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Saturday, 31 October 2015

廣州麗的麵家

【麗的麺家】多宝路298号，由@黃麗梅may

　　“魚有魚味，鷄有鷄味”，這是亞視美食節目頭牌主持黃麗梅的金句。人稱“May姐”的她昨日回到她真正的娘家廣州，賣雲吞面。昨日，她與香港米芝蓮一星“何洪記粥面專家”的老闆何生共同投資的“麗的面家”在多寶路開張，美食界大腕蔡瀾到場剪綵，衆多老西關街坊聞訊前來湊個熱鬧吃碗麵……南方都市報記者受May姐之邀，昨日親臨麵店，一睹女食神親自下廚的風采，聽她分享融在一碗小小雲吞面中的細膩心思，以及對傳統的執着，“希望把1960年代的廣州傳統雲吞面原原本本，包裝得靚靚地帶回廣州。”

　　拍檔教路，蔡瀾捧場

　　麵店共有五層，一、二樓為店面，三樓存放從香港運到的食材和打竹升面，四樓是熬制雲吞面湯底及未來做燒味的廚房，五樓天台供烤制與晾曬大地魚之用。

　　第一次開店的May姐昨日與大股東何生共同掌勺。在香港做了六十幾年雲吞面的何生既是激發May姐開店的高人，亦是貢獻秘訣的大師傅。例如，芝麻粉加大地魚粉是傳統雲吞面的靈魂。麵店的大名由蔡瀾題字，他當日也前來捧場剪綵。

　　May姐示範，街坊有福

　　天台烤魚

　　傳統雲吞面均用炭火烤香的大地魚熬湯。“12345法則”，是May姐的竅門：“1斤大地魚、2斤蝦殻、3斤豬骨、4兩蝦籽，50斤水，熬制3小時，去渣後湯清味濃。”

　　雲吞秘訣

　　傳統廣式雲吞面有“大細蓉”之分，“細蓉”裡雲吞細細粒，西關小姐最愛，“大蓉”的雲吞肉飽滿且數量稍多，是男人們的美味。May姐賣的雲吞，其餡料中除了常見的肉、鮮蝦和大地魚粉之外，還加入芝麻粉和小粒叉燒。

　　竹升壓面

　　“用全鴨蛋不加水搓成的麵團，再用竹升來壓，面更爽滑更有彈性。舊時廣州人說，面要像橡皮筋那樣，拉開時‘崩’一聲才叫靚。”May姐一邊念念有詞，邊指導小師傅壓面。

　　計時煮面

　　“麵條要在鍋中上落16秒，每次落下一定要落到鍋底。再等雲吞一浮上面，‘金魚尾’(指雲吞皮的造型)一散，整碗麵就煮好了。”May姐還提醒街坊，切成一寸半長的韭黃和麻油要放最底，再擺上雲吞，面放上面，才是一碗正宗雲吞面。

　　南都

澳門_ 識飲識食

澳門「西南」食懷舊粵菜

2015/09/26

        杜琪大導識飲識食，人所皆知，最近跟他、謙謙、朱總和鄧名高等一眾好友過大海覓食，中午到達澳門，先到福隆新街的「佛笑樓」本店食頓豉油葡餐。

        餐廳老闆王翁是澳門名人，一早為我們預留房間和寫菜，餐廳的招牌菜好像「焗蟹蓋」、「蒜蓉大蝦」、「炆牛胸」、「炸馬介休球」、「焗葡國雞」、「咖喱蟹」和「星洲炒米」等全部試勻，飯後到入住的麗思卡酒店放下行李，跟太座到酒店的ESPASpa做「抗老逆齡面部護理」，十多分鐘後我已經有種回到過去重拾青春的神奇感覺，大喜之際突然被叫醒，原來只是好夢一場！

        出發到「西南」時在酒店大堂碰到馬時亨教授一家六口，原來他們準備到「八部半」為馬太慶生。「西南飯店」位於以前有「老舉街」之稱的福隆新街小巷內，開業超過半世紀，是澳門無人不識的老字號，老闆湯伯自學成廚，買翅、發翅和做翅一手包辦。還記得當年「西南」的白菜膽雞煲翅人人爭食，座上盡是港澳名人，當時更只收現金，黑卡也無面畀，結果招來賊匪打劫，飯店現時錢卡兼收，更請了位保安阿伯裝飾門面，今次有拍慣黑社會電影的杜Sir在座，感覺安全，食得安樂。

        車仔檔牛雜誘人

        杜Sir在「西南」甚有面子，我們坐在地下大房，寬敞舒適（不用像以前一家人坐在樓梯底下），女侍阿花話頭醒尾，一早為我們把帶來的餐酒開瓶透氣，餐前小食有炸花生、小魚和菜甫蝦米，餐前飲品並非平日的香檳或白酒，而是附近小販賣的涼茶，皆因杜Sir跟我當日有點感冒，謙謙則覺得熱氣，杜Sir請阿花到街頭小販處「執藥」，十多分鐘後感冒茶、五花茶和廿四味源源奉上，我們各取所需，謙謙一人飲了四碗五花茶，濕熱全消，我和杜Sir飲了感冒茶後即時胃口大開！

