Whampoa Dragon Fountain

追寻 (老公)童年的回忆。。。

已经催了他很久,硬要他陪我去黄浦一带 (大牌 85)- 去探望还逗留在那喷水池里的一具猛龙。昨天终于抽出了宝贵的时间,花了仅仅半个小时的时间,却追回了数十年前的美好回忆, 真让人回味无穷。也因此想借此机会,在巨龙消失之前,赶快把这些回忆拍下来。

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Korean Spicy Rice Cake (떡볶이)

Pronounced as tteokbokki, this dish is supposed to be one of the favourite dishes of the Koreans, especially as a street snack on a hungry after-work day. I remember first eating this food for lunch at a ski resort in Korea back in 2005. It was freezing cold; we were both tired from a day of non-stop skiing. In such a situation, the tteokbokki tasted especially lip-smacking and memorable.

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Three Cheese Lasagna Specially Adapted For Christmas

This lasagna uses mainly ricotta cheese and chicken mushroom stuffing in place of the typical minced-beef-in-bolognese-sauce, which makes non-beef eaters like me very happy. It also comes with an additional topping of salami slices – flown all the way from Germany – to make for a perfect Christmas celebration.

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Stuffed Bell Peppers To Fill November Up With Colours

Just because December and the Christmas season are fast approaching, November seems to have a rather hushed and suppressed characteristic to it. I need it to be more fulfilling and exciting than it is now.

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Chinese Steamed 2-Toned Chocolate Buns

Back in Durham, there was an attempt to make steamed buns. The result – though edible – was not fantastic, what with a strange, off-white coloured dough. A later attempt, however, produced an unexpected surprise, when the buns were baked instead of steamed, delivering small little brown parcels of delight (refer to Chinese Baked Pork Buns).

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