tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200251842024-03-18T17:47:47.802+08:00Life of a Lil Notti MonkeyCHER-RYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211590981694291420noreply@blogger.comBlogger2181125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025184.post-4000505906683751292016-02-22T07:30:00.000+08:002016-02-22T07:30:15.012+08:00CNY Dinner @ Noble House<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The host brought additional <b><span style="color: orange;">abalone </span></b>to top up the existing dish of <b><span style="color: orange;">Lou Hei</span></b>. Seen here the selected waitress was busy topping it up as she spoke of well wishes for all around the table. She was definitely selected to serve the family for her top notch service, understanding and values. I liked her too :)))</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last Sunday, <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>& <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>were the lucky few to be invited for a family gathering by the <b><span style="color: magenta;">Vs - Victor, Viola and Vivian</span></b>....and of coz their lovely and kind mother. We last met their home to watch the 1st January fireworks before flying down to Singapore for another New Year gathering with the Singapore peeps.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next dish was the <b><span style="color: orange;">double boiled soup with chinese long cabbage</span></b>. Somehow scallops and long cabbage is like a good marriage. :)))) I-Ching taught me to boil some and I will try it this weekend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's such a blessing to congregate like this...though we couldn't do it as many times as we wanted to...as most of us are travelling most of the time...and this dinner was set on the first week of January to block everyone's schedule. Soon the <b><span style="color: magenta;">Vs </span></b>gonna head to Hawaii and the <b><span style="color: #990000;">MW </span></b>+ <b><span style="color: blue;">Papa Bear</span></b> are goin to Italy. While <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>will be flying off to Japan and me <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey</span></b>??? no where to go...so I'll be rawking Malaysia hahahaha.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With my new job <b><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: x-small;">*which is so not new anymore*</span></b> travelling for leisure isn't as easily planned as before. But I am really eppy with what I am doin right now, so travelling has got to wait for a lil while more :)))<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">more <b><span style="color: orange;">abalone</span></b>!!! yippeeeee with its imperial stocks cooked on the spot, it was really succulent and delicious. Someone once told me that abalone has got high cholesterol by weight....so...err...<b><span style="color: #e06666;">*gulped*</span></b> then<b><span style="color: #e06666;"> *burped*</span></b>.Looks like my appetite ruleeezzzzzz but oh well we must have balance in life for we don't indulge in abalone every single day....err maybe during <b><span style="color: red;">CNY </span></b>we did!!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #e06666;">You.Are.My.Love!!!!</span></b><br /><br />perfectly roasted by the <b><span style="color: red;">Head Chef</span></b>...it's really a big different when being roasted by the head chef. Only the <b><span style="color: magenta;">Vs </span></b>can request this to be done by head chef...for it takes hours to prepare. The skin was so so so thin and crispy.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the skewer left a mark on the skin with a small dot where it went through....Oh u come to mama!!!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The rest of the piglet were chopped to smaller pieces and <b><span style="color: orange;">deep fried with salt and pepper</span></b>. This was really really awesome too and I ate far too much till I was bursting outta my cheongsam. Lurve the baby ribs part.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>was telling <b><span style="color: blue;">Ori-San</span></b> to take the ribs it's the best part....and someone told him to take the trotter it's the best...while another said the head is a must!!! Poor <b><span style="color: blue;">Ori-san</span></b> ended up with different parts on his plate. Yes the very same <b><span style="color: blue;">Ori-san</span></b> of Oribe sushi, speaking of which it's time to visit his restaurant soon.<br /><br />There was a fish dish and we ate it so fast outta respect, Monkey forgot to snap pics. Yes must alwiz respect the food that's being killed for you, and prepared with so much technique and skills. At least u dun let the piglet died in vain right??? hahahaha why am I being so philosophical when food is just food. But we did devour the entire piglet, nothing was left to waste.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WAHHH this <b><span style="color: orange;">claypot waxed meat rice</span></b> is a must for every <b><span style="color: red;">Chinese New Year!!! </span></b>Those days, all these preserved meat were air dried by the autumn wind/breeze. And it would be ready for consumption by Chinese New Year...well that was in China....these days they used machine to air dry the preserved meat in a more hygienic method.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some rice and a lil bit of everything <b><span style="color: #e06666;">:))))))</span></b><br />It was so so so good that I had 2 bowls...and <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>proudly announced he had 3<br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">-_-"</span></b><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a <b><span style="color: red;">1920 maidera</span></b><br />we were so so lucky to share this for it's the <span style="color: magenta;">Vs' mommy's</span> birth year. Same like me!!! we are both <b><span style="color: #e06666;">monkeys </span></b>:)))) she smiled to me in glee.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />We had so many other wines and bcoz JS is the wines photog these days, I didn't snap any. So so blessed to be able to taste each and every bottle of it contributed by the guests and hosts.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and finally what is <b>Chinese New Year</b> without fried <b><span style="color: orange;">Nian Gao </span></b>aka sweet rice cakes!!!! It looked so crispy right? They were indeed awesome and crispy :)))<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">thinly sliced fluffy yam and sweet potatoe sandwiched the nian gao in the middle. We lurve it for it's not sweet at all. Yummmzzzzzzzz. Still one of our favourite chinese restaurant in town :)))<br /><br />Thank you to the <b><span style="color: magenta;">Vs </span></b>for such an amazing dinner and gathering. Looking fwd to our next session :)))</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Now lemme help you...this is the least that I could do. Don't think the stool can carry my weight. Wahahahaha.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">so over the CNY, <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>& <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>& <b><span style="color: #a64d79;">hobbits </span></b>were in the Land of Chicken Hor Fun, silky soft Tau fufah, intense curry mee, fat juicy bean sprouts and not forgetting all the beautiful porcelain skinned ladies.<br /><br />and as visitors we must do wat other visitors do. :)))) So we ventured to the Ipoh old town and hunt down the street art wall mural works. Specifically works of <b><span style="color: blue;">Ernest Zacharevic</span><span style="color: cyan;"> </span></b>but there were oso other pieces by local artist.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPxn2xq8ii_ZQlF_n8eUxwgVDotGo5UxhdRpVAZ6IglGmdu2Dcq5_dNGgVLdT-7Sa1gENw7fENrSpb7CdbQPWiNYYODXxNcq030KriuEMFsd9xx4UlGwnDX1dJPuo3TUyzDYWo/s1600/IMG_8465.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPxn2xq8ii_ZQlF_n8eUxwgVDotGo5UxhdRpVAZ6IglGmdu2Dcq5_dNGgVLdT-7Sa1gENw7fENrSpb7CdbQPWiNYYODXxNcq030KriuEMFsd9xx4UlGwnDX1dJPuo3TUyzDYWo/s640/IMG_8465.JPG" width="512" /></span></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">such as this one by a local artist. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Uncle!!! i wanna buy bananas since it's the year of the <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey</span></b>.<br /><br />Notice the difference in terms of brush strokes, colors, styles, perspective. There were only 7 art murals done by Zacharevic namely the Girl, Paperplane, Old Uncle with Coffee Cup, Hummingbird, Kopi O, Evolution and Trishaw. You can visit all by foot as it's pretty near except that the weather was a killer on that day, so we were hop in and out of the car.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">At a <b><span style="color: red;">kopitiam</span></b>. Done by another local artist at Concubine Lane 3. So what were they serving at this Coffee House?<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Hold ur chopsticks and enjoy your <b><span style="color: orange;">Curry Noodle!!!</span></b><br />From a different angle, it looked different so do make sure u get a nice frontal shot. Wall murals are painted to be viewed from the front I guess.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><b>"Hey I-Ching, do u know that your hometown has the best Curry Noodle ever? Ever!!!!"</b></span><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">I-Ching: "It's more than just Curry Noodle my dear :)))"<br /></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: red;">Concubine Lane 3</span></b> is really a lane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Now why would they name their lanes concubine? oh well long long ago, when Ipoh was famed for its tin mining, all the lanes around this area from Concubine Lane 1 to Yi Lai Hong (Concubine Lane 2) and Concubine lane 3 were a thriving den of prostitution, opium and gambling. Soon the men began keeping mistresses around this area for their pleasure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br />Today is a magnet for all the shutter bugs like me hahahaha for the town council has spent quite a bit beautifying this area with an Ipoh Heritage Trail.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Another artwork by Ernest Zacharevic - <b><span style="color: orange;">Old Uncle with Coffee Cup</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">situated just opposite the Ipoh Tourism office and on the side wall of Old Town Coffee. It's a huge mural covering the entire side wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimrgozZk3PJ5pHm0HmiJx6hyphenhyphen2t5z_huta26j3kfwUeJPrDczFyC2ICLBi_h0yv2G3CIR5TuTwRGRr3iV9PpZVBKICMNa8qGFjJsRSq6ACq0_w8Mxcq3J6olXQK-YDnCB5fas8L/s1600/IMG_8774.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimrgozZk3PJ5pHm0HmiJx6hyphenhyphen2t5z_huta26j3kfwUeJPrDczFyC2ICLBi_h0yv2G3CIR5TuTwRGRr3iV9PpZVBKICMNa8qGFjJsRSq6ACq0_w8Mxcq3J6olXQK-YDnCB5fas8L/s640/IMG_8774.JPG" width="640" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">It takes a lot of patience if u wanna fit the entire wall onto your frame. Reason being, mainly are the never ending distractions. You will have 2 choice....either u wait and have that lucky window of moment to click ur shutter at the right time....or.......just tell all those ppl anad cars and motorbikes, bicycles to move aside just for u.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Uncle....can move aside boh??? u won't be able to get the entire thing if u stand so near....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">after a few minutes...already told u...u gotta stand nearer to snap it....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">then there were a few visitors who stood there to shield themselves from the scorching afternoon heat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Once the crowd dispersed, a hero car rolled in and park itself there...<br />Champion....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br />big sigh...told ourselves ohmmmmm it's Chinese New Year...let's learn to control our emotion amid the hot sticky afternoon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>cropped the pic and say this will do.....<br />okie lar......can lar....<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: orange;">Paperplane </span></b>by Ernest Zacharevic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">He painted this with a crane...I wondered how does artist paint it from their point of view as the perspective and size differs from where we stood and from right smack in front of the wall.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: orange;">Kopi O</span></b> by Ernest Zacharevic</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Such a hot day and we totally deserve really really iced cold Ipoh coffee :))))) <b><span style="color: #e06666;">*slurped*</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxIgTFdNh8Hhz6UKRAsG0lQKwQSquhJvJiGYVadDXD4Udnl2wUeW4P5GMZ2o204r_S4L8ethG_IbDPpi1ld62-g9reO53uHfpx_GBeZ3_hOOXZFjm0RZvCAY1d6bx3wjYh0EIO/s1600/IMG_8763.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxIgTFdNh8Hhz6UKRAsG0lQKwQSquhJvJiGYVadDXD4Udnl2wUeW4P5GMZ2o204r_S4L8ethG_IbDPpi1ld62-g9reO53uHfpx_GBeZ3_hOOXZFjm0RZvCAY1d6bx3wjYh0EIO/s640/IMG_8763.JPG" width="640" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Titled "<b><span style="color: orange;">Evolution</span></b>" also by the same artist</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br />The tin mining machine and the limestone hills on the background. Again not easy to shoot bcoz just so many distractions like the 2 cones there.<br /></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgozrPzTTDvAv_FkAjxnB65xHIg4w94_2zb34kPoj6u16O3AEZkA7YFBbQxwOtiML_g2ubQhwzqzlvgMKUKs2M0hjc1GN3MF2Nw3dlU4yWiNH2DHfmy-SbF2OjjEFc0HQZxfZvX/s1600/IMG_8767.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgozrPzTTDvAv_FkAjxnB65xHIg4w94_2zb34kPoj6u16O3AEZkA7YFBbQxwOtiML_g2ubQhwzqzlvgMKUKs2M0hjc1GN3MF2Nw3dlU4yWiNH2DHfmy-SbF2OjjEFc0HQZxfZvX/s640/IMG_8767.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">or distraction from other visitors or traffics or inconsiderate ppl parking right in front of this mural to view it. Sigh......this is manners. To enjoy art pieces, one needs to be considerate. Just like letting ppl out from the lifts before you enter...manners ppl!! Manners!!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkIiqDaqDG4XZKC4mEMod1UXe3MZKlJKYuylTUOZoflKV5XGCjdXbWYR-eL1xxA03fT61RqJMuwhOAU74NF_hw-eKbhB4HqVCtLLogk31DuVLbuw8tV3w6IvhVUyX4xXzwn49W/s1600/IMG_8761.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkIiqDaqDG4XZKC4mEMod1UXe3MZKlJKYuylTUOZoflKV5XGCjdXbWYR-eL1xxA03fT61RqJMuwhOAU74NF_hw-eKbhB4HqVCtLLogk31DuVLbuw8tV3w6IvhVUyX4xXzwn49W/s640/IMG_8761.JPG" width="640" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Still best viewed from the front.<br />There were other murals done around this street by local artist too.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: orange;">Hummingbird </span></b>by Zacharevic<br />the tree has gone.....what a shame!!!! the bird was supposed to be facing a tree!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Tree is gone and cars are everywhere. Mostly non-Ipoh car plates.<br /></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_HbQlfa6rKKWD2ztp5PwvIFz4WWeCqItRmlOkaiG7Eft7-pu-ZJGnf_IEC-VXSrEqwlok6dAFMPH2QW5_GaQqntHU5QhVJ2xSz1djHFkUPemlkiQTJMKL_Bh3VWLmOHU5J23y/s1600/IMG_8741.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_HbQlfa6rKKWD2ztp5PwvIFz4WWeCqItRmlOkaiG7Eft7-pu-ZJGnf_IEC-VXSrEqwlok6dAFMPH2QW5_GaQqntHU5QhVJ2xSz1djHFkUPemlkiQTJMKL_Bh3VWLmOHU5J23y/s640/IMG_8741.JPG" width="426" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">My favourite works of all would be this - <b><span style="color: orange;">Trishaw</span></b><br />Ernest Zacharevic has made a huge name for himself after his works in Penang has gone viral globally. A <b><span style="color: blue;">Lithunian </span></b>based in Penang, well done!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Uncle!!! How much more to load? Where is the recycle centre???<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Uncle no reply me oh!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Looks like it's gonna be long.....I'm burning here~~~~<b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>u mind helping?<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>It's taller than me</b></span>, he said!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Yaaay!!!! Now we can move!!!! Let's go let's go!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">But <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>decided he wanna collect more old newspaper first...<br /><br /><b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Old Newspaper~~~~<br />Paper lama paper lama</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Shhhhhhh <b><span style="color: red;">Quiet</span></b>......<br />this was done by local art teacher along <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Hugh Low Street</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">For more information and its location, visit the <b><span style="color: red;">Ipoh Tourism </span></b>website below:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.ipoh-city.com/attraction/art_of_oldtown/"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">http://www.ipoh-city.com/attraction/art_of_oldtown/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as though my life isn't busy enuff, <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>enrolled herself into <b><span style="color: magenta;">Aerial Hoop </span></b>class. Another step further after pole fitness. Yeah prollie she's gonna enrol herself into a circus!!!! <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkeys</span></b>, elephants, circus...oh well u get the gist. They all go hand-in-hand. While we are on the topic of circus....it has been a long long long long time since I went to one.<br /><br />So seen above, <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>was attempting her first semi-split gazelle and she's only 50% there....GAH!!! it requires so much of core body muscle, stability, strength but most of all <b><span style="color: blue;">FEARLESS </span></b>of heights which again I've failed. Any tricks that require me to move my body upside down aka inverted...it's just too scary to perform for the only form of security was the mat on the floor. It still didn't convince me but so far I have yet to fall but last year I fell really badly from the pole that left such a traumatic experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so again and again and again, <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>hoisted herself up to the hoop using her arms <b><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: x-small;">*which now left her arms sore for the last 36 hours*</span></b>. Positioned and balanced her ass before straightening her body...and then all u gotta do is let it gooooooo LET IT GOOOOOOO and bend as low as possible.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #e06666;"> "I can't anymore!! I'm scared!!!"</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">Classmates: "AGAIN!!!! You can do it!!!!"</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b><span style="color: #e06666;">GAH!!! this is the lowest I can go!!!!</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">Classmates: "No!!! lower!!!!"</span></b><br /></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> "Gals!!! seriously my waist is in pain, my arms are gonna break....I wanna come down!!!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Please~~~~~ Lemme come down!!! I'm scared!!!! I'm not flexible enuff to to a full gazelle yet!!! I dare not even open my eyes!!!<br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">T_T</span></b><br /><br />my classmates are all perfectionists. I don't even need my instructor to whip me, they have done the job for her. I'm the whiner and the lazy one in the class, bcoz of them I've learnt not to give up so easily. So now I need to dedicate time to ensure that I don't skip/miss class...but looks like it's not possible for this weekend, I don't have time to attend classes again. <span style="color: #e06666;"><b>~_~</b></span></span><br />
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CHER-RYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211590981694291420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025184.post-88206255460236762912016-01-04T09:07:00.003+08:002016-01-04T09:07:28.044+08:00Shanghai Tang for Moleskin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My beloved <b><span style="color: red;">Minnie Mouse</span></b> notebook had served me well, she has travelled far and wide, accompanied me through my wonderful journey and kept me reminded of all my to-do list. That's her job, to document everything that I've needed <b><span style="color: #e06666;">:))))</span></b><br /><br />So thank you and you will be remembered and kept alongside with all my years of accumulated Moleskins<b><span style="color: #e06666;"> :))))</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shopping for a moleskin isn't easy for Monkey coz it needs to reflect on her for that particular year. I can't be carrying a cute Doraemon Moleskin to meetings right? Minnie Mouse was an exceptional coz she looks pretty discreet....but not <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Doraemon</span></b> nor <b><span style="color: #660000;">Line Friends</span></b> or <b><span style="color: orange;">Simpsons</span></b>....and I definitely don't want a star wars for this year. <b><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: x-small;">*Though I like Star Wars*</span></b> Then there's so many other limited edition such as Snoopy and Friends, Le Petit Prince and some other adorable ones.<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">then he caught my eyes!!! you even naughtier <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey</span></b>!!!!<br />See NO Evil </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">designed by <b><span style="color: red;">Shanghai Tang </span></b>and inspired by the year of <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey</span></b>!!! It has got so much of resonance with me, just gotta have it!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and so this morning as I was sipping my morning coffee on my desk.....looking at him brings such joy. Don't know why, could be I'm just really excited about 2016 to come for there's more exciting adventures and destinations for Notti <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey</span></b>, <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #c27ba0;">hobbits</span></b>....and also some new <b><span style="color: #c27ba0;">hobbits</span></b> in tow *hihihihihihihi*<br /><br />When I flipped it open on its first page ready to pen my day, sweet <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS</span></b> already left a message on the very first page <b><span style="color: #e06666;">:))))))))))</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />If you have yet to get your notebook/planner for 2016, do log on to Moleskin's official site for some inspiration. Else hop over to <b><span style="color: blue;">Kinokuniya</span></b> bookstore or any other authorised bookstores that sells Moleskin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Happy eppy eppy New Year 2016!!!!</span></b></span>CHER-RYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211590981694291420noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025184.post-13012977987955085922015-12-31T08:00:00.000+08:002015-12-31T11:00:47.744+08:00My 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One word to summarize my <b><span style="color: red;">2015</span></b>. It's been rocking amazing!