I want these, but they're expensive... T_T


I particularly want the sushi book because it's got all these sushi combinations and recipes which I've never heard of, like Cream Cheese sushi. HOW CAN I NOT WANT IT??????????

(as found in food_porn)

"I know.

It sounds crazy: $1,000 for an ice cream sundae?

But, the sundae is The Grand Opulence Sundae from famed Serendipity of New York City and it's made up of the best of the best. According to the restaurant, they sell approximately one a month, so apparently, quite a few people have some money to indulge in such opulence.

The Golden Opulence Sundae, the "World's most expensive sundae", was created to celebrate Serendipity's 50th Anniversay last year.

Made with 5 scoops of the richest Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream infused with Madagascar vanilla and covered in 23K edible gold leaf, the sundae is drizzled with the world's most expensive chocolate, Amedei Porceleana, and covered with chunks of rare Chuao chocolate, which is from cocoa beans harvested by the Caribbean Sea on Venezuela's coast. The masterpiece is suffused with exotic candied fruits from Paris, gold dragets, truffles and Marzipan Cherries. It is topped with a tiny glass bowl of Grand Passion Caviar, an exclusive dessert caviar, made of salt-free American Golden caviar, known for its sparkling golden color. It's sweetened and infused with fresh passion fruit, orange and Armagnac. The sundae is served in a baccarat Harcourt crystal goblet with an 18K gold spoon to partake in the indulgenceserved with a petite mother of pearl spoon and topped with a gilded sugar flower by Ron Ben-Israel."

I checked out Serendipity's website, and there it was at the bottom of the menu with a note that says the ice cream must be ordered at least 48 hours in advance. It also has an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Ergh....

But really. A thousand dollars? For ice cream? I can get a whole ice cream truck's worth with that money and eat the stuff until all my teeth fall out. Meh. I can never understand things like this.

I've got no new bentos to post just yet, but I figured I should contribute in any way.

So, I wanted some sort of button on my tanuki_no_bento LJ to announce that I was a member of this community, so I decided to make one. (this post ois xposted there, btw)

In any case, please just take this as my thank you to a wonderful community which inspired me to cook again and has been so amazingly fun. Here's my contribution. I hope someone out there likes it, and please feel free to take them. :p



( set of 12 BentoLunch community buttons )

Disclaimers: Images used in buttons were taken from lazy Google Image and PhotoBucket searhes for "onigiri" and "bento". I sincerely hope that I am not breaking any laws here... Photos used for bento9, bento10, bento11 and bento12 are pics of my own bentos.

(xposted at the bentolunch LJ community - here)

Happiness is when after A YEAR, yours and your boyfriend's days off are FINALLY ON THE SAME DAY.

hehe... anyway, that first day when our rest days finally synched was spent walking around and exploring our quaint little village of San Antonio here in Makati.

Our gem of a find was a Japanese grocery a couple of blocks from ShopWise. And mind you, it's not like other Japanese groceries where everything for sale is either canned, bottled or dried and shrink-wrapped. This one is a grocery. It has a produce section, a meat section, a bread section, and at the time that we were there, the delivery bay was open and crates of goods were coming in. And they have cute, small baskets that you can use for shopping.

And our purchase of the day was a pair of chocolate kitty bread buns...



( Behold the kitty bread and its fate )

Oh, and random raccoon pics that I found cute. ^_^

( TANUKI!! )