Breakfast at work ♥

Came to work today and one of my buddy in the kitchen who had responsibility for today's breakfast/lunch, asked if I have eaten. As always, nope, haven't had the time for it, since I came straight from school. Then he commanded me "sit" and next I knew he brought me breakfast ♥ Yey!

Fried eggs with bacon and toast, and apple nectar / juice

Trollstigen - Troll's Path

Another beautiful summer day, so we decided yet a road trip, but this time to Trollstigen - Troll's Path. Trollstigen is located in the heart of Romsdal, and is a narrow way which weaves from Osterdalen up to Stigrøra.

The road is surrounded by majestic mountains that bear names like Kongen (The King), Dronningen (The Queen) and Bispen (The Bishop). The road is part of the National Tourist Route Geiranger - Trollstigen. Trollstigen has 9 % slope and has 11 hairpin turns up the steep mountain sides.

On our way, and a little stop for lunch.

One last look of the view before we go further.

Halfway up the Troll's Path.

At the top, we saw a nice vehicle - Rewaco

Rewaco

Hunters Stew

Today we tried hunter stew from Toro (a company that creates ready meals). Toro hunters stew can be served with all kinds of meat, but tastes especially good with venison. The preparation was easy:

1. Cut 500-600 g meat and brown it in the frying pan.
2. Empty bag contents into a saucepan. Add 2 cups sour cream / crème fraîche and 6 ml of water.
3. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly and cook for 10 minutes. Add the meat at the end of the cooking time.
4. Serve with baked potatoes, mashed potatoes or rice.

Since we did not manage to agree on the accessories, we took both potato ball and rice. And wolá! A tasty stew with much good in. Behold of our deluxe dinner, Potato Ball with pork strips, vegetables, gravy and rice!

Atlanterhavsveien - Atlantic Ocean Road

It's a beautiful day, and we can really feel that summer is approaching. So after my roommate is done for today's work, we hit the road. We drove towards Atlanterhavsveien (Atlantic Ocean Road), and some surrounding area.

Most of the way through The Atlantic Ocean Road was filmed, but I haven't had the time to convert the the video, so only pictures taken from the car from surrounding areas.

Norwegian Constitution Day

The night of 17th May, is a night where almost everyone get them self drunk, especially the young ones who are between High school to College/University still.

17th May is our National day, also know as Norwegian Constitution Day, and for tradition all the youngster who is graduating from High Schools this year, will from May 1 to May 17 become Russ. Easy explained a 17 days celebration, known as Russefeiring, or "Russ celebration".

We who is older celebrate just to celebrate the National day, just an excuse to drink with friends and have fun. We celebrate with songs, good food, alcohol and do stupid thing, like taping a friend until the door.

Never too old

My friends refrigerator

He lives in a student residence, on the 4th floor, and he is to lazy to go down second floor to the kitchen where the refrigerator is. So this is his solution.

Long live laziness! 

Paintball Bitches!

Who said that I couldn't play Paintball with style?!

Straight from work and over to Paintball

And yeah, our team won ^^

Royal Kitchen at The Royal Paradise Hotel & Spa

My mom's friend who has been our guide in this trip, took us to a well known restaurant in Patong, The Royal Kitchen, which are located in The Royal Parradise Hotel & Spa.

This restaurant serve traditional Cantonese cuisine, where their two signature dishes are Peking Duck and Roast Succulent Pig. The restaurant is located on the 25th floor of Paradise wing, which makes it the island's tallest hotel tower, and with a 180 degree views it's gives of a romantic and calming view across the bay. It's indeed a perfect places for fireworks view in New Years.

However, it's reputations for good food, ends with a huge disappointment for me. With all the praise the restaurant got on our way there, gave us an expectation that didn't hold. They had the appearance for a 5 stars restaurant but with a serving for a bad common restaurant. Perhaps we was unlucky with the timing, that it's not tourist season, but that is no excuse for a restaurant to do a bad work. If you are open, then you should keep up your standard.