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okie I cheated....that's 2 words...but to limit myself to just a word to describe this amazing year is just ain't enuff. Sorry I can't!!! LOL I guess from the above pic, u can gather I really did have a good year :)))) This is gonna be quite a long post with loads of pics so sit back and enjoy, just as much as I did blogging bout it :)))</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">started the year with <b><span style="color: purple;">Baby Wei's</span></b> wedding in January, she looked so so lovely and as we speak Baby Wei will be expecting her first child next May. Congratulations and words can't describe how happy we are for both of you :))))</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was also in January that <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS</span></b>, <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>& <b><span style="color: #a64d79;">Hobbits </span></b>travelled to the West Coast of Japan to experience the fluffy white snow and the annual winter light up at Shirakawago. <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>also made his very first video from this trip. Click <a href="http://cher-ry.blogspot.my/2015/03/fluffy-white-trail-at-shirawakawa-go.html">*here*</a> to review the posting and our trip</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The world's greatest sushi was in our to do list for quite a while and it finally got realized. Am so blessed so <a href="http://cher-ry.blogspot.my/2015/03/revelation-of-worlds-greatest-sushi.html">*click here to read about it*</a> also a really zen tea ceremony experience by the owner of <b><span style="color: orange;">Beniya Mukayu </span></b><a href="http://cher-ry.blogspot.my/2015/03/tea-ceremony-by-owner-of-beniya-mukayu.html">*click here*</a> we have promised him that we will be back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>rushed back from Japan to attend the unexpected Chinese New Year luncheon with media by my future employer. Everything happened too fast as I've just signed the dotted line 2 weeks earlier. I was still with my previous company then so big thank you to <b><span style="color: blue;">Chris da Boss</span></b> for being so understanding and allowed me to attend this anyway. He has got the biggest heart ever!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I felt really welcomed and privileged as my future boss *now my boss* introduced me to the guests. It was quite a big surprise to the industry as I've been a piece of furniture after 9 long years in my previous industry. Kekekeke<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yo stand up <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>to all the familiar faces in the banquet hall. and take ur gracious bow to the 100 lovely guests who have been working with you :)))<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Never would I've imagined...<b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>had been saying that she'll kill for that job each and every time when she's being attended by some PR person at the maison and chateaux she's visiting. And right now I don't have to kill for it, I have that one person to thank to for connecting me to this career. You know who you are Babe :))) Thank you so much again for this opportunity and I am grateful for it</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was really proud to be joining this amazing team and still very very proud of each and every of the team members. They brought with them impeccable working experiences, styles, personalities, ideas and they are like my family now. Yes it's mostly men...92% of them hahahaha.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the other bright side is, I'll still be working with my beloved media friends whom I've forged close friendship with over the past years. Such lovely bunch of people :)))</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as for my old team, it was really difficult to depart. I've just told them to imagine that I'm on a really long vacation so the loss won't be felt. My ex boss still take a moment to look at my desk every morning as he greeted the team, I know it's heart wrenching but since our buildings are just across the road <b><span style="color: red;">*hua hua hua* </span></b>catching up ain't that difficult. Am so blessed to be invited for every gathering every birthdays and christmas gifts exchange, which we've been practicing for as long as long as I could remember. CORUM has been amazing brand and company which built my foundation. I owe my success to each and every member in Malaysia, Asia and Switzerland. Thank you guys!!!<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the new career also brought me to other bloggers who have been in the scene for quite some time now. For they are the experts when it comes to food. Meeting them in person is sure surreal and yes Hello I am <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Notti Monkey</span></b>. The very same one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are such happy group of people :))) made my job so colorful and fun with their knowledge, laughters and experiences. Thank you for your support throughout 2015. Love u guys heaps!!!<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okie to make it a point, I don't always have a glass of alcohol in my hands ok??? Proving it with this pic :))) we impose really strict responsibly consumption of alcohols...always :))) for we are <b><span style="color: red;">Brands Custodians</span></b> and we preach about enjoying your drinks with care and appreciation. Not wrecklessly of coz. Savour it, don't spoil it!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>was selected for the Talent Development Programme *thank you my both bosses* and yes joining <b><span style="color: blue;">LVMH </span></b>group is really huge affair for anyone for it is still the world leader in the luxury brands. I do admire all the other works done by the group in order to preserve and sustain the environment, as we don't only innovate new products but we build the future of tradition....as all our brands uphold great history, craftmanship, innovation and tradition. :))))<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the career also allows me access to notable personalities, from estate director to winemakers to oenologists, they spoke with passion of the business, the products, the processes and of the future. So much to learn and I've been absorbing like a sponge bob with the square pants *I hope*....i really do and much thanks to all my fellow colleagues and bosses for their guidances and leadership. With your support I will continue my momentum with more excellent results and dedication.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okie never been posted on this blog before.....this was part of our graduation performance in March. I was the gal in the centre pole with my partner in crime Ann. <a href="http://cher-ry.blogspot.my/2015/03/our-graduation-partay-viva-stage.html">*Read about the entire recital here*</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2015 had been so terribly busy I wished I could have carve out more time to spend with both of them :)))) as in really quality time catching up chit chatting instead of just meeting up at events....Both <b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Sally</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #a64d79;">Eric </span></b>had been doing really well this year, congratulations to both for your respective success in life and work.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I guess it has become a fetish now to haul food stuffs from every country that we visit. Esp those limited items which U can't get but only by country specific. Oh well that includes leather goods too. We area suckers for the word limited.<br /><br />We had a short trip to <b><span style="color: red;">Japan </span></b>in July just for gastronomy experiences and tried some really awesome amazing food from Icho to Hotaro Honten and the 3 michelin starred Hajime which is highly recommended for his creation of "Chikyu" but sorry no pics nor blog posting bcoz no pics allowed. But the highlight was the visit to Himeji castle the one and only long standing and surviving castle in Japan at its original form. <a href="http://cher-ry.blogspot.my/2015/08/himeji-castle.html">*read about it here*</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Datuk Gordon and his bottle of <b><span style="color: #990000;">Hennessy XO</span></b><br /><br />then once back from Japan, off to Kota Kinabalu for the Prestige KK Ball. Sabahans are really gracious and warm ppl *not that I don't know hehehehe for JS and his beautiful family is one* They sure know how to rawk a ball and instead of being host we felt like we were being hosted in their beautiful state. Even after the earthquake tragedy that occurred 2 months earlier.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">August came and the gang went off to <b><span style="color: blue;">Tokyo </span></b>for another round of gastronomy adventure. We wanted an equal mix of fine dining, michelin starred dining and street dining!!! here we were so privileged to be brought out by Cilantro's Executive Chef Takashi Kimura and his beautiful wife Yuko *she can drink and out beat all the guys on this table* We had so much great fun eating and be merry for a few days before our gruesome climb to Mount Fuji.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Uncle James we are doin it bcoz of you....we were the victims of your dream. KEKEKEKE but thank you!!!! Bcoz of you we did it!!!! bcoz of your crazy dreams and aspirations, we all did it :))) Thank you!!!<br /><br />It's one of my great achievement for 2015!!! Read about it <a href="http://cher-ry.blogspot.my/2015/09/conquering-fuji-san.html">*here*</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and as alwiz, <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>rushed back for the event of the year for our major brand Hennessy. You wouldn't wanna know how I've worked across the globe with my mobile phone even on top of Mount Fuji - thanks to their wifi coverage at every single nooks and corners of the mountain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hennessy X.O Appreciation Grows was another great success - it was a 6 days 6 nites event!!! On the last day of the event, <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>& <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>were off again to France.<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello from <b><span style="color: blue;">Paris</span></b>!!!! <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>won't do selfie and this was the best he could.<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've got to spend time with all the art pieces I wanna visit. In 2014, we did a Vincent Van Gogh trail and for 2015, due to lack of planning from my end there were no theme. My bad my bad....most of my time was dedicated to work. If you've noticed by now, my blog postings have been so sparingly uploaded....Gosh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year we travelled down south to Montpellier first then to <b><span style="color: #990000;">Carcassonne </span></b>a medieval city which was so so Games of Thrones!!!<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then hiked up to<b><span style="color: orange;"> Peyrepertuse Castle</span></b><br />I guess after Mount Fuji this was child's play.....</span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">then off to <b><span style="color: #990000;">Bordeaux </span></b>to visit a few wineries. Seen here is <b><span style="color: blue;">Chateau Cheval Blanc</span></b> - very modern and <b><span style="color: red;">LVMH </span></b>thought of every aspect from winemaking to the environment. It's a symbiosis relationship.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVsPE19OkNe-vfn8fL-oSISjXDXyarI4wffSDVDtzmpgh9UpY9g-gkSRlZrURp0KzDx8EzWCBLISjMMuhRFjpDXhksyEHtvAW5ypWDXaVuRc-5peiCkgq6OKBbMUvbj2RQrXUr/s1600/IMG_5506.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVsPE19OkNe-vfn8fL-oSISjXDXyarI4wffSDVDtzmpgh9UpY9g-gkSRlZrURp0KzDx8EzWCBLISjMMuhRFjpDXhksyEHtvAW5ypWDXaVuRc-5peiCkgq6OKBbMUvbj2RQrXUr/s640/IMG_5506.JPG" width="640" /></a></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and finally the crown jewel of LVMH group - <b><span style="color: orange;">Chateau d'Yquem</span></b> being the oldest brand in the entire portfolio *since the 16th century*. Such a beautiful castle and it is the vacation home of the Chairman and CEO Mr. Bernard Arnault.<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">oh I've also gotten a <b><span style="color: red;">X-pole</span></b> at home for practice but not much of practice anyway. I guess out of 12 months this year, I've only attended classes for 4 months LOL!!! this is not good I totally acknowledged this. Let's hope for better time schedule and planning in 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">another highlight was I've met <b><span style="color: magenta;">Rita Ora</span></b> in person and flesh just 2 weeks ago in <b><span style="color: blue;">Shanghai</span></b>!!! She was really down to earth and so so amazing.<br /><br />Yes there's too many pending posts to update here.<br />Wishing all my readers a <b><span style="color: red;">Happy New Year</span></b> and may 2016 be another smashing one for you!! We are looking forward to it :)))</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was <b><span style="color: #38761d;">Mr. JS's</span></b> xmas pressie....he sure lurves carmouflage to bits. From pants to shirts and accessories, he wanna be invisible in the jungle...<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-small;">*apparently or so*</span></b> But <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>told him nobody takes a <b><span style="color: red;">Valentino </span></b>into a jungle, prollie you will be the very first few. Ishhhh~~~~~~</span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This would be the second camouflage looking bag that <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>got him. He was a eppy boy ripping the already bare minimum packaging coz I didn't have time to wrap it, and it was too huge and I refused to have its box coz it's just too bulky for me to carry onboard in <b><span style="color: blue;">Hong Kong.</span></b><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Dove added that extra detailing into this bag making it even more unique. Dove symbolise PEACE :)))) If u like this bag do visit ur nearest <b><span style="color: red;">Valentino </span></b>for this is a limited edition and comes in limited quantity, and they have doin their annual year end sale.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as for my xmas pressie, <b><span style="color: #38761d;">Mr. JS</span></b> got me like 2 months before <b><span style="color: red;">xmas </span></b>LOL. For he has the tendency to do this all the time, be it birthday or xmas. For his philosophy is....have it early and enjoy it much more.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lurve my limited edition <b><span style="color: blue;">Chanel Boy Brick Bag</span></b>....it was the very very last piece at <b>Chanel Rue Cambon</b> so one gotta have it. It's alwiz a manic to shop at that particular boutique. So sometimes it's good to go next door and take a breather at <b><span style="color: orange;">Faure le Page.</span></b> I guess it's only about time before consumers discover this brand too and begin the "takeover" craze.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I've been using it, seen here with <b><span style="color: magenta;">Hong Kong TVB star Johnson Lee</span></b> during his recent show in Malaysia, sponsored by <b><span style="color: #990000;">Hennessy VSOP</span></b>. Seriously I need to educate myself and catch up with all these amazing talents from Hong Kong. Nevertheless it was a privilege to meet the man himself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As for myself, I bought these dandy pairs of heels :))))) Hua Hua Hua gonna take them out soon :))) Just noticed that I've bought the same stuffs for Christmas 2014 for both <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>and myself. A backpack and a pair of shoes.<br /><br />Read about our<b><span style="color: red;"> Christmas 2014</span></b> <a href="http://cher-ry.blogspot.my/2014/12/christmas-2014.html">*here*</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life is all about celebration right? It may not necessary be all the time so but it's my job to ensure everyone is happy and celebrate with one or more of our brands and products. After all, these babies are the leader and pioneer in their very own category, be it <b><span style="color: orange;">Champagnes </span></b>or <b><span style="color: red;">Cognac</span></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've hardly find time to update this blog, mainly due to work and seriously time flew by too fast....We were away for a few weeks in <b><span style="color: blue;">France </span></b>in October got back on the last few days of the month to an array of happenings and social meets....and in a blink November has gone....and December is reaching its second half now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Halloween was spent playing <b><span style="color: #990000;">Evil Minnie</span></b> with my ladies. Bcoz of my work *again*, they shifted it a day earlier. They are the sweetest bunch of friends ever!!! It was a fun nite despite me having to pretend to be a sulking Minnie....it wasn't that difficult coz according to them that's my face...all the time. LOL</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yep Halloween celebration got re-scheduled bcoz of this Ball....which also reminded me of another wonderful woman <b><span style="color: #990000;">Sweet Devil Rachel</span></b> as we used to celebrate her birthday on 31st Oct. Both of us came a long way and we kinda had a rather sober and relaxing 31st Oct.....signs of aging huh?</span><br />
<a href="http://cher-ry.blogspot.my/2012/10/sweet-devil-rachel-halloween-birthday.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*read bout the past Halloween Bday Celebration here*</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not forgetting my beloved <b><span style="color: #a64d79;">Bonnie the Photog.</span></b> She had to work on her birthday so loads of kisses and love for her at the Ball.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">then the anticipated movie premier of <b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">James Bond Spectre</span></b>. Belvedere Vodka is definitely thrilled to be part of this partnership. I've lost count of how many times I've attended the premiere LOL that I gave my seats to someone else or my colleagues.<br /><br />Then a few weeks later, after all the craze has died down, it's <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>turn and <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>took him out to watch Spectre....2.5 hours is kinda long esp with my short attention span<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A few days later, it was the celebration of<b><span style="color: blue;"> Bangsar Babe's 8th anniversary</span></b>. For her time flew pass even faster with more travels and amazing experiences. Haig Club flew her to Miami to meet David Backham and was one of her highlight for the year. Congrats babe. 8 years is a huge mileage for your blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my favourite mix for the nite had to be the concoction of homemade orange marmalade, with Haig Club whisky, some orange liquor of Grand Marnier, egg white and finish off with a thinly sliced dehydrated orange. The mixologist was really awesome. We do work with quite a few of notable mixologist in town. <b style="color: #990000;">Moet Hennessy Diageo </b>will never settle for anything less :)))</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the very same weekend was the Newman Creative Pioneer Awards. So so lovely to have caught up with some old friends, really do missed them heaps. Sorry I'm really terrible at catching up these days.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He said Yeay!! I'm still the tallest dude in the ballroom. Dearest <b><span style="color: magenta;">Taavi </span></b>left us to pursue his dreams and KL is really that small, am so happy to know we will be working together again :))) Keep it up my dear :)))</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Li TV Tastemaker event was nevertheless successful and I had a good time working with the organiser.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Speaking of ppl pursuing their dreams,<span style="color: #674ea7;"> <b>Shayne Wesley Simon</b></span> is leaving us end of this month. Too many movements around but I am glad everyone is moving either to start their own business or create something new and exciting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">U'll never short of finding pics of me holding glasses these days. BAHAHAHAHA according to a colleague, it's some workout called - the glass lifting exercise. <b><span style="color: orange;">Glenmorangie </span></b>hosted a whisky trail tasting dinner and so happy to know everyone had an amazing time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">colleagues are alwiz so impeccable and beautiful, eventhough some of them have <b><span style="color: blue;">#smalleyes</span></b>. LOL. Thank you for being there and made my life so sane despite the crazy hectic work. Your passion and expertise in your own line made me wanna be as good as you are.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That very same week, the <b><span style="color: magenta;">Gang </span></b>came down to Malaysia for a few days and stayed at our home. So lots of cooking, laughters, joy, fun, and more cooking and more great eats and drinks. We lurve dining at home....<br /><br />No dresscode<br />No Corkage<br />No traffic jam<br />No problem in finding a carpark<br />No waiting time for food<br />No lousy food<br /><br />but best of all u can just collapse onto the comfort of ur own bed a few metres away after all the great food and drinks.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the month of November kinda ended, the last Ball of the year - <b><span style="color: red;">Prestige Ball.</span></b><br /><br />Technically I've already shifted to a different industry, but most of the time host/organisers arranged me to be seated with the movers & shakers of my previous industry. HAHAHAHA. Including my colleagues, they will be "why are we in this table? have u got anything to do with it?"<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Me and my <b><span style="color: #c27ba0;">hobbits</span></b>. They are now 1,623 kilometres away from me for the past few days. <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>had kidnapped them back to the Land Beneath the Wind while I was working in Shanghai. So I came home to just the huge pink Hippo and Fuchsia Lizard cat.<br /><br />So there u go....a quick summary of <b><span style="color: blue;">November</span></b>...so many major events that I don't have time to blog. Before I know it, December is coming to an end soon too. Christmas is just a few days away. I can't decide if I'm anxious, excited or just ecstatic....wahahahaha<br /><br />Will prepare a posting of the <b><span style="color: red;">"wat we got for xmas"</span></b> in the next few days time....epic fail...watever happened to opening the xmas on the morning of 25th Dec?</span></div>
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CHER-RYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211590981694291420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025184.post-23908400769316039592015-11-24T07:43:00.000+08:002015-11-24T09:43:54.232+08:00My work station<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />My work station with its own instalment for the last couple of months.<br />Monkey dearie acquired these postcard during her visit to <b><span style="color: magenta;">Yoshitomo Nara's </span></b>exhibition. His very first solo exhibition in HK. Oh well since I can't afford his art pieces, these beautiful postcards in different sizes will do. Plastered it on with my butterfly magnets. The other merchandise that I could afford were an Iphone hard cover and his book.<br /><br />Colleagues commented that these pics were so so so <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey</span></b>.<br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>when she's at work <b><span style="color: #e06666;">-_-</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>when she's focussed <b><span style="color: #e06666;">-_-</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>when she's throwing that slitted eyes stare <b><span style="color: #e06666;">-_-</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>when she's listening to them <b><span style="color: #e06666;">-_-</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>when she's on the phone <b><span style="color: #e06666;">-_-</span></b><br /><br />I didn't realised I looked like that all the time.....<b><span style="color: #e06666;">-_-"</span></b><br />geeee thanks guys for watching me so intently all the time. They even added that it's never a good time to approach me.....coz I'm looking <b><span style="color: #e06666;">-_- </span></b>all the time. So when is a good time?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: magenta;">Yoshitomo Nara</span></b> got inspired through his journey of visiting innocent children who were separated and dis-allocated from their families and lives. From Wars and natural disasters such as tsunami and earthquakes. Hence the looks with innocent big eyes but in actual fact, they were traumatised and in pain, so much more for them to even understand at that age.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*pic taken from the web*<br /><br /><b><span style="color: magenta;">Yoshitomo Nara</span></b> paints children from around the world, so the difference in hair and eyes colors. The main iconic feature remains.....<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />True!!! It will always be hard....but we gotta move on!!!!<br />If u can get hold of his books, please do get it. Not too sure if you can get them in Malaysia, prollie you can try Kinokuniya? If you happen to be in Japan, it's available in all major bookstores.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ta-DA!!! my new "installation" of <b><span style="color: magenta;">Andy Warhol</span></b> :))))<br /><br />Got it changed after our trip to France last month. We attended <b><span style="color: magenta;">Andy Warhol's </span></b>very first exhibition of 102 pieces of Shadows in Europe. Oh well, since I can't afford the pieces....here goes the postcards again. Wahahahaha. Spot one of me. I queued up for 15 mins to have that pic taken in Andy Warhol's pop-up colors.<br /><br />If I have the time and money, I would wanna work in an <b><span style="color: blue;">art museum</span></b> :)))) modern art to be precise. When I don't have to worry about paying bills...just focus on curating art pieces for exhibitions...but have to be artists that I have passion in. Hahahah so selective...nobody would wanna hire me. Think I'm already doing a great job being a guide inside art museums around the world, with <b><span style="color: #38761d;">Mr. JS</span></b> being my only guest/tourist. Or he's just entertaining me by pretending to understand. LOL<br /><br />So what would you wanna do if you have time and money?<br />Guess the bottom line is, all of us want good health....for when there's health...you can enjoy LIFE. <b><span style="color: #e06666;">yes...life :))))</span></b></span><br />
