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Thursday, March 4, 2010

清邁@Cooking School

我饞嘴,到清邁當然要想點時間學速成泰菜。

男友找到一家頗有好評的Thai Orchard Cookery School。所謂cooking school是女師傅A的家。庭院設有戶外廚房,屋子裡面有一家課室。當日的學員大都來自美國,在屋內看A示範後便到屋外開爐玩煮飯仔。


我和男友分別選擇學兩套不同的菜色。冬蔭公湯,我做的是沒有落椰汁的版本。


男友的椰汁雞湯,一點都不辣但是南薑味很突出。


學員們在A的指導下炸春卷。


我的素炸春卷,吃起來還蠻清爽的。


男友的串燒雞很香口,就是雞胸肉太厚有點鞋口,也沒法子,材料都是有事先為我們準備好的。


上過了湯和頭盤後,A帶我們一行十人參觀清邁街市。單是蔬菜已經有幾十種,放眼盡是不同層次的綠色,在這裡吃素絕不單調。


泰國人都用新鮮材料,椰漿和椰汁都是用新鮮椰肉刨成絲壓成的。


A在講解泰菜冬蔭公的靈魂: Lemongrass香茅、Galangal南薑和Kaffir lime檸檬葉。


泰式咖哩常用的有青色條紋的白茄子Hybrid Green Doll,旁邊深綠色一顆顆小小圓圓的也是茄子叫Petch Siam。


當然少不了番茄、指天椒、新鮮青胡椒和青檸。


離開街市我們回到課室學做main course。我煮的是紅咖哩豬肉,Panang Curry味道濃烈。我向來不喜歡在主菜中加椰汁,這個菜正好對胃口。


男友最愛吃的青咖哩雞比較清淡,帶有濃濃的椰香和羅勒葉清新的香草味。


我做的Pad Thai。一人份的材料,看上去有點寒酸...


男友那盤加了extra whiskey的腰果雞丁。


飯後甜品蒸香蕉糕,糯滑的口感出奇地清甜可口。


蒸了20分鐘的糯米飯。


蒸透的糯米飯加椰奶和palm sugar,伴點芒果吃。Man, life's good!

清邁@Elephant Camp

清邁城市裡頭真的沒啥好玩,要活動就得到城外。

Resort的餐廳在河邊,被陽光包圍下吃過豐富的早餐後。我們出發到Maetaman Elephant Camp同大象玩。


一般遊客show。比較特別的是大象表演畫畫。幾頭特有藝術氣質的大象artists,一筆一筆用鼻子繪出彩色自畫像。


大象們的作品。


騎大象過河穿梭於原野森林間。


萬里無雲。天,好像藍的有點過分。


去程騎大象,吃過簡單的lunch後坐牛車回base camp。


最後乘傳統木筏遊覽小河溪澗。


我的調皮男友在扮Tom Sawyer。


大半天的戶外活動很充實,曬得一身古銅色。可惜沒有太多時間,清邁還有其他活動很值得玩。喜歡刺激的朋友可以體驗高空Gibbon Flight飛越樹頂叢林,又可以嘗試挑戰激流玩white water rafting。

清邁@New Years Eve

我們住在清邁RatiLanna Riverside Spa Resort,住客大都是歐美遊客挺清靜的。下午做spa再躺在泳池邊看看書又一天。

房間寬敞非常,是典型的resort佈置格局。


巨型浴缸外有一道小小的人造流水裝飾。


瓶裝飲用水也穿上小小的民族衣服。


去 年聖誕新年假期在東京喝得一塌糊塗。今年New Years Eve沒有特別慶祝,我和男友決定避開人潮在resort房間靜靜地叫room service撐檯腳。老實說食物真的不怎麼樣。咖哩雞湯麵(泰國人喜歡放些脆麵讓口感豐富一點)、泰式香草海鮮炒意粉、炒雜菜(賣相油膩膩太恐怖沒有照 相)和不論不類質感像布甸的New York cheesecake。


