Of Birthday, Cheer Chen and Hot pot Culture

Ok~ Its now April 29th... nearly May and I am still blogging about my birthday in Mar (lolx~~~!)

These photos been uploaded since Mar and I haven't touched on them... thats the 魅力of 康熙来了which I've been chasing and watching. They made my day, making me laugh at 小S's actions and jokes though at the expense of other artistes.

My computer 复活了~~~!!! Yeah! Thanks to Ixpert Solution at Sim Lim (ok~ he's Yif's husband- Jeff) my computer revived and will continue to be under my violent use. However, my vista cannot be downgraded (upgraded in my point of view) due to its version. (Shucks~) But the auto update was turned off and I vowed to back up each and every one of my Cheer Chen's photos and music files.

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Birthday cakes .. from my Dar at 12am of 6th Mar and of course the yearly ritual bouquet of Sunflowers to make my day ;D 

Been tired from travelling to/from work and work itself. Arrived at home about 11 + and was damn happy to see the flowers and Dar of course~

Thanks Dar, despite his embarressment in buying flowers (though I don't understand why) he managed to get a bouquet for me.

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Mar 8 Cheer Chen's 签唱会

Was at Bugis Mrt station waiting for Claire when

Claire called and spoke in a secretive whisper ... '.... 买porn.... "

and I was like "HUH??? *whisper* porn?"

Claire: ".... porn ... porn.... PORN..."

and I was like "..."

Claire: "Ok~ stay put! I'll come and look for you"

the moment she reached, she walked past me right into the 7-Eleven look for ..... "STORM" the brand of sweets that will make us entitled to sign up as one of the 30 lucky ones to get priority positions at the 签唱会and of course the first 30 persons to go up on stage for her signature and handshakes... and ALSO, lucky draws with chances to win a pair of her concert tickets~~

(which Claire won!!!) *oops too much information?*

She is not very popular in Singapore though. As alot of people actually goes for more commercialized songs and actually found her voice to be too 猫 (as in not stingy but sounds too sharp). Since tastes in songs depends on each individual, it doesn't mean I don't like "house" so "house" is bad so as long as I love her songs, I don't really bother so much.

No photographs of her though since Liyi mentioned for us not to take photos and videos and I would really like to hear her sing live.

This will be the first time I bought such expensive tickets for concerts and I am really looking very very very forward to her concert which was themed on her new album "The Sun". Very seldom can you get such good song writers who write on non-commercialised songs for interest. Though her vocals may not be very good but her non-chalent way of insisting on singing according to what/how she wants really appealed to me.

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Hotpot Culture ... forgot which day we went there... but we had a colleague who is a super duper steamboat friend .. normally our conversation will be like thie :

Me: "WS, want to go KTV today?"

WS: "I can't my mum cooked"

Me + Claire: "Then maybe we go steam boat dinner ba"

WS:"Ok~ I'll call my mum and ask her not to cook mine"

Me + Claire : *flat faced*

Lolx~ So here's our trip to the Hotpot culture.

Even though it was a weekday but the place was quite packed. We were urshered to a small corner of the place and the person took our order. There were cooked food to be chose from together with raw food and also the raw food counter for the steamboat.

Many of the cooked food were Malay or Indonesian style with things like Tauhu Goreng, Tauhu Telu, Sambal prawns, Sambal Kangkong and many of them were spicy.

Drinks not included, not even plain water and the most peeved was of course Claire. I went again recently and found the lime juice to be quite delicious though expensive.

And oops I accidentally delete the photo showing the variety of food stuffs they had. So too bad. Please do look at it at Yebber though.

