Camel teapot vs Big Ben teapot

Examination periods are boring and stressful. So today after finishing my fifth exam, I decided to treat myself to a toffee and banana cupcake from Peyton and Byrne... It was delicious. And since the Peyton and Byrne I went to was in the same building as HEAL's, I thought I'de take a stroll in and see what's new in. Luckily for me I saw a bunch of cool stuff! I will definitely go back after my exams to buy some of these items!!!

I hope you enjoy the pictures.

Xox,
J

Big Ben Teapot

An Elephant Teapot, reminded me of a friend that LOVES elephants for some weird reason lol 

The Camel Teapot! My favorite!!! I will definitely go back for this!

Recycled coasters made from: Circuit boards, plastic bottles, juice cartons

Home made chicken caesar salad wrap

Left: chicken caesar salad wrap, right: plum tomato and mozzarella (or pizza) wrap!

This is actually my first recipe blog. A few days ago I bought some tortillas from the supermarket (there were 8 in the pack!), and I've been eating tortilla wraps every day for the past 5 days lol. Anyways, here's my super easy and kinda healthy chicken caesar salad wrap recipe.

Ingredients:

Tortilla wraps

Ready-to-eat grilled chicken pieces

Washed and ready to eat leaf salad (lettuce)

Caesar salad

Parmesan cheese

Pepper

2 Plum tomatoes sliced in half (optional. actually, all ingredients are optional!)

All ingredients are ready, just put the tortilla on a frying pan over low to medium heat, open the packages and put everything on the tortilla wrap and roll it, then voila! You've made yourself an easy light dinner or snack!

Enjoy,
J

Ingredients

Art: The ceramic folded handkerchief

This is my newest addition to my art collection. It's a ceramic folded handkerchief with gold detailing. It also came with a stand in case I wanted to display it standing. I found it in a Japanese arts shop on Marylebone high street. The designers name is Hasami Nagasaki. I'm thinking of getting another similar piece with colourful flowers in the center... It's kind of expensive though. We'll see.
J

Casa Mamma

This post is about one of my favourite Italian restaurants in London, which is conveniently just a few minutes’ walk from my house! The price is very reasonable compared to its quality and consistency. The food there is just so AMAZING! ALL THE TIME!!! And the atmosphere is so cosy and simple. I’ve added pictures of everything K and I ordered. The names and descriptions under each picture are mostly from the restaurant's website. Enjoy.

Starters

Yes! It's a starter! and it's really good!

MELANZANE alla PARMIGIANA

Fried Aubergine in tomato topped with mozza baked

MOZZARELLA IN CARROZZA ROSSA

Mozzarella cheese fried in flour, with tomato chilli garlic sauce

Mains

GNOCCHI al POMODORO

With Tomato Sauce and Basil

GNOCCHI al GORGONZOLA e PANNA

With Gorgonzola Cheese and Cream Sauce

Desserts

I was expecting one, but hey I'm not complaining :D

Profiteroles Scuro

Soft choux pastries filled with a superb chantilly cream, all covered with chocolate cream

This is one of their specialities. Home made creme caramel <3

Creme Caramel

Egg milk and vanilla dessert topped with caramel

I love the ceramic plates hanging on the walls

This is the back seating area, and today was the first time I see it!

Location: 339 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8PX

just across the street from King's cross station. 

http://casamamma.co.uk/

P.S. They have the best Spaghetti con Pomodorini (with cherry tomatoes and basil) and Pizza Fiorentina (with spinach and an egg in the middle. I tried to recreate this pizza at home, but it wasn’t as good… I might post my trial lol).

Hope you enjoyed the post.

Love,

J

The City and the smart recycling bin!



I was in The City today. Only because I had a clinical placement at St. Barts Hospital. I don't visit The City as often as I'de like, actually, I'm not sure if it's a touristy area to begin with (not that I'm a tourist :/)... It's more like the financial district in London. What I like about it is the buildings. Most of them are so new and modern, they use alot of glass, but there are also some old buildings as well. I like the contrast.



This was probably the most interesting thing I've seen today. I stood infront of it for minutes trying to figure out what it is. Then I kept staring at it from all angles for a few more minutes just to sink it in lol. It's a recycling bin, with two LCD displays on both sides! At the time they were only displaying stock exchange information. But when I got home and googled it, I found this article:

http://www.psfk.com/2012/02/london-wifi-recycle-bin.html 

And according to that, it's a bomb-proof bin, with WIFI, and it displays information about the weather and tube status among other things.

 



I posted some other random pictures of things I saw today. Enjoy.