        狀態復勇的杜Sir告訴我們附近「明記」車仔檔的牛雜非常美味，聽得我們口水直流，牛雜檔經常有人龍輪候，排一小時隊才能買到是等閒事，幸好有阿花代勞，很快便用三百元替我們買來兩大碟牛雜、牛肚、牛膀、牛肺、牛腸和牛軟骨款款俱備，加些辣椒油，香辣惹味，杜Sir連食七件，我也把神醫囑咐拋諸腦後，食完再算！杜Sir話澳門每天只兩頭牛（死牛除外），但「明記」牛雜長賣長有，認真神奇。食牛雜時飲杯一九九六年瑪歌紅酒，快樂無窮，澳門街頭小食跟法國名酒是出奇地配合！

        食罷牛雜，「西南」美食陸續登場，首先上桌是「炸子雞」，每隻三百六十元，炸得皮脆肉滑，汁香味濃，杜Sir最愛雞尾，認為是整隻雞最香滑地方，謙謙跟愛馬仕珠珠一樣最愛雞胸，每次見到豐滿雞胸便狂吞口水，但對雞頭則敬而遠之，果然是謙謙君子！我則對雞背情有獨鍾，皆因雞跟人一樣常被篤背，所以背脊充滿彈性，配紅酒一流。

        再遇精采紅燒乳鴿

        更加精采是紅燒乳鴿，每隻七十元，認真超值，乳鴿皮脆肉嫩，香甜帶汁，很久沒有食過如此精采的乳鴿，有種回到上世紀七十年代「沙田酒家」的感覺！

        「薑焗奄仔蟹」人人讚好，奄仔是澳門名物，加上惹味的薑，肉滑鮮甜，很快便食至清碟，跟食杜太一早預訂的「鮑汁炆龍躉皮」，龍躉皮是「西南」珍藏多年的乾貨，很多海味店都會放在門前作招徠，龍躉皮厚約一公分，比鄧名高的面皮還要厚，吸取了鮑汁的美味，龍躉皮不腥不韌，有點陳皮香味，骨膠原豐富，用來做「飛素」功效更勝火山泥！

        我們也試了「古法蝦多士」，海蝦鮮甜，多士炸得金黃香脆，配布根地白酒一流。「羅漢齋」以前在「西南」未食過，是杜太的至愛，材料豐富，有白果、髮菜、冬菇、黃耳、馬蹄、百合、蓮子和竹笙，是美味有益的素菜。

        我們一家在「西南」的最愛是每份十三元的白菜膽，這是用雞湯來煮的白菜精華部份，菜膽吸取了雞湯，好味到飛起！太座一人食了兩份，幸福滿臉。跟出場是杜太戲稱「例湯」的「竹絲雞煲翅」，這是「西南」的鎮店之寶，每份六百元，瓦煲內有兩碗雞湯翅，烏雞湯鮮甜滋補，海虎翅腍身香滑，我現時跟唐唐一樣，對食翅興趣不大，但對鮮甜的雞湯則難以抗拒，連盡兩碗！

        最後食荷葉飯和炒飯，「西南」用的是新鮮荷葉，所以荷葉飯夏天才可食到，飯先炒後蒸，內有蛋絲、蠔豉粒和瑤柱等，汁豐味美，食得人人滿口荷香，杜Sir則喜歡炒飯，飯跟蛋一樣，炒得粒粒分明，加上澳門紅鬚海蝦，是水準甚高的炒飯，差點及得上我做的「阿一炒飯」！

        「煎鰽白」香脆味美

        杜Sir愛食鹹魚，叫了碟「煎鰽白」來下酒，煎鹹魚鹹香撲鼻，香脆得連骨也可食埋，跟謙謙帶來的二○○三年瑪歌紅酒是神仙配搭。

        甜品是杜太從「沙利文」買來的「木糠蛋糕」，「沙利文」是澳門老店，是我第一次在澳門食葡國菜的地方，木糠是茶餅餅碎，跟忌廉層層緊貼，是女士們愛食的飯後甜品。

        這是頓難忘的晚飯，記得上次在「西南」食飯已經是十年前，今次跟杜Sir重來搵食，很多招牌菜都有當年高峰時期的水準，認真開心。

        葉澍堃

Source: http://blogcity.hk/BLOG/reply_blog_express.asp?f=AVXP80OZ5L132681&id=763166

廣州_兩日一夜 (Part B)

廣州有很多老字號和馳名商標，好像始創於明朝萬曆三十六年（一六○八年）的致美齋醬園。致美齋跟北京六必居，上海冠生園和長沙九如齋齊名，被譽為中國古代四大醬園。致美齋的鎮店之寶是「天頂頭抽」，這是在發酵缸內抽取的第一道醬油精華，香味特濃，味道鮮美，每支二十六元，確是物有所值，怪不得每天早上門前都有大批捧場客在排隊等候進店購買心頭好！

      在廣州除了購物，也可以到文德路一帶走走，附庸風雅一番！那裏有畫廊，有賣文房四寶、舊書和字畫的小店，最合我等墨水不足之輩！廣州購物地方甚多，廉價貨品隨處可見，在天河區也有高級商場，愛馬仕和LV等名牌也可買到，喜歡逛超市的話，廣州也有像Sam'sClub的大型超市。

      我們在希爾頓酒店的「隨軒」中菜廳食在廣州的第一頓午飯，希爾頓在天河區林西橫路，「隨軒」做的是高級fusion中菜，這裏的貴賓房寬敞兼有氣派，大廚陳傳華，今年四十三歲，一九八八年入行，以前在Sofitel酒店掌廚，他為我們準備了一席名貴新派中菜，每人消費千多元人民幣，菜式豐富，前菜三款，分別是「仿膳鴨舌」、「和燒草菇」和「老醋海蜇頭」，較特別是「和燒草菇」，草菇的水份被抽乾，食起來有點像焗過的腰果，最宜作餐前小食，老醋海蜇頭爽脆醒神，此外，我們也試了這裏的叉燒和燒肉，叉燒很有廣州風味，味道略鹹帶點豉味，燒肉切得薄薄，沒有香港的燒腩那麼厚身，口感平平。