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CHER-RYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211590981694291420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025184.post-19056901687112315902015-11-17T07:29:00.000+08:002015-11-17T09:29:50.246+08:00Chiffon Pink - Le Creuset<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: blue;">*pic courtesy of Le Creuset Singapore</span></i><br /><br />Received the usual monthly newsletter from the group and I'm not the person who will click on most newsletter and this one caught my attention from its header. HAHAHAA women are suckers for anything in <b><span style="color: #ea9999;">pink </span></b>I guess? Prollie not all, but most of us do. Especially when the cast iron lid was styled and shot among the <b><span style="color: #ea9999;">beautiful blooms of peonies.</span></b><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Christmas </span></b>is around the corner, so why not get something really nice from Le Creuset. It's available in multi colors to suit the lucky recipient and occasions. I know I would be happy to receive one or two even if it's the non-cast iron ware. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So far at home, we've been collecting a multitude of colors including grey....yes grey...-_-" my dear <b><span style="color: #38761d;">Mr. JS </span></b>only loves rustic colors.<br /><br />For more info:</span></div>
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<br />CHER-RYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211590981694291420noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025184.post-63011952060382755652015-11-16T08:25:00.000+08:002015-11-16T08:48:06.385+08:00La Morue Fish Restaurant, Montpellier<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Such a rustic and stunning pic taken by <b><span style="color: #38761d;">Mr. JS</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We arrived <b><span style="color: orange;">Montpellier </span></b>in the late afternoon, checking into a really cosy "gentlemen's house". I will prepare a separating posting on our accommodation <b><span style="color: red;">Baudon de Mauny</span></b> in <b><span style="color: orange;">Montpellier</span></b>, so love it and highly recommended. The next morning we found out from the owner of the place, an aristocrat that the bicycle belongs to his son, when we showed him some pics from the camera. Oh, so we were staying in the same building as the owner of this place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">our dedicated concierge <b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Thibault </span></b>recommended a really nice fish restaurant that we wanted. Southern France is all about fresh produce like this - grilled fish, languedoc olives, lemon and vegetables. <b><span style="color: orange;">Montpellier </span></b>is really quaint, a walkable city with so much of history and yet there's a certain degree of modernity that you can find here. City trams crosses in between the old buildings and churches. Oldest medical university is still in operation with students from around the world and clusters of town houses gave this city its quaint character. Old Charm I'll call it.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prior to dinner, we hung out for 2 hours at a wine shop - <b><span style="color: #990000;">L'atelier du Vins</span></b> and asked for some recommendation of wines at the restaurant - <b><span style="color: blue;">La Morue</span></b>. I guess when you are not familiar always asked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had such an amazing time and 2 hours passed by too quickly as we were chatting for that long with a couple from Switzerland. The hubby quit his job to study french in <b><span style="color: orange;">Montpellier</span></b>!!! I wished I could do that....such passion and #YOLO. I guess one has to embrace this in mind, that you only live once so make the fullest out of it. Go travel the world, learn things, meet new friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is exactly what we've been preaching and also living up to it. :)))</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">salt from <b><span style="color: red;">Carmargue</span></b>...which is about 40km away from Montpelier I think. Now you can get this specialised salt from B.I.G</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">speciality of southern France - <b><span style="color: orange;">Fish Soup</span></b>!!!!! served with aioli :))<br />the intense soup was made with fish stocks, with almost melted fish chunks innit with the beautiful aroma of saffron. I can almost compare the texture of this soup to our local "asam laksa" soup. So sweet and hearty and so you just butter some garlic aioli onto the croutons and dunk them into your soup. That's the way to consume this.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>had his amazing grilled <b><span style="color: orange;">Dorade fish</span></b>...so beautifully done over charcoal fire. With its crispy skin and some rustic mash on the side.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was really really grilled so well, as the flesh around the bones are still slightly pink. <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>concurred and approved this place hahahaha for he's one man who can steam fish so well this way...just pink around the bones. Now we'll see when will he grill fish this way, to test his skills. Hehehehehe.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #e06666;">monkey </span></b>had her favourite <b><span style="color: orange;">flounder </span></b>fish.....yummmssss. Such sweetness...it's so good that one can really really finish the entire fish on his/her own. No sauce needed just natural jus and sweetness. Happy days!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The restaurant recommended their <b><span style="color: orange;">lemon meringue tart</span></b> which was really yummy. Lurve that the crust is just a piece of yummy buttery crust at the bottom, then lemon curd followed by perfectly whipped meringue. Simple, rustic and good.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bcoz this is a fish restaurant, even the coffee was served on a <b><span style="color: orange;">sardin tin</span></b>. How creative!!!!<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Highly recommended for fresh seafood. There's also an array of oysters. Service was extremely friendly and their menu changes accordingly so do look up their blackboard for fresh fish/produce of the day :))))<br /><br /><span style="color: orange;"><b>La Morue Seafood Restaurant</b><br />23, Rue du Palais des Guilhem,<br />Montpellier, France.</span></span>JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00700060229293416103noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025184.post-12880975746371007872015-10-29T07:55:00.000+08:002015-10-29T09:55:38.652+08:00Faure Le Page Calibre 21<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've finally got it...<br />after marvelling it and posting bout it in July <b><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://cher-ry.blogspot.my/2015/07/object-of-desire-0020-faure-le-page.html">*read here*</a>,</span></b> it has become my must have!!! So in mid July, <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>was actually in Osaka and visited its store and to my dismay....they don't have the <b><span style="color: blue;">Calibre 21 </span></b>for it's only available in Paris.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">T_T</span></b><br />there's only 2 stores in the world...I hope they will have more stores soon.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #274e13;">Faure le Page</span></b> started out as a firearm maker back in 1717. So that explains the lil cute gun on this bag. There were a few colors of choice and I guess dusty grey is so me right now :))) You can use it as a body over sling or even as a handbag. Love its versatility.<br /><br />For more readings on <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Faure le Page</span></b>:<br /><a href="http://faurelepage.com/">http://faurelepage.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The iconic building, seen from afar like a huge sail boat is the home of Louis Vuitton Foundation. Opened just under a year ago, this was the vision and brain child of Monsieur Bernard Arnault the CEO and Chairman of LVMH. The mentioned of his name sparks another awe and admiration. Everyone in within LVMH group look up upon this gentleman with deep respect for he is the Father of LVMH group. He is one of the very few business magnate that is still involved in the business at every level and aspects. Listed as the most richest man in France and #13 in the world, Monsieur Arnault came up with this vision of building a space dedicated to arts and culture right here in the beautiful garden - Jardin d'Acclimitation.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hey JS!!! We are here :)))) on a lovely sunny Sunday :)))<br />What a great day to visit the museum and garden. Louis Vuitton Foundation is one of the very few museums that were built by a private entity/corporation and is open to the public - with a small standard museum fee of course.<br /><br />The land was leased by the Government of France to LVMH for this. After 55 years, it will be pass back to the city's government together with this stunning building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now let's move on to the architect of this stunning building that caught everyone in awe. He is not foreign name but an amazing famous and talented designed - Frank Gehry. Whose creations are world renowned buildings and the later works were all considered the important works of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">contemporary architecture.<br /><br />Highly regarded as the most important architect of our age, Mr. Bernard Arnault has chosen well - the 2 most important men in their respective industry, came together, combining mission and vision to build the stunning Louis Vuitton Foundation.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The space is vast with even more vast and great works of important artists. You can come and visit a few times a year to look at their latest curated installation and exhibitions. When we were there, the collection was Pop and Musique. It was extremely refreshing to view these veritable works of total art, transformed into perception of space. which in returned made music the medium of memory.<br /><br />Which is very true, bcoz music and sounds have got such deep connection in our brains. Some sounds/songs/tunes evoke such memory, feeling and taste in us. This was proven to be so true that some restaurants even made you wear headphones as they orchestrate each dish that will deliver such sense and memory to you from the sound of sea waves crashing into the rocks and beach as they serve you the entre of shellfish and oysters. Oh well we haven't have got the chance to experience such dining experience yet. Hehehehe....soon....coming soon :)))<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look JS, even the black commas balloons gliding effortlessly is an art installation. This reminded me of Andy Warhol's Silver cloud :)))<br /><br />But this is really different from Andy's puzzling and yet juxtaposed works. The black helium balloons in commas were the works of Phillippe Parreno of Speech Bubbles, referencing those used in cartoons. How cute :)))<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the 8 metres tall Rose II by Isa Genzken<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Music and Arts of Popsim<br />of musical notes, manuscripts and broken records and album covers. How intriguing!!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the background were Andy Warhol's the 10 portaits of Jews in the 20th century done in 1980.<br /><br />You will see that Mr. Bernard Arnault is a great fans of Andy Warhol, amassing many works from this particular artist.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-hFfOzDtEROWdWPg9QVuhSj8EnSx3Zgisd3hGw5aEY7pSQUQebLdDefQrRoYcsWKMzqkf1mv3JTA0RU4wGSPueVgG7vDcZUi_RSBYDka2iazNcWRK4PPBFkXfXfhkh5emcLCouA/s1600/lvmh+foundation-17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-hFfOzDtEROWdWPg9QVuhSj8EnSx3Zgisd3hGw5aEY7pSQUQebLdDefQrRoYcsWKMzqkf1mv3JTA0RU4wGSPueVgG7vDcZUi_RSBYDka2iazNcWRK4PPBFkXfXfhkh5emcLCouA/s640/lvmh+foundation-17.jpg" width="640" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope JS wasn't too bored as Monkey could spend a lot of time on a certain piece....as usual talking to herself, mesmerizing by the works, the brush strokes, the paints, the texture, the kaleidoscope of colors, and even the size of the canvas. I dunno why I love talking to myself....JS usually ignored me but some strangers and visitors will reply with even more questions. Sometimes I do get answers but most of the time, they will enquire even further from me.....as if I am the tour guide of the museum. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and yes JS found amusement in capturing moments like this, of the staffs at the museum taking care of this piece - Couch on a freezer by Betrand Lavier. Eyeing those visitors so that no one touches it. After snapping this shot, JS even walked to him and showed him this pic. LOL<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">YEAHHH finally we are at a room dedicated to Andy Warhol's self potrait.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sulking face Me and Andy :))) no reason for sulking hehehehe.<br /><br />this piece was sold from Tom Ford's private collection back in 2010....at USD 32 million. I've already stopped counting the value of all the piece inside this special room dedicated to Andy. :)))</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While JS was more intrigued by the architect of the entire building. Made with 7 main principal materials in mind of different types of glasses, steel, wood and stone.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just got a position a human there to understand the size and magnitude of this building. It's really spacious and huge with lots of natural lights.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the bolts!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">amid all that, there's a lot of greenery too.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">something weird has landed here on the terrasse of Louis Vuitton Foundation.<br /><br />Titled "Where the slaves live" by Adrian Villar Rojas it consisted of a water tank with a lot of stuffs innit....from organic to man-made items. This structure will change over time, as items will rot and plants do grow on it.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look!!! there's on sports shoe there!!!<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">zucchini flowers, yummy when stuffed with cheese and deep fried :)))<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I found other things like ropes, feathers, bones, glasses, fossils, corals, rotten apples, coal, cement, clothings......really weird installation but this will be permanent as it was a commissioned work.<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another commissioned works by Cerith Wyn Evans of 20 suspended transparent flutes playing notes inspired by the design and architecture of Frank Gehry.....so the flutes have transparent pipes that transfer and blow air into it to produce such harmonious sounds and tones that assimilate with the buildings and surroundings.<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Installation by Olafur Eliasson, which we selfied hahaha. The installation consisted of an array of tall mirrors, positioned alongside a calm pool at different degrees, so if we were to stand on the other end.....we could get a sequence of reflection of us....depicting the passing of time...at different angle. Cool but we forgot to snap a full pic of it :P<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with all the walking and analysis, soon our tummies were rumbling.....and we headed downstairs for a late lunch.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">toasting with a glass of Ruinart Rose :))) of coz all the wines and spirits portfolio of LVMH are served here at the Le Frank restaurant. They named it after Frank Gehry of coz....the quality of food and service here is really good. There were a few vintage LV trunks hanging on the wall as part of the decoration.<br /><br />helmed by a michelin starred Chef Jean-Louis Nomicos, we were really surprised by its neat and really good menu lineup.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JS had a yummy fish for he didn't wanna have too much of food. Saving stomach for dinner he said :P<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Monkey ate a hearty perfectlly charred sea prawns with shaved greens. Simple clean and yummy.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wanted to capture the beautiful lights hanging from its tall ceiling....of fishes dancing/swimming in such beautiful form.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here it is, captured on my iPhone :))))<br />so stunning right? Feasting under such beautiful sculptures.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the lemon tart was AMAZING!!!!<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Soon it's time to say goodbye for now...for we will return for the next installation of exhibition. If you purchased the museum ticket, you get complimentary entrance to the park. Else you will need to purchase a different park ticket for entries.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The view from the park is even more amazing!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This pic captured by JS was so stunning!!! actually all the pics were really good :)))<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">an old tower functioned as pigeon tower back in 1870. Where the pigeons were used to deliver messages.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The garden is too pretty and stunning with flowers in full bloom!!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I had to snap this pic....memories of childhood. It was Sunday and families came out to have a great time with so many choices of amusement rides...of crying babies, happy faces, faces smudged with chocolates, ice creams.....kids holding cotton candies...and more balloons...and of coz screaming kids refusing to go home!!!! LOL!!!!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvHmHphqTCezGiyeo8InrGGFNw_epEyIxh2pSAkLnosDkFGOo5lTEZUHvXA6OkY3Wb_OX1OGiuMgTymq6iPsaGYOtnN9LxbLCfv-_-haUXfC1Qbyf07NHXaZ-NhRnXuvDE0LEC8A/s1600/lvmh+foundation-64.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvHmHphqTCezGiyeo8InrGGFNw_epEyIxh2pSAkLnosDkFGOo5lTEZUHvXA6OkY3Wb_OX1OGiuMgTymq6iPsaGYOtnN9LxbLCfv-_-haUXfC1Qbyf07NHXaZ-NhRnXuvDE0LEC8A/s640/lvmh+foundation-64.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />then we headed back to city centre....to enjoy the sun :)))</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were indeed blessed to a beautiful weather on that afternoon. :)))<br /><br />If you are interested on visiting Louis Vuitton Foundation, pls access its main website for more details:<br /><a href="http://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/en.html">http://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/en.html</a></span><br />
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<br />JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00700060229293416103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025184.post-87134503478467501882015-10-19T05:05:00.002+08:002015-10-19T05:05:25.325+08:00Hello from France<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Salut!!!!<br />big wave from <b><span style="color: blue;">France </span></b>:)))<br /><br />Apologies that I've been really quiet here. My bad <b><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: x-small;">*smack hands*</span></b><br />Work has been full on the last 6 months, ever since I've joined the new company. It's been an incredible journey and still is :))) am really happy and grateful for it.<br /><br />I've learnt so much, met so many <b><span style="color: red;">amazing </span></b>people, and continued to improve myself in every aspect of life. The experience has been enlightening.<br /><br />and now <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>is away for a short trip <b><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">*technically it's still considered short coz it's only 2 weeks*</span></b> to seek more wonderful experiences, great eats & drinks, unbelievable sights and also all the people we've met along this trip.<br /><br />We have been really blessed and everything happened for a reason. At the right time, the right place and with the right people. Can't be more thankful especially for the fascinating people we've met whom imparted more knowledge in me.<br /><br />So please do return to this blog for more stories on our journey, with the <b><span style="color: #a64d79;">hobbits </span></b>of coz :)))</span>CHER-RYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211590981694291420noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025184.post-46983028844704941942015-09-29T08:31:00.000+08:002015-09-29T09:31:44.605+08:00Mikawa Zezankyo Tempura, Tokyo *One Michelin Star*<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Yiks & Joanna</span></b> loves this place<b><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: x-small;"> *so were we, after this dinner*</span></b> and dearie <b><span style="color: #a64d79;">J&J Jelina</span></b> did all the reservations and bookings for this trip. Our best concierge service ever!!! better than the luxury hotels. Hahahaha.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">Mikawa Zezankyo</span></b> is located near the Sumida River away from the city centre. When we have arrived at its nearest station - Monzennakacho, the place looked pretty suburb with so many restaurants and bars along the main road. The restaurant tucked in nicely in a 4 storey building owned by<b><span style="color: orange;"> Chef-owner Tetsuya Saotome. </span></b><br /><br />We arrived early and was escorted to a waiting area upstairs, seated on tatami mats, <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>was asking if we got the right place. It looked like we were invited to someone's home for dinner....there were the usual odd furnitures, some decorations and plaques of awards in the living room and a telephone. There was also a couple waiting with us in this room. In less than 10 minutes, the telephone rang, nobody picked it up...then the hostess came up to escort us down....and <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS</span></b> was scrambling to put on his shoes again. Thing about Japan is....u'll never know when u need to remove ur shoes...especially in temples...and castle...there's alwiz a need to do so, hence if u are the lazy type, just choose a pair of shoes that's manageable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our beautiful menu, hand written and drawn personally by <b><span style="color: red;">Chef Saotome</span></b>...