i know i haven't been posting up for the past couple of days. That's just cause i've either been helping out in the kitchen, or there's simply nothing much to post up those couple of days, marketing is still the same, i just keep forgetting to bring the camera.

OK on one of the nights, i manage to capture this image,

too bad i took it from the kitchen, and a house is in the way, if not the view is absolutely spectacular.

a duck and it's ducklings on the water,

a couple of the webbed wonders on land
(interracial?).

remember the chestnut tree on my 2nd post? here's how it looks exactly 6 days later,


apparently the green of spring is 3 weeks early. I was told that the leaves would only start growing at the end of april.

here's enrique, the spanish pastry/garde manger(cold kitchen) chef,

he takes over peter(owner) sometimes when peter is off that day. All i can say is that if there's no language barrier(he speaks only spanish and dutch) i'd think we could work really well in the kitchen together. But well that's not for me to say. Oh did i mention he's gay, and NO all you asses out there, I STILL AM NOT HOMOSEXUAL!!!! But he does make the meanest kickest asses chocolate truffle i've ever tried, full chocolate mousse with almost microscopic size bits of chocolate chunks covered with a bitter sweet chocolate case and f-awesome cocoa powder! F-orgasmic/Fucking orgasmic. those are the only words i can use to discribe it. i'll take a couple of pictures later or somthing. and no i still am not gay.

The family's got a little garden, that's where the chestnut tree is, and they've got a hedge next to the canal, and in the hedge nested this,


a pigeon, looks like a toy right? hahaha it just laid 2 eggs.

went to Sander's school for it's open house, everyone in school thinks that all chinese men are gay(why can't i ever stop hearing this....), can't blame them, cause about 90% of the chinese guys i meet so far in holland is homo. They thought i was gay because of the hair, and the way i dress, mostly cause of the hair, they don't do it here. But it's more of a norm in singapore innit? hard to break a habit... But the chicks MY GOODNESS!! F*cking HOTTIES EVERYWHERE. and no i didn't get any numbers, they think i'm gay remember? hahaha no lah it's cause i was with the parents, and free alchohol! well not that i don't get it in the restaurant, But this time it's free and guilt free!!! wahahahahaha double bogey!!

The school's actually a former monastry, But no matter what they say, i still think it looks like a mosque...




Here's the restaurant's outdoor terrace


and just across the little canal, Japanese cherry blossom

and a little hut.


went out on the 14th with Sander and some of his mates to a club called baccarat(filled with young kids),

looks like i can never get rid of my boy chivas,

the people never buy bottles here, all by glasses. even the barkeep asked if i was an alcoholic, But hey, for those that know, i usually do that. everyone was amazed and thought i was crazy, with the for of us,

Robin(striped shirt), martin(blue T-shirt), sander and i, we finished our first bottle in 1/2 hour, next bottle came, and again it's partially on me, than more chaps came, no one dared to drink from the bottle, and almost the rest of the club was kinda watching us mad hippies drinking whisky. But the boy's have never done this before, so they were quite happy that this happened hahahaha. not many hot chicks there

, music wasn't fantastic, d.j was juggling between trance, rnb, top 40's, hip-hop, just basically everything...

final assesment and conclusion to caucasions

, white people can't dance for shit. they do jumpstyle, But it's not that good too. I think i dance better, serious!!!

Spring is now in Full bloom!!! which mean F-AWESOME VEGGIES!!! WOOHOO!!!! ok going to make the kitchen all sexy now! till the next post, CHEERIOS! remember to leave a shoutout, or a comment aight? love all of your guys!

P.S: all pictures were taken with Sony-Ericsson K800I

7th april:

Seems like i go out almost everyday when i'm suppose to work! hahaha

at about 11 in the morning, I went with sander and mum(grace) to the saturday market.
First stop Fish Monger, tried a raw herring, tastes like those whole tunas in a can, But it's GOODER! haha!!

Next WE have the Nutters!!

ok ok nut shop!

Oh oh here's a dutch waffle!

powerfull stuff! warm thin crispy waffle with a caramel centre! if i focused on the waffle and not look around the market(i love markets loads! especially going to experience a new one) i swear that i'll cum in my pants! totally orgasmic!

Cherry tomatos!

The size of it looks like regular tomatos though, But sweeter! haha and the price once again!

CHEAP!!!

CHEESES Christ!!!

CHEESES EVERYWHERE!!

Huge wheels!! Wonder if it'll hold up if i use it for the bicycle?

THE CHEESE GUYS!

today was a little quiet at the restaurant,
so father and son decided to take the dogs out for a walk at a nature park/reserve/woods area(don't know the exact words to discribe it, so i used those) and guess who tagged along?

