London trip!!

Before all this, I just wanna give a big thank you huggie to my brother for helping me with the blogskin...THANK YOU!!! really appreciate it.. it took like just 8hrs maybe??..u're not going to charge me your hourly rate, aint u? C'mon we are siblings!!

Finally!! the Long-awaited London trip!! Yaay
(actually it's because i was waiting for the London pictures from Ken..keke)

As usual, i bought a box of Bengawan solo pineapple tarts for Ah Ken. This guy arh, tsk tsk...asked me to smuggle a packet of "Bak kwa" into London. Sorry dude! Customs says "no meat products are allowed into UK" so make do with the pineapple tarts lah..

so DAY1
......to the famous London duck rice store!! Yummy Droolz
Ken said they gotten some award and stuff..who cares! as long as the food is good..
As usual, we ordered half a duck, roast pork and char siew and a plate of veggies with rice!!
Chomp comp away~

Damn sinful lor..that plate of Duck rice!!


check out the fats!!

========> i deliberately enlarged the picture just so u can see how thick the layer of fat is!!!
uZap is not gonna help burn THAT away!!!

And this is me happily chomping on the sinful and fattening duckie!!!

好好吃喔！！

But dun play play lor...As u guys are aware, the standard of living in London is beri high..
its thus no surprise when the bill for the famous duckie came to around 30pounds
i.e. S$90!!!!!!
But being the nice and sweet Ah Ken, he footed the bill!!
Thanks worr...when u come back in Jun, i promise to bring you eat your favourite dry mee pok noodle!! you can eat as many bowls as u want!! My treat..keke

here's the namecard!! go and give it a try if you are stopping over in London!!
Chef Jasmine moi gives it 4stars!! out of 5 of course

After dinner, we walked around town looking for Marks & Spencer. Moi promise to buy stilton cheese for Tom. It's basically blue cheese.
Wikipedia says : Blue cheese is a generic type of cheese in which veins of Penicillium mold run through the crumbly texture. The cheese itself is not blue, but the veins inside give it blue dots.
READ: MOLDY CHEESE!! yikes...
Note: I'm not particularly fond of blue cheese but Tom! he absolutely worship blue cheese!!! That's an understatement..he can have it for breakfast, lunch, dinner and in between snacks.. that's how much he LOVES blue cheese..i wouldnt be surprised if he loves Blue cheese more than me!! (Jas to Tom>> just kidding) its definitely an acquired taste for pple like me...

So back to the story, Ah Ken and moi was walking around looking for Stilton cheese. (Jas to Ken>> hey,thanks for combing the whole of London looking for stilton cheese..keke, just few hours of walking only mah..can help burn off the fats from the duckie meal earlier)..
till now, he's so amazed about the amount of blue cheese i bought..
Wah lau, so many choices leh..and it doesnt help there's so many brands and varieties!! there's medium stilton cheese, mature stilton cheese, mild stilton cheese!!! still have all the award winning Stilton cheese leh!!
(hmmm, mabbe thats why Tom had to eat Stilton cheese for breakfast, lunch and dinner... issit too much??)

DAY 2
Cukoo coo coo...
woke up at 8am
( fyi, the sun rises at 4.30am in the morning and sets at 9pm during summer..talk about a long day!!)

TODAY is the day we are going to Stonehenge!!! Yaay!!!
Met up with Ah Ken..woo hoo~ on our way to the main train station to get our tickets *excited*

Ah Ken initially wanted to get the tickets online..But the train we were suppose to hop on was no longer reflected in the website. In the end, we had to get the tickets personally from the main train station.

When we got to the ticketing booth, imagine our surprise when the guy behind the counter informed us that the train line heading to Stonehenge was currently undergoing some engineering works!!! WHAT!!!!
dumbfounded~~
and i was so looking forward to Stonehenge *crushed*
the alternate route will be to take another train, change and then change to another bus or something!!
travelling time = 4hrs to reach there and another 4hrs back!!
which doesnt make any sense since the direct route just takes 90mins!!... ARGHHH

Apparently, the tube undergo engineering work once or twice a month..( am i lucky or what?) and its always on a SUNDAY!!
like Sunday is the day when there will be more pple travelling right??
They even closed the line to Healthrow airport!! i find that hard to comprehend...imagine the Singapore MRT closing for engineering work on Sunday!! i bet there will be lotsa angry protests and complaints coming from Singaporeans (maybe another white elephant saga?)

Will our plans ruined, we decided to go shopping downtown. Yupz...more Stilton cheese for Tom
*where's my stonehenge?* SIGHZZZZ

Dinner was at this Malaysia joint serving nasi padang

i realise something: whenever we are overseas, we tend to look for chinese joint or asian cusine..

so here we are (moi understand from Ah Ken that this place is like the famous malay food joint in London)
Geez, am i lucky? two days and i have been to two of the most famous asian eateries in London..

The redang beef and curry chicken are not bad, but not fantastic either.
Not the kind that makes you go like
"wahhhh!! Shiok~~" with a blissful look
The redang in Singapore probably taste better!

I mentioned that to Ah Ken and he was like "HELLO!! This is London leh! you should be happy there's beef redang to makan"

Well, at least they had teh tarik!!

With that, my London trip came to a nice ending..except "WHERE"S MY STONEHENGE??!!"
*throw my fists in the air* Grrrrr

anyway, Ah Ken promise to bring me to Stonehenge on my next London trip
*promise worr* pinky swear...

and Ah Ken===> Yesh, i heard you..the next time i come to London, i'll buy you your favourite " Chicken in a biscuit"
apparently its not found in the supermarket shelves over in LONDON!!??!!
Weird ~~