London. Should be here for a while.

Let me know if you ever pop by to London.

Satay House sounds nice, I never really been there before as it wasn't very inspiring to eat Malaysian food while here

September - October seems to be a good season for seafood, anyone?

http://www.lochfyne.com/

It's a bit costly but I heard the stuff that is pretty nice.

Haha, I spend a lot of time and money hunting for food around in London because there are quite a lot of good food here. For Lochfyne, I initially intend to go there this week with my friends but one of them doesn't take seafood so we're trying out a Mongolian BBQ in Angel. If you're in London, give me a buzz and we can try the Loch Fyne seafood platter!!

Firedauz, how about 27th Sept?

I think the seafood should cost about £25 minimum. I would suggest going for satay house as the seafood could turn people off and I didn't think the environment would be suitable to be noisy as well

Besides, I think Satay House is halal?

Good stuff then, at least three of us are meeting up

I'm gonna pop by at London Borough Market this week to get some fresh oyster

Good point, what time buka puasa then? Is it 7pm?

Yeap, what might be useful is either we have one at 1pm or another one at another date?

Depending on who's coming.

If the Berkeley Square you are talking about is the same one I have in mind, it's quite an uptown and posh location.

You might want to stay off places like Southeast, e.g. Peckham but as long as you stay sensible, London ain't such a dangerous place.

What sort of advise are you looking for? If you have not got someone to show you around London, give me a buzz when you're here

So you should attend daicon and catch a glimpse of Minorin

Good luck to you Mr Lappy!

I'm doing good, still busy at work which is good! All the convention seems a bit pale in comparison as they are mixing in a lot of none anime related stuff as well

chizzu, if you can make a request during Daicon, it would be nice to request Minorin to sing the Minami-ke curry song!

Janice

Haven't seen you in a while as well, now that summer is around the corner, let's pick a weekend some time end of May and go renang renang!

I had French a couple of weeks ago in Soho, the food was brilliant and the price tag was OK as well, about £22 for drinks, starter + main course.

My rent is £110 pw everything inclusive and it's in Zone 2, about 20 minutes cycle from where I work - hence I can afford an extra 20 minutes sleep everyday!

4agze, I recall you're working as QS? How's work coming along?

Whereabouts of Zone 1? If it's South of the river, I'd recomend Canada Water area. I'm staying there at the moment and I like this place.

Ah! Government funded projects, i.e. school and hospitals are like hot cakes at the moment where everyone just wants a share of it. That's good to hear though.

4th June is my birthday! Haha, I'll let you know in a couple of days time, but I think no problem if it's a Saturday morning.

Yeap, I think it's called Southwark Park, I think. But I would suggest Canada Water especially if you're working in Southwark as there's where I work too. It's quite near and only takes about 20 minutes cycle (by tube could be between 30-40 minutes from house door to office door).

There's the Canada Water dock areas near to where the station is, this place is absolutely brilliant, it cost a bit more, about £700 per month but it's really nice as you stay near to the dock. Or else move a bit further from the station and the rent should come down. Becareful not to wander too far into Lewisham area though.

Guess what? There's a huge Tesco beside the station with a small shopping centre which you can get most of your stuff.

Sounds good, depending on the number of people, we could try the Korean I mentioned some time ago. The place is a bit tiny I want the chocolate cupcakes, taking a bit of risk is fine by me!

I think if you factor in the comfort, the tranquility and the environment, the £700 isn't that bad. I am paying £110 which is really good as well because I stay with a very good landlord (who's not home all the time + when they're home I get home cooked food!).

Becareful though if you're looking for house on gumtree because there's quite a number of scammers on there. Anyone that wants you to pay upfront and payment involves Western Union etc are all scammers.

The cheesecake Janice made the last time was brilliant (though I suspect the food poisoning the next day had something to do with the cheesecake )

The £700 I quoted was per room I think it's important to find a place that is good as it would be really difficult having to move around again when you start working.

Nah, my gut feeling tells me it was the cheesecake. We'll see how it goes this time with the chocolate cupcakes! I can't remember who Beve is? Was she there when we had Thai the last time?

I think 7 should still fit in, because the place is quite small and it feels like a family run restaurant. It's just behind the Centre Point building at Tottenham Court Road station (tube).

The price should be about £15 per person but should come down if we have more people there. It would be a bit difficult to do order separately so it's a order and share thing. My friend mentioned in passing to me there's a nice English restaurant around there as well and cost about £17 for a three course meal, I'll find out where it is.

By the way, someone who can only make cheesecake and cupcakes can't be considered as a professional chef

Sure. I would strongly suggest you avoid Janice's cupcakes though (not that I want to have an extra for myself!) as I don't think you would be happy if you're down with food poisoning

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Oh! I somehow was under the impression she's got a different name, Grace. Quite possibly I confused her with someone else then. Hmm, the Korean BBQ sounds very good as well because I never had it before. We could try that out!

There are normal things there as well, I think, but mostly are Korean oriented. I didn't know you dislike Korean, we could always try something else!

This IS the restaurant I was on about >_> Yeap, they do hotpot but not steamboat but the hotpot is very good stuff.

The soup base is something Korean and a bit spicy, and they put in the usual things like vege, beancurd, mushroom, kimchi, and beef/fish etc.

We'll think about you when we have them!

Looking forward to it! I have only been there for lunch once before, but I think we ought to check out if they serve the hotpot during lunch as well. I think Beve been to this restaurant before as I recommended it to her when we met last time!

I think £100 should be the average in a good area. Going any lower means you'll really have to look very hard for a bargain or you might settle in a slightly far/less preferred area.

I am always under the impression that steamboat = you get to continuously dump things in there whilst hotpot = one hotpot served with everything in, finished it and that's it.

grammar,

There's always studio flats available but these are generally more expensive and you could be looking at a guesstimate of £700+ a month, which could be higher depending on location.

Also, not just McD and KFC, there's subway, Starbucks etc.