Sunday, February 27, 2011

Dinner @ Swee Choon

Dinner on Saturday night was one full of surprises & the unexpected.
We left our house, planning to go Dempsey Hill for dinner @ Dome. We travelled along CTE and it was jam packed with cars, it took us half an hour to make a exit & when we did, Daddy realised he took a wrong turn. So somehow, we ended up near Aljunied area. As it was aleady slightly past 7pm, we decided to abandon our plans for Dempsey.
Since we were close to Geylang, we decided to go for the 'Dou Jiang' instead. We reached the place close to 745pm, by then, I was super hungry. We still had to queue up before we could get some seats. While queuing, the lady told us to order first. When we looked at the menu, no 'you tiao', only 'dou jiang' & the rest of the food items were mainly of the dim sum nature. No choice, we just ordered our food.
When the food came, to our surprise, it was really delicious. We had the feeling like we were im those HKG restaurants. Food was yummy.
L->R : Fried Doufu, Pancake with prok floss & omelette, Xiao Long Bao, Zha Jiang La Main & Carrot Cake
We ordered Century Egg porridge for Baby G. He loved his porridge, even told us one bowl was not enough. He demolished the entire bowl, although he didn't quite like the century egg itself. He slurped down to the last drop.
We finished everything we ordered and even 'ta bao' 3 portuguese egg tarts for next day's breakfast.



Our original plan was to go shopping after our dinner, but it was too late to drive down Orchard, so we went to the nearby City Square Mall to look for my pair of shoes that broke 2 weeks back. Finally found my pair of shoes @ Metro, woo hoo... only $18.90.. cheap cheap.

After all the 'walking', Daddy decided for some desserts which he & Baby G shared so lovingly....
San
Yummy!

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Chinese New Year - Year of the Rabbit

Reunion Dinner
We started our reunion dinner at Grandpa's & Ma-ma's house. We had our usual chicken curry & crab meat balls. Forgot to whip out the camera for this as I wasn't feeling too happy with Baby G for not wanting to join us at the table for the traditional dinner.

After Round 1, off we went for Round 2 at Ah-Gong's & Ah-Ma's place for the yearly steamboat affair. This time, it was Daddy who remembered to take out the camera for some shots.

Before our dinner commenced, we must have our 'Yu Sheng'.


We even brought a new set of PJs for Baby G to change into. He was pretty excited to wear the new 'sleeping 衣服'.


First Day of New Year
For the 1st day of new year, all of us looking forward to our ang pows.


Next, we went to the temple to pick Ah Ma up before going back to Ah-Ma's place to convene. Our first stop is Bright Hill temple to pay our respects to Baby G's great grandparents. This year was his first year visiting them as previously, Baby G was deemed too young to understand what was going on.


Next stop, another temple near Kembangan area where we break for some vegetarian beehoon.



Final stop was at Daddy's cousin's house. We would have steamboat, MJ session, watching shows & generally, a get-together of families.

San
Keeping all of Baby G's ang pows.... kekekeke