Away...

On board the SQ from LAX back to KUL. Glad to finally be going home after a very stressful week (plus unnecessarily stress). Time to clear the mind, do some thinking for decisions in the coming year. Looking forward to family time, meeting up with friends and lots of good food!

Happy Holidays!

Nov Eats

Pre-Xmas dinner - chicken mushroom stew, sambal prawn, minced port omelette, roast ham, loh mai fan, stir fried shiitake & corn, kuih lapis, almond cake, scallop+bak choy dish

Early Dec dinner @ Noble Chef, Clairemont

Homemade 'vegetarian' prawn noodle, kuih bingka, sweet potato with ginger soup, sweet lemon pie and pandan (screwpine) red bean mochi cake 

Turkey stuffed with loh mai fan (sticky rice) and some taiwanese beer for thanksgiving

Cuban meat pies and potato balls up @ Porto's in Downey...go early or wait in line

Xiao Long Bao @ Din Tai Fung, South Coast Plaza...again go early or be prepared for the longggg wait

Thanksgiving @ The Zonces

*Thankful*

Chef that prepared everything!

Rudy eyeing the turkey

Lovely outdoor setting for dinner

Our lovely hosts Aya and Steve

Let's eat!

Turkey with stuffings, mash potato and gravy, greens and cranberry sauce

With some VIP guests :)

Raspberry cheese cake

Pumpkin apple pie

 Thank you for a lovely dinner!

Back to back work

NYC 30degF

Minneapolis 8degF

F.A.L.L.

How To Train Your Dragon 2

Director : Dean DeBlois

Cast : Voice of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Cate Blanchett, America Ferreira, Kit Harrington

Release Date : 13 June 2014

Duration : 102min

When Hiccup and Toothless discover an ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace.

VERDICT : Awesome story of friendship, despite sadness and loss.

Fall potluck :)

With visitors from Singapore and Germany in town, a get together for some good food on a lovely weathered day and also to celebrate the two mummy to be ShirLi and Christina. Final get together before the year ends.

Lovely isn't it?

Late lunch/early dinner is served!

We obviously congregate around food ;p

Row by row, L to R : Mee Siam, Cornflake shrimp, Chicken curry, Chilli okra with tofu, Soon Kueh, Kuih Lapis, Bubur cha cha and lotus root soup with octopus soup

 Two mummy to be - ShirLi and Christina

One of the twins - 6 months since we last sat you!

Alolololo

Great get-together

Almost everyone

Isabel shows them how it's done..good big sister

Dr.Leslie Tay of ieatishootipost

Got an invite from the Overseas Singapore Unit to attend one of the Singapore Buzz events in the US - a session with Dr.Leslie Tay of the famed 'ieatishootipost' foodie blog. Attended the 1st session of Hawker Food Culture in LA (2nd in Seattle and 3rd in San Francisco) at the historic Biltmore Hotel in downtown LA. Rather gastronomic, comical and very informative session by the doctor, who is a real life doctor with a clinic in Tampines and the rest of the time a foodie. He has also co-hosted some TV shows on Singapore TV. We hope he will make a trip to San Diego some time.

Kuih lapis episode

Lots of work, steaming each colored layer one by one. Definitely fragrant with the pandan, but not that green. Used coconut cream instead of milk and 1/3 less sugar that the recipe but prolly need to change the 80/20 ratio of the tapioca/rice flour for next try so that it's not that chewy perhaps? 

Happy Halloween!

Eerie 4 legged spirit walker (on stilts) - BOO!

Oct eats

Fei teng yu (boiled fish with bean sprouts in hot chili oil) @ Chef Chin's

Sesame Balls @ Pearl

Greek food @ Victor's Kafe

Shaved ice topped with red bean @ Tea Station

Korean food @ Convoy Tofu House

Szechuan cuisine @ Fu An Garden

They are back!

Back after 3 months in Tokyo :)

Divali celebration at Balboa Park

Delightful night of Indian dances from various states and the lighting of 1000 lights

Sept eats

Fried spring rolls, broken rice with grilled chicken, vermicelli with grilled chicken and rare steak pho 

@ Pho Ca Dao, Rancho Bernardo

Mango Lassi, Tandoori butter chicken, veggie briyani rice and potato+cauliflower pakora 

@ Royal India Del Mar

Cekodok pisang / fried mash banana fritters 

 Egg tart fresh from the oven @ Chinamax, Convoy

Spicy Thai dinner (Yum Woon-sen salad, spicy eggplant and basil with beef and fried tilapia with chilli) @ Sab-E-Lee, Black Mountain and since no mango sticky rice dessert (as mango is off season), Haagen Daz ice cream outside on a bench from next door Vons will do

Happy Hour @ Japengo, La Jolla UTC - Burning Sun, Crunchy & Hawaiian Sushi Roll, curry dusted calamari, Chocolate brulee tart with ginger whipped cream

Restaurant Week @ Bleu Boheme, Kensington

3 course meal for $45 @ Bleu Boheme, award winning french restaurant in Kensington with Bohemian decor - Gnocchi ala Parissiene and Boeuf Bourguignon is recommended

Mousse au chocolat and Crepe a la Creme Brulee is recommended.

Good catching up with Yuki, Aya and Michiko