Jaga Jazzist

Jaga Jazzist is a experimental Jazz band from Norway. They are like next generation of phish in Scandinavian style. That was my first impression of them. Melodies and rhythms is very strong, it would be amazing if i could see them outside venue, this time they played in Barbican.

Fish tank

Movie about teenage girl, Mia living Essex council estate. Cinema photography was strong and beautiful. Katie Jarvis roles Mia was fresh and very powerful. This is one of the best British film this year. Highly recommended!

Trees

Today's my treasure was to found this rainbow color of trees.


This tree had one of best color with their leaf ten days ago but it's all gone.


Another one is their best now.

Midnight salad

After drink, of course I'm lazy and little hungry.

I founds nice Buffalo mozzarella.


Caprese was the solution.

Cheese cake

Getting cold and feels like need to get energy. Cheese cake from Macondo is very classic and delicious.

Spanish cheese&ham

Bread from St Jhon, cheese and ham from Spain.

Visiting Nurse

Officially winter is here now. Most of my friends got a cold... I visited two member of my extension family members house today. They both need to get energy.


Chicken hot pot with garlic, Chinese herb, spring onion, carrot, Shitake mashroom, Enoki mashroom.


Also those will be in hot pot too.


Thank you gift I got. Japanese sweets and ingredients.


Another thank you gift; Chinese herb, smoked fish for stock, shrimp noodle.

End of the day, I might got more food than I brought?! Hope you guys feel better soon. X

Flower back

I left some flower in my kitchen for my dear guest to enjoy their afternoon tea. When I back home late, I realized i received beautiful flower back. My dear guest also left blanch of flower in my room! I love flower, their beauty and brightness. They have much shorter life time than us but they don't afraid to be scattered and bloom beautifully. In our much long lifetime, we sometime easily forget every single moment is precious and never gonna be same. Flower always reminds me that beauty of time concept and I get the power from them.

Poetly marathon

Sunday, it was sunny day. I went to Hyde park to see poetry reading in Serpentine gallery. The event was part of Freeze art show.


Entrance to the gallery, very central location but so peaceful, fur away from urban miscellaneous.


The event start from 12:00 and finish 20:00. So we brought picnic set. Today's lunch is Pork ginger avocado wrap sandwich, smoked salmon wrap sandwich, Roast paper with hot red wine and ginger honey lemon to keep us warm.


Sun goes down, getting more dramatic.


This year's pavilion was designed by Japanese architect; Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa.


One of best performance of the day; Image from Jonas Mekas, Poetry reading by Edward Eke, Music from Stereo art.


Final performer was Brian Eno & Karl Hyde.

Asakusa zinta

Asakusa zinta is Ska band influenced by spirit of Chindonya which collectively called old style of Japanese street performer. Their live is so energetic and fun.


They are doing UK tour at this moment. You could check their schedule at www.myspace/asakusajinta

Winter time

Proper winter is here. Some of trees are already naked.


Beef stew for one of a cold day


New find; yummy chocolate truffles!


Eyes shut quiz; lime, pickled plum, truffle, tea bag, popcorn. We need to have fun indoor activity in winter, don't we?

Iron pot

Long time I was thinking that I want to bring this iron pan from Japan. The reason it took so long time to decide was very heavy weight. So I was looking for something similar which I could get in London but there isn't any. Finally I brought back this to home in London. Today is first day to use it. This iron pot perform quite multi purpose; for pan fry, deep fry, stew, hot pot etc... I'm sure I will heavy use this iron pot.


First dish with this iron pot was fry dumpling!

St. Jhon bread and wine

St Jhon breat and wine (www.stjhonbreadandine.com) is one of my favorite restaurant in London. Their sweets is also nice as well as food. Today I went to for afternoon tea. Well actually sweets and wine. You need to wait for fifteen min for this madeleines but it is worth to wait.


Spotted dick & Custard, very English.


Hot chocolate pudding & Brown bread ice cream, melt in your mouth.

Porcini Mashroom

Finally, back to normal food again. Celebration for bye bye toothache, M brought amazing Porcini for me. I cooked porcini cream ravioli. Flavor from porcini is very rich, so I simply add garlic and cream. Ummm Happy!


Cheese from France


M made coffee and milk Jerry. Pretty.


Geometry presentation.


Finishing with this desert cheese.

Artichoke soup

After my tooth extraction, I still need to eat soup at least within 24hours. A cooked artichoke soup for me using artichokes which I brought back from Paris. Well I'm still enjoy good food and this is end of tooth pain!

Shop in Paris

They do nice window displays even in specialist shop.

Hardware shop


Music shop


Office


Book shop

From Paris

Angelo is one of my favorite restaurant in Paris. You don't expect nice Italian restaurant in Paris but this is the place. Their truffle pasta is something you would amaze. I wanted to eat this pasta before I leave Paris because I couldn't enjoy much food this time so I was hoping I eat one of my favorite at last. Well, they were closed that day, means next time...


This is what I brought back, four bottle of wine, cheese, salt, mayonnaise, ravioli, sausage, small artichokes(I could only find big artichoke in UK)!


Also I brought four croissants, two pan au chocola, chanpagne. Those come in this bread tree bag. So cute!

Soup days

What a pity, I have toothache in Paris. However this give me a chance to try a lot of different kind of soup this time. This marron soup was the No 1 !


Pumpkin soup.


Hot chocolate. Pretty presentation!

All in one

Again, I have toothache. So I made soup with all ingreadents in my fridge. Also I will be away to Paris from tomorrow, so it's quite good way to empty my fridge.

Baked sweet potato cake

I used to make baked sweet potato cake quite often with my mum in autumn when i was little. It is very simple and easy. When I founds chestnut in a park, somehow I remember that. Next day I try to buy sweet potato in a super market but it was very small and looked not sweet enough. I thought maybe difficult to find it for this sweet... The very next day, on my way to work, I just passed veg stand in a market and I founds perfect sweet potato there!


This is the baked sweet potato. Taste very simple and nostalgic. I will do it again while it's season.