A dinner at Cheeky Duck...

The great Monday eve was ended with a dinner in China Town...

...a simple chinese restaurant yet with great food, and the dinner was on Angeline, later Nazia joined us and we have good laugh that evening...hehehehe...

...a starter, deep-fried peanut butter bread with maple syrup...

...a big bowl of king prawn curry noodles and the bowl was huge enough for three people to eat...the curry was light but tasted great...

...and the next one was another noodles with deep-fried fish head...the deep-fried fish head just so fragrance and flavoured the soup...and went great with chinese cabbage pickles and soft tofu...

...so thanks Angeline and Nazia for a great dinner out and the dinner too as a little celebration for Nazia too...gambate!

Turkish Crêpe

Turkish Crêpe is one of the authentic Turkish cuisine, better known locally as Gözleme, a village dish made of flat lavas or bread folded over various ingredients then baked on a griddle. It has been a popular light meal for centuries in Turkey. The pancake is called lava without toppings and became gözleme with toppings like spinach, cheese: cow's milk cheese or feta (sheep's milk cheese), minced meat/lamb, mashed potatoes are spread atop the bread and it is folded over them.

In many restaurants, there is a section where normally two ladies sit at a low table in full view of diners, rolling out the dough with a broomstick-handle-thin rolling pin, then spreads the nearly one-meter-diameter rounds of paper-thin dough on a circular griddle to bake.

...a humble pancake with minced meat...

...tasted heavenly with cheese...

...this one with mashed potatoes...

...and a free traditional music accompanied the supper...

...and it is Pancake Day over here...a day before Lent (40 days fasting period from luxury foods such as egg, milk, butter, cheese)...Christian tradition (normally Catholic or Ortodox), known as Mardi Gras of Fat Tuesday for French people, celebrated in Germany, Belgium, Portugal and a few other countries in Europe, India, Australia, Brazil and some other countries in Latin America, USA, Hawaii, Canada...

Time to celebrate..

The Christmas decorations are slowly putting up around the city centre.  The festive mood is building up slowly too, maybe because of the credit crunch...

...Fenwick is without failed to put up an interesting Christmas display again this year...this year is a middle-age theme...last year was animals theme and Gulliver's Travel the previous year...

...another entrance of Eldon Square at Monument...

...last year was green...

Happy Chinese New Year

happiness, wealth, longevity

Gong Xi Fa Cai

Wishing ALL a happiest Chinese New Year

Gong Xi Fa Cai 2008

May this year bring you and family and friends prosperity and longevity, success and wealth, and great health.

GLOW - winter festival 2007

Glow mobiles parade for the new year celebration...started from Saltwell Park, Gateshead and continued to Baltic Square before moved to Times Square, Newcastle. The show continued at the Monument, then ended at the Civic Centre. 

Glowmobiles - a dazlling array of illuminated Art Cars and other amazing vehicles, Fire-projecting, music-making, wild-wheeled mechanical mischief on the streets...

Bon Nadal 2008!

A fireworks display for 2008 New Year @Civic Centre, Newcastle City which is a brief one after the glow mobile parade...

Then the fireworks display in London around the London Eye...

Festive mood...

Yeah, Christmas at Fenwick...a window display for the christmas...this year with the animals theme compare to the last year's the guliver adventure...

and the last year one...

Guy Fawkes Day

Nov.5...will be a Guy Fawkes Day...i hope there's a fireworks and bonfires at the BBC field. I missed the one last year and this time i will try to go early maybe around 5pm...and it's already dark...waiting for a colourful winter nite!

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