Mmhmm… I’m drooling just looking at this picture. Nothing beats biting into a chewy-gooey melty chocolate brownie. It’s even more awesome if it spells out a ‘happy birthday’ message. =] These homemade brownies were for my 21st birthday; they were made with love by my two super awesome first-year roomies! They knew exactly what to get me. As the saying goes, the way to a (wo)man’s heart is through his stomach! So true!

Nothing beats the brownie cupcakes!

I didn’t get a chance to take a picture of the actual noodles because… well… I pretty much devoured it when the noodles came! But let me assure you, this bowl of noodles is definitely well worth the 5 bucks!

mmhmm... wonton noodles

Watermelon Cake

A cake that requires no baking! A fun summer activity for children. You can chill this for a couple hours before serving, but for best results, consume cake the same day you make it.

* 1 small, red, seedless watermelon (about 10 pounds)
* 2 cups Lemon Lowfat Mountain High Yoghurt
* 1 8-ounce tub whipped topping
* 1 pint strawberries
* ½ pint blueberries
* ½ pint raspberries

This looks amaaaaazing. Tempted to try this at home!

Coming back from that way-too-short trip in Taipei, I had to rest and just chill out for a bit. After a full day of resting and doing absolute minimal, I was ready for more food and more excitement!

Ding Tai Fung @ HK

Dinner at Doraya - me, Tracy, Sunny, Charlie

I didn’t realize everything had such a fobby pose. xP And all of our names rhymed.

Victoria Harbour - from the Kowloon side

Vegetarian restaurant with grandma

Creative flower art @ Tai Koo Shing

Fake honey spareribs (蜜汁金沙骨)

Fake black bean fried fish (豉汁炒魚)

Look at that fake shrimp! It's so real

Temple Street!

Mmhmm... steamed milk and steamed egg!

TsingDao on the streets!

5 days 4 nights in Taipei, what a whirlwind trip! 5 days is definitely not enough. I miss Taipei lots already!

//– WARNING: this post is image heavy –//


First time flying with EVA Air. Exciting news!

Hello Kitty @ Taipei TuoYuan Airport. A whole store dedicated to HK and all the airport goodness!

Flying over the clouds…. crazy colours! Alright, it’s just my phone being weird, but still, crazy colours!

Fahrenheit greeting us at the airport! How exciting! I was stoked to be in Taiwan at this point. haha

Eight Elephants Hostel – best ever! Very cozy place. Would definitely recommend it to all the travellers out there.

It was my first time staying at a hostel, and it was a superb experience at Eight Elephants. The staff were very friendly and they all spoke English quite well.

ShiDa Night Market. The super awesome thing about Eight Elephants is that it is quite close to ShiDa Night Market. It’s about 15 minutes walk away to all the great Taiwanese food goodness!

Mmhmm… red bean + green bean shaved ice! Even though it really wasn’t that hot at the time, the shaved ice was still awesome. That pile of ice… Dan and I barely finished it! And yes, this was our dinner.

The next day, we went to Taipei 101. Passing through the Taipei Main Station, who did we see? Leehom, of course! I *had* to stop and take a picture. Craziness!

Walking towards the 101! We could see it from miles away.

On top of the world! Or at least on top of Asia-ish (the new building in Dubai takes the crown for tallest in the world/Asia).

Day 2 starts off at XiMenDing area. Lots of little boutiques and lots of street food. And lots of teenagers. I felt old walking through this area. Fortunately, there was no celebrity autograph sessions this saturday, so we got lucky. It could’ve been even more crowded!

At the North Gate! It really wasn’t a huge tourist attraction, but we saw it on a street map and decided to explore a bit. Jumping pictures are so epic! <3! Late that night, we went to another night market. Shilin Night Market... it was packed. The streets were filled with people. More eating for us!

Day 3, I finally woke up early enough to try out one of the breakfast places near Eight Elephants – the sticky rice roll. It was made fresh to order. It had crunchy fritter(油條), sour vegetable (酸菜), soy-sauce egg (滷蛋) and fake meat floss (肉鬆, i asked to make sure it’s vegetarian-friendly).The picture’s all blurry, but trust me, it was absolutely amazing.

After a full day of walking around, dinner was at Ding Tai Fung (鼎泰豐). We stumbled upon this place while walking around 東區. Man, this business operates at maximum efficiency level! When we asked for a table, hey told us the wait was about 10-15 minutes long. The hostess also handed us our table number, the menu and the order form. By the time we decided what to eat and checked off the order form, they were ready with our table. They took our order form and asked us to wait for a bit as they were still cleaning off the previous table. When we were finally seated, we were served hot tea immediately. Our food came about 5 minutes after we sat down! We were quite hungry already, so we devoured the plate of veggie dumplings. The ninja-waitresses were very attentive and they continuous poured us tea whenever we were done the cup. They would come out of nowhere! Stealthy! Just writing about it makes me drool.

Time to leave Taipei! I’m gonna miss ya, but rest assure, I’ll be back soon. ♥

Today started off strong – had some amazing fishball noodles (魚蛋河) and tofu dessert (豆腐花).

魚蛋河 at 德昌魚蛋粉

豆腐花 at some oldschool restaurant in the North Point street market

More shopping at Causeway Bay in the afternoon. It’s definitely getting repetitive. Might have to scoot on over to Kowloon for those shopping tendencies.

Later at night, I met up with a couple more Waterloo-ers for some HK movie magic. We watched Toy Story in 3D and in Cantonese. Craziness! But what’s even crazier with HK theatres? The seats are marked! Marked and you can’t change seats. That idea is so foreign to me. I’m so used to if I want good seats, I’d just go earlier. But it definitely doesn’t work that way. They also don’t play a lot of commercials prior to the ‘feature presentation’.

Toy Story in 3D was pretty cool. After the first couple of minutes, the 3D became so natural that it doesn’t really stand out anymore. Good thing or bad thing? The movie was definitely longer than I remembered. Almost an hour and a half! The jokes were also quite different, since I’ve only watched it in English. I didn’t recognize any of the voiceover actors either.

For all the Iron Man fans out there, there were these life-sized Iron Man thingies outside the Causeway Bay theatres! They were still setting up that night… so we had a sneak peak!

PS. Hi Derek! <3!

second night in a row at Molly Bloom’s! Good times. =]

Healthy… yet unhealthy? That sums up this week.
I had a deadly poutine on Monday, stretched and strengthened on tuesday and wednesday. So… this cappuccino from Starbucks balances out everything?

Stepping class tomorrow! Looking forwards to it.