      小葱汁焗遼參香濃味美

      跟着是「鵝肝香芒片皮雞」，拼「黑蒜鴨卷」及「和風鮮鮑」，這是最合大款的新派名貴粵菜，鵝肝香芒片皮雞賣相漂亮，但因我不愛內地鵝肝，所以看過便算！對我來說，還是簡簡單單的白切雞好食得多，黑蒜鴨卷有點特色，黑蒜來自日本，據說有抗氧化功能，可以提高人體免疫力，有點似話梅的酸味，跟鴨卷味道相當配合，鮮鮑算是貴價貨，最合國內大款口味，對我等港燦來說則無甚吸引。

      湯是「冬蟲草炖官燕配響螺肉汁」，食法是把一小碟官燕放進用冬蟲草炖的湯，再把另上肉餅的肉汁加進湯內，提升湯的鮮甜味道，最合太座心意！這道湯用的全部是名貴食材，價值不菲，味道與價錢同樣難忘！跟着上桌的「芹香炒蟹粉」賣相漂亮，但我遵從神醫囑咐，蟹粉看過便算！還是「小葱汁焗遼參」更合我意，遼參鋪滿小葱的濃汁，香濃美味，爽滑無比，配菜有冬瓜和南瓜，有益好食。

      海鮮是「鹽煎東星斑配松露汁」，東星斑在廣州是貴價魚，兩斤重左右，用鹽煎配白松露汁，魚肉夠滑，有點松露幽香，比清蒸更討好！跟阿一師傅的煎東星斑有異曲同工之妙。青菜是「雞湯浸皇帝菜」，這是北方唐蒿，用雞湯浸熟，清甜好味。單尾的「慢熬翅皇粥」一上桌便聞到粥的香氣，大廚說做此菜的靈感來自潮州粥和上海泡飯，加些煲得腍身的牙揀翅，跟軟綿的粥配合得好，食得舒服，連同行的天寶閣主廚陳小麒師傅也讚好！

      南瓜番茄燴翅清鮮益健

      甜品中西合璧，有「日式芝士蛋糕」、「像生核桃酥」和「時令水果」，這頓午宴吃的是大廚的創意和心思，每位千多元人民幣的消費在廣州也有市場，確不簡單！顧客當然不是普羅大眾，多數都是用公費款客的商家。

      「心友匯」——精英私人會所晚宴

      晚上跟廣州地膽Kenny到「心友匯」食晚飯，「心友匯」在新慶路十一號，是幢三層高的?墅，這是廣州的高級私人會所，裝修優雅古典，牆上掛着舊日廣州的黑白照片，我最愛洗手間地下的黑白花磚，很有懷舊氣氛，這是廣州精英食晚飯飲紅酒的地方，會所建於民國初期，是孫中山先生為答謝支持革命的華僑而修建，建築風格中西合璧，奢華得來不覺浮誇，露天花園充滿法國風情，在這裏食飯不用擔心狗仔隊，每個房間都古色古香，大廚蘇明川來自香港的「港島廳」，在香港時已經認識，今夜重遇，當然把晚飯菜式交給他發辦。

      晚飯菜式豐富，四前菜是「紅酒凍鵝肝」、「手打魚丸」、「豉醬爆肚片腎脷」和「中華醬律蔬果翠」，鵝肝看過便算。

      自製魚丸爽甜彈牙，豉醬爆肚片腎脷香口無比，但內臟還是少食為佳，跟着「貴妃彩虹燴雙頂白翅」，上桌時金黃一片，看似是蟹黃翅，入口才知是用南瓜和番茄燴的青片翅，翅湯綿滑，味道清鮮，一點不膩，我最愛南瓜的甜和番茄的鮮，這款翅賣相漂亮，比蟹皇翅健康好食得多！最合我等中年男士，對保護前列腺尤其有效。

      正宗生炒糯米飯遍地難求

      其他菜式有「鮑魚拼釀遼參」、焗龍蝦和炒芥蘭，鮑魚是來自日本的皇冠牌吉品乾鮑，跟釀了蝦膠的遼參很配合，有種在「港島廳」晚宴的感覺，怪不得如此多廣州精英在此宴客！較失望的是「芝士牛油焗龍蝦」，這道菜對我毫不吸引，因為龍蝦不是我的所愛，用牛油芝士來焗更吃不到龍蝦的鮮味，一於看過便算！還是「薑汁炒芥蘭」更合我口味，單尾是「生炒糯米飯」，天寶閣陳師傅說今時今日很難吃到真正的生炒糯米飯，皆因工序繁複而賣不到錢。這頓晚飯埋單六千多元，每人一千六百元人民幣，絕不便宜，但考慮到優雅環境和一流服務，也算是物有所值，廣州消費能力之高的確令人咋舌！（待續）

食在廣州「德廚」私房菜「松記」清水打邊爐

2015/07/04

廣州是出名搵食好地方，「好酒好蔡」和「滋粥樓」過去曾經介紹，是我在廣州喜愛的食肆。最近跟杜琪大導在廣州食了幾餐飯，多了兩家新歡，分別是「德廚」私房菜和「松記」食店。

