Laughing Baby

This is not a food or scent related post.  But I just wanted to share this YouTube clip anyway.  It’s been viewed over 50,000,000 times.  Great stressbuster . . .

Camaron Rebosado and Lao Kaipen

It’s been a good week for this foodie. We’ve had a range of goodies from Belgian moules frites, beef stew cooked in beer and trappist beer, Swiss fondue, to Chinese shrimp omelette and pan fried noodles.
I had just posted about how I miss camaron rebosado and as luck would have it, we found it [...]

Another Comfort Food Addition

Phoenix Garden, Congee Village, Wonton Garden are old favorite comfort food places for us. I can now add Hsin Wong on Mott Street to the list. We treated Boyie, Brian and girlfriend Fanny to dinner there the other night.
It’s not fancy and there aren’t any exotic Chinese dishes on the menu. But [...]

B. Cafe – Great Belgian Place

B. Cafe is a cozy Belgian restaurant on 75th St between 2nd and 3rd and it’s now our favorite Belgian. They have the usual – moules provencale, moules mariniere, frites and of course, Belgian beers. Marita tried moules cooked in Hoegaarden beer and garlic which was very good. I had their fisherman’s [...]

Melting Pot – Fondue

I’m not a big fan of restaurant chains so I didn’t expect much when we went to the Melting Pot Restaurant last night for dinner. It’s a fondue place in Westwood, NJ, more American than Swiss, and part of a franchise operation. We had the usual fondue which was nothing to write or [...]

Bouchon Sticky Buns

Notwithstanding our personal rule of not ordering the same thing twice, there are certain dishes and desserts that I find easy to make an exception for.  Like wonton with noodles at Wonton Garden and salty fish fried rice at Phoenix Garden.  And now I’m adding Bouchon’s sticky buns.  They’re Thomas Keller’s cinnamon buns and they’re the best I’ve [...]

Tasting Room

We celebrated Mother’s Day at the Tasting Room, an American bistro style place on Elizabeth Street. There was nothing in the menu that was particularly interesting to me except for the guinea hen and ostrich egg omelettes. I chose the ostrich eggs (I’ve never had them) which they served with chives and sour [...]

Scent Party

One of my birthday gifts for Marita this year was a scent party.  Picture this . . .  you bring a group of friends together, have some champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries while you get a mini-lecture on how perfumes are made by a couple of attractive, young French folks, then you start smelling a variety [...]