during this few years, 11.11 is more associated with the crazy sales, be it online shopping or shopping at physical stores. even retailers like singtel, m1, starhub, or travel insurance companies, or airline carriers, have their own 11.11 sale.
but anyway, i am still honoured to be born on this special day, and must really thank my parents for it. hahahahahaha.
i celebrated my birthday one week earlier with my family, because they will be in japan on 11.11. my younger sister ask me what kind of cake i want, so i told her i want matcha, and she bought a whole matcha crepe cake from lady M. thank you huanyang!!! the matcha crepe cake was really very nice!
and then on friday 9 nov, we did a staycation at village hotel katong. it was a promotion offer for teachers. 195 nett for one night, inclusive of breakfast, complimentary wifi and a late checkout on the next day at 4 pm.
yuanze loves staycation too! :)
i always love the katong area because it is the place where i spent at during the 4 years of my sec sch education. of course it has changed alot since then, and one of the new changes is this Birds of Paradise gelato shop, opened by a local, with very interesting flavours. i only first heard of it this year when my youngest sis brought me and yuanze there. she was so shocked when i told her i never heard of this place. and so this time i brought darling here, she bought 2 scoops, one is white chrysanthemum and the other one is hojicha, and she love it so much, and we bought a pint of white chrysanthemum to bring back home. hahahahaha.
on 11 nov we went to fukusen restaurant. it was a birthday lunch treat from darling. we chose the 7-course omakase at $150++.
we were very impressed by the quality of the food, and the sincerity of the service.
allow me to introduce the dishes.
1st course - appetiser. comes in 3 small servings. the 1st serving is codfish sperm!! omg!! i actually get to try it!! doesnt taste weird. taste very smooth. like egg white. darling said she will appreciate it even more if the staff did not tell her it is codfish sperm. hahahaha. 2nd serving is a tomato that is harvested in japan, together with honey truffle sauce. the tomato is so fresh and the sauce is so good, that i licked every single drop of the sauce. and the 3rd serving is fatty tuna, that also taste very fresh.
2nd course - home made miso soup with scallop. the home made miso really taste different from all the typica miso soups that i had tried in other japanese restaurants.
3rd course - sashimi platter. so fresh. so good.
4th course - tofu with century egg, fried flying fish, grilled octopus leg. tofu with century egg was very good. fried flying fish was mehhh. grilled octopus leg was normal.
5th course - grilled boston lobster with mentai and cheese. this was the WOW dish. we were so amazed when the staff brought out the two plates of lobster. i was like omg is this part of the omakase?
6th course - assorted sushi. sushi was also really very good. on top of the sushi there were different toppings. for example scallop with truffle (this was the best), salmon with uni, negi toro with foie gras, and the last one i cant remember.
7th course - dessert. the staff found out that it was my birthday so they did a special presentation of the dessert into a nice birthday platter. dessert was green tea ice cream, yuzu sherbet, water melon mochi, honey dew from japan that was really very juicy and sweet, probably it is those kind that you see in supermarket that cost 60 or 70 bucks for one small honeydew.
and when we finished the meal, it was raining heavily outside, and the staff escorted us to our car with an umbrella. so touched. so impressed.
thank you darling for the birthday treat!! love you!
on this deepavali public holiday, we went to gardens by the bay to check out the tsum tsum themed flower exhibition at flower dome. yuanze is a big fan of mickey mouse and so we decided to bring him there.
gardens by the bay open at 9 am and when we reach the carpark, there were already many cars. omg. luckily when we reach the flower dome, there were not too many visitors and we could walk around freely and take photos happily without feeling the stress that others behind were waiting.
yuanze really enjoyed himself alot. and here are the pics!
yuanze also likes lion alot. he knows how to imitate the sound of animals. for example when we tell him pig, he will say oink oink. tell him duck, he will say quack quack. tell him gong ji, he will say cu cu cooooo. tell him lion, he will say roarrrrrrrrr. tell him dinosaur, he will say roarrrrrrr. tell him papa, he will also say roarrrrr. because when i bathe together with him, when i apply my face with facial foam, i will leave the facial foam on my face and roarrrrr to him, and he will laugh very happily.
the 3 of us specially wore black and white theme. the mickey mouse tees that darling and yuanze are wearing are bought by me when i went to JB. i also bought one for myself, and i did not try it at the store, thinking that it could fit me. but when i got home and put it on, it was a bit too tight for me. -.-'''
brought along my captain america and ironman tsum tsum as well. :)
machiam influence sia. :D
SO COOL AND SO HANDSOME OMG.
after gardens by the bay, we went to Clinton Street Cafe at purvis street for lunch. it was also to celebrate darling's bff bday. luckily i made reservation. there were already people waiting outside the cafe when we reach. i like the food and the coffee here. especially the pancakes. very big serving, very soft and fluffy and tasty, and the caramel syrup and blueberries that go with it were so good. best pancakes i tasted in singapore.
if you ask me what is the best pancakes i tasted in my life, it is still the one at washington DC, a very small restaurant inside a hotel. tabard's inn, if i remember correctly. pancakes were much smaller than the one at clinton street, but the texture and the taste was really the top.
feel so happy to be able to go out and spend time with loved ones.
