Wing Wah Restaurant, Birmingham

My so young sister mentioned about this place. Wing Wah besides doing restaurant, they do supermarket and travel agent too.

You can have just buffet or buffet and steamboat. The buffet has dim sum and usual chinese buffet food. There are only few kinds of dim sum, that all in photos below. They have porridge too (made immediately once you order). All dim sums tasted nice. Does anyone know any good dim sum buffet in UK?

My plate of food. However I think their usual Chinese buffet was bad. Too dry and bad bad bad. I guess it is only worth if you go there for steamboat (thumbs up when I looked at their food). It costs ~£15 includes steamboat £13 just buffet.

*actual date 13 Jun 10

Belfast, The Troubles and Us

First day we in Belfast and we got Mei to pick us from the airport. Sunny weather here, nice! Everytime we have a sunny day, I felt bless because sunny day is hard to afford in the UK. Sharon & Ray, originally from Phillipines took day off to be with us and show us Belfast. David from Birmingham is here too for the Belfast seminar.

Belfast, the main city in the Northern Ireland and is bigger than Newcastle. It has more taller buildings than most cities in UK. And no chewing gum stain on the floor! Sadly it has The Troubles too. I only know the Troubles was due to the political conflict hence war and fight occurred and still occurring between these two christian groups. The people with Catholic and the Protestant background seldom go along together due to there was a time in society, discrimination was seriously bad against the Catholic ones (usually poorer or lower class citizen and not supporting the Queen). The Protestant ones are the opposite. So you can identify yourself by the hanging flags at that area to tell where you are now in Belfast.

It get so bad till a wall and gates are needed to separate the two areas.

Tourists do come here to take photos and also print their name on the wall.


Here is the loyalist area. Meaning only for the loyal ones here.

Hope this trouble will end soon not just good for the people but also to end the disgrace to God. It is very ungodly for either group to treat their brothers that way when they still say to worship in Christ.

Anyway we also went to Queensland University,

Belfast City Hall (where Titanic, the film have their interior layout especially the grand staircase all copied from this place) and there was also the first ever continental market in Belfast that week and I tried my first Ostrich burger. sosolah~~

Ulster Museum, found inside the botanical garden (the history about The Troubles is here and don't miss the Ice Age exhibition there)

and many shoppings street and malls. The Victoria Albert mall will definately delight or sadden a person I know who also is an architecture from home. He has an idea for a mall as Victoria Albert but got rejected by the engineers due to they think it was impossible to build. The whole building is unique which sorta like indoor shopping but still seem like an outdoor.

There is GBK too and the burger was like 5 stars ***** burger, meaning so so good. Their promotion time is Mon to Fri at 2 - 4pm, £4 instead of the full price (£6 - £8). So I chose the best and popular one.Original price was £8.00 for this bacon, cheese and Angus beef with tomato chutney.

You can also see the whole Belfast city centre when you go up the spiral located centre of the mall.

*actual date 22 - 27 May 10

Old Orlean Bar & Restaurant, Surrey Quay, London

This place is near to where I stayed in London. There is cinema and bowling centre here too. We initially gonna go to this place for the Vietnamese place but realised it was still closed for xmas holiday.
Felt very upsetting and hungry and so we ended up in here. Well not a bad place to be either although it's not food I have planned to eat that night. This place serves food for people in Old Orlean. Is there really a place call Old Orlean? Because I just know there's New Orlean in USA and is populated with African American.
This place is very vibrant and jazz is the kind of music there. Maybe google it next time.
So here is my potato skin with sour cream. Quite nice but I prefer the shaved version rather than the scooped-out and left over skin.

Corn bread with lamb stew in chorizo, carrot, potato and tomatoes.

Mei's salad with cheddar cheese, anchoive, croutons & banana and toffee milk shake. I tasted it and will definately come back for this.

The Best Fish Burger

Let us go back to my Istanbul trip. I have not finished about it yet. I'm pretty sure we were around the spice bazaar that day. It was a one fine day and we decided to really walk around and we came to this place. The mosque behind if not mistaken is the Topkapi Palace, where the past sultans have lived. It does look a bit like the Blue Mosque though. See the fish boats in the picture? Look closer...It is there where I wanna bring you.

Tadah!!! The boats were very artisticly decorated and it does look like something you will see during a "flower car" parade. Remember this is not any other boat. It has fake GOLD and it is......
*LOL* a fishing boat. Erm..precisely.. it is people who are selling fish on board. They will de-head, fillet and chargrill the mackeral fish, and you will queue at the jeti waiting to buy. This is the fresh and cannot be any fresher, nice and cannot be any nicer fish burger I have ever have.

Funnily this place is a partially self service environment. We will find a place to sit, however if you are not use to the crowds and eating by the waterfront, my best advice is that you leave. You will be sitting like on a mini stool next to a mini table and lots of fish bones scattered on the floor.

Why I am saying that this is a partially self service environment because you have to queue to buy your own fish burger and they bring you your drinks. So half-half self service! Check check it out my wonderful fish burger. They served the fish in a not McDonald kind of lousy bun but a nice, fresh long bun with pieces of onion and few lectuces. On the mini table you get a botal of lemon juice and salt to season. There will also be kids going around trying to sell you some tissue wipes. The tissue wipes are so effective in getting rid of the fishy smell on your hand. Great way of doing business. Bravo kiddo.

This pickle drink is some great stuff you pregnant woman must try. It will sure satisfy your craving for sour food. It has cumumber and cabbage leaf in it. Erm....not sure about the colour though. We got this from this little cart. I guess this cart must have also belonged to those people on the boat. Another way to make more money.

Finally, how cute and clever is it? This is their sea water sweeper, just like our floor sweeper to keep the place free from rubbish. Honestly so far I find Istanbul is fairly a clean and neat city.

Turkish Ice Cream

Honestly...this is not my type of ice cream. I still much more prefer gelato. No no...I prefer gelato. This ice cream was made from goat's milk. It smelled and tasted alright and normal. But it was just me who felt weird with the texture itself. So thicky and creamy. This ice cream is also costly according to Lyn in Singapore. The ice cream man will play with you when you buy ice cream from him. Play as in a sense of in a naughty way of scooping and passing you the ice cream. It was fun and many times surprises you and also make you laugh very hard...hahahaha

Look at the way they stack the ice cream cones..wow...actually their cone is not bad either. It is the nice waffer one which in other place you have to pay money if you want that kind. If not you only get the cheap ice cream cone.

There..that man was playing with Lyn. We asked him to move slower so we can take pictures. This was when he past the ice cream to Lyn and again he used his ice cream stick (Turkish ice cream's scoop) and drawn the ice cream out from her hand. Excited and surprise. Excited, because the ice cream might fall at anytime. Surprised, because he was quick and swift.

My upside down ice cream. It doesn't melt very quick either.