Food This Week (first week of September 09)

It has been a very busy week, and I have not been too focused to do work since my mind is everywhere right now, preparing for the move to Singapore and taking care of things at work. Luckily, I am getting a lot of help from people around me, and things are going pretty OK, and I cannot complain.

Monday was Labor Day holiday, and Mo-Mo & I went dim sum at a nearby Chinese place we have not visited for a while. The place was packed but we got a table pretty fast.

Monday night, we had dinner at the Guan Dong House in Cupertino with our friends, and it was a pretty good meal: fish fillet, spicy eggplants, pork hot pot, steamed dumpling, friend pork bun and fried yam (as dessert).

After dinner, we had desert at the same little dessert place with our friends whom we met for the first time two years ago, as our 2-year anniversary celebration. Perhaps it is the slow economy, the quality of the dessert did not seem to be as good as before! We should find a new place next time to try!

Our friend also gave us some very nice yummy bread which she made over the holiday. Thanks!

Time went by quickly this past week, and we did not have much time to cook at night. One night, we had Thai dinner at Thaibodia, a place Mo-Mo likes. We had Thai curry pork and some flat noodles, plus brown rice. The portions were good and we had left over.

At work, people were already ready to see me off and they were so kind to hold a Good Luck Party for me. Our admin did a great job in getting a lounge room for us to have the lunch party and I was very grateful that many people took the time to come by to send me their best wishes.


To prepare for the relocation to Singapore for work, we bought a Vita-Mix to ship there, since electrical appliances are very expensive there (of course, we had to get a transformer for this). A Vita-Mix in US typically costs around $350 plus, and costs over $1600 Singapore dollars there! ($1 US = $1.4 SGD).

Since my destination relocation agent told me that it may be hard to get some of the facial and hair products from US in Singapore, I am stocking up on my favorite personal stuff to be shipped over there. I hope I will have everything ready when the movers come to pack my stuff in less than 2 weeks!