Brown Sugar

It's that time of the month...to meet up with PS & G for our monthly gals' night out. PS decided that we should try out Brown Sugar! I was looking forward to the dinner as I've heard so many good reviews about them.

So I made my way to Stardust @ River Valley where Brown Sugar is located, and was disappointed at the exterior of the building! It is actually a Community Club lor...quite run down...and the toilet...ok, never mind...

G & PS had arrived earlier, and I spotted them immediately, because there were only 2 tables occupied in the restaurant!! The place has a really nice ambience though, perfect place for a quiet dinner for two. The other table was occupied by a couple, and I think we may have spoilt their romantic candle lit dinner with the noise that we were making...hehehe...

Nice and simple table setting...

Risotto with potato gnocchi...

Mushrooms & parma ham pasta in cream sauce...

Molten lava chocolate cake with honey & fig ice-cream...

I didn't take a picture of my main course of oxtail stew and mushrooms with tagliatelle, because the lighting was quite dark. All the pics were taken with my mobile phone camera, because I left my Lumix at home again! :(

All the dishes were very nicely done, and quite delicious. The pasta was al dente, and the sauces are satisfyingly savoury. The molten cake was not too bad, but the honey & fig ice-cream was delicious! I initially thought it was vanilla pod ice-cream because of the flecks of seeds in it, but we clarified with the waitress, and she confirmed that it is a honey & fig ice-cream. Too bad I forgot the brand of the ice-cream! PS & G, can you remember?

I wonder how the restaurant survived though - there were only 2 tables occupied throughout the whole night! No doubt it was a Tuesday night, but 2 tables is really kinda pathetic.

As usual during our outing, we talked a lot, gossip a lot and lauged a lot! :) We were talking about me wanting to splurge on Miumiu bags during this economic downturn...and G recording down all the other places that we want to eat for our monthly dinner in her new Palm PDA phone...we also talked about our jobs, my impending trip to Hong Kong, etc.!

Ok, that was a lot of topics to cover in 2.5hours...that is why we have to meet up every month! But it is a dinner that I look forward to every month! See you gals next month! :)

So bimbo...

I'm very disturbed with the mindset of young people nowadays, especially after reading this article.

Should we blame it on the parents or what? Or is it just her "character" to talk and think like that? What went wrong?

Her remark that she just do not understand why her friends doesn't ask for money from their parents is really the ultimate bimbotic thing to say! If I'm her parents, I would not be proud to have my daughter saying such things on national newspaper.

And I think she has just ruined her chances of ever getting a first job that pays her well enough to buy a Chanel bag. I just hope that amongst today's youth, there are still some who are grounded and will make good leaders in the future. We need to have good leaders in the next generation, because I believe that life will be tougher, and harder in generations to come.

May peace reign on earth. Amen.

Asia Grand...

Had lunch at Asia Grand today, because I am simply craving for their Salted Egg Yolk Prawns! I used to work in the same building where Asia Grand was located, so I had loads of opportunities to eat lunch there. It is definitely my favourite place to go for a nice dim sum lunch.

Just check out the pics!

The most 'shiok' XO sauce and pickles...and it's FREE...

Deep Fried Mushrooms with Garlic...

Carrot cake with XO Sauce...

Egg tarts...

Century egg porridge with lean pork...

Chicken feet! My favourite...

"Zha Liong"...

"Ha Kow"!

Custard buns...yum!

The highlight...Salted Egg Yolk Prawns!


"Yang Chow" fried rice...

A good meal to end the long weekend holidays...*burp*...gotta hit the gym tomorrow!!

Happy Diwali!

Ok, festive seasons are excuses for pigging out! It's Deepavali on 27th October, and as usual, I'm invited to P's house for the delicious tea and food! P's mom cooks the most delicious dhal, paneer, etc.

I was the first to arrive in P's house at 3.30pm, and smuggled the surprise birthday cake for AQ into the fridge :) Finally, AQ and C came, but without the dogs as promised! Boo! But C had some bad news - Holly went on to the rainbow bridge last night! So sad....she is such a feisty little ball of fur! C's dogs had always have lots of character...will miss Holly very much!

So we hang around the kitchen, gorging on burfi, gulab gamen (i think this is how it's spelt), aunty's chai, and other delicious snacks.

Gulab Gamen...my favourite


Burfi...C's favourite...

The Surprise cake was finally revealed...

The very surprised birthday gal and the gracious host...

We had a blast at P's place, maybe we should have more of such gatherings more often! :)

Steamboat at 4.30pm...?

Met up with TS, EK and PC at Coca Steamboat (Takashimaya Branch) yesterday at 4.30pm! I don't know what to call this meal - Lunch? Super high tea? But whatever you call it, it was a good meal and we had a good time catching up on our busy lives! :)

Surprisingly, the restaurant was quite full! There are other crazy people like us who eat steamboat at 4.30pm...hehehe....so can we say we are perfectly normal? :) We started at 4.30pm, and left the place at 7.30pm! Value for money hor?

After I parted with the gals, I met up with J, but I was too full to eat a proper dinner with him! We ended up at Big O's Cafe...

J enjoying his cup-of-cinno...

He ordered his usual marinara pasta and it took forever to come! I think they missed out on his orders. Thankfully, the pasta looks and tastes good...think he enjoyed it very much!

Marinara penne...

After dinner, we went over to Hilton Hotel to collect AQ's birthday cake! AQ's boyfriend, C, said that this is her favourite cake, so we are going to surprise her at P's house tomorrow! Hmmm...are the short acronyms for people's names making you blur? :P

Hibiscus Cheese Cake...$7.80/piece before GST!

I got a cheesecake for J as well, because he is flying off to China again tomorrow! :( He was barely back in Singapore for a week, and he's flying off again!

Oh well, at least I have BB with me. By the way, BB is the name of our car - short for Big & Bulky. Despite being BB, he is so easy to drive! I love driving BB! And I think because he does not have a protruding boot, it is sooo much easier to park him! I don't know about you, but I find it very hard to gauge if the boot is going to crash into the wall or not when I park cars with a boot!?

Tomorrow is going to be another pigging out day! Diwali goodies at P's house! Yum....