it is tom's birthday morning i'm going
to start off by making him
breakfast and his favorite breakfast is
a traditional japanese breakfast
one of the places we both miss and the
place he wants to travel to first when
we can
is japan so i wanted to incorporate that
into today i'm gonna try and make a
traditional japanese breakfast with the
grilled fish
the rice the pickles everything for the
first time i started last night actually
to
prepare the fish you kind of have to
cure it and so now i am ready to prepare
the rest
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foreign
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so
this kind of feels like that game where
you have to hit the things down
guacamole
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okay
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it's like legit hotel japanese
all the utensils balls yeah we don't
have the long plate for the fish
but thank you baby
really feels like back in japan
so juicy
now you said no gifts this year because
we want to save money
but i got you something small that i
think is important
to help your mind
who's that
oh my god to start this gundam now
i got you everything
i spent the day in mongkok bugging
people trying to figure out what the
heck you need
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i'm inside richmond shopping center to
try and find supplies to build this
gundam model i have a list of things i
think i need so i have some sort of plan
but
a little bit lost this is my first time
this kind of thing the guy
at this shop 311 the top floor is very
kind and helpful oh my gosh i just
learned so much but feel like i really
annoyed the guy
part i have a photo of what i wanted to
look or what he wanted to look like and
i would zoom in and be like
how do i do this part how do i do this
part what do i need for this how do i do
this
he's just showing me different things
but i got almost everything
there's a few things that were out of
stock particularly the red paint which
is really important so i'm gonna go and
try and find that at another
shop he suggested now i think it must be
in here
apparently what you will need if you
want to build a gundam bottle
is some side cutters to cut out the
plastic part an exacto knife for cutting
off the little nibs that are left over
for when you cut off those
plastic parts some sandpaper sticks to
sand off what is left
over from the nib parts that you cut off
from cutting off
the plastic parts
a gundam marker paint it you're going to
need an airbrushing set
complete with this thing that attaches
to this
air to make it work in order to make
that metallic red color that he's going
for he's going to have to first put on a
coat of silver paint
followed by clear red this is the black
top coat color and these are the little
decals
to stick on those decals he's going to
need some super glue
and finally to seal everything a top
coat and i also got some random paint
brushes because
i don't know it just seemed like a good
idea and there you have it a gun to
model building
kit by a wife who doesn't know what that
was happening
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and then i also got him and was sort of
me
a cutting mat because i don't want him
to cut our table
and that is his gift i hope he likes it
should he see everything now
i can start working on you then yeah
that's the point that's what i wanted
for you thank you
yeah but just expensive though i think
yeah
in the end it will be a year project
we are now on a family walk down to the
beach because our beaches are finally
open here in hong kong
and the weather is just so nice
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i think we found a mango tree
it is 3 30 now just showered and got
ready uh
i feel like it's a good time for cake
time it's that afternoon
pick-me-up time so we're gonna have some
coffee and cake i ordered tom
a custom cake again and i can't wait to
see how it turned out i got it from
sugar meat history
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okay
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you stay here for a week this is our new
house decor
here is my outfit for dinner tonight i
am wearing my
flare jeans which i am really into
lately
my loafers just a clean white blouse
and a cardigan wrapped around my neck
and i am ready to go
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today is a content day i'm heading to
the studio i've got all my clothes
organized sort of
gotta pack them up i find it a lot
easier to plan and shoot everything in
one day so i have one content day for
various platforms and then one editing
day
and that's just how i've been doing
things recently i also like going to the
studio to shoot fashion because i don't
have any plain white walls here so it's
a bit hard to see the details of the
clothes
um so yeah this is what we're gonna do
and then also that area is a little bit
busier right
here love my home but um
i live out in
the forest sort of um so if i want to
shoot more of a city landscape it's
better to shoot around the office
anyways um so i am going to get ready
now
and it's friday
actually maybe i should give you guys a
better view
don't want to watch this mess there you
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an interesting thing about hong kong you
have these really industrial buildings
that you can find really cute cafes
inside and like random cute shops
there it is
so we came really early at 12 to try and
get a seat there and they said they're
completely
full and you need to make reservations
three days in advance
so we were able to just grab a coffee
and take a few photos
they were really nice about that we
can't eat there unfortunately
we are going inside another industrial
building
oh my gosh
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we went for the all day breakfast
because who doesn't love an all day
breakfast it's great look how creamy
these eggs look
so soft and delicate and creamy and some
smoked salmon
and some mashed potatoes i've never seen
mash
served with breakfast but i'm not mad
about it
mashed potatoes and eggs and small
salmon i'm here for this
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we've now come to the quinton promenade
we've got a park in the harbor over
there and then
there is a lot of
buildings and companies over here very
industrial
it feels very hong kong it feels very
bustling everybody's hustling working
um yeah i really like this area so
we're gonna get a good shot here
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hopefully
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cool done done everything we shipped
stuff
we checked new samples we
cleaned out the all the like older stuff
it's busy now we just came to otoya
it's a japanese chain restaurant just to
grab a quick dinner
this is my set i got the seaweed rice
the cod fish this
is miso soup um pickles
radish this is another seaweed type
thing
and this is a steamed egg
and i also got some sushi on the side
the day is done it is midnight we are
back home it was
such a good productive day and i got to
check out some new cafes in hong kong
i really want to showcase more um
small restaurants and small shops i'm
gonna do a shopping episode of some of
the smaller
boutique shops that i love here in hong
kong soon um
and yeah i am gonna take a bath gonna
head to bed
you don't like that word you know that
word
day four it's day four of this torture
babe i'm cutting the cake
no i'm cutting it it's day four that's
it day
five day five
we're cutting it
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it's happening it's happening on it's
day seven
of looking at and smelling this
chocolate cake
and it has been torturous let me tell
you but we are finally
cutting it open he's finally agreed to
because he thinks it's gonna go bad
if we just keep it beyond this point so
ready
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really rich chocolate i like this
this outside it's like a little outside
it's like a protective layer like
a gun so i wanted to make something
today that is very comforting and
reminds me of home
my grandma used to always make chicken
and dumplings on the stove and it was
just like one of my fall
favorites it was actually the last meal
my grandfather
had and requested before he passed away
so
it has a special place in my heart and
always reminds me of them that's one of
the things i love about food when you
miss someone so much
um it can bring back a memory for you or
or like make you feel a little bit
closer to them that and it's very
meditative to just like
put on music and cook and stuff i've
really relied on that throughout
this whole pandemic experience anyways
that's what i'm gonna do today i'm gonna
make that but i'm gonna do it a little
bit differently than my grandma does
because she likes to make it on the
stove top
i am gonna make it in the oven because i
recently
saw this video on babish's channel where
he makes um
chicken pot pie in the oven and it sort
of reminded me of this and there's
something extra special about
pulling something out of the oven that's
like all golden and crispy it just
feels extra cozy and makes your home
smell even better i don't know
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so you eat it together like this
it's like a pie all right so i'm gonna
end this video here i wanted to wait
until we
cut the cake so i could finish the whole
birthday
experience and yeah so if you're
thinking of something to do i know a lot
of countries went back into lockdown so
if you're thinking of
something special to do for someone from
home
one thing you could do if they have a
favorite place or favorite hobby or
something like that
you could create an experience around
that so create the food from that
country listen to music from that
country watch
movies from that country create like
crafts or things from that country
all right thank you so much for watching
i will see you guys next time
bye
you