more fauchon

this has got to be the poshiest sandwich I ever had in my life, drum roll please....
baguette filled with foie gras (goose pate, the real stuff not the fake stuff thats mixed with chicken livers), champagne jelly, walnut and rocket...heavenly!

13 euros, merci!

perfect (posh) brekkie

so I read somewhere (in a magazine) that a carbs + protein loaded breakfast is very good for you, it helps concentration and increase productivity at work.
so i reckon some fluffy pastry and eggy madelienes will do no harm!

yum!
hazelnut croissant
very eggy and delicious truffle madeliene(with a dollop of creme friache inside)
lemon madeliene

at fauchon in paris (place de madeliene)

ps and you would think the coffee there is good, NOT!
came out of a machine, they didnt even froth the milk! for 4 euros a pop, it's so not worth it!

D.

kate moss for topshop

I am finally blogging, I have so much back blogging to do, but this is all the stuff from sydney! and i already left sydney for a month (!).. so guess those materials is not good for blogging anymore, it's too old! so I present to you, something current...my trip so far...

I took this at the selfridges in london, cos I cannot be bothered to go to topshop on oxford street! it's crowded,overpriced and overrated.

anyways, since i had some time to kill this arvo, i went into selfridges to try on this kate moss for topshop cape, it's quite dramatic, quite fine for london's winter. but maybe not so in hk! or sydney!

I think there are a few cape inspired coats in zara, but has anyone seen something like this one, with no sleeve, but not as warm and dramatic?

D.

New member in my room

Girls and shopping! you can never think of what a girl ends up buying during aimless shopping tours. Friend (Nat) and I walked past this street stall showing vase with a plant and around the plant is decorated by different colour beads sized of glass marbles. Out of curiosity Nat touched it and went "OH !!! its slitery slimy!!" In this situation obviously the owner would use all his sales skills to tell us what they are and why they are like that and how miraculous they are to persuade us to buy it!

As a normal human female, of course we bought it but its really cheap. For HKD25, you get a pack of beads (looks like a pack of seeds), 2 bean shaped seeds and a welcome phone strap gift. All you need to do is pour all those beads in a vase and fill up the vase with water, the next day the little seed-like beads will become the size of a marble. Its the same idea with sago.

Supposedly the plant should grow in a week and the beads are the plant's source of water, we do not need to water the plant at all for 3 mths until the beads shrink. When it shrinks, we fill it up with water for it to grwo big again... this should go on for 2 years. This new life has become a very important person of my room because everyday i am waiting and waiting for it to grow. So far the seed has blown up but no plant yet! will update later of the progress...

Ko.

Chinese cuisine

To all Westerners, Chinese cuisine consists of food like spring rolls, mongolian beef, san choy bao, sweet and sour pork, stir fried noodles and fried rice. For us Chinese locals, internal organs are a major part of our meal.. for me anyway...

The chinese are known for being hardworking and because most of our parents or above generations are raised poorly therefore they have learnt not to waste any food and eat whatever they have. Picky with food was not an option for them. Having internal organs was considered lucky, they are lucky not being starved to death. My dad said when he was young, he only had soya sauce with rice each day...

For people who love internal organs would love livers, duck liver sausage is recommended. How to detect if a duck liver is nice or not? Its if it is crispy outside and juicy inside, not to moist and not to hard should be the best. Most importantly, there should be a strong taste of duck liver and a rose wine kinda taste! Trust me, there arent many places that can do nice duck liver sausages!

I recommend 2 places:
1) Yung Kee - central famous for their bbq goose, their duck liver sausages is a must try too!
2) "Snack king 2" (direct translation) - in causeway bay famous for eating snake soups and duck liver sausages. My friend Nat and I went there the other day, its her first visit. We ordered the snake soup set including 1 bowl of rice with sausages and another extra bowl of rice with bbq pork and duck liver sausages. Her mind was thinking, how can we eat such a big bowl of rice with only sausages? we ended finishing everything! thats how much girls eat nowadays

This is another long blog... somehow i can never shorten them! please dont get bored!

