Celebrations on Valentine's Day

Gosh that was 2 months ago....shows I have so many pics and details to blog about. Thing is, Monkey didn't wanna pick and choose, everyday every events, every session is truly important to her, and it must be documented for memories.

Since February 2015 was around the celebration of Chinese New Year, we decided to kill many many birds with a single stone. To celebrate the arrival of Sheep Year, TC the Photog's birthday and finally Valentine's Day.

In fact JS and Monkey don't really celebrate V-Day, more like of anti V-day bcoz according to JS, everyday is Valentine's Day....hiak hiak hiak. But since we are cooking, we invited friends to dine with us with home cooked food, with love of coz.....candles and flowers and chocolates. Hahahahaha.

We bought the prepacked Yee Sang set from Isetan, added more sashimi slices of Salmon Belly. Added more fresh pomelo sacs, grated fresh daikon and carrots, used own extra virgin olive oil and we have a semi-home made yee sang.

Hmmm where's the condiments? I only see fish around here...but no complaints coz in the end everyone went for the sashimi quality fish!!!

Lou ah!!!
Huat Ah!!!!!

It's always a mess but this is a good mess, it's wat every chinese who celebrates Chinese New Year would want. The abundance of good things in a single dish...but to me Yee Sang is quite symbolic and serves as a quick appetizer. The true full abundance of good things kinda dish to Ms. Monkey is actually "Pun Choy". I had so many this year and would rate the one from Chuai Heng Chinese Restaurant at Jalan Imbi the most delicious one. :)))))

So far the year of Sheep has been a fantastic one, I am really enjoying each and every day with good company of friends and loved ones, amazing eats and drinks but most of all absolutely amazing new experience in life....

to sum it up, I just need to do 4 things this year.
Travel
Eat
Learn
Live

:)))) simple and meaningful.

Not bad.....guests did an amazing job in tossing the auspicious yee sang to such beautiful mix of colors. Just reminded me of the recently launched Hennessy VSOP Privilege Collection 5, a bottle with vibrant colors and stood the test of time, designed by British Art Director Peter Saville. :)))

Read more about it *here*

because I've promised all my beautiful guests that it will be a dining experience for them on their Valentine's Day, so it had to have some for of decorations for mood and ambience.

Japanese Yuzu with the special citrus grater and "duster" which JS acquired from Japan. Basically u grate the yuzu and dust it off ur dishes straight fr it.

Cute isn't it? we saw the same one at Kame-Sushi Desa Sri Hartamas, :)) Kame also means turtle in japanese.

Bahahahaha Horses are indeed so last year...
Welcome year of Sheep Sheep and this lil cute card is now sitting on my office desk. Reminding each day to Bahahahahahahaha. Which I do....every morning without fail esp with my secretary first thing at 7.30am

double boiled superior stock....all made with love by Mr. JS and boiled for 7 freaking hours!!!!.....those were not sea cucumber floating in this soup, but grand cru level of fish maw, acquired and procured by none other than his mommy dearest. The texture was so so good, almost like gelatine but with a good bite.

The soup was extremely sweet with a certain umami-ness. Yuzu zest added right before serving just further enhance the flavour. Indeed this was a very rich bowl of soup. Every guest only got to have one single bowl coz there ain't enuff!!! hahahaha

YS the giraffe was the only lucky one to have an extra bowl, to the dismay of other guests. Everyone was watching him slurping down the last drop. Hahahahahahaha

Mr. JS frying some greens with prawn oil. Look at that face.....it's like I got this under my control....I called this the LCLY look. LOL. Agree?

His kitchen is considered spanking clean looking at the amount of food being churned out from here. Since we have TC the Photog as one of the guests, he was also made to "work" here....snapping pics for Monkey :P

what is chinese new year without the yummy claypot waxed meat rice!!!
all cooked from scratch...where the waxed meat from Yung Kee Hong Kong were sauteed on the same claypot, rendered its fats and oil....then some these oil were used to fry the rice to a certain degree before being left to boil on its own.

the superlicious yummy waxed meat!!!! U only get this at certain time of the year :)))) So rich and full of flavours bcoz the darker colors were made with mixture of foie gras :))))

JS cooked a small portion of baked prawn pasta for Joey C coz she doesn't take meat. But it ended up in everyone's stomach. Yeah the piranhas...u know who u are :D

My dearest Dom Perignon Chef :)))) made ROAST PORK wahahahahaha. This pic was taken by Photog TC on 14th February, way before I joined the brand :)))) I know...he's really supportive of my career and I think he secretly wants my job :) kekekekeke.

We bought this apron during our visit to Dom Perignon's maison, Epernay a few years ago.

Proud Chef with his mouth full of roast pork....bz chewing...krop krop krap krap. We forgot to snap upclose pic of the roast pork...coz once it was presented on the table.....it was WAHHH all gone!!! real quick!!! well u could tell fr Chef's face he was already enjoying it before serving it to the guests.

yup we are only 30 years old.....really young :))

all the great whiskeys of limited edition and limited productions, especially the sherry cask and mizunara. What a privleged to enjoy them, :)))


Happy Guests eppy hostess....
Beautiful CS must be trying to stress her points *as always*

Ben smacking his head....can't remember what it was about...while Cat was bz helping herself to more japanese whiskey.

