Birthday Cake from SugarbyJ, Long Beach Seafood Restaurant @ IMM

And once again, we ordered birthday cake from SugarbyJ, The previous time we ordered it was for my birthday celebration.

This time it was for Derp's birthday. Derp's birthday was 1 month plus after mine. So we had cakes from SugarbyJ for consecutive 2 months hehe.

 

Derp's birthday cake design was much simpler as compared to mine. After all, he's a guy so there's not a need for fanciful cake opps!

Derp and his favorite maple character cake haha! 

It was actually Claire's idea lol. Since she still have the maple story character image which I provided her for my wedding dessert table. Just make do with it then lol!

Matcha Houjicha Cake for Derp.

As per previous year traditional custom, I will cook for Derp his birthday Mee Sua. It's not as though he only get to eat Mee Sua on his birthday (on normal days we have this too), but having it on birthday has more meaning to it :)

We got ourselves prep to head out for the birthday celebration. We went all the way to the west for the Marvel's Avenger Station Exhibition which I've blogged about it back then.

Totally have no idea what to have for Derp's birthday dinner, and since we were in the west area for the Marvel's Avenger Station Exhibition, we decide to narrow down to having our dinner in the west area then. Too lazy to travel to elsewhere haha! 

We decided on Long Beach Seafood Restaurant for the dinner venue because of crabs haha!

There wasn't any queue on a Saturday night but the restaurant was quite full.  

We get to sit near the entrance of the restaurant as the smaller tables are all located at the front of the restaurant.

My dad used to bring us to this restaurant very often when we were young and I must say their standard hasn't really drop over the years.

So here's what we ordered.. 

Blanched Spinach with Trio Eggs - $14

Deer Meat with Ginger and Spring Onion - $16

Signature Black Pepper Crab

A picture of us taken before we start eating. 

But in actual fact, we had already took a few mouthful haha!

#OnTheTable 

Their service was really very good (top notch) as we were well 'taken care' of during our time there.

The waitress kindly offered us to help us 'de-shell' the crab. Gladly agreed to it because it would save us a lot of trouble and prevent us from making a mess at ourselves.

That's how it look like after the 'de-shell' process. 

The meat is so fleshy and fresh! This is the first time I encounter such service and I totally appreciate it :) Is there such service for prawns too? lol! I doubt so though. 

Because their service was so good, we decide to have dessert at there too. They have been recommending it to us to have their dessert, but we just brush it off and thought of heading elsewhere for dessert. 

Didn't take note of what's the name of this dessert. But basically, it's red bean with vanilla ice cream. This combination taste yummy though :) Something new for us!

Overall, we had a enjoyable dinner (most importantly Derp enjoy the food that night and it was my treat!) Long Beach Seafood Restaurant @ IMM though it's really far for us staying in the north east area haha. The food was yummy and service was good. