♥ Tuesday, December 27, 2011Hi again.Continuing with the october 2010 post, consisting of fine dining, miss lim's 21st bday, horsies running and other miscellaneous stuffs. The post is not that short, just a note. If you have not read the previous post(s), you can click on "OLDER POSTS" at the bottom of this page. Would be rushing out to finish the 2010 backlogged stuffs these few days, since it is nearly 2012 already zzz. So updates are more frequent these days. - The first day of october always happens to be children's day whee. Day out with the usual peeps.  Talking about wonton (or wanton or wantan) mee, there are generally three variants for it. Or probably calling them as two mutants might be more apt. The so-called original one is the hongkong/cantonese version. Then comes the malaysian version with dark sauce (as illustrated above - the pontian wonton mee cafe). And third version, there is this singapore version with ketchup sauce (oh wth). I have always eaten the cantonese variant since young. Some times i still get a shock of disappointment when i order wonton mee and uncle gives me the one with ketchup. Zzzzzz. I keep forgetting that most wonton mees sold locally drench the dense and non-springy starchy meekia in ketchup sauce, all because my childhood wonton mee morning stall at the hawker did not sell mee with ketchup. And maybe for the fact that my long-ago ancestors are from canton. Not like taste can be inherited anyway, boohoo. (Maybe it does? Not sure mm.) But why ketchup??? Who the heck invented such combo? LOLS this might upset many people who like the ketchup version.   So nice of us to neatly stack the dishes so they could have an easier time clearing our table when we leave. =D  Since we have never taken any neoprints together before, then why not? Lols i some times feel kinda strange if i'm taller than the people standing beside me. Because meiqi is already quite small sized, and my 10cm heels further fuelled my giantism-feel. -__- I don't quite agree when people deem neoprint as outdated, for kids or something. In my humble opinion, this is a cheaper alternative to studio photography for fun, joy and laughter (LOLS this isn't my own words, more like a quote from some lg).    Upon seeing it now, i then realise there's a rilakkuma bear up there, oh my... HAHAHAHAS. If you haven't spotted it yet, it's at the bottom-right image and the bear is located at the top-right corner of that image. Okie maybe it's not meant to be rilakkuma but simply a look-alike. But still... Or well, maybe it might be indeed a rilakkuma.  It's not common to find a swing nowadays.  So it made me really happy to sit on one, when lg said there's one near his neighbourhood.  No, wasn't doing a lame pose. Just wanted to brush off flying-hair from my face. And it turned out like this.  Sharing ice  Happened to wore similar outfits to class.  Lady boss bought marshmellow chocolate from australia for me, and it's quite huge in my opinion.  Met up with jasmine and had breads at provence for lunch.  So we reccee-d for some shops selling macarons and did some small-scale taste-test and market research, so we can decide on where to buy them next week. - Had to do fine dining restaurant case study for restaurant design project. You are expected to dine at one to see the workflow of the restaurant and stuffs. Honestly, this was rather monetary consuming. $$$ wth.  Quoc and yn were doing on french cuisine, while elisa and me were on italian. So we decided to visit both to have some light dishes.  This particular french restaurant in a shophouse had a open-concept kitchen that wasn't really nice to focus on. Especially you see people rushing in and out. The ambiance and service were not that pleasant too.    My dessert would take fifteen minutes to arrive or something. So we had to wait. After awhile, the waitress told us my souffle failed, and need more time to re-bake. Hahahahahahs. Actually we thought that it meant one thing: they took pride in their food to ensure any food served is up to standard. Mmm.  To be honest, if i were to tell you the name of this yn's dessert, i couldn't. It was more than a year ago. Probably lavender sorbet with something cream. Lols.  Quoc's dessert, i also couldn't remember anything about this. But the bottom liquid looks like caramel to me.  Mine, probably the name was: chocolate souffle with hazelnut-something ice cream and amaretto cream. Elisa joined us later so she did not order. You should understand that many (but not all) european fine dining food have really literal food names. Let's say an example. If, i mean really if, laksa was part of the menu, laksa could be named: thick rice vermicelli in spicy fragrance coconut gravy with beancurd puffs and cockles. (Of course not beehoon, taupok and hum if this dish is served somewhere else. Hahahahahs.)  