This has resulted in my exponential increase in size of my waist, therefore causing me to be unable to fit into clothes.
Bah!
By the way, only exercise I seem to be getting is walking to find more food to eat!
Gonna keep a count of all the foodie places I've been going to.
- Had Korean food at Arang ( I think the food sucks!). Only reason we went to Arang was because we were trying to look for another Korean restaurant and we couldn't find it and we were walking up and down and were getting hungrier and hungrier by the minute and at last settled for Arang because it was right in front of us and also heard that the food there was good.
- Dim Sum at Phoenix Palace in Baker Street. Originally wanted to go to Royal China but so ex!
Food was very tasty, but I don't think the Chef was skillful enough, an example would be the xiao long bao whereby the Chef made the skin was too thick and there was no soup inside.
Making xiao long bao is a fine art, between making the skin too thick and too thin. If skin is too thin, obviously the xiao long bao will burst easily causing hot soup to spill everywhere!
My cousin Victor says the dim sum food in Royal China is finer but unfortunately you pay a lot more for it too!
- Chinese food ta pau-ed from Royal China. We had Salt and Pepper fried squid, Steam chicken with ginger, and fried beef with pepper and the bill amounted to like 36 pounds (OMG, didn't know it was so ex!!) and the person who bought the food sat the tube all the way to Queensway and back to Russell square just to buy the food (cause he seems to think that the Queensway branch is perhaps the more authentic one out of the other branches). Anyway don't think the food is worth the price! And it was so little food for the price they charged! wtf!
- French bakery shop in Judd Street. OMG. Cakes, pastries all to DIE for!!!! yummmmyyy.....
Was walking with my aunt, and we walked past this bakery and she suddenly decided to pop in and buy one each for everybody. Each cake/pastry was about 2 pounds each. And I was kinda scared cause I thought the cakes/pastries might not be good, cause there was this one time, my friends recommended me this famous bakery which has a few branches in London, Patisserie Valerie, and me and my brother decided to pop in try a slice of the cake. Anyway was so disappointed with the cake! Yikes! Wasted my money!! Scoffs at lousy cake from famous French cafe!
Look so good but taste like crap. What a shame!I am most certainly NOT impressed with this cake shop! My cousin Victor also thinks the cakes are not great and he wonders why people love the cakes here so much?
- Went to 4 seasons in Bayswater with the relatives to meet their friends.
Oh Thank Goodness there was roasted duck!!
Me, my brother and the two cousins did go over to 4 seasons a few days ago in Chinatown, and there was no duck, and we actually did WALK OUT of the restaurant. Apparently the UK government is having some crackdown on illegal ovens imported from Hong Kong used by the restaurants to make roasted duck.
Anyway, we also had fried squid, ma pou toufu or dunno wad toufu dish (nothing spectacular so can't quite remember what it was), Free soup too, and fatty pork with some black garlic sauce.
Was quite disappointed with the roasted duck. Definitely not up to standard. Tsk!
By the way, bump into like the whole world there! Causing the aunties to think I know the whole world or something. We seem to bump into people we know everything we go to 4 seasons in Bayswater for some reason. I would like to believe that I was fated to meet my friends who I have not seen in ages!! Hehehe :)
- Buffet at Indian restaurant near King's Cross station. Remember I said before that we walked out of 4 seasons in China town, well we ended up eating buffet instead!! My cousin Victor suggested that we try out this Indian restaurant which has buffet on Saturdays at 6.99 pounds. Since my brother couldn't find his oyster card, 4 of us walked all the way from China town which is located near Leicester Square to King's Cross, and we were so freaking tired and hungry by the time we reached the restaurant! Also compounded by the fact that the only thing we had eaten the whole day was peanut porridge which I cooked in the morning, it was soo delicious, cause I put scallops in which I had confiscated from Victor :P also added lots and lots of pork marinated with Kikkoman soya sauce, oyster sauce, pepper. Honestly I swear by using Kikkoman soya sauce! It does add a whole new dimension of flavour to Chinese food, making it so much more tasty. Well worth the money spent on it! Also not to forget, the cheaper soya sauce most probably has dodgy ingredients in it. My mum told me to stop buying cheap soya sauce. I can't believe I spent almost a year surviving on the cheap buy one free one soya sauce which was like 50 pence a bottle bought from the Matthews the ONLY Chinese shop in Aberdeen.
