are you stuffed to the brim just yet? ready to handle more?
arancini on a pleasing sunday morning, yang and i headed over to hyde park to feed the swans.. well that was the plan but the ducks, seagulls, pigeons and crows decided to join in the party as well.. and i must say, swans are really thick creatures. delayed reaction was a trait found in most and whenever i flinged them a piece of bread, they would move their necks aimlessly around looking for the treat when HELLO!? it has already been snapped up by the seagulls.. then they stare at you, wondering where the bread has magically disappeared to..
sad but true.
tired of nature and disillusioned by beautiful but dummb swans, we flea-ed (excuse the weak pun) to portobello market at nottinghill gate.. i never really understood the appeal of this popular flea market.. most of the items either look like they were dug out from someone's attic CORNER or like they never touched detergent in donkey years.. well, i guess that's what beguiles most vintage-nistas but really.
great soup at young cheng's on our way off, we chanced upon a small cafe, tight with customers and being typical singaporeans, we could not resist checking the hype. turns out they sold this italian treat called 'arracini' which actually is whatever-filling-they-have, wrapped in risotto and deep fried. it didn't take long for us to decide that we wanted to try one and we had the spinach+ricotta cheese filling..,. i like the filling as i don't normally take spinach nor ricotta cheese but it was an agreeable comnination.. the aracini was surprisingly ungreasy too..
lunch took place at young cheng where we reveled in the luxury of their complimentary pork and vegetable soup. ooooo... with the aroma of last night's beef rice radiating in our minds, we decided to order it again but instead of rice, we replaced it with thick rice noodles aka hor fun.though the dish was without a doubt stunning, i felt the brunt of the noodle's oiliness and would indeed remember to order the rice version the next time round..
our loot from the chinese supermarket.after lunch, yang and i lost ourselves in the chinese supermarket where we oooahed and aahhed over the most trivial items such as pandan cake and tang yuan.. i think i was almost dewy-eyed with nostalgia when i saw tins or milo and sambal olek.. sighh
though the remains of lunch were still churning in my tummy, we popped into this chinese bakery where they sold ham chin peng with fillings such as kaya and coconut.. haha.. it was really funny because i think only singaporeans refer to it this way and as we were getting all excited over it, we must have sounded like country bumpkins from the fishing village of singapore "ham chin peng ham chin peng" i had a bo luo pao which frankly disappeared into the realms of my digestive track sooner than i could have snapped a picture.
at king's cross station, on our way to durham, we shared a cornish pastry with had the pork and apple filling. essentially, the pastry was like a curry puff, only baked and not deep fried.. they had many many fillings ranging from lamb and mint to brocolli and cheese to spicy chicken.. well, it was tasty but rather ordinary too.. which doesn't explain the queues i had seen forming back at covent garden.
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