Posted in Fotoblog on Jun 24th, 2009
<Canon 50D with Sigma 10-20mm: ISO 125; f/5.6; 1/30 sec>
This was shot at the entrance to the so-called Blue House (or Mansion), located on Leith Street, Penang. More popularly referred to as Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion, this UNESCO Heritage site once covered an area of 56,000 sq ft including the garden, servant quarters and kitchen. […]
Posted in Bon Appetit on Jun 23rd, 2009
Since I’d be outstation on Father’s Day, my daughter arranged to celebrate the event one week ahead of the actual day. We went to Room Eighteen - one of the Tai Thong Group’s chain of restaurants - for dinner. The place can be rather crowded during weekends since there’s currently an 18% discount on a […]
Posted in Bon Appetit on Jun 18th, 2009
I’ve come across the term cordon bleu many a time but never got down to finding out its meaning. That was until I tasted Chicken Cordon Bleu at Food Foundry … remember the melt-in-your-mouth Mille Crepe Cake that I recently posted?
According to a source that I read on the World Wide Web, the term […]
Posted in People on Jun 16th, 2009
Last week, I met up with John Vong PhD, a long-time acquaintance whom I have not met for donkey’s years. We did keep in touch via the occasional emails. He was based in various countries on job assignments. At one time, he emailed from Timor-Leste, which became the world’s newest independent state in May 2002, […]
Posted in Bon Appetit on Jun 14th, 2009
My wife and I were watching a Asian Food Channel programme on Vietnamese cuisine, and that gave an idea for dinner that evening. Besides, it has been sometime since we ate Vietnamese food … ah, fond memories of our visit to Hanoi in December 2008. We went to Tropicana City Mall in PJ’s SS20 where […]
