One of the highlights of ending September this year is getting to try Starbucks Reserve Coffee for the first time ever. Starbucks Reserve Coffees are, as far as I understand it, special blends of coffee that they pick from special places that cultivate coffee beans with distinctive flavors (ones that "enchant, amaze and captivate" - so, basically, ( Read more... )

It's been ages since my birthday falls on a Sunday so I've been having the most relaxing birthday ever this year! ♥

My family is the best because they woke me up for brunch and we had a table full of dim sum - one of my favorite type of foods - before the gift-giving/opening ritual. Mother brew actual Chinese tea and it was divine for mid-morning/ ( Read more... )

Before the Pete's Dragon* screening earlier, I went to Bakerzin's for a meal (it was a weird meal, I couldn't call it lunch because it was too late in the afternoon, and I couldn't call it dinner because it was too early to be called 'evening') and perusing Bakerzin's perpetually changing menu, I found this item which was odd and striking in its ( Read more... )

My sister told me video recipes are easier than cookbook ones. I checked one out and decided it was doable. So I did Tastemade's Baked Croque Monsieur today. (Recipe here.) It's the easiest thing ever (and after the chicken tikka masala, it definitely was easy to do because there's no spices involved in this one), but I did still ask my mom to do ( Read more... )

The very next day after my sister cooked Moroccan Braised Beef, she went for the biggie: Chicken Tikka MasalaI actually had been waiting for the day to come for someone at home to cook Chicken Tikka Masala for me because I really, really love this dish. I usually order it from a pub-style restaurant called Eastern Promises, which excels at Indian ( Read more... )

During this Eid holiday, my sister has been cooking up a storm. Apparently she found some difficult-to-find spices at one of the import supermarkets here and then she actively searched for recipes that she could try to do herself at home. Then she also found some curry leaves (which are apparently kind of rare in your regular supermarkets), which ( Read more... )

I've had a very tiring and frustrating week. I was so fed up with everything yesterday that I sort of had a breakdown, in private, right before I went to bed last night. Apparently having a breakdown before going to sleep is even more exhausting than having a breakdown at any other time of the day ( Read more... )

Oh, Japan, you are so weird. And wonderful. Maybe.

So Fi-chan went on holiday to Japan and one of the omiyage she brought us was this wasabi flavored Kit Kat. Which is, I don't know, an oxymoron? But it's not as weird as it sounds, really. I was honestly glad she brought this curious item because Kit Kat green tea has become boring ever since ( Read more... )

This may come as a surprise to people who know me but I have not been drinking coffee ever since I was diagnosed with Bell's palsy. Hypertension does that to one's caffeine addiction. I didn't mind because I have not been as slavishly addicted to coffee since last year anyway. But of course I do miss it from time to time and finally to celebrate ( Read more... )

It was one of those Saturdays...

...where odayski and I go to a mall that has Pancious and order ourselves a huge jug of Iced Earl Grey milk tea. :D The chosen mall this weekend is... Grand Indonesia! Thanks, Pancious GI, for having this drink available for order. Our throats and stomachs thank you for the deliciousness. ♥ ♥ ♥

Also, here's a Vine.