Anne's Wedding, France

For the wedding reception, we had so many different kinds of canape. This is the most impressive one

Starter...white fish (Le filet de lieu jaune au arc de raisin). Not my favourit one!

Main- lamb steak (La meisette d'agneau en croute d'herbes franiches et ses legumes de saison). Cooked just right - perfect!


My favourite dish of the night! Brie and blue cheeses half melted on top of Craqelines! Really really nice. I am not a big fan of neither of the cheese...but I love this dish!

Had a dessert buffet again! and everything was soooo good!!

The french wedding is extremely long. The dinner itself was long as well. Started at 8pm and finished around 1 in the morning! and the party finished around 4 am!

L'escale, France St. Lo

The 2nd day in France. Dinned out in the local restaurant with friends who I stay with.

Had the typical french cusine confit canard - not too bad!

Had dessert buffet...okish!

However, the dinning out it's much cheaper than London. Main plus dessert plus wine came for only 18.50 euros.

Golden Kiwi!!!

Have been searching 'Golden Kiwi' since got addicted to it one summer when I return back home. Couldn't find in at Tesco, M&S and local market until the best food shop open in London - Whole Food Store.

Golden Kiwi test much much better than the normal 'green kiwi'. It's sweeter but still keeps it sourness. It's just so good and you can't know how good it is until you try it!

Ya...they are a bit expensive...0.59 pounds per golden kiwi, but it's definitely worth the price!

Goldmine, London

This restaurant has become one of my favourit restaurants recently.

The duck is amazingly good. I brought some of my former colleagues for dinner all of them amazed by the duck!!! 6 of us had a whole duck and it disappeared within less than 10 mins!!!!

Also, this dish - morning glory, has always been my favourit vag. However, it's so hard to get here, even in most of the chinese restaurants.

6 of us had 5 dishes and bill came for 58 pounds - fairly cheap.

Location: 102 Queensway Bayswater W2 SRR

Bayswater/Quess' way Tub station (exit Bayswater station, cross the road and turn left, walk about less than 3 mins)

Tel: 020 7792 8331

du Parc des Eaux-Vives, Geneva Switzerland

This restaurant is very very very nice. The food, the serive, the atmosphere are amazing. The best, the view is amazin - overlooking the lake.

Was taken to there for a business dinner, could not take any pictures of the food. But it's definitely worth to visit and I'll definitely return to the restaurant if I have chance to visit Geneva again.

Apparently it's very popular, went there on a Tues nite and it was fully booked.

Add: 82, quai Gustave-Ador CH-1211

Web: www.parcdeseauxvives.ch

Hotel Les Armures, Geneva, Switzerland

Was taken to this place which President Clinton visited with his familly and we were taken to the seat where he sat (not the one in the pic cos unfortunately it was a business dinner and it would be improper for me to take pic).

Had salad for breakfast. The salad is quite special, which topped with peach and mozzarella cheese (the strongest mozzarella cheese I have never had). I didn't actaully like that much.

Have to have cheese fondue since it was my last dinner in Geneva. It's ok.

The bill was paid but I don't think the restaurant is expensive. Compaire to the price in the UK. It's nothing. Everything is roughly half of the British price and the food is much much better....of course!!

Add: 1, Rue de Puits St. Pierre 1204 Geneva

Web: www.hotel-les-armures.ch

Moevenpic Hotel, Lausanne Switzerland

Didn't know that Moevenpic has it's own hotel and the restaurant serves so many different kinds of ice cream. Love it!!

The weather is bloody hot so I decided to order summer special - yogurt delighted (2 scopes of yogurt ice cream with berries sauce). It's soooo nice and it's only 8 CHF (4 pounds!!!)

Add: La Terrasse

St. Pierre Creperie, Geneva Switzerland

Randomly noticed this place and decided to have a try.

It's amazing nice. A very little and charming restaurant and the price is quite reasonable.

Went back again at my last day in Geneva and brough Fang-Yi with me. We first had salad for starter and we each ordered one crepe and shared them. They are all amazing nice.

Add: 6, Place de la Taconnerie (in the corner of the St. Pierre Cathedral)

The Gore, London

Randomly walked pass by this restaurant and thought it would be a perfect venue for a girlfriend's bithday dinner.

The restaurant is inside a rather characteristic hotel.

The menu looks a bit pricy, but the a la carte is quite reasonable 19.95 for 2 course and 29.95 for 3 courses.

I ordered salmon with rocket salad for starter.

For main, I chose pork chop with mashed potato. The pork is sooo tender, v well cooked!

Have you ever heard of risotto cake??? here you are! it's quite unique and rather nice!

Didn't need to order pudding cos the restaurant kindly offered the birthday cake for FREE!!!(ha..the manager even offered a free drink if I visit their bar next door!?!) And it's not a crapy cake but a v nice yummy chocolate cake.

Had the most perfect cappuccino ever!!! LOVE IT!!!

The bill came in the end 31 pounds each (we had a bottle of white plus 12.5 % service charge) v reasonable price!! And the service is LOVELY! If my bag hadn't got stolen, I'd tip 20 pounds!

Menu: http://gorehotel.co.uk/bistrot/index.cfm?section=1&pageid=2

Royal China, London

Have had dim sum for 1 yr and have been moaning about going to Royal China (apparently the best place for dim sum in London) since I moved down to London.

