CHAI BOEY 菜尾 - MUSTARD GREENS STEW

Chai Boey, a sour spicy mustard greens stew with that awesome succulent roasted pork, my in-law and helper do love it very much. An easy dish to cook which can be sufficiently served for a whole family dinner. Every house shall has own recipe for chai boey, all is about our mother or granny. A traditional home-cooked dish has made flood of childhood memories. 

SESAME CHICKEN RICE 麻油鸡饭 - FOR KID

Ryder prefer to eat rice than porridge, so what kind of rice to cook is always my question. It can't be salty, can't be oily, can't be tasteless. Also, it must be step-less for me, a working-mother who only rest in weekend. With leftover of chicken broth in fridge, can just easily get this sesame chicken rice done, such a great sesame fragrant of rice, Ryder and hubby had finished it all. 

PORK FLOSS RECIPE

Never had sufficient dishes for my kid, Ryder has became very fussy in chowing since 1.5 years old, should be as same as some mommies' little one. Ideas of food never stopped. If your kid like to chow porridge or rice, pork floss is one of the best ingredient too add into. Should anyone could not consume pork meat, you can replace it with chicken breast as well.

7TH MONTH UPDATE - MY CERAMIC BRACE

Have just done monthly treatment for 7th month, basically have nothing special to show after each treatment but this time round it comes with different pattern.

DINE AL FRESCO - THE BARK CAFE

After couple of weeks of confinement due to corona virus outbreak issue, is time to get myself and family a good Sunday lunch. Instead of going to indoor restaurant in shopping mall, an outdoor al fresco cafe restaurant will be a better option. 

Location ★★★★★

Atmosphere ★★★★★

Food ★★★☆☆

Service ★★★★★

Price ★★☆☆☆

STIR FRIED TOMATO EGG - FOR 2 YEARS OLD BABY

Ryder is much more fussy in choosing his foods, he will splits out if the food is not as tasty as he like. Everything must be fresh and tasty enough. I usually cook for him in only Sunday, which is my non-working day plus my helper is on day-off. For lunch, usually just one dish with plain rice, to be well served for this little beloved one.

HOW I CLEAN MY MAKEUP BRUSHES

Don't you really know how important of whether your makeup brushes are clean? An uncleaned makeup brush can destroys your face skin no matter how many luxury skincare products you apply. 

JALAN TUA KONG LAU LIM MEE POK - BEDOK ROAD

No one can ever resists from having a delicious Bak Chor Mee, a typical local noodle which Singaporean can have it during breakfast, lunch or dinner. Although Bak Chor Mee is being selling everywhere in Singapore, but to go back to the authentic one will be a great deal for yourself. Look at how charming is this Jalan Tua Kong Lau Lim Bak Chor Mee which located at Bedok Road.

Location ★★★☆☆

Atmosphere ★★★☆☆

Food ★★★★☆

Service ★★★★☆

Price ★★★★☆

WANG DAE BAK - KOREAN BBQ

Wang Dae Bak is so well known and high-reviewed Korean BBQ restaurant in Singapore central area. The one I went is 98 Amoy Street branch. Grade as:

Location ★★☆☆☆

Atmosphere ★★☆☆☆

Food ★★★☆☆ 

Service ★★★☆☆

Price ★★☆☆☆

BABY HAVING RUNNY NOSE? - LOLLABABY NASAL ASPIRATOR

 

The biggest worry for mother is when their children falls sickness, the little one used to be very well taken of, we wanted to give them everything best under our capability. However, sickness cannot be 100% fully prevented. Some elder folks even say, sometimes a light common fever is actually indicates that the baby is having normal healthy body.

MY KIEHL'S SKINCARE

Time to share my recent daily skincare products and they are all from Kiehl's. Find how skincare is so much important to woman especially when aged above 25. Aside from those high end brand, Kiehl's brand is so much affordable in selling price, and mild for skin. Register your membership at any Kiehl's outlet quickly while they always have so many promotion and offers going on.

