Saigon Greenwich

Saigon is located extremely conveniently and extremely easy to find. In the centre of Greenwich right next to Greenwich park, and opposite Greenwich market. The menu consists of both Vietnamese food and a few dishes which overlap into Chinese. With a private room allowing for large private parties, or open during normal open hours, it is the perfect place to bring a big group of friends or family, if you all want to be in one location. 

The mixed platter consisted of a mixture of fried seafood and fried spring rolls. On the plate next to it is summer rolls, which is definitely my weakness! (I was eating these summer rolls for 2 days after this meal) Anything with vinegar tastes like a little bit of heaven to me. If you're eating food with Asians, don't forget the soup!

Time for the good stuff, the lobster and the lobster noodles! Lobster noodles are delicious, and my family can't seem to get enough of it!

Asian style dessert = FRUIT. The fruit was nice and fresh, and the melon, I just wish you were there to try it with me! Lychee and melon makes for the best sweet snack/dessert/meal, whatever you want to make it!

To top it all off, just a little bit of ice cream. 

Drinks I Love

I read a recent post that was recommended on my bloglovin' page and it inspired me to write about my favourite drinks, some of which are beneficial to our health.

1. Water:
For me there is nothing that quenches my thirst better than water, it is my no.1 favourite drink, and always will be. It is so refreshing and the "no taste" that people normally complain about makes me like it more.. I think. Growing up I always drank warm water too, until one day somebody told me it was extremely weird, but hey ho, I still continue to drink water, hot, warm or cold. Not only is it tasty, but is recommended again and again to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

2. Fruit and/or lemon infused water:
There are a million and one posts written about fruit infused water, and it really is tasty. If I can get a 2 year old to enjoy this, anybody can! It makes the water slightly sweeter; depending on what you add to your water. Also for those who find it difficult to drink water, infusing it with fruits or lemons makes it a little easier to swallow.

3. Vodka apple juice/orange juice (any type of juice)
This is my go to alcoholic drink. I don't like anything too sweet, so cocktails are out the window, and also drinks such as WKD (alchopops essentially) are a no go zone for me! The juices make the vodka so much easier to drink, because it literally tastes like the juice! However this sounds like I am promoting binge drinking, but who doesn't enjoy a drink once in a while.

4. Milkybar Krushems
If you go to KFC, please please please order this. Before I started to change my habits to make them healthier I ordered this EVERYTIME I went to KFC. The other krushems just simply didn't compare. It's extremely rare for me to order anything but water from most places, but KFC was just the exception!

5. Mocha
I love hot chocolate, but this definitely tops it in terms of hot drinks. It isn't as sweet as hot chocolate so is a bonus, an extra bonus is that it wakes you up! Who doesn't love a drink that wakes you up and is tasty?

So that's my list of my favourite drinks, what's yours? and HI5 to all the water lovers out there!

L'eto Caffe

A caffe situated in Soho London, which is famous for the honey cake they sell. Unfortunately for me we came in the evening after dinner, and due to the popularity of the cake, they had sold out already. Despite this, I got an indulged in a chocolate cake, and the different layers of the cake just all complimented each other. They had a lovely selection of cakes, but also sold food, and it definitely reminded me of the healthy food they sell at places like Foodilic. 

The display of cakes can be seen from the outside, which just draws you in even more!

For a caffe situated in Soho it isn't incredibly expensive, but also not incredibly cheap. So it is definitely worth a try, and the portion is BIG. For these two cakes it was a little over £8, so definitely worth a visit if you want to rest from touring London, from shopping, adding some extra time to a date you may be enjoying, haha. All in all, I would recommend this place if you fancy something sweet! 

Reflective Saturdays #4

Not settling. I think sometimes we get caught up and believe we don't deserve something. There is a famous quote that always floats around from the book Perks of Being A Wallflower, and that is, "we accept the love we think we deserve". Because I have seen this quote so often it is ingrained in my mind, even if sometimes it does not necessarily make a difference to my decisions or my days. Though sometimes it does. 

When I am thinking about dating somebody, or whether I should or should not stop seeing somebody. Or whether I should or shouldn't do something or go and see my friends, this is a quote I like to listen to. If you don't think you deserve better, then you will never get it, because you will always settle for less than what you are worth. If a friend isn't being the most loyal to you, or not giving you enough time from their schedule, and you still stick around, it is because you do not think you deserve better. In actual fact, you do, everybody does. Do not let somebody who treats you like an option stay as a "friend", they do not deserve that title. The same with a relationship, do not let them put everything before you and still decide to stick around, because when they find something more interesting, another more interesting they are bound to get up and leave. Trust me, you deserve better. If you find that your day is going downhill, it is more than likely that you decided when you woke up this is not going to be a good day. You might be having a bad day, but you deserve better, so believe it. You deserve better, but you actively have to seek it. Do not think that deserving something means you get it straight away, or that you get it without some perseverance. Believe that you deserve it, go after it, (or leave it in other circumstances) and eventually you will have what you deserve. Accept that you can have these opportunities, accept that you can have better people in your life. 

