LE DÎNER CHEZ NABIL

Dinner at Nabil's home tonight. Actually I had French lesson tonight but Chris suggested me to have french food instead of learning French. This offer tempted me!! :P Finally I chose to have French food + practise French at chez Nabil!!

I met Chris, his mom and Nabil at IFC first and we took the taxi to Nabil's home. It's my 1st time to go to Nabil's home, his flat is so BIG!! What a waste for him to live alone :D

We had some sweet wine first, the sweet wine was so tasty and fruity!! But I think I can't find it in Hong Kong since Nabil brought it from France. I will definately buy few bottles of this wines if I go to France next time!!

And we had some bread, cheese, sausages, bolc de foie gras, rillettes (I have no idea what it is, they told me it was made from pork). It tasted good with the bread.

The cheesese didn't look like cheese! They tasted so strong and I'm not so used of this kinda cheese. I told them it didn't taste like cheese and Nabil made fun of me that coz I have never tasted real cheese :D

What a interesting tasty meal and I was so full!! It was a really relaxing night and I enjoyed a lot!!

UN ALBUM DE PHOTO

We got a new bookshelf!! So I've been busy for cleaning up my stuff today. I've thrown away a lot of useless things and it also recalled some of my memories. I found a photo album collection that someone gave me, it was too big to fit in my old bookself and I kept it somewhere else before.

I didn't really go through every single page of this photo album but I do like it a lot. Maybe I just don't want to finish reading it so soon. I thought I forgot this album already but when I see it again, it's still special for me. I feel silly tho it makes me want to say thanks again to my friend :P

AC'S BELATED BD CELEBRATION

We celebrated AC's belated birthday tonight. FC suggested this "Cafe le must" French restaurant since she just had dinner there a week ago.

This restaurant offered a four courses set dinner and I chose to have foie gras, cream soap with mushrooms, steak and cream caramel as dessert. So far the food was ok since it wasn't too expensive. I liked the steak but the foie gras was only ok and the dessert wasn't good at all. Their service was good tho and they offered a free tiny birthday cake for AC. But the birthday cake wasn't soft enough and AC didn't like it :P

THE DAY AFTER TYPHOON

Haven't seen Christophe for a while and his friend has come to Hong Kong for vacation so we were chilling out today. We planned to visit The Big Buddha but becoz of the unstable weather, we went to Discovery Bay instead. It's my second time to go to Discovery Bay. Last time when I went there becoz my friend was playing for the dragon boat competition, I didn't really visit Discovery Bay much.



Comparing with Lamma Island, I more like Discovery Bay becoz the house looks more impressive :D We had a walk and then had drinks at the bar. It was really relaxing!!





Since there was nothing much to see in Discovery Bay so we took the ferry back to Central and then had a walk in MK.

Then we had seafood dinner in Jordan. The food was good but the service was bad. Seems they are short of staffs so we had to wait for long time when we needed help.

"Scallops? I guess"

After dinner we had dessert, Laila ordered papaya with hashma but she didn't know what hashma is. We explained to them that it's good for skin and it is the oval of frog and she was quite shocked LOL Laila didn't want to eat after knowing!! Christophe and Nabil dared to try but I think they don't really like :D It's not that disgusting, isn't it?

TYPHOON + BLACK RAIN

It's a early typhoon in this year!! Signal #3 typhoon doesn't mean anything to me especially on weekend. It brings heavy rains!! I didn't want to go out but my friend's back to Hong Kong and we had gathering tonight. Someone didn't show up becoz of the rain!! Bad excuse!

We planned to have Italian food but it was fully booked so we chose hotpot instead. The food was okay and the price was reasonable. We were quite enjoyed. After dinner we went to Kyoko's new flat to take a look. It's in MK and it's very convenient!! Comparing with Tin Shui Wai, I do think MK is much better. Looking forward to have party at her new flat soon!! :D

BRAVO LATATA

I have been working too hard recently and I just want to have a nice meal to relax myself so I went for a dinenr at Bravo Latata tonight. This restaurant got a lot of good reviews and it's really worth to have a try!!

This restaurant provided free champagne before the meal, it tasted sweet and good! Then we order a house white wine and had oysters as a starter. They don't have many choices for oyster and they only have Perle Blanc and TG1. I liked Perle Blanc coz it was very fresh, sweet and delicious!! TG1 was good too but a bit too salty.


I quite fancy smoked food and this smoked eel was great!! It was so soft and it tasted so good!! Eating with lettuce makes it even better!!

The pan fired foie gras is my favourite too!! Oh I loved the sauce and this foie gras was one of the best that I have tasted before!!

The stewed beef knee was quite good, it was very soft and I felt like it was melting in my mouth!! It would be perfect if the sauce was better!!

The mushroom sauce was very creamy and it was perfect match with linguini. But it's a bit too much if I ate a lot. Few bites is great!!

We were too full so we just ordered one sesame ice-cream and crême Brûleê but the manager of this restaurant was very kind to offer special dessert set for us. We had a free cocunut ice-cream!! They were all so delicious!!

It was a very great dinenr and I enjoyed a lot!! Wanna go there again soon to try different kinda food!! :D

TODAI GATHERING

Dinner at Todai tonight. Hang said Todai is going to be closed soon so we have our "last dinner" at Todai. It's my 4th or 5th times to go there but I think the food is not as good as before. Once again Picky didn't join us this time becoz of some reasons. We don't care anymore and we still enjoyed our dinner without him :P

Hang and Fiona bought a flat in Ma On Shan!! Wow rich guys!! I think I gonna start to make an investment!! I have no idea for the shares market tho...


After dinner we had a drink in a bar but this bar was bad. The cocktail didn't taste good at all. I should have ordered the beer!! And I don't think I will go that bar again!

CRAZY WORKLOADS

I'm gonna crazy!! The damn stupid new system sucks!! Why should I have to work on this new system? The new system got a lot of bugs and it is totally not user friendly. My colleages and I had to work until 2am today... I'm extremely tired and I'm sick of it!!

NEW TERM - LEVEL 7

Another new term for French. I often want to revise my French during the term break or holiday but I don't have time. My French still sucks!! My French teacher for this term is Eric again!! Oh no!! I don't really like this teaching method but I have no choice... At least he is better than the Chinese teacher... Well it would be a harsh boring term for me...

HIKING AT SAI KUNG

It was a nice sunny day and we went hiking from Hoi Ha to Wong Shek Pier. It was quite an easy route and we only hiked for around 5 hours.

Yiu and Mei Ki brought the cooking set with them so we could cook some simple stuff!! What a shame that Chef Lim couldn't join us!! I still haven't had chance to taste his cooking yet!! We only boiled the sausages, fried the hams for making sandwiches, made tea and cooked sweet dumpling for dessert!!

It was my first time to see the real star fish! But I guess it was dead already :D Didn't dare to touch it tho... We found many living things on the beach since the tide was out. Someone even wanted to kill the crab :D So cruel!!

After hiking we had dinner at a Korean restaurant at Sai Kung city centre. This restaurant is opened by a Korean couples. We ordered a 4 people set with stone pot rice, stewed ribs, Korean pancake, roasted mackerel and spicy soup with beef. The stewed ribs and the rice was so good!! Yummy :)

MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS

I barely watch Wong Kar Wai's film coz his films are reviewed as "artistic" and "boring" :P But I wanted this film becoz I like Jude Law and Nathaile Portman. I'm not sure this film is typical Wong Kar Wai Style film or not but I do like the visuals and the mood of the film. And the background music is very good and enjoyable. The plot is only ok but the film is beautifully shot with its neon colors and moody style.