Musical Play - A Christmas Carol 2025

7 December 2025

Today, I had the opportunity to watch my favourite Christmas musical play - A Christmas Carol, a story on Ebenezer Scrooge who disliked Christmas and was visited by Christmas spirits, past, present and future. I watched this last year and I left the theatre with a happy feeling. Today, I felt the same too. The Christmas songs are joyous. The play was in English and I really loved it. I am also a volunteer this year, similar to last year, for Kompis Sverige to bring the participants to watch the show.

This year, I took a picture with the stage as my background. I did it after everyone left. Too bad none of the actors were around. I would have liked to take a photo with Ebenezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim. 

Tastebud : Crave Cafe

7 December 2025

After a long morning walk towards Folkoperan to see a Christmas Carol, we stopped at this cafe to have a light lunch before the musical play. I had a bowl of lentil soup that came with a slice of bread and some croutons SEK75. It is not sourdough bread. Lentil soup was bland to me. It would have been nice with some vinegar, maybe a little more salt and for me, I like chilli but of course, it is not for everyone. I was surprised that the brewed coffee costs SEK40. The owner told me that it includes a second mug. 

Almost as expensive as the one at Ulriksdal Slottsträdgården that I went in 2023 and a mug costs SEK45. Ulriksdal cafe is part of a mansion and so, the price is expected to be expensive. But here, at this random cafe made me wondered if we were in an expensive area. SEK40 is a price for a discounted 450g coffee packet. The reasons why I rarely eat and drnk outside unless it is a new place. 

Tastebud : Renard Bistro

27 November 2025

Dinner at a French restaurant as a belated birthday treat to me. I can count the number of times I ate at a French restaurant and I have vague memories of the restaurant. But with my blog, I can easily read back on my experience. My first experience with French food was at Relais de la Gare where I had work lunch here three times and the last time having beef tartar, and the second restaurant is at Cassi restaurant. I find nothing exciting with French food. 

Today's French dinner started with appetiser - croquette filled with chicken, sprinkled with truffel and served with mayonnaise SEK120. The crispy layer was yummy as all crispy layers should be. Croquette is deep-fried patty made from mashed potatoes.

Main meal is flounder fish cooked Meuniere style SEK285. Meuniere means to bread and fry in butter. My dish was very buttery and I was full from the meal, probably from all the fatty butter. The fish fillet was quite thin almost flat to the plate. It was surrounded by small slices of beetroot. They could have been more generous with the size of the beetroot. The dish is served with lemon, capers and boiled potatoes. They were generous with the lemon because the sour lemon was very strong.

 

My drink is sparkling apple juice SEK60. I like the candlelight. It does not give much warmth but it is pleasant to the eyes.

Tastebud : Gunnarssons

18 November 2025

After our dinner at Mormors restaurant, we had cake at Gunnarssons. This bakery and cafe has been around since 1946 at the same place. But Vetekatten is still older being established in 1928. I am aware that the prices in Gunnarssons are not cheap. But we were here because it was still open and it is near the train station. We shared a Catalan for SEK48. Small and expensive. A sort of mazarin with raspberry jam under the icing sugar glaze. There is not much of a jam on the pastry. Just lots of icing sugar glaze. Very sweet. Good thing that we shared it. 

Tastebud : Mormors Restaurang & Dumpling

18 November 2025

Yesterday, my friend and I had dumplings and beef noodles for dinner. I read good reviews about Mormors restaurant and I have seen the queue outside and inside the restaurant. I went to two restaurants (Chao Na and Dionysos) that are located next to Mormors restaurant and on both occasions, the dumpling restaurant has always a queue.

The restaurant opens at 5pm and when I arrived at 5.10pm, the place was full. There are several tables in the restaurant, not many, but the owner maximised the space as possible so it was quite narrow to walk between the tables. We shared a bowl of 10 pork and 10 chicken dumplings SEK149 each and a bowl of noodles with marinated beef SEK159. I was pleasantly surprised by the size of the bowl. I like big portions. But I was cheated by it. The dumplings have thick skin dough and the slices of beef are very thin, probably 0.2mm. 

I started my meal with complimentary miso soup that does not have seaweed. It gave me some warmth.

I prefer the noodles soup at Tan Tan Dan. It is not very flavourful here. I think the relatively affordable price makes it a customer favourite. 

This is what I meant by thick skin dough. I reacted to the thickness when I took my first bite. I make dumplings and I know that the skin can be thin. 

I was happy before I dug into the food.