</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Soon we joined the rest of our gang....after removing our shoes to enter the dining area of 9 seaters. Only 9 seaters??? so I can imagine the difficulty in securing reservations at <b><span style="color: orange;">Mikawa Zezankyo.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lil appetizers on a kidney shaped bowl of fresh squid, edamame beans, eels and burdock roots. I guess we are so accustomed to Japanese ingredients by now.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">this gang are really into champagnes.....and the irony on that evening was...we were drinking <b><span style="color: orange;">KRUG</span></b> champagne in Pommery glasswares. oh well....these were the only glasses they have and its branded so no choice. :P</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as long as the content is <b><span style="color: orange;">KRUG </span></b>hehehehehehehe and bcoz we were so eager and ecstatic over this artisanal tempura place, we forgot to check the <b><span style="color: orange;">KRUG </span></b>ID at the back to retrieve some info on the release and vintages of this bottle!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">Chef Saotome</span></b> is a no frill man. He's serious and prefers to remain back to the roots of tempura. So u won't get any fancy mancy tempura stuffs that u usually get. Tempura is an arts....the art of selecting the best ingredients, getting the right batter consistency, the type of oil that u used and achieving the perfect temperature while frying...and in the end the succulent taste and texture with that amazing crisp on the outside and moist on the inside....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can't really explain, but once you have tasted the true artisanal tempura, u'll never regret it. Instead u'll yearn for more and will come back for it again and again. Trust me, nothing that u get outside of Japan is closed to the tempuras prepared in Japan. I don't know if it's the ingredients, the batter or the technique. I guess it's a lil of everything?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a tempura place in Japan serves nothing else but just pure tempura and usually the first course would be sweet shrimp. When the chef was deshelling them right in front of us, those prawns were still moving...even after its head has been detached, its legs were still moving frantically.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">such beautiful <b><span style="color: orange;">shiso </span></b>leaves being dusted with flour.....it takes so much of efforts to dust all of them neatly and evenly this way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WAHHHH such generous dollops of <b><span style="color: orange;">sea urchin!!!!</span></b> yummssss....was already salivating by then....this was the bomb and chef took quite some time to prepare all these lil babies neatly....good things must wait....so one need to have patience and zen-ness for this...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will wait....ohmmm ohmmm ohmmm~~~~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tempura of <b><span style="color: orange;">sweet shrimp heads</span></b>.....yummmmssss can't complain!!! crispy and full of sweetness and brininess of the sea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">Chef Saotome</span></b> is a very detailed person, as he was busy cooking, he was also watching us. Not to get an indication whether we enjoyed his food or not....but he was watching our speed, how fast/slow do we consume these morsels of beautiful tempura...what are we drinking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I could see that he gets slightly a lil bit upset when we went out for a smoke, for it somehow interrupts his rhythm. He will not cook unless everyone is seated. For some of the tempuras have already been rested for our consumption at the right time, right temperature. When Chef served you your piece, it's ready to be eaten. Not too hot nor burns your lips and mouth for he has already carefully drained off any excess oil if there's any and rested it at the optimum temperature.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the process of the sea urchin tempura continues........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you are as beautiful as I imagined you to be 20 minutes ago.....I can't wait to eat ya!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and when I finally did.....oh gawd.....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it was so so so damn good. How did chef managed to fry it to such crisp and yet the sea urchin was still left uncooked, briny, sweet and juicy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS</span></b>!!! I want this kinda food for breakfast!!! like a toast!!! can u innovate something like this??</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the mise-en-place on the table consisted of a jar of freshly grated daikon, served with local soy mirin sauce. Basically you are not to dip your pieces of tempura into any sauces....just some salt will do if u wish. In actual fact u won't even need to salt them, it's just so perfect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So how do you consume these grated daikon? It's meant as a palate refresher and cleaner so u eat them on its own with the soy mirin sauce. Never ever dip your tempura in...it's a SIN!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tempura of <b><span style="color: orange;">Kisu Fish</span></b> or known as the Japanese Whitting. Its flesh were so delicate and sweet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: orange;">Japanese Squid</span></b> was excellent with good texture bcoz it was so fat. I guess only deep sea squid will be this fat bcoz technically the water is cooler and they need more fats to keep warm? hehehehe.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">then we had a really extremely clear soup with shrimp paste balls. Almost like a refreshment it just cleanse our palate before we proceed to more yummy pieces of tempura.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were then presented with a basket of beautiful ingredients, from the highly prized and rare <b><span style="color: orange;">Matsutake</span></b> Pine Mushroom to japanese green peppers, yellow sweet potatoes, ginger flowers, more mushrooms, asparagus and aubergine.<br /><br />The chef then got us to choose only 2 ingredients for us to proceed our meal.<br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey</span></b> <b><span style="color: #e06666;">:(((( WHY??? why only 2? why can't I have everything in that basket???? </span></b><br />this is first world problem man!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">all of us selected the Matsutake mushroom as our 1st choice<br /><b><span style="color: orange;">Matsutake </span></b>is really difficult to find and harvest bcoz it's wild and rare. In the entire of Japan, only less than 1,000 tons of Matsutake are harvested. So my next question would be...is that even enuff to feed just <b><span style="color: blue;">Tokyo </span></b>alone?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Definitely not, so Japan relied heavily on imports from Northern European countries such as Sweden, Finland....North West America, North China and Korea. Prices varies and those imported ones are about USD 90 per kg...while the rare Japanese Matsutake would be about USD 2,000 per kg.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How generous, and each of us got exactly one whole pine mushroom to ourselves!!!! Yipeeeeee. Chef expertly cut only the top, dipped it in his fresh batter and fried the mushrooms to golden brown. Fr the pics, u can see that the top part opened part and absorbed some of the batter, so the texture was pretty crispy there while the middle part was meaty and succulent. Yummmm~~~<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the ever refreshing <b><span style="color: orange;">japanese ginger flowers</span></b>.....look at at he golden batter. U know fr the look of it, it has been carefully fried. Chef made the batter fresh at every batch. It's not like there's an ever ready big tank of batter on the side. He kept mixing them proportionately. Clean the oil in his frying wok after every fry. So much of work!!! but I guess that's the steps u need to adhere to, for perfection!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've forgotten what fish was this but extremely yummy....if only my home cooked chef can prepare this at home :)))))) tee hee hee *hint hint hint* ahem~~~<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next Chef was preparing the eel~~~~~~~<br /><b><span style="color: orange;">EEL~~~~</span></b><br />not euwwwww hhahahahahaha<br /><br />These aren't unagi...it's <b><span style="color: orange;">ANAGO</span></b>. There's a lot of difference between these two.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Unagi = freshwater eel</span></b><br />it's farmed/reared in freshwater. Darker in color, it has got a muddy sandy and bold flavour. That's why all unagi are usually cooked with thick sticky sauce to mask that smell.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: orange;">Anago = saltwater eel</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it's wild and caught from the sea. Lighter in color...it is nothing like unagi. It's like a really yummy sweet fish with a delicate texture.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since words can't describe how yummy <b><span style="color: orange;">Anago </span></b>was....here u go the sequences of pics....to make u drool. Wahahaahahaha....and yes it was our main dish....<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chef carefully placed each piece on our serving plate....before proceeding to slice the Anago into 2 pieces using only his chopstick. That sound!!!! of crispy fish being hacked!!! ohhhhhh~~~~<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look at the white juicy flesh!!!! u drooling yet???<br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">:)))))))))))</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Happy Happy ladies!!! I would be this happy with yummy food, top quality champagnes and good company :)))) aaaaa~~~ we are so so so blessed.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sous chef preparing the rest of our vegetables selections....he skinned the asparagus meticulously at one go, and made cuts like this so it will cooked through.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS: "Monkey u eppy???"</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey: "I think I had too much of sake."</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS -_-"</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in case u were wondering, these were not okras but japanese green peppers. Super yummy!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">Chef Saotome</span></b> bz manning his "control center" with a cute lil hat shaped ventilation hood. When u are cooking openly like this, it's important to maintain cleanliness and organisation. So he was bz cleaning, sipping, picking up pieces as he went about his work.<br /><br />Not to mention, cooking at such a small space!!! that requires a lot of flow and organisation.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: orange;">Hashira Kakiage</span></b><br />is a generous dollop of fried pieces of sweet shrimps and vegetables...you can choose to either have it on top of rice or inside a clear dashi stock. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">either way, it's really yummssss with natural goodness from the sea :))))<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">served with<b><span style="color: orange;"> homemade pickles</span></b> on such a pretty platter<br />if you are into japanese kitchenware tablewares etc....head down to Kappabashi the world's largest wholesale market for kitchenware. MW Maho introduced this place to us and we have visited it at almost every trip. Too many things to buy and not enuff space!!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally miso clam soup~~~~~ so so hearty~~~<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">slurp slurp slurp~~~~<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dessert was simple and zen but believe me, the taste was big. 2 pieces of japanese bean in syrup, flavours was pretty intense for just 2 beans!!!! amazing~~~~~<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stained glass decorated the main wall at the back of the counter, just reminded me of Nagasaki :)))<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the ladies were really happy coz they've got special treatment.....<b><span style="color: red;">Chef Saotome </span></b>gonna draw for us!!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just look at those steady hands of his......and his strokes were soft and graceful like a dance....and yet when required, the pressure was applied on sufficiently....just enough for the drawn shrimp to have more intense strokes - like a backbone....hahahaha</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">this is mine!!!!! :)))) and I've decorated it on my desk at work :)))<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">Chef Saotome </span></b>drew according to our characters and outlooks I guess.....I'm the cheeky and tiny one almost like a <b><span style="color: magenta;">cicadas</span></b>!!!! tiny but noisy :D:D:D:D<br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>agreed that I'm loud.<br /><br />When we were in Provence last Autumn, those cicadas were really loud. As the malay saying goes "Kecil kecil chili padi" tee hee hee. Even my colleagues seemed to agree....small but ferocious. Bahahahaha.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okie sorry...I spoiled the pic coz I moved...<br />One for the memory with <b><span style="color: red;">Chef Saotome</span></b>. He was so sweet to send us out too.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">"Goushisousama deshita!!!!!"</span></b> squealed <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>as they walked out.<br />It means what a feast!!!! *or something like that* basically a compliment to the chef or restaurant.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and bcoz the nite was still young, we walked to an <b><span style="color: orange;">izakaya </span></b>place by some lanes and had more drinks. Woohoooo~~~~ life is good. and had more sticks of grilled yakitoris....LOL yes we can really eat and drink.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and home with my favourite and most efficient transport - the tube...<br />nobody wanna sit with this chili padi....yay I'm the Queen :)))) in her own lil notti world :)))<br /><br /><span style="color: orange;"><b>Mikawa Zezankyo</b><br />1-3-1, Fukuzumi,<br />Koto-ku, Tokyo.<br />Tel: 03.3643.8383<br />*the nearest station would be Monzennakacho*<br />Closed on Wednesday, reservations required.</span></span></div>
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JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00700060229293416103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025184.post-61478943959869126622015-09-25T08:28:00.001+08:002015-09-25T08:28:14.302+08:00Toriki, Shinagawa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the famous <b><span style="color: orange;">yakitori </span></b>shop with the red lantern.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our first nite in <b><span style="color: red;">Tokyo</span></b>....dinner was scheduled at the suburb area in <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Shinagawa</span></b>. Since everyone got there on their own at the stipulated time.....<b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>& <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey</span></b> and decided to be adventurous and took the subway with 2 different connections.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>JS: "Let's take the shinkansen to Shinagawa."</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Monkey: "U gotta be kidding me? that would be less than 3 minutes ride for the kind of money paid.......anyway the shinkansen station is very very far from the yakitori place."</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">after catching the city metro to the end of the line, we hopped into another rail service and arrived at a tiny stop called Hatanaodai...got off....flipped open our phone and checked bearing...okie right behind <b><span style="color: red;">KFC</span></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>rolled his eyes and said: <b><span style="color: #38761d;">"How befitting...a yakitori *grilled chicken* near to KFC....this is a chicken town!!!!"</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Monkey: "Calm down JS, I am sure there's other things for u to eat."</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but I was wrong....<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we arrived...the rest of the gang were ady dunking in appetizers and dousing sake merrily celebrating LIFE <b><span style="color: #e06666;">:))))</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">J&J James</span></b> came out to get us into this lil tuck shop and we were greeted with <b><span style="color: orange;">chef-owner Kunio Aihara</span></b> holding up his chicken proudly!!!! It ain't no free range bird here. To keep the prices low, chef managed to source good quality young chicken fr his trusted bird farmers. *do u call them bird farmers??*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Appetizer of <b><span style="color: orange;">nato </span></b>and raw egg yolk with freshly cut japanese leeks. I'm not a fan of nato bcoz of its flavour and texture but the guys said this was good.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the famous dish here is the<b><span style="color: orange;"> grilled chicken drumstick.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chef doesn't pre-prepare his meat by skewering them into sticks - oh well most of the time....instead he will just kept on dissecting whole bird right in front of you into parts and lay them onto the electric griller right smack in front of it. Instead of using charcoal griller, his electric version still produce yummylicious chicken. Well that explains why there isn't much smoke inside this tuck shop!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There were also some parts grilled and served on its skewer<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have no idea which part of the chicken innards are these :P just slightly salted with sea salt.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We ordered a homemade toufu for <b><span style="color: #38761d;">Mr. JS </span></b>:P<br />It was seriously good, just drizzle with some soy sauce<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More innards....I think the intestines or stomach part of the chicken?<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my favourite gotta be the<b><span style="color: orange;"> chicken skin</span></b> :D:D:D</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">House salad was refreshing and crunchy - with slices of chicken as well. Poor <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span><span style="color: #e06666;">>.<</span></b><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so plates after plates of food just kept arriving and we drank <b><span style="color: red;">13 bottles of sake </span></b>:P<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">God of Eatery aka GOE</span></b> and <b><span style="color: blue;">Yiks </span></b>who just landed from Hokkaido....describing the excitement and torturous time they had in their cycling expedition. I think they mistakenly joined the professional expedition, it sounded really tough.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">another house speciality of<b><span style="color: orange;"> Chef Aihara</span></b> was this lightly seared on the outside and raw on the inside chicken meat. I've eaten raw chicken sashimi before but this time around, Monkey didn't take the risk for she's about to climb mount Fuji in a few days time!!!<br /><br />Apparently in <b><span style="color: red;">Japan</span></b>, there's more ppl that died from raw chicken due to salmonella than from eating fugu. Shocking statistics hmmm?<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey: "JS this is so so so yummy!!!"</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS: "-_-" yesssss I can see that........"</span></b><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Joanna </span></b>decided that she's much more kawaii after all the sake!!!! while <b><span style="color: #990000;">GOE </span></b>looked drained from all the days of cycling, all 472km in Hokkaido...LOL...and it was kinda uphill workout due to the mountainous terrain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While <b><span style="color: orange;">Chili and Champagne King</span></b> looked so casual and chillax, prollie ain't enuff of cycling for he cycles to work everyday anyway.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">GOE: "I wanna go home and see my baby."</span></b><br /><br />GOE is now a man-tai, and took a year off sabbatical to chill and enjoy life. This is the way to go man. So more cycling adventures coming ur way :))))<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Mr. J&J James</span></b> was planning how to get up to <b><span style="color: red;">Mount Fuji </span></b>after all the cycling. I have no idea how did this mean machine do it but HE DID and conquered Mount Fuji a few days after that. Oh the 3 of us did it bcoz of him so he was the man behind our mountain expedition.<br /><br />I remembered, halfway through the climb, he asked <b><span style="color: #a64d79;">J&J Jelina</span></b> many many times....<b><span style="color: #674ea7;">"Why are we doing this?"</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey >.<"</span></b> self inflicted torture!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Joanna </span></b>enjoying her yummy finger lickin good chicken wings, while listening to all of their Hokkaido stories. Yea I must admit it was such a lovely dinner in the company of good friends, good adventures stories, great food and extremely smooth sake!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">Japanese </span></b>have learnt to work in such a small space. Hence organisation and work flow is truly important. Underneath the chopping board were chilling unit where chef stored all his whole chicken, which he will dissect on his wooden chopping board, before placing them onto the electric grilled next to him, Behind him were pots and pots of chicken stocks boiling for the welcome soup. It was yummzzzz.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After dinner, the guys pushed their luggage outta the tiny space. For they are heading straight to the airport to catch their flight home...so from 8 of us....it's now down to 6 to continue our food adventure in <b><span style="color: red;">Tokyo</span></b>.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One pic for remembrance fr the iPhone. Amazing great no fuss yakitoris. If you don't mind the journey out of city to the suburb area this is kinda hole in the wall place. <b><span style="color: orange;">Chef Aihara</span></b> has put himself on the map....especially when Anthony Bourdain came for a visit and it was also shown in "No Reservations"<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and poor <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>with nothing to eat, coz everything was served, there's no other grill meat at Toriki apart from chicken. So Monkey brought him to our favourite burger joint - <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Freshness Burger</span></b> for his dinner and me more beer and onion rings time. They even have a snacks set menu of beer with chips, onion rings, fried cheese etc. Yums yums<br /><br />His burger looked really good too.....I was so tempted to take a bite but didn't wanna steal a hungry man's food....for a hungry man is an angry man u know?<br /><br /><span style="color: orange;"><b>Toriki</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3-11-13 Hatanodai,<br />Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo,<br />Japan.<br /><b>Tel: 03.3785.8472</b><br />Closed: Sundays, Mondays and Public Holidays<br />from 5pm till midnite</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The lil mansion/house of the famed <b><span style="color: red;">Hashida Sushi</span></b><br /><br />When we touched down in <b><span style="color: blue;">Narita </span></b>that wet rainy morning, it was really early.....like 7am in the morning. Yawn yawn yawn and <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>hugging her tummy happily after her nasi lemak and teh tarik onboard Malaysia Airlines....