「德廚」在署前路廟前西街15號，是家私房菜，平時並不對外營業，但若是老闆或杜Sir朋友，訂位當然沒有問題。餐廳地方寬敞，裝修古色古香，擺放了不少值錢的工藝品。我在這裏食過兩頓午飯，第一次一行十五人，菜式甚多，有「清湯羊肉煲」，「東江手撕雞」、「油鹽洞庭湖魚」、「白灼羊雙弦」、「豉汁蒸南極斑」、「炸元蹄」、「咖喱北海蝦」、「鵝汁炆香芋」、「海醬煮生蠔」、「皇豬肚尖」、「上湯油菜」，「韭黃手工伊麵」和甜品，餐飲總監曾憲新，曾在日本工作，怪不得這裏的菜偶爾會有點日本風味。

「松記」（地址是海珠區巨赤崗北路128號四季天地副樓一樓），「松記」本店在順德，是家有二十年歷史的老店，廣州分店跟本店一樣，一年四季做的都是清水打邊爐，沒有其他湯底，以「食材刁鑽，爽脆味鮮」聞名。

葉澍堃 : 食在廣州（二）

廣州_兩日一夜 (Part A)

食在廣州(一)

2011/11/19

        本月初和太座到廣州玩了兩日一夜，住在天河區剛開業的希爾頓酒店，廣州的市容在亞運後有明顯的改善，值得一讚，廣州是港人「搵食」的好地方，跟香港一樣，各式食肆甚多，老字號像「向群」和「炳勝」做的街坊小菜好食抵食，粥麵店如「伍湛記」、「穗銀腸粉店」、「第一麵家」等甚合港人口味，價錢相宜，「花園酒店」內「荔灣亭」的粥麵據說仍然甚有水準，愛食火鍋者，記着到番禺的「滋粥樓」品嚐以綿、稠和滑著稱的粥底火鍋，亦可試試較大路的「冇米粥」連銷店，同樣是以粥水打邊爐作招徠。

        地道砵仔糕

        愛食雞者當然不可錯過「白天鵝賓館」中菜廳的白切雞和薑蓉，雞味濃郁，是很多香港食家的至愛。喜歡小食者，荔灣涌一帶有很多小攤檔，賣各類地道小食，好像童年時常食的砵仔糕，這裏賣的是砵仔馬蹄糕，五元四件，有多款味道，好像桂花、芝麻、紅豆和馬蹄，爽滑甜美；這裏也有三元一大杯的馬蹄爽，爽甜的馬蹄粒加上西米和蛋花，清潤香甜，還有八元一大條的齋燒鵝，灑上大量芝麻，比燒鵝更美味，太座食得眉開眼笑，一邊食一面欣賞荔灣涌晚上的燈飾，別有風味。愛買手信者，荔灣涌外面是手信街，在「蓮香樓」可以買到各式餅食，好像雞仔餅、盲公餅、馬仔和薑糖等，不遠處是歷史悠久的「畔溪酒家」，我以前曾經在這裏飲早茶、食點心，地方甚大，但較為破落，今次見到老店換上新裝，門面較前輝煌亮麗，原來「畔溪」最近易主，新老闆是香港「四洲」的戴德豐兄。
        廣州人的消費能力甚高，在頂級餐廳人均消費千多元人仔一頓飯是等閒事，若要飲埋「拉菲」，數萬元一席也絕不為奇！像「空中一號」這些以豪裝作招徠的貴價食肆，賣的是山珍野味，要食金錢豹和穿山甲，當然不能吝惜腰間錢，一擲萬金是平常事，在酒店中菜廳和私人會所如「心友滙」食飯，價錢同樣昂貴。

        漁民新村開眼界

        今次在番禺（現時是廣州市一部份）特別驅車到「漁民新村」開開眼界，這是我見過的最大型食肆，樓高七層，包房多不勝數，共有四千座位，地下大堂大得驚人，擺放了來自世界各地的高級食材，好像游水大龍躉和蘇眉、澳洲來的大龍蝦、加拿大象拔蚌、法國和冰島的生蠔、新鮮劏的鱷魚肉、大閘蟹和禾花雀等，任何山珍海錯在這裏都可找到，場面浩大，令人歎為觀止！附近有家叫「四海一家」的餐廳，同樣大得驚人，千多人聚首一堂食自助餐，是在香港難得一見的大場面。

        大場面見識過便算，對我等「港燦」來說，還是地道小店更合我們口味，我和太座、天寶閣的陳小麒大廚和廣州地膽Kenny一行四人在越秀區的「穗銀腸粉店」食早餐，這是廣州老店，每天早上六時左右開門營業，凌晨一時半才休息，營業時間長但生意甚佳，經常滿座，皆因價錢便宜，出品有水準，是在廣州食早餐的好地方，以賣腸粉和粥類為主。員工全部是女士，黃色制服相當醒目，這裏賣的是傳統布拉腸粉，即叫即拉，腸粉款式甚多，很多都是五元或七元一碟，最貴是賣十二元的鮮蝦腸，招牌腸粉是「豉油皇牛肉腸」，其他如豬潤腸、叉燒腸和茶樹菇腸也甚受歡迎。我們試了豉油皇牛肉腸，陳師傅邊食邊讚，認為水準更勝從前！腸粉用粘米粉來做，夠薄夠滑，豉油的甜味適中，牛肉夠滑，怪不得是廣州名小食！

