Happy Birthday to Mama ~~

April 10th was my mama's birthday. Since it falls on a weekday, we decided to give her a treat at Prima Tower Revolving Restaurant during an earlier weekend.

The Peking duck and Shredded Scallops with Fish and Egg white were the highly recommended dishes. The latter was really good but the Peking duck was just medicore. Rest of the dishes were just normal. The dessert, Toffee Banana, won us over instead.

Loads of photos taken at the restaurant.

(pardon the poor quality, I edited the photos using an iphone app)

On the actual day itself, we bought a cake to celebrate after dinner at home. This cake from Glace was really good!

Happy Birthday, mama/ah ma~~! :)

food, food and more food......

If I say this, I might get dagger stares from people. Me, or rather, my sisters and I are those that love to eat but, due to high metabolism rate (or that fat worm in the tummy), do not put on a lot of weight. People take a look at me and thought that I eat very little, but actually, I do have a big appetite. Especially for GOOD FOOD. Actually, I have taken these photos of food some time ago. Was looking through the photo album in my Iphone and decided to share them here.

This small restaurant, Arbite, is situated above Guardian at Serangoon Gardens. Decided to come here for lunch one day and found that they serve 1-for-1 set lunch a $30. Unlike some of the places where the portion will be slightly lesser than normal ala carte dishes during set lunches/dinners/promotions, this is not the case here. You can see from the pictures below. It consists of a soup, salad, main course and a drink. $30 for 2 set lunches is defintely worth it.

soup

mushroom salad

grilled chicken chop with pilaf rice

bacon and mushroom fettucine

First time trying mooncakes from Peony Jade this year. We bought the durian and chempadak ones. They were really yummy. You can really taste the durian and chempadak pulp inside the mooncakes. Paired with tea, it is almost heavenly. Sis and I decided to buy this Black Tea when we passed by TWG one day. It is quite expensive but it is really nice. It has a tinge of blackberry taste in it.

If you go to Serangoon North Ave 1 neighbourhood, you will come across a Thai restaurant (Sakhon Thai) that is situated at a corner beside the street. Have been here a few times and the food is not too bad. Photo below was taken at lunch with hubby during weekday. I like their green chicken curry and Thai fish cake. Recently, I have also tried their basil pork (no pics) and I love it.

Lunch at Canele (Shaw House) at Scotts Road. They had a change in their menu. I loved their pesto prawn but it is nowhere to be found in their new menu. Tried the beef stew with bread. It is very delicious. It was served hot and goes pretty well with the toast. As usual, hubby order spaghetti. It was crabmeat spaghetti which faired well too. If you haven't noticed the little message in their teacups, take a look at the picture below. It is really meaningful. :) [in case it is too small, the msg is: stresseD=Desserts]

That's all the food that I have for you this time. Mine is not a food blog, but will definitely share the places where I have good food in my little space here.

marmalade pantry + robert timms + jacky cheung

Lunch at marmalade pantry at ion. Their desserts looked too good, so we shared a main, crabmeat linguini and a plate of scones.

Din look appetizing when the crabmeat linguini was served. It just looked like any normal tomato based pasta. After the first spoonful, hmm, it was quite unusual, unexpected. Linguini was mixed with thin shreds of crabmeat in each mouthful. It was tasty and full of flavors. Mixed with some pine nuts, it was even better.

Scones were served hot. They smelt damn good! I wanted to wait for the pasta first before having the scones but sis couldn't resist. She had one as an appetizer. She was "hmmming" away while I resisted and took the biscuit at the sides first. They were already tasty on it's own but paired with clotted cream and jam, they were even tastier. Scones were not hot after I had my mains, but they were still very good. We had to use our hands as the scones broke into crumbles once you cut with the knife. No way for both of us to act demure.

Yums! We both agreed that it is even better than those highly raved scones at regent tea lounge.

As we finished our lunch at 3pm, there is no space for our tummy to have a proper dinner before the concert. So we shopped around and had a break at 6plus.  Sis read that Robert timms coffee were highly recommended. So we went for coffee and shared a plate of cheesy Bolognaise crisscut fries.

Ordered piccolo latte to go with it. A bit weird to pair coffee with fries, but there is really no space for desserts at all. Left orchard at 730 to go to the Jacky cheung's concert at indoor stadium! Super excited as I can't remember the last time I went for a concert.

学友!!

View from our seats.

Us together at the concert.

Despite no photo taking and videography, many people were still using their handphones or camera to video record the songs. Me and my sis also follow suit for some of the songs.

It was really a great concert. 3hrs and 20mins of nonstop singing from the 歌神. Instead of a normal concert style, he started with his own created musical, then to normal concert songs, with an animation of his life since young somewhere in the middle. Really really loved his voice. Will be looking forward to the next concert!

