Thursday, 29 September 2011

late summer in Italy

Tuscany

Fiscarino in Liguria

It's still over 30 degrees here, gelato at seaside is the best.

A friend cooked for me Porchini cream pasta

Look! All of these are also Porchini!! Waiting in a fridge to be fried!

Deep fried porchini! Gorgeous.

Ingreadents in Italy is fresh, so i do simple cooking here.


Tuesday, 13 September 2011

Rocket pesto


This is my new favorite recipe; Rocket&basil pesto. One day, I was about to make pesto but I realized I don't have enough basil. I used half rocket and half rocket instead because I remember one of my friend told me that he made pesto with some leaf veg from his garden and was delicious! so why not? Rocket gives little bit of spice to pesto and it's delicious!

Sunday, 11 September 2011

It's a thrill experience!!

I must feel thrills to go to a secret bar if i were living when Prohibition had effected.


Today, I must go through Smag fridge to go to a seacret bar!?

Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town

Manchego, chorizo and paper kebab.

Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Spanish night

I was invited to Spanish dinner by ex-flatmate. He and I both work in fashion industry but we both love food and have passion about it. As soon as i arrived, he give me this pretty homemade Medlar jelly! The label was hand drawn by him.

Lever pate with Medar jelly works very well together.

Oh, yes i love gazpacho!!

Tortilla with chorizo is gooooooood combination.

Quince and manchego cheese for desert.

I brought tortilla back with me and I ate it for my breakfast next day. I put chorizo and leek on top, a little bit Japanese arrange. That was very good combination! I should tell him.

Sunday, 28 August 2011

"One dim Sum" is where you go for Authentic, delicious and even reasonable dim sum in HK



One Dim sum is a restaurant where my friend recommend while ago and I always wanted to go but didn't have chance because you need to wait while to have a seat. There is always long ques. However, you will understand why people wait so long when you tried it. It is amazing Dim sum with amazingly reasonable price so it's worth to wait really.

All dish are so high level. No wonder why they have one Michelin star!! They are one of the most cheapest restaurant with Michelin star!! (Tim ho Wan in Mong kok is another one but you need to ques for longer hours)

This Shu mai(Pork Dumpling) was my favorite!!




A family we shared a table. They surprised "I'm having 4 dim sum for my self :)
They let me try this Mala style Steam cake. We have something similar to Japanese one called Mushi-pan.

Saturday, 27 August 2011

Seoul BBQ restaurant

Beautiful sky in Seoul

I'm on diet but what can i do in front of these!

This is new restaurant in Dong dae mun, Korean comedian's BBQ restaurant called Baekjeong (http://www.baekjeong.co.kr) it was pretty good!

Friday, 26 August 2011

A special day dinner

I set up a big table in my Living room because I"ll have ten guest for a special dinner.

Italian cheese and salami I directly brought back from Italy.

Scallop and Langoustine with leak.

Fried chicken with spring onion vinegar source.

Seven empty bottles for seven wine drinkers which means guest enjoyed the night!

Tuesday, 16 August 2011

Relax Time in heath

It's had been very busy and now i could finally rest.

I went to Hampstead heath to relax and feel nature.

Monday, 15 August 2011

A day for Japan 1-2-3 ichi-ni-san by Dinings

This Saturday on 20 August, there is a charity event called 1-2-3 which is a fundraising event devoted to supporting the people aftermath of the quake and tsunami occurred off the coast of Japan on 11th March 2011. The profits from this event are donated to the Japan Society Tohoku Earthquake Relief Fund to help people in the affected areas.

For this event, we asked our favorite restaurant "Dinings" to do "The Secret Japanese Tasting"."The Secret Japanese Tasting" is a gourmet selection of contemporary Japanese tapas and sushi put together especially for 1-2-3.

The menu offers a delightful biteful flavour, texture and colour for a truly Japanese culinary experience.*

It is very good opportunity to try their food if you haven't try. At same time this will be big support to people in Japan!!

You could get your ticket from http://www.ichi-ni-san.com(* The Secret Japanese Tasting menu will be available from 18:30 to 20:00 only to VIP ticket holders (£35 including drinks)or Relax Garden (www.relaxgarden.com)


Wednesday, 10 August 2011

Special day Dining

I set up a big table in my Living room because I"ll have ten guest for a special dinner tonight.
Italian cheese and salame I directly brought back from Italy.
Scallop and langostine with leak.
Fried chicken with spring onion vinegar source.

Seven empty bottles for seven wine drinkers.

Wednesday, 3 August 2011

Wedding in Istanbul

We took a boat from Karakoi harbor to wedding reception.

Here we are, waterside mansion where keeps its original architectural style and its original furniture from Ottoman Empire period.


It's beautiful setting.

And this is the beautiful couple.

Tuesday, 2 August 2011

Food in Istanbul

Antiochia concept(www.antiochiaconcept.com)is contemporary slow food kebab restaurants.

All ingredients are from Turkey.

Street food

Karakoy Gulliiogle is famous patisserie for Baklava. Baklava is a rich, sweet pastry made of layers of filio pastry filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with syrup or honey. Specially this double layered pistachio was tee best!

Look, how he proud of their sweets.

Next door to Karakoy Gulliiogle, there is delicatessen where you could eat nice breakfast.

So many of Botargo!! (is the poor man's caviar, the roe pouch of tuna or Grey mullet, or sometimes swordfish. It is massaged by hand to eliminate air pockets, then dried and cured in sea salt for a few weeks. The result is a dry hard slab, which is coated in beeswax for keeping/by Wikipedia).