Switzerland, Lucern, Part 4

You must visit Lucern when you visit to Switzerland.

All these photos were taken from Chapel Bridge, Water Tower and Lake Lucern

Switzerland, Zollikofen/Bern, Dinner, Part 3

Dinner

1) Restaurant in Hotel Gasthof Tiefenau- They mainly served pasta and pizza.

- I ordered a set of " Cordon Bleu ". We can get the similar one in" Secret Recipe" restaurant here. But of course this one tasted better, but the price of CHF 20 ( ~RM66) ,you can have 3 plates in "Secret Recipe" restaurant !!!

- Chicken meat wrapped with cheese and ham and coated with special flour and pan fry it.

Next time, I will learn to cook it at home.

- my husband ordered a set of special pizza, something like big "curry puff".

-Actually just normal pizza wrapped with ham.

- The waiter in this restaurant suggest us to try the Swiss local drink "Rivella http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivella", surprisingly the taste was nice and cooling. We tried two flavours- original (red label) and green tea (green label), we still prefer the green tea flavour.

A bottle of this cost about CHF 3 ~ 4 in vary restaurants, but on the last day in Zurich, we found out the cheaper Rivella is in CO-OP supermarket which cost only CHF 1.35 (~ RM 4.40) a bottle, the price are so much difference huh !!!

-This is the waiter who recommend us the Rivella. He comes from Tunisia and work here. A very nice and friendly uncle.

*** On next day, we still take dinner in this restaurant, because this is a small town, not much of choices. We both ordered pizzas.

- I ordered Pizza with salami, thin crust type.

- pizza with ham and pineapple, Hawaiian style.

- They dont serve chili sauce but own made chili oil.

2) Restaurant in Zollikofen town, also a pasta and pizza restaurant, forgot to take note the restaurant name.

- A very romantic environment in this restaurant

- I ordered "Risotto", a kind of rice cooked with parmesan cheese. Not really like the taste, too cheseeee....

- my husband always play safe side by order normal tomato spaghetti, but it turned out no tomato but all cheeseeee too...

p/s in the next post, I will show you what I see and shop in Zollikofen.

Switzerland, Zollikofen/Bern, Breakfast & Lunch, Part 2

1) Breakfast at Hotel Gasthof Tiefenau

-Not like the usual buffet breakfast serving in the hotels here, they just ready the breakfast on the table. Croissants, bread, cheese, ham, salami and yogurt all are very fresh.

- Each guest will get a small pot of coffee or tea (depend your preference) . They served very nice coffee.

-This is not Lorenzo "sofa" but Lorenzo "sugar", hehehe...

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- On the last day of check out, they served a very special bread for us. The appearance look similar like something, you can have your own imagination, hahaha.

The skin of the bread is croissant, inside is a big sausage ( they called Bratwurst). I forgot to take the photo of the inside, the bread is so nice until I finished it only realized that I have not took the picture. I must learn how to bake this, but first I need to learn how to bake croissant ?

2) Lunch at "Bern" train station

- When we walked around the Bern area, we took a quick lunch at "Bern" train station.

All the stalls in this shop just purely sell all kind of bakery items e.g croissant, bread, sandwiches, cake and etc, unlike Malaysia's hawker stalls have multiple of choices....

- I tried the cheese tart and the taste was great.

p/s I will be back on next post for the dinners which I took at Zollikofen

Switzerland, Zollikofen/Bern, Part 1

We arrived at Zurich airport on Sunday morning and immediate transferred to a small town "Zollikofen" where my husband has 2 days meeting there.

1) We check in to Hotel Gasthof Tiefenau (http://www.gasthof-tiefenau.ch/hotel/showlinx.asp?lang=d)

- It was not a luxury hotel but just 3 stars hotel ( for the same price you can easily get a 5 stars hotel in Malaysia), but the room is clean, cosy and got "kampung" feel.

a. The external view of the hotel is same like the old Swiss design.

b. A very antique radio player in the room. But not sure this player is working or not, I didn't try it.

2) Since we have half day free time in the Sunday afternoon, we took 5 minutes train to a nearby big city " Bern" for walk around.

- You can easily get the snow mountain view from any corner.

p/s I will be back on next post for what I eat in Zollikofen and Bern.

Switzerland

Just like to share with you one photo first, let your "Ci Ha Yan" , since your have waited for so long, hahaha....This photo was taken when we on the way to Mt. Titlis.
I still need some time to arrange all the photos and write the post. Please hold on...

Away for 1 week

I will be away for 1 week to "the city with the best quality of life in the world as well as the wealthiest city in Europe", will take a lot of photos (if no any hiccup) and share with you when i returned. Don't miss me and stay tuned.

Bento # 3

This is the 1st time using Emily's Busy World bento set, which consist of:-
- pasta baked with cheese
- cup cake
- grapes

Pork Chop Rice

Earlier wanted to cook something like Japanese Don( rice) , after seen Nancy's post on Taiwanese Pork rice http://nancymummy.blogspot.com/2009/02/blog-post_20.html, immediately I give a try.

1) My eldest son told me that this was one of the best dinner (which I prepared) that he ever had.

2) Thanks Nancy taught me on how to make the meat soften. Anyway I follow my own way to marinate the pork meat, I added ginger juice and the usual of sauces. And I coated with tempura flour instead of breadcrumb ( a bit dry when the meat turned cool).

3) I replaced the sweet pea (my kids and I don't like to eat this) with asparagus, just simple stir fry.

4) First time use Tauki (tofu skin) to stir fry cabbage, the taste was great.