Anyway back to the topic, went into the Indian restaurant, and saw a notice that students will get a 10% discount, so flashed my student ID at them :)
The 4 of us wolf all the food down in a matter of seconds! I think out of all the food, the lamb curry was the best :) Also the naan bread was made at the shop and it was a special naan bread with coconut and brown sugar in between and it was so sweet and chewy.
The service was also excellent, and the waiters and the owner was polite and courteous :)
They also served us sliced orange in the end with warm towels, and initially I was quite skeptical, as usually when you go into Chinese restaurants when they serve you peanuts, towels, whatever, you usually end up having an extra charge mysteriously appearing on your bill. Anyway, Victor says that the Indian restaurant doesn't charge for it.
So anyway, after out 10% discount, each person ended up paying about 6.05 pounds if I'm not mistaken. Very worth it! Food is good! Highly recommended place.
Anyway getting tired of writing about food.
So this is to be continued.......=)
- Went to 4 seasons in Bayswater with the relatives to meet their friends.
Oh Thank Goodness there was roasted duck!!
Me, my brother and the two cousins did go over to 4 seasons a few days ago in Chinatown, and there was no duck, and we actually did WALK OUT of the restaurant. Apparently the UK government is having some crackdown on illegal ovens imported from Hong Kong used by the restaurants to make roasted duck.
Anyway, we also had fried squid, ma pou toufu or dunno wad toufu dish (nothing spectacular so can't quite remember what it was), Free soup too, and fatty pork with some black garlic sauce.
Was quite disappointed with the roasted duck. Definitely not up to standard. Tsk!
By the way, bump into like the whole world there! Causing the aunties to think I know the whole world or something. We seem to bump into people we know everything we go to 4 seasons in Bayswater for some reason. I would like to believe that I was fated to meet my friends who I have not seen in ages!! Hehehe :)
- Buffet at Indian restaurant near King's Cross station. Remember I said before that we walked out of 4 seasons in China town, well we ended up eating buffet instead!! My cousin Victor suggested that we try out this Indian restaurant which has buffet on Saturdays at 6.99 pounds. Since my brother couldn't find his oyster card, 4 of us walked all the way from China town which is located near Leicester Square to King's Cross, and we were so freaking tired and hungry by the time we reached the restaurant! Also compounded by the fact that the only thing we had eaten the whole day was peanut porridge which I cooked in the morning, it was soo delicious, cause I put scallops in which I had confiscated from Victor :P also added lots and lots of pork marinated with Kikkoman soya sauce, oyster sauce, pepper. Honestly I swear by using Kikkoman soya sauce! It does add a whole new dimension of flavour to Chinese food, making it so much more tasty. Well worth the money spent on it! Also not to forget, the cheaper soya sauce most probably has dodgy ingredients in it. My mum told me to stop buying cheap soya sauce. I can't believe I spent almost a year surviving on the cheap buy one free one soya sauce which was like 50 pence a bottle bought from the Matthews the ONLY Chinese shop in Aberdeen.
Anyway back to the topic, went into the Indian restaurant, and saw a notice that students will get a 10% discount, so flashed my student ID at them :)
The 4 of us wolf all the food down in a matter of seconds! I think out of all the food, the lamb curry was the best :) Also the naan bread was made at the shop and it was a special naan bread with coconut and brown sugar in between and it was so sweet and chewy.
The service was also excellent, and the waiters and the owner was polite and courteous :)
They also served us sliced orange in the end with warm towels, and initially I was quite skeptical, as usually when you go into Chinese restaurants when they serve you peanuts, towels, whatever, you usually end up having an extra charge mysteriously appearing on your bill. Anyway, Victor says that the Indian restaurant doesn't charge for it.
So anyway, after out 10% discount, each person ended up paying about 6.05 pounds if I'm not mistaken. Very worth it! Food is good! Highly recommended place.
Anyway getting tired of writing about food.
So this is to be continued.......=)
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