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Week 20. new place-new life September 5, 2007

Filed under: Food and drinks, Health and Fitness, Money, Pregnancy — urnn @ 8:13 am

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We have now officially moved to Discovery Bay. We found a beautiful apartment with alomost 360 degrees view. It is a little bit stretch in terms of our budget so we decided that this year we will just forget saving money ( we still put aside a certain amount of money for our baby though) and cencentrate on enjoying our little life and our little baby without being a high flyer or eat out every single meal as before. We love this flat that much!

As soon as I moved in I was relax and happy. We have lived in Central Hong Kong last year- it’s time to have a calmer life.  I can eat now and begin to enjoy cooking as I did before I was pregnant.

I have no idea that one of my main reason that I couldn’t eat and not gaining weight during the past 5 months (even though the baby is big- God knows how) was due to the fact that I did not like the environment. We lived in a nice flat but the environment was bad, no view (or te estate agent calls it ‘building view’), bad cooking smell (no offense to our chinese friends).

With our current flat the back of our flat faces the mountain (nothing in between at all), front face the sea (with other buildings in front but we are on tope of the mountain, so nothing obstruct the view to the sea). During the day I can only hear the sound of the waterfall.  This is heaven.

The baby is still alive and kicking. I become less concern and begin to enjoy my pregnancy now. Today I even begin to practice lullaby lyrics and aiming to memorise the lyrics to welcome the birth of our baby. I feel for the first time as a mother when I sang the songs and can begin to imagine myself as a moher now.

But I still don’t want to start buying cot and all that to tempt faith……Old fashion I know.

 

Best Restaurants in Hong Kong February 8, 2007

Filed under: Food and drinks — urnn @ 3:14 am

Australian fusion cuisine : Jaspa’s 28 Staunton Street, Soho, Central Tel: 2869 0733
Best Indian : Bombay Dreams 75-77 Wyndham Street Tel: +852 2971 0001
Best Pub with character: Old China Hand G/F, 104 Lockhart Road, Wanchai
Best American : Dan Ryan’s Chicago Grill 114 Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Admiralty Tel: (852) 2845 4600
Best Italian: Grappas132 The Mall, Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Admiralty Tel: (852) 2868 0086
Best Greek: Olive 32 Elgin St, Soho Tel: (852) 2521 1608
Best Vietnamese : Soho Spice G/F 47 Elgin Street Soho Tel: 2521 1600
Best in Lan Kwai Fong : Hanagushi (Japanese)17-22 Lan Kwai Fong (1st floor)
Tel: 852/2521 0868
Best Dim Sum : Lei Gardens (IFC) Shop 3008-11 Tel: (852) 2295 0238
Best Korean : Myung-ga in World Trade Centre, CWB
Best Steak: La Pampa’s Argentinian Steak House
Best once-in-a-while special meals: The Peak Lookout
Seafood: Under Spicy Crab 429 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai Tel: 2573 7698
Best French private kitchen : Plats 2/f, Yu Wing Bldg, 64-66 Wellington St.
Tel: 29710808
British/Bake food: Jimmy’s Kitchen 1-3 Wyndham Street, LG/F, South China Building Tel: +852 2526 5293 Recommend: Baked Alaska.

 

Places to eat in Hong Kong February 5, 2007

Filed under: Food and drinks — urnn @ 12:50 pm

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Jade Garden: Dim Sum G/F-2/F1 Hysan Avenue, Causeway Bay Tel 2577 9332

Lunch:  dim sum
Dinner: drunken shrimp boiled in Chinese rice wine, deep-fried boneless chicken with lemon sauce, stir-fried minced pigeon served with lettuce leaves, glazed pork loin, barbecued Peking duck.

Best Buffet Spread: café TOO, Island Shangri-La Hotel, Supreme Court Road, Central (tel. 852/2820 8571, ext. 8571).

Best Burgers and Beer: Dan Ryan’s Chicago Grill, at 88 Queensway, Central (tel. 852/2845 4600), and Ocean Terminal (tel. 852/2735 6111).

Best Sunday Brunch: The Verandah, 109 Repulse Bay Rd, Repulse Bay (tel. 852/2812 2722), complete with a three-piece band. Wonderfully reminiscent of the colonial era, it features Hong Kong’s most famous Sunday spread, with main courses like eggs Benedict from a menu, a carving of the day, pasta cooked to order, sushi, dim sum, and more.

 

Chestnut January 23, 2007

Filed under: Food and drinks, Health and Fitness — urnn @ 9:01 am

 

I love Chestnut!

I like to snack – who doesn’t – and I watch my calories and fat intake, that’s why I like chestnuts. They have only a fraction of the fat and calories of other nuts and I feel satisfied by a small bag of them!  and I don’t feel guilty eating them , that’s the most important point.

No other contries in the world roast chestnuts as well as they do in Hong Kong….and Thailand, I may add.  You can smell them long before you can see them.

But these days they don’t cook them in a big extra large wok and sand anymore.

I was so pleased to see the old style roasted chestnuts in Causeway Bay the other day, on the footpath somewhere. But then it was cooked by an old fragile man. I can’t imagine how heavy and tiring it must have been for him to stand there and keep tossing and turning the chestnuts.

May be I should set up a stall for roasted chestnuts and cook them in his way, earn money and skip the gym altogether.