Lunch @ Xin Cuisine

Had a food tasting session at Xin Cuisine (Holiday Inn Atrium) today. Been 2 years since I visited the restaurant, it has since been renovated and the ambience and deco has a more classy feel to it now.

Here are what we ate:

Scallop salad tuna fish crystal dumpling

Double-boiled sea whelk with chicken n cordyceps flowers soup

Braised fresh prawns with melon

Venison with coffee bath I'm so lucky to be able to try this dish, which is created by Chef Daniel Koh and he had presented this dish in <<自尊厨王>>. The chef roasted the coffee beans on the spot with this 'roasting machine' that was specially brought in for this dish, and then the venison was given a spa in the pot (used for korean dishes as well) along with the roasted coffee beans. The aroma was great and though the venison might look unsightly at first, it tasted super yummy!

Steamed Eggplant with Preserved Veg

Lobster Mianxian Soup

Champagne 金堆子

After lunch, if you are seated in the private rooms, they will serve you with the tea that the room was named after. Mine was 竹叶青. They serve quite good dimsum as well. Xin Cuisine is a nice place for lunch at mid-range prices. I was so full after the lunch that I skipped dinner ...

恭喜ZY老爷, 贺喜Eve夫人!!!

We attended ZY & Eve's wedding dinner at Amara Hotel last night. It was so much fun! What else do you expect, with M.C.Q. in full force on the same table... enough to bring the house down liao haha... there was also this super inexperienced banquet staff who's in-charged of serving our table... Gosh, each time he brought something to our table, be it a glass of wine or dish, his hands were trembling like mad, and we were in great fear of having food showers. Did not even bother to ask us before clearing the unfinished dishes. I requested for sprite and I got coke, and after that my coke got refilled with orange! Best of all, he did not even realised his mistake! Frustrated as I was, I must say he added to our fun haha... with all of us keeping stone silence and staring at his serving each time hee... poor guy, he was like the butt of our jokes, but too bad lah!

We specially concocted a cocktail for ZY... a mixture of red & white wine, beer, soya sauce, vinegar, green chilli, and I can't remember what else... we were already quite merciful, as compared to the other tables... ZY gamely drank from table to table though. Nice colour eh?

Who's next??? Mr Anything, Bye or Vin? Heh heh... we are so looking forward! =)

敏感话语二之爱情与面包

爱情和面包, 你会选择哪一个?

要爱情就不能有面包; 要面包就不能有爱情?

鱼与熊掌, 不可兼得?

谁说的, 哪门的理论?

敏主党认为, 爱情和面包是可以兼得的...一切在于理解, 沟通, 时间管制, 包容, 等. 说来说去都好像围绕在一个心字.

两者也能互相促进与配合, e.g. 爱情不可以当做面包, 但却可以做伴面包的 Peanut Butter 或 Milo 或 etc ... 一起做面包也能完美爱情...

Morning Feast

Three of my nice malay colleagues woke up early in the morning to prepare these for us... Yumz!