Hungarian coconut rum balls

Kókuszgolyó are Hungarian coconut rum balls made with pitted cherries. It contains rum and usually it is coated with coconut flakes upon completion. Vanilla wafer cookies are crashed till very fine, mixed with cocoa powder, honey and sugar.

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Mosy Bites - opinionated topical comment leavened with amusing stories

Sometimes we uncover very interesting blogs and today I chanced upon this blog called 'Mosy Bites!' with very funny posts.

The writer claimed that it is an "opinionated topical comment leavened with amusing stories". Indeed most of the stories covered were droll. It features the headlines, political and social issues, happening in the news, the funnies and online stuff.

For those who are checking the site frequently, you will come to like some of the posts such as "Absent Minded Super Pooch", "Louisiana Chickens", "How to really survive an accident", "Nuns so innocent" and the one about "Wily Wine Taster". Something like 'Merkel in the semi-finals' for an example is funny enough. It was a short note but it certainly makes me crack up, about the European leaders' International Finger Wagging Contest, yes ha ha, the IFWC!

The author quotes Betty Reese “If you think you’re too small to be effec­tive, you have never been in bed with a mos­quito.” I guess that's how he came up with the site title 'Mosy Bites'. The Mosy Bites editor invites everybody to add comments or even their favourite funny story.

However it is not without reservation. Mosy Bites will not accept comments or contributions that are 'anti-social' -violent, racist, rude. Opposing view point are very much welcomed especially in the political and social debates.

So now you know! Pop over a good daily chuckle or get down debating with comments on the Mosy Bites political and social issues.

It's definitely worth a visit.

Csülök Pork Knuckle in Budapest, Hungary

Oktoberfest is about eating and feasting. With ice cold beer! With lots of festival food like sausages, mustard, home-made pickled mixed vegetables called 'csalamádé', pickled paprika. In Hungary, the festive food other than the Hungarian Kolbasz, I like this pork knuckle and in Hungarian it is called 'Csülök'.

A pretty cute name when you have to pronounce it like 'chur-lurk', you have to hold your lips in a special shape :-o to say it.

I remembered when Rose was here in Budapest for the visit, it was closed to the end of winter and there were Hungarian sausages. She just ordered the sausages without those slices of bread to go with it. And Zsolt being a true-born Hungarian thought that it was 'brutal' to eat the sausages alone without bread :) That's how much cultural differences goes to say about how we eat.

The Hungarians eat the Sült kolbász usually with mustard and a side dish of pickled (sometimes that side can be cabbage soaked in vinegar and it has been preserved for days). The most common of this side (called 'Savanyúság') is the cucumber (uborka) and it can also range from peppers, cherry peppers, sauerkraut to beets and pickled fruits. To be really honest, I personally don't like these 'Savanyúság' and I avoid it all the time. 

The McDonald's in Hungary even localized the burger to one called 'Retro Burger' and it is available in the summer season. It is packed with these pickled mixed vegetables and of course the classic 'beef' patty, and oh gosh! It was one of the crazy burger choices I've ever made...

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Traditional Hungarian Crafts - Crazy Drums

Actually they aren't that crazy. I was just making fun! :p

These are hand drums. I love drums and I love drummers :) From street buskers to professional drummers in the quartet...

But I don't like drummers spotted with those short curly hair (for example) :)

A drummer should be cool, or with a some cool facial hair, goatee, beard etc. Not the Hussar moustache please....

And honestly, either bald if not long hair, NOT short hair, not even curly hair.

I saw this drummer at the Hungarian Jazz Festival and he was exactly with a short curly hair. I wonder why?

This one is the exception, short hair, but i like:
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Z&Z Train Ticket Adventure in Amsterdam (Holland) - Part 2

This is part 2 of our Amsterdam adventure in Holland. Click here for Part 1

In this part (two) of our travel post about Holland, it is mainly continuing our 'train ticket adventure' and our first impressions of Amsterdam, the capital city of the Netherlands.

To the surprise of all of us, it was a female staff working in that cabin which we boarded. (We took the Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS; Dutch Railways) which is the core internal passenger rail network)

Firstly, Zannnie told her about the problem of the errors. She took over the tickets from Zannnie's hands, looked at it carefully, tried but do not understand why it actually happened. She was kind to make a phone call using her mobile to the station where we need to make a transfer before arriving to Amsterdam Central Station.

After confirming that it was indeed an error at the ticketing machine at Ermelo, she started to make a note on one of the four tickets, stating that we will be able to get a refund in cash. We just have to show it to her colleague at the 'help desk'.