<b><span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;">*now will be known as Malaysia Airlines Berhad*</span></b><br /><br />So for the first time we took a bus to downtown <b><span style="color: red;">Ginza </span></b>all thanks to <b><span style="color: #674ea7;">J&J Jelina </span></b>who taught us how to stretch our dollar <span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-small;"><b>*in this case Japanese Yen*</b></span>.....she was in horror when she found out that we have been taxi-ing our way from airport to hotels all these years....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey grinned : "Pls don't look at me...it's my overly pampered housemate whom must be chauffered around."</span></b><br /><br />The bus service was not only super duper cheap and efficient...but extremely clean!!! but most of all....there's a porter who will tag all your luggage bag before giving you your tag copy...and he will load all of it underneath the bus's storage. When u arrive at ur destination, just surrender ur tag and he will unload all ur bags again.....so basically this is as good as a cab!!!!<br /><br />Thanks to <b><span style="color: #674ea7;">J&J Jelina</span></b> we can have more pieces of premium sushi. WAHAHAHAHAHA. Savings on transport will surely go to food and wines.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So after checking into <b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Peninsula </span></b>and them into <b><span style="color: orange;">Mandarin Oriental</span></b>...the 4 of us congregated at <b><span style="color: red;">Tsukiji </span></b>market, thinking of slurping down some bowls of noodles or beef rice. But the queue and the influx of PRC tourists....oh my gawd....why is there so many of them?<br /><br />True enuff, the ladies agreed let's shoot over to <b><span style="color: red;">Hashida Sushi!!!!</span></b> and we were so eppy that <b><span style="color: #38761d;">Mr. JS</span></b> allowed that to happen for he's a man who will stick by schedule. Afterall we were already at Tsukiji why not Tsukiji??? anyway Hashida sushi is just nearby, we can alwiz come back to show for his cooking ingredients. Definitely not for food for now, as the food quality no doubt is good here at the market, but there won't be any ambience to enjoy everything in a rush plus <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>hates to queue!!! He gets priority lane all the time from banking to customer service and even immigrations. So how do u make a man like that to queue???<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We arrived really really early and Hashida Sushi won't be open till 11.30am....the four of us stood outside at 10.30am staring at each other if we should start queue-ing up!!!! LOL Singaporeans and Msians love to queue up!!! but we definitely can't beat the Japanese in this. They are the Master!!! the Sensei for the Art of calm and zen undisrupted queue-ing technique. <b><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: x-small;">*haiyeak karate chop chop chop*</span></b><br /><br />Since they don't take reservations for lunch so it's kinda first come first served basis. We then decided to explore the neighbourhood.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes I have to agree, <b><span style="color: red;">women </span></b>lurve shopping.....they won't let the one and only stall that was opened for business at that hour off. But summer fruits such as peaches were all looking good and irresistible and so we bought some.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #e06666;">"JS can we have some cute bear buns???"</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS: "No....don't spoil ur appetite."</span></b><br /><br />"<b><span style="color: #e06666;">But....but...it's an hour away and I am hungry~~~~~"</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS: "No. and that's final."</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey :(((((</span></b><br />Sayonara Bear Bun....<b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>read me too well. I wasn't hungry. I just wanna have a bite of something as adorable as u. And he knew that after one bite, I will pass u back to him, and he will end up finish u up. This hungry trick doesn't work anymore, I gotta think of something new soon.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It started to drizzle again and after 40 minutes, the ladies said we should all get back to the restaurant!!!! and Joanna was carrying her <b><span style="color: orange;">Hermes </span></b>bag...I would have wrapped it with plastic bag!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">J</span><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">&J Jelina,</span> </b><span style="color: #e06666; font-weight: bold;">Monkey </span>and <span style="color: #a64d79; font-weight: bold;">Joanna</span><br /><br />U must be wondering wat happened to the rest of the group? They were still cycling in Hokkaido.<br /><br />When we arrived, there's another 15 more minutes to opening....seeing that it's drizzling the owner opened the door for us to be seated inside. Woohoooo~~~~~<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">Master Sushi Chef Tokio Hashida</span></b>....Hatch's beloved daddy. If u are familiar with Kenjiro Hashida who helmed Hashida sushi in Singapore...this is his dad whom he has apprenticed with.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so good to see the old man, whom was hospitalised just a few weeks earlier. But he's now all back at work looking serious as alwiz!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">our brunch of awesome <b><span style="color: orange;">sushi</span></b>.....as fresh as u could get when the restaurant has got such good supplier whom supplied the best cuts to the restaurant.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the cuts are really thick with not too much of vinaigrette rice. U don't wanna fill ur stomach with too much of rice. Sushis has got many school of thoughts in Japan, here it's the Tokyo style with no sauce on top - unlike Osakan, they lurve their sweet sauce on top of every piece of sushi.<br /><br />Not a matter of which is more superior, but of preference. Just how do u like ur sushi :)))</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Me want more toro and toro maki here u come...come to momma!!!!<br />I'm a simple gal :))) I lurve it simple and not extremely fancy...but then sometimes I like my food fancy. How contradicting <b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-small;">*JS rolled his eyes*</span></b><br /><br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS: "U r definitely not simple ok?"</span></b><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey: "Yes JS u have got good taste, that's why u chose me!!!!"</span><br />further eyes rolling action by <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS</span></b><br /><br /><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey: "If u continue to do that, it's gonna get stucked in that eye sockets of yours."</span><br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS GAH!!! "This woman is impossible!!!"</span></b><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the best part of <b><span style="color: orange;">abalone </span></b>- which also happened to be the ugliest. Its prized liver for that bitterness.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">paired really well with <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Sake</span></b>. I can't remember how many bottles we had :P<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>called this <b><span style="color: orange;">"Death by Uni"!!!</span></b><br />The boys called it the <b><span style="color: red;">Uni Tower!!!</span></b><br />Wah can I just skip the prawn and tamago and have 3 pieces of Uni Tower?<br /><br />tee hee hee<br /><br />Then we were handed a mobile phone by the daughter of Master Sushi chef. it was Hatch/Chef Kenjiro Hashida all the way from Singapore. He was surprised that we were in Tokyo and did not notify him, for he could have arranged some form of "reservation" at his daddy's restaurant. :)))))<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">oh yums....<br />the style of sushi here is really rustic and authentic. If u are looking for something modern then please go somewhere else. Even the long wooden counter was shipped here all the way from Hokkaido for the <b><span style="color: red;">Hashida </span></b>family has their roots back in Hokkaido.<br /><br />No menu here, just go omakase or special for the day. Soon as we were stuffing and popping pieces of sushi into our mouth, by 12pm there were no more seats and already a queue formed outside. The crowd here is really locals for it's such a hole in the wall!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look at all the eppy eppy faces after our first meal fix. Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh<br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><br />JS: "Ok now no more taxi, all walk to Tsukiji Market with me to burn off those calories."</span></b><br />The ladies <b><span style="color: #a64d79;">-__-"</span></b><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We crossed over the steel bridge and <b><span style="color: blue;">Tsukiji </span></b>market can be seen on the right side. This is the dock where ships come and go...loading and unloading million tonnes of tuna and freshly caught produce from the sea.<br /><br />despite the numerous visits to Tsukiji market, one can never get bored...<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the famous and yet dangerous vehicle moving boxes and crates of fish around. These drivers are ferocious and they hate tourists so please stay away from them for we were regarded as obstacles and put their productivity 30% lower as they beep beep their way through the market in this.<br /><br />Read bout our previous visit to <b><span style="color: red;">Hashida </span></b>Sushi <a href="http://cher-ry.blogspot.my/2014/06/hashida-sushi-tokyo.html">*here*</a><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: orange; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Hashida Sushi</b><br />3-8-11, Kachidoki, Chuo-ku,<br />Tokyo, Japan.<br /><b>Tel: +81 3 3533 0341</b></span><br /></span>JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00700060229293416103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025184.post-23648395158062124302015-09-08T22:45:00.002+08:002015-09-08T22:45:23.390+08:00Conquering Fuji-san<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We arrived at <b><span style="color: blue;">Lake Kawaguchi</span></b> or known in Japanese as <b><span style="color: blue;">Kawaguchiko </span></b>late afternoon.....right after some heavy exercise of....of...errr...shopping at <b><span style="color: red;">Gotenba Premium Outlet</span></b> about 20 minutes from here. Well strong muscles are needed to dash from shops to shops, trying on shoes and clothings....but most of all, all energy were spent carrying our purchases <b><span style="color: #e06666;">:))))</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since <b><span style="color: #674ea7;">J&J James</span></b> was driving, so can shop as much as u want without consideration of space and lugging them around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the Sun sets on <b><span style="color: blue;">Lake Kawaguchi</span></b>, all fingers *and toes* were crossed for a better day tomorrow as it was D Day for our <b><span style="color: red;">Mount Fuji</span></b> ascent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The team consisted of <span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>J&J James and Jelina,</b></span> and <b><span style="color: #38761d;">Mr. JS</span></b>....they have planned and did groundwork plus preparing for this expedition. Including shopping for the right gears, getting into the right diet plan, consultations with Sports & Lifestyle Doctor <b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;">*our dearie Doc Chook*</span></b> and most importantly....they have been training for 3 months. Not just any simple training but really solid one. From cardio to strength building, endurance and positive mind. <b><span style="color: #674ea7;">J&J Jelina</span></b> even lost 9kg along the way!!!! <b><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: x-small;">*clap clap clap and double applause*</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>was still busy yaya-ing in her own lil world, at work, in social life or just goofing around. Everyone was so worried for her. Friends were even more worried.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>even declared he's training his body for two, just in case he needed to carry me and my bag up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So during Sundown, with <b><span style="color: red;">Mount Fuji </span></b>standing majestically right in front of us, it just dawn on <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Miss lil notti Monkey</span></b>....that there's no turning back now...there's only one way up. And to get down u still have to get all the way up to a certain station before u could make ur way down the mountain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think the word Gah is just not enuff...it should be a <b><span style="color: #e06666;">BIG GAH!!!!</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stay positive!!!! enjoy it and smell the roses....in this case these beautiful flowers by the lake side.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>~_~ *shivered*</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>and his top favourite statement <b><span style="color: #38761d;">"SEE!!! I told u so!!!"</span></b> *to train 3 months ago*."<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was so nervous, couldn't eat well, but I sure slept like a pig hahahahaha. This isn't good bcoz my anxiety began to spread like virus to the expedition group....the rest began to feel anxious too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OMG!!! this weather is not good!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hey....looks like storm clouds on the peak!! <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>pointed that Mount Fuji is wearing a nice hat!!! or something like an UFO flying over Mount fuji hahahaha<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lurve this pic taken by <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS</span></b>...of a lone fisherman on the lake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>in her showercap.....soaking in onsen. Don't u think our room has such a stunning view? Both the lake and the Mountain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know my dear readers...u felt like smacking me on the face right? At this juncture with 2 more hours to the climb, she still have the nerve to soak in the hot spring onsen<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>was even more <b><span style="color: #38761d;">-_-" tsk tsk...this gal~~~~beyond help already</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh well, watever it is...there's no turning back and we will do it and make it to the top nevertheless <b><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: x-small;">*I was really praying hard that I will make it*</span></b> In fact I wasn't really soaking in relaxation, I was meditating and "speaking" to the sacred Mountain. Here I am...<br /><br />.all humbled and naked, looking up at you.....I pray to you to let me ascend you with no casualty. Yes it's my fault for not training but please let me make it. I will pay the price later, just let me make it to the summit. Amen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We drove in silence to the 5th station, with <b><span style="color: #674ea7;">J&J James</span></b> visualizing that he's cycling at each bend with slope ratio of 4-6%. This man just joined us a few days earlier after cycling nearly 500km in <b><span style="color: orange;">Hokkaido</span></b>.....I don't know how he did it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a pleasant drive, but we could already feel the pressure building on our ears as we approached 2,300 metres / 7,500 feet above sea level. We did pop a pill each this morning during breakfast - altitude sickness pills that is~~~~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All ready guys????? As final checks and preparations has been done, there's really no turning back now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Go and pray at <b><span style="color: red;">Komitake Shrine</span></b> first....hehehehe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">this lil shrine is just behind those shops at the 5th Station. We started our climb at the popular Yoshida Trail. There are about 4 trails that you can choose to ascend but <b><span style="color: orange;">Yoshida </span></b>has theh most facilities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It takes between 5-7 hours by this trail to reach the summit depending on fitness level and speed. I guess it's all mental strength for that fateful day bcoz the weather was just so terrible. <b><span style="color: red;">Mount Fuji </span></b>is only open for climb in those 2 months between mid July to mid Sept. The peak season would be during August. Any time off climbing season, you would be on your own, as all mountain huts are closed and of coz climb at ur own risk with the heavy snow and freezing temperature.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The main entry point for <b><span style="color: orange;">Yoshida </span></b>trail. We were still looking happy, full of energy and jovial.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">U can also choose to hire a horse to take you from 5th station to 6th station. Seriously 5th to 6th station was nothing....it was child's play...so <b><span style="color: magenta;">horsie </span></b>u are not needed. Arigato!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okie...I just wanna make it up there only....doesn't matter how long it takes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At this level, we could still see vegetations and some small trees and plants. It was very windy though, that lent the chill factor despite the sun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One more last shot before we are gonna climb at our own speed. So all 4 of us climbed separately. Take care my dear friends....don't wait for me for I am gonna eat your dust as u beep beep ur way through....esp<b><span style="color: #38761d;"> Mr. JS</span></b> <b><span style="color: #e06666;">-_-"</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He thinks I m gonna chicken out and u-turn back, but <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>gonna show him she can do it. Little did she know, he was always up there looking down to check on a tiny dot in her bright fuchsia hat weaving her way through up there. There's a reason for him to chose this bright colored hat. Well next time u might as well dressed me in fluorescent orange...that would be stunning!!! I could double up as safety cones for the other climbers. Wuahahahaha</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There were also local japanese taking a leisure hike around here. *with their best friend doggie*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">J&J James</span></b> leading the ladies, while <b><span style="color: #38761d;">Mr. JS</span></b> was bz capturing all these moments :))))</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking at the terrain from 5th to 6th station, it's a mixture of lava rocks and more rocky sands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As usual and expected, <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>was the last....weaving her way through and enjoying the view.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"We are above the clouds!!!!"</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those boxes were not meant to plant beautiful flowers but as retaining walls for the corrosive sandy pavement of lava sand. I found it easier to walk on the slope instead of taking the steps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Very soon, the weather changed as we were in between the misty clouds. Visibility was low....it was drizzling, gust of winds almost blew me off....I was holding onto the railing and my climbing sticks. Seen here<b><span style="color: #674ea7;"> J&J James</span></b> was steady as usual. <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>even steadier with his camera. Wahahahaha I don't know how one can lug their own bag plus a camera up here...it's just so heavy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from sandy lava route, it changed to rocky lava pavement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OMG!!!!</span><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>J&J Jelina: "How to climb this???"</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">well u just need to decide which rock at which height suits u can u just scale up. Like a <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey</span></b>. If u are stucked, just go a step lower and try a different rock again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's tough work I know.....so a good climbing shoes is a must. Most importantly it must protect u from slipping and cover your feet all the way up to your ankles so u won't accidentally sprain it. Especially with narrow creaks in between those lava rocks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">J&J Jelina</span></b> all smiles as she declared that we have arrived at the 7th station!!!! Woohoooooo~~~~~</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">there are 10th stations all together to the summit. The most difficult and longest would be between 7th to 8th stations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I made it~~~~~~ 7th station here I come!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Multiple mountain huts are available for rent to rest and to sleep overnight. They also sell food with toilet facilities. Each toilet visit cost about 200 yen so be prepared with lotsa coins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We took a short rest here, with some power packed gel food. I was told that gel food are yucky but I guess it depends on which flavours u bought. We have got grapes and green apple flavours. At this juncture I couldn't really care bout flavours, just needed instant energy. Can't be lugging huge and heavy items plus this is the most efficient food as u also need to carry all your own rubbish down. There's no waste basket nor rubbish dump here. Sorry!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's so wet and steep....somebody pls mark out the route for me...which way should I go?? Left or right?? either way, both ain't looking good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <b><span style="color: orange;">Sun </span></b>was shining on the other side...pls come to us...we are cold!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">towards the 8th station, <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey's </span></b>fuchsia hat flew off to the cliff.....<br /><br />a Hongkie guy with his gf were trailing behind me and insisted we must picked it up. In chinese customs, it's not good to leave any belongings behind especially at this sacred mountain. So he took the risk and climbed outta the normal route slowly with nothing protecting him left or right, no railings. <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>pleaded to him, please come back, don't bother bout my silly hat....come back!!!<br /><br />He slowly eased his way down the steep slope and retrieved my silly hat despite the strong gusty wind. I was almost in tears. After thanking him and his gf, they continued their climb with such vigorous limbs. Oh well young ppl in their early 20s are definitely faster and stronger. So in life, do watever u wanna do while you are able to. Don't wait!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and we have arrived at the 8th station with <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>catching her breathe....bee boo bee boo bee boo.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">J&J James and Jelina</span></b> managed to smile as though it was nothing. While <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>said he has waited long enuff for us and he will continue his climb leaving us behind again to eat his dust.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">YAYYYYYY!!! We have reached the 8th station!!!!! at 3,100 metres above sea level!!! Somebody was inside the hut, staring at us....hahahaha.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">lunch break after almost 3 hours climb of <b><span style="color: orange;">pork pao</span></b> which we bought at the 5th station. Oh this was definitely much yummier than gel food but because of the altitude, one tends to lose appetite. U can't really have much senses of taste at such altitude.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nobody told me that there's 8th station then the original 8th station and finally the 8.5 station...<br />Why is the 8th mark so so so so long?????<br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">GAH!!!!!!