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A Sky Full of Mystery

One of our food nerds member had a birthday last week! Who is sheee?!?!? It’s Fiona! She created a wechat group for people that is invited to her bday but due to she will have a yoga class on Sunday at 6:30 am therefore she wanted to start the dinner at 6PM until you know when. But she wasn’t in Shanghai at Saturday morning so she texted on the group saying that she might be late on her own bady party hahaha #facepalm

The Germans-Gio and Claudia will arrive at 9PM, Christian didn’t even confirm (yet) if he will come, Thomas and Nora will not come because they are in Suzhou, Diego will not come either because he is in Spain so it’s left to me and Sara. We will not come very on-time, due to Sara is Spanish hahahaha just kidding, we had one mission first before the dinner which is present hunting! What should we give to a senior lawyer that likes something like organic and stuff?! I mean I’m afraid that I will get sue if we don’t get her appropriate gift 😉 Therefore me and Sara had a mission super possible haha we had a video call and due to we live quiet close to each other so it’s easier for us to meet and it only took us 5 mins to prepare, the video call ended like “OK, Sara, I need to put on layers and see you in 5 mins in Jiangsu Metro” boom! yeah! #mission started

Like every mission impossible movie, the moment we executed the plan, some issue will rise up. Sara’s bank card got blocked! because according to the bank app she forgot her password, but according to her she knows exactly what the password is so we had a little bit drama of how to pay the presents mwhahaha but just a bit, in the end we sorted out 😉

We arrived at Bistro Sola, I read the menu and I am having difficulties of choosing between the 2 risotto, in the end I chose risotto with ink sauce, Sara didn’t want to choose it because she said it’s so Spanish hahaha so she chose the other one that I also want which is pumpkin risotto with foie grass and that was better! haha but I like mine too 😉

I like the mussels so much! yummy yummy

Christian arrived not so long after me and Sara, and he brought a cake, at first I was also thinking to have the cake for Fiona but then the dessert menu from this restaurant sounds promising so we didn’t buy it and it’s good that Christian bought it, but it’s more of personal cake instead of sharing cake hahaha he was the last one that wrote his name on the list so we didn’t knew that he will come but yeah there he is 😉

The Germans were late! they arrived at 9:11PM! OMG what is happening #shocked! this is unacceptable! sue them 😉 ahaha After dinner, Gio said that on a club named UP they have 90’s party so that’s why he decided to be back to 90’s by wearing this cap that has sticker on the middle that I never understand of why nobody peel off the sticker?! What is up with this? any insight? haha

It’s even written on the cap NO! NO! as if we can’t peel that off

Fiona of course not joining to UP and it was only 5 of us and Gio ordered a taxi and we started our 90’s from the taxi with our Dj Christian! we played songs from 90’s like Backstreet boys, Vengaboys, Britney, etc.

  • Claudia is always the prettiest <3

When we arrived at UP, there was a hugeeeeee line, Gio was pretty upset he said “I will only wait for 10mins” and Sara sometimes she’s gone, idk where she went and then she re-appeared, she said it was Christian blocked her because he was so tall haha and Claudia said she’d never waited to go to club in years! I was leaning on Claudia because it was cold outside and she asked am I tired? and I said no but just lean on and I need to make sure that it’s her other than random guy haha and Claudia said if it’s random guy you can “boom boom boom boom, I want you in my room let’s spend the night together from now until forever” haha I was such a responsible person in charge that was not moving during the time we were waiting in line, but somehow Claudia’s friend came down and picked us up so we don’t need to wait anymore wohooooo nice!

While we were on the club, we found up many tall people! what is it with them? even taller than Christian! during the dinner we also have a very tall Spanish guy, that’s such a mystery how come they’d be that tall hmmmm I didn’t stay too long on UP because pfffff DJ you gotta learn what is 90s from Christian, we made a better playlist on the didi’s car 😉

I went home and so did Christian, don’t know when Sara, Gio and Claudia went home but for the next day, Gio and Claudia will join Thomas and Nora for a birthday party in Suzhou, Sara and I will go for archery, and what will Christian do? well, that’s the mystery hahaha

Sara played well on her first archery tag and she insisted on getting an OFO instead of a mobike and because we live close to each other I’m thinking if she can carry me on the basket?! haha

but it only last for 1.5 meters I guess or even less haha so I took my own bike. Meanwhile what is Diego doing?! He’s eating churros and making a Paella! after he posted his paella, Gianna has the same ingredients so he has no other options other than make it for us when he’s back here haha Gracias chef!

  • Yes people it’s a snail!