        廣州粥王歎靚粥

        這裏有「廣州粥王」的美譽，招牌粥甚多，好像賣八元的滑雞粥和六元的艇仔粥。其他如牛肉粥、豬肝瘦肉粥、粉腸粥、及第粥和魚骨腩粥等，多數都是六、七元一碗，「穗銀」的艇仔粥用料豐富，有牛肚、葱花、魚肉、豬皮和生菜絲等，以前賣一元一碗，現時則要六元，廣州物價飛漲可見一斑，但相對香港，仍然是非常抵食。在廣州當然要試試艇仔粥，太座食得津津有味，加上每條一元的油條和牛肉腸粉，食得過癮！四個人試了多款粥、腸粉、油條和炸兩，埋單四十多元，每人十元左右，確是價廉物美，比在香港快餐店的早餐好食得多！怪不得小明也經常「行路上廣州」食早餐！（待續）

        葉澍堃 : 食在廣州(一)

Tuesday, 13 January 2015

JP Housing 東張西望日本買樓

日本買樓

Monday, 12 January 2015

Facebook bride embodies the American dream

How £12 billion Facebook bride embodies the American dream: Father of Zuckerberg's new wife was Asian refugee who worked 18-hour days in Chinese takeaway

Priscilla Chan was mainly raised by her grandmother because parents Dennis and Yvonne worked such grueling hours at their Boston restaurant
Her science teachers says she was determined and bright pupil who was aiming for Harvard when she was just 13

Priscilla has closely guarded her family's humble roots, releasing only a few titbits through Facebook's PR machine. Her 'official' biography states that after Quincy High, she studied biology at Harvard where she met Zuckerberg as they queued for the toilet at a party in 2003.

She has recalled: 'He was this nerdy guy who was just a little bit out there.' While Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard after founding Facebook in his dorm room and moved to California to build his company, she remained at the prestigious Ivy League university. After Harvard, Priscilla attended medical school and graduated as a pediatrician a week before her wedding.

Her family's home is a four-bedroom red-brick detached house in a quiet cul-de-sac in the middle-class Boston suburb of Braintree. But the precise details of how the family arrived in America are unclear.

Determined pupil: Priscilla's yearbook photo from state-run Quincy High School, near Boston

Reports in China say they came originally from the city of Xuzhou in eastern Chandong province, also the home city of Rupert Murdoch's wife Wendi Deng. Others say that the family lived in Nanjing, an industrial town 150 miles west of Shanghai, before leaving to live first in Hong Kong and later in the US.
A source at the Asian-American Civic Association in Boston said it was 'highly likely' the family spent time in a refugee camp, either in Hong Kong or on arrival in the US.
Priscilla's father said he was a refugee who had lived in Vietnam, according to Thai-born NapatSriwannavit, who bought the 87-seat Taste of Asia restaurant from him in 2006 and turned it into a noodle bar called Pho & I.

Mr Sriwannavit said: 'Mr Chan was a very good man, very good manners. He said he had been a refugee and had lived in Vietnam. He was Chinese but he told me he lived in Vietnam.'

When Priscilla's father sold up, he told the new owner: 'I'm tired of working such long hours.'

Records show Dennis, who now owns a small wholesale fish business, was given a social security number as an 'Asian Refugee' between April 1975 and November 1979.

It is believed that he and his accountant wife, now 50, moved to Massachusetts in the early Eighties. Priscilla and her younger sisters, Elaine and Michelle, were born in the US.

Priscilla has already introduced Zuckerberg to her Asian roots. The couple travelled to Vietnam last December and to China in March.

Of the future, Mr Swanson said: 'Priscilla wants to contribute to society. She was the one who encouraged Mark to start a feature on Facebook encouraging people to be organ donors.

'She knows who she is and what she wants. She and Mark both want to change the world. And they are in the fortunate position of having the resources to do that.'

Mansion: Mark Zuckerberg's mansion in Palo Alto, California, which he bought for a reported $7 million

When Priscilla Chan married her long-time boyfriend, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, last weekend she looked every inch the fairytale bride.
In a stunning full-length white gown, 27-year-old Priscilla smiled serenely as she exchanged vows with Zuckerberg, 28, worth an astonishing £12 billion, in a surprise ceremony.

Her transformation into the wife of the world's youngest billionaire, however, is more remarkable than it may seem.

For Priscilla is the child of a Chinese-Vietnamese father who arrived in America with his family in the Seventies after spending time in a refugee camp.

Billionaire bride: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wed Priscilla Chan last weekend in California

Later Dennis Chan, 47, raised enough money to open a Chinese restaurant, where he worked gruelling 18-hour days as he dreamt of his first-born daughter living the American dream.

Priscilla was raised largely by her grandmother as her mother Yvonne also worked long hours at the Taste of Asia in Boston. At the 1,200-pupil state-run Quincy High School in the working-class town of Quincy, near Boston, it quickly became clear that Priscilla was bright - and determined to get on.

Peter Swanson, 66, her science teacher and tennis coach, said: 'She came up to me during that first year, when she was 13, and said, 'What do I have to do to get into Harvard University?''

'I was stunned. In all my years of teaching I have never had a 13-year-old ask a question like that. She knew what she wanted, even back then. I encouraged her to join the tennis team because I knew that Harvard would require her to have a well-rounded resumé.'

He added: 'She was mostly raised by her Chinese grandmother, who spoke no English. She was a very dignified woman who clearly was a huge influence in Priscilla's life. The grandmother was her emotional support. Her parents were working long hours - 18-hour days - at the restaurant.

