Jann's BLoG

Yes, bye bye 2008. A new year ahead. Buffet lunch at International Seafood.. and tonite, a small dinner with the Teos and Bez going to have some friends over. Photos should appear tomorrow. Meanwhile, here's this afternoon lunch. Venison with black pepper sauce Szechuan Eggplants Beef with green onions one of my favorite, Spinach with 3 different eggs.. Scallops with asparagus Sliced fish with blueberry sauce... yummy! Shrimp with red wine... and shrimp with wasabi

Hey hey, been away for a while.... No posting of the trip.. isn't that weird? Well boils down to simply being lazy, still in holiday mood. Loaded tons of fotos in facebook thou. Too many to post in blog.. Have survived 2 weeks with no computer, no MSN, no blogging, no emails! No internet connection! Not just me, even the 2 boys! That's pretty amazing in these days and age. But we had a great 2 weeks pounding the street of Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan. Was cold. Very cold. Apart from some slight drizzle in Paris and pouring rain when we arrived at Rome, we had mostly dry weather; good for our walking tours. Worst experience would be when we arrived at Roma Termini Station. Not sure why but must be the back platform cos we somehow got out from the side of the station and it was a pretty shady area. Had some problems locating the direction to the hotel. To make matter worse it started to drizzle and with one hand towing our luggage and umbrella in the bag, we got prett...

Two nites ago we were invited to a Blog Party at Tosto. Now, don't get it mixed up with Toast, the other chain in town. That is so local and even though I've never try it myself, my picky son, Bezner, does not recommend it. And i tell you, he is picky. If it don't meet his standard; well... Now back to Tosto . This is a completely different story. It is located in T3 Changi Airport and T2 (both arrival halls). And isn't airport a fav location for locals? An Italian Cafe in Singapore Airport. You don't have to fly to Italy to enjoy authentic Italian expresso and sandwiches... that's the whole idea. I have never been to Italy yet. Will only be there next week, so can only tell you after that if Tosto really has an Italian ambience. But for now, let's concentrate on the most important winning factor - the food. We were given a crash course on Italian coffee; latte macchiato, expresso, arabica, robusto, la creme...man, all these vocab make me sound like an exper...

Heehee, that's what they used to get when they got into mischief and believe me, it works very well. But that was then! They were really afraid and it was usually accompanied with big drops of tears too. They were face the wall when told to and 5 minutes seemed like an eternity. Now, they just giggled all the way... Oh back then they did that and some funny faces too... they thought I was not looking. But most of the time it worked. Best punishment ever.

Partly inspired by Dom's banoffee's pie. Took a walk to the nearby RiverVale Mall to buy bananas and condensed milk after reading his blog.. But the bananas over there looks pretty much like those that Dom bought before going to NZ.. So it's a tub of chocolate ice cream instead. And straight off the tub.. thats the way the boys would eat it. Of course with popo exclaiming; "eating in the bedroom!!!!!!!!!!"

Birthday means eat, drink and be merry.... And that's the way it is for lucky me with so many wonderful friends and sisters. First to come, my special "Cashmere Mafia".... lunch at International Seafood in the old Big Splash location in East Coast Parkway. Yummy and value for your money. So good that I suggested this same restaurant when Nancy bought me lunch on Friday. It's a ala carte buffet with 40 different dishes and a dessert spread to choose from. And that include sharksfin soup and abalone too..... Did not count how many different dishes the super aunties did but probably not as much as when we went back with Alex and Daisy. We ate so much and when last tally, only managed 17 out of the 40 dishes! And according to the waitress, no one had yet managed to sample all 40 dishes in one seating. Maximum was by 2 couples and that were 32 dishes out of 40. And all these for $22 per pax. American Express got an additional 10% off. This is what i called Value for ...