Ooppssss don’t forget the reason that we are gathering which is the birthday partayyyy here is the not full crew 🙂 there were many people that already left earlier pffffff pleaseee 😉

Where’s Fiona?! Next to MOI! 😉

There was a rumor that you will leave Shanghai…. followed by the fact that Gio, Claudia and also Nora already fixed their date to leave Shanghai 🙁 well that’s the mystery of life we don’t know where it will take us…. meanwhile…. as your farewell party is already fixed, let’s go for more good food hunting, nerdies! 😉

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We No Speak Americano

Guess who’s back? Back again? haha it’s the Food Nerds! It’s all started when Thomas posted a Thanksgiving Dinner options at Zeitgeist, followed by Claudia posted also another Thanksgiving Dinner at Le Bouchon. Which one to chooseee *confused

We were 8 people and Christian did the calculation of which one is cheaper 1180/8 VS 1188/8 and we only pay 1RMB more but we got fatter turkey at Le Bouchon haha so easy peasy! We chose Le Bouchon 😉

Claudia and Sara arrived first, and the door at Le Bouchon is very tricky to open, I cannot even smoothly open it ahahaha and need to waiter to opened it up for me, please excuse me Ms. Praseli wants to get in ahaha. Followed by Christian, Giovanni, Thomas & Nora and we wouldn’t even try wait for Fiona because we suspected that she will arrived at 9 ish while the dinner was at 7:30 sharp! haha but turns out Fiona wasn’t that late, in fact she was pretty on time, sneaky smart! she arrived when the Turkey was about to serve, she doesn’t even need to wait ahahaha. While we were waiting for both the Turkey and Fiona to arrived, we took a lot of pictures, but due to Claudia quote from her “wasn’t in a good day for taking pictures” therefore from many pictures that we took, she only sent one hahaha and here we are looking so natural 😀

Then the turkey came with the Chef Charles ( I suppose it’s his name..or? hahaha) he helped us to serve it but before he cut it, we were so insisted to take picture around the Turkey but in the end we didn’t do it because it’s just too 麻烦 haha

We just stood around it and admire the Turkey in front of us and all the side dishes *drooliingggg

Then there is a what I called domino’s picture but somehow the domino doesn’t effect Gio, he was the only one that stand still hahaha We were slightly debating of who will got it first, and Gio stood next to the chef and he said “start from the biggest to the smallest” and I gasped! and Christian said “then start with me” (because he’s the tallest) but Gio said “no, it’s the biggest” (because he’s the ……….hmmm hahaha) but I got the first one! yeayyy! and Gio said “OK Marlyn, this is only for the picture” hahaha

The turkey was sooooo great, I like the stuffing, baby cabbages, potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, I don’t really like the chestnut not because the chestnut was bad or sth, I just don’t eat chestnut in general. I had the second round, I think most of us make it through second round. And by the time we were on the table eating the turkey, I just realized that none of us are from the States hahaha, we came from either Asian (Indonesia, Hong Kong and China) or European (Germany, Spain and Italian) hahaha we don’t even have a thanksgiving celebration but yeah we participated in glorifying the Turkey! haha Sara’s was the one that prepared so well, she wore one size bigger skirt and at the end of the dinner the skirt fits her perfectly hahaha!

After we glorified the Turkey, Gio insisted to have a dessert as what he said “I just need a spoon of sugar” we were so reluctant to have dessert due to we were full already but Gio got support from Thomas and they ordered the chocolate volcano and creme brulee and 7 spoons hahaha (Christian already bounced at this time).

But then when the dessert came it was just like a war-zone, all of us except Gio were so fast to get the dessert and it’s gone as fast as the speed of light! The dessert was placed in front of Gio and he was the last one to taste it hahahaha and he said “Who’s the one that doesn’t really wants dessert?” haha 😀

We still have food left there and Gio said “we can take it for Diego and Java” and I was like “who is Java?” and Java is Fiona’s dog. and I was like hmmm yeah Diego and Java? on the same level hahaha! #sorry Diego just kidding 😉 Sara took some for Diego and also for lunch for her and Claudia, and Fiona took all the bones for Java, he must be very happy and I bet he wouldn’t be able to jump to the bed ever again hahaha.

Somehow the conversation went to fake teeth, I don’t know how it goes nor that I want to know how can we went to that conversation and Gio said “I need to take care of my fake teeth” and I was like “do you have fake teeth?” and he said yes! haha he said “I’m already old, you can call me Shu Shu” 😀 He thought I was the youngest but no, it’s Nora who is the youngest among all of us.

I hope everyone had a good digestive system as for me, it was such as struggle to sleep yesterday due to my stomach is sooo full and I’m afraid that I could throw it up if I lay down hahaha.

Funny how I can meet my families in Shanghai, I met my bro Thor and sis Gy and now I just found my long lost shu shu Gio! hahaha

Happy Thanksgiving and I give thanks to all of you 😉