'Priscilla worked incredibly hard at her studies and graduated top of her class. She gave me a voucher for a free meal at her family's restaurant as a gift.
'It was clear the family came from humble beginnings but were prepared to work around the clock to make something of their new life in America.

'Priscilla had that drive within her. She did everything she needed to round out her resumé and make it attractive to Harvard. And she joined the tennis club – she was not a natural athlete but with hard practice she steadily improved. When she got into Harvard she ran up to me grinning from ear to ear and said, 'See, I told you I would get to Harvard!''

Changing fortunes: The Chans' old restaurant Taste of Asia in Boston - now called Pho & I

Mr Swanson visited Priscilla and her new husband at their £3.5 million home in Palo Alto, California, last year. 'Mark was at the kitchen table working on his computer,' he said. 'Priscilla introduced us and he grinned and said, 'Behind every great man there is a great woman.''

'People are saying how lucky she is to marry him, but he knows he's the lucky one. Priscilla is the ultimate story of the American dream made good. Her parents came to the States with virtually nothing and she has married a self-made billionaire. It doesn't get much better than that.'

Source: the Dailymail

Facebook’s Royal Wedding

THE wedding of Mark Zuckerberg to Priscilla Chan last weekend here in the backyard of their $7 million home had all the staging of a carefully orchestrated celebrity event. A publicist for Facebook eagerly offered photos afterward of the beaming couple, who met at Harvard and have dated for much of the last nine years. Well-placed anonymous sources leaked to reporters the dinner menu, which included sushi and Mexican food, and the fact that Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong performed.

Even the date, May 19, was significant: it was a mere day after Facebook’s initial public stock offering, the culmination of Mr. Zuckerberg’s life work since founding the social network in his Harvard dorm room in 2004. But the curiosity that lingered was not just about what designer’s dress the bride chose to wear (Claire Pettibone) or how long it would take shareholders to sue Facebook for bungling its IPO (six days). Instead, people wanted to know: who was that princess bride who married Silicon Valley’s crown prince?

Indeed, to anyone who still confuses Mr. Zuckerberg with the portrayal of him in “The Social Network,” particularly the scene where his former girlfriend brushes him off (and the prospects of any future romance for young Mark seem dim), the very fact that he even had a longtime girlfriend must have come as something of a shock.

Ms. Chan, 27, unlike some of her equals in social status here (among them Mr. Zuckerberg’s colorful sister Randi), eschews the Silicon Valley limelight. Recently graduated from the medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, she plans to become a pediatrician. (In that, she seems to be following in the path of other notable Silicon Valley spouses who have their own established careers, like Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs and an entrepreneur in her own right, and Anne Wojcicki, the wife of Google’s Sergey Brin and a founder of 23andMe, a genetic testing firm.)

Ms. Chan guards her privacy and, so far, avoids speaking to the media unless it serves Mr. Zuckerberg’s career. Though she has an active Facebook page (where her “interests” include “No on Prop 8” and Fage yogurt), she is rarely tagged in online party shots. She declined to be interviewed for this article.

“Priscilla doesn’t need to be on the cover of a magazine,” said Heidi Roizen, a venture capitalist and longtime Valley resident. “We are in a reality-star ecosystem. But there is a spectrum to this stuff, and some people take a more thoughtful approach.”

One of the few people talking about the wedding, at least publicly, was Ms. Pettibone, thrust into the spotlight by Ms. Chan’s choice of wedding dress.

Ms. Pettibone said she realized Ms. Chan was wearing her design after the designer’s husband pointed it out in a photograph he saw of the new bride. “It’s not our top seller,” Ms. Pettibone said of the $4,700 dress, one of 40 in her bridal collection, in a phone interview. “But it’s respectable.”

All her dresses are made to order so, last week, Ms. Pettibone said she combed through her orders to see where the dress was sold. It was the Little White Dress boutique in Denver, and it was apparently bought by a third party.

Since the wedding, Ms. Pettibone said, traffic to her website has skyrocketed. And retailers are demanding samples to show prospective brides. “There is nothing like a celebrity bride to lift your profile,” Ms. Pettibone said.

People who know Ms. Chan and agreed to speak, albeit without using their names for fear of offending her or Mr. Zuckerberg, said she is a quiet yet forceful presence who is protective of her new husband, whom she met in line for the bathroom at a fraternity party in 2003. Of their first encounter, Ms. Chan told The New Yorker in 2010, “He was this nerdy guy who was just a little bit out there,” remembering his novelty beer glasses printed with a computer programming joke.

In Palo Alto, Ms. Chan is close to a handful of friends, including Jessica Vascellaro, a Wall Street Journal reporter, and her fiancé, Sam Lessin, a Facebook product manager; Jessica and Aaron Sittig, senior Facebook employees (Mr. Zuckerberg was best man at their Palm Springs, Calif., wedding); and Brittany Morin, who is married to Dave Morin, an early Facebook employee who left to become a founder of Path, a photo-sharing site.

The couple prefers dinner at home with friends to raucous parties, say people who know them. They dote on their Puli, a herding dog named Beast, which they frequently photograph and have created a page for on Facebook. Ms. Chan likes to cook (so says her Facebook page), and she is known among friends for her lemon ricotta pizza.

Most important, she has been accepted into the close-knit Zuckerberg family (Mark Zuckerberg has three sisters), from Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., but who have spread to Silicon Valley to work or visit. “They are building a new kind of dynasty,” said a person close to the Zuckerbergs who declined to be named so as not to offend the family.

