Sunday, August 16, 2009

*~ Crazy Evening (Part II) ~*

After the dinner at Yuen Buffet Steamboat, we went to Snowflake which is at the shoplot opposite Asia Cafe to have Taiwanese dessert. Yea, the Snowflake that ChuiLing from 1 Day 5 Meals went.



Beeping UFO. Once your order is ready, it will vibrate and keep flashing.



The loyalty card.



There are supposed to be six stamps. Juliana got addicted and ordered another one later on.



It was time to eat again.



Snowflake Bestseller.
Grass Jelly + Grass Jelly Ice + Taroballs + Creamer



Soya Ice Series with Sweet Potato, Barley and Pearl.



Yum yum~



Grass Jelly Series with Sweet Potato, Barley and Pearl.



Grass Jelly Series with Kidney Bean, Black Glutinous Rice and Pearl.



Lemon Jade Jelly, i think.



Grass Jelly Series with Taroballs and Black Glutinous Rice.



After creamer was added...



Osama spoon.



We were really noisy there. We made so much noise by playing some lame games until people were staring at us. 9 of us occupied a table for 4! Well, what to do when they had limited space and yet so many people were there.

Danny and i being so yellowish on that day.



Chin Looi and Juliana.



Amanda on Chin Looi's right.



Boyfriend and i.



Amanda + Chin Looi + Juliana.



Danny + me + boyfriend + half of Nicole's face.


Nicole, Khoo and Lim.



Boyfriend and i again promoting the loyalty card.



Lastly, it is the group picture of everyone :)


It was almost 12 when we were done there. Still feeling "early", we decided to hang out at Chin Looi's house and we were there until 2 a.m. We played games taught by Danny. By just using a deck of cards, he came out with so many games. But all the punishments for losing lead to only one: drinking water. And, no going to the washroom until we had finished playing! Torturing, right? Oh well, in the end, Danny suffered the most. Haha...

I can't wait to hang out with them again.

~* Crazy Evening (Part I) *~

Finally, i got to dine at Yuen Buffet Steamboat on Saturday evening after craving for it for so long! Boyfriend and i were there quite early and we decided to start first while waiting for the rest to come.

The restaurant is not only a place for steamboat, but it is also famous for its grilled chicken wings. If the restaurant were packed with people, the chicken wings could be finished taking by them within few minutes. Tray by tray of chicken wings will be served to the customers. But we were lucky. When boyfriend and i arrived, there were not many people and there were still a lot of chicken wings. So, we took a lot too for both of us and the rest who came later on. While waiting, people who passed by our table staring at us and the table with one kind of look. They might be thinking, "You both kiasu people occupy a table for ten and take so many chicken wings."

Finally, they had arrived within an hour time.



It was just the beginning.



The yummylicious chicken wings.



All the raw ingredients.






Wow, this does not look like we were having steamboat. It was more to like we were having some nice and healthy soup with good ingredients. Look at those different kinds of shellfishes!



Tomyam with overcooked ingredients :P



Everyone was enjoying the food so much...



...including myself. I spent most of the time peeling shells for myself, boyfriend who sat on my left and Chin Looi who was on my right. I tried to waste some time in between so that i could rest my stomach.



Amanda's effort.



Ice-cream for dessert!



I love the one with apricot flavour (pink in colour).



Boyfriend, Lim, Khoo and Danny.



Nicole, Juliana, Chin Looi, me and Amanda.



Anyway, i feel like wanting another steamboat session =/

Friday, August 14, 2009

*~ Yummy Tarts ~*

Chui Ling from 1 Day 5 Meals had visited this shop before for her show. Happy Meal Trading that sells different kinds of pastries, cakes, tarts, and etc. It is just opposite Popular Bookstore at Jalan Tun HS Lee (Chinatown). My mum actually had been there even before Chui Ling did and mum never failed to buy mini durian puffs from there together with some other tarts and cakes.

Mum went there again today.
Some of the things she bought included a coconut tart for herself.



Ahh... My favourite pineapple tarts.

The one on the left is the original pineapple tart with just some black sesame seeds sprinkled on top. The one on the right is what i like the most. Pineapple tarts with cheese on top!



Honestly, i could not really taste the cheese but the cheese made the crust on top so crispy! Yum yum!

(P.S. My bad. I accidentally ruined its shape when i tried to cut it into half using a blunt knife.)


Tuesday, August 11, 2009

~* Typical n-course Meal *~

I just came back from having dinner at Golden Palace Seafood Restaurant which located next to Swiss Garden Hotel. Anyway, the dinner was held in conjunction of the Goddess Guan Yin's festival. Organised by this temple which i don't really know the name, this dinner is held annually and only members, mostly the elders, will be attending. However, because of some members (mum's friends) could not make it, i was asked to join my mum.

Typical name: 4 seasons.
Heart the butter milk eggplant.



"Fake" shark fin soup.

Come on! You can't expect that this dinner would serve you expensive ingredients since it was a dinner to celebrate the Goddess and everything was supposed to be moderate. Also, shark fin is bad. An environmentalist will say no-no to serving real shark fin.



Trotter in oyster sauce. It was so darn fattening but the thing is this dish will only be nice if the trotter has fat! I did not even dare to eat the skin and i was searching hard for pure meat.



Steamed catfish.



Roaster chicken with prawn crackers.
The menu was written in both English and Chinese but i only know how to read in English. In English, it was written as "Roaster Crispy Chicken & Prawn". I waited anxiously for this dish since there would be prawn. When this dish was served, i searched high and low for prawns which i then only realised that they missed out the word "Crackers" in the English menu. But the Chinese menu was written correctly stating prawn crackers rather than prawn! Anyway, i was not the only one who got tricked.



Some mixed vegetables.



After the fried rice, we were served with dessert. Whee! My favourite Chinese pancake! Heart this terribly much! I always look forward for this whenever i attend this kind of dinner. By the way, the creamy red bean dessert was very nice and not sweet at all just to match the sweetness of Chinese pancake. Yum yum~


The food pictures are not too nice because i had to snap the pictures fast before everybody else attacked the food. Then, i had to take from far and zoomed in. It is impolite to ask everybody else to wait for you while you stand up, go nearer to the food and snap pictures.

Besides food, i also took pictures with people too.

With my dearest mum. Mum does not really like to take pictures but i insisted. It had been a very long time, like for years, since we last took picture together.



Me, Aunty Margaret, mum and Aunty Lai Heng.
Aunty Lai Heng is both my mum and Aunty Margaret's friend for years.



With Ee Mey.
The daughter of my mum's good friend.
My senior in high school.