treats from 'huat kuok'

(i love blogger. i can cheat and put this post on the date it was supposed to be out :D will do that in a couple of days)

..which is Hokkien for France, i didn't know that! prosperous country? :D

so yeah, this was a few days after it was raining in paris :D he didn't buy anything for mee :( well not specifically. just cos he was afraid he'd get hungry before going to the airport, so he bought this at some Parisian supermarket (doesn't the word supermarket sound so glorified now just cause 'Parisian' was put before it? lol) and for 3 boxes of 'pastries' and a can of Coke, it was RM40 :S

er...9 fruit tartlets? :D was really good, the pastry was not dry, and the filling wasn't too sweet, surprisingly. i think it was mango, or peach or lemon or something of the sort, too long for me to remember now :S
the top is just plain choc biscuit, the bottom has hazelnuts in it. gosh the photos are terrible, cause he was telling me about Paris and i was listening to him more than making sure the photos came out right. as with all other things belonging to me, my camphone screen now has a long scratch adorning the screen. :S

i individually packed 4 of the hazelnut ones to bring to the office, and had one that evening, it was really good as well, there weren't HUGE chunks of 'noisettes' in the chocolate as depicted on the box, but it was good that way, small crumbles of hazelnut in not-too-sweet milk chocolate on biscuit pastry. haven't tried the other box yet cause (shock and horror) it hasn't been opened to this day.

now we come to the really interesting bit. for those of you who are not too sure, according to Wiki, "Mead (IPA: /ˈmiːd/) is a fermented alcoholic beverage made of honey, water, and yeast." One of Old Man's distributors gave it to him. Does he look like a drinker? NO! :D :D :D

get ready for this, the varying bottles range in alcohol content from 14% to 76%~!!! i asked Ball and the baijiu we had in beijing was already 56% :S according to the text on the side of the box, "All mead drinks are made of natural bee honey and berry juice.Their unique flavour comes from refined infusion of carnation blossom, poplar buds, acorn, juniper berries laced with many other valuable herbs". sounds complex :D i don't think i'd be able to taste all these things if i tried. Tassie is coming back next Sunday, so if she doesn't collapse after the first sip, i will try it with her.


the next day we went for Ah Mei laksa, which i have yet to post about and Old Man whipped out a pack of French Marlboros. I asked him right just now, and he says they are a little bit stronger than Malaysian ones.

ok so what i think that says before translating is that the black fumes from the cig smoke will harm the people around you *ahem* something i've firmly believed since age 4 sitting behind my dad in the car with the windows down and his damn cig smoke blowing into my face.

translation from babelfish
"to smoke night seriously has your health and has that of your entourage"

uh -HUHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!