When in Thailand, eat Thai food...

Gotta eat a couple of Thai meals in Bangkok, right? This was one of 'em, the well-known Baan Khanitha. And good it was, so was the service, but it was somewhat expensive. Can't quite find it in my heart to recommend it, somehow. I'm quite happy eating beef noodles and phad thai from the stalls by the street, at 25 baht a pop...

KL's Wedding of the Century

No, not Siti Nurhaliza's. Our invitation must've gotten lost in the mail. The wedding we DID go for was even better. Sarena and Leo got married on Sept 23 at the Sunway Lagoon Duplex and Villa, a lovelier couple you'll be hard-pressed to find. Here we are at the wedding with Paul and Wei from Melbourne, Nick and Fan from San Francisco, and Adrian and Su, KL's glam couple. Mr and Mrs Leo Tan, we had a marvellous time, and here's wishing you a magnificent life together!

The Wongs and Tings together in Bangsar

Here are the people responsible for our existence, all together in KL at Blessings Homestay in Bangsar. It's a Malaysian-style bed and breakfast place, owned and run by a friend of Ann and Min Fook's. Where are Bubs and Babes? Babes took the picture, Bubs was snoring his head off. I was sleeping off a magnificent dinner the night before, with suckling pig being the obvious highlight. Any pix of it? Nope. Why? Too hungry lah...

This is how it's done, Melbourne!

Eat your heart out, Melburnians. Presenting the real McCoy, fair dinkum KL Hokkien Mee! With trembling hands and chopsticks (after a prolonged wait, for some reason, way after the wat tan hor fun had been delivered to our table), I gingerly approached it. After a respectful (and slightly fearful; what if it was crap after all that?) pause, I started shovelling it into my mouth with a complete absence of dignity. Months of pent-up frustration were released upon the poor, unsuspecting noodles. Paramount Garden's Hokkien Mee was genuine, it was awesome... and I was finally home, if only for a few days!

World's best chicken rice

Or so I think, anyway. And a year's wait did nothing to lessen the anticipation, of course. And was it still good? Of course it was! Although it helps that Malaymas in Melbourne has an adequate version. Anyway, that's the steamed chicken in front, and the roast behind for Ell and a couple of other people who prefer it. Wee Nam Kee rules! So naturally we went back there again a couple of days later... after all, who knows when we'll have it again?

Brand new domestic goddess

From left to right: Audra, my gorgeous Babes, Anita 'Diva' Kapoor. Audra has amazingly morphed into an incredibly talented chef and host in the past year. Thanks for a wonderful Thai dinner at your wonderfully decorated home, Audra. We look forward to more pleasant surprises from you!

Getting our money's worth

A perennial favourite of ours in Singapore is Hanabi along Bukit Timah Road. For $30++, you get as much Japanese food as you can stuff your face with. Sashimi, sushi, tempura, you name it, you can devour it. So of course we had to troop over there, all ten of us. And of course we had to be kiasu and make reservations while we were still in Melbourne, three weeks before! My apologies if this shot doesn't quite do justice to the sashimi, but take my word for it, it was stupendously delicious...

Making up for lost time

Not just in terms of food (especially after comments from certain individuals - including Babes - that there's too much food on this blog!), but also catching up with Singapore-based friends. We arrived on a Saturday night, (conveniently) just in time for dinner. Boon Kit and Ell picked us up and brought us to Canton Wok, where we met up with Yean, Jay, Chris and Elaine. Unfortunately our hunger (okay, greed lah) meant there was no question of photos...
As for Sunday morning, well, it started with several types of ham chin peng before venturing out to Ya Kun for some kaya toast and teh si. Then to PS Cafe for Sunday brunch with Pats, Mark, Gary and Steph. All within a two hour timeframe. Hence the title of this post...

No, we haven't gotten lazy

Those of you who follow our blog will know that we've spent the past two weeks in Singapore, KL and Bangkok. Which would explain the lack of posts on Bubs n' Babes. The original intention was to keep everyone up to date from wherever we happened to be, but a combination of hectic schedules and Babes' various ailments (toothache, cough etc) prevented that from happening. Anyway, we arrived in Melbourne at five in the morning, and have been doing all kinds of things unrelated to blogs ever since. To all who spent time with us, and whose company we thoroughly enjoyed (and to whom I hope I haven't spread any nasty viruses!), thanks so much. It was a blast! Visual details to follow in the days to come...