向來對fusion菜沒有好感,總覺得這個炒pasta味道有點像豉油皇炒麵。


泰國人也喜歡一家大小的在喜慶日子放孔明燈。


午夜時分從房間露台看上去數以百計的孔明燈載著人們的祝福句子緩緩上升,為原本漆黑的天空披上點點繁星,真美。

清邁@Night Bazaar

是時候清理積存已久的blog債。

聖誕新年假在清邁度過,極力推介大家冬天到這裡遊玩幾天。十來度陽光普照天清氣朗,天氣好得令我等習慣呼吸污染空氣的城市人羨慕非常。


城市裡面活動不多,晚上遊夜市看看小玩意,滿街吃得撐著肚子,漫無目的隨處逛也挺寫意。


糖果、餅乾、特色乾果、鹹甜小吃排列整齊色彩繽紛的十分好看。


一大鍋滾燙紅豔豔的滷豬手。


新鮮出爐的泰北有名小吃炸豬皮和一卷卷的烤香腸。


喜歡清邁不像曼谷那麼鬧烘烘的人擠車多。泰北人很友善悠閒笑容滿面的,在這裡渡假比較不會有隨時墮入遊客陷阱的感覺。

Monday, March 1, 2010



整個二月份都不在香港,昨天晚上回家了。

有點不習慣天氣濕濕悶悶的,身體也好像變得沒那麼靈活,是時候勤力做gym了。今天是新年後頭一天返office開工,今年是充滿挑戰的一年,會有好多變動和轉變,一定要加油!

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Tokyo "Living Doll" Style

我在的英文檔攤剛剛post的網誌,太長懶得翻譯。
Recently I have been making frequent trips to Japan and am most certainly intrigued (and inspired at some point) by gorgeous Tokyo ladies (and sometimes gentlemen).
I came across an interesting article at brekky this morning, the title reads 'Cult of the Living Doll in Tokyo'. It talks about the two major distinct style genres in Japan - The Ageha (literally means 揚羽 Swallowtail butterfly) and The Mori (森ガール Forest girls). It's really not that difficult to spot the trend when I'm browsing in Omotesando or the narrow streets of Shibuya.
The Ageha trend started a couple of years ago and Ageha girls aim to look as much 'doll like' as cosmetics tools allow. Some of these gals reportedly wake up at wee hours in the morning and spend at least a couple of hours applying falsies, colored hair extensions, and layers of extravagant makeup until they are almost virtually unrecognizable... Of course it's not quite a complete look without loud lacy clothes, 5-inch platform-y heels and the cleavage enhancing gel pads.

• Ageha Style as seen in「小悪魔ageha」Magazine
The Mori girls have a complete opposite approach. They wear loose ethnic earth toned cottony dresses, thick tights and discreet unpretentious makeup (kinda reminds me of characters from Scandinavian fairy tales). They are different from the usual sporty nature-loving ladies that we know of... the essence of being a Forest girl is to assert an aura of fragility and not to show any form of aggression.
 
• Mori Style as seen in "A Mori Girl A-Z" in Spoon magazine
That pretty much sums up the two latest yet still considered minority style in Japan. Any of you beauties out there interested to give it a try? Before you even think about that, there is one major downside... apparently the butterfly/forest ladies have trouble finding a date. Both styles are waaaaay too high-maintenance and men still prefer natural-looking babes.
Having said that I do admire these stylish (in a different way) ladies. Just imagine the time and effort they put into their daily routine! Look, most of us are generally sleep deprived most of the time and having trouble prioritizing to-do-lists... who really has the energy to get up at 5am every morning applying rococo coils and bejeweled falsies?

2號補給站

Mission#2 of 2
補給站:新宿Isetan ADDICTION專櫃

衣服可以買High Fashion,護膚化妝品卻不能省。臉只得一張,襯下巴腮邊肉還沒有掉到心口位置,應該對她好一點。

懷著這種心情向新宿三丁目進發。事前到網頁做資料搜集,已經知道要買甚麼和如何配搭。到達ADDICTION的counter花了15分鐘買了兩個eye shadow,兩個blush還有兩個新的compact case。



重新整理過新舊八個eye shadow。香檳金色的那個blush比較像是highligher,放在中色系啡調的palette比較搭配。


大桃紅色blush配深紫/藍/銀灰eye shadow,柔和一下整體妝容看上去沒有那麼硬繃繃。


報告隊長,補給任務完成。
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