Restaurant Bucket List: South East England Edition

I have a very bad habit of going back to the same restaurants that I enjoy. I think all of us do, however I think I have a very bad case of this. For two years, I entered the doors of Zizzis probably every week. Sure I enjoyed the food, loved the location, what is worse is I ordered the same dishes every time. So in my aim to change this, I have made a bucket list of restaurants I would like to visit. Purely based on restaurants located in South East England, otherwise the list would be endless!

1. Thackeray's

Photo courtesy of Thackerays-restaurant.com

So I have always wanted to visit a Michelin style restaurant. This seems to be the easiest accesible  michelin star restaurant from where I live. Only located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, it is an easy drive. Owned by Richard Phillips, it specialises in Gournmet French Dining, and with french dining being way out of my comfort zone; this seems like it would definitely be a fine restaurant to introduce me to  the cuisine. 

2. Honest Burgers

Photo courtesy of London.everypeoples.com

As a beef lover, I am definitely all for a burger joint. Honest burger has been one of those places raved about on blogs, instagram, twitter and I really want to try this place out. However, due to my infrequent trips to London and always wishing for the easiest option if we're hungry, sometimes we forget about a place like this. 

3. Burger and Lobster

Photo courtesy of London-eater.com

Literally every Tom, Dick and Harry has been here.. but ME. Okay, that was a little bit of a drama queen statement but it does seem like it is only me. One day soon, soon I promise myself. 

4. Princi

Photo Courtesy of London-unattached.com

This is a restaurant I stumbled across after a dinner stroll, whilst walking to the dessert cafe next door. The atmosphere here looks immense, I love a busy atmosphere where people are sat close and chatting away. Definitely worthy of a place on my bucket list.

5. Jamie's Italian

Photo courtesy of Jamie's kitchen website

Though I know these restaurants opened up by big chefs from television may be over hyped, I still do want to try it. There is one located very conveniently in Brighton, and plenty more dotted around London. So there is definitely no excuse for me not to try it.

I can't wait to review and taste the food at these restaurants in the coming months!

Global Warming Menu

Okay, so this is very little to do with food, but I think it is both fascinating and an excellent way to interest different kinds of people into a more serious subject, like global warming. 

Hosted by WWF. 

I think what I have to say will add very little to watch the video already shows.

So what better way to see it than through pictures and the video.

This video is available on their youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZNiP2ufp_Q#t=82

For somebody that knows that global warming exists but does very little to change it, it is extraordinary to see how it has really impacted the world. 

I hope if anything this just brings it to your attention, as it did mine. 

Reflective Saturdays #3

As summer has arrived the amount of free time I have to myself has increased significantly. No longer needing to focus my attention on work and people. This has given me time to look through some of my old favourites on the internet. Little gems like www.elitedaily.com and Thought Catalog. I've always loved reading, but as I've grown up my interest in reading fiction has diminished. It just makes so much sense to me, and so much more motivational when I read blog, pieces of writing from people who are a little more experienced. Those who have experienced things, travelled places, made mistakes. 

Though I don't ever think by reading these I will avoid mistakes, it just makes for an enjoyable read. 

One piece I read in particular is 10 of Life's Secrets That No One Told You.

One of the "secrets" that really stood out to me is: Your best friends will change and so will you.

I still acknowledge many of those around me as being my "best friends" and sometimes I wonder whether they think the same. However, I have also acknowledged that we are different. We aren't the same and we will never be. We will never be the 15 year olds who spent every day together, we won't work together, we won't date together and we won't get angry, upset and enjoy our summers together.

It's been difficult for me to acknowledge people as my best friends, it took me a while but something did change and I did start using the term "best friends".

As we've moved away from each other, I know that we are no longer surrounded by the same people; no longer study the same subjects, no longer talk every day. At the beginning it seemed difficult, I was so focused on keeping things together with a guy that I completely forgot how important it was to keep a long distant friendship together.

We still see each other when we return home, but it just isn't the same.

And I think people will always tell you that it is okay. At this point in our life we are different, different from each other and the old us. But that's okay, because we shared memories and we were happy. We're happy now, we have just connected with different people. We have also connected in a different way.

I still find you to be one of my closest friends, I find you inspiring and motivational when I really need it in my life. Your ambitious nature has encouraged me to thrive and experience. So if one day we meet on a path much like our old one, I will embrace it and know that I will enjoy it as much as our last journey. But for now, I appreciate that we are in each others lives, even if we are going on different journeys with different people.

We can sometimes forget about those who are still so close to our side, the peoples who's journeys crossed our paths and for all the others that will continue to be with us.

So I'll love the memories we've had, hope for me, but know that people come into your life for a reason, and sometimes they leave for no reason at all, and you leave theirs without reason also. Whoever they may be, you will continually love them, especially those who were your best friends. You'll love them eternally for just being them, for now or in the past.