Anyways, this was our food experience at Royal Kitchen, it started at the entrance with bad service, no waitress and people who worked there, gave no intention of leading us to a tables, despite the fact that we had booked. When we got a table, we didn't get the menu before 8 minutes later. 

We ordered 6 different dishes for sharing, one of them is my favorite dish, Pineapple fried rice, and to my surprise I found ants crawling with the rice... OK, maybe they was unlucky with the pineapple, sometimes it's difficult to see or get rid of all dirt on it's surface or between the leaves. Anyways, got rid of the ants and started on the dish. There was almost no shrimp in it, or the main ingredients, the pineapple meats. In fact, it's was simply lack of the most ingredients , except for rice. Fucking A....

We also ordered Thick stir fried noodles, another favorite of mine, the dish tasted burnt, it was literally burnt. They even tried to cover it up by putting all the burned on the bottom. The whole dish tasted like coal... 

The other dishes were OK, but poor in taste, almost no seasoning, but comparison they was much better than the Pineapple fried rice and Thick stir fried noodles.

Vegetable soup with tofu

Pork

Fried vegetable with eggs and shrimp

Pineapple fried rise

Some kind of Chop Suey with pork

MK Gold Restaurant at Jungceylon

Today we spent all day in the mall Jungceylon, where my mum and her friend went all crazy on the stores. Jungceylon is the biggest shopping center in Patong, here you can find everything you can think of with a European price, but maybe with some bargain you may get it cheaper or if you are a good hunter and can find the jackpot in the stores.

Jungceylon has many stores as it has restaurants. Honestly, it's the perfect place for both shopping and dining enthusiasts. They have serving for Thai, European, Korean, Japanese and Chinese cuisine. And every serving places have it charms that make it's almost impossible to decide where you want to go first.

After much back and forth, we came to an agreement. Today's dinner will be Chinese cuisine.

Mango shake

Sweet pork and fried pork with rice

Rice with decorate with a little brown rice

Prince Restaurant (王子饭店)

Once again we are at Prince Restaurant, but this time with a different menu than last time, and it's a gift to Esta, my mom's childhood friend. Since we got to stay at her place for free, we wanted to thank her with a fancier dinner.

However, compared to last visit, this menu was kind of dull in comparing, it didn't give a special food experience. Don't misunderstand, the food was good, but not satisfying. I was expending more or something similar to the first time.

This time many of the dishes had poor/faint seasoning, some meat was chewy because of overcooking, and everything of service and serving took a very long time, we even got served wrong dishes. Because of this experience, I feel that the restaurant's standard goes a bit down when there is a lot of people to serve.

Our menu

Appetizer: Norway's smoked salmon

This time the salmon tasted more like those from Norway. They did a better job this time. Maybe the fish was more oily. Still a little hint of sweet aftertaste, the vegetables were fresh, tomato sweet, match well with the aftertaste. They used some kind of vinegar that spices the vegetables and gave it a sweet aroma.

Peking duck and pancakes

This is how you "set-it-up": 1. You add the vegetables around the middle of the pancake (in this case, cucumber and onion). 2. Add some hoisin sauce or sweet bean sauce 3. Add duck meat on top. 4. Fold and eat <3

Pecking duck and pancakes - step 3 add the meat

Pecking duck and pancakes - step 4 fold and eat

Noodles with lobster.

The taste was OK, the lobster was fresh and the sauce was not to strong, so you was able to taste the natural of the lobster sweat meat. However they have overcooked the noodles - maybe they were too busy in the kitchen.

Dessert

China, Hong Kong

We have finally reached Hong Kong! 🙌🎉 After arrival we were welcomed with a heatwave of 21 degrees. OMG! So lovely! Going from -2 to 21 <3

After we got our luggage, we were welcomed by my mom's childhood friend, Esta, who will be our host for our stay this time. Her apartment is in Tseung Kwan O (將軍澳), about 45 km away from the airport.

We arrived before the traffic jam started, so 1 hour after departing from airport we have already started unpacking our luggage before meeting up with some families and had dinner.

Chicken

From the top to right: Vegetables, Peking duck and pancakes, Sweet /Sour pork and Chicken.