Quoc sat right in front of the photographer, miss lim, so he naturally got the most pictures taken. Got a lot of more of him in my folder, so i only posted two. Ha ha. Also noticed that they did not use table cloth like most fine dining restaurants would. (The next restaurant did have table cloth which they need to change for every sitting though.) Strangely, the desserts were making us feeling full. Actually not really full, but too much of sweets that gave us decreased appetite for our next stop. Italian's next.  This is a great place with joyous yet relaxed ambiance and really-nice indian waiters in black shirts.  The complimentary bread came freshly baked hot and served with chopped black olives in olive oil. The bread is really yummm we all agreed. If i did not remember wrongly, there are some sun-dried roma tomatoes, herbs and nuts in the bread. Considered a foccacia i supposed.   The service and mood was warm and cosy, although we are concerned about the not-so-tidy service station located directly within my sight.  Yn's salad, again i can't tell you the name. We actually planned for desserts throughout, but we need a fresher taste on our palette. But hey, good news! I went to the website to look at the menu, the food did not change! Okie so this is: Mixed Salad - with crispy Parma Ham and balsamic dressing. Yayness. I remembered yn did not like the rocket leaves because rockets are always bitter.  Mine is: Rocket Lettuce Salad - with roasted pine, pears, pecorino cheese and white Balsamic honey dressing. Liked the nuts and refreshing pear, cheese was a little too salty but still pleasant.  And elisa's dish is: Wagyu Beef Carpaccio - with shaved 24 months old aged parmesan cheese, baby rocket and white truffle oil. Elisa was excited about wagyu, but she did not like raw beef. Quoc did not eat after feeling overkilled with the previous sweets so he had a cuppa coffee, although i think he might not like salad as well.  Actually, thou shall not use fork and knife for bread. But aiyah i lazy to wash hands mah.  Nearly closing time and they set up the place for the next day.   They do have nice outdoor seating, but we wanted somewhere more quiet so it would be easier to observe the workflow.  Elisa and miss teo.  On bus back. -  Yay bought a nicely textured panda sticker set.  Hence one of the pandas was stuck here. Jasmine and i made one frame each.    Fixing bday pressie over at jasmine's place. There were twenty-one items in total.  I do not understand why the fluctuation of malaysian watermelons' prices is so huge at our local supermarkets. Some times, a malaysian watermelon can cost $4+. I have also seen it at $3+ occasionally, while $1+ is the lowest i have seen. Is it the quality? Or seasonal stock issues? But if it's the quality, how is the layman, such as me and you, supposed to know which watermelon is how good since it is never stated at the label.  Another food for thought at the supermart. When i was young, i confused pork skin with fish maw because they look similar - i thought they were the same thing. Now that i am older, they still look similar to me! LOLS. Refer to the image above, one is fish maw while one is not. Don't they look alike?  The heart-shaped cactuses are cute, and probably you can try to customise it. I also like the mini garden on the right. Saw them at ntuc.  My buys from the pasar malam.  Front navigational page of my digital portfolio.  We bought macarons yay. But did not buy enough for a box. Ended up melty and cracky lols.   Completed with pink ribbon and small pink heart swarovski crystal, though no picture for that. - Miss lim's day.  Preparing for steamboat, our usual fare.  Miss kim teaches you how to handle a sotong. 1 - Pull off the head part and remove the backbone which looks like a long piece of transparent plastic. 2 - Lightly score the surface of the sotong's skin with one straight stroke down, then peel off the red skin (maybe not technically a skin, but you get my drift) to expose the white pretty flesh. 3 - Cut off tentacles from head for consumption, but throw away the head (eyes, ink sac and other slimy stuffs inside). Your preference to cut body into slices or rings.  Miss lim was pretty excited about handling raw sotong for the first time, as you can see.  Strange leg lols.  Brightly coloured food in the soup makes you cheery.  