This came in the mail over the weekend.
Been a while since I've seen one of these. I recall my days in Perth where I wished and hoped that I'd receive a little note in my pigeon hole to inform me about a parcel that I had to pick up from the admin office. I'd probably received no more than 5 parcels during my 3 years there. Probably even less actually. However, I remember that each time I received one, I was over the moon. In fact, sometimes so excited that my heart beat so fast when I got down to the opening of the parcels.
This time, I'm in Singapore receiving a parcel from Down Under where sis is located currently. And this was what I got.
This really made my day. Thanks lil' sooks.
This caught my eye today.
It might have been some time since I've gone to the movies but somebody tell me that this isn't normal.I was watching a movie round about tea time today and these, around 20-year-old kids beside me started having beer out of cans! On top of that, they were sucking beer through a straw as though as it were soft drinks!And after all this while, I thought movies were associated with popcorn.
I've been blessed with the opportunities to savour varieties of food from my travels overseas. In the past year, I've travelled to great cities, have had so many interesting eats, so many pictures taken but no entries to applaud the ones who slog it out in the kitchen just so that they can see satisfaction on their customers' faces.The photos still stored in my hard drive constantly remind me of my unfinished work. I am in serious need of a jumpstart.
I was almost screaming for joy when I was greeted by a little box on my desk when I got into the office last week. J aka my boss remembered a little conversation we had and got me what I was craving for when she chanced upon IT.
Call me 'suaku' but having not visited Holland before, I never knew about the existence of Stroopwafels, a waffle snack with a caramel-like syrup sandwiched between 2 layers of thin batter. That was until Pei gave me a piece to try when her friend brought a pack home for her from Holland almost a year ago. She was munching on this constantly after her trip to Holland during her school exchange days so that would have explained why she was so excited and was raving about how delicious and addictive they were. Usually the job of 'raving' is mine you see. I couldn't agree more with her. Having always been fond of most things with caramel in it, I recall that a smile lit up on my face the moment I sank in my first bite. It was hands down addictive and I knew that I would have polished a whole pack off if it was placed in front of me. That being said, I started on scouring supermarkets, speciality food stores and even searched on the Internet on where I could lay my hands on these but nothing positive came up.Then J found it in an organic store and bought it for me after I told her how much I loved it. Ironically, they weren't made in Holland but Canada. Don't know if it had to do with the organic thing or was it because no one makes stroopwafels like the Dutch but it wasn't as good as I remembered it to be (Sorry J!). One main reason was probably because the stroopwafels weren't sealed properly causing the waffles to lose the slight crunch it should have had. Plus, this version has honey in it which I believe is not in the original Dutch recipe.The Canadian organic version didn't blow me away so I'm back again on the search. Just some trivia by the way. Stroopwafels were first made in Holland back during the late 18th and early 19th century and was made out of leftovers such as crumbs, in a bakery. If you'd like to know more, you can find more information here.Definitely a must-try if you haven't had it. Also, it would be great if anyone could drop me a note please if anyone has an idea on how I can get stroopwafels locally.
Apologies for being away for so long. I've been busy since the year started but I've resolved to get started on posting again. Whilst it's been quiet for me in the food front in the past months, I'm hoping that the coming days will start to get a little more exciting.Thanks for being so patient. I hope you're still around.
This post should have come earlier. I have been caught up recently and forgot that my blog turned 2 on 1 Dec. This coincidentally is also my 100th post since I started this blog 2 years back!
Back on 1 Dec, exactly a week after my Korean cookout, I caught up with the p.gals for a tea cum bbq party. I had a blast and I'm sure I speak the same for the rest of them. As usual, we shared our life updates, new haircuts, laughed at jokes, did silly things and spoke abt p.school stuff. Speaking of silly, our very intelligent Masters graduate, Da was slapping all sorts of condiments on her scone and did not even realise that she had been happily swallowing clumps of mayonnaise mistaken for cream!
Liz really did a fantastic job. We had so much to eat. Homemade meatballs, salami, scones, cheese spreads and nice tea coolers for our afternoon tea.
When the bbq got started, we had beef kebabs, chicken on lemongrass skewers. She even topped it off with a chocolate dessert and VODKA WATERMELON! Basically, she injected vodka into a watermelon and left it to freeze overnight. We were ooh-ing and aah-ing over the watermelon when it came out of the fridge, added more vodka and basically wiped it out by 6pm. Yup. Vodka at home. At 6pm. Us girls. Haa...
Everytime I get together with this group of friends, I feel like I'm back in school. Whatever pressure that I get from adulthood seems to just disappear for that few hours when we're together. I mean, I have known them since the time I was 7 or 8 years old so it's hard to not get sucked into the "schooldays" thing when I'm with them. I suddenly realised how much we've grown since then that day. Some have either graduated with Masters, about to graduate on a 2nd degree or starting a 2nd degree course. Then there are those who found new friends. Although time has flown by so quickly, I'm glad that after all this while, we're all still together.
