Thing is Colin wanted to show that effort was made into getting the cake, so we lit the candles from Bakerzin and slowly made our way up to the shop. Hence, the candles that reached Yosh's table were pretty much limp and about to caput anytime soon.
Still though, it was quite amusing and apparently strawberry shortcakes were her favorite, so that kinda came as a surprise to her, not to mentioned she was pretty amused by the "hanging for their dear lives" candles.
Happy Birthday Ms Miyazaki. =)
Sunday, right after going out to ensure the guys were doing well with their shows, Colin got Jan and Jill out along with Xinn to celebrate her birthday at Beach Culture down at Pasir Ris.
The food was good though. The sirloin steak was extreme tender! I couldn't believe I was sinking my teeth into Sirloin at all! I think we ordered too much that night, but it was ok, Xinn's birthday made it worth it afterall.
We even randomly got her 4 small strawberry shortcakes from Four Leaves since we didn't have that many people to buy a large one.
Monday came, and this time round, it was Chang who helped out with the buying of the birthday cake for dear. I was glad he could help out or else I'd be lost without the extra hand.
For $33++ per person, the spread at Ikoi was pretty dope, and the salmon sashimi was really fresh!!! I think we over ordered and totally forgot we had cake coming.
One of the highlights at the restaurant was their seafood soup served in a teapot. Like Soup "dim sum", small, but really strong in taste, something I find rather unique and quite appealing actually. We ended up ordering 2 pots, though I think one was enough, the second was good but cause it was nolonger special, there wasn't that kick to it that I was looking for.
Anyway dinner was great, I was kinda relief to know that she was happy with her birthday dinner. =)
Since my brother was craving a lil bit of xiao long bao, we headed for Crystal Jade at Holland Village to eat. I'm not really into Crystal Jade though, except I intend to try that steamboat buffet thingy Xinn talked about before. But that day we didnt and I wasn't really hungry so I just snatched off whatever the rest were munching on.
Oddly though, they ended up just ordering one basket of 5, when we had about 6 people at the table =\
Other stuff included some cold duck dish and mapo tofu, which tasted different but honestly I preferred the classic style.
My dad got some fried rice dish which had nuts and ikan bilis and what not. It turned out bigger than what he had expected so we ended up munching his portion as well.
I found it rather plain, but my dad seem to like it though, anything rich in texture works for him nowadays that he can't taste much. Sad though, I hope never to end up finding food tasteless one day =(
Tuesday though, the guys finally managed to make their way down to Megcorp's office to do a short demo for them regarding the performance they'll be doing around town.
It was quite a relief to see that things were going pretty well though there were some concerns regarding the salesmanship of the players. In the past, the guys never had to worry about selling the product, Adrian made it clear that our guys were professional players, not professional promoters. Now however, with the need to train more of the kids to be able to speak up in front of a crowd, Colin figured the campaign would be a good time for everyone to learn abit of sales talk and ultimately speak confidently in front of the public.
I've heard about the place before but never really got about trying it until today.
I have to be honest though, this is pretty good! I'm not one to really indulge in beef horfun, I'd either stick to the regular one of go for deer meat...slightly more expensive but not as tough as beef in my opinion.
Our house had a bread oven my mum bought from my aunt over a year ago to support this MLM thing she was doing and my maid has been using it ever since to bake bread.
Today though, she started making bread rolls, which I thought were pretty cool, so I got cheese and sausages and she had them baked into the buns as well.
The color wasn't what I had in mind though, neither was the texture. These were more like the consistency of a french loaf, tough on the outside, soft on the inside...I was looking forward to a more........hm........neighbourhood bakery style bread? Can't blame her I guess, she's never done it before, neither am I experience in working an oven...I should really learn it some day.
=)
I came across a screenshot I took off my mac a few months back when I was at the Spinworkx shop chatting online with Colin regarding the final details of the SYYC press conference I was supposed to go for. It was nearing midnight and we were almost completing the preparations for the next day's event when I popped a question...
I've come across this restaurant a few times...I mean, well duh, I study across the road =) But I never once walked in for lunch or dinner. The pricing was the main issue that bugged me, not exactly one for the average non-working Singaporean.
It wasn't my birthday though, and my brother wanted to try something he'd never try before.
Honestly though, the place is very small, and it was 7:30pm when we walked in, and we were the first customers! Another 3 people cam in later at around 8:15pm or so, after that no one else walked into the place...sad.
The sampler platter my brother ordered allowed him to pick 4 choices of items from the appetizers, so he went for shrip, spanish sausages potatoes and olives.
Something I'd probably never consider when ordering appetizers, neither would my brother really, it was a one time "let's try something different" thing.
The shrimp with garlic and enoki mushrooms was a good touch, and I never got to try the spanish sausage since there were only two.
The pumpkin soup, which was for my dad, came with my brother's name on it though, weird...so like, he sampled it, then handed it back to my father to drink. =\
The main courses that came were pretty banging as well. lol. Spanish Rice was pretty good, though my dad isn't a big fan of shell fish inside his rice, I think it's cause we're so used to having out "mui fan" served without shells besides those from prawns?
The pineapple rice, which came with spanish sausages was too good lookin to be dug into, we went for the other stuff first and for the first 5 minutes, no one wanted to be responsible for ruining the "display piece"
The pan-seared chicken was good, crispy too for certain parts.
The cod fish was really pleasing as well. =)
The main highlight, which my brothe ordered, was the Lobster pasta, which really, is lobster meat served with pasta which was fried "asian" style...I don't think it was speg at all, from the taste, it's texture was closer to thick beehoon.
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To This...
To now.
That said...busstops should look more like this.
I haven't been to Jurong West in ages, and Jurong Point's new extension is HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE, I mean, I saw it briefly the last time round but I never really walked around it until today...and almost got lost!
Anyway dinner ended up at the Rong Guan BBQ Seafood Restaurant, it was Cheng's treat, so thanks alot sergeant!!!!!!! =)
Back when I was working in Black Angus, would always take 75 home from work and it'll pass this place which is situated at the Mowbray camp at the junction between clementi and the road to Ngee Ann Poly. I never got to try the food before, until today. Apparently it's pretty hype, and the food was quite good.
Some of the dope stuff included Prawn Paste Chicken Wings...
...and their Herbal Chicken.
Anyway it's great to catch up with some of the other guys from camp as well, Yap is now working and studying at the same time at SIM while Peter's into computers programming, and has grown a long lock of hair...which reminded me of World Yo-Yo Champion Tyler Severance.
Anyway it was great catching with both Master Ho and Ronald, the married-with-kids Ah Beng and the loud-mouth machine gun.
Sigh.
