Buffet at Cafe Brio's

Took advantage of the 1-for-1 promotion by UOB to enjoy the buffet lunch at Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel.


Total bill came up to $42.12 for 2 persons. And this is my 2nd visit since Oct.


The food were exquisite and nicely presented but i was too shy to take more pictures.

Just to name some which i particularly enjoyed today would be the steam prawns, fresh oysters, salmon sashimi, wanton noodle, fried spring rolls, braised pig trotters, craypot rice, bacon with chicken roll, black sesame fish fillet, yong tou fu and the ayam soto soup.

Not forgetting my sweet sweet desserts of cakes and tarts. Chocolate mud cake, classic Tiramisu, blueberry Cheesecake, Bobo cha cha sago and mango ice-cream!

Totally bloated after the meal, i could hardly stand straight. So much good food, i wish i've got three stomachs!

Gouramis

My dwarf gouramis whom i loved to call 'fish fish', always response to my calling by peeping out to me from under the waters. This picture i took of him in September, was the only one i have.

People may laughed at my seemingly silly act of photographing little simple fishes like him but i'm glad i did. At least a picture to remind me of this little gouramis i had, whom gave me much comfort and joy.

Recent shifting of its fish pond and change of water condition had most probably stressed and weaken him. My little joy left me last Wednesday, on 5th Dec. I'm glad that i at least took a look on him on Tuesday despite my busy work schedule. Sad.

ABC Brickworks Market & Food Centre

Headed to Bukit Merah for dinner with my usual fare of the well-known Teochew Cuttlefish with Kang gong greens.


Had craving tonight for some soup based item as my snacking on potato chips this afternoon had left me feeling so dry. So this sliced fish soup noodles. Nice crystal shine, chewy noodles.

A surprise find tonight is this Penang style Char Kway Teow, the flat noodles were fried like Thailand Pad Thai noodles. Yummy.

It's been such a long 2 weeks of busy work week with many changes and unpleasant surprises that really left me stressed and drained physically.

All's well that ends well. A good pigging out and unwinding really gave me my best night sleep of these 2 weeks... Zzzzzz... ...

Onion Sprouting

My first try on planting onions that have sprouted in my kitchen. They looks pretty beautiful to me. Having no experience at all, i hope they'll grow well.

Am looking forward to the flowering from the bulbs and harvesting the sprouting green for cooking.

Little Chilli... Ganbatte!

Remember the little red chillies that burned my tongue last Saturday? Well, what i did not mention is that, i scattered its seeds onto my little pot of idling soil and this is the pleasant surprise i got when i looked in yesterday.

"Grow, grow my little chilli
Rain come and sun shine bright
Fight bravely on
Your brief appearance had lighten my day
and bought leaps of little joy to my heart.
Thank you. Ganbatte!"


Little Brown Seeds

Little brown seeds so small and round,
Are sleeping quietly under ground.

Down come the raindrops
sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle.

Out comes the rainbow,
twinkle, twinkle, twinkle.

Little brown seeds way down below,
Up through the earth they grow, grow, grow.

Little green leaves come one by one.
They hold up their heads and look at the sun.

- Anonymous

Spicy Spaghetti, Sinful Satay

Slept in late, went to the supermarket NTUC (the prices of fruits and veg seems to be lower than Shop&Save) just before noon to get the fresh ingredients i need for my pasta cooking.

My own creation of Portobello Mushroom Pasta after studying many versions of others.

Yummy! Much tastier than all my previous attempts of the common wet tomato pasta sauce. Doing this drier version of pasta dish is my first try and am happy that it tastes good. Mum says it's good, so it must be!

But as i added 4 little red padi chillies into my cooking, this pasta today tastes a little too spicy hot... looks can be deceiving haha ha... Next time it will only be 2 chillies.

Flavoursome and spicy, i love this creation!

As for dinner, my rare treat of porky Satay. Well-marinated meat with warm, thick and spicy peanut sauce. Would you believe you can still get a 30 cents a stick satay in this high inflation year?

A raise in GST from 5% to 7% and the oil prices at a record high of almost US$100 a barrel, simply adds salt to wound. Further to this are the worldwide rocketing prices of wheat, milk and metal driven by shortage and demand.

Prices of foodstuff and all in the local market are really going up crazily now. What a pricey start to year ending 2007.