17 Dec 2024 – Private Home Cooking Dining

Sat&Sun: getting gifts, etc ready before #2 arrives – has been quite a weekend with a nasty cough&runny nose, lousy night sleep+rashes but this too shall hopefully pass soon…

On this 3rdSunday of Advent, my favourite ChristmasLights has been and still is from RegentSt,London/UK tastefully done in my eyes – pix downloaded. When it is something as beautiful as this, do not need to change.

The lights inside WheelockPlace,OrchardRd clever way to use this building as a tree and nicely done with simple white lights. May your holidays be as beautiful as these Christmas lights.

I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights – Maya Angelou

Mon: tkx to Les&Ivy for this delicious 8course tasting experience.

LuckyHouseCantonesePrivateKitchen 陶然居私房菜not sure you can call SamWong’s cuisine typical Cantonese but there is a lot of sincerity in the food. He uses charcoal fire for many dishes, including the boiled soups, reminding of where the cook used wood&charcocal fire for cooking in my childhood days. Marketing for fresh ingredients he cooks whatever he can find, thus menu changes daily.

OldHenSoup with sea coconut and cactus flower+many more other ingredients 霸王花海底椰煲鸡汤 – excellent natural taste without any trace of any artificial ingredients. RoastDuck 陶然烤鸭 marinated for two days, and then sun-dried for another day, unusual to get it served with pineapple&cucumber but a nice change.

Chicken – good flavours, SteamedPomfret 清蒸鬥鯧魚 again unusual to be served with ChoyPoh 菜脯 (Chinese sweet-salty preserved daikon radish, a preserved vegetables/pickles). After seeing the ChickenDish pix, JanS asked could they leave off the rooster head? My reply – food presentation is the art that whispers to the eyes before it dances on the tongue – but of course not all eyes see the same and as always beauty is the eyes of the beholder – hahaha

Quail鵪鶉. Crayfish Horfun 河粉, not crazy about the crayfish but one of the best HorFun tasted.

Pea pot shoots and dried bean curd sheets,barley,ginkgo nuts dessert 腐竹薏米白果糖水 delicious being not too sweet.

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Tue: NDCS&NHCS@SGH – these crossed my path on CantonmentRd while on the way to the hospital and was wondering if the chicken from last night’s dinner was perhaps a rooster or maybe the head of the rooster was used for presentation??

Another cracked tooth with more dental appts to follow up in Jan2025. AntiB was prescribed for the respiratory side as cough is still persistence and CTscan result is showing that there is a likely infection – another CTscan scheduled for Feb2025. Hopefully these AntiB will do the job to clear whatever that is not welcomed to be there… time will tell.

#2 arrives tomorrow and have never been so unprepared to receive anyone in my 4walls!

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