Mother's Day Dinner

Wifey asked MIL what she wanted to have for Mother's Day dinner, and the usual replay was "Mutton Soup". From what I know, there are only 2 default answers, either "Mutton Soup" or "Beef Brisket". :-D

So with the recommendation from FIL, we went to eat Chinese Mutton Soup at Kitchener Road, a stall called "Kong Kee Mutton Soup". Couldn't find any reviews on the Internet, but found it HERE in someone's list of "Good Food" in Singapore. It's just across the street from the more famous "Scissors Curry Rice" stall.

Anyway, Jalan Besar / Kitchener Road area is always crowded on weekends. After navigating through the streets near Mustaffa without knocking anyone (mainly Indian folk) down, it was a miracle that I even managed to find a place to park 2 streets away at Syed Alwi Road.

We had Mutton Soup and the stall was kind enough to provide us with a few bowls to put some dishes which we bought from the Scissors Curry Rice stall!

The mutton (at least the bowl I had) was nice and juicy, no "muttony" smell. Soup tastes good too, can even ask for refill (although not too much I think).

Volkswagen Golf GT TSI

The VW Golf (V) GT TSI, "only" 1.4 litres, 240Nm of torque at 1750RPM, 0-100km/h in 7.6 seconds ... WooHoo!!

Brotzeit @ Vivocity

Yesterday had a meeting in Brani so I met up with wifey after that at VivoCity. Was searching around for a place to eat when suddenly remembered Cactus' recommendation of a German place called Brotzeit. Curious, we decided to go.

The place wasn't what I expected, with the exception of the beer, nothing else in the restaurant looked German. The decor was contemporary and modern. We took a seat near the back of the restaurant facing Sentosa. (In the zone between air-con and non-air-con)

Anyway, being in a German restaurant, I had to get a beer. Decided on the second most mildest bottled beer cos had to drive later on. Can't remember the name of the beer. Didn't take the mildest cos that was actually non-alcoholic!

For the main, we ordered a cold-cut platter for 2, which consisted of lots of cold cut ham, bacon, some funny dried up sausages, lots of pickled stuff, vegetables, eggs and 3-4 kinds of bread. Yum! Wifey ate about 30% while I finished off the rest. Burp!

Crystal Jade Golden Palace @ The Paragon

Yesterday evening we went to Crystal Jade Golden Palace @ The Paragon. The occasion? One of our doctor friends got promoted to "Consultant". So it was another "scumming" session for all of us.

This session was organised by our head "scummer" (commodity trader turned private banker) ... which means the choice of food should be very good. Indeed, we were not disappointed. We had a private dining room and the dinner started with a round of 功夫茶. Small shots of potent chinese tea to clear and cleanse the palate for the main courses.

The following are not the actual names of the dishes but were we can remember being served:

• Cold Flower Crab
• Braised Goose
• Fish Maw & Shark Cartilage Soup
• Steamed Fish
• Broccoli
• Fresh Lobster
• Teochew Fried Mee-Pok
• Fruits and super soft Muah Chee

We also had white and red wines to complement the seafood and meat dishes. Dinner was wound up with another round of 功夫茶.

Although we didn't get to see it, my estimate is about $100+++ per head for the bill, and there were 11 of us. Anyway, amidst the conversation and good food, both wifey and myself forgot that we had brought our cameras and in the end, didn't even take a single shot!

Another Kids Weekend

Another one year old birthday celebration.

Happy Birthday Randall!

Didn't get to carry Randall cos he's quite "sticky" only to those that he is familiar with. Ended up spending most of my time carrying Uriah, the "Korean Sumo". He's called the "Sumo" cos his weight was once off the charts (i.e. >95 percentile).

BTW, don't you think they look kinda alike?