</span></b><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">conditions got from worse to worst. The rain got heavier...the wind was the killer. We heard that a few hikers got blown away from the strong wind the week before. Gulped.<br /><br />When the strong gust of wind blew, <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>just held onto the railing ropes to her might for fear of falling or being blown while the other hand was clutching her hiking sticks tightly, which was again mounted strongly in between those rocks. Never before in my life that I cling on like this. Not even in roller coaster rides for I know there's safety belts.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our accommodation of the nite is at <b><span style="color: orange;">Goraiko-kan</span></b> situated at the 8.5 station, the very last and highest lodge on <b><span style="color: red;">Mount Fuji</span></b>. While there's another 900metres to the summit.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>didn't event know she has arrived at the reserved lodge until <b><span style="color: #674ea7;">J&J Jelina </span></b>open the door and hailed down her hands to stop me from continuing on my journey.<br /><br />we have arrived? this is our lodge? but it's only been a 4 hours hike?? We have arrived??!?!?!???!!? Wow that was really fast. I swear there's sufficient energy to hike up the summit but nvm, I was wet and shivering from the freezing cold, strong wind and rain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we arrived at the 8.5 station it was only 2.20pm<br />Both <b style="color: #674ea7;">J&J </b>agreed if not for the weather, we should have all gone straight to the summit and come down again to sleep at this lodge for the nite.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">after changing to dry clothing, we were all gathered at the irori<br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">aaaAAAAaaa </span></b>the comfort of heat!!!!! so the entire afternoon were spent discussing about our hike while deep inside we were all damn worried about the weather for tomorrow's ascent!!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at 5pm sharp.....dinner was served!!!<br />Saba fish in some sweet japanese sauce, pipping hot rice, pickles and a simple salad. It weren't enuff....<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">J&J Jelina</span></b> couldn't bring herself to eat too so in the end both of us ordered pipping hot udon noodles to supplement :P and not to mention my supplies of chinese dried bbq meat. WAHAHAHAHAHAHA. If I have brought more, I swear I can make big business selling them to other climbers :P<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">after dinner all of us tried to sleep in this bunker that's as long as the <b><span style="color: orange;">Sarawak Long Houses</span></b>, shared with like another 60 climbers.....oh trust me this would be the best accommodation in the mountain. There was no heating, all of us were in cold...there were sand on the mattress, the pillow was hard<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">T_T</span></b><br />oh my gawd.....why are we doin this?<br /><br />I couldn't sleep the whole nite....all I heard was the strong gust of wind outside.<br />While <b><span style="color: #674ea7;">J&J Jelina</span></b> was so worried that the strong wind may blow away our roof and we will all be wet again from the rain...<br /><br />I prayed so hard...please stop raining....please.......<br />at about 1.30am the rain eventually stopped. We had to wake up by 3am to continue our ascend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>came out to use the toilet and saw this view...<br />WOW~~~~~ I felt like I'm in an airplane!!! we were so high!!!! I can see <b><span style="color: red;">Tokyo </span></b>from here, far at the horizon!!!!!!!<br /><br />Again the early morning chill sent me quickly to the toilet and back to the lodge. Why do they have to build the toilets outside and not inside the lodge??? BRRRRrrrrrrRRR~~~~~<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and we continue our ascend again separately....trying to catch the sun rise. The team got to the summit in less than 45 minutes....normal time would be at least one hour minimum so I tell you the 3 of them are really super fit human beings that I ever known.<br /><br />While <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>was puking at every 100 metres, sat on the cold stone, trying to recover as altitude sickness kicked in real hard. Despite all the pills I've been popping.<br /><br />first to come out were my apple juice....then my energy bars....before my bile expelled itself.........oh gross....as other climbers stopped and tried to help me. The only way to cure altitude sickness is to get down immediately before u suffer even more from it....symptoms were short breathing, brain swelling that caused terrible headaches that never go away, nausea and in worst case would be vomiting.....which eventually I did.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>told herself not to cry....she has come this far.....one can only move up and on...don't give up. It's all in the mind....trust me my head was so in pain then. I seriously wanted to cry, give up and charter a helicopter to get down.<br /><br />but I didn't, I pulled a hand brake on my tears...mount my hiking stick into the rocks, tried to steady myself up...take many many short inhales and controlled my breathing, stood up and continued on, in pain.....much pain. I was truly unfit and not prepared for this climb.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when I saw the final <b><span style="color: red;">Tori</span></b>.....I knew I have reached the summit!!!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I looked back and said to myself.....just in time for sunrise at 4.30am. It's so beautiful~~~~~<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">more climbers were huffing and puffing their way and shouted <b><span style="color: red;">Banzai</span></b>!!!! I guess it means long life in Japanese???<br /><br />then I ran to the nearest lodge and puke again.....my final puke. <b><span style="color: #e06666;">LOL</span></b>!!!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>J&J James: "congratulations, we have made it. unbelievable."</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />There were a few lodges for climbers to rest and to buy food. We got our hot coffee there. When they saw monkey in the palest pantone color ever, <b><span style="color: #674ea7;">J&J Jelina </span></b>reached out for her oxygen tank for <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey</span></b>.<br /><br />soon the souns of<b><span style="color: red;"> Darth Vader</span></b> breathing through the tank was heard...<br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><b>"coooooooo uhhh....cooooooo uhhh.....coooooooo uhhh"</b></span><br /><br />I soooo wanted to luff at myself LOL!!!!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes we made it!!!!!<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS: "I am so proud of u!!!"</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey -_-</span></b><br />actually I am proud of myself too. Tee hee hee<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH545tRrEvv-Pxnz9gB72ZdWasNfNHnqyWrmSBhxLj8r7i32cu-T2MT0fhv8REDT9Jr9agJr_esXnrl5iB6eT_JMuDSpxDEGVMSoQ5ZvtrIvjyx6jw40pRGrClyIFhykF6XKUJiA/s1600/fujisan-68.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH545tRrEvv-Pxnz9gB72ZdWasNfNHnqyWrmSBhxLj8r7i32cu-T2MT0fhv8REDT9Jr9agJr_esXnrl5iB6eT_JMuDSpxDEGVMSoQ5ZvtrIvjyx6jw40pRGrClyIFhykF6XKUJiA/s640/fujisan-68.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />We would love to walk around the crater of <b><span style="color: red;">Mount Fuji</span></b> but it was just too too freaking cold.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieKdoHSBy-SJqFooBNPvFF_u92MsmeMup8Qc7KQJ6uKo4da8uJZve_UuEtBZNEAxzw0vhSuWOB4N7EtRANorst1Zui6mGGm8yNQ4Na0lhevVS7laS5mlHZiFMxWVQnbdiN5ApfzQ/s1600/fujisan-67.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieKdoHSBy-SJqFooBNPvFF_u92MsmeMup8Qc7KQJ6uKo4da8uJZve_UuEtBZNEAxzw0vhSuWOB4N7EtRANorst1Zui6mGGm8yNQ4Na0lhevVS7laS5mlHZiFMxWVQnbdiN5ApfzQ/s640/fujisan-67.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />for water to freeze it definitely has to be below zero degrees.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlRNzz3Gxk9GwAWONHHkwZ-tmeou3K5KwF42HZByTYGhn4KIWplhzrR5kTaLiq2cqJmTXzfzqseEHySQTilRQNfNIDWFtTg2CsL-tsojsKDpdrERG_dF8r4sPqu_AKhnAyuLTEYQ/s1600/fujisan-69.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlRNzz3Gxk9GwAWONHHkwZ-tmeou3K5KwF42HZByTYGhn4KIWplhzrR5kTaLiq2cqJmTXzfzqseEHySQTilRQNfNIDWFtTg2CsL-tsojsKDpdrERG_dF8r4sPqu_AKhnAyuLTEYQ/s640/fujisan-69.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>tailing close behind <b><span style="color: #674ea7;">J&J Jelina</span></b> to avoid the wind but to no avail.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW9HJZ7QX-UTkndHr-lnDTiu6gKds16C6fUZNHkWuBndTMOoEloxV9MEhTXnVTd8bJAYyT3CdrMz7KW0-CLm3CwrvrbpB2esW7RU7BP0t5-DwtndWFMVGmxndfnxCRHhT3TdE7RQ/s1600/fujisan-70.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW9HJZ7QX-UTkndHr-lnDTiu6gKds16C6fUZNHkWuBndTMOoEloxV9MEhTXnVTd8bJAYyT3CdrMz7KW0-CLm3CwrvrbpB2esW7RU7BP0t5-DwtndWFMVGmxndfnxCRHhT3TdE7RQ/s640/fujisan-70.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />Hee haa Hee haa time to go down now....it felt like we were in planet mars....<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcOhXwsAIY1zQeoMzQzJ1sGZCf6oHVS-hbuMAGk6x-fn5giQ6PkCKxKVNI4_vwMjLEngTsuOunTml3CO5Gy3wIC5bx2BxpRVjAKrjTDYVJW6q99EvH0KyRNIM93IsG57N9BJlV_g/s1600/fujisan-71.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcOhXwsAIY1zQeoMzQzJ1sGZCf6oHVS-hbuMAGk6x-fn5giQ6PkCKxKVNI4_vwMjLEngTsuOunTml3CO5Gy3wIC5bx2BxpRVjAKrjTDYVJW6q99EvH0KyRNIM93IsG57N9BJlV_g/s640/fujisan-71.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS4EqLN3BS1He6-Yjs62RHwYHMcECqqo3nVr8cQIvfxErLwc7Ax_TwNISc9ojBBsnWMtjfem0O6ck-jAuuug5Yhcqfb_N8HrFLtiLz05DtZpa_DKQHbX9LTYXXfB3fFur9aJ69cw/s1600/fujisan-72.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS4EqLN3BS1He6-Yjs62RHwYHMcECqqo3nVr8cQIvfxErLwc7Ax_TwNISc9ojBBsnWMtjfem0O6ck-jAuuug5Yhcqfb_N8HrFLtiLz05DtZpa_DKQHbX9LTYXXfB3fFur9aJ69cw/s640/fujisan-72.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDY2aBaeL17TniYyEqrOMzP-OUZx1DePpYbwkFCloG2OqS2OidHRl_jC61Vqk2moEFWC3m3-90hnrqBIgQRqZ8rrGMfETNf5y_g4REn4rVMdB8xMWLE-gD5kuuzNhyqdax55vXsw/s1600/fujisan-73.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDY2aBaeL17TniYyEqrOMzP-OUZx1DePpYbwkFCloG2OqS2OidHRl_jC61Vqk2moEFWC3m3-90hnrqBIgQRqZ8rrGMfETNf5y_g4REn4rVMdB8xMWLE-gD5kuuzNhyqdax55vXsw/s640/fujisan-73.jpg" width="640" /></a></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">goin down was more difficult than climbing up for all 4 of us.....there's a lot of strain on the hip joint and knee with the constant "braking" to avoid rolling down. I guess the photos didn't really do justice to the steepness....it doesn't even look steep here!!!!!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFoDU9Dh2qAAJnxBGmcR7q3U0rpjpOBvdeOHOShnxhQb-iTxIjhQhLV99Dj4BCmOfiCI5mU3-RWoaX_VRzGS3IUnb2TFUj11d1dvAVSmZ8CzS75KM8hyphenhyphenP8DDH9QlFM9SV5LoZMpQ/s1600/fujisan-77.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFoDU9Dh2qAAJnxBGmcR7q3U0rpjpOBvdeOHOShnxhQb-iTxIjhQhLV99Dj4BCmOfiCI5mU3-RWoaX_VRzGS3IUnb2TFUj11d1dvAVSmZ8CzS75KM8hyphenhyphenP8DDH9QlFM9SV5LoZMpQ/s640/fujisan-77.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />the <b><span style="color: red;">Sun </span></b>was still trying to penetrate through the thick clouds....<b><span style="color: orange;">SUN </span></b>we need you...please come out and heat our bodies!!!!<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and there's <b><span style="color: blue;">Lake Yamanako</span></b><br />Wished we could just roll all the way down, but we had to zig zag our way down.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYgMFKX1_5lzuLWapl6kLHcoE4AAw1pxS7i_ODlKyqTx7UoHOUUj8s88jSx-3CbnR9Et_NjutFxzPiP1fxzGvE_vNFMot_d7zVmq-rHdYR_izjneAS7wt8y1Zp22noj1vjWGwfbA/s1600/fujisan-80.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYgMFKX1_5lzuLWapl6kLHcoE4AAw1pxS7i_ODlKyqTx7UoHOUUj8s88jSx-3CbnR9Et_NjutFxzPiP1fxzGvE_vNFMot_d7zVmq-rHdYR_izjneAS7wt8y1Zp22noj1vjWGwfbA/s640/fujisan-80.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">now we are talking....this photo really did showed how steep it was.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK-CaNbwo4MTF5RWT_R6niOQXHR2Gh9BHiRhKeHn5xL_Qzm8_1YU2xec54T53skF-RSib3XQCmoGhVIwRER8wvEqnQkAlek3_5U8HTrrLUwzwkt2BqTwhZ1ga9H3tjbhiptY_Q9g/s1600/fujisan-81.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK-CaNbwo4MTF5RWT_R6niOQXHR2Gh9BHiRhKeHn5xL_Qzm8_1YU2xec54T53skF-RSib3XQCmoGhVIwRER8wvEqnQkAlek3_5U8HTrrLUwzwkt2BqTwhZ1ga9H3tjbhiptY_Q9g/s640/fujisan-81.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />The rest of the team waited in boredom for <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>at one of the toilet pit stops.<br /><br />Where is <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey</span></b>???<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">after 30 minutes wait for <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>and 10 minutes wait for <b><span style="color: #674ea7;">J&J</span></b>.....there she is!!!!<br /><br />She has gotten so drunk and confused, she even walking zig zagging on the pavement. But hey I learnt this from other climbers, this should be the best way to avoid knee injury, u just zig zag ur way down like a drunkard on the straight road.<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">after 3 hours of descend.....<b><span style="color: #e06666;">OMG </span></b>I couldn't feel my feet anymore!!! and my calves!!! and my thighs!!! but most of all my hip joints were in such pain...what is this????<br /><br />then I saw my knight in shining armour waiting for me next to the <b><span style="color: orange;">horsie </span><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: x-small;">*which I took pic with the day before*</span></b> LOL!!!! how befitting.....<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>hugged me and said that he's really proud of me before <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>pushed him away.....<b><span style="color: #e06666;">"U left me alone up there!!! and u stink!!!!"</span></b><br /><br />anyway all of us stink....LOL<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in return I got my reward which I've been yearning for hours ago....soft serve ice cream for quick sugar rush into my blood stream.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDo0xw5Y6lvKqn2oQRf4GWwuDu0Y8qDpFHHdtXiRjc3fPwrKT8R-RKpMy3oFNvxSMJWOFrsAhyphenhyphenNRT8yQmRlowLemP7JbQyQYV6Z4G98DxwkPLhmSkhip46c0WBRscAvrtyAChv8w/s1600/fujisan-87.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDo0xw5Y6lvKqn2oQRf4GWwuDu0Y8qDpFHHdtXiRjc3fPwrKT8R-RKpMy3oFNvxSMJWOFrsAhyphenhyphenNRT8yQmRlowLemP7JbQyQYV6Z4G98DxwkPLhmSkhip46c0WBRscAvrtyAChv8w/s640/fujisan-87.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />When I looked up, <b><span style="color: red;">Mount Fuji </span></b>looked kinda short and flat....<br />don't be undermined by her.....it's an illusion that she's easy to conquer but she's not!!!<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you to <b><span style="color: #674ea7;">J&J </span></b>bcoz if they weren't the one climbing....we wouldn't have made this journey and adventure. So which mountain to next?<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We then walked to our car with such pride.....we made it!!! we really did....so surreal :))))) after we changed into fresh clothing and got into the car.....everything just went blank...<b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>doze off like a pig as the car took her for some wonderful sight seeing of the Fuji 5 lakes.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that evening, as I soaked inside the hot spring, I looked at <b><span style="color: red;">Mount Fuji </span></b>with great admiration.<br /><br />Thank you for making me even more humble and for conquering the summit. If given another chance with a better weather, would I do it again???? hmmmmm.....never say never.<br /><br />This would be a memorable adventure of a lifetime :)))<br /><br />If you are interested in preparing your climb, please refer below's website for more details:</span><br />
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<br />JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00700060229293416103noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025184.post-25436987295524722282015-08-28T07:59:00.000+08:002015-08-28T10:00:06.368+08:00Icho, Nikko Hotel Osaka<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Icho was recommended by a friend a few years ago and now it is one of our favourite must go restaurant for decent piece of <b><span style="color: red;">beef steak</span></b>. Seen here is the typical table setting right in front of the hot plate counter. The copper looking thing was actually a stand for the ingredients. Platter of ingredients are being stacked on top of it so that it is away from the heat and within easy access for the chef.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The other reason that we lurve it here is the wine list. Surprisingly they have quite a decent wine list. Though some are quite young in vintages, if you take ur time to look through its simple list, be sure to find something that suits your liking. When u gonna chomp and nom on those juicy<b><span style="color: red;"> japanese beef,</span></b> u better have some red wines that gonna give u some grip on the tongue for japanese beef are so really yummy, juicy, flavourful and fatty. :)))<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Usually before the cooking begin, chef will present to you your sides to be cooked and paired with your main course - the <b><span style="color: red;">beef</span></b> itself!!!<br /><br />Seen here were thickly sliced sweet onions, japanese peppers, mushrooms, konnyaku Konjac and japanese sweet potatoes.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">see....this is how they utilise the copper holder.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">our amuse bouche consist of a really yummy small bites of pork with baby herbs and homemade sauce. Some acid and sourness innit to tantalize our tastebuds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and for that wonderful evening, we have a really beautiful chef cooking for us. Our usual sensei <b><span style="color: blue;">dr.chook-look-alike</span></b> was on leave that particular day. She is the disciple.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When frying these yummy <b><span style="color: red;">japanese</span></b> garlic, one needs to have patience and continue moving it in oil so that it won't get burnt.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next we have our homemade <b><span style="color: orange;">pumpkin</span></b> soup with crispy croutons on the side.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the other main reason we alwiz return to Icho is its brown cow!!!! Seen here with such wonderful marbling and grains is the Grade A5 Brown cow beef from <b><span style="color: orange;">Shikoku</span></b> which accounts only to 9% of nation productions.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">gourmet salts hacked straight from one huge piece of crystal salt from the mountains range in <b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Iran</span></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All the sides were now ready and chef has already sliced it to bite sizes with her knife like spatula as she cooked.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: orange;">ABALONE</span></b>!!!! a must have :))))))))))))))))))))))<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remove it from its shell....and find the liver...most prized part of an abalone.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">there!!!!! it has slight bitterness and rather rich.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gimme gimme gimme my abalone!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WAT??? u mean I have to share with <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS</span></b> this piece of solid yummy abalone?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and now.....the moment we had been waiting for <b><span style="color: #e06666;">:)))</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just look at the crispy thinly sliced garlic that was prepared to perfection :))))<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">oh my.....u hungry yet?<br />:))))))))))))<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I love it with my finely grated daikon and mirin ponzu sauce.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I like it that they don't serve you the entire portion at one go, else it will get cold....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and we have more and more and more beef :))) yummms no complaints at all!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I like her showmanship....such power and yet elegance...ain't easy being a chef yo!!<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">look at the burnt ends.....caramelized and yummss...I was saving my onions for the last and <b><span style="color: #38761d;">Mr. JS</span></b> was bz picking at my plate...<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;">"u don't want?"</span></b><br />before I could answer, he was already popping onions into his mouth<br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">-_-"</span></b><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">FRY RICE!!!!! with beef fats!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the fried rice....we were really really contended!!!! Happiness beyond descriptions <b><span style="color: #e06666;">:))))</span></b><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a tradition, to snap pic with chef before we leave.<br /><a href="http://cher-ry.blogspot.com/2014/05/teppanyaki-icho-osaka.html"><b><span style="color: blue;">*click here*</span></b></a> to read one of the many visits to <b><span style="color: red;">Icho</span></b><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">after so much of food one just gotta walk about to burn those calories....but before the body got started...i saw these gals having some nice iced cold beer...and Monkey follow suit. :))))<br /><br />It's impossible to rest your tummy whenever u are travelling. My advise is don't....just enjoy yourselves. :)))<br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="color: orange;"><b>Icho Teppanyaki @ Nikko Hotel</b><br />1-3-3 Nishi-shinsaibashi,<br />Chuo-ku Osaka-shi.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: orange; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Tel: +81 6 6244 2468</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Weekends had been spent practicing on my <b><span style="color: purple;">Xpole</span></b>. But that's just like once a week for an hour. I know that ain't enuff but I don't have the time to. There's so much goin on and tonnes to achieve I couldn't even find time to blog!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My dear readers, thank you for still sticking to <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Notti Monkey</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Muakkkssss...lots of love :)))))</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Look ma!!!! <b><span style="color: blue;">no hands!!!</span></b> for like one nano second. muahahahahaha...I was so so afraid of falling....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> my dear pole...I m sticking close to you, please don't let me fall!!!! I've had bad falls before and it;s quite traumatic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This trick is known as cupid...or <b><span style="color: red;">Victory</span></b>....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so lil monkey tried and tried and tried and tried...I can't remember for how long coz I was so in pain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Ok, now don't fall...hold it.....and bend the body lower...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">let's go lower......lower.......with the slow spin I was hanging on to my dear <b><span style="color: purple;">xpole </span></b>with a knee grip and a foot holding on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alright...I slipped and fell again....can't do~~~~~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Now...<b><span style="color: magenta;">calm down</span></b>.....and do it all again...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">step by step and re-analyze what went wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sun was setting....the air got cooler...and I was in panic. Gotta achieve this before it gets dark.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hands off, I'm still spinning slowly....still on the pole.....what's next?