Friday, June 7, 2013

Travel snaps - Tokyo

Crab - served in a stand-up bar / restaurant

Shellfish platter from the same restaurant

Midori sushi, Shibuya branch
people are queueing up for their good value and fresh offerings

Delicious ramen at Kichijoji with crispy fried garlic
and their fried rice was yummy too

Tokyo skyline

Jigokudani Monkey Park 地獄谷野猿公苑

Get up close and personal with your closest ancestors!

Mine!

Crossing the rope way

Sweet, mellow moment

Some don't play nice - just like kids

Nap time

Feeding and being fed
They spend a lot of time doing

Learning

Multi-tasking

Keep an eye on your bag!

If you're patient enough, they will come to you.

Huh? Really!

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Travel Snaps - London - restaurants, museums

Dinner at Tom Aikens, London (a few hours ago)


Brings new meanings to the word petit four
Foie gras mousse with pea soup

Beetroot mousse with beetroot jelly

Amuse bouche - Cepe meringue with crispy chicken skin

Bread

Egg and bacon

Baked scallop, yeasted potatoes, osso buco, toasted bread soup

Beef short rib, crispy shallot, beef tendons, tongue
Turbot, Everleigh Farm asparagus, sorrel emulsion, pine oil

Monkfish, Iberico ham, piquillo pepper puree, confit squid

Piglet Belly, braised & roasted, baked aubergine, smoked apple

Pistachio parfait, pistachio cake, pistachio praline

Wild Strawberries, poasched fraise des bois, caramelised meringue, aerated sorbet

Milk, reduced milk ice cream, frozen milk, honey jelly, milk crisps

Rhubarb fresh yogurt, vanilla oil, rhubarb parfait

Lunch at Ametsa with Arzak Instruction in Halkin Hotel


Violet macarons, Cookies macarons & Raspberry macarons

Ametsa - Moon Rocks

Lunch at Rorganic - sister restaurant of L'Enclume in the lake district.  (2 year pop-up at 19 Blandford St, London 

Squid ink tapioca waffle with wild garlic emulsion
Lincolnshire poacher cheese waffle with hay emulsion & pickled shallots

Unpastuerized milk in a paco jet = butter

Burnt mushroom cake, with garlic parsley puree drops 

Purple sprouting broccoli, buttermilk powder custard, barley & fennel

Reg's duck, candy beets, deepfried duck sweetbreads & mustard 

Sweet cheese ice-cream, pear, pine and malt
Natural History Museum - Dinosaurs





Sunday, April 14, 2013

A celebration of colors - London RHS Orchid Show

RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) Orchid Show in London