Simply the Best!

King Salmon

The farm with view of Mt Cook

   The salmons get to swim in pure fast flowing glacier and snow fed water from the Southern Alps of New Zealand

Us feeding the salmons before our feast

Just caught up from the farm

Only 15mins out of water, these sashimi are so fresh & crunchy that I’ll give it 5 stars!!!

In the Land of Blue Skies

8mths ago I had an opportunity to make a trip to the Land of Blue Skies, Mongolia, for some volunteering build work. I say opportunity because this trip was only made possible by many kind sponsors (Moi sweet Starningblue was one of them) and also getting through the selection process. I’m a little late in sharing this but here are some of the food I had during that short 2 weeks.

A typical meal in Mongolia will be the dumplings. These dumplings are stuffed with minced mutton and can be eaten in soup with veggies or fried like the Khuushuur below. It will be a pity if you give this a missed cos of its gamey taste.

Pack lunch we had on our normal working days there. Stir fried noodles & omelette rice with beef/mutton…don’t worry if you are not a meat eater… there is always plain omelette with salads, rice & potato.

Stir fry beef with black fungus & eggs. Too salty and oily for my liking.

Some kind of porriage we had for one of our breakfast. Taste rather blunt though = I didn’t really enjoy.

I doubt this is an authentic Mongolia cuisine but these pancakes are so good that we had it everyday, more than one helpings!

The clotted layer on top of heated milk that has been left over several hours. Its tasteless and preferably eaten with some sugar.

Mongolian cakes prepared for their Nadaam Festival.

When it comes to drink, if you aren’t drinking bottled water you’ll be having….

Salted milk tea. If you want to know what it taste like, add more milk and some salt in your tea.

Horse Milk… I can only take ‘Polite’ sips everytime I’m being offered some.

The bottle says it all. You have to try their Vodka!!!

If the food doesn’t impress you enough, the landscape will coz I really fell so deeply in love with this country.

Random in BKK

Street food

Fried Flowers

The packs above make these purple drinks below…

Traditional food you’ll find at Thai Weddings

Typical eats in BKK

Tom Yam Kung – Hot & sour soup with prawn

Pineapple rice

Kao Niao Ma Muang – Thai Mango with sticky rice

Fika, e new Swedish Café on e block

The sun was unforgiving last saturday but we had something to accomplish. We had to be at Arab Street to purchase fabric for my dream gown. Corinna and I were doing the email ding-dong on where to eat before we set off on our mission. Malay food? We left it to spontaneity.

When we were approaching Arab St on Beach Rd, Fika was peeking out at the corner of the row of shops, I knew we had to try this. We can’t help but stay for dessert; it was such a comfortable place to be on a hot afternoon with quiet chatter and cozy, neutral surroundings.
















Kel: “I love my food! (he ordered Swedish hash) I enjoy eating this, can you cook like this for me?”
Me: *stress* “…but I’m not really good in cooking angmoh food…”
Kel: “……”

Not sure why, I can throw ingredients together for an asian home cooked dish but I feel intimidated to do the same for a western dish. As a person who likes to eat and cook and then blog about it, I should really snap out of the box isn’t it? The next day I googled the recipe for Swedish hash. Turns out it looks easier than I thought, let’s see when I have some leftover meat it would be a perfect time to try it out.

So embarassed by these green food pictures.. Used the wrong cam filter mode and I'm so bad at image editing, that's why!

Swedish Hash

Breakfast Set

Seafood Marinara

Corinna ordered herself a breakfast set and it was really a big breakfast to enjoy even in the afternoon. The seafood marinara is so-so for me and I though our dessert of apple crumble and Swedish pancakes were just on par.

Swedish Pancake & Ice Cream

Apple Crumble & Ice Cream

What the food lacked in anyway, the ambience definitely made up it. I can imagine a girl’s day out here, a bunch of us having some cake and coffee chilling out of the heat, enjoying some catch up time. Made a mental note to bring Penny, Ginny & Juan here for afternoon tea. :D


Side note: Lace fabric is the next love of my life!

Warm love,
Starningblue

When 2 Mushrooms Meet

We really didn’t have to wait THIS long to have a meal together! Juanie was in town and we had a mushroomy good time catching up.

Really, never trust someone like me to pick a place for dinner. That’s when overseas guests visit and ask the golden question, “so where’s a good place to eat?” It’s not like I’ve been living in a shell, but we eat, live and *bleep* here day in day out, we run out of consciousness on these things. I feel so numb with the locality that all dinner choices overwhelm, Juanie came up with a great idea to visit Mushroom Park and it was a worth it. I’m just a bit ashamed it came from her, someone who has lived in the UK for a few years now..

Tucked by the side of Raffles Hotel on Seah Street, Mushroom Park is an unassuming little shop. The night we were there, only a handful of tables were occupied and I loved it that way.

It was Juanie’s 2nd visit and my first time at this restaurant, I must say this is the only time I’ve had so much shrooms and greens at one go! We ordered set meal of meat and fish to share so both of us had variety.

Appetizer was a dish made of mushrooms but tasted exactly like pork floss. We had mushroom sashimi too, a chunky version of mushroom that looks like abalone chopped, dip in wasabi and soy, very interesting! The seasoned steamed rice which came with the set meal was really yummy and a must try.

By the end of it, we were stuffed. We didn’t take a picture to commemorate the first ever DeeryLouAromas blogger meal because we didn’t want you to see us in a bloated state. *like real! :D*