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">try to bend the core as low as possible.....can I??? and down I went...<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey</span></b>...ur mistake...if u think u gonna fall...u will....and true enuff I did. The mind is truly powerful.<br /><br />oh-oh Houston!!! we got a problem!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">last pic and one final spin, before the fall...<br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Ta-DA!!!</span></b><br />hahahahaha...<br /><br />Nevertheless it has been fun :))) I look forward to my next lesson in 2 weeks time :)))</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The busy hustling bustling main train station in <b><span style="color: red;">Osaka</span></b>. I call this the organized chaos, bcoz everyone seemed to be walking in orderly manner at such speed. Nobody is in the middle of the road blocking anyone....such behavior of standing in the middle of the road/corridor chatting is hardly seen here in Japan. That reminded me of <b><span style="color: blue;">Venice</span></b>, u can hardly do that bcoz of its narrow alley which fits only one person. Even if u gonna stop for a second, you will be frowned upon for blocking the narrow streets and alleys of Venice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This orderly behavior and to certain extend I called it manners, should be apply here in Malaysia. Don't block the road, esp cars!!! think of others and don't stand in the middle of a busy pathway chit chatting....move aside. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On that weekend, we decided to head out of Osaka to visit the one and only surviving castle in the entire of Japan.....so again it's <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>playing tourist guide *despite that's her first time too!!!* Look at that cheeky face, she has got something on her sleeves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #e06666;">"JS.....can we have some of these yummy kiddy drinks...or that packet of snacks over there?? pllleaaaaassseeeee?????"</span></b> asked <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>who was standing next to a kiosk selling all sort of yummy food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">"I knew it!!! I knew why u chose this spot to stand!!!!! grrrRRRrrrrrrrrrr."</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey</span></b> :D tee hee hee</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fast approaching <b><span style="color: blue;">shinkansen </span></b>on the background. I'm like a kid watching all these trains with glee....It's really easy to catch a train here in Japan, everything is so systematic from the ticketing to exactly which spot u stand to wait for ur coach. Each train is really precise, stopping for about 30 seconds before moving onto the next city.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As we waited 10 mins for our train, we saw so many trains already came, unloaded some passengers and picked up many more. It's so systematic....the soon to be onboard passengers queue-ed up on the stated box while those needed to disembark came out diligently and most of all in the most un-barbaric way. See difference of first world vs 3rd world country?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What's with the mask!? It is also here that if you are down with flu or runny nose, u are responsible for putting on a mask to stop the virus fr spreading to other people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Soon we were on board and our packed lunch unveiled itself. <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS's</span></b> favorite green tea with his pork katsu sandwich. The pork fillet has got crunchy outer bits, and moist meat in the centre. The bread was soft fluffy like sponge with a wasabi mayonnaise spread. Really yummy....the only reason he loves train ride in Japan I suppose. Someone out there ought to do a posting on different type of food served in the train at different country like tiffin in India or those rice with vege wrapped with banana leaf in a compact manner for easy consumption onboard a moving train.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ms <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>and her mini size sandwich of mashed pork floss, pork katsu and pork belly with lots of japanese greens aka Mizuna over wasabi mayo spread. Of coz not forgetting my mini size bottle of orange jus. I know, I'm like a kid!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Both of us were like kid, coz the journey was less than 35 minutes and the kind of stuffs we brought on board were enuff for a 3 hour ride. LOL!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we arrived <b><span style="color: orange;">Himeji </span></b>town, we were greeted with the huge white castle at the end of the kilometre long road...the reason why we travelled to Himeji.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a huge complex covering 83 buildings...oh well being the LARGEST castle in Japan u gotta be prepared to walk and spend some time here. :)))<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">"JS, this place is huge so please follow me closely and don't get lost!!!" </span></b><br /><br />He's too bz snapping pic and ignored <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey</span></b>.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">including bz snapping other people's wedding. -_-"<br />It is a famous spot for family portrait.<br /><br />We were still quite far away from the castle, hence it looked small. Also fondly known as Hakuro-jo, translated to <b><span style="color: blue;">White Egret Castle</span></b>....it is said that the castle resemble a white bird taking flight.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I thought we were getting nearer, but it seems further? hehehehehe......<br />This pic was taken near the princess tower, it was believed that Princess Sen the daughter of <b><span style="color: red;">Shogun Tokugawa Hiteada</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">no shoes allowed, and clean plastic bags are provided for u to pack ur shoes for "to go". Hahahaha as all visitors will exit at different exit, u are required to carry it along.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The corridor is indeed long. This is the same building where Princess bow to the mountain before applying her makeup each morning.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"<b><span style="color: #e06666;">JS follow me closely and don't get lost....this place is huge ass."</span></b><br />Yes and I think my ass is huge :P bahahahahaha.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From <b><span style="color: red;">Princess Sen's</span></b> window, the castle looked even more magnifique!!!<br />The best time to visit Himeji castle is during cherry blossom period, where the entire complex and compound is filled with the beautiful scent and pink blossoms.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Japanese architecture....notice the pavement has got a row of tiles embedded onto the ground? it's to prevent erosion and damages to the floor/ground/soil during rainy season, as rain water fall ferociously from the roof tile. How clever :)))) and it was aesthetically designed too.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Himeji Castle is the only original castle left in <b><span style="color: red;">Japan</span></b>. The rest of the castle are re-constructions due to fire, wars and natural disaster. Hence this is truly a <b><span style="color: magenta;">UNESCO </span></b>world heritage site and Japan National Cultural asset.<br /><br />It has undergoned a massive 5 years restoration works and recently re-opened to the public. So Yay to us, just in time :))))<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">constructed in <b><span style="color: red;">1333 </span></b>the castle has gone through various feuds, different hands and at one point in time used as barracks during war. It was also built in such a way with confusing layout to deter enemies attacks.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">scars from samurai swords..those were really long scars.....<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We climbed all the way to the top and there's this lil shrine....ring the bell and clap twice to awake the God!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS: "Monkey....wat are u doin???"</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey: "hehehehe making friends with local japanese :P"</span></b><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bcoz the entire structure is built with wood...its base from cypress wood...only limited number of visitors are allowed to get into the castle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's really a beautiful castle...one can never get enough of it....How did they construct it? and so we sat there admiring its beauty discussing world issues....as always :P<br /><br />Glad that we made this trip :))<br />For more info:<br /><a href="http://www.himeji-castle.gr.jp/index/English/"><b><span style="color: orange;">http://www.himeji-castle.gr.jp/index/English/</span></b></a><br /></span><br />
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<br />JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00700060229293416103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025184.post-63533867654961718272015-08-06T09:59:00.002+08:002015-08-06T09:59:27.648+08:00Kuromon Market, Osaka<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ohaiyo!!!!! I have the best housemate in the universe. He makes coffee for me every morning and decaffe coffee at every nite, doesn't matter which part of the world we are. So in return I told him, I will take good care of him when he grows grey.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS: "I think more like I have to take care of you. You are so weak and never take care of your health!!!"</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey >.<</span></b> okie lor I old lady u young man lor.<br /><br /><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: x-small;"><b>*piak chip & dale*</b></span> that's my Japanese summer white peach. It's mine!! stop sniffing around. It's so yumzzz and sweet. Only regret, didn't buy that many home. But we had at least one each money with coffee before heading out for the day.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sun rises around 4.30am here and our day starts early. After Coffee and sweet summer peach, we headed out to <b><span style="color: red;">Kuromon Market</span></b>. Nope, it's not kumamon but <b><span style="color: red;">Ku-Ro-Mon</span></b><br /><br />It's a must visit for tourists in Osaka. Stretching half a kilometre long *it's not that big* but the market is power packed with shops selling all the fresh produce from the region. With a history of 170 years, it was called Kuromon meaning Black Gate because there was really one then next to a temple which is no longer at the site.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">fresh <b><span style="color: orange;">sardines</span></b>...imagine grilling these...with a slice of lemon of some grated daikon? Or just deep fried them...yummmmzzzz.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">Peach</span></b> juice!!! I want I want I want!!! peaches were abundant and they have to turn them into juices hahahaha. Such a thirst quencher during summer<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">there's even yellow peaches!!! and equivalently sweet!!! Don't be fooled by its color :))<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in abundance hence the sale....Sale Time!!! or time for sale? hehehehehe. It cost a bomb back here...Most of the <b><span style="color: red;">japanese</span></b> fruits in Msia cost big big nuclear bomb.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">all the yummy fruits were so inviting. Since we can't carry all of them home....we carried them back to our hotel and have fresh fruits every morning day and night....inclusive of all the japanese snacks and limited edition haagen daaz ice creams and indescribable junk food....our hotel suite looked like it's infested with <b><span style="color: red;">18 kids!!!</span></b> every day our thrash cans were filled with boxes of kyoho juices, packs of junk foods, sweet wraps, and more food wraps of watever stuffs we had.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the quality of <b><span style="color: red;">pork</span></b> here....oh my....imagining using these for yakitoris....or ham yu fah lam poh!! or or...oh my gawd I can think of so many variations now in my head...yummmsss</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the <b><span style="color: orange;">beef</span></b>....it's not expensive...1200 Yen for 100g that's about RM 36/100g<br />the marbling of the beef fats were irresistible!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the poisonous <b><span style="color: orange;">Fugu</span></b> fish!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">looking at all these......<b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey</span></b> was a bit sad...<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey</span></b> turned to <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS</span></b>....<b><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: x-small;">*sniff sniff with the kesian look*</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey: "I cannot ady........:(..."</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS: "Wat?? u tired already??? cannot walk anymore?"</span></b><br /><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey: "I cannot wait until lunch.....can we have a sneak peek pre-brunch first?"</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS -_-"</span></b><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and so <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS</span></b> gave the green light to eat these at 10am in the morning :))))))))))<br />Wahahahahahahhah so so so so eppy!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on top of that, <b><span style="color: #38761d;">he</span></b> oso approved of the iced cold japanese beer early in the morning :)))) Wahhh I must have striked TOTO that day :))))<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The shop vendor here speaks Bahasa because he studied in UKM for a few years. Think his bahasa better than us coz in the end we spoke english back to him :P<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we had <b><span style="color: red;">Nara</span></b> beef....with beefy flavour and tender juiciness....ahhhhhhhh. Japanese beef alwiz have this unique sweetness flavour to it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the fatty <b><span style="color: red;">Kobe</span></b> beef...think I prefer other brown cow breed versus Kobe bcoz it's just too fat and oily minus the flavours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey: "JS look!!! yum yum can I?"</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS: "No. don't waste calories on these."</span></b><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fat fat Tuna belly!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I found more snack shops here<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey: "Ohhhhh Doraemon corn sticks!!! I'm gonna eat u now."</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">Doraemon</span></b> corn sticks shrieked in horror...<b><span style="color: blue;">WAHHHH</span></b>. These are so yummy with cheese flavours...only RM 0.25 cents per stick. Wat can u get these days at that price in Msia?<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Towards the end of the market....our nostrils lead us to this corner shop...hmmmmm smell of <b><span style="color: red;">japanese curry!!!! </span></b><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXsobK-4CPx4v2lMeB2J7n3GUGOKmYx7xxuTcSnrDbs31gB0GAzgsQpcdJlav9EN1vVOFSrZbGTX0i4ycFkRZVdgRq_eusJuYKoYYXYh6uVYCkgXhTqnQ9cDamxwZSGf3buSFgIw/s1600/Kuromon-39.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXsobK-4CPx4v2lMeB2J7n3GUGOKmYx7xxuTcSnrDbs31gB0GAzgsQpcdJlav9EN1vVOFSrZbGTX0i4ycFkRZVdgRq_eusJuYKoYYXYh6uVYCkgXhTqnQ9cDamxwZSGf3buSFgIw/s640/Kuromon-39.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />Run by a team of husband and wife...it's a very narrow shop.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We asked him if that phone is still in use.....and he said yes with a laughter...he even showed us how to dial it. Stick ur finger into the numbered hole, push it around....then let the rotor disc reverse back on its on...then stick it into the next numbered hole....I was thinking this gonna take forever to dial 7 digits.<br /><br />Oh well thank you for the demonstration, we may looked young but not that young. I've used this phone before when I was a kid. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when the wife was cutting this piece of <b><span style="color: orange;">Pork Katsu </span></b>behind the bar counter....both <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey</span></b> eyes were wide open bcoz we could hear it <b><span style="color: red;">"krop, krop...krok...krop..."</span></b><br />wah this would be damn good man!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yes Curry Udon for <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Ms. Monkey </span></b>with chunks of meat innit. So so so yummy and flavourful. Slurp slurp slurp!!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as my t-shirt says...That's Awesome<br /><br />wonderful morning for us :)))) and we have done so much :))) and ate so much kekekeke.<br /><br />More information on <b><span style="color: red;">Kuromon Market</span></b> here:<br /><a href="http://www.osaka-info.jp/en/facilities/cat37/post_261.html"><b><span style="color: red;">http://www.osaka-info.jp/en/facilities/cat37/post_261.html</span></b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been lagging in my postings, which is not acceptable...so my dear fellow readers please accept my apologies with this yummy glass of iced cold refreshing <b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Caprioska</span></b>...oh so yummsss.<br /><br />and bcoz it's not acceptable, <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>must work harder to ensure in continuity in this blog, with more updates. Not as a few as once a week. ARghhhhh~~~<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Work has been great. I've met so many people, learnt so much, achieved a hell lot and had so much of fun along the way. Yes someone told me I must live life and not let life passed by like that. Make things happen for yourself <b><span style="color: #e06666;">:))))</span></b><br /><br />Despite the tiredness, hectic schedule, immeasurable amount of stress, work load and added responsibilities I really do find joy. <b><span style="color: #e06666;">A lot of it :)))) </span></b><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey</span></b> and a <b><span style="color: blue;">new Hobbit </span></b>admiring the city skyline<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey: "U are really cute, everyone wanted you at the club...I really do wished I could take u home u know?"</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He's still staring intently...mum and quiet<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey: "I really do u know...but what would the rest of the hobbits at home say??? So I am sure u will understand my predicament that I can't and I need to keep peace at home. As much as I wanted you, I have to let you go."</span></b><br /><br />oh well since u are still so quiet, let's just enjoy the view together in pure silence of our own lil world :))) and <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>and <b><span style="color: blue;">new hobbit</span></b> watched the sun set and created beautiful silhoutte of concrete jungle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">let's just enjoy everyday....because life is as beautiful as u make it. Don't wait...<b><span style="color: #e06666;">take charge now :))</span></b></span>CHER-RYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211590981694291420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025184.post-20515013561053291482015-08-04T07:46:00.000+08:002015-08-04T09:46:57.083+08:00Yotaro Honten *deux etoiles michelin* Osaka<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Guess one will never stop snacking whenever u are in Asia, be it in Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia and here in Japan. So while Monkey was zzzz-ing, <b><span style="color: #a64d79;">hobbits </span></b>were admiring the view of <b><span style="color: blue;">Shinsaibashi </span></b>- the long kilometres of shopping arcade. But for us it's the food that attracts our presence. This is a great place to stay put for a few days in Osaka, right in <b>St. Regis</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">after my power nap and a nice hot shower TA-DA!!!!!<br />so refreshed, <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>said can appear in shampoo ads<b><span style="color: #e06666;"> -_-"</span></b><br /><br />we walked to <b><span style="color: orange;">Yotaro Honten</span></b>, a 2 michelin starred restaurant in Osaka specialised in only tempura. Up and running since 1921, it's an institution here in Osaka and mostly locals know about this place. However reservation is a must and the last reservation is at 7pm for dinner so that the chef can be done by 9pm.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGPcslzLlp6-uIoqw5-4av_5U9Ajo1IT6sC4plqnIsgVEW2gt-1Z-9ArVa4wXGR1afgn33bYTMq4f78H3xoqWgSd7rcKn9XZ6DwQt_oq2o5OYxhFywzlcvUHiQKkxaXBx4U2Wt9w/s1600/yotaro-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGPcslzLlp6-uIoqw5-4av_5U9Ajo1IT6sC4plqnIsgVEW2gt-1Z-9ArVa4wXGR1afgn33bYTMq4f78H3xoqWgSd7rcKn9XZ6DwQt_oq2o5OYxhFywzlcvUHiQKkxaXBx4U2Wt9w/s640/yotaro-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All the fresh ingredients were shown to us, it's more of a sneak peak of wat u gonna have in a very short while. Minimal english were spoken here but that did not deter us from communicating with each other.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>was so relieved to find no poultry in that wooden box.<br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey: "Don't worry....." *and pointed to a piece of paper with some hand-written japanese words by our dearie Butler.</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS: "What's that????"</span></b><br /><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey: "We have the sweetest butler ever....he wrote here...I.don't.like.to.eat.chicken.and.duck"</span></b><br />LOL bahahahahahaahahahaahhaha</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS -_-"</span></b><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><b>Monkey: "So we just need to lift this paper up and show it, before they serve us anything at the beginning of the meal."</b></span><br /><br />hmmm maybe I should have asked him to do it in a larger size and stick it on a paddle....that would definitely make a statement :D<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Owner-chef is a really really serious man who takes no nuisance. He's precise and don't really speak much, even to his <b><span style="color: red;">Japanese </span></b>clientele. He's so passionate, that each piece had to be consumed accordingly to his advise. Plus we noticed that Chef is very meticulous and observant, seeing the speed of his diners and prepare their food accordingly.<br /><br />After each piece is being fried, he will rest the tempura on his lil basket before serving them to you...on a piece of paper...yes...paper..<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I lurve their coasters here. Each in their own unique piece and design. It looked so worn out and must have been passed down from generations to generations just like this restaurant. There's some half bottle sized wines, beer and sake sold. I'm not too sure about soft drinks though. Japanese restaurants are really serious, not all will serve your fav drinks aka Coca Cola :D<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a small lil appetizer of <b><span style="color: orange;">sea urchin</span></b> with dried nori seaweed over a few more slices of green shiso leaves.<br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then we have a beautiful and fresh platter sashimi of <b><span style="color: orange;">sea bream</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">served with a ponzu based sauce<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">underneath those sliced fishes were this "<b><span style="color: orange;">gourd</span></b>" that was thinly sliced. It has a green apple crunchiness but with a tart sweetness. Very interesting fruit/vegetables.