Ops…. I have more from Germany

hello there!~~ Ready for Christmas? I bet everyone is super busy preparing everything! Sorry for being MIA lately! I’ve been busy here in Shanghai. More about that later! 😉 I just uploaded pictures from my camera and realized that I have some more yummy food pictures from Germany, so here they come! I promise, this is the last one from Germany, the next post will be about Shanghai, how about “dancing noodles” video? 😉

Side salad with beautiful veggies

Side gnocchis

Main entree: slow cooked deer with cranberries jam. Real delish! So tender and tasty! 😆

my whole meal

Mara’s vegetable strudel and salad.

We shared a plate of assorted dessert.

Clementine sauce, star fruit

Lebkuchen strudel, chocolate mousse

tiramisu ice cream

glue wine with fresh apples

For afternoon tea, Mara and I went to aran and we shared a clementine cake

Dinner before I left was in a wine tasting place (Mara and Gunther’s favorite bar)

pretty cool place 😉

Amazing bread (I had half of the basket)

cheese plate

an appetizer plate filled with homemade ham, olives and marinated peppers.

everything was delicious! Once again, I really enjoyed the ham! 😳

Picture #1 from Shanghai! 😉 yes! I’ve been busy BEAUTIFYING!

I have some health updates. I will try to write about it before my birthday (12/25).

Want to know my latest food obsession in shanghai? CORNS!!! 😀

Q: What’s your latest food obsession?

Germany day 7 & 8: fair market and saying goodbye

Last two days in Germany with Mara and Gunther were quite relaxing. We went to Munich for some walking and an international fair market with food, music and handicrafts. Although it was very cold, Mara and I were freezed, I enjoyed everything! 😀

This 8 days 7 nights trip in Germany was AMAZING! It was great visiting Munich, Erding, Italy and Austria, but what I enjoyed most was reuniting with Mara and meeting her husband Gunther. Spending time with my BFF was NECESSARY for me, for Mara and for our relationship. I am lucky to have my family and Star to be my support group, but being with Mara gave me another shot of energy and positivism! I don’t know how to describe exactly how I feel, it’s like there’s part of me that was missing, a true friend, a female soul mate, a person who I can trust 100%, who I can count whenever I need for whatever I need. It’s just soooo wonderful!!! 😀 I promise myself to do whatever it takes to maintain this friendship which is so precious, it might involve more emailing, more calling and more trips! Wooo….. such a sacrifice! 😉

Enjoy last few pictures of Germany 🙂

International fair market

First food to try was a pizza type bread topped with bacon

#2 bavarian sausage

I’ve never had white sausage, so we had white sausage with krauts

#3 the best italian pizza I’ve had in many years

I devoured this little thing in <10 min! 😉 Its crust is thin and crunchy, not greasy at all and the topping incredible tasty! I wish I had more of it!

#4 potato cakes (a traditional bavarian food)

served with apple mousse

real delish too! 🙂

Handicrafts

#6 Another typical bread topped with bacon

This is a cafe that we went and I like its decor a lot

I ordered a ham sandwich! 😯 I don’t know how I converted to a meat eater in just a week. It was an unconscious conversion and I happily accepted the fact! 😉

And then we had to say goodbye. It was not a sad goodbye because we (Mara and I) feel closer to each other with this trip and it made us value even more our friendship! 😀

Q1: How do you keep up with you BFF? How often do you see each other?

Q2: What did you buy as Christmas gifts to your family?

Germany Day 5-6: homemade food and coffee

Hi everyone! 🙂 I arrived Shanghai, China last night and have some jet lag right now (woke up at 4AM). I still have few things to show you about my stay in Germany before I move into Shanghai adventures. So here they come…. last few meals at the mountain, two homemade meals cooked with my beloved Mara and lovely pictures of coffee! ENJOY 😉

My favorite Bavarian food: Dumplings, these are filled made with herbs and bacons, served in a clear soup (probably beef stock)

more dumplings

this is Erding, a small town 45 min away from Munich, where Mara and Gunther live. It’s small but sophisticated.

homemade meal #1 prepared mainly by me 🙂

Baked salmon with onions and a chinese stir fry of veggies.

Dessert: expresso + chocolates! 😀

And here are the most beautiful coffee pictures I’ve ever seen and I can proudly say I took them! 😆

Mara’s latte

Coco’s capucchino

and look what the bottom of the cup says: More Eroticism please!

homemade meal #2 prepared by Mara and Gunther

fresh baked bread + smoked trout

spicy sour chicken + veggie stir-fry + jasmine rice

Dessert: tiramisu

Disclaimer: all blogspost blogs and some wordpress blogs are blocked in China, so I won’t be able to comment much but I will read them through google reader. Hope you don’t get mad at me 😉

Day #1 in Shanghai: DENTIST!!! 👿