Tastebud : Fair View House

24 January 2020

Today is Chinese New Year's eve. My family is having a reunion dinner back home and I missed that. The family environment. The chats. The gossips. The food.

So, we visited a Chinese restaurant today! Fair View House which has beautiful interior design that resembles very much of a Chinese restaurant in China. We had fried bean curd and sizzling duck meat. I found the bean curd a bit plain but then again, all bean curds are plain by default. That is the main reason why I dislike it. I am not complaining because I got my share of Chinese food. *happy* By the way, our food was served on a hot steel plate to keep the food warm throughout the meal. This is my first time seeing this! 

Tastebud : Muffin Bakery

17 January 2020

Today, we passed by a bakery that sells the most colourful muffins - 2 flavous in a muffin! How creative! I went into their website and they sell 12 different kinds of muffins! Look at some of the pretty muffins in the photos. We shared a brownie and cheesecake muffin for SEK38.

Tastebud : Hattori Sushi Devil

16 January 2020

Japanese meal for dinner! This was highly recommended by my friend. Throughout the evening, I saw lots of drop-in customers and had to come back because all the tables were booked. It was very warm in the restaurant too, and coincidentally, I was sitting next to the heater. I was afraid that my bank card's chip will spoil and my jacket will catch fire, so, I removed my wallet and put it in my pocket and hung my jacket elsewhere. Haha!

I took the Hattori Plate for SEK355 (one of the expensive dishes in the menu) that has fish tartar on the slice of lemon (I have no idea how can fish tartar even exist on the menu when sashimi itself is raw), sashimi, and sushi. I ate slowly so I can be full.   

Tastebud : Voi (in K25)

14 January 2020

K25 is a food court with sort-of affordable lunch offers for white-collar office workers in the area. I tried the crispy chicken bowl in a Chinese restaurant in K25 and it was so good! This time, I tried pho in Voi for SEK99 and it was good, although with very little noodles. Hmph.

Tastebud : Noodle House (Kista)

11 January 2020

One fine Saturday afternoon, we had lunch at Noodle House in Kista Galleria. This is a food court  inside Kista Galleria and I chose this Asian booth. The bowl of beef noodles were huge for SEK109 only. Piping hot - suitable for the winter. I was satisfied! 

Tastebud : Kajsas Fisk (2nd Time)

I am listening to Chinese New Year songs as I am typing this post. Chinese New Year is on 25 January this year and I will be in Stockholm. Oh well, I am happy being able to listen to Chinese New Year songs. :)

9 January 2020

Today, I find myself eating at Kajsas Fisk again. The first time I tried it was in December 2018 where my friend introduced this to me. This place was packed with tourists then but now, there were hardly anyone. I think it is because it is January and the holiday season is over. Back then, I had the must-try fish soup (that came with mussels).

I had fried plaice fillet with capers and beetroot and potatoes. They said that fish is a good source of Vitamin D and God knows that I need Vitamin D now with the short daylight hours. There is nothing extraordinary about this dish. The fish tastes like any fish fillet. Haha! This costs SEK140 / RM70.

Tastebud : Vetekatten

Happy New Year! God fortsättning (pronounced as 'fort-set-ning') which means good continuation. I thought this wish was weird but this is being wished for the first week in January. Not much has been done locally during my first week of the new year, which can only means, if you caught my word 'locally', that I have been abroad!  

8 January 2020

Today, I had fika at Vetekatten, the most famous cafe in Stockholm, probably because it is one of the oldest. This place is always packed which I do not understand why. This cafe serves similar cakes and delicacies like any other cafe. And not to mention, coffee and tea.

We had chocolate mousse with mango cream, well, I took most of it, and semla, a bun that is making lots of appearance now. I think semla is fattening but my chocolate mousse is not less fattening either, but I would like to try something different as I know how semla tastes like. Semla has its day in March where it is called fettisdagen (which means fat Tuesday) and it is on the day before the fasting month of Lent. It is a bun with whipped cream in the middle and almond paste underneath the cream. 

Chocolate mousse costs SEK54 / RM27 and the semla costs SEK48 / RM24. Well, at least the semla here is cheaper than the one in Gunnarsons which costs SEK50.