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My visit to Greece

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Greece has a lot to offer to all tourists, I can still remember all the best things that I’ve experienced in Greece. Aside from beautiful and relaxing scenes, the people were great. To make the long story, my Greek vacation was a completely wonderful experience. I was able to share my experience in Greece with my friends here through my mobile phone. Yes, you can still use your mobile phone while in Greece, just avail Sim Cards for Greece. Aside from making new friends, saw some beautiful new places, learned a ton and recharged our batteries. That’s what such trips are for, right?

I now carry with me a new happy place, and guess what. When things are stressful, I just open my cell phone with Greece Sim Card on it and look for the pictures I took. I close my eyes and remember sitting on the balcony of our hotel in Santorini, watching the boats chug through the beautiful waters of the volcano, or sitting with my mom and devouring grilled tomatoes and feta cheese, or wandering through the twisty little back alleys of Athens.

If you’ve never been to Greece, I urge you to travel, you should make the effort to go. Share your Greek experience to your friends and relatives with the use of low rates Greece Sim cards. For me it was a pilgrimage to the heart of philosophy and civilization, but it was also just an amazing, thrilling, relaxing experience all around.

Fine-dining Chinese feast

Friday, August 21st, 2009

I have experienced many exceptional fine-dining Chinese lauriats in my life: One of them was in a Hong Kong restaurant called Fuk La Moon, where we were sewed the best of Hong Kong cuisine.

In the US, I’ve tried the best of San Francisco cuisine at the Hong Kong Flower Lounge restaurant in Burlingarne. Vancouver also has its share of outstanding fine-dining places—like San Sui Wah, which boasts of one of the best dimsums, as well as the best-tasting fried pigeons.

I thought those were the only places that could outdo one another. I was wrong: My closest friends and I have been preparing for a reunion. There was always someone who said he couldn’t make it—until I told them it was going to be a lauriat prepared by one of the finest Hong Kong chefs in Manila today. Suddenly, everyone was available.

Most delicious

As soon as we sat down, we were served warm peanuts, which seemed like they were simmered in aromatic-flavored tea. After that, a crispy Peking duck was brought out, cut up and served in two ways. With Hoisin sauce on the side, it was pure perfection. Then, we were served the most delicious roasted skin of suckling pig. It was the leanest suckling pig I have ever come across.

We were then served a piping-hot bowl of shark’s fin and crabmeat dumplings in a superior broth. You ‘ètiuld tell that the chef put so much into it. Delicious!

Then, the main dishes started flowing in: we had roasted baby pigeon, wok fried scallops with XO sauce, wok fried tender beef with sweet walnuts and XO sauce, steamed stone fish in light soy sauce, sea manthis harbor-style (which is wok fried with dried chili, black beans and crispy garlic), steamed vegetable with garlic, salted fish fried rice, egg white fried rice with dried scallops and pine nuts, orange jelly and an East-West dessert, buchi with Valrhona chocolate inside.

Sauce

I highly recommend the beef dish, which was so tender that it practically melted in my mouth. The sea manthis looks scary before it’s cooked, but after it’s dumped into a smoking wok, it is transformed into one of the best seafood dishes. The chili and black bean sauce of this alupihang dagat was so good that we even mixed it with our rice.

Another scary-looking creature was the fresh stone fish, which, like the Japanese blowfish, can be poisonous when it’s not prepared properly. However, it’s terrific when prepared the way chef Choi wing Ki does it. It was steamd in light soy sauce. The egg white fried rice with dried scallops was something new and delicious, too.

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