Writer’s Workshop: Some Tea for Me

Dominique Thoughts alpha thursday, mama kat's writers workshop, two questions

Tea in A pot

Apple and Chrysanthemum tea which is drunk with honey

I’ve always enjoyed drinking tea. I can’t remember when I started drinking tea but one of my all time favourites were chrysanthemum and earl grey. I could never drink coffee and fizzy drinks also do not appeal to me.

In the recent years I have been more adventurous and tried out many different teas. I’ve got to taste more high end tea and am indulging in TWG green teas which I simply love. Their Silvermoon tea is my favourite and everyone in the family loves this light green tea. I didn’t know that there is such an assortment of black/white and green teas available. There is more then 100 over selections

Other types of teas which I frequently drink are Ice Honey Green Tea which I normally have alongside my meals when we eat out at a Chinese restaurant. If that is not available or we are out for breakfast I would order Honey Lemon Tea instead.

I lived through the bubble tea craze where everyone went for pearls “starch balls” in their ice teas. I still don’t get the hype for bubble tea even though it is still quite popular here. I do see people queuing up for KOI bubble tea at all their outlets and have yet to try it to see why is it so “spectacular” at $4-$6 a cup.

There are many benefits of drinking tea, especially green tea since it is suppose to help in dieting. I’m going to grab myself another cup of tea now.

What is your favourite drink?

How often do you indulge in it?

March 22, 2012

Writer’s Workshop – Rekindling the Love

Dominique Parenting and Kids, Thoughts alpha thursday, mama kat's writers workshop, two questions

At the hotel

Our last stay in a hotel was during our trip last month to Taichung, Taiwan. It was to be a couple trip but since Tiger girl is still too little to be left with the grandparents we let her tag along. The holiday was my valentine’s day treat and I was having it in advance before R gets too busy with his work schedule and starts flying off on his business trips all over Asia.

It had been a long time since I’ve been on a trip with R. The last trip back to Hong Kong with the three kids doesn’t count as we were so busy handling the kids that there was little time to interact with each other.

This trip to Taiwan was more relaxing as we planned to visit only a few places. We would go off on day trips and return back to the hotel at night. I wasn’t interested in shopping and visiting the city area as with a toddler in tow shopping is something really difficult to do. We opted to visit the scenic places of interest like Sun Moon Lake and went to view the Dragons at the Lukang Lantern Festival.

I also indulged in some yummy foods which are not commonly eaten here in Singapore and had fun tasting the different drinks just to keep warm as the temperature dipped to a chilly 12 degrees while we were in Taiwan.

It was great to be able to stroll hand in hand with R instead of having our hands full holding on to the 3 kids whenever we go out. We were also able to talk about anything under the sun without having the older kids eavesdropping on us and starting a session of 101 questions. It really felt like we were back to the days when it was just us as a couple starting off with only 1 kid in tow.