Flower Beauty

After not wearing any mascara since March 2020, the Domestic Goblin decided to try a new mascara...

~ Warrior Princess Mascara by Flower Beauty.

Verdict: Gave fluttery, fanned out lashes. A dry formula which DG prefers. Did not claim to be water proof but gave some promising water resistance. A possible contender to her favourite Maybelline Full n Soft Waterproof.

Since finding out that her favourite concealer (Select Moisturecover in NW25 by MAC) had been discontinued, the Domestic Goblin experimented with various budget and high end options...

~ Light Illusion Full Coverage Concealer by Flower Beauty in the shade Medium Honey.

Verdict: Use sparingly. Photographs well. Works better in warmer weather when skin is not as dry.

Purchased in September 2021 from Superdrug

After satisfaction with the above two products, DG also tried the following Flower Beauty products:

~ Miracle Matte Lip Gloss in Merlot Kiss and Rosewood

Verdict: Colours look different once applied on the lips compared to the tube colour. Rosewood is a 'my lips but better' shade for a no makeup look. Will not repurchase Merlot Kiss.

~ In Your Prime - pore minimising primer

Verdict: Does what it says on the tin. However, there are cheaper alternatives that perform just as well or better. 

DG is also considering the Chill Out Smoothing Colour Corrector in Medium Peach when it is available for purchase in the UK. However, DG is unsure about the CBD element.

Pha Suk Villa

Toy teaches Meow and Panthep the right way to eat fish:

~ Take a small amount of wasabi and place it on top of your slice of fish. Then dip it in the soy sauce and eat it (as opposed to Meow mixing the wasabi in with the soy sauce which ruins the flavour with the overpowering wasabi). 

~ Start by eating the light tasting ones then move on to fish with strong flavours. Otherwise the stronger flavours will overpower the lighter fish:

• White fish
• Red fish (like salmon then salmon roe)
• Oily fish (like Engawa)
• Rolled omelette 

Toy explains the delicacies of Indian food to Panthep:

~ Toy orders Tandoori chicken, marinated lamb, dal charcoal and naan e bukumuch.

~ The spices are fragrant and rich, yet not overpowering and goes so well with the ingredients. 

~ Marinating spices with chicken makes the chicken taste richer.

~ Using them in a unique way with lamb does not make the meat taste gamey.

~ Each kind of curry in Indian cuisine is very unique and all taste really great.

~ Even the dough, like the naan that's eaten with curry, is fragrant and fluffy, unlike any other type of bread.

~ Tear naan with your hands and dip it in the curry.

Toy explains to Panthep how to eat thin noodles with soup and braised beef without staining his shirt:

1. When you have time to spare, pick up noodles with your chopsticks and twist. Then follow it up with the broth.
2. If you're in a hurry, tuck a napkin into your shirt.

Toy shows Panthep, Aimorn and Ink how to enjoy chilled rice (Thingyan rice) - a traditional Mon cuisine that is popular in the summer:

~ Eat the savoury ones first then the sweet ones

~ Start with the shrimp paste and work your way up

~ Scoop up the side dishes

~ Scoop up the rice

~ Then drink the jasmine juice - it's so refreshing

~ Don't put the side dishes in the rice bowl. it will ruin the floral and smoky smell. Eat them separately.

(Mon people are an ethnic group found in Myanmar and Thailand).

Toy advises Meow to take some Jasmine rice porridge served with minced pork patties, pork liver and pork intestines to Panthep's home in the morning to surprise him as he recuperates.

"Egg thread rolls remind me

of the golden bed

where at night you lay your head.

Each layer is peculiarly inviting

and I long to lie in bed with my darling"

(An extract from Verse of Food and Dessert composed by King Rama II)

* Information derived from Let's Eat (2021). A Thai remake of the plot in the original South Korean programme Let's Eat 2. The Thai version is based in Hua Hin. 

Pembroke University

Literary/lyrical quotes heard on 'The Chair'

"I grow old ... I grow old ...

I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Shall I part my hair behind?  Do I dare to eat a peach?

I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.

I have seen them riding seaward on the waves

Combing the white hair of the waves blown back

When the wind blows the water white and black.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea

By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown

Till human voices wake us, and we drown."

(T.S. Eliot)

"My face is my fortune, that's why I'm totally broke."

(Bette Midler)

"Though she be but little, she is fierce."

(Helena referring to Hermia from Midsummer Night's Dream)

Other quotes from the series

"Professor Dobson's class is like the limp-dicked version of his pretencious writing."

"Sports jacket, check. Five o'clock shadow, check. Sneaking drugs out the back, check. You just need a wide-eyed coed then you will have successfully checked every box in the disaffected middle-aged white-male-professor cliche."