Category: Food Review

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Comfort Of Home

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Did you know that chinese soup are not only good for health but good for your skin as well.  It’s said that chinese soup can make your skin glow, therefore, I grew up drinking our chinese soup on a daily basis. After migrating to Canada, I haven’t been able to drink as much as I would love to because I can’t find watercress or lotus roots at all , plus chloe and PB refuses to drink them when I do happen to get some from the city.  So a whole pot of soup , takes a long time to finish.

But I’m so blessed because the Zhu’s from the chinese restaurant always gives me a few bowls when they boil some, so I don’t have to boil them or hunt for the ingredients.  So tell me I’m not lucky or what?  So I like to do stuff in return for the Zhu’s but they never want me to do anything back for them.  I’m totally blessed, comfort of home in Canada.

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Gifts From Taiwan

More gifts !!!!  I’m so blessed and so lucky to have great friends from all over the world.  This came in this morning and I was definitely surprised.  My g/f from Taiwan, Taipeh sent these over to me just because.  She said she haven’t sent stuff to me for a long time now, so she decided to grab a few things and send them to me.  It’s crazyyyy!!  look at how huge the box is!

Look at all the food!!!  postage alone is about $300 cdn dollars and the amount of food were lots !!  I am grateful ! but I already have loads of food from Regina, who had just sent me a box as huge as this from Singapore.

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Gifts From Singapore

Yes!  another huge box of goodies from my g/f Regina in Singapore.  Regina is one of my oldest friend from work and she is married to a wonderful man and has gone very far in her career.  Although I haven’t seen Regina for a long time, she continues to be her kind self as always.  I’m so blessed to have her in my life.  As usual postage for the box is so expensive – closed o $250 cdn dollars.

There were food, toys for chloe and a lot of other goodies.  Chloe was so excited to get her Merlion stuffie and her tote and coloring stuff.   If you remember, sometime last year, Regina bought Chloe her instax camera and gave her like 10 boxes of films.  I’m so grateful but wished she didn’t spend so much money on us.

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Missing Good Crepes

When the local Farmer’s Market opened its door down on Water Street the first time more than a year ago – the food the impressed us most was the crepe. But it was Chef John with his  chefwear  and his professionalism  with the making of the crepes that impressed us most.  It was just too sad that he chose to retire only after a year and today as I stepped into the Farmer’s market, I cannot but helped feeling sad because I do missed his crepes and they were the best I’ve tasted thus far.  He was generous in his ingredients and he took his time to make the crepes individually and enjoyed every moment of it.  Someone else is in the spot that the creperie was in but I really missed the crepes so much and no one can make crepes as good as Chef John, he is an icon !

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Inviting Play Dates & Mommies

Chloe is currently in Grade 2 and besides her school friends – we also make sure she has friend from other schools. And since she is taking up so many extra-curricular classes, it is inevitable to be asked out for play dates and vice versa. But my play dates usually involves the mommies as well – that way moms can get together and eat, chat and drink – and most importantly relax. Thank God for electric grills , because we can grill just about anything for everyone. So everyone brings whatever they want to feed their kids and just throw it onto the grills I have and it’s that easy. I make lots of ice lemon tea and lemonade for the kids – and for us mommies – I add in a bit of my special liquor – like the cranberry ones that I bought locally from Lunenburg. My play dates are always a hit – because we have the trampoline – the swings and those big inflated castles for the kids to bounce and slide.

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Chinese New Year Goodies

Chinese New Year’s goodies started coming for me and Chloe from all over the world. Friends from United States, Montreal, Toronto and all the way from Australia – came for us – the last 2 weeks and I haven’t had the chance to post it up on my food blog – but I’ve started stuffing my face with them of course. Chloe doesn’t know how to enjoy it yet – and PB – he wanted me to have more of them – so that I can get my fill and don’t feel so home sick. I thought no one makes these pineapple tarts that my mom makes but I was wrong – someone did and it looks almost like the ones my mom bakes every year during Chinese New Year when I was a kid. These pineapple tarts are so good – they are very expensive – so I’m eating them slowly and enjoying every bit of it. I already got some weight loss pills because I know I’m going to put on so much weight – from all the goodies that I’ve received. But hell if anything is going to stop me from eating them! hahah!

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A Fish Eater Who Won’t Eat Salmon

Chloe is a fish eater – but she refuses to eat salmon because it is not white in color. We all know that salmon is the best kind of fish to eat and I won’t fry the salmon – because I don’t like frying. I usually bake my fish – and wished she would eat some good fish instead of fish and chips. But nope – she refuses to eat my baked salmon – but when we order fish and chips – no problems at all – in fact – these days she eats more fish – than she did a year ago. What a strange little girl right?

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Picky Eaters

So I was asked are picky eaters born or brought up to be one? We were invited to a birthday party today – and as usual – as m uch as the kid loves to go to parties – she refuses to eat anything at the party. Usually the parents would have fruits, pizza and pop for the party – even during chloe’s own birthday party – we had pizzas, chicken wings, fruits, chips but as usual – she won’t eat them.

The expert said that picky eaters are raised that way because of their parents but I can tell you that’s not true – in our household. We’ve encouraged and asked her to try everything and even bribe her to try new food – but nope – no way even if her life depended on it. So when I read on Parents Today while looking at some term life insurance quotes that picky eaters were made to be one – I cannot but shake my head – if only they knew how we’ve tried all ways to get Chloe to try all sorts of food. *sigh* – so for those parents like myself – don’t feel bad when you read the same article – i know it .. and you know it.

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The Fussy Eater

By now – you all know that I have a very fussy eater on hand. Unfortunately, for us – the school do not seems to understand how fussy our lil’ brat is – therefore, we try to order lunches for chloe from school – when we see something that she might eat. And if she doesn’t – we hope the teacher will see it and understand why we have to make a trip to school everyday to bring her food.

So this week, they had ham and pancakes but Chloe only ate like half a pancake for lunch – that’s not good at all but at least she was honest about it and told us the truth about how much she ate. Anyhow, PB was joking that no more lunches from school – that way he doesn’t have to give up his Padron for the brat’s lunch. But seriously, I’m not gonna fret about it – i used to – but for now – i’m just gonna count my blessings and be glad she is eating fruits – tofu, noodles and rice.