Our Energy Source In Czech

These are some of the stuff we had in Czech to feed our stomach. I dont miss much of them, cept their dark beer! and the waiters. kekeke.

Langose, some street food that we had in the Easter Market. Its made of flour, deep fried and topped with cheese and ketchup. Simple but very nice!

Dumpling is a must try in Czech coz this is what the locals have. And its nothing like our chinese dumplings, see those white round flat stuff? those are dumplings. A bit plain and so you'll have to eat it with the pork and the very yummy gravy. The pork shoulder was sooooo tender I've never tasted such a good pork cooked in this way! Heavenly! and the pickled cabbage, it goes sooooo well with the whole dish.

I donno why that round white thing is called dumpling, Milan boy told me they just called dumplings. *and I rolled my eyes. Ohh, this is at the Dvur restaurant.

Thats the roast pork. Very very very meaty dish and we're all soo stuffed after that we're craving for vegetables the next day. The Czechs love pork thats what I gathered. but they're realllly beautiful!

Thats their traditional czech style strudel aka the apple strudel. Not too bad but I've tasted a better one. =p

This was horrible. Sorry to say that but it just wasn't goood and now I dont remember the name of the restaurant, something along theresa I think.

Awwwww, I loooove this grilled cheees! It just melts in my mouth. Heavenly!

Onion soup in bread. I like the display of it.

Mixed vegetables and tomatoes salad, we realised we need some greens after being a carnivor for days.

Half chicken cooked on open fire. It's alright but I prefer the pork knee.

I looooooove this pork knee! Very tender and yummy and the moisture level was just right. Perfectly cooked!

Why are all the waiters sooo cute and sooo yummy in Czech?

Prague hostel Elf

Hostel Elf. A very vibrant colourful hostel I personally enjoyed very much stayin at. And, it's clean!! Czech people somehow like warm colours a lot, at least thats the very first thought I had when I stepped into Elf.

This is the reception. The only thing is that you'll have to go up the stairs to reach here. A lil exercise everyday. Hehe.

Our breakfast is served here, we've got free coffee and tea too! Breakfast is included and it's only 10 pounds per person for a private triple room. The donuts were the best! I never had high expectation for hostel breakfast but this beats me!

The living social eating area.

It gets really crowded especially at night for people to mingle around. Very cosy. Sad to speak we didn't get to spend time here for our ever so hectic schedule.

Thats the corridor leading to our rooom. Aint the painting gorgeous?!! I just love the colours!

Kitchen. You can cook as you wish.



And this is the door to our room. We are one big family. Haha.

Our not very big, but clean and comfortable room. As usual, my bed is always in a mess.

Arghhh. I didnt take any photo of the clean bathroom! How could I forget bout that. One thing to note is that the water aint as hot as I would like it to be, but bearable.

There's one lil incident I'll always remember and never gonna trust the number lock again - I've got my luggage locked and I didn't know what the code was coz I didnt know when it's changed and it had to happen on the very first day on a Sunday evening! Seriously, even till now I dont know how to change the code I wondered how it was accidentally done! was totally completely freaked out I tell you, but thank goodness after fidelling for about 20 mins with all sorts of combinations, the lock opened! The most dramatic emotion change I had in 20 mins! And I never want to experience it no more. I'm now goin traditional, no more high tech digital lock, call me a loser!

Prague - Czech Glass

Czech is famous for its Czech glass, or sometimes called the Bohemian glass (that is just becoz Bohemia was a part of the former Czechoslovakia). Glass and crystals shops are everywhere, literally, in the old town and new town in Prague, so many of them you simply just cannot miss it. And its soo cool to actually see the actual engraving done by the glassmaker on the spot. Every single cut he made was so delicate and precise. I am seriously amazed by the skill from head to toe!

The glassmaker is engraving the glass with the aid of the rotating wheel.

this is the original red glass with nothing on it.

and this is the product after cutting. Each and every lines was so very carefully engraved. Say, isnt it awesome!

Look at this details!

Some of the glass are plated with gold. So beautiful and elegant!

How I wish I'm loaded now then I can buy them for my future home. I love the coloured glass!

My First Trip to Prague

I'm back, finally, from my 6-days trip to Prague and Cesky Krumlov!

There are soooo many pictures I wanted to put it up here but nah, its goin to take me ages to upload them so I'm just gonna randomly select a couples of my favourites. Heh. I tell you, the Czechs are sooooo totallly gorgeous and friendly and helpful and cute and made me wanna fall in love with them! and I'm loving their beers so very much! especially the dark beer (dark beer is sweeter than light beer). I'm not a beer person to start with but man, the Czech's dark beer has totally changed my perception bout beer; it's no longer some bitter fizzy yellowish brown liquid but beer beer itself that tastes only sooo good and drinkable and made me oh so relax I jus want to flirt with that cute waiter! and they are sooooo bloody effin cheap! you wont believe it's the cheapest beverage on the drink list, cheaper than a coke, 30 czk or some places are goin for 20 czk and that means 1 pound or even less for a 0.3l beer!! Now I understand why Honza and Natacha said the British beers suck!

Night scene at Florence, Prague. I always have this thing for lights I donno why, but say, aren't they just beautiful?! Night without lights can only be scary!

Dvur. That's the name of the restaurant. Milan boy said it means in between houses, which is exactly where this restaurant's. I personally like this place very much till we just have to go back for the second time. The food is excellent, the restaurant's awesome with really coool jazz music, and most importantly, Milan boy is sooooo cute!!! He's soo cute I just had to tease him and see him blushed and not know what to say. Gosh. If time permits I probably will have a crush on him. Haha. It's very rare that the waiter can talk so much with the customers but we just did, till he told us that his boss was pointing at him and we had to stop! and we spent the longest dinner there, from 8pm to 11pm. We exchanged number but god dammit I accidentally deleted one of the number and now I dont have it anymore. T_T.

This is at the Old Town, and I can't remember what this sharp pointing gothic style architecture is called. =p.

This is a Baroque style building, it's some kinda theatre.

Old town square. And again, pardon me for not able to remember the names of the sculptures, they are all in Czech language and my brain just refused to work. =p The easter market is here, and we had this really delicious Langose, it's somekind of flour made errr, flat fried bread?



Thats the street lighta again. =)

This was taken at the Prague castle, which is across the famous Charles Bridge. If only the weather was better. It's snowing can you believe it! It's already spring still it's snowing! Nonetheless, the view was awesome! Too bad I'm such an idiot in picture taking!






That's the prague castle taken from the other side at dawn. And the river is called Vltava river.

You can see tonnes of building like these in Prague. Its nice the first time, all new and exciting, but after that, I kinda got immune to it. Heh.

Oh ohhhh, and I bought this beer shampoo!!! Am goin to start using it soon after my yogurt berries shampoo is finished. I just realised I'm kinda obsessed with shampoo. hehe. =p.

We'd yeast beer, dark beer and lager. And you know my fav now. Dark beer is the way to gooooooooo!! =p

All in all, the trip's awesome! Bad weather, but we had really good food, good beer, good view and good companies! I needa bring more money next time! there're a couple of places tht we din get to visit, like the castle filled with dead bones and skullls.

A few words I learnt in Czech:
Ahoj (i) - hello
Dekui - thank you
Pivo - beer
Kolik to stoji (stui) - how much

* j is silent.

ps: I just got to know that Bata, yea, that Bata shoe shop that I only buy my school shoes, is actually a Czech brand!

pps: I'm in love with Kozel

ppps: All other cool pics are on my facebook.