Ko.

i am still alive

hey y'all
I am fiercely typing this in the hamburg airport so this will be short and sweet.
i know i havent been posting and ko has been so good!
i promise i will have lots for u, just havent found the time or proper internet to do it!
cant wait to blog again!
D.x

winter musts

Winter in Hong Kong suddenly made a 180 degree change, last week anything more than a light jacket was too hot and today scarves, big jackets, boots are out! This week my mind has been all around what should I wear this winter????

Apart from this problem, the sudden dry weather has cracked my lips opened! I have been using this water sleeping pack from Laneige... its a mask put overnight! Very absorbing and its not oily at all... best of all is the quantity in the jar is very generous, not like brands where the jar seems huge but u realise theres an inner layer which is not even half of what it seems on the outside. Laneige actually fills up the whole jar!!

I dont really like to recommend facial products cos its really personal and i dont wanna ruin peoples skin! But i would really like to give a pat of the back to Laneige for offering such a generous amount inside the bottles and their price is not expensive at all! Makes our life a lot easier!

Ko.

Brow talk

Plucking brows has alwasy been this grey beauty problem which you will never want to spend money on.... to most people, what can a shaped brow will do anyway? Miraculously it does make a difference (clarification: this difference might not be obvious to boys...)! I never use to go pluck my brows but my sis intro this really dumpster looking place to do my brows for HKD50 (now 60 i think), the beautician is a 50 yr old lady who sits in a shop selling dust covered make up. Scary as it sounds, on peak hours, a queue of 20 ppl can be seen lining up to get brows fixed!! (NO exaggeration!) They dont really pluck ur brows out, but they fix your shape and all you need to do is pluck roots out as it grows and the brow shape should last around 3-4 weeks. No more unbalance brows and most importantly no more plucking too much on one side and making one brown seem to be shorter or twitched!

Warning for hygiene freaks: they use this sponge to wipe your brows first, when they finsiehd they use the same sponge to wipe off those bits thats fallen on ur face or nose.. that sponge is used by the whole world so it includes other ppl's make up as well.... sounds bad but it doesnt really affect me tho...

Another common brow problem is the tweezers we use at home... cheap tweezers can never take out the roots, and when pulling from the wrong part, it snaps the hair and leaving unpluckible roots and this really gets on my nerves. So after trying my frd's orignal tweezerman, I realise the importance of buying good tweezers cos you can actually pluck out roots, those roots that is just a black dot?? But I almost fainted when she told me the price! Laura Mercier has a tweezer made by Tweezerman which retails a lot cheaper and works as fine...


Address of brow place: Causeway Bay Apple centre, therse only 1 dumpster looking cosmetics shop with full of mid aged women

Ko.

cafe deco

again disappeared for a while... just didnt have much inspiration! i always want to talk about things which i feel is special and which i wanna recommend! or else it will be too fake! its just not me!

oh anyway, as my frds all know i always complain about my bf being boring and never give me any surprises and as usual for any special events and dates of ours... he just PRETENDS to try hard and think of a place and it always ends up to be cafe deco at the peak! for all those who are thinking we are going there for the view or watever... trust me we just go there for the food, im a huge fan of cafe deco on the peak!

their menu consists of many cuisines and so far the stuff i tried is good! the must try for foie gras fans is their foie gras handroll.. this was recommended by my frd and ever since i have been ordering that! prices are very reasonable considering its the peak! its around 250hkd pp.. seriously thats pretty good for a tourist restaurant... in syd .. who would be able to walk out of a syd tower restaurant paying that price?? NO WAY!

the reason why i cant stop talking about this place is that i really appreciate how that their main customers are tourists which means ppl will go to them no matter what but they still dont slack off with the quality of their food... thats also the reason why i love hong kong... good food anywhere anytime!

Ko.

VOGUE 93'

the reason why you should NOT throw your clothes out cos you never know what you can do with it 15 years later. Look how stunning that outfit looks!

Ko.