22 Mar, 2010
If you had asked me a week ago if it was relatively easy to catch wild shrimp by hand, I would have given you a real roll of the eyebrows. But I would have been dead wrong. :) One of our first stops on the tour of Coron last week was Kayangan…
21 Mar, 2010
Some folks are more prone to motion sickness than others. Daniel Craig (the current James Bond) is said to dislike boats, and that may be one of the few unlikely things we have in common. So while it might look appealing to sail the seas in a yacht, the spectre of seasickness…
14 Mar, 2010
I wrote the post below about 3.5 years ago, and I am posting it again today for a number of reasons, one of which is that I am in the middle of another credit card situation and am working it out as I type this. However, I wish to reiterate (to a much…
11 Mar, 2010
A proper dim sum meal is something I would never attempt to make from scratch and serve in a home setting. Too mabusisi or cumbersome, I would think. So it doesn’t surprise me that the only dim sum meals I have enjoyed have been at restaurants in Chinatown(s) or good hotels in…
10 Mar, 2010
With a large display window virtually “screaming” several positive quotes about the chocolates on offer, how could we not stop and check this out? I had NEVER heard of Thomas Haas Chocolates before, probably because I have never managed to visit the beautiful city of Vancouver despite several scheduled trips in the past….
09 Mar, 2010
The Upper House. The opposite end of the economic spectrum from these previous posts here and here on “value” meals in Hong Kong, but you can’t say we don’t get around… An invitation to view this stunning new hotel on the upper floors of one of the buildings at Pacific Place on Hong…
08 Mar, 2010
The crunch of romaine, the “squeak” of haricots verts, sweet tomatoes, protein rich eggs, carbohydrates from the new potatoes, more protein from the tuna and anchovy fillets, salty olives and a shallot vinaigrette make this one of my favorite salads of all time. I can easily consume two dinner plates full of this…
08 Mar, 2010
I came home to an aroma that instantly made me head to the kitchen and check out what was baking. Sister was baking a couple of pili nut cakes which revived childhood memories. When we were children our mother often made this easy cake for dessert. Last week we received a large bag…