For the both of us, London serves one and only purpose: food, food, and more food! Much thanks to S' friend Joan, we stayed at the Royal Garden Hotel. Love the Garden Room with an awesome view of the Hyde Park. Due to my goldfish memory, I forgot to take a nice picture of it. Oh wells, grabbed one from the website which looks exactly like it. On right: Dabao-ed dinner from C&R and Gold Mine. Roasted pork, oyster egg omelette, crab, fried tofu, sambal kang kong. Why don't we have any of that in Paris? :(
Next day, dim sum lunch at Royal China at Bayswater. We had A LOT of food actually but they came one after another so couldn't get a photo of them together. Crispy duck was not bad. Dim sum and duck tongue.. superb!
Visited The Monument but we were too weak (lazy) to walk up the 300+ steps! Apparently you can get a great view of London from up there. Maybe next time. People were even given a cert of some sort for completing the (two-way) climb.. no lifts this time to get back to ground zero!
Crossed the London Bridge and walked all the way to Tate Modern, where we visited an exhibition called 'Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera.' Check it out here: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/exposure/default.shtm. Rather interesting. Then, we experienced some serious tube disruptions and had to walk SO much as a result. Quite frustrating. Nonetheless, we ended up at Trafalgar Square, had a light dinner at Chinatown, and watched Chicago. Not bad :)
Shopped the whole of Sunday at Bicester Village (outlet shopping). About 1+ hr drive from London. Go early before all the good buys and sizes run out. Last meal of the trip was at Nobu. We concluded that this was the highlight of all! (as you can so see from the photo) :D Shared the 2 set meals & the authentic sake in frozen bamboo. YUMS.
Name: Nobu Restaurant
Location: 15 Berkeley Street, London W1J 8DY
Expenditure: 105£
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