Cha cha moon...

I think we might have found our first "food court" in London! With all the bad news in the financial market at the moment, it's no wonder that more and more people and going to cheap and cheerful no frills restaurants instead of the mouth-watering but wallet-busting types.
This Sunday, we did just that… we went to cheap and cheerful cha cha moon with Adrian, Sharon, Lynette and gang. Cha cha moon is Alan Yau's latest venture; Yau is the guy who opened Wagamama, Busaba, Hakkasan and Yauatcha. Hakkasan is the only (I think) Chinese restaurant in London with a michelin star. Anyway, cha cha moon is the Chinese cuisine equivalent of Wagamama. All food cost £3.50 flat, portions are fairly small but its ok – we just got two portions!! heh heh… The most important thing though is that the food was GOOD. The tyrant and I were so impressed that we went again yesterday and we shared a plate of hokkien mee, cha kway teow, wanton mee and spring onion pancake… And the bill came up to £15! One funny thing that happened though was when the order was taken, I had the misfortune of being "corrected" by the waitress when I asked for Wanton Mian. She (ang mo huh) repeated after one or two tries: oh you want the "One Ton Mee-And", ok… I was thinking to myself, "err… right… but trust me lor, its not pronounced like that", anyway whatever… the Mee-And came and we gobbled it up in minutes. Apart from the food court price, there was also the food court/hawker centre style service, waiting (we had to queue for like 20 minutes) and atmosphere (everyone was taking so loudly, sharing benches and food was prepared in an open concept kitchen). All in all, it was an excellent find… and it looks like we'll be back.

http://eatlikeagirl.com/2008/05/13/cha-cha-moon/ I found this site while googling for cha cha moon...

Apart from cha cha moon, our weekend was also spent eating… heh heh… we went to our favourite Cafe Japan on Saturday afternoon and spent Saturday evening at Sharon's place where we watched X Factor while we had a nice home cooked meal. It was a bit odd though the combination of the food: we had buah kuluat, kong bak pau, grilled peppers with aubergine, cheesecake, scones with clotted cream and cheese… very cha palang right? Quite like us really… chinese origin, but with with a bit of ang mo influence

I want to buy a Blu-ray DVD player...

But my wife says NO!! Hymph!

Credit crunch....

The Tyrant...

Fishing "Must Dos"

Back to the topic of fishing... I've been thinking of what I "must do" in terms of fishing recently and here's a list... Non fishos will not understand...

1) Lizard Island, Australia - to catch a grander (more than 1000 pound) black marlin

2) Florida Keys, US - to catch the giant tarpon http://www.tarponsnook.com/Izzo9.1.jpg

3) Lake Nasser, Egypt - to catch the giant nile perch http://www.fishinginternational.com/location/africegypt.htm

4) Lake Ebro, Spain - to catch the giant catfish

5) Madeira, Portugal - to catch a giant blue marlin

6) Gloucester US - to catch a giant bluefin tuna

7) Alaska - to catch a halibut

8) Dun care where - to catch a salmon

9) New Zealand - to catch a broadbill swordfish

10) Cauvery river, India - to catch a mahseer

I think we've pretty much settled the name..

Last night I thought I'd try to pull a fast one on YL to change her mind and name our son Bartholomew instead....

Here was how to conversation went:

Me: Hey - do you know that Matthew was a tax collector before he became a disciple of Jesus?
YL: (pauses for a moment) Yah but tax collector GOOD what...
(End of topic of conversation)

hmmm.....

Woo hoo!

I've successfully mastered cooking sui yuk!! Woo hoo!!! This is after a number of not so happening tries... Now that I can cook both chicken rice and sui yuk, if all else fails on the law front, I can always be a chicken rice seller.... woo hoo!!! Little Matthew/Faith/Charity (in future) won't starve for sure...

Here's my resume pictures...
Siu Yuk

Chicken wings
Kidney soup