Sashimi & Dim Sum Weekend!

14 January 2013

Simple weekend; Just the two of us.

Feasting yummy food and watching series epsoides of Running Man together over the weekend.  I am missing my nap times...  :(

We are back again for nice and fresh sashimis at Sakuraya!  Kick-started our Saturday with a yummy sashimi brunch at 4pm-ish as ah Thiang is working (and for the next few Saturdays too).  Then a 'lil shopping around the mall and end our Saturday evening with a foot massage (overheard the masseuse attending to me won the lottery first prize!  it's worth a 10grant leh!).  Life's good.

Then on Sunday, we had dim sum breakfast with the papa-inlaw at the newly opened 陆羽茶楼 in Chinatown Point!  We are the first customer at 10am (they opened at 8am on weekends and we actually booked the table in advance just in case it gets crowded like Yan Palace) but in the picture, we like booked the whole restaurant!  Haha.  Crowd only started to come in like after 11am...  I liked the deco especially the wall with full of chopsticks and was told that they operates under the same management as Kenko Wellness (what a diversement of investment!).

Well, the 皮蛋粥 was the worst I ever had.  Not sure if it was my taste bud or what, very super bland and I thought I can salvage the taste by adding soya sauce but it just got worser... yikeeees!  Not cheap you know, cost S$5.90++ per serving/bowl.  Any other porridge stall would have served much tastier bowl at S$4.  Aside from the poor-tasting porridge, it was siew-mai-licious and they served not-too-bad dumplings and pork-ribs too.

Our spending last weekend, coughed up to S$400... my poor husband needs to cut down on his expenditure in the next coming weeks... *cough cough*

Happy Birthday to our sengseng-O!

13 August 2012

Celebrated my baby brother's birthday last weekend with the family!  He just turned 21st 28th this year!!!

We went back Sakuraya Fish Mart for more freshess-ness!  Order more stuffs this time... more sashimi, hotate, saba, soba, udon, maki and more!  Popa and Moma liked the otopus alot and we had two portions.  Bill choked up to S$150 for 7pax.  I think the price is reasonable as the last round we had with the Goh's was about S$70-ish already!  Naise.  We will be back with the Yeo's the next round.  :)

After dinner, we sang birthday song and had cakes at Toby's the Dessert Asylum, located 2nd floor next to Nike store.  Service was not up to our standard (we very 'green-vege' liao, but the service level simply sucks... long story short, we propably won't be coming back!).  Had a lil' shopping before Papa-inlaw came to send us home (they were on the way back from Punggol, after transporting a over 10-year old antique microwave in baby blue!)  >_>"  LOL!

Happy 47th Birthday, Singapore!

09 August 2012

Loving Singapore, Our Home!

Happy National Day!

This year's National Day was celebrated differently from past years... because we are celebrating together as Mr & Mrs Arthur Tan... (haha, any/every event after 12 March 2012 is celebrated differently from the past years.  BLEH!).  Anyways, ah Thiang joined YEC this year so we get to participate events organized by the community centre (why we still no get to go watch NDP live at the floating platform?!?!) and he bought tickets to the National Day Observance Ceremony!

Had to wake up as early as 6am because the event starts at 7am!  Koaz, I don't even get to wake up as early as that on my workdays.  And I woke up late (that explained the latter...).  We took a cab down and when we got there, all the senior citizens were warming up for their Bishan East walk (and the caterers were just setting up the place!).  >_<"  We didn't had the energy to join them... and SMS-ed SimCik what time he is reaching so that we can go breakfast together!  MUAHAHAHA!  We had McDonalds.  BIG breakfast.  :)

After our breakfast (the Goh's were still preparing to leave the house!), we walked back to the event and we are in time for the flag raising ceremony after the guest-of-honour, Mr Wong Kan Seng's arrival.  I almost teared while singing of the national anthem.  Always felt so emo during this moment.  So touching and so glad that I am a Singaporean.  #iamsingaporean  wtf.  Reunited with the Goh's after the ceremony and we saw 吴家的第二个宝，Widyana (rare occassions that she was brought out of the house!).  ah Thiang was so happy 'bonding' with her.

We went brunch (the Goh's breakkie) at J8 and took a walk back to the house to chat... then suggested to go I12Katong to eat the lao bak sai Popiah and Laska.  But sadly when I woke up from my car-nap (fell asleep lah, woke up at 6am leh!), we landed in Parkway Parade for the lao bak sai Mee Rebus and later learnt that the foodcourt was going thru some renovation and the stall was no longer to be found!  Haiz, 赔了夫人 (popiah) 又择宾 (mee rebus)！Luckily we get to try another lao bak sai sashimi restaurant located at basement 1, inside a Japanese supermarket!  Bestest-ed, afforadable and freshest-est sashimi ever tasted.  So mouth-watering and the udon also yum yum!  ah Thiang bought a bottle of sake from the supermarket for tonight's gathering at my aunty's house and I bought bak kua and popcorns for the family too!

Cathing the NDP telecast live at aunty house with the family and again, almost teared while singing of the national anthem.  Cannot believe myself, I so 爱国！Majam only!  We ordered pizza hut which took them 90mins to deliver, luckily we have our bak kua and popcorns to tahan the hungry-ness.  And not forgetting the bottle of sake to toast the night of celebration.

Had an eventful day today and looking forward to this weekend as it is gona be another eventful, funfilled-ful and whatever-ful weekend; celebrating my baby bro's birthday and meeting up with the HXDA gang for a dim sum brunch (plus receiving red-bomb from the Quah's and propably pop-over to catch The Peak's view from his unit).

Simply cannot contain my upcoming weekend's excitement.  YAY!