Siem Reap

I'm finally getting round to editing/processing my siem reap photos. I don't like the digital ones much cos I accidentally set the ISO wrongly to 800 so images came out murky looking. but here's the few I managed to salvaged:
Our lovely hotel (made more lovely but a super chilled glass of Tiger beer greeting us and never ending flow of more FREE Tiger beer for the 3 days we were there)


Chilling out at Pub Street where we had an overdose of a cambodian dish called Amok Fish



Angkor Wat










I'm getting the photos I shot on film this sat and it's been AGES since I shot on a film camera so I can't wait to see them!

Chicken Rice Many Styles

We went through a Chicken Rice obsession over the last couple of weekends. It started with my craving for my mum's version of chicken rice. This dish was a great source of comfort while I was growing up where Mum would make it when dad's out entertaining or on business trips. Dad didn't like this dish, I never got round to asking him why since it's so damn yummy.

Ok so here's Mum's Chicken Rice, cooked by yours truly of course:



So that was one weekend, the next weekend, I had a whole load of Thai herbs from BKK and we still didn't get enough of the Chicken Rice.
So I decided to try a Thai style version of the Mum's chicken rice. I was kinda apprehensive initially as I couldn't quite imagine how the flavours of the herbs would come out. Almost ditch the idea altogether at the last minute but thank goodness I didn't cos it turned out heavenly! Just imagine, the flavours of fresh lemon grass, kaffir leaves n loads of garlic cooked with the chicken n rice....topped off with crispy fried sweet basil leaves and chilli padi.
Here's how it looked:

Too much of a good thing

Just got back from Bangkok (yes again). Prior to the trip, it was a really tough month before that. Alot of shit happening and like they say when shit happens it usually happens all at the same time. You won't believe the stuff and stress Conrad and I had to go through man. IT's so bad I don't even have the strength to bitch about it.

So.... we really really needed the time away from Singapore and the BKK trip couldn't be more timely.
We decided in Bkk we're gonna relax and be indulgent. That includes eating all our favourite foods and MASSAGE!
But I think, we overdid the massage part.
The first 2 days in BKK we were hard at work. But the next 2 days, we had TWO massage a day! And I'm not talking about the spa-rish kind where the therapist go gentle on you. I'm talking about the HARDCORE Thai kind. wah liao eh....when you're gettingit, it feels shiok but after that.... every where also damn pain. Now I feel bruised and battered all over and for some reason even more tense than before.
I think I'm having a bad case of massage hangover....think maybe i need another massage....heh heh heh