I hate Farewell

Last week, Y had invited us over for Kyla's birthday as well as sorta their farewell party.
I am going to miss them tons! I always pop by her house which is 2 streets away, she is always so happy-go-lucky and so are her 2 adorable daughters.

Yet, another friend gone, oh well, she is only 6 hours drive away, hopefully if Kenny is free, we can pop over to say Hi~

Week of potlucks

First I had potluck with my wonderful Japanese friends, I always enjoyed a tea session with them whenever and wherever. I cooked curry chicken and fried daikon cake while we had fried rice and very yummy pork ball soup (some kind of Japanese stew) from the other ladies.

I also had an international potluck with a new friend from Spain and an American-mexican, both very friendly and awesome ladies to hang out with. We had potato-egg omelette, which I learnt is a common dish in Spain, it is very fluffy! R cooked beef stew which she must had simmer for hours because the beef is sooo tender. I cooked fried bee hoon, I was racking my brain for what to cook actually but I guess the idea is to let them try our daily dishes, if they didnt like it, at least they tried it. ;) I hoped they enjoyed it. Note the handsome fellow in the picture with his dog, he is so adorable and cheeky. Hah.

A wonderful dinner with new found friends

2 weeks ago while TY and I were at the asian mart, we bumped into a couple who were looking at us, wondering where we were from, we speak Chinese, English and Malay! Hah we didnt even realise we were speaking in all 3 languages! The Tan family had invited us to their house last night for a feast! Happy we were!! There was pisang goreng (I think I ate 10 of them, yum), asam prawns, lo ba and eggs, and sambal kangkong. A special treat -durian ice cream for the boys and mango ice cream for me woohooo. It is indeed a meal made with love! Our compliments and appreciation goes to Aunty! I hope to learn cooking from Aunty haha I must go visit her more often ;) We also made many new friends from Indonesia, the first group of SE Asians we had met in Pensacola actually. Isnt it awesome! Their house is fully furnished, with most of the game consoles, the boys were fighting over the guitar hero, they also have a pool table, 2 huge flat screens...you name it, they have it!

Mardi Gras @ New Orleans

Wikipedia has deemed Mardi Gras in New Orleans as one of the most important carnival celebration in the world. The parades in New Orleans are organized by Carnival krewes. Krewe float riders toss throws to the crowds; the most common throws are strings, usually made of plastic colorful beads, doubloons (aluminium or wooden dollar-sized coins usually impressed with a krewe logo), decorated plastic throw cups, and small inexpensive toys (I got a giraffe soft toy!!).
Commercial videotapes catering to voyeurs had helped to encourage a tradition of baring breasts in exchange for beads and trinkets. While standards of what is considered "indecent exposure" might be relaxed during Mardi Gras, and women showing their breasts is documented since 1889, when the Times-Democrat decried the “degree of immodesty exhibited by nearly all female masqueraders seen on the streets,” the practice was mostly limited to tourists in the upper Bourbon Street area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_Mardi_Gras

We also visited Acme Oyster House after watching Man vs Food in which he has to eat 180 oysters in 1 hour. No, none of us have the guts to do that! But we did enjoy their food very much! The raw oysters were fresh and succulent, the char-grilled oysters were drizzled with cheese, their cajun food were also the best we had eaten so far!
We managed to catch 2 parades and spent the night partying in Bourbon street! A crazy weekend~
There will be more entries following, next week is Pensacola's Mardi Gras Parade. Cant wait!

NYC's skyline~

Some of my most beautiful pics of NYC's skyline

From the Top of the Rocks (Rockefellar Plaza)

The view of Manhattan from Brooklyn

I am still updating on my NYC's holiday trip. Amazing!

The CNY is officially over...

3 new boys had just joined us and guess what they brought from Singapore?

Yeah!! 2 Yee Sang sets, we made a huge yee sang with 1 lb of fresh tuna from Joe Pattie to celebrate the 15th day of CNY.

It is also JS's birthday, I ran out of muffin cups hence I made the carrot cake in a tin, phew I am glad it turned out great.

Wishing all a happy and healthy Ox Year from all of us!

Absolutely our favourite- Babbo Ristorante

Also situated in Greenwich Village, I present to you our fave restaurant of the whole trip-Babbo Ristorante. It is opened by Mario Batali who is my favourite American Iron Chef. If there is one TV channel I will suffer withdrawal symptoms from not watching when I go home, it is Food Network.

Mint Love Letters with Spicy Lamb Sausage

Linguine with Clams, Pancetta and Hot Chiles

Cheese for dessert, I probably had eaten more cheese in my 6 months in America than my last 2 years back in Singapore.

We had Q for 1 hrs 30 mins to get a table at Babbo to celebrate our anniversary. Their policy do not allow you to wait elsewhere, you have to be physically in the restaurant to be on the waiting list. My advice is to make a phone reservation, they open their reservation 30 days before your desired date.

We casually mentioned it was our anniversary that very day, look how sweet the staff are!

Babbo Ristorante
110 Waverly Place

+1 212 777 0303

I love Greenwich~

We were staying in Greenwich Village, admist the historic residential buildings. It is very quaint, loved it! Especially the location, we are a stop from Chinatown, a few stops from downtown and most importantly we are steps away from many wonderful restaurants!

One of my favourite- Cafe Bruxelles 111 Greenwich Ave New York, NY 10014

I am so carving for their pommes frites (fries) and mussels! I loved their friendly staff as well, only complaint from Kenny was that their beer was pricey.