LILO PREMIUM IKAN BILIS POWDER - PERFECT BABY FOOD

Always only best stuff we want to give to our beloved little one, what does really matter is their daily intake. When food is so much important to them, human being usually make it tasteless which they may thought taste lighter means healthier.
Indeed those heavy condiment salt and soy sauce are certainly a no-no, thus mommy used to boil natural ingredient to make the soup/dish/porridge be more concentrate and tasty. But this method consumes more time, more electricity and gas usage.

IS IT PAINFUL TO WEAR BRACES - CERAMIC BRACES

A lot of people would have thousand worries before decided to put the braces on, so did I. However, if you have never start, you would never know. Let me share with you my true real experience, and explain "is it painful to wear braces". Hope every single tip helps to those who's currently flooded with million worries of braces.

RESOLUTIONS CHECK

Back to my Year 2017 resolutions, herewith checklist after 2 years. Completed 4 out of 7, quite a not bad result. Kind of greet feeling that when you check back what goal you preset for yourself, and you really did any of it. Let's work out new resolutions 2020 together in next post.

RACIS AT FULHAM BROADWAY LONDON ?

Bundle of enjoyment we experienced throughout the London & York trip but, nothing is perfect. 

Despite we were being warm welcoming by so many hotels we stayed with, we met kind & gentle British, but we still end up with this suck incident. 

Our travel area in London mainly in Vauxhall, Leicester Square, Waterloo and Wembley. In York, we stayed a few days at both neighbourhood and city area. Everything was great! Till we back to London again and alighted at Fulham Broadway. Never think that we will meet the racist treat. 

1. Staff threw the change onto palm

There is a donut kiosk Krispy Kreme located in the mall when tapped out from Fulham Broadway underground station. The staff lady didn't even wants to serve us when we choosing donuts. When she picked the donuts for us, took our notes, she was then giving back the change by throwing onto my palm. Of course will never expect her to say 'thank you'.

LONG PHUNG VIETNAMESE RESTAURANT - JOO CHIAT ROAD

No one should ever get fed up with Vietnamese foods. Instead of local Singapore wok fried style of food, traditional common Vietnamese foods used to be slightly lighter than ours but not tasteless. That is not impossible to enjoy a good Vietnamese meal in Singapore nowadays, this Long Phung should be one of the best in east Singapore area.

Long Phung is not that highly exposed well-known restaurant in Singapore but at least it always get full seated in the restaurant shop especially during dinner hours. I personally visited twice and got these photos taken from different timing.

11 THINGS THAT TOURISTS SHOULD NEVER DO IN SINGAPORE

Photo from: Wikipedia

Singapore is a country that runs on rules. Some called a "fine country" because there is a lot of rules and regulations to be strictly followed, with no excuse and exoneration if you convicted. 

However, it also considered as one of the safest & cleanest country to travelling to. Let some quick guidances below to help you avoid slip ups when travelling in Singapore.

PHILIPS AVENT FAST BOTTLE WARMER

Mommies always get fatigued by night feeding a newborn baby. Newborn baby cries for milk 3 hourly or even anytime less than that. That sound of crying always wake everyone up in the midnight, because mommy/nanny takes some times to make formula milk by keep testing the water temperature, or either to warm up the expressed breast milk by steep it in hot water. 

LONDON & YORK FOODS - NON TOURISTIC

Good foods hunting never stops wherever whenever. Proudly claim that these foods discoveries completed without researching was done in prior. I used to do research for recommended foods in advance before travelling but not for England nor any other country that I will be travelling in next. 

Reason being, the food/restaurant recommendation for tourist in Google is always not authentic, with crowd of tourists, long queue and higher price. You will never feel local even when you are in other people country. Change your travel style, check in your Hotel and browse around that area for better food places. Got the name of restaurant and then Google it for review checking. 

Let's see these discoveries I had completed in both London and York, they were with almost/totally no tourist over there, much lesser crowd! 

CLINTON STREET BAKERY

It is never too late to share dessert though I was having it half a year ago. If you are fed up with traditional ordinary desserts like pancake with vanilla ice cream, waffle with chocolate dip, banana boat etc, take a look at these served in Clinton Street Bakery.

Not that difficult to discover a good restaurant/cafe, just google the keyword and you will receive more than enough of recommendation with real consumer reviews. And that was how I got to know this Clinton Street Bakery, with nearly full score of comments.

