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Supporting chef friends: my happy place
Another Saturday, another lunch at a fine dining restaurant. It's been a while since I last showed some love and supported one of my favorite restaurants in Hong Kong, and when Hello Kitty saw a post...
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Delicious deep-fried veggie balls
Neither Hello Kitty and I are fond of restaurants who don't take reservations, and we don't care to line up for food beyond, say, a 15-minute wait. As a result, we have been strangers to one of Hong...
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3-star lunner
It's been a few months since Hello Kitty dined at Caprice. In fact, she hasn't been back since we got married there 3 months ago. We figured we would pay Hairy Legs a visit at the start of the new...
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Supporting restaurants: Japanese seafood lunch
It's been a couple of month since we last met up with the Film Buff, and much to my surprise, he requested that we do Japanese food for a change. Given the preference for cooked dishes, I figured it...
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Sunday beef
We've been scheduling lunches on Saturdays as our weekly gourmet meal out, but I wanted to have something nice on a Sunday, too. Unfortunately, I did not have the foresight to book anything in...
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Swedish winter in Indian summer
Another Saturday, another lunch at one of my favorite restaurants. It was 11 months ago - before the world's borders began shutting down - that I last paid a visit to Frantzén's Kitchen. Thanks to...
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Frying solo
Sankala is off lunching with a friend, leaving me to fend for myself on a Saturday. I wanted a meal that was a little better than a casual bite at a cha chaan teng (茶餐廳), but didn't wanna get killed...
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Disappointing Russian department store
I haven't been so disappointed in a restaurant in a long, long time. After the start of the Year of the Ox, we finally stopped working from home and working life went back to "normal". I decided to...
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Delicious high end Chiuchow lunch
Sankala had been wanting to try Howard's Gourmet (好酒好蔡) for quite a while, as she's heard a lot about the place. In fact, she chose it as the original venue of our wedding last year, before an...
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First star in the ox
We're still in the lunar new year festive period, and NC Chung has very kindly decided to invite me to lunch with the old gang for their team lunch. I was a little surprised when he picked Ryota...
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Life is more interesting without bluefin
It's been a few months since I last had some decent sushi, and more than a year since I was last in Japan. When the government announced that dining in past 6 p.m. was once again possible, I wasted no...
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When it feels just right
It's been a long, long time since I last had a decent dinner at a Chinese restaurant, thanks to the dining ban imposed by the government. When the ban was finally lifted recently, I was happy to have...
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Just the beef, ma'am
It has been, once again, much too long since I last caught up with Fat Donkey over a meal. This was partly thanks to the current situation, which saw the cancellation of a few planned group...
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Absolutely not a birthday dinner
I last saw My Favorite Cousin a month ago, and that was just waaaay too long. So I took the opportunity to grab dinner with her tonight. When the original plan didn't work out, I was ever so grateful...
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Shrinking Boy 2.0: day 1
It's been more than 7 years since I ended my nutritional diet program, during which I lost about 9.5kg. It took me almost 2 years to fatten back up to my weight before I started the program, I'd...
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Double disappointment
I have been wanting to open a certain bottle of wine together with Mr and Mrs Birdiegolf, and this time around it was to be Chinese food. Yong Fu (甬府) is a place that Sankala and I like very much, and...
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3-star classics
Hong Kong dining scene has experienced a strong rebound ever since the government once again allowed dining in during dinner service, and four people can sit at the same time and have a decent...
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Plus ça change
I am unable to celebrate mom's birthday for a second year in a row, thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic. I know mom misses hugging me, but there isn't much to be done. So this year, at Sankala's...
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Supporting chef friends: rare and funky
It was a few months ago that a couple of wine geeks got together to taste some interesting and relatively rare stuff, and we figured it was time for some of us to emerge from our cocoons. When our...
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Flowers in springtime
I was very, very excited about dinner tonight. The little sansho flowers (花山椒) are back in season for a short few weeks, and Goshima-san at Godenya (ごでんや) started bringing them in a few days ago. I...
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