Faerie Tales

Happiness is going to J's home and getting two gorgeous cups of coffee. It was a rainy morning, but no matter. The rains weren't the...

One To Two. The hotel's coffee cannot make it. I don't even want to sip it in the mornings at breakfast. It's simply vile. The b...

The husband really likes his breakfasts and brunches. So during his birthday month of March, while we have our regular fav joints, I'm a...

Work projects are petering off as we head into Thanksgiving and the year-end quiet. That's just for these few weeks. I have projects lin...

If I had more capacity in my bloodstream for caffeine, I'd so opt for the tasting menu at Koffee Mameya Kakeru . Sadly, I didn't. So...

J took me to Kissa Nito /  喫茶ニト  at Yanesen for a cup of old-school coffee. It's a quiet and very tiny kissaten  playing soft jazz music...

Haebangchon  on Yongsan-gu is one of Seoul's last 'moon' villages. The name translates into 'Liberation Village', and wa...

I was really lazy and didn't feel like going out. But Smol Girl hadn't pooped and I had to give her the option to do so today. It wa...

Potong Pasir isn't our neighborhood, but we love the coffee at Kizuna . A cold brew black is perfect for me. The man really loves the tr...

I don't take milk with coffee at home, so a well-brewed cup of piccolo or cortado at the coffeeshops is extremely enjoyable. These used ...

I didn't bother to hunt down the centrally located Koffee Mameya at K11 or Blue Bottle Coffee at Central/Wan Chai. My coffeeshop of this...

I blinked when I realized that many coffeeshops charge $7 for a piccolo latte with oat milk. The 3-4oz (~85ml, and usually <100ml) glass ...

那天約了 J 吃飯，她說想吃燒鴨、咱們就到 「 店小二」 去吃它們的十全葯材烤鴨 。配上糙米飯、一盤清炒小芥蘭和一碗湯便是豐富的一餐了。J 要了碗黑豆湯。我本來沒想喝湯，但得知廚房有熬豬肚湯，當然也叫了碗。最喜歡豬肚湯！ 兩人把半隻烤鴨吃得七七八八。剩餘的肉帶骨頭也就罷了。湯都喝...

The dog still has to be walked, so I take her out for short pee breaks, and longer morning and evening walks. She's still got her pack w...

We stop by Botanics fairly often, either at the Main Gate / Symphony Stage area, or at the smaller but equally lovely Cluny Gate patch. Choy...

That rainy afternoon, I felt like a kopi-o-siu-dai at the food center. At 3pm, it wasn't crowded at all. The weather made these two mon...

I have never eaten at Hua Bee Restaurant (華美餐室) or tried its famous mee pok noodles. I know . Hahaha. It has been here for over 70 years, a...

Since I've been lurking around Serangoon for a few appointments and to run a number of errands, I took the chance to have a few casual l...

Meeting various people for coffee used to be such a common daily occurrence. When I actually like having a conversation with these humans (c...

Saved this for a read over afternoon coffee that's not from Nespresso. It's an 'Ethiopia Refisa' from Nylon Coffee . Ed Cumm...