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Mini Pizza (Pancake)Wednesday, July 30, 2008Before we head back to my in law's place on sunday, we stopped by the usual kopitiam for snack.... In fact, this is the first time I am trying this mini pizza pancake from the coffeeshop...  turned out to be super nice!!! i chose the cheese+mushroom+hotdog. yummy! - $2 Blk 442, Pasir Ris Dr 6, 24 Hrs Coffeeshop. You shld try it too! Giselle full monthWe were invited to Giselle's full month last sunday, old frens catching up.... =)  Im impressed with Pauline's stress relieve in the delivery room - PSP!! haha... she took only 3-4 hrs to push deliver bbGiselle! with no epidural! She becomes my insipiration too..... =) anybody wanna spare me one in Nov? mahjong game maybe? hee...  I like the colors. Labels: full month, quality time Ngee Fou Restaurant Ampang YTFTuesday, July 29, 2008Have you tried this before? I will be very honest, you can drive or walk past this shop and give it a total miss. No need to patronise it at all. I am serious. It is not my 1st time there, the other time, the quality of the food was still acceptable, this time we were back there becos i was at sembawang....but it was a mistake.  for a 2 person portion, this cost $9.40. The gravy was gluey, super duper gluey. fried tao-kee was super salty.  And I was stupid to order the dumpling soup when the lady ask me if i want. have you taken dumpling skin with a 2mm fillings inside, they call it shui-kao, i call it tissue paper with mucus. yucks. very awful. They must have cooked the soup with alot of ajinomoto too. I was asking for water for a few hours after this meal.  We had their chicken rice, which, ok, i think is mediocre. some quality u can get anywhere.  was it me? or was the food really awful? the taste bud changed becos i am pregnant? maybe u can go find out urself. But dun say I didnt warn you. (I know its a famous place for ampang ytf.....but....WTH, I dunno how some pple can swallow this and still say 'quite nice la') Labels: awful food, chicken rice, dumplings, ytf Macarons for his birthdayMany many years ago, we had this in Paris, back here, I havent really seen a bakery that sells them. But then again, maybe I havent been hitting the right place... Recently, it looked like it had gain some popularity here, I have seen some places selling it as speciality already! This time, I got it from a home-baker. The collection was pretty far, at sembawang. I kept livingstone in suspense as we drove to the 'collection point.  He was quite surprise that we had to travel the distance to collect the macarons, but as he put it into his mouth, he tell me its worth it. haha....  I bought 3 flavours: 1) Mangue - mango macarons with mango puree cream 2) Cafe noisette - hazelnut coffee macarons with hazelnut espresso cream 3) Lychee rose - rose macarons with juicy lychee bits rose petal scented cream, finished with a sprinkle of ground rose petals  we finished 4 within minutes after collection, right in the car! It was yummy! but damn expensive...  the remaining 16 pcs were packed in seperate boxes of 8 like the one above...  love the colors..... Labels: Birthday, dessert, livingstone, macarons A home cook dinner for herMonday, July 28, 2008She always complain that I cooked for others, but not her. I rem ok! So, I volunteered to JUST DO IT on that day.... Menu: 1) coris seafood fried udon 2) boil brocoli + carrot with japanese mayo 3) coris baked chicken wings / drumlets 4) coris oreo cheese cake 5) almond longan 6) coris peach cooler The prep work starts as early as 11am on my own! I had to go to NTUC, Shop and Save and Cold Storage in the morning to get ALL the ingredients! haha...  cheesecake done! I was so happy, cos it didnt crack this time! yippee!!     She suddenly came up with this plot, kinda looked scary ya! haha....  