An Ox made of recycled material at Bank of America Merrill Lynch 





This was taken in the St.Barts Church... It's weird, but I don't think I've ever been to a church before...

Hope you like the pictures.

xox
J

Yesterday's shopping booty :D

I bought this super comfy giraffe print travelling neck pillow for when I go back home in March. I'm super excited that I'm going. I feel like I'm missing a lot being here away from my family and friends... And I wasn't able to go back in Christmas cuz of my late visa... So yeah! I'm looking forward to visiting my family in Easter break!

I also got this iPhone 4S case which is almost perfect if it weren't for the case not having a camera hole and the moving part being too floppy! (but I think I might have a solution for the floppiness... adding very small magnets. Luckily, the package itself has really small magnets that I might be able to remove and use for the iPhone case :D ). It has a really nice lining (identical to that of my iPad case) and two pockets on the inside!

I'm loving my new iPhone!

xox

J

Soho square and left over snow :)

It was a sunny day today. I passed by this lovely area... Just a few minutes walk from Tottenham Court road station. There were 3 palm trees in the square! I've never seen palm trees anywhere in London before! There was some remnant snow on the ground from last weekend... It was beautiful.
I had coffee in a bakery nearby, check out what's written on their plastic food wrapper thing! (Ignore the brownie smudge)
Enjoy the pics.
Xox
J

East-Street restaurant, Soho, London

Hi! I had a LONG day today! This morning I walked 5 miles for charity :D I dont think I've ever walked that long in my life!! Later in the day I rode the bike to the British museum to see the Hajj exhibition, but the tickets were sold out! (We went there an hour and a half before closing time hehe).

Anyways, we left the museum hungry, so my husband told me about this restaurant near by so we headed to it. Its a pan Asian restaurant serving food from Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Korea and the Philippines.

 
Upon arrival, we were served with complementary herbal tea, it tasted ok, but it made a weird after drink sensation in my mouth... I dont know, it kinda made my mouth slippery lol... I don't know how else to describe it...
 

For starters we had edamame with chilli sauce which I didn't really like cuz it was spicy, but my husband liked it so its probably good for spicy food lovers.


We also had the vegetable tempura which was good, but the dip was a bit too vinegary!

For the main, I ordered a bowl of jasmine rice and chicken Adobo, a Filipino dish made in a special sweet sauce with peppercorn and crispy fried sweet potato pieces . I\'ve actually never had Filipino food before! And I really liked it.


To drink I ordered jasmine tea. It came in a very heavy Japanese pot with a small matching cup.



According to the waitress, it's made of iron! And its supposed to last forever!! That's why it's so heavy!



My husband had seafood Ramen, he says it's really good.



What's interesting to me about this place is the interiors, the inside of the restaurant is supposed to look like a street! With fake shop signs and weird things on the walls.
 

And for some reason they had a Japanese anime movie running on one of the walls.



And in the toilet instead of playing music in the background, there was a recording of what appears to be a final call to a plane going to kuala lumpur! And the background of that track also sounds like a busy airport with many people talking!


When we got the bill, they gave us little minty I <3 East st. Candies!

I am deffinately going back there again, and I recommend it to anyone who happens to be in that area and be hungry at the same time.

Hope you like the post!

Xox
J

Location: Rathbone place W1T 1HJ, off Oxford street and a 5 minute walk from Tottenham Courtroad station, according to google maps.
http://www.eaststreetrestaurant.com/

Ted Baker quilted patent leather iPad case

Hi! And welcome to my new blog! This is my first post! Here it goes...

I bought this iPad case from Ted Baker at Selfridges. Initially, I wanted to get the black one with the zig-zaggy pattern, but they had one left and it didn\'t look good. So, I decided to check out their new iPad cases collection and I stumbled across this case, and I just loved it! It has a simple design, I got the light pink color which is comfortable to the eye, and it has Rose gold hardware. I love that combination of color!

The zipper is so smooth and easy to move. The fabric on the inside of the case feels luxurious, which I love and is typical of Ted Baker. And it has a small pocket on the inside!
I\'m using an iPad 2, and it fits perfectly, even with the smart iPad 2 cover!



I think this iPad case can be a really good gift to someone with an iPad! I might get my sister one!

Note: The patent leather did catch some color (green) on the back from my shopping bag, but it was easy to remove. I just rubbed it with my finger, and it was gone! You can barely even see the green to start with, but just to be fair I thought I\'de mention that.

The back of the case- you can barely see any green! (before cleaning!)

All in all, it\'s great and I love it! (I just bought it like 3 hours ago LOL)

Price tag: £39

Thank you for reading!

xoxo
J