Hi Everyone,

This is the time again for me to take a quick break to one of the 7 Wonders of the World, Angkor Wat, in Cambodia.

I’ll be back on 5th Dec. However, should you need anything urgently, SMS me at 90038823, and send an email to order@delciesdesserts.com

Because I will have limited internet access during my trip, for even more urgent matters, please send your email to my colleague,Patricia, at patricia@whiskandfold.com and CC the email to order@delciesdesserts.com

Thank you!

The dessert store was such a charm and those pink drawers were vacuuming me towards them. Being curious whether the drawers were real or fake, I gave them a hard pull. No, I didn’t pull hard enough to tear down the entire wall but I bet the lady behind the counter had encountered such silly customers (such as myself) numerous times.

To follow up with my previous post on my Kuala Lumpur trip, I’ve sorted out some photos for your visual feasting.

You’ll find us feeding the Sunbear with condensed milk, the glorious Batu Cave with greedy monkeys, us crossing the river on a 1 piece wooden plank bridge, the sunset scenery at the Fireflies nesting ground and going down hill on the lookout area along the North South Expressway.

I had so much fun and I can’t stop telling people about it! Cheers!

It’s not that I’ve never been to KL in my entire 25 years of breathing life but all my previous trips uptown was always shopping, shopping and more shopping.

Now, with the opening of Pavilion Mall, I wouldn’t be surprise why Singaporeans are rushing to KL on Tiger Airways to shop there instead. Everything is cheaper (with our stronger currency rate against ringgit), their fashion range is almost similar, plus the food is G.R.E.A.T!

What made this trip unique and memorable was not because I had found a happening back alley food paradise by mistake or had splurged on expensive desserts in a high class bistro. Instead, both Kannan and I had made real plans to visit the nature reserve, the elephant conservation park and the best of all, a chance upon discovery to the deer park in Perak (which is apparently our top rated “die die must go” place if you’re there).

Knowing that my late mother will never visit such places that have a high potential of having our feet soaked in mud, mosquitoes buzzing around our ears, or a long and tiring stairways climbing  into Batu Cave. This trip wouldn’t have been possible.

Along the way, we laughed and talked about how my late mother will freak out if she finds herself stuck in this trip and how she would love Pavilion Mall if she’s still with us. Nonetheless, she’s always in our hearts no matter where we go.

I really enjoy KL like I’ve never before. I always thought KL was just another Singapore.  I bet the next time when I set my feet into KL again, it will definitely be more exploring than shopping. Heez!

If you need our nature trip itinerary around KL with excellent food choices recommended by my Dad, just drop me an email with subject “KL trip” to delcie.lam@delciesdesserts.com

;P Delcie

I’m back from Vietnam! From Saigon to Hanoi, the whole trip was filled with excitement and stress as well. There were so many motorbikes in the city and each time we had to cross the roads, it wasn’t just “look left, look right, look left again.” It was more like “look left, look right, look left again. Ok now you look left, I look right. Please look at the right side. No! Wait there’s cars coming! Ok cross now. S*** there’s more bikes again. Wait, RUN!”

I was really stressed by the whole road crossing issue and their 4 million bikes in Saigon didn’t help much. It was pretty scary if you don’t master the art of crossing the Saigon roads. The locals kept telling us to “just walk, don’t stop or you’ll get horn”

But when the roads got bigger and wider to cross; trust me, you won’t want to “just walk”. It’s simply crazy over there and the air condition was really bad. Most times, I could hardly breath and I had to hold a wet tissue on my nose to filter out their dusty air. It feels really good to be back in Singapore right now although I do miss the “Pho” and their chilly weather over there.

During our stay in Hanoi city, along the roadsides, everywhere was selling this beefsteak sandwich wrap with a French loaf that cost S$2.50 each. Wondering what is the local buzz about, we chose the cleanest shop we could find along the streets and placed our order there. Below was a photo taken while waiting for our sandwich.

Mind you, this is the cleanest local shop we could find and we had to queue for these stuff. There were also cafes mainly situated in the tourist area but the food they served were the usual “Ang Moh” burgers, club sandwich, fried rice and noodles.

The next day, we went back to this shop again for our beef steak sandwhich. This time, we sat inside the shop and had our bread there. I wouldn’t want to remember the sight I saw while we were there. We ordered 2 cups of coffee. While we were drinking them, to our horror, one of the waitress picked up the used cups from the next table, threw the remaining coffee out of the shop into the road side drain, brought the cups back into the shop and took the table cloth to wipe it dry. The cups were returned back to the shelves to be reused :0

OMG! I can’t believe what we saw and I couldn’t bear to finish up my coffee after that. The next thing we saw was that they took out tubes of cold but cooked sausages from a big plastic bag. After that, one of the ladies went behind me and picked up a used and wet chopping board from the floor. Once again, she took the table cloth to wipe the board. -.-” Then she start chopping the sausages. By that time, I then realised all the cold sausages within our sandwich came from that kind of condition. Yuck!

This was really a lesson for myself who works in a kitchen. I’m really thankful to our local health authorities who put chefs and kitchen users into a compulsory intensive hyginene course before we can operate in a food stall. If not for the NEA restrictions, there wouldn’t be control over the hygiene condition in our local food.

Below are some of the other food we ate during our journey in Vietnam.

Local Fruits served at Coconut Island along Mekong River.

Deep Fried Elephant Ear Fish from Mekong River.

Flaming Banana in one of their cafes in Hanoi.

As I will be going away on a retreat from 8th Dec (Monday) to 16 Dec (Tuesday), there will be no baking or delivery during this period.

For any order enquiries, please contact Sukaimi at 9789 2309 or 9800 9097 during this period.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Thank you for your understanding.

Regards,
Delcie Lam