LOLS she loved to fill up the sotong's body with body, squeeze out the water like a sprouting merlion, fill up the body with water, squeeze out the water like a sprouting merlion and repeat these n times.  Diligently working in the kitchen.  Chef lim demonstrates her masterpiece, and it's a new dish named "knotty naughty tentacles" on the right.  Drinks for four.   =) Whenever there are pictures that are hard to comment, i just go =), lols or something. Ha ha.  It's nice that we slightly upgraded our table setting skills lols, look at the nicely placed cutlery!  Food for the night. After meal, we set up our surprise cake tower (although technically there was no cake).  I was a little disturb by the two hershey's kisses on my almond jelly. Well, they look kinda strange... If you get my drift, LOLS. And it's not a woman who placed it there. Ahah i'm just kidding, don't be upset.  Jasmine takes good photos, i like the bottom-right image.  Bday cake and pressie.  Very happy girl.   And by the way, did i forgot to mention our outfit is pre-arranged to be pink? Because miss lim likes pink.  Candle eaten up by flame.   She liked the bear-shaped marshmallows on the second storey.  Love the colour combo of food on the stand.  Small blackboard pegged on the cakestand. I wrote happy, jasmine wrote bday, the bf wrote yanni and she added on a heart figure after that.  Unwrapping gift.     Twenty-one items for the twenty-first.  With two frames made by us.   It was a very pinkish day.  End. =) -  I have many food-related charms on my pouch, including an addition of blueberry sundae from the 7-11's gachapon near those fine dining restaurants that day.  Whenever we're out to east coast for a beachy day, i would want to eat this shaved ice at marine parade. And it's almost always the lavender flavour. It's so pleasant tasting............... Really!  I can haz no beach images, but a bus stop of marine parade instead.  Met the photogenic eunos cat again! It's so pretty looking.  Meeeowwwrooo. Nice tail!  Large pupils and clean fur.  Bought microwavable popcorn from supermart just to try.  Into the microwave, it was flat.  Pek pek pak pak, then got bloaty.  Boomz! Popcorns ready. But honestly it wasn't crispy enough for my liking.  Added a slice of cheese in big prawn mee and some green olives too - desperate times when ingredients ran out. Not bad though, nom nom nom. - Wanted to see horsies, so kranji turf club  Done with simple aston dinner at food court.  Many uncles shouting for their meh meh. We did not gamble. I don't gamble one generally, maybe because i don't like to lose. LOLS kiasu.  Return to stable after race.  Better view of stable.  Had not eaten potong ice cream for years.  We are both horses. Well, in terms of zodiac.  Another round of runs.  Horses look good and they are charismatic, aren't they?  LOLS look, it's an aussie towel.  Like to nom this spiral potato stick from pasar malam, although i would prefer it if it costs lesser. Think this one in the picture has wasabi and cheese flavour, i think. Think.  Usual stuffs, although this is fourleaves cheapo brownie. But still able to make it nice. Nom-nom.  This project could be one of the most costly till date (not to mention fyp whereby we spent hundreds to print out huge posters and research booklet). Other than the requirement to dine in the restaurant, it was still needed to buy a set of cutlery for presentation of your proposed restaurant, wth. You mean you need to book a hotel room in order to propose designs for a suite? Thankfully it wasn't required in the previous hotel design project. Eh but almost, they DID strongly encourage students to share money and book a hotel room at reputable hotels, oh *$%&%^@#. Thankfully again, we were not required to buy suitable bedsheets, toiletbowls and basins for presentation of our proposed guestrooms. Back to the image. Love the plate rims with curved texture though. Used home's wine and water glasses, and a napkin from some daiso's cloth. Although honestly this isn't full set, but who cares.  All the leebons in the world, unite!  This zip bag is one of the best things i bought from daiso. =D Being able to fit in my laptop charging cable set, battery, mouse and phone transfer cable, it's way too great. Not to mention the durability of the canvas and cheerful polka dots. Ha ha ha.  Ikea breakfast, a favourite for us due to nice spread and affordability. =)  Last picture to go. Nice spread for instant noodles, yum yum. I mean, it's like you can't go wrong, when all the stuffs are your favourite ingredients yay. - Need to sleep. Sun is out. Be back soon for the next post. =) 11:59 pm
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