Well, luckily, my parents and my grandpa all love her a lot. They actually spoil her. She will be having a very good life with them. I just cannot imagine what if she thinks I do not want her any more. I am a dog person and I always have this kind of special connection with her. She has been with me the whole time while I have been through a lot of stuff.

Right now she’s sleeping deeply and snoring a lot. Hehe usually I sleep on the left side of the bed and she sleeps right next to my pillow. When I was in Singapore, sometimes I woke up at midnight and found that she was not near my pillow and I got really really sad. I just hope she will live happily and be very healthy.

She’s always the dog that’d lick my tears off, hug me and enjoy some Feist songs with me. No matter what happens, no matter how many dogs Lewi and I will have in the future, she always will have a place in my heart. Just like the day we met, it was sunny, she was tiny, standing next to my friend’s bike, looking at me shyly but happily as well.

10.02.2010 Life No Comments

Chengdu

I love spicy food. That is a well-known fact. Since I was a kid I’ve been addicted to spicy food like crazy. Life without it? Nightmare!

Lewi loves spicy food. That is a well-known fact as well. And you cannot imagine how happy I was to find out that.

So basically we two are spicy food addicts. Call that a great couple!

Before Lewi met me, he had no idea about Sichuan food. I’m so sad for him. Haha. :P Anyway, as soon as he tried Sichuan food, he fell in love with it.

So what’s a dream place for us to eat? Without any doubt – Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province.

When Lewi was in China in December last year, we went to Chengdu. :D

The first night, we went to Yu Lin Road for Lao Ma Tou Hot Pot. It was soooooo spicy and yummy. It was so freaking cold in Chengdu at night but the hot pot definitely took the coldness away. The best hot pot and also the most spicy hot pot I’ve ever had.

This is Jing Li. It is a Chinese-style and cultural place full of shops, cafes and restaurants. I can’t say that I’m very impressed but it was nice to walk around on a Continue Reading..

29.01.2010 Food, Photography, Travel No Comments

So here we go

iPad is out. After such a long time of waiting.

I can’t say that it is just exactly what I wanted. And yes the name is ridiculous. But, people, get over it. It can’t be changed any more.

Also I’ve read a lot of comments saying that it is useless and stupid or that how anyone would want to buy it. Well, some people just seriously need to stop their arrogance.

I will buy it. Why?

OK, here is the thing. You need to be aware of what you want to do with it. Basically I just want something light and fast to carry with in my bag and when I’m bored I can read novels/newspapers, browse web and watch TV shows on it. If you want to work on an Tablet, well, it is not that realistic. Tablet is meant just for fun.

I guess guys don’t find MacBook or MacBook Pro heavy. But girls do. I used to carry my little white (white MacBook) every day to uni and it was seriously not very nice experience. And I hardly needed a laptop in uni. What I did was usually just emails, note taking, web browsing and reading. See? iPad can do all those things and it is so freaking light. What’s more, there is iWork in iPad if needed.

You may think: iPhone/iPod Touch can do that too. Yes, they can except they don’t have iWork. However, the screen is too small. I don’t like small screens. I am not really a fan of watching any videos on an iPhone. I don’t even like reading novels on an iPhone. So the size of iPad screen satisfies me. It is not too small that’d make me have no willing to read anything yet it is small enough to put it in my bag.

You may also think about a netbook. Oh, well, yeah I was looking for one. I wanted to find one that I can install Mac OS onto (it is actually really do-able and if you doubt just google it). I want Mac and I want something small. Before iPad came out, a netbook that can run Mac OS was the only way to solve the problem. And iPad solved the problem for me easily. Maybe you’d say that a netbook would do more, but the thing is iPad actually does do something a netbook can’t do, for example, iBooks. And also, if I really wanna do some work, I would not work on a netbook anyway.

So is it that useless or stupid after all? If someone can find it useful for themselves, then it is great enough.

By the way, Apple haters, hating Apple does not make you cool at all. It actually makes you look so stupid and arrogant. Just like the most ridiculous reason I have ever heard about why refusing an iPhone: “It is too popular!” Well, you know what? Refusing or hating a GOOD product/brand just because it is popular? What? Are you 12? Grow up!

There is a thing I really would be disappointed about iPad though. It is that there is no USB or webcam/camera. >< As someone else said: “It is 2010. I think you guys FORGOT something!” Oh, and also multitasking. What are they thinking? = =

28.01.2010 Tech, Words 1 Comment

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