I would say this place is quite valued for money. Having the large variety of food to choose from, the dark chocolate fondue (YUM~~) after the steamboat dinner was a plus point though the variety of fruits and ingredients to go with the fondue was limited and the ice-cream tasted bad. Would have liked the soup to be less salty so that we can eat more things without feeling 腻though. In yebber, I also mentioned that the fuel for the personal steamboat smells too strong and greatly reduced my appetite. I went back like 3 days ago and gladly noted that they had changed the fuel type and although the strength of the fire could not be adjusted, the vomit-inducing smell of fuel was gone. A restaurant that is willing to take the views of customers and review it will go a long way. For people who love steamboat or is looking for a cosy place for family dinner or outing, this place is good though  I would say reservations recommended for big groups since they do have limited spaces for big groups.

Btw, I've just joined as a member where there will be refills of drinks for Ala Carte buffet, birthday treats and entitlement to other discounts, special promotions. You can refer to their website.

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Mar 28 Foster's

For celebration of Phil and my birthdays. 

2 special cakes especially customized for us at Breadtalk - The Icing Room, a specialty cake shop being new addition to the breadtalk line.

Dar always don't look too happy talking photos with me yeah?

Coming up next will be Cheer Chen's concert.

Lawry's The Prime Rib

Be amazed with the superior service provided by the staff. Lawry's signature dish, Roasted Prime Ribs of Beef, is craved and served specially from Lawry's silver carts. These carts are wheeled to diner's tables, giving them the opportunity to choose their preferred cuts, from rare to as well done as they'd like. Absolute freedom. Waiters' uniforms are designed such that diners feel like they are in a ritzy club.

Lawry's The Prime Rib Singapore Pte Ltd
#02-42/44 Paragon, 290 Orchard Road.
Singapore 238859

http://lawrys.com.sg/

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Bak Baker Bakerzin~ Gi Gir Giraffe

Woo Hoot~ its the 301st post and 1 week of non-blogging. Lolx~ No I'm not sick of blogging just that I've been too tired (and LAZY) to blog.


Had a whole Sat of activity. Spent the first part of it at choir and receiving my new phone SE 760i
which I had the customer service at Starhub searched and checked high and low for the stock for "fancy red" in the end the red doesn't fancy me and there wasn't any stock. I chose the "rocky silver" phone instead. The route to receiving this phone was rocky too as the customer service person had to call me numerous times and dragged 2 weeks before I finally relent to giving up the red phone. Not that I love red but this model looks better in red. A thumbs up for Jiawei, the customer service person who served me. Real patient and polite~!



2nd part of the day was
1) KTV where we recorded a horrendous version of Stephanie Sun's 第一天

2)Dinner at Bakerzin at Paragon.



Mushroom and steak sandwich. The mushroom looked a bit erm.... wormy but the sauce for the mushroom was flavorful and real tasty though the cut of the steak was not so good though the crispy bread was totally awesome.



Chicken dumpling soup. Though it doesn't taste really that nice but it was the best among the soups that we ordered that day. Soup made of Cordyceps (I guessed) and other herbs together with dumplings with chicken meat filing. Chicken meat was plain in flavor together with the soup that was also plain in flavor summarizes into ... oh well, you got the idea. Its a tad ex too... being $5++ for a small bowl with 2 dumplings.


Pasta dishes were nice and rated higher than average in comparison to those I've eaten. But there's nothing special worthed a mention cept that the amount of garlic in their cream-sauce types of pasta was a huge heap.




Flaky pizza. Husband commented that the crust of the pizza taste and feels like curry puff skin. (Thats why its called flaky pizza ba) He didn't like the pizza's crust but finds the filing very nice. I didn't had a taste of it but it seems like the dressing of the salad was great enough to make my husband eat the greens though he hates to eat vegetables.




Desserts were the best of the lot. We were having a headache trying to choose what to order.




I would recommend this to people but provided you like the combination of dark chocolate and orange. The portion was big though compared to its creme brulee etc but one can gag from eating so much dark chocolate cake at once. The orange slice and vanilla ice cream seems to be there to lessen this effect. I was oohhing and ahhing when I ate this and they wanted to box me in the head. Lolx....



