Lumpy Takes France!

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"Sugar and spice and everything nice,
that's what little girls are made of!"
- some wise man

For those of you who care, I would like a voucher from here for my 21st, thank you. Betula, go to Betula. I buy from her. Will be giving her my new address shortly. Or you can get it from me. =)

My other blog will be on Sabbathical for the coming year. Though you never know. I may write a surprise post.

Nanyang
Ali
Janice
May aka Vermin
Qing Jia aka Beeboo
Shu
Wei Zhi, Fluffy-puffy-white-little-ballerina-skirt
Xiuhui
Yap, Cuixian (and Adam) aka the Maniams. I would put Adam and Cuixian but Adam's not a Nanyang girl so I can't since this is the Nanyang column and we're very exclusive
Yuling, my Peardrop

S06B
Bird!
Bird!! (The Real One)
Debbie-web
Dipsy
Kai Ling
Rence
Serena!
Xin Xin
Zixuan

RJ and Beyond
Galen
Hui Mun
Sin Yee
Spoon
Vans
Xin Hui

Dawn-ie's brother, Paul
Nick and Nigel
XM's Pam
Ziliang, my cousin

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|| Sunday, September 24, 2006 ||

Day 19 - Rencontre des Gourmandes

Poitevin Food Festival today!! The traditional French kind of Food Festival, which means food is displayed and dégustation (i.e. sampling of food) open to all. Today's was a showcase of Poitou-Charentes (the région I'm in) produce. Naturally, I went. Oh how I love food!! Mummm.

Ok will show pictures since I'm to lazy to post.

The stores and their owners:

[From left to right - Row 1: Man selling Goulibeur, an excellent brand of Broyé, a butter crumble biscuit, a Poitou-Charentes specialty, Man selling artisanal bread, Woman selling wine - I had some, quite good; Row 2: Oyster couple!, Another wine couple, Oil sellers; Row 3: Fruit and fruit juice man, Meat-spread pair and Salt man]

A bit on the oyster couple: Sampled an oyster. Oh my - it was delicious and sweet. Definitely doing oysters here more. AND I am not a oyster person as you all know.

Oh oh meat-speads were also good: sampled the duck rillettes (basically duck meat in flake form and seasoned... Mmmmmmm) and duck pâté (duck in paste form). Absolutely brilliant when spead on good bread. Oh food!

My buys:

[From left to right - Row 1: Michel Cluizel chocolate (from Paris though), Les Dames de l'Angélique liquer (to add to champagne, food and to use as medicine for stomach aches!), Goulibeur broyé; Row 2: Wine jam (which I got cause it was cute and so French!, Me in a rather unflattering victory pose, Olive oil (very good oil too - so yellow it's tinged with green); A big Goulibeur (which I didn't buy but had to show a picture of), Les Dames de l'Angélique cookbook (a free gift from one of the Liquermen, Escagots à la Bourguignon (Snails with garlic, butter and herbs... mmmmm)]

Some nice photos:

[The Dames de l'Angélique Liquermen, in the gear of their Order. (Yes they have an Order!). Très Harry Potter!]

[Me and one of the Order of the Liquer, whom I suppose is the leader. Cause he gave me a copy of the recipebook for free and, when I looked through the book, was in it!! WWII veteran who was stationed in Singapore. The gift was in rememberance.]