It's quite a huge open forest area, Lots of good scenary

, perfect for photo taking!

we played with the Dogs, and of course father and son had a time spent together

, whilst i just played with the dogs, they're CRAZY I TELL YOU!

Thereafter we headed to just across the road to an airstrip for a coupl of beers. there was a pretty tall and hot bodied waitress with a really nice ass

too bad the camera didn't bring out her best ASS-et(geddit?!hahaha)

We got back at about 6.30, to pick up mum, and leave the dogs at home, than off to the student town utrecht!! Tons of universities there! and it's the place both peter and grace met(parents of sander)!

on our way there, i caught this beautiful cluster of clouds

while the car is moving of course! it's just one of those lucky car pictures that doesn't get distorted.

ok ON TO UTRECHT!!

Fact: All the houses and buildings featured are at least 300 years old!

this is the home that peter stayed in when he was a student here.

"The Dom" this tower is part of the church building there and the whole church has been around since medival times... damn old eh? a little more history about it later.

The place that peter worked in when he was a culinary student. It's changed hands many a times ever since. now it's some modern youth Cafe/restaurant.

A bomb of a car.

the catherine convent, which has now been converted into a museum. the side and modern entrance.

Now the proper entrance of the museum

The canals at utrecht is a little differant from those at amsterdam, cause the ones at utrecht has actual shops and restaurant etc etc at the canals itself. don't know how to explain it, But the picture would do the story telling.

ok back to the old medieval church. It once held a really big area, Untill a fire broke out about 200 hundred years ago, which seperated the main building from the tower. "The Dom". and in place is actually a square, an open area, now lined with trees

and a statue

this is really unique, But not surprising

the name actually means peter's cemetary. Not the cemetary of a person peter, But it's just the name of the graveyard. Now it's no longer there, In place are homes(Hmmm wonder if those students that come home late at night after drinking or smoking up considered Zombies)

Final stop in Utrecht, Polman's Restaurant.

It was a restaurant that peter helped to set up about 30 years ago. Nice interior design, Classic and old french style.

Menu was just a sheet of paper.

food list was really small, But the wine list was huge.

i had a ballotine of bresse chicken with peaches, pomodori and pesto.

Nothing exciting at all. the only sense of pesto is the deep fried basil with a very strong smell of oil. the peaches and pomodori(salsa) was a tad too sweet. Best part of it all, it took a F*cking 1 hour for them to serve this, and there's not more than 20 people in the restaurant

rouleau of fillet of brill with black truffles, potato cream, braised carrots and foam of white wine.

This too was another disappointment, the black truffles i was looking forward to didn't appear untill i see it within the roulade of fish, after half of it was eaten.that's damn sad, and expecting the smell of the spring truffles, geez. NON AT ALL!!!even china truffles smell more pungent than these pussy ones. potato cream was as hard as a french fry only without the crispy outside. And the sauce(foam of white wine) Arrives halfway through our dish. when i poured it, there wasn't much foam just liquid damn sad man....
Waiting another half hour for this dish, you'd expect it to be really nice and Hot, but it was only just warm, and we're so hungry that we've got no choice but to devour everything. putting my taste buds aside, just to feed the hungry tummy

lastly a rhubarb pie with rhubarb compote and rosehip sorbet.

this wasn't too bad just cause it looks a little pretty(sorbet looks like a flying white duck), though they should try not to let both rubarb pie and compote taste the same(maybe the cooks are friggin lazy) rosehip sorbet was too creamy, But the flavour of the rosehip was there. Everything for this dish was a little on the sour side.

at the end of the meal sander told the waiter i'm a cook/chef from singapore and wanted a menu. waiter asked how the dinner was, i just said ok. didn't want to tell him that food was terrible, But i complimented on the room and design. that's about it. So good and bad cancels each other out.

.............................Hmmm lemme rephrase it. There was more bad to the experience than good.

at the end of it, we took a walk across a park to the car, drunk university kids, chicks and boys all over the place. Me being the only chinese in the vicinity they kept screaming "NI HAO! ARIGATO! SAWADICAP!" to me i just didn't bother to reply.

so that was the end of another fruitful day, we got back home and made lots of night snacks to fill ourselves up than it's off to bed!

6th April:

nothing much today, Just helped out the kitchen a little,
won't be that fast to get the hang of the kitchen cause the menu's in dutch,
and they mostly speak dutch.

But all's well so far.

In the evening, Cycled a good 1/2 hour to Town.
Went to catch a show, "Wild Hogs". I miss the cinema going experience in Singapore.