Healthy Tomato Breakfast Smoothie

I copied this from a Korean show called "King Of Food". I used to eat tomatoes sprinkled with sugar when I was young, and was interested to try this sweet & slightly savory idea.

Recipe (adapted from the show)

- 1 large tomato, cut into chunks

- 1 cup skim milk

- 1 tbsp honey

(They added 1 tbsp olive oil too but I omitted it because.... I don't have any when I made this. Ooops!)

Put all ingredients in a blender & pulse until smooth.

The verdict?

I like the flavors but the smoothie doesn't get smooth, there are many bits of tomatoes that makes drinking not too smooth. I feel that running the smoothie through a sieve would be such a waste. Have you guys experienced this? Any solution?

Healthy Dragon Fruit Smoothie & Popsicle - Perfect For Summer

This smoothie is yummy & refreshing, and it is great for digestion ;)

It's fun for the kids to make too! OB had a great time helping out & he generally likes things more if he's involved in the process.

In goes banana... Mama's heart stopped seeing him using a knife, but papa closely supervised him. Phew..

In goes the chunks of dragon fruit..

And then yakult, ice & honey.

Pulse in blender 'til smooth.

Cheers!

How was it?

All smiles! 

(And hello, beautiful poo poo, bye bye constipation! - oh gosh, being a mom has reduced me to THIS) 

The same recipe can be made into popsicles. Hello, summer!

Recipe

- 1 banana

- 1 dragon fruit

- 1 bottle of yakult

- a handful of ice

- 1 tbsp honey

Pulse until smooth in a blender.

Drink up, refrigerate, or pour into popsicle mold & freeze.

Cheers!

Sinchon Korean BBQ & Fried Chicken, Tsim Sha Tsui

This type of Korean BBQ places is so hawttttt right now. Thanks to recent craze of kpop & kdramas ;) 

We're happy to have stumbled into this new place near the fried chicken place with crazy queue (Lee's family) - I don't do queues! The cute place serves BBQ, some cooked dishes & fried chicken. 

We ordered a serving of beef. Generous serving, tender & tasty.

Our server helped us cooking it to charred but juicy perfection.

Hello, beautiful combo of flavors! Come to mama.

You guys might notice that I didn't add any raw garlic in here. I super dislike raw garlic... Hehehe. 

The BBQ pan was changed after every single serving is cooked. No burnt pan ;)

We ordered spicy marinated pork too.

Not bad, but I love the beef more.

The meaty meal's served with various small side dishes (banchan). Mostly are refreshing pickled vegetables to balance out the meat. 

Thanks to the recent kdrama "My Love From Another Star", SC had to have fried chicken & beer. So we ordered a mix of sweet spicy & plain.

I love that the sweet spicy one has light dressing, not as sticky sweet as the one from the famous Lee's family. The batter & the chicken could do with more seasoning, my dead taste buds find them underseasoned :)

And of course, we had to have the chicken with beer - thanks to the drama. I still prefer my chicken with iced coke though...

The drama crazed SC.

The BBQ place's walls are full of kdrama pics. Too cute.

We had a ridiculous amount of food for just the two of us, we had to take away the chicken. The food's reasonably priced. Too bad they don't take reservations. So, go early :)

Sinchon BBQ Korean Style

Shop B, G/F Woon Lee Commercial Building

7-9 Austin Avenue

Tsim Sha Tsui, KLN

Hong Kong

Tel: +85226775153

Signs That Your Man Is Crazy About K Dramas

He suddenly wanted chicken & beer instead of chicken & coke...

He suddenly wanted jajangmyeon instead of Indomie Goreng as midnight snack..

He went for HK$68 kimchi ramyun breakfast instead of HK$29 Satay Beef Nissin Noodle set.

I am speechless for the next ones...

He's definitely gone kdrama kpop cray cray.

All thanks to the recently crazy popular drama My Love From Another Star :D

Cath Kidston Inspired Afternoon Tea at Feast, Hong Kong

If you're mad about Cath Kidston, this afternoon tea set might be for you. Everything's served in cute Cath Kidston florals :)

But we can't eat porcelain now, can we? How about the food?

Classic fruit scone with Devon Clotted Cream & Strawberry Jam? Not bad :)

Sweets:

Rose cream filled macaron: I like the fragrance.

Orange blossom chocolate bon bon: too sweet for me.

Earl grey cupcake: moist with nice frosting, but I could use more earl grey flavors :)

Savouries:

English honey glazed ham & mustard sandwich, tea smoked salmon, horseradish & cucumber sandwich, duck egg mayo & watercress sandwich, asparagus wrapped in gorgonzola & cured English ham, sun-blushed tomato palmiers, & quiche lorraine.

They're not too bad, but could be much better. My socks weren't exactly blown off.

So, if seeing cute Cath Kidston inspired things floats your boat, go for it.

Plus, you get Cath Kidston rose hand cream & discount voucher to buy Cath Kidston's latest goodies.

The set is available for HK&228 for two on weekdays, or HK$195 per person (buffet) on weekends from 3:00 - 5:30 pm until 18 May 2014.

Thanks to East & Petrie PR for the invite.

Feast at EAST Hotel

29 Taikoo Shing Road, Island East

Hong Kong

Tel: +852 3968 3777

Email booking: feastreservation@east-hongkong.com