Spring just around the corner

Cherry blossom start opening their flowers; that is the most symbolic thing to feel beginning of spring for me.

Pork chop with mastered source for dinner

Birthday

A's Birthday cake. Home made by her brother! How sweet. It is home made but taste very proper!

Toast with champagne

and a little bit of dance

Brawn

I was meaning to go this new tapas restaurant; Brawn (http://www.brawn.co) on Colombia road for a month but I couldn't book a table couple of times. Finally I had a chance to go there. I went with a friend from Paris. We have a lot to catch up. Starting with Maldon oysters.

Sourdough Bread is also delicious

This was my favorite dish of the day; Fried artichokes and Aioli

Pork Rillette; it's lard. very intresting.

Leek Gratin

Foie Gras & Puy Lentils

We really enjoyed every single dish. Brawn will be one of my favorite restaurant now. So many dish I like to try!

Toad-in-the-Hole

I had no idea what is Toad in the hole.

It was sausages in Yorkshire pudding butter hole! A very traditional English dish at The Horse and Groom (http://www.horseandgroom.uk.com)

From Daylesford farm

I went to Daylesford farm(http://www.daylesfordorganic.com) in Gloucestershire. Their award winning Cheddar cheese is one of my favorite English cheese. Also I'm big fan of their meat, specially their lamb. Even if you don't like lamb, maybe this lamb could change whole idea about lamb. They also have Plimico shop and Notting hill shop.

Mid night pleasure

Not so many Chinese restaurant is friendly and good service specially in a midnight but here Mayflower in Soho is. Also food is very high standard and tasty.

Mid night pleasure; scallop

Lobster noodle

Guerrilla PR or just someone's fun?

On my way to work, I found this; Club Monako x Brown's Paper stick on the phone box.

Here too.

La Fromagerie

La Fromagerie (www.lafromagerie.co.uk) in Highbury has very nice cakes as much as their famous cheese selection. This is Oraganic secilian apple cake made me very happy today.

Dinner@home; Fresh pampkin, spinach and riccota cheese tortellini cream pasta.

Leo wine

As soon as i saw this wine, i didn't have choice, even if i knew this isn't good one(well actually wasn't bad, easy drink one), I still bought this because picture look so much like Leo!! The dog in my parents house, one of my brother.

Spring

A new leaf buds on the tree create beautiful shape.

Atariya-Sushi Hiro

It had been while since Sushi-hiro became part of Atariya. Still all good part of sushi-hiro remain; reasonable, fresh, good quality. Nothing fancy but simply good sushi. It's one of the restaurant i never get tired of.

Nigiri

Salmon&Ikura don

more

and more

Miffi

My new oven grove come from Miffy museum in Utrecht. I like the happy orange color!

Smell of sweet

My flatmate was baking bear cokies today. Smell of baking is always make me happy. Such a warm feeling.

Odette's

Today is a Chinese new year, apparently I shouldn't wash any dishes today, so it's better to eat out. I went to Odette's Restaurant & Bar in Primrose Hill (http://www.odettesprimrosehill.com). Restaurant served us this warm white chocolate mousse, cold blackberries inside as complimentary. Contrast between warm and cold, sweet and sour sweet was very good.

5 days in Seoul

My favorite midnight feast in Korea: Gamjatang which is a spicy soup made with pork spine, vegetables, green onions, hot peppers and ground wild sesame seeds. A lot of collagen! Very Good for skin!　　

Posamu; Boiled Pork eat with veg and Kimuchi

BBQ of pork back ribs marinated with herbs

Seafood congee; Korean one has hint of sesame oil

Dim sum with Korean twist at Korean air lounge: Kimchi taste dim sum!

Kimchi Soba noodle

Sometime I create a great new dish when I need to cook with what I have in my fridge. Tomorrow, I will travel to Seoul so I can't do shopping and I made this new noodle dish; Kimchi, Chinese black mashroom, morning glory with Soba noodle. Japanese x Korean dish.

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion at Barbican. They mainly featured three leading and directional designers; Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto. They gave big impact to not just Japanese fashion but also worldwide. In this exhibition you could find each designer have different approach to Fashion which is very interesting.

Survivour from Octopas tragety

I didn't have much luck with Octopus this time. My four tins of octopus was arrested at airport security and they throw them away... I knew it could be problem to bring back tins with hand luggage but I thought it's even less than 100ml so should be fine. Those are survivors i come back with...

Also this cheese!! Oh, It was such a creamy cheese.

Octopus

The main reason I come to Porto was to eat their famous octopus! but the Octopus restaurant I wanted to go was closed for new year holiday... Still I can't go back to London until I taste the Porto's octopus if that was the main reason to come. So we searched a restaurant where they serve octopus all over the city. We finally found the restaurant also with live piano performance. It was nice last supper in Porto but I definitely need to come back to try real octopus dish next time.

Cheese for desert

with Port wine

Damien Hirst butcher

They must fan of Damien Herst or are they the one original? ; A butcher in Porto

Bifana

Portugal pork hamburger; Bifana equivalent to kebab in London

Very juicy spiced slice pork sandwich

Relax Moment for the Bafina chef.

Town of Porto

Port is famous for their aged Port wine and green wine (white wine picked grape late and drunk very young) produced in the Douro valley. There are a lot of wineries along side of Douro liver.

Signature of architecture here is use of tiles.

Even Church was made by blue/white tiles and concrete, very special.

My favorite Jesus in Porto.

Cheese shop with Portuguese crochet sign; Double excitements for me, so cute!

My heart after I found the cheese shop (feels like dancing!)

Local Vegetable shop, if I live here, I would probably became regular.

Food Market in town.