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and our <b><span style="color: orange;">Tempura </span></b>dinner begin....with a really serious looking piece of tempura prawn. Yotaro Honten is the temple of tempura for tempura purists. If u are expecting the standard type with large pieces of crunchy bits/fritters, to be served with the dipping sauce and some grated daikon....then u will be utterly disappointed.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at <b><span style="color: orange;">Yotaro Honten</span></b>, it is so pure that it's served with the baked sea salt which was almost in its powderie form. The salt is mild and yet with great length that lingered in our mouth. and bcoz it has been baked numerous times, it is less salty.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As we were bz admiring the piece of beautiful <b><span style="color: orange;">prawn</span></b>, Chef laid out tempura of sweet summer <b><span style="color: orange;">corns </span></b>and the house specialty of grounded shrimp <b><span style="color: orange;">sandwich</span></b>.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the 2 pieces of bread sandwiched the homemade grounded shrimp paste. We were so surprised that there isn't any oil at all in each and every piece of the tempura. <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS</span></b> said the oil has to be at the right temperature so it's cooked and crisp up before it starts to soak in the oil. I guess the batter recipe used is also the secret.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">initially we thought this was potatoes, but it was <b><span style="color: orange;">japanese ginger flowers</span></b>. So refreshing with that crunch and flavours. Love it!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it looked quite like <b><span style="color: orange;">Mr. JAWS!!!</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So so delicious, from the family of sardine, it has such briny intensity. Yummmssss.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">beautiful <b><span style="color: orange;">mushroom </span></b>with the batter coated it just nicely and snuggly. Not too much but just enuff.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">this was quite a bomb....<b><span style="color: orange;">sweet figs</span></b>. I never had tempura this way :)))<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the fish was prepared inside out. This really required some technique and kung fu!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pieces of thinly cut japanese <b><span style="color: orange;">potatoes</span></b>. As we were dining, our papers were changed as well.<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sweet <b><span style="color: orange;">chilis</span></b>. I wished there's more :)))) slurp.<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">more prawns and its crispy <b><span style="color: orange;">head</span></b>. Every single morsel and parts were eaten, including the entire head and its tail.<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">red bell <b><span style="color: orange;">pepper </span></b>was pretty good too. Somehow this chef is really clever in ingredients selection.<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">entire piece of <b><span style="color: orange;">shallots</span></b>/onions. It's so so so sweet and really hot too. So gotta eat with care!!!<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chef worked in such a <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">zen</span></b> mode, everything was so relaxed with such beautiful hand gestures. He tossed the ingredients in and added the right amount of batter, mixed it and into the hot oil. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ohhhh no wonder the said alwiz save the best for the last....ladies and gentlemen may I present to you the tempura of sliced <b><span style="color: orange;">leeks</span></b>!!! the sweetness was so yums...this is so so so good. Perfect golden crispiness.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>was still looking behind the counter <b><span style="color: #e06666;">-_-" </span></b>and then nudged <b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Monkey </span></b>and said<b><span style="color: #38761d;"> "this is the best-for-the-last dish my dear Monkey."</span></b><br /><br />madame presented a huge claypot, seated on its very own wooden sanctuary.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh my~~~~<br />one whole piece of a beautiful shinning <b><span style="color: orange;">sea bream</span></b>, cooked on top of fluffy rice and sake. My my my.....this dish is the house speciality and u need to order it at the beginning of the meal as it takes some time to prepare.<br /><br />after presenting the dish to us, madame then carefully tossed the rice and de-boned the entire fish. Oh my can't get better than this....boneless fish :D:D:D</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">look at the burnt!!! the yummiest part...and in between the fat fluffy grains u could see flakes of fish. Wat a meal!!!! and the entire pot was just for us...guess who was the happy boy that nite? we could even pack back the remaining portion. If only I have a cat at home, just that I wanted to go snacking again after dinner :D See one can never stop eating here in <b><span style="color: red;">Japan</span></b>.<br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">some hot clear dashi broth to further satisfied our already satisfied tummies.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Summer is the season for sweet <b><span style="color: orange;">melons </span></b>in Japan...you can get it everywhere cheaply and I can't remember how much I've eaten, from ice lollies, to the real fruits, sorbet, candies, and many more. It's also the season for white peach....and when ice blended it's really amazing. Perfect for hot weather!!!<br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Yotaro Honten </span></b>is really an institution of tempura, which emphasized more on technicality and fresh ingredients....when u have both, just let it do its job and u will have the best of everything. No words were needed to describe it.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: orange;">Y</span></b><span style="color: orange;"><b>otaro Honten *2 Michelin Stars*</b><br />2-3-14, Koraibashi,<br />Osaka 541-0043,<br />Japan.<br />Tel: 06-6231 5561<br />*would be best to get your hotel to do the reservation</span></span>JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00700060229293416103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025184.post-86803896870772678622015-07-28T08:30:00.000+08:002015-07-28T09:31:08.764+08:00The best of Spain at Mandarin Oriental KL, Aziamendi and Vega Sicilia.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As we walked towards <b><span style="color: red;">Mandarin Oriental KL</span></b>, the huge poster greeted us. As you've already known, or perhaps the city of Kuala Lumpur....the pop up restaurant of <b><span style="color: red;">Aziamendi 88 </span></b>is here in KL for 88 days. Each day during the low season in Phuket, the entire team of <b><span style="color: red;">Aziamendi </span></b>travels the world with this pop-up restaurant concept. My oh my and Malaysia is the lucky one to be selected in this project collaboration.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The other important highlight for us is this gentleman. <b><span style="color: blue;">Mr. Pablo Alvarez</span></b>.....the owner of Vega Sicilia, equivalently to the King of Spanish Wines. How befitting :))) we have the youngest 3 Michelin starred<b><span style="color: orange;"> Chef Eneko Atxa</span></b> cooking and wine tasting with Mr. Alvarez :))) can't get any better than this and would be the one of the main highlight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Mr. Pablo Alvarez</span></b> flew in just for this lunch and some quality time spent with us before heading back to Singapore, his bigger market for more tasting events with his clients.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Joining us that afternoon from Spain was <b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Mr. Antonio Menendez Puente</span></b> the commercial director of the winery. If u were wondering why the name Rothschild is being imprinted here on our lil wine tasting booklet....Both Vega Sicilia and Rothschild have collaborated in a joint venture to produce and even more unique partnership between this 2 huge maisons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The icon of Mandarin Oriental around the world :))))</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Peakie D</span></b> had to emphasized it by bringing her fan which she used constantly. If not bcoz of<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> Peakie D</span></b> we would not have been able to secure a reservation in such a short notice....like a few days notice??? It was quite impossible for me when everything was fully booked till end of August.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Peakie D: "Don't thank me.....thank Mr. Avarez...his name is important enough to secure this reservation."</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But really thank you so much for trying and to Wei Bel of MO KL :)))</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and we got a rather lovely table next to the garden...it's even more lovely during the day than at nite!!! <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>bz chatting with Antonio whom like me, just joined this industry 4 months ago. :))) Yep indeed a very refreshing change for both of us and we already have exciting plans for the brands ahead. :)))</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">Vega Sicilia</span></b> started out in 1864 on the Northern part of Spain, which is about 2 hours drive from Madrid. Its top range - Unico was Spain's first great wines and until today, it still is with no one close to be compared with. Today it is so much sought and <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey </span></b>was really lucky to be introduced to Unico 10 years ago by a friend and the bad thing is, when u were already introduced the very best on the first sip, u can't turn back. However it is not the case for <b><span style="color: red;">Vega Sicilia</span></b>, I was rather amazed with its other cuvees too :))</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our very first Amuse Bouche was the <b><span style="color: orange;">Bonsai Tree</span></b> with "red fruits". Upon its presentation Mr. Alvarez said in Spain, Chef Atxa used the olive tree but with similar concept. I like that he innovated accordingly to the culture of specific countries....bonsai tree definitely more relevant here plus it ain't easy to look for olive tree!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The cherry tomatoes were infused with raspberry juice injected to it...so if u look carefully the jus were almost dripping out from this forbidden fruits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">underneath it were edible barks...which were made from earthy root vegetables. With flavours of savoury and earthiness, it was good enough to tantalize our tastebuds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next is his signature<b><span style="color: orange;"> picnic basket</span></b>, usually this will be served at a special corner for this pop-up restaurant. It's a beautiful corner, all decked with greens and benches, it's as though u are goin for picnic...but bcoz we were so engrossed in our conversation about the wines and terroir...this group moved straight to the table to further discuss more. So if u do come here to dine, you will be having your lil "picnic" at that specially created corner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">here we have the <b><span style="color: orange;">Mojito Bon Bon</span></b>...pop it whole in your mouth to let the flavours of tangy lime coats your mouth for a further sensory experience. The flavours were quite Thai to me :))) and brought back memories of Phuket :))</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">beautiful Anchovies Mille-feuille with almost-butterflies liked petals, sandwiched in thin wafers...made from the very best anchovies in Spain. It was at this juncture that <b><span style="color: #38761d;">Mr. JS</span></b> started to complained about me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>to <b><span style="color: magenta;">Chef Takashi</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>"I have this expensive anchovies which I procured from Spain...."</b></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Chef Takashi: "Itu paling best!!"</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS: "Yes and someone threw it away for me."</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: magenta;">Chef Takashi O.O "Itu mahal!!"</span></b><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">eyes turned to me and I felt them snarling at me....yes I did....I threw it away bcoz it was inside a container looking like some old overnight food coated in olive oil. Moral of the story is, please label ur ingredients. <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>swears he's gonna get another fridge just to store his ingredients.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">those black lil crackers were corn <b><span style="color: orange;">toastead crackers</span></b>....topped with generous dollops of caviar...and sea urchin creme...The salty brine of the sea...all in one single crackers. I don't mind this everyday as snacks. Tee Hee Hee...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: orange;">Pintia Toro 2008 </span></b>from the arid region. When it's so difficult to survive, the vine works harder to extract and nutrients off the ground. However thanks to cooler climate during the night - bcoz it lies 500m above sea level....it somehow balance off the acidity and the ripening of its grapes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The nose of deep dark berries, plums and cherries were really pronounced. A bottle that can be enjoyed for its fresh fruity nose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: orange;">Truffled egg</span></b> is another signature of <b><span style="color: orange;">Chef Atxa</span></b>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prollie this pic did not justice bcoz it was cooked inside out and we could see some dark liquid inside the egg yolk. *u can't see it from this pic*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the hot truffle jus or consomme were carefully injected into the egg yolk hence it was cooked inside out. Well I don't have to say much...truffles and eggs are best friends anyway. :)))</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Sommelier Guillaume</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #a64d79;">Michelle H </span></b>were the lucky few...we were indeed so blessed to be invited for this luncheon gathering.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's called <b><span style="color: orange;">The Garden</span></b>...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The soil were made from dehydrated beets and paired really well with the soft sweetness of tomato emulsion. Just that personally for me, it did not transition well bcoz the flavours were quite clean as compared to the previous dishes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">this is a superb partnership between Benjamin Rothschild and <b><span style="color: red;">Vega Sicilia</span></b>....it's a collaboration from the best of both world...the Spanish and the French. This bottle is really very drinkable and being from Rioja it would have the profile but with a balanced subtleness - this was wat I liked the most....Structured and well balanced. I'm a big follower of wines with similar profile :))<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">Valbuena 2010</span></b>, it's really very approachable bcoz the profile is really close to Burgundy wines. Labelled as the best Valbuena we can't deny the terroir rules here. The number 5 signify the numbers of years aged in various casks before release.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Based on the colors, u would have thought that the palate would be quite powerful but don't be fooled. It's really voluptuous with such precision and pureness. I guess bcoz we love burgundy wines, this was our favourite.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For this pairing, we had the <b><span style="color: orange;">Japanese Tuna</span></b> with garlic cream, croquettes and flowers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There can only be one and only....<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Laguoile </span></b>knives :)))<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Main course was<b><span style="color: orange;"> sous vide lamb shoulder </span></b>with rosemary. It was prepared for many hours to give the melt in the mouth texture.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was introduced to <b><span style="color: red;">Vega Sicilia </span></b>with a bottle of Unico many years ago...the crown of the winery. On that beautiful Saturday afternoon we had this berries scent dark red wine. With its good acidity, this babe can age for another 10 more years to be enjoyed in 2025. Made from the oldest grapevines in the Ribera del Duero this is definitely really complex but with a good structure.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: orange;">Chef Eneko Atxa</span></b> came out to say hello to <b><span style="color: blue;">Mr. Alvarez </span></b>and <b><span style="color: #a64d79;">Antonio </span></b>and they spoke Spanish so none of us understood. :P<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;">Michelle H</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey</span></b>.....we are really blessed and lucky for the experience of such stunning wines, paired with amazing creations from <b><span style="color: orange;">Chef Atxa.</span></b><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: orange;">Chef Atxa</span></b>, <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Peakie D</span></b>, <b><span style="color: blue;">Pablo Avarez...</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and then everyone queue up to have their pic snap like a photobooth....hahahaha<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with <b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Ellen </span></b>and <b><span style="color: #a64d79;">Antonio</span></b><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: magenta;">Chef Takashi</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #990000;">Sommelier Guillaume </span></b><br />:))))<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm a Chef<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm a chef too!! *hahah just kidding*<br /><br />in fact<b><span style="color: orange;"> Chef Atxa </span></b>mentioned that he has heard about Cilantro Restaurant...that's really an accolade to be mentioned this way by an international chef.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">thank you so much to <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Ellen </span></b>for organising this :)))<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Guillaume </span></b>decided that he's gonna be shorter than me for once.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">our dessert which I forgotten to eat....was too bz talking and enjoying the <b><span style="color: orange;">Tokaji</span></b>...the final dessert wines presented on the table.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">Oremus Tokaji</span></b><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Oremus was purchased by the Alvarez family in 1993, thus further expanding their wine empire. Sweet intensity and yet balanced. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Final line-up for the afternoon<br />Sorry about the Dom Perignon<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They went on a lil tour with <b><span style="color: blue;">Behzad </span></b>the GM of Aziamendi Phuket. He will be based here for 88 days to manage the operations side of the pop up restaurant.<br /></span><br />
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JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00700060229293416103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20025184.post-46019615041182884292015-07-20T08:45:00.000+08:002015-07-20T08:45:02.419+08:00Short weekend in Japan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a rather last minute thingy....we changed the destination from Bangkok to Osaka. :D bcoz <b><span style="color: #38761d;">Mr. JS </span></b>would prefer the later. We were extremely lucky to secured tickets and hotel reservation but most of all restaurants reservations - all thanks to Mr. Butler from beloved<b> St. Regis Hotel<span style="color: #e06666;"> :))))</span></b><br /><br />Of coz <b><span style="color: blue;">Doraemon </span></b>can't be any happier, it was Raya and time to balik kampung with <b><span style="color: orange;">Chip and Dale</span></b> tagging along with the rest of the hobbits and <b><span style="color: red;">Kumamon</span></b>!!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The beauty of late night flight, u arrive early in the morning to watch the sunrise....38,000 feet above sea level :))) Be it to Japan or France, this flight time is just perfect. Fly in late night and arrive first thing in the morning for breakfast.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of coz we must have our inflight pre-breakfast of yogurt and freshly cut fruits and <b><span style="color: orange;">aromatics </span></b>hot coffee.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and the speciality of Malaysia Airlines - Nasi Lemak....<b><span style="color: #e06666;">*hiak hiak hiak*</span></b><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS </span></b>playfully placed the the half eaten bread this way....he said <b><span style="color: orange;">Mr. Bread</span></b> wanna eat <b><span style="color: red;">Nasi Lemak</span></b> too. While I was bz chomping on my hot rice watching movies with headphones on. Trust me, in my very own phone, I do find unflattering pics of me either sleeping or chomping nom nom-ing in very unlady-liked manner. <b><span style="color: #e06666;">-_-"</span></b><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: magenta;">Osaka </span></b>has been great - as alwiz...just a short 4 days trip so I'll be posting soon bout some of the near places and restaurants that we went and also the usual favourites :)<br /><br />Plus it was summer sale....so I can't imagine how cheap clothings could get in Japan.<br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey: "Fifteen ringgit!!!! for a Uniqlo and GU!!!"</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS -_-" ok buy buy buy all u want</span></b><br /><br />GU is a subsidiary brand of Uniqlo. :D<br />there's so many more SKUs in Japan with collaborations of different designers, even personalisation of your garments, if u wished. So your very own piece of Uniqlo is totally unique.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One for you, one for me...<br />one for you...and two for me.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS: "Hey I saw that.....that's mine!!!"</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey</span></b> tee hee hee heee......<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey: "JS!!! I can't pack no more....maybe u wanna hold on and stop buying....or we gonna miss our flight!!"</span></b><br /><br />yeah this was at the airport at our boarding gate. Trying to squeeze in all our purchases into one single pull-along cabin size bag. It was futile. sigh....<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> so on the way home, the usual satays...nothing fantastic.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I really do love food prepared from the Japanese side of kitchen. U get umami laden rice and <b><span style="color: red;">Sea Perch fish</span></b> like this!!!<br /><br />Okie folks, not many pics from this single posting...am keeping for separate postings :)))<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and our stash this time....hmmmm yum yum yum<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey: "This one mine ok? I m giving to who and who."</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS: "I bought this one, so it's mine OK?"</span></b><br /><br /><b><span style="color: #e06666;">Monkey: "OK, but then this and this and this are mine ok?"</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #38761d;">JS: "I got these for my office, so this one here and that one there...are mine OK?"</span></b><br /><br />so within 30 minutes, all our stash were packed into individual bags for friends...Gone. Fair and Square. Hehehehehehe..I think it's becoming a fetish now to do this. So wait up for more postings to come :)))</span>CHER-RYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211590981694291420noreply@blogger.com0