It felt like donkey years since I last baked the oreo cheesecake. I personally had cravings for it, which explained why the last min baked. This time I used the water bath method, and it saved the cake for being disfigured! haha... and I also used digestive biscuit as the crust this time round cos I rem someone told me that oreo crust tasted too oreo....the verdict? livingstone and I preferred the oreo crust! =)  the ingredients for home made cheesecake is getting much more expensive.... arghhhh.... Labels: dessert, Dinner, home cooked food, quality time Big Ben + Eddie's dayThe group had talked abt it and agreed that after the big-bang-b'day-celeb we had last year, we are not gonna celebrate any birthdays among us this yr. heh heh... every year also want surprises, the organizer very xiongz....=D Anyway, the 4 of us met up for dinner at Big Ben the other nite, but we go dutch, so as to be fair, though its eddie's b'day the next day.... =)  he was wearing the jersey we bought him last yr.  Eddie and I ordered the beef stew. the standard was different from the last time I was there....this time wasn't tat good.....  livingstone had the signature dish - chicken chop in wine sauce. I can't try cos i can't take alcohol. but it smells good!  calamarie rings...  dennis who came late....  men's talk.  dennis ordered the chicken chop in garlic sauce.....soooooo garlic!  with his order of classic cheesecake....  very creative, it's the shape of a heart.....  forget abt ordering the in-house dessert if u happen to go there next time....they were quite awful. this is waffle ice-cream....  and this...brownie with whipped cream, with vanilla ice-cream.....yucks.....very sweet..  i will only go back for their main course...... Labels: big ben, Birthday, dessert, Dinner, quality time The renovated Barks CafeMet up with daniel and tricia at Barks Cafe last week.  And i didnt know they revamped the furnishings! Nice! Labels: barks cafe, quality time Gift from Aunty NicoleThursday, July 24, 2008"Innocent ar!!!!" Missy Nicole ask I dun like the bb rompers issit, how come never post on my blog? "Innocent ar!!!!" it was bundled nicely with the ribbon, so I procrastinated with this entry of appreciation. *Dunno-how-to-tie-back-la" hur hur hur...  When she was back from the states the other time, she bought our bb 3 rompers from Gerber. So cute wor!! =) Dinner at Simon's hseWednesday, July 23, 2008after checking out of ritz, we proceeded to simon's hse for dinner gathering. VERY INTERESTING, 3 couples - 3 pregnant woman. =) with Joanne suppose to be due on the 28th july, which is 1 wk away.  the host, simon and wife prepared the dishes for the nite all by themselves! bravo!  the menu: 1) Simon's FIL recipe : cold dish - egg and century egg (and dunno wat else) NICE!  2) Green vege  3) Chicken Stew - Nice  4) Stir fried cucumber + green pepper + green chilli + prawn - Nice  5) Bean paste japanese sea bass - nice  6) presenting the special rice - white rice + wheat rice + dunno wat rice = NICE!  before we tucked in, im happily listening to experiences of our fellow preg frens!  we brought dessert, chocolate banana cake from awfully chocolate!  yummy! we like! not as sweet as i tot it to be. soft and moist. awesome.  lawrence and joanne brought fruits!  so, it was cakes, coffee, tea, fruits while chatting away....  we started our dinner at 6pm, and we chatted the nite away till 11pm, before we call it a nite, here's a picture of the 3 tummies, or rather, our three babies! =) guess who is who? hur hur hur  viola!  and as i published this blog, joanne had already given birth to baby Andre last morning. =) Congratulations!!! we shall be hearing more experiences!!! Labels: home cooked food, house warming, pregnancy Before we check out....Tuesday, July 22, 2008I slept and didnt even wake up for my routine 'bowel clearance' in the wee hours.... =) Livingstone woke up at 6.45am, and started taking pictures of CBD in the early hrs...  then he went back to sleep.  then my turn to take random shots... =p  this is the view from the bathroom if u soak urself in the tub. awesome!  there he was, enjoying in the hot tub....  I forgot to mention that we were upgraded to the club level at 28th floor (the highest is 31st storey) when we check in due to some mistake on the hotel mgmt's end. And the toilet essentials are all from Bvlgari.  Besides that, there aren't other differences from a normal level deluxe room. Labels: cbd, quality time, random shots, ritz carlton |
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