Ms. Chan was born on Feb. 24, 1985, and moved with her family to Braintree, Mass., when she was a junior in high school, according to a recent article in The Patriot Ledger, a local newspaper. In 2003, she was named valedictorian at Quincy High School, where she had played tennis and won a science and technology challenge, and gave a graduation speech inspired by the Dr. Seuss book “Oh, the Places You’ll Go.”

Little has been written about Ms. Chan’s Chinese-American family. But on Facebook, Dennis Chan has identified himself as the father of Priscilla and of two other daughters, Michelle and Elaine. Ms. Chan graduated from Harvard in 2007 with an undergraduate degree in biology before moving to Palo Alto to be with Mr. Zuckerberg, who had left Cambridge two years earlier. “She has always been a big part of the story of Facebook,” said David Kirkpatrick, the author of “The Facebook Effect,” which chronicled the company’s meteoric rise. “It is unbelievably significant that Priscilla knew him before he became a billionaire.”

In 2005, Mr. Zuckerberg was quoted in a profile of him in The Harvard Crimson talking to Ms. Chan and asking her if she wanted a job. “I’d love a job at Facebook,” she replied, before offering Mr. Zuckerberg a Twizzler.

But unlike other classmates enamored of Mr. Zuckerberg, she stayed in school. “She was not particularly in Mark’s thrall,” Mr. Kirkpatrick said. “She just treats him like the guy she’s in love with, not the same Mark Zuckerberg everyone else fell in love with.”

Separated by 3,000 miles, Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Chan split up for awhile and Mr. Zuckerberg saw other women, including an undergraduate from the University of California, Berkeley, according to Mr. Kirkpatrick’s book. When Ms. Chan reunited with her old beau in Silicon Valley in 2007, having been hired as a fourth- and fifth-grade science teacher at the Harker School, a private school in San Jose, she negotiated the terms of their getting back together, including the possibility of marriage, said a person who knows Ms. Chan. Mr. Zuckerberg was reluctant, said the person, contending that his youthful image was an asset to the company.

The couple agreed that they would not live together, but that Mr. Zuckerberg would spend at least 100 minutes of private time with Ms. Chan a week, as well as take her on at least one date, according to “The Facebook Effect.” Indeed, Mr. Kirkpatrick reported that Mr. Zuckerberg once left a News Corp. corporate retreat, where he was a guest, explaining to the company’s chief executive, Rupert Murdoch, that he was taking Ms. Chan to a movie. The couple also agreed to vacation for two weeks yearly overseas and have since visited Dubai, Mumbai and China. A friend said they were considering a trip to Peru this year.

In 2010, Ms. Chan moved into the rented house Mr. Zuckerberg was living in, in the College Terrace neighborhood of Palo Alto not far from Facebook’s former headquarters. (They have since moved to the house where the wedding was held.)

Jessica Roth, a fourth generation cobbler who lives in College Terrace, said she used to see Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Chan walking to dinner at Palo Alto Sol, one of the restaurants that catered the couple’s wedding. Ms. Chan even stopped in Ms. Roth’s store, European Cobblery, once. “She was neutral, showed no emotion,” Ms. Roth said. “She keeps to herself.” One Halloween, though, Ms. Roth said, Ms. Chan dressed up as a pea pod and handed out candy to neighborhood children, including hers.

Among the issues that Ms. Chan seems to care about is that of donor organs, which is now one of Facebook’s social causes. Mr. Zuckerberg told Robin Roberts, in an interview with “Good Morning America” earlier this year, that, while Ms. Chan was still in medical school, the couple would often talk at dinner about the desperately ill children she saw, and also the ones whose lives changed once they got an organ transplant. Mr. Zuckerberg called the transformation of their young lives “unbelievable.”

Despite dating, and now being married to one of the richest men in the world, Ms. Chan is unlikely to amend her pragmatic sensibilities. The person who earlier commented on their relationship recounted the following story: One day, Mr. Zuckerberg’s sister Randi was shopping with her future sister-in-law when Ms. Chan stopped to admire a pair of shoes that cost $600. Ms. Zuckerberg said, “You should get them, you have the money.” Ms. Chan, instead, put the shoes back. “It’s not my money,” she replied.

Source: NY Times

Monday, 1 December 2014

陳美齡返港賀母90大壽

2014年11月27日

•陳美齡帶埋（後排左起）丈夫金子力、二仔昇平、細仔協平及大仔和平慶祝母親90歲大壽。

•（左起）陳美齡、母親陳彭端淑、陳曦齡及陳依齡筵開6席賀大壽。

•陳美齡與二家姐陳曦齡合唱《媽媽好》送給母親。

當年憑《香港香港》一曲唱到街知巷聞嘅陳美齡（Agnes），嫁咗畀日籍丈夫金子力後，都好少喺香港見到佢。不過前晚Agnes聯同六兄弟姊妹一齊為母親陳彭端淑擺壽宴，筵開6席慶祝90歲大壽，每枱都有一大塊「90」字樣嘅波板糖，認真有童真。
似乎「唔識老」嘅陳美齡，唔止帶埋丈夫金子力由東京返港，三個囝囝和平、昇平及協平亦都專程從美國返港為婆婆慶祝。90歲嘅陳媽媽精神非常，步行亦只需稍為攙扶，見到兒孫滿堂更笑逐顏開。陳美齡更與二家姐陳曦齡合唱《媽媽好》祝壽，然後一班仔女、孫仔孫女都一齊陪陳媽媽切蛋糕，場面溫馨。