We were slightly worried that we might miss the 'transfer train', but she read our concerns from our facial expressions and assured us that it will just be a few minutes.

So before the arrival of the transfer train to Amsterdam, we waited about five minutes (as there was a queue) where people buy tickets at the counter. When it was Zannnie's turn, she was asked to sign a piece of acknowledgement on an A5 size piece of paper about the refund (and error of the double charge). And of course, she was refunded the 43.60 Euros in cash.

We walked to the train platform to wait for our train to Amsterdam, glad that we were just on time and did not miss it. 

Then, there was this train at 10:24am...

...but it was going to Schiphol - so 'do not board it'.

10:29AM:
Relieved. Our train to Amsterdam arrived. It was this yellow and blue intercity train and we boarded it.

Very sturdy looking and professional looking trains.

Another symbol of western europe: good quality seats.

The inside of the train looks very clean too. Did you notice the big 'abstract graphic'?

It looked at first glance like some vandalism, but since it is so clean everywhere else, I was doubting it and considered it more like an 'interior decorative design' with some huge brush strokes using black paints :)

This is the lower deck.

So with another 'abstract design of those black brush strokes' appearing at the other end of the cabin. I concluded that IT IS actually the decorative design! Welcome to Amsterdam :)



It feels so different to be back in a city with so much vibrancy and LIFE! It was busier than any parts of Budapest. It was exactly the same feelings I get when I am back in Singapore. It is a real capital city with full of life!! It is AMSTERDAM...!

The difference is that it is way much cooler than in Singapore! :D No such humidity discomfort...

Look! So many people around...Their halfbodies/headshots on this photo here looked like a long line of 'little ants' seen from afar.



We met our new Dutch friends at the Park Plaza Victoria. It was the first time I had two cappuccinos at one seating!!


This cafe Park Plaza that is so closed to the Central Station of Amsterdam is filled with so many people.





And we start our walking tour, appreciating the beauty of this special city of dams. Zsolt and I really like the atmosphere of Amsterdam!

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Z&Z Train Ticket Adventure in Amsterdam (Holland) - Part 1

This is part 1 of our Amsterdam adventure in Holland.

In Holland, we get to experience a few things. In the part one of this our travel post, is about how to get to Amsterdam from Heidezicht.

Driving a car to Amsterdam is not advisable. Firstly, the parking fee is very expensive.  Let's say easily, it is about 35 Euros per day.

A day ticket is valid 9 a.m.-7 p.m. in the entire city, but not in the evening. It costs € 26,40. To park in the evening you should buy a night ticket, valid 7 p.m.-midnight; its price varies depend on the part of town - € 4,40up to € 17,60. Day and night ticket costs depending on the area of town up to € 39,60. A week ticket for the entire city costs € 158,40. - source 

Secondly, Amsterdam is so full of dams and it is not very easy to drive as conveniently as you wish. Most of the people ride the bicycles. Bicycles have the right of the way. If you do not know yet how the entire industry of bicycles is like in Amsterdam, read this first there are some videos about the 'bicycle city' there too.

So from Heidezicht, we set off to Ermelo by car. This is the Ermelo station. Ermelo is the next municipality and also a town in the province of Gelderland in the Veluwe area.

(That green sticker is part of the Low Emission Zone driving requirement for driving within Germany)

Look again. How neat is the parking place in the Netherlands!

We parked the car there and headed off to buy train tickets to Amsterdam. This is when our adventure started...

As we only have Euros in cash, we did not have a debit card to buy the train tickets like the locals. Fortunately, our Dutch friend Dirk was with us and in this way, he helped us to purchase the train tickets with his card. It would have been better if there is a changer, but the only counter manned by a person was a little store with a little window that sells post-cards and tit-bits. In Dutch, we were told we have to buy the tickets only from the machine. So in a way, we really trusted the machine...

It was EUR 21.80 to get from Ermelo to Amsterdam Central Station. These are Class 2 returned tickets. So in fact we should only be charged EUR 43.60.  

But instead, on Dirk's card, 87.20 EUR was deducted :( 

It was in one minute's time when our train will arrive. We realized we were doubly charged for the train tickets and all we can hope is someone on the train can help us resolve it.

We boarded the train in any case, thinking that we will ask the conductor on the train about the error.

Dirk said to Zsolt that usually he asks his wife to handle these kind of issues because it is easier for the lady to speak to the male cabin staff. So of course, Zannnie prepared herself to speak to the cabin staff.  Continue Part 2

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