Dinner - Gyu-Kaku @ CHIJMES

Table

Table settingUtensils

Ginger sauce and sweet sauce

Cooking pit

Vege, corn and mushroom

Corn dip to cook with

Pork Belly

Chicken basil and spicy chicken

Toro Q (or something) pork with garlic

When it is cooking :)

Delicious!

Dinner - Madam Saigon @ Liang Seah St

Interior, very Vietnamese look

Menu
Sauces available on the tableMixed rolls, fried vietnamese roll, fresh roll and prawn roll (like prawn tempura)

Fried squidFried chicken wing .. I like this one

Raw vege to be dipped into the pho

Pho

Dinner - Nanxiang Steamed Bun Restaurant @ Bugis Junction

Went to try this restaurant .. it is actually a dim sum restaurant, but we wanna have a proper rice and dishes chinese dinner and there is nothing else around.. The menu seemed suffice for us to call whatever we wanted, so in we go :)
The decor is quite special, it looked like the wooden steamer from the dim sum, stacked up to form the wall hehe
The lighting is also enclosed with the wooden rattan
This is the booth .. quite special

Menu
Table setting
Tea
Pickles.. quite sour
Drunken chicken.. cold dish

Shanghai fried rice.. they do not serve plain rice there.. this is the plainest rice available haha
Pork rib and chicken soup. The soup is actually nice :)
Beancurd, but it feels like it is packed with meat haha
Fried dou miao
Salted egg prawn .. It's nice, I like it. would prefer it drier though :)

Bill: ~$69

Book: Jodi Picoult - Nineteen Minutes

I just finished reading the book ... it's very good :)

A story about high school massacre, what happened to different people seeing differents sides of it and affected differently, .. what bring it on and what comes out of it ...

Some interesting quotes...

Formula for happiness: R/E or (Reality) / (Expecation)

E is always real number since you cannot divide by zero .. but what is there are no expectations..?

you COULD divide by zero, it will feel like a canyon where your heart used to be.

2 ways to be happy:

- Improve you reality

- Lower your expectation

If you divide reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient, but when you invert the equation, (E/R), .. you got Hope.

Assuming reality was constant, expectation had to be greater than reality to create optimism, on the other hand, a pessimist was someone with expectations lower than reality, a fraction of diminishing returns.

The human condition meant that this number approached zero without reaching it, -- you never really completely gave up hope; it might come flooding back at any provocation.

The measure of joy brought by familiar was amplified or reduced by the individual's resistance to change.

Imagina a world that seemes so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

Lunch - Chili Padi Restaurant @ Bugis

Went to try to buffet restaurant opp Bugis Junction .. It always seemed crowded ..
Interior of the Chili Padi restaurant .. the waitress are also dressed in Peranakan style I guess..
Interior frames depicting Singapore in historical times ...
Somemore pictures ..
The setting for the main courses

And the desserts ..
Kue pie tie, you can make it yourself so can determine what you wanna put inside hehe
Rice with chap chay, asam fish fillet, curry chicken and babi ponteh ... quite limited choice of main course .. but it is nicely cooked :)
Pig stomach soup .. it's nice
Laksa .. I prefered the non-coconut milk style but this one is not bad for those who wants coconut milk based laksa

Gado - gado .. the sauce it's nice
Chwee kue
Assorted desserts
Sugar melaka
Coffee and tea is also available with fruits ...

Dinner - Sumi Yakitori @ Centrepoint

Went to try Sumi Restaurant ... heard that can bbq the skewers ourselves...

Here is the interior, its in the basement, and so the window overlooks the carpark .. for those of you who wants to keep a lookout of your car haha
Gyoza.. not bad.. :)
Ox Tounge.. rather chewy but nice

Didn't cook the skewer ourselves, we just order and it's cooked for us haha
Pork skewer and pork & garlic skewer
Lamb chop

Garlic fried rice
I don't remember what ramen we ordered .. this is the clear soup one
this is the miso soup based one.. both served with pork slices
Down all the heaty food with Sapporo Beer.. more bitter than Asahi ...
And have Macha for dessert ...

Total Bill: ~$60 (There is a one for one promotion for the ramen hee)