As per usual, after dinner was lim jiu time~! We are not like Foxxy and gang as we usually go to pub for small drinks and the atmosphere. Partly cos we are all poor but wants to enjoy too. Went to Giraffe this time round~~


First time I've been there and we walked from Paragon to Plaza Sing. I've heard about Giraffe and read its review so I was rather interested in going there for drinks. The atmosphere down stairs was very good though we pampered kids prefer sitting indoors as we were sweating ourselves silly and there weren't any seats down stairs.


The deco upstairs disappointed me though. It looks like a wilderness wannabe that failed.
Especially the uniform of the service crew there. The top was still fine but the pants made me think that they wore sleeping clothes to work. Untidy was the word.


Ordered Chamomile tea, San Miguel and grape Cosmopolitan. At first the San Miguel tasted like a plainer Tiger (That's not their fault). Then dirty cups and plates were used for Dephil's Chamomile Tea changed quickly on request. No honey was served with the tea too though available on request. I was rather happy with my Grape Cosmo. Prices seems to be lower than other pubs with an extensive menu to choose from.


It closes rather early too. The counter closes at 1am and the area upstairs closes at 1230am. I do hope it can close later especially on a Saturday night which we usually will go to a late night cafe/pub and sit there to talk/eat/drink.

Tango's

Ok ok I know the photos are not a Wow but hey! they are considered good when I have to pretend that I am not taking photos while aiming at the object with my not-so-good Nokia phone camera.

Anyway, Tango's at Holland V. We went there after eating at Coffee Club (Yes, there's still space in there). Oh man~ this place is a HOT house. Not hot as in popular but hot as in not cool, warm, hot and sweating. I think this is due to its open concept (Look ma~ No doors~!) but yet used a lot of yellow lighting. By the end of the night, I'm uncomfortable not because of tiredness but because its too warm.


This place has got impressive menu though and it took us some time to decide what we wanted.

Dar ordered the half Chix and according to him, its value for money and definitely great tasting. I had a piece of the Chix too and indeed, the skin is crispy while meat is tender not to mention the size of the portion given. Grilled squid took a long time to cook and came out Cao4 Ta1 and oily.


We ordered Margarita, Tropical Paradise (Martini) which took damn long to come and Erdinger. Can't really say anything good about them which I think its mostly because the heat there made the iced drinks warm fast. Cold drinks soon became room temperature and doesn't taste as nice as should be.


We should have stay at the outside seats which seems to be cooler. No wonder there wasn't much people sitting inside when we went there.

Kung Fu Panda ~~~ Heeeeee Ya~!

Was like damn sian at work that day and so Phil asked so shall we do something, go somewhere since I'm so sian. So we came out with going to watch a movie = Kung Fu Panda in fact its a long delayed trip. As the last time we tried, we ended up in the KTV.

So went down to Plaza Sing squashed in a world class transport with people from around the world and smelly armpits.

Dar says : "We are on the 5th floor at the Comics Connection." So I reached and saw . . . "Spotlight" and 3 shadowy people standing on the 6th floor Comics Connection. At that time I did a hand signal .. arh arh~ not the obscene kind. *tsk tsk*

Ate at Secret Recipe as we had wonderful experience with the food at Secret Recipe Malaysia. We are definitely and absolutely stupid to think that if the quality of food is the same at the Singapore branch.

My chicken Cordon Bleu looked like (all 4 opinions) : Sweet potato deep fried and there's hardly any cheese in it, just a bunch of ham and chicken a bit of cheese here and there. Compared to the time at KL that I've eaten, where the cheese will flow out when we cut the chicken. Dry texture and not much taste. This dish certainly failed.

My husband ordered Black Pepper Chicken chop with rice and my husband's comments were:"not bad but besides that nothing to say."

Besides that, we were told that plain water is at the cost of $0.50 and since we couldn't find anything we liked in the menu, we decided to get plain water instead. When it came, we were speechless as the so called plain water is just bottled cold distilled water. Its not even the 500ml types but the 300ml type that was just sufficient to fill a cup. The meaning behind the bottled water was that it cannot be refilled. So There~!

