3 Jan 2014 – Otto Ristorante****

Wed: thank you to all for starting 2014 with laughter and fun times! Appreciations to Bev for her multi posed shots, food&gifts, Aya for her info on Japan, Ting for the cheese&gifts, KiWi for the Lakka, CH for food&gifts! Made seafood pasta, salad a New Year Punch to kick in 2014 🙂

KiWi was feeling the aftermath from his New Year’s Eve bash but was a good sport with the punching and we finished a bottle of Lakka/Cloudberry liqueur on top of the punch 🙂 🙂 Pix credits to Bev.

Thu: Lawrence arrived from KCH to test drive Les’s new Rolls-Royce, a sleek blue and silver 2 doors fast back. The last time in a Rolls-Royce was in the early 1980s/HKG catching up with Lock&May who were visiting her family then! Congrats with the new car, Les and with a car like that, is a call to another celebration 🙂 🙂 🙂

Thanks for an excellent dinner, fantastic wines (brought from Les cellar), good service at Otto Ristorante**** located in the Red Dot Building at Maxwell.  Tomino cheese (yummy) with Parma ham, Wagyu Beef Carpaccio, Crispy Sucking Pig and a little pasta with shavings of White Truffle which was out of this world that pix will not justify the taste! Another die die must try. That is THE way to start a New Year 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

Fri: Mica, love The Peanuts: A Year’s Worth of Smiles and Blessings and certainly a smile for today. Thank you!

Truffles – anyone who does not declare himself ready to leave Paradise or Hell for such a treat is not worthy to be born again – Maurice Goudeket,