1. My four day weekened

2. Guess what Joanne did during her long weekend

3. Once again, I slept a lot, this time instead of sleeping from 2am to 1230. I went to sleep at 10pm and got up at around 1130.

4. Do you remember the word that Teacher Eric used on me for sleeping this much? It starts with ‘h’ 冬眠

5. 鼎王麻辣鍋 鼎王麻辣鍋 Ding Wong hotpot I LOVE hot and spicy food, and because Teacher Tina, Ivy, Lauren and Yvonne keep on telling me that Ding Wong is a ‘must go’ place. So, on Sunday, I went there with my family.

6. Soup base I had two: i) hot and spicy ii) Pickled cabbage pot

7. I particularly like the hot and spicy soup base. The soup is made from 32 Chinese herbs, more than ten kinds of fruits and vegetables. For me, the soup isn’t quite spicy enough, but it certainly is very aromatic.

8. Tofu and duck blood puddings I am a huge fan of duck blood puddings, so I was really looking forward to the duck blood puddings. However, the puddings were not simmered properly, so the taste was bloody. But the tofu soaked up all the soup base, and it tasted lovely! simmered 悶煮 bloody 血腥的 soaked up 吸

9. Pickled cabbage pot I normally do not like anything that is pickled, except Korean Kimchi. Yet, I really enjoyed the pickled cabbage pot in Ding Wong. The soup is not too acidic [ə ˋ sidik], so it did not hurt my throat when I drank the soup. normally 通常 pickled 醃製 acidic 酸的

10. What my family and I ordered: -premium [ ˋ pri:miəm] beef -tripe [traip] 牛肚 -boneless chicken -cattle tendon 牛筋

11. cattle tendon All the ladies in my family love eating cattle tendon, because it is full of collagen [ ˋ k ɔ ləd ʒ ən] 膠原蛋白, and I like to the chewy texture 口感.

12. Hot and spicy meat balls The meat balls are made from freshly minced pork 豬絞肉 and scallops [ ˋ sk ɔ ləp] 干貝. They are so tiny, like the size my eyeballs.

13. Bean curd sheet 豆皮 Often in a hotpot shop, customers can only get dried bean curd sheets, but in Ding Wong, the sheets are fresh! The texture is al dente and juicy.

14. Abalone [ ͵ æbə ˋ ləuni] I love seafood, and when I was little, abalones were very cheap in New Zealand. So I used to eat abalones like snacks.

15. Beverage [ ˋ bevərid ʒ ] Plum juice For my cousin, because he cannot eat anything hot.

16. Rose tea For the ladies, because on the menu it says the tea is full of vitamins A 、 B 、 C 、 D & E

17. Things that I did not like…. Tea pot It weighs like a 100kg, each time when I wanted to have another sip of tea, I felt like I was weight-lifting.

18. No box seat I felt like using my school microphone on Sunday, because the restaurant was so noisy! Everyone needed to shout in order to be heard, so at the end, I felt like I was in a traditional market.