Stop Eating Frogs!!!

Because we're endangering them! At least so says this report!

I had my last Kermit over a year ago, and it was gooooood. Soaked in Chicken Essence and steamed while tied with stripped spring onion. Good times.

That Kermit is quite a looker ain't it?

Ember

"Ember is the colour of your energy." Cheesy? I know. Food? It was actually quite good but for some reason, I wasn't too impressed with it.

The things that I loved about the restaurant:

1. Small restaurant atmosphere
2. Great wine list
3. Friendly service
4. Interesting Menu
5. Good Desserts

Things I didn't like about the restaurant:

1. Food portions were small
2. Friendly but pushy service
3. Menu was too short
4. Not enough specials
5. I could have whatever I had some where else.

Don't get me wrong. I like the place. The problem I had was like a jilted lover, I wanted to love the place but realized that I was too good for the restaurant. Get what I mean? I had a great time at the restaurant even though I went there in a bad mood but something wasn't right. Something in that mediocrity didn't cry out "Come back to the restaurant again!" What it did tell me was "I'm good, and I like where I am."

But don't take my word on this. Go and try it yourself. I would recommend it to most people. But not to myself.

Holy Spirit!!!

Espirito Santo really isn't known for its cooked food. Its normally just a butchery but for some reason, they have added a food service. So out of my innate curiosity to try new things at new places, the wife and I decided to, how you say, try the restaurant/butchery.

I have to say that for a butchery/restaurant, food is quite expensive. My bowl of Brazilian Crab Soup was $15 a bowl, the antipasto platter was $23, and my burger was $25. Considering its right next to the butchery, I thought maybe it might have been cheaper? But it was not.

Another thing that I did notice was that the service was somewhat fast. Not in a good or bad way, but more bad than good and less good than bad; that was amusing to me. The servers really didn't recommend anything that was good, or didn't recommend anything at all, but they were friendly.

And considering we were the only 2 people there, food was somewhat taking a long time to be served. That was odd. My burger tasted like it was marinated in a wine base that I didn't ask for, and the crab soup was decent. The antipasto platter was average and I should pretty much leave it as that.

I might actually come back to the "rest-uchery," because they did sound like they have some pretty cool Brazilian dishes that I want to try. But I believe with all that is in my pinky finger, that you can miss this place out.

P.S. I never figured out what Espirito Santo meant until I looked it up!

All Things Fancy Club : Advice No. 3

So I was having a conversation with my friend Pampadam Pam about going to a restaurant for dinner together with the wife and she vividly hints to me that I have to wear the "proper attire," for the restaurant rather than in my usual "uniform," of my shorts, t-shirt and slippers.

Indignant, I remind my dear friend of close to 17 years (No, not to suck it like what you think I might have said but really did think that phrase.) that movie stars, along with teaching regular people like you and me what to wear, who to listen to and who to vote for, have taught us recently that having a mustache is a totally and absolutely right thing to do. For men I mean. If you're a woman and have a moustache, something is wrong.

Case in point, Brad Pitt, Robert Downey Jr, Tom Selleck and Wolverine. Because of their mustaches, they are never refused entry into any restaurants. Think about it. Who can refuse such an iconic facial accessory? Are you telling me a maitre d' is going to prevent Wolverine from entering a Morton's Steakhouse because he is in a wife beater and jeans? Never! The "stache," gives you access to ALL places.

As I finally made my point to Pampadam Pam, I would also like to tell every one of my readers of this blog that I will be wearing my slippers, t-shirt and shorts to the restaurant tomorrow. But more importantly, I also will have a moustache.

Thank you very much.

Greed Is Good!

I don't know how they do Christmas in London but Carrie (my London based sister from Sex in the City and relation in real life) isn't feeding my niece ZZ enough food!

Poor girl has to eat off the Christmas tree .... either that or ZZ is mixed up because earlier they were making ginger cookies for Christmas.

Thinking About A Diet.

The Man, the Myth, the Legend! 167 time Olympic Champion, winner of the coveted Oscar award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Superbowl MVP, 26 time MLB Golden Glove winner, 1995, 1974, 2008 Daytona champion and Winner of sportsperson resembling most to the monster from the movie 300. My abs hero, MICHAEL PHELPS!

Words cannot express what I think of MP but a diet might be suffice. I have been unwittingly putting on weight nowhere on my body save my "ab-scular," area and I need a solution. I was watching a re run of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. ( Singapore only shows Leno for some reason but no Conan, I love Conan, even Letterman is better than Leno, but Colbert and Stewart are funnier but I digress) It didn't really hit me the first time, but when I saw the re run a second time the next day, I told myself that I needed to go on a diet. A MP diet.

I have to eat this much food a day:

The diet should consists of - Breakfast: three fried-egg sandwiches, with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise, two cups of coffee, an omelette, a bowl of porridge, three slices of French toast and three chocolate chip pancakes. Lunch: a pound of pasta, two ham and cheese sandwiches, with mayonnaise and several bottles of energy drink. Dinner: a pound of pasta, a pizza and several bottles of energy drink.

I am so ready to lose weight! 12,000 calories a day will definitely do the trick!

All The Drinks I've Drunk

I was asked to clear my bottles of wine from under the kitchen sink that I have drunk since July and I was surprised by the number of bottles that I have. 38! (There are actually more but I threw some away or left them at friends' houses)

Since this is the New Year, I would like to thank all my friends who have shared drinks, spend time, listened to my views on why 30 Rock is the best show on television; and more importantly why Anne Hathaway might be the hottest woman on earth and why I will name my child Tiberius (regardless of the sex of my future child), after Captain James Kirk.

To more drinks, time, food and stories shared in 2009.

Non Food Related and REASON WHY I DON"T WATCH LOCAL TV

This nightmare was shown on local television for the New Year's Eve Party.



And they even got the countdown into the New Year wrong.

How sad.