When you google about this Clinton Street Bakery, you will definitely see boom of photos and recommendation of their signature blueberry pancake and chicken & waffle.

LONDON TRIP TIPS

May I share with you some tips for travelling to England (so far from what I experienced when travelled to London and York). All gonna be summaried in points to avoid a very long sentence post.

BABY FULL MONTH HAIR CUT SERVICE

Based on my family Chinese traditional that a newborn baby shall shave their hair which including eyebrow hair to welcome the very first fabulous full-month. But with a month old baby, I personally insist not to bring him out for anything except medical appointment. Therefore, to engage with a home-visit style hair cut service is definitely a very good decision for this.

POSTNATAL JOURNEY : BREASTFEEDING

About two months into being a mother, getting used to fatigued by night feeding. But overall is still much better than during confinement period. Chinese confinement meal does usually include a lot of ginger, herbal, red dates etc. Which these caused me feel hot all day long during confinement period, especially the ginger does warm up body very much. Was sweating a lot during feeding time even at night. 

DONGDAEMUN JAJANGMYEON @ DONG HUA CHINESE RESTAURANT (东大门东华饭店)

If I were asked about the top favorite food I ate in Korea, this authentic jajangmyeon (jajang noodle) will definitely be the one. I ain't a light taste food lover, and if you are same as me then this jajangmyeon must could be one of your favorite food.

YEAR 2018 FIRST NEWS

Yes my Baby Lee is on the way coming! 

MAXIM'S PALACE DIM SUM 美心皇宫点心 - HONG KONG

Brighten up your entire day with Hong Kong local dim-sum in a grand palace style restaurant. Palatable breakfast plus awesome Hong Kong harbor sea view, that shall be a new experience added in your Hong Kong vacation. 

MY SKINCARE PRODUCTS

I often say that you have only one chance to take care of your skin. Not to wait until you see signs of aging before you actually do something about it. Must invest into it before you saw tell-tales signs of damage. My grandma and mother started preached skincare to me during since my childhood. My mother presently aged 45 but her face skin is totally out of flaw, wrinkle and pimple, that is just insanely perfect and so all my siblings' skin.

ALL ARE JUST A DREAM

I remembered back in a couple of years ago, I had read and impressed by a short sentence.

"What if, you waking up from a long nap and find yourself in the primary school classroom, you realized that you are just a kid aged 7, and everything happened is just a dream which no high school, no university, no office, no job, no growths, no boyfriend girlfriend, no marriage, no anything that you thought you experienced it or gained it or lost it in the past few decades. All are just a dream but you remembered everything of that."

And you will know how important is your study in future, you can also know what better course to take in University;
And you will know how important to be obedient to your parents;
And you will know how important to take good care of your health, and so your family's;
And you will know how to make friends, which no false;
And you will know how to survive in this society;
And you will know how to choose your right partner;
And you will know how important to earn more and live well.

Indeed you can know how to make everything better and nearly without fails owing to everything is restarted.
Yes that is fantastic but, and so now you knew: you only live once, no repeat.
Cherish what you still have.

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU ARE BORED

Most of the time we are bored with no certain reasons. Bored of being bored because being bored is boring. Lets share with each other in regards what to relieve boredom. There will be 2 categories: For The Energetic Type and For The Inactive Type. Of course, I had classified myself as The Inactive Type, I used to being a couch potato at home and so I feel good.

What to do when you get bored? For The Energetic Type

1. Go for movie. To research movies ranking through cinema website and get yourself a favorite movie, this could probably spend minimum 3 hours in total. 

WHO TO FOLLOW ON TWITTER

Sometimes we might get influence while reading to some posts/articles/status. When you are not willing to read a long sentence article, perhaps some short sentences will be more suitable for you. I used to thumb dragging down the Twitter page, and read sentences from my favorite Twitter people. That was quite tired for me to eyeing advertisement posts on other social media platform especially both Instagram and Facebook. Twitter is fine to cures and relieve stress at most of the time, with no complicated photos and advertisement as well. Therefore, to share in regards who to follow on Twitter. Had you been following them before?