Since a main dish cannot really fill my husband's stomach, he decided to order the cakes. As Secret Recipe was well known for having its cake menu half unavailable, we raised our hands to ask the service crew what were available. As expected, none of the crews came over. Nor did they look around or walk around but just hover at the payment counter. That happened when we raised our hands to order our food too.

However, a read up on the reviews will show that there were many positive reviews on the cakes they served. Its too bad that the service crew made us turned off otherwise we would have ordered the cakes and my review of it won't be too bad.

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Kung Fu Panda



We walked around Plaza Sing till it was nearly time for the movie before walking to The Cathay. Right at the door, I saw someone in bright orange T-Shirt looking suspiciously~ like Mr Brown. Whom noticed me looking suspiciously at him~

Timing was right and we didn't have to be bombarded by numerous advertisements before we can watch the show we paid for.

Sitting down, there weren't too much people there and luckily not too much children around as we all know its a bit irritating to watch movies with children around.

The movie had us laughing all the way through though the movie wasn't exactly that funny. It seems funnier when my friends are around.

The movie was about a Panda who dreams of becoming a Kung Fu Master but in actual fact, he was just the adopted son of the Noodle Shop's Goose boss. Things happened and the Jade Palace begin looking for the legendary Dragon Warrior to help them in their adverse situation. Ping Peng Piang~ and the Panda (PO) was chosen as the Dragon Warrior much to the disgust of the Shifu and the Furious Five (FF) (argh~~~!). Po was rather dejected as he didn't believe he was and will be the dragon warrior and being disliked by his idols (The FF).



Po was encouraged by Master Oogway who later passed away due to old age. Shifu had no choice but to depend on Po. He discovered Po's hidden talent while Po was stealing food and launch a special training just for Po.

When finally Po managed to obtain the Dragon Scroll, he discovered a secret that led him to defeat the evil presence that threatened the Jade Palace.

Main aim of the movie was the message : "Believe in yourself and you can do it" kind of thing. Healthy and funny show for all ages to watch. Voiced by many big shots like Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan and Lucy Liu.



I like the Tigress (one of FFs) voiced by Angelina Jolie. Beautiful character and the one which was short changed as she was the strongest of the FF, the one who stayed by Shifu the longest and would have been chosen to be the Dragon Warrior. Even though she wasn't chosen, she still stood by faithfully.

However, the tone of voice, the facial expression of the characters and also the MO of the story reminded me of Shrek. I don't know for sure but the show gave me the feeling that perhaps the production cast overlapped, causing the similarities. This should be taken note of as if the next cartoon is similar again, it will cause a deja vu feeling and will not raise the interest of audiences.

I also don't like the Chinese subtitles as some of the puns were supposed to be funny but as I am able to understand the English spoken as well as the Chinese subtitles, the subtitles gave the game away and I won't find the puns as funny. However this is inevitable as no matter what the movie needs to cater to those who rely on the subtitles.

Cooking~!

I never used to cook before getting married. My mum is the type of person who believes she is the sole proprietor, the queen of the kitchen. She never allows us to use her kitchen and always lurks around to scrutinize us whenever we use her kitchen even to make salads for group outings. She will always rewash the food processors that we used and washed.

After getting married, cooking becomes part of my life. Cooking is easy. But cooking food that tastes nice is difficult. Especially when every thing, every step you use to process the food ingredients can affect the taste of the final product. I used to read comics on cooking. Those Japanese comics like Curry Addict and Cooking Master Boy often had me mesmerized with the way they process the food stuffs.

Both my husband and I work. Sometimes it’s very tiring to rush home to prepare the ingredients for cooking. Neither can I be like the cooks in the comics, prepare the dishes within a short time using minimal help. That’s where food Processors come into the picture. Although many may say that modern technology will not produce nice taste but that can be changed when you use suitable food Processors for the different ingredients like sauces, mincing meat etc.

