change is coming!

Exams are only 3 days away and I'm sitting here typing a blog post.. The past two weeks have been great fun, spending time with my friends, enjoying the weather in my jag and best of all, enjoying nice food. I will miss eating at my michelin restaurants with amazing food like the Peat Inn and Andrew Fairlie.. Looking forward to eating at the Kitchin in Edinburgh when I'm done with exams!

I've just spent the morning trying to pack up all my things and the afternoon chatting with Jo about Hong Kong again! Hong Kong seems to have a phenomenal amount of Michelin star restaurants, all of which seem to have unbeatable prices!

Here are all the places we are planning to go to in just three days!!

1. Lei Garden in Tsim Sha Tsui - 1 Michelin star

2. Ming Court at the Langham Hotel - 2 Michelin stars

3. Lung King Heen at the Four Seasons - 3 Michelin stars

4. Bo Innovation (somenear near Wan Chai) - 2 Michelin stars (possibly now 1)

5. Tim Ho Wan - 1 Michelin star and cheapest one in the world!

Nights will be spent exercising in the 24 hour gym in Langham place from all the overeating we are going to do!!

puppers puppers puppers

Two months have passed since I last wrote on this blog. Since then, I've been completely swamped with studying for so many things - exams, Masters degrees, ophthalmology and my IMPACT course. It doesn't ever seem to end but my days are brightened with thoughts of all the exciting things that will happen when I go home!

The day I arrive, we're going to pick my new little puppers! He's so cute and my sis says he's so soft and cuddly! I can't wait to give him a cuddle! The main reason I wanted was because Sushi puppers always seemed so lonely when there was no one at home and I wanted someone to accompany him. So now puppers can have his own puppers! Hee :) After my last dog that we had to give up, I was so sad that she never really had a great life with us that I told myself I'd never get another dog.. But then I love our puppers so much and there's not enough of him to go around so I want my own now! And we will all have so much fun together! Jo is already choosing which handbag to put him in!

The next day, my plans are to pick up my new MINI cooper. It's not my dream car but I suppose after driving my giant Jaguar, I kinda like the idea of driving a small car again. I would love to have had my Fox but oh well.. it doesn't exist in Singapore!

Ooh I love staring at pics of my new puppy. Had to pay my sis 100 quid to take the pics for me cos the first ones they took were so crappy and blur.

Hopefully before I start work we will have a chance to go to Hong Kong to eat Michelin food and buy clothes for our pups!

Ta for now! Gotta get back to studying.. -__-

you can choose your friends but not your family..

The snow is finally beginning to subside thankfully and the sun is out but unfortunately the weather just hasn't been warm enough to melt even an inch of ice. The trains have all been cancelled as well which is making more nervous with each passing day.

I am extremely excited to be going home not just because of Christmas and New Year but also because I can go home to be looked after. The days are getting more difficult to manage, thanks to the weather, and this experience has taught me that no man is an island. God has looked after me throughout this period but sometimes he needs to do it through other people.

I'm so thankful for the friends I have here, like Tara and Liusaidh, who have brightened my days with their visits.

They say 'you can choose your friends but not your family'.. I'm glad that's true cos I don't think I could have picked a better one!

Get ready everyone, Deebs is coming home!

indulgence!

I think I've been overdoing it on the good food this November, with at least one good meal every week. I recently went to Galvin at Windows at the Hilton on Park Lane and the food was so deelish. The scallops were lightly cooked and then served on a super hot plate so that they would be so light and tender. The pigeon I had was also really tender and didn't have that overpowering gamey sensation you get with some. Lastly, I had the souffle which was also really good but sorry to say, a tad too sweet even for my sweet tooth. Nice consistency. It was probably better than I'm making it out to be but it was a month back after all!

Then the week after, we went to the Peat Inn which wasn't quite so amazing as it was the first time. Food was a bit cold and the flavours just didn't blow me away as it did before.

But what has been lingering in my mind and on my palate is Andrew Fairlie's cooking. Every dish was such an experience and definitely deserves a post of its own...

This year is my year to collect Michelin stars and I'm now on my 4th.. I've been dying to try the Peat Inn after hearing the ravings about the place and with a 2 month waiting list to get a reservation, I've finally been to the place and it was amazing!

The starter was a feuillete of langoustines, scallops and smoked haddock in Hollandaise sauce. Ooh lovely and I don't even eat seafood. The haddock was so perfectly cooked and all so fresh!

The next on the list - we decided to be greedy and go for four courses instead - was the Anstruther crab with marinated cucumber. I have to say this was the best dish! The cucumber was sweet and crunchy, perfectly paired with the light taste of the shredded crab.. Yum.

It was hard to get better after this but I then had the roast rib eye which was lovely as well. Could have done with slightly rarer beef but to be honest, it was hard to fault such excellent cooking.

However, the piece de resistance was the strawberry souffle! I had the chocolate fondant which was so rich and gorgeous, but the souffle was absolutely a work of art! Most souffles taste like butter cakes but this souffle was like eating a cloud. A cloud. My taste buds were actually dancing when I tasted this heavenly dish.

What can I say? I've lost my appetite for normal food now and my taste buds are already craving another meal at the Peat Inn!

Ah bliss...

the irony of it all

I don't think I'm generally a funny person... think all the clown genes got passed to my little sis, which is why my posts seem to be scarcer on this blog.

So it seems almost final.. I'll be going home before the F2 year is out. But not for all the reasons that people have been giving me! To be fair, I did want to stay in Dundee because of my Jag but then my family think I'm nuts...

What were the top 10 reasons then... or not good enough ones...

1. Cold Rock

2. XLBs

3. Poppy (my sis thinks that if xlbs and ice cream are on the list, then my grandma better make the list!)

4. Moving back to Greenleaf

5. Jag/Porsche Cayenne/ highly flammable Maserati

6. Sushi (the dog but maybe the food too)

7. Joanne Ng

8. Joanne Ng

9. Joanne Ng

10. Joanne Ng

You can see why I wasn't that motivated to go home.. Anyway, that's that.

sweetness!

So after all my car rants, I've finally got a new one! It still hasn't quite set in that I've bought it until I actually look at the car but oh it's gorgeous and drives like a dream! Can't say anymore than that cos a picture is worth a thousand words!

But I've also to say bye to Vincent, my little fox. always reliable and fun to drive. An excellent first car and one I would have held on to if I could. He would have been 15 months old in 3 days' time! Goodbye my darling! It's a good thing I have my Jag to get me through this tough time.. :)