Vitelotte potatoes are gorgeous!

I finally found these gorgeous potatoes at a grocers! The colour is stunning but the flavour is quite normal actually. So it really is about the visual. Which is exactly why I like it to be honest. I am going to try a vitelotte tuille recipe soon.

Tamaryokucha

An incredibly japanese green!

Leonidas Kavakos - Sibelius

Marvelous performance of one of my favourite violin concertos.

Klepon - Onde Onde

One of my favourite indonesian snacks. These coconut covered rice flour dumplings are filled with java sugar. Yummmmm. As you bite through the soft and mellow texture of the rice flour the java sugar oozes out! Explosion of flavours. To die for!

Chinese tea canister

My parents gave me this gorgeous chinese porcelain tea storage pot or whatever you want to call it. The artwork on it is stunning.

Fig pie

Puff pastry with figs and balsamic vinegar. Combines so well! And figs just look stunning. Colour is amazing.

Tetsubin

Love it when my bf spoils me! And boy, did he spoil me this time! He got me this absolutely stunning tetsubin I have had my eyes on for 2 years now already. Handcrafted in Japan. Bought some matching japanese tea to go with it. So happy with it :D

Viktoria Mullova

Portrait of one of my favourite violinists. Her recordings of the Bach solo pieces make me cry every time I hear them.

Viktoria Mullova playing Bach's ciaconna from partita in d minor

Her tone is just breathtaking!

My eye

Mirrors or the soul?

Grandmother's pottery

My nan started taking pottery lessons last year and makes these amazing objects. This plate is stunning!

Marie Curie

This is a work in progress. Marie is the first in a series of great women that changed the world.

Tea cup

More of my nan's pottery. Love her usage of colours.

Holy minimalism

Work in progress. Two of my favourite contemporary composers. Arvo Pärt and Sofia Gubaidulina.

Fratres - Arvo Pärt

Incredible piece. Never seizes to amaze me!

Elixia

Best limonade ever! Especially when accompanied by Laduree macarons!

Oma

A picture of my nan on her 84th birthday.

Taiping Hou Kui

Taiping Hou Kui (太平猴魁) tea is grown at the foot of Huangshan (黄山) in Taiping County, Anhui. The tea has been produced since the beginning of the 20th century and is produced around the small village of Hou Keng (猴坑). It won the "King of Tea" award in China Tea Exhibition 2004 and is sometimes listed as a China Famous Tea.
The best Tai Ping Hou Kui is grown in the villages of Houkeng, Hougang and Yanjiachun. Teas produced in the surrounding areas are called by the same name, but costs much less.
It's renowned for its "two knives and one pole": two straight leaves clasping the enormous bud with white hairs. The oven-made leaves are deep green in color with red veins underneath.
The tea shoots can be as long as 15 centimeters. They are plucked from the Shi Da Cha, a large leaf-variety found only in Anhui Province. Falsification is rampant. Factories can produce symmetrical looking Hou Kui tea that looks even better than the authentic handmade variety.