Where do you usually go for pasta? What do you look for in a pasta? Do you prefer more ingredients less pasta or more pasta and few ingredients? How about the sauce? How do you prefer it to be done?

My sister’s colleague introduced her to a restaurant called Pasta de Waraku after reading someone’s blog, so we decided to travel all the way to Tsuen Wan to check out the new shopping mall called CityWalk where there’s an outlet.

The Japanese inspired restaurant does indeed serve pretty delicious pasta and it has a few dishes suitable for the vegetarian palette. However, it is rather pricey for a very tiny portion. We had to order a few different dishes but that weren’t enough for us either. So we had to go to Mos Burger to grab some fries afterwards.

My verdict is if you want to just try for fun, then go ahead and check out this pasta place. The ambience of the restaurant is cozy and spacious. But if you want to fill your stomach, then be prepared to pay much more. For the amount I had to fish out, I could have gone to a better restaurant like Amaroni’s Little Italy at Festival Walk instead.

My big fat juicy “zha leong”. I wonder what’s the English name of this local food call? Flour stick wrapped in rice noodle skin? But that’s basically what this is, it’s the “you cha kwei” that deep fried flour stick that is wrapped with a layer of the “chee cheong fun”. I love it when you have the whole shabang -sweet paste, peanut sauce and sesame seeds – it just makes the whole dish so flavoursome.

I discovered this big yummy zha leong when I travelled all the way to Sai Wan Ho near Quarry Bay where my JC friend used to stay. She’s now returned to Singapore (sob sob one less Singaporean friend here). Back to my zha leong, so it’s made fresh, like when you order a plate, the store owner will spread out the skin of the cheong fun and then roll the you zha kwei and chop chop chop and bingo! I get my big fat yummy zha leong. I think the zha leong here rocks! And it only costs HK$10. I think if I start craving for it, I will make a trip there – despite the long train ride from home. 45 bloody minutes! Arggh!!!

My favourite “tong shui” place is Honeymoon Dessert. I particularly love the durian pancake there. It’s so delicious and if you love the aroma of durian you will understand what I mean if not, then you will think it smells of ‘gas’ which my Australian boss keeps complaining because I bought it back to office after lunch once and he thought the whole office was going to explode because he kept smelling gas???
It would be great if they could take out the cream and fill up the entire pancake with just durian fillings! Yum…I’m so craving for it now. So my verdict for the best durian pancake in town -Honeymoon dessert’s the place to go.

I love to have dim sum at the Three Virtues restaurant. Whenever my Singaporean friends come to Hong Kong or if my friends want to have dim sum with me, I would recommend them to try the dim sum here. Although it only serves vegetarian food, my friends who are mostly ‘carnivores’ did not mind. They actually find the food here delicious! There’s two of these restaurants in Hong Kong, one in North Point and the other is in Jordan at the JDMall which is within walking distance to my house. I prefer the one near my house because well – it’s near my house -duh…but also because the ambience in the restaurant is much better than the one at Northpoint. It’s much newer here. So, if you wanna have dim sum with me, you know where I will recommend…:P

When I used to work at Wanchai, I would go to World Peace Cafe at least once a month. The buddhist inspired cafe serves healthy organic vegetarian options. It’s only open in the afternoons and you have to book in advance as the place fills up quickly. The cupuccino has a chinese character “tian” to mean sky or heaven. Very pretty I thought and I used this picture for my mobile’s wallpaper for a while.

Let’s talk about my favourite subject – FOOD. Despite being a vegetarian, I have not abandoned my love of food. And because it’s such a challenge for me when I eat out, it has since become an adventure to hunt for good food. I like to check out random restaurants and pore through the menus and point out the vegetarian options inside.

I’m a closet blogger, a closet blogger.
How does one become a closet blogger?
You can’t be one because when you blog,
You are exposed to everyone in cyberspace, in cyberspace.
So there’s no privacy, no way to be low profile, low profile.
Isn’t a blog all about letting your friends know more about you, more about you,
Be it the real you or the fake you?