I plan to buy a mini mincer. So that I don't have to spend too much time on chopping onions and garlic which I use a lot in my cooking. We can also have more variety of dishes like minced meat balls as compared to now.

Hanabi @ Bukit Timah

Hanabi Restaurant, situated at Bukit Timah Road King's Arcade. We went to this place on Sat for dinner. Read on Yebber's review that there will be a lot of people there so we decided to reserve a table for 3.


When we sat down, the waiter came over and ask us what drinks we want to order when we haven't even open our menu. Turned out its our fault as the buffet comes with complimentary hot or cold Ocha. So we ordered our drinks and sat to look through the menu.


Service was fast and polite. So fast that the moment some one saw my husband took up the menu, he came over and ask us whether we need to order. Not that this was bad. Service crew polite, food served fast and empty plates cleared fast.


Sashimi - I don't eat raw food as I find biting into raw meat very "恐怖“. But even to people like me, the sashimi looks absolutely fresh and portions given were generously large. My friends who ate this said the meat were succulent and fresh but they ought to put the pieces on cooler or ice to keep the taste there. 2nd portion of the Sashimi ordered were not as nice though. Freshness was still there just that the cuts were not that good. Fish scales can be found.


Tempura - Not that great though served piping hot. We ordered Yasai Tempura and I felt that the vegetables were cooked too throughly and lost their texture. Unagi tempura was not bad with the tempura coating crispy and the Unagi itself soft and sweet.


Grilled items - Definitely pre-cooked and re-warmed. Items came out warm and some were cold. Looks dry and uninviting. Grilled items were not too good which can be understood as grilled items take longer to cook. To serve fast, they must be pre-cooked.


Others - We definitely loved the Chiizu Chawanmushi. Though except for a piece of mushroom, there were no other ingredients inside, it was surprising that cheese and eggs blended well together. Not to mention the chewy pieces of cheese at the bottom of the cup.


We also ordered Goma ice-cream (Black Sesame) and Yuzu ice-cream (Jap Lemon?) and Chocolate ice-cream. Both Goma and Yuzu taste heavenly. Especially the Yuzu which is a sorbet ice-cream. Different from other sorbet ice-cream was that it wasn't too watery hence doesn't melt too fast. Pieces of fruits inside the ice-cream and its thick texture makes this item absolutely worthed its price of $4 (per scope)


Total bill for the buffet was $124. Definitely worthed the price but not to be eaten too often or it will burn a hole in the pocket~

Disney Naturally~

Alone again (Naturally) by Gilbert O'Sullivan

A song that touched my heart . .

I first got to know this song while watching 相聚一刻 or Maison Ikkoku a comic by 高橋留美子 (Rumiko Takahshi) . This 28 year old comic/anime was about a pre-U man 五代裕作 (Yusaku Godai) without a goal or aim in life and keep failing his exam for a University place. He moved into Ikkoku Condominium or 一刻馆 to prepare for his exam and ended up falling in love with the Condominium Manager 音無響子(Kyoko Otanashi). The comic was not just a normal love story but rather one about choosing one's life goal, the difficulty of getting into University and getting a job as well as traditional thinkings that prevented the lovers from getting together. (Yusaku was 4 years younger than Kyoko and Kyoko was a widow) No doubt this comic's graphics were simple and a bit outdated, its still one of my favorite besides 神劍闖江湖 (Samurai X). I've read this set of comics 3 times and watched the anime a few times.

Recommended!!

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So what has this got to do with the title of the post? Well, that song was the first to came to my mind when I received an email for this restaurant - - Disney Naturally

Situated a 370 Alexandra Road Anchorpoint, this restaurant became an instant hit. So when we decided to visit this restaurant after choir, we couldn't find a seat and had to wait for 10 mins at 3pm in the afternoon!! Ok, so since there are so many people patronizing this restaurant, we decided to wait.




