Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
Roll as fast as you can to be the first to swim to the island before the shark gets you! Shark Chase is a fast and furious family game that packed full of laughter! It left us all in stitches at the end of each round! Phew! This is a very simple game that is suitable for ages four and above. It is for two to four players.
Earlier this week, we reviewed this fun and challenging Bank Attack game from John Adams. This is an intense and cooperative game where you work together as criminal masterminds to crack the vault and release the gold hidden inside!
It is never too early to say the C-word – Christmas! Right now, there are only 99 days until Christmas 2019! Are you all excited for it yet? I know some of you might have already made a list of gifts for everyone on your list but some might still be looking for the perfect gift for their perfect one. On the other hand, I’m sure there will be many who will leave it until the last minute!
Buying gifts is never easy, is it? This is especially the case when the birthdays and Christmases start to rack up! If you are struggling to pick a gift for a loved one, we have some suggestions for you.
It can get a bit difficult to find toys that are exciting and new and choosing a gift for other people’s children can be quite daunting! Fear not, as Wicked Uncle is brilliant for exactly this. It is a gift website that stocks interesting and unusual children’s presents. They are essentially a present service for birthdays, Christmas and other occasions.
Wicked Uncle is more than just a toy shop, it can also help you choose what to buy. Simply fill in the age and gender of the child and it will select for you a range of toys that should suit that child. They have personally tested every product before they stock it; they build the kits, play the games, bake the rainbow cakes, blow the giant bubbles, and test drive the remote-control spiders! They stock a lot of items you just won’t find elsewhere.
Buying gifts for young people/adults who like to play games can be very tricky. They might already own many gaming products and gadgets. To help with some alternative gadgety toys, we are delighted to receive this selection of merchandise from Paladone! These items should give you a few ideas to buy this Christmas. Personally, these are things that I like and even before I had a chance to unbox them, my children and husband already had their eyes on them!
Are you still looking for some small and delicious stuff to fill up your Christmas stockings? Then why not surprise your loved ones with this limited edition Tinsel Teas from Adagio Teas! Last year, this limited edition Tinsel Teas was a great success in the United States, that they have now stocked them in Europe too! Don’t wait too long as it will get sold out soon.
To celebrate Father’s Day on Sunday 17th of June 2018, one lucky follower will win a £100 voucher to spend online at www.frederickthomas.co.uk to help jazz up your Dad’s or partner’s wardrobe with fun dinosaur and skull print ties, or add a bit of texture with linen, knitted, tweed and wool ties from Frederick Thomas London.
With Mother’s Day approaching next Sunday 11th March 2018, are you still struggling to look for gifts to buy for your mother or wife? If you are running out of ideas, I have a few gift ideas under my sleeves! Have you ever considered giving them personalised wrist watches or personalised alcoholic gifts like Personalised Moet and Engraved Champagne Flutes?
Want to get a gift that your children will remember and cherish? Have you thought about getting them an experience day gift? They will remember experience days for life and it’s something to boast about in school. A gift that will always stay with them because you are their awesome parents!
Mr K is getting to the age of not just wanting a birthday cake or a party. He is approaching the teenage world and he wants more thrilling experiences. This got me thinking about the five potential experience gifts I could offer him to give him a great memory to cherish. Out of those five, he has already experienced three, which he still speaks about with much fondness.
This Valentine’s Day, we’ve been invited to try out these two boxes of gorgeous Guylian Belgian chocolates: a selection of 22 pieces of Guylian’s classic Sea Shells and a 42g box containing four praline filled hearts. We are no strangers to this well-known market leader in boxed Belgian chocolates. What we love about Guylian is the lovely flavour! They use a unique blend of West-African cocoa beans which forms the basis of its premium chocolate, made with 100% cocoa butter.
If you are after personalised gifts this Christmas, then you have just come to the right place. Personally Presented is a family run personalised gifts online retailer that sell 1000s of personalised gifts for you to choose from.
Not only that, they also understand that customer service is also very important and they offer order updates via Facebook Messenger (as well as SMS and Email). This is the best method as you can communicate directly with the team via Facebook Messenger in real-time should you have any questions. They have kindly offered my readers a 10% discount code (etspeaks10) until the end of November!
Meccano MeccaSpider is an interactive robotic creepy crawly spider that is made from space-age materials. It can be controlled using built-in buttons, or with the free Meccano app! It also comes with built-in games. It is suitable for aged 10 and above.
Are you still looking for ideas for this Father’s Day? Why not get the father in question a bottle of wine that both of you can enjoy on the special day? I am not a wine expert but having tried numerous types, I have a few up my sleeve that definitely won’t break the budget!
For English weddings, the bride and groom typically have a list of wedding gifts but for Chinese, we are more practical. All we want is money, partially to pay for the wedding costs and partially to pay your mother-in-law!
