Saturday, September 10, 2016

saturday post

we had a birthday meal for xiaoyu in advance of her actual birthday (19 sept) because of the following reasons: 

1) darling's edd is on 14 sept and she will be in confinement for 1 month

2) huanyang and husband are going for their long overdue honeymoon, flying off to san francisco on 17 sept

3) xiaoyu has rehearsal on 19 sept

originally we wanted to eat at swensen, to trigger our childhood memories because when we were very young, our parents brought us to the swensen at changi airport for ice cream and we were all very happy. so when huanyang called to make reservations, swensen told her that they don't do reservations. 

so we are afraid of the unpredictable long queues during lunch hour, hence we opted for the safer route of going to a restaurant that allows us to make reservations. hence here we are at 福临门豆捞! 

when you go to fu lin men, you will naturally compare it with hai di lao. the quality of ingredients at both restaurants are about the same. the shiok part about fu lin men is that each person has ONE pot! and the manager takes pride in the soup stock they have, saying that the soup stock is broiled for dunno how many hours, and there is totally no MSG used in the soup stock, because the boss of fu lin men is the director of two hospitals in china and he advocates HEALTHY EATING. 


this was where we sat! :)



this 木耳 appetiser taste really good! 



because our total bill reached $280.00, the restaurant gave us complimentary 4 x abalone. each abalone cost $10! and when they knew the lunch was an early birthday celebration for xiaoyu, the chef cooked a bowl of 寿面 for her. what great service! 

xiaoyu's birthday cake is 2 x durian mooncakes from 818 durian trading company.