When finally we got our seats, we ordered : Chocolate milk, Pineapple/Mango, Strawberry smoothies named after Disney Princesses, Macaroni and cheese spaghetti and Tomato Pasta.


Chocolate milk was alright. But still, its just normal chocolate milk that HL can do better.


Pasta, looks like a big portion. Then again, the size of the dish was small. Sure to say this portion wasn't big enough for my husband. He finished it in 4 mouthfuls and had to add that much cheese to get a flavor out of it.




Macaroni and Cheese ... looks nice but doesn't taste as nice. Too watery and lacking in flavor. Except for macaroni and watery cheese, other ingredients were few. This dish will taste nicer if the amount of ham and pineapple increase.


Menu was limited too~ with only 3 kinds of spaghetti/pasta (one was the pasta of the day). Some kinds of burgers, pizzas and drinks.

Smoothies were what we found tasty there. Interesting blend of fruits such as Mango and Pineapple, healthy and refreshing. Though they can be improved on by crushing the ice to smaller pieces cause as we took our drinks, we found some ice "cubes" at the bottom.





Pizzas were in the shaped of a Mickey's head. Some may find it cute but I just found it unnerving to eat up a Mickey's head. At the cost of $15.90, I don't find it worth the value as the taste of the pizza wasn't that great. Crust too dry and the tomato sauce on it made the pizza salty.


On the whole, I won't recommend this place unless you have a Disney-crazy kid. 3 of us spent a total of $63+ and ended with a half full, unsatisfied stomach. Disney Naturally has got good customer service though, the staffs being polite throughout.

However, it should change its ordering system. There were 2 counters there, one at the food area and another where they sell Disney merchandises. We were ushered to the payment counter at the Merchandise area to place order and pay for the food. However, we had to wait for very long as there were people paying for some toys in front of us. Seeing that the queue was slow, the man behind us went to the counter at the food area and placed his order. So in the first place, why were we ushered to the merchandise counter??

I would say I will not step into that place again though its good that they serve healthy meals and have hand washing areas to teach the kids to be healthy and good. But as an adult, I don't really appreciate the cute deco, small seats and confusing system.

Spagetti Too . . and Swensen's Gelato

Had our Sounds Easy choir practice today and thats 3 days in a row... not that I minded but we played Wii yesterday till 5am (5am~~!) ... ok well, not me but the other 3 people, I fell asleep at 2am... People say older people needed less sleep but as I got older, I seem to be needing more and more sleep


Feeling quite lethargic and that showed out in our singing, tired and flat voices *sweatz*. June of course noticed it and hence we were banned from playing Wii until the end of the June 14th performance ... (ok? Jianfa. . . )


A few days in the row and we ran out of ideas of where to eat for lunch... since we were discussing about food and desserts (at Yebber review) during rests in the practice, I suggested going to Spaghetti Too which received a rather good review from Rinaz...

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Situated in a corner of IMM amongst those small stalls of tidbits like Taiwan Shilin Snacks and Sweet Talk, we had to search for the place and its not that easy to find without knowing the unit number.


Sitting down, the place looked quite clean and well-organized. Menu was clear and well designed. The system of ordering food was similar to Pasta Mania, you have to go to the counter to order the food.

While we were looking at the menu, the waitress came over on her own initiative and explain to us that there are some items of the menu that were not available. Polite, friendly, fast and have initiative. Thats good service attitude! ;D So we were not very concern about items being not available.


We chose our food and Dar went to order. Negative point was, no Nets payment available, we had to pay by cash. Thats alright since we do have cash on hand however, signs should be put up at the tables regarding this as some people don't like to bring a lot of cash with them.


While waiting, we were distracted by the chinese restaurant beside Spaghetti Too as the chef there was making something using dough and he was preparing the dough, making a lot of noises in the process.