It was also on 14th February 2015, that her husband fell in lurve with whiskey for the first time. When he was served alcohols that nite, Cat insisted that the hubby doesn't drink a lot. Now he's a true whiskey connoisseurs with knowledge spanning from production, the types of barrels used, its peats to the different style of whiskeys and of coz the tasting profile.

what is chinese new year without "Tong Yuen"???
and what is valentine's day without something sweet to end the dinner?
so JS made the ginger jus from scratch and with love of coz, but store bought frozen black sesame dumplings.

Not forgetting the birthday boy TC the Photog with Joey C

It has always been a joy to work with TC and *click here* to read about the making of one of the project we did together --> Shell Shell's Bridal Shower photoshoot

JS was so tired by now, from cooking hahahaha and drinking :P

Joey C, Cat, Beautiful CS, Monkey and BCBG Amy

and bcoz it's Valentine's Day, all ladies deserve a bouquet of flowers :))))
thank you for coming :)))) so blessed to have all of you in my life. But most of all thank you to chef for such an awesome dinner.

Touch N Go trip to Singapore

It was Valentine's Day and most importantly it was Chap Goh Mei which marks the end of 15 days long Chinese New Year Celebration!!! Sob sob sob the last day I could receive ang pow for the year. :P

Anyway the ladies over in this gang alwiz prefer a different kind of Rose when it comes to V-Day instead of the petaled ones. But petaled ones are alwiz welcomed they said. The men went WAHHHHH.

It was a short 3 days trip just for Food and Wines and Champagnes but most of all the company of great friends in Singapore. :))) And we ate and drank non-stop for 3 freaking days.


JS insisted to bring all the hobbits along and all they did were sat happily in the hotel. The hotel maid arranged them this way.

There's so many coffee place popping up everywhere in Singapore and Malaysia as well. This new coffee place located inside the beautiful heritage Duxton Hotel was just opened last week. It was good to have a break from all the food....and chaos and hectic Orchard Road. Just to be able to sit here, do nothing on its plush leather sofa reading some nice books.

On Saturday evening, we had a suicide dinner of Chilis....
There's Naga Jolokias *world hottest chili*, then there's som floral ones from Indonesia, some from Ipoh and Bird Eye chili from Sabah. In the end the spiciest were the green one from Ipoh and the bottle of Sabah Chili sauce.

J&J Jelina made sous-vide japanese eggs...not just any eggs but the very best ones from Japan. She called them Onsen Eggs :))))

After an hour inside the hot bath, cracked the egg and dropped it down into warm fluffy japanese rice...some soyu and Crispy Beef Fat, Finely chopped chives....then a certain Si Fu said he needed to add something else...it looked disgusting, almost like vomit.....can u see it?

CRAB FAT???
which he procured from Phillipine. Wat in the world is tat??? but it's so delicious...in the end it went into almost every dish that evening. GAG!!! cholesterol!!!!

Yummmsss!!!! comfort food at the comfort of a home, with no dresscode no corkage...drink all u want. When u are mabuk...just pass out at the couch. This is why we prefer to dine at home esp when we have so many great chefs among friends. But most of all great wines...and Awesome company :))

Till the next trip M People. Thank you so much for your time, wines, champagnes and laughters..I had so much of fun :))
*hic*

Happy Valentine's Day

Pic taken from my fav cupcake site www.glorioustreats.com

Nope, we don't really celebrate Valentine's Day bcoz JS said it....everyday is V-day hehehehehee. But we are gonna be on the road heading somewhere for more Makans hua hua hua. It's gonna be his working-road-trip :P

Monkey is off till next week. However she went back to the office to officiate her 1st day of working in the chinese lunar calendar....13th Feb was my huat day...so I went back to the office just for a few hours :))))))

so Happy Valentine's day and also Happy Anti-Valentine's Day
whichever you are celebrating or not celebrating just spread the LOVE every other day
Love is what keeps us goin in life
:)))))))))))

*read about last year's Valentine entry*

Valentine's Day

*pic stolen from innfitters*

I'm not yours and you are not mine
will you be my Anti-Valentine???
kekekekekeke

okie I better not spoil the air, mood and ambience out there
esp for those lovey dovey couples

doesn't matter if u are single or married
gay, lesbian or bisexual
animals or cactus
one thing for sure....LOVE is very powerful

so spread your LOVE not just on this day...14th of February
but every single day
:)))))

As for u...JS......we gonna grow old like this
nyek nyek nyek

I know u'll continue mocking me everyday every hour
imitating all my super irritating habits and behaviors that irks u
*or was it me doin that to u??? >.<*
aiya...whichever way doesn't matter lar....heheheheh right??? rite????
u with me??? hehehehehehehehehehehehehe

sorry u are sooooooo stucked with this Monkey
tee hee heee

so tonite u are cooking
hehehehehhehehehehhe and as usual I'll do the dishes
let's hope I don't pretend to be drunk on the sofa and u end up having to do everything
WUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA
oppppsssssss
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Happy Valentine's day folks
and Happy Anti-Valentine's Day to the rest
:))))))))))))