Hongkong Trip Part V

HK - 30 Jul 2011

No morning alarm today again. Wanted to try the dim sum at Maxim's Chinese restaurant as it was recommended in the guide book and I have also read it from a blogger's trip to HK.

It was located at Whampoa, where there is no MTR within walking distance, so we took a cab there. Food here is not bad, actually, I find that that dim sum in SG is comparable to that in HK (or maybe because I have not tried the best yet). The charsiew pastry is yummy and we both like the quail egg siew mai, though the one at Lin Hueng teahouse tasted better. No pics coz I think they all look the same.

Whampoa in HK is really like the one in SG. It is like a heartland but with many shops/shopping centre within. Look at this huge ship in the middle of nowhere. It is actually JUSCO hypermart.

We had nowhere in mind to go, just walked around and happened to reach a bus terminal. We boarded a 小巴 (mini coach), thinking that the destination is to Mongkok east station.

 Unknowingly, we ended up in Kowloon Tong, where there is a big shopping centre, Festival Walk. Luckily, it is on the same line as Prince Edward MTR, where we had planned to stop to visit Fa Yuen street. Had dinner at a Cha Can Ting again. Though it is only instant noodles, I really like the way they cooked it. Looking at the pics make me drool. After dinner, we went to temple street to walk walk.

Bought lots of stuff at Fa Yuen street and Allied Plaza. Magnets from Ladies Street.  

HK - 31 Jul 2011

Today is our last day in HK, unknowingly we slept till 10am today. Went to a small shop selling 车仔面 behind our hotel to have our breakfast.

Checked out at 12pm and hubby wanted to go back to the anicom exhibition again. Took train to Wanchai, and he went alone while I waited for him at Starbucks, to use up the wifi time for tourist that we bought at 7-11. By the way, this is like a wifi login password that costs HKD20 which can be brought at 7-11 stores. If you purchase the octopus card for 3 days usage, there is a coupon inside which entitled you to buy the wifi login at at discounted price of HKD15. This login only lasts for 24 hrs from the first moment that you login and it can only be used at PCCW (service provider) wifi hotspots, like Pacific Coffee, Starbucks, 7-11 stores, MTR stations, etc.

 

Saw a backpack yesterday at Allied Plaza but hubby thinks SGD60 is too ex for a bag, so din buy it. After much consideration, he decided to buy so we went back to Allied Plaza at Prince Edward. As we still had time, we went to walk walk again at Sino plaza and then took a rest at Wood Cafe (near Yau Ma Tei MTR station, near our hotel) and also for the free wifi to spend our time before leaving for airport.


Hubby's bag. Managed to bargain a bit to SGD53.

A closer look, what does it resemble?

In this building, there are many such cafes that offer comfortable sofas and board games to play with. Took the free shuttle from the hotel to airport express station, Kowloon. And from there we took the airport express to the airport. Hubby liked the 葱油面 from Crystal Jade so there we went again for our dinner before we depart for SG.

Wood Cafe

Back to SG!! Landed at around 1230am and by the time we got our luggages, it was 1am. Hungry and decided to have supper at Wang cafe before we head home.


My chicken macoroni

 

Hubby's laksa

This HK trip this time was not as tiring as the last time as we took our own sweet time to walk around leisurely and rest our feet whenever we can. It was quite a relaxing trip and I did manage to shop a lot! Hubby also enjoyed this trip as he manage to go to all the comic shops that he wanted to go and even visited the exhibition twice!

Hongkong Trip Part IV

HK - 29 jul 2011

Woke up early for the anicom exhibition. Had breakfast at a local Cha Can Ting and went straight to Wanchai where the exhibition was held. Check out the queue! The news reported that the first guy had started queuing 8/9 days before!

There was a special queue just for tourists together with the disabled and aged people. This queue was like 100x shorter than the normal one. Actually hubby had already ordered all the figurines that he wanted from one of the shop, so we went to the exhibition just to check out the stores and to soak up the atmosphere. Youngsters here are really very much into all different types of comics, be it HK, US or Japanese ones. There were also many teenagers who are into cosplay. Didn't take any photos of those, though.

Hubby's must-visit booth!

Stuff he ordered (which will be posted to us), ticket to the exhibition and a photo of us!

Had lunch at a nearby Cha Can Ting and went back to our hotel to put the stuffs that we bought at the anicom.

Rested for a while and headed to Stanley market. Ride was long but nothing much there. It is really for the tourists as many shops are selling souvenirs, like those at Lucky Plaza in SG. View is not bad though, and there are a row of western restaurants facing the sea.

Had our tea-time there before we left.

Hubby using free wifi

View from the cafe

Back to Wanchai as hubby needed to go back to the comic shop to buy more stuff. I had a walk around Times Square and bought some stuff. My loots for the day!

Guess what is the thing labelled 黑? It is cotton buds in black! Bought it as hubby's ear were itchy, haha.