Food Explorer & Home Chef
Right, let’s this off the ground and start the Eating! Half the time during weekends, the usual question is, “What shall we eat?” While it would be nice to be able to indulge in a luxurious spread, we can’t do this all the time. The …
Do you kimchi? I kimchi. Everyone seems to be into fermented foods these days as it’s touted as the new health food, and kimchi is right up there with the rest of them. I’m not the biggest fan of Korean food, but there are some …
Call it Octoberfest and someone somewhere is bound to get his feathers all riled up.
Thank goodness there was none of that this time. Instead, TGG (The Good Guys) Publika celebrated its launch party with an Octoberfest theme, made all the more merrier thanks to Carlsberg Malaysia.
I said it was oom pah pah night but then I just realised there was no German guys playing the tuba. 🙄 Instead, there was a band which performed modern renditions of popular numbers.
Guests had a chance to try their tried their hands at mug-slinging (why do I keep seeing mud-swinging?), beer pong, stein-holding endurance and lucky draw while swigging mugs of Carlsberg, Asahi and Brooklyn beer as well as Connor’s.
Was feeling nostalgic as it made me reminisce about the early years (many, many years ago) when every other hotel vied to host the most memorable October Fest for the media. There was free flow beer (alcohol was much cheaper then), food was in abundance served buffet style and inevitably by the end of the night, quite a few people would have ended up being thrown in the hotel pool!
That was also my first introduction to the chicken dance – why is Chicken Dance associated with October fest? I used to find it annoying, but last night, it was kinda nice …
Sigh, those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end. Oh well, let’s have more beer!
“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.” Julia Child Some days are more bereft of inspiration than others. Opened the fridge to find one lonely carrot left. Mr Fishcake, this is your lucky day as you’re …