頻頻返港陪媽咪

陳美齡透露送咗一個銀碟盤畀媽咪做生日禮物：「不過媽咪見到啲孫仔已經係最開心嘅禮物。今次幫媽咪擺大壽，係因為家姐同細佬傾偈嗰陣時建議，大家兄弟姊妹都好贊同等媽媽開心一下。不過我都要趕住第二日返日本出席活動，我都唔想離開媽咪太遠，媽咪年紀愈大愈唔捨得。（考慮返港居住？）最大問題係我老公唔識廣東話，香港佢又無乜朋友，所以佢未必接受。不過自己就會多啲返港陪媽咪，一年返嚟四、五次，反正三個仔都大晒，全部喺美國讀書同工作，唔使太過緊張。」

認錯囝囝女朋友

講到三個囝囝，陳美齡透露大仔和平已經28歲、昇平25歲，而協平亦已18歲，細仔今年考大學，三個仔都已拍拖：「我無規定佢哋交女朋友要乜國籍。無所謂啦，都慣咗佢哋同鬼妹拍拖，都好好女仔嘅。」
Agnes更大爆由於三個仔都很有女人緣，所以經常換畫，更試過擺烏龍認錯二仔嘅女朋友：「唔知點解硬係覺得佢哋都好似樣咁，試過有次見到我話：『好耐無見你喇。』點知個女仔就好尷尬答我：『Auntie，我哋第一次見面咋。』

Saturday, 18 October 2014

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羅漢果茶能排毒，治多種疾病。.

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穴道拍打健身操

Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Duchess of Cambridge forced to call off another engagement due to morning sickness

The Duchess of Cambridge has reportedly pulled out of another official engagement because she is still suffering from severe morning sickness.

Kate, 32, who is around 11 weeks pregnant with her second child with husband, Prince William, is said to have pulled out of a trip to Portsmouth, Hampshire, on Monday.

She had been planning to visit Olympic sailor Sir Ben Ainslie's America's Cup team at its new £12million headquarters at Camber Docks in Old Portsmouth.

However, it was reported today that she has been forced to cancel the official visit next week because she continues to suffer from hyperemesis gravidarum - a severe vomiting condition which saw her hospitalised in the early weeks of her pregnancy with her first baby, Prince George, now one.

The Express reported that a royal source had confirmed Kate's trip to Portsmouth had been cancelled and said she had no plans to undertake any other official engagements before next week.

Kensington Palace said: 'Her engagements are being reviewed on a case by case basis. Any future engagements will be announced in due course.'

It is the latest in a string of official engagements to be cancelled by the Duchess as she continues to battle the vomiting condition.

Last week, she had to cancel an appearance at a new project in London, organised by The Art Room - one of the charities of which is she patron.

At the time, Kensington Palace said the Duchess was 'hugely disappointed' at having to pull out.

The Duchess did, however, send a personally-penned message to be read out to the disappointed children.

In it she apologised for not being there, saying she was 'truly sorry' at having to cancel, but promised to see the venue for herself soon.

Her cancelled engagements have set tongues wagging that she may be pregnant with twins, with one leading doctor explaining that a multiple pregnancy can make morning sickness worse.

Consultant Gynaecologist Dr Andrew Paterson said: 'HCG is a pregnancy hormone secreted by the placenta and in twins, far more of this hormone is released.

'As HCG is associated with nausea women carrying twins can experience worse morning sickness.

'In fact one of the first things we do if a woman comes to me experiencing hyperemesis gravidarum is scan them, not only to check the baby but also to check for twins.

Kate, who is around 11 weeks pregnant, suffered the same illness in her first pregnancy with Prince George

The Duchess’s last official engagement was on August 5 when she opened a poppy installation at the Tower of London with her husband William (together above) and Prince Harry

Source: the dailymail

The Sunninghill Park in Berkshire

Sad decline of Fergie and Andy's lovenest: How the Queen's wedding gift to Prince Andrew dubbed SouthYork lies derelict and decaying seven years after it sold for £15m

12-bedroom Sunninghill Park in Berkshire, which is only around 30 years old, is now under Heathrow flight path

Dubbed SouthYork because it resembles Southfork, the ranch-house in TV’s Dallas, it was sold for £15m in 2007

The Queen gave the mansion as a gift to the Duke of York and Sarah Ferguson after marriage in 1986

Duchess of York lived there with daughters Beatrice and Eugenie following the divorce in 1996, but moved out in 2006

Since then it has fallen into disrepair and the council gave permission for it to be demolished nine months ago

This dilapidated mansion is the last symbol of Prince Andrew’s failed marriage to Sarah Ferguson and has been left to decay seven years after the prince sold it for £15million.

To make matters worse the grand country house gifted by the Queen to her second son as a wedding gift is now under the Heathrow flight path where planes pass over it every few minutes.

12-bedroom Sunninghill Park in Berkshire, which is only around 30 years oFld, is a shadow of its former splendour and now has broken windows and boarded-up entrances.

Dubbed SouthYork because it resembles Southfork, the ranch-house in TV’s Dallas, the Duke of York sold it to Kazakh businessman Timur Kulibayev in 2007.

Designed by Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith, who also created a development on the Balmoral estate, ‘SouthYork’ was given to Andrew after his marriage in 1986.

The Duchess of York lived on there with daughters Beatrice and Eugenie following the divorce in 1996, but moved out in 2006 and joined Andrew at his home Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park.

It was sold a year later but has become an expensive ruin and worse it is now being bombarded by noisy Jumbo jets coming in to land at Heathrow.

Bosses at the airport recently switched the flight-path for incoming aircraft