My Christmas and Trip to Hong Kong Part 1- beauty

Hi everyone, I haven't blogged for a month. I must admit I was lazy to blog after coming back from my holiday. I was lazy to go to the gym and I put less effort in making healthy food. Nevertheless, I hope you all had an amazing Christmas and had lots of yummy food. I had quite a bit. I will quickly show you what I had for Christmas and then move on to my trip to Hong Kong.

I spent Christmas day with my boyfriend and I cooked the dinner. I didn't make turkey or lamb as I'm not a fan of them. I only like turkey when its been stir fried and I hate the taste of lamb. I made roast chicken with roast potatoes, parsnips and carrots, garlic sauteed the brusselsprouts with a hint of lemon zests and macaroni cheese. I spent almost 4 hours in the kitchen cooking and my boyfriend was just sitting in the living room, watching TV and waiting to be fed. But I'm happy that he enjoyed the dinner as he had seconds as soon as he finished his first plate.

I should have turned the chicken around for a better presentation. The other side was browner and looked better. The potatoes and macaroni cheese were actually golden brown but my boyfriend's kitchen light makes everything look really yellow in photos.

 

The recipe for brussel sprouts was from Laura's Kitchen YouTube Channel, she has lots of good and simple recipes. Adding lemon zest gave it a zingy taste and covered the bitter taste.

Voila! Christmas dinner

On boxing day I went home with my boyfriend and had lots of seafood. My dad made majority of it and I cooked two pots of mussels in tomato white wine sauce.

My dad's hands lol. Steamed scallops with some vermicelli noodles, minced garlic and spring onions.

 Just plain boiled prawns with chilli soya sauce dip. I couldn't have this because the scabs on my face, I will talk about that later. There were a lot more prawns than what you see in the photo, I forgot to take a photo in the beginning.
 

 Mussels in tomato white wine sauce, I forgot to add a bit of chilli to give it a kick but it was still good. It felt good having my boyfriend helping me cut up the ingredients and watching me cook lol. We dipped toasted ciabatta bread into the tomato white wine sauce, it was so delicious.
 

Razor clam with vermicelli noodles in black bean sauce and tong ho stir fried in fermented tofu. It was my dad's first time cooking razor clams and didn't turn out too good. He over cooked it a bit. The colour isn't too nice because he didn't add dark soya sauce as I can't have soya sauce at the moment.We also had some vegetable gyoza but no photo for it, sorry. In total, there were six courses and we couldn't finish the last two course.

Back to the main topic, my trip to Hong Kong. Two weeks in Hong Kong was not enough, I didn't have time to go to all the places I wanted to. But I still ate lots of delicious food and did some shopping. In part 1, I will be talking about beauty and part 2 will be about food.

First of all, I've had a mole removal laser treatment done. I did it on the day I left Hong Kong as apparently you're suppose to avoid certain food and ingredients once you have cuts on your face; that includes, soya sauce, vinegar (anything that is sour) and egg. Right before the treatment, I bought an egg tart just to have a final taste of it lol. Hong Kong has some really good egg tart but very fatty.

I had 4 moles removed and they cost $100 each which I thought was a really good price. The whole process was less than 10 minutes and it did hurt! The pain level is a bit higher than when you first had your eyebrows or lips threaded which makes your eyes water. I could hear and smell the moles burning. The laser thing made a "zzzz" noise and burning smelt like burnt flies lol. If you've used those electric fly swatter you know what I'm on about. Once a fly gets caught between those wires and you press On, the fly will burn and creates a bad burning smell. 

This is a photo of me before the treatment. You can see a mole on the left side of my chin, one next to my nose on the left, one on the right side of my face parallel to the one on my chin and one on the nose. My moles are all scabby now. I still go out, they don't look too bad as they still look like moles but bigger. When I first looked in the mirror, I was thinking "why are my moles bigger?" lol. I'll show you the result once they are all off.

I got loads of Korean cosmetic products this time, some are from my cousin, my uncle and Godmother as Christmas present. Korean cosmetic are just irresistible. I love how they branded their products, makes you want to buy everything.

 

Laneige Sleeping pack from my uncle. I haven't tried any of the products as I'm waiting for my scabs to come off. I need to avoid getting them wet as much as possible. Yes, I have washed my face but have been extremely cautious. 

Etude House is one of the places I went to get those cosmetics. Even the shop front is very quirky. I love it!

Anyways that's it for now, I'll blog about the yummy food I had in Hong Kong in my next post. Thanks for reading.