Dar's Beef Pie came first with the drinks. Too much butter used on the outer crust, hence the taste was overpowering. The pie was more suitable for people who likes strong taste. For me, the beef was way way too salty....

Next came the Garlic Bread with Cheese and this will be what I highly recommend to people. Bread crust being baked to absolute crispiness while the center portion was soft. Cheese added to the chewiness at just the right amount. Not too cheesy or salty. Best eaten hot however, as the texture changes when left cold.

Next came the main courses, Dar and I ordered the Sirloin Steak promotion meal at S$7.90 including a drink. After the delicious garlic bread, we had high expectation of the upcoming meals. However, we were quite disappointed. Although the beef was cooked at medium well done and very tender to eat, the taste of the beef was covered by the sauce. Sauce was too much and too salty. Vegetables were average though a bit overcooked while the mashed potato was not smooth enough. On the whole, the dish can be said to be a bit above average. I will give around 7/10 as taste can be quite subjective depending on the person eating.

Claire ordered Grilled Salmon hot plate Spaghetti. Dish was below average with the salmon being not fresh enough and Spaghetti overcooked. As Claire put it : "I can only taste tomatoes in it with one clump of spaghetti..."

Ordered some desserts as well. Brownie, ordered by Dar, was too sweet and had to be eaten together with the ice-cream to taste nice. Portion was real big comparative to its price of S$2.50.

Claire ordered the Apple Cobbler . Like the brownie, it tasted good when eaten together with the ice-cream, otherwise, its just a sweet dessert. Perhaps thats why they were served with the ice-cream placed on top? It would be better if the Apple Cobbler was packed more tightly as it was practically crumbling apart while we ate it.

Best dessert of the day and highly recommended by me will be the Italian Chocolate cake. Warmed and served with ice-cream by the side, the texture was thick and I expected it to be too sweet. However, as I put it into my mouth, the cake was chewy, full of "chocoty" flavor and not too sweet. Tasted great with or without ice-cream.

Altogether, we ordered 2 Sirloin Steak promo meals, 1 Salmon Spaghetti Promo meal, 2 portions Garlic bread, 1 Beef pie, 2 extra drinks and 3 desserts and we spent $39.80! No doubt the main courses were not that great but they were above average. Side dishes, desserts as well as the service quality were of satisfactory level. Hence conclusion, Value for Money!

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Back track to Saturday, we met up with my parents-in-law for a dinner at Foster's at Holland Village. After dinner while strolling to go home, we came across the newly opened Swensen's Gelato Parlor. Having some vouchers gotten when we went to eat at Swensen's, we decided to get some ice-cream for the Wii session on Sunday.


Deco at the Parlor like typical ice-cream specialty shops like Gelare, Andersen's and Scoopz. When we went in, the manager explained to us their system for take aways. Take aways come in tubs of 500ml (2 flavors @ $9.30) and 1000ml (3 flavors @$16.30). We decided to get a tub 500ml and a tub 1000ml while my parents-in-law got themselves small cups of ice-cream (free since we have got vouchers but the original price was $3.30).


Service quality of the Parlor was very good, polite, friendly and not stingy on the portion of ice-cream even for the free cups my parents received. I will give 9/10 for them. Insulating job for the ice-cream tubs were well done too, using foiled paper bags and scotch tapes to secure the tubs.



Altogether, we bought Mango, Hazelnut, Passionfruit, Super Lemon and Soursop flavors and I must say, the selection available was quite limited. Other flavors we did not buy were Green tea, Blueberry, Durian, Raspberry and Pistachio. 2 other flavors I forgot however, it would be better if the variety increase.



The ice-cream flavors on the average, were on the sweet side with little fruits in them. Flavor weren't as full as I'll like them. Scoopz still remained as my favorite brand of ice-cream. Better flavors of the 5 we bought were Mango and Soursop but mostly because both fruits produce fuller flavor though I don't like the after taste of the the Mango.