Finally, went with couple girlfriends.

scallop Har Kau..........(transparent scallop dumplings)

Shrimp Noodle Rolls (translucent with shrimp filling)

Char Siu Bun - my childhood favourite

My favourite dim sum - Sui Main (Steamed with pork and shrimp filling)

Egg tart....haven't had this for at least 10 yrs since I got to know how to bake them and how fatty they are!

We actually ordered much more than these, however, I was to busy to eat and can't be bother to take pictures of all of them! The bill came for 8 pounds for each of us - far enough.

HOWEVER, the service is terrible!!! the waitress are extremely rude and moody (almost want to say fuck you to one of the waitress!)

Will I go again? er...maybe....even I love dim sum, but I hate the service sooo much.

For more information about the restaurant...google it!

Gilgamesh, Camdem Town, London

Post-exam, a close girlfriend suggested to have a girls' night out and chose this fab restaurant in Camden Town. Hese is an escalator to take you from Camden Town street direct to the entance of the restaurant, how cool is that!

The decor of the restaurant is unique and impeccable. I think I read about this restaurant on a newspaper review which mentioned about the ridiculous amount of money the owner of this restaurant spent on the decor - quite true!

The style of the of food is fusion, which also means that the restaurant is not specialise is any kind of food - so don't expect to have authentic dim sum or sushi etc.

We just ordered what we like from the menu. It's vegatable sushi.This one is quite special, can't remember what's called but it definitely contains roast duck strips.

Spider rolls rather nice!

Order scallop Siu Mai but the waitress stupidly brought Prawn Har Gau. It's nice, but Siu Mai is still my favourite dim sum.

Ordered smoked monkfish, spicy broth, choi sum, holy basil with steamed jasmine rice for main. It's quite Thai style but....er....none of us actually like it.

For dessert, we had chocolate fondant and mango mousse. Chocolate fondant came with v nice Japanese green tea ice cream and mango flavor sorbet came with mango mousse. The decoration of the dessert is rather creative.

We also had a bottle of white win plus cocktail each with dessert. The bill came for 138 included 12.5% service charge, not exactly that expensive but I wouldn't say it's cheap as well.

Went to the bar had another bottle of wine. aha!

Love the atmosphere, quite chill and the service is rather nice. Would like to return for drink but probably not for the food. However, the only problem for is that the restaurant is too far for me - I'm a west girl!

http://www.gilgameshbar.com/

Tel: 02074825757

Add: The Stables Market, Chalk Farm Rd Camdem

Chez Gerard, Covent Garden

Had a pre-theatre dinner before going to Royal Opera House for the x'mas special production - Nutcracker. Chose Chez Garard mainly because it's location. It locates right opposite Royal Opera House and a French frind strongly recommanded me this one. Since it's a French restaurant and is recommanded by a Frech, I thought I wouldn't go too wrong.

I was hangover from the night before and was starving and order my usual Confit de canard. It's not the best one I have had and it's not the worse I have had.

My friend ordered Boeuf Bourgulgnon another typical one. We are such in a rush, didn't really have time to order dessert, plus the ice cream from Royal Opera House is a must have. Dessert skipped.

The restaurant has a very nice terrace, so guess we will go back to visit it again when the weather is nice enough to allow us to sit outside and we will definitly make sure that next time we will have enough time to properly enough the pre-theatre supper.

Here is the bonus picture. It was a magical and it was probably the best ballet I have seen so far in my life!

Website: http://www.santeonline.co.uk/

Kluklu sushi bar, South Ken London

Kluklu sushi bar - 5 mins walk from uni, has become our canteen. We go there every monday for dinner and at least 2 times a week.

The manager knows us by now and we always joke to him that we should get store loyal card.

It's a quite easy and lay back place to go. Love it so much.

They have other 2 restaurants locate in Soho and Govern Garden.

Tas, London

Went to this restaurant for the office x'mas dinner.
It's a turkish restaurant located not too far from the British museum.
We ordered the set menu which has quite a good mixture of different type of Turkish dishes.

First time tired humus...really not my type of food.

It's aurbergine...really nice one.

No idea what it is....it's okish.

Deep fried squid. This one is nice.

It's deep fried mussels. It's really really nice

We had dessert and 2 bottles of wine and it was 20 pounds for each person in the end. It's rather ok price. However, I'm still not persuaded by turkish food. Probably will not try it again.

A very secret Russian restaurant, London

Maria - my Russian friend took me to a very secret Russian restaurant. I don't even know the name of the restaurant. It's located some where in Lancaster Gate and in a basement of a hotel called London Guard Hotel.

Since we (me plus other friends) have absolutely no idea about Russian food, Maria was in charged of ordering. She ordered 2 starters and soup. This is the first starter... (Cold starter)

The soup....it's cooked with many different kind of veg and beef with sour cream. It's sooo nice. Love it!

The 2nd starter...it's like a cheese paincake. V yummy!

For main, I had veal cooked with sour cream with rice. Very very nice. Love it. A bit heavy, but I didn't really eat anything during the day.

One of my friend had this. It's made by cabbage leave stuffy with minced meat, serves with tomato source and sour cream. Tried a bit, it's quite nice too and apparently it's v Russian.

After it, none of us had any space for dessert.

The bill was 86 for 4 of us. It's ok.