Long time no see, my friends! It has been a while since my last post. I have been spending my time mostly with work – covid style of course. It seems like preparations for the next thing never ends. Don’t get me wrong, I am extremely grateful that our business is doing ok with everythingRead more
It’s Chinese New Year soon! Nothing is better than homemade deep fried goodies and one of my favourites is the deep fried sesame cookie balls. Its name is “kai kou xiao” in Mandarin pinyin, meaning “laughing mouth”. Being brought up in a Cantonese family I’ve learnt that they are called “siu hau jo” in CantoneseRead more
Remember my trip to Las Vegas last month? Here comes part two! We stayed at the Treasure Island hotel where we had two buffet meals there (a lunch and a dinner). We chose to go there twice was because we had a $50 credit towards the restaurant and another buy one get one free coupon.Read more
Indian food is another one of my favourite foods! When booking our Xoxolat class, we were asked if we would also like to book a three course dinner after class at Atithi for $15 (only for Xoxolat chocolate tasting class participants). Read about my previous post on Xoxolat chocolate 101 class here! I was curious,Read more
As we can see, cocoa is planted mainly in Africa, Mexico, and South America. There are soooo many kinds of chocolates that I didn’t know about. That was what I learned from this class. Xoxolat (pronounced sho.sho.la) is a specialty chocolate store that carries the a wide variety of imported chocolates as well as chocolatesRead more
It is the new year and I wish everyone a wonderful year! My new year resolution is to live a more balanced lifestyle (ie. more exercise) and to improve my cooking skills. What are your new year resolutions?
Yay! I finally got to try this Malaysian restaurant. I love South East Asian foods because their dishes are usually so flavourful with a variety of bright spices and herbs – sooo good! On this day, I went to with my friend for lunch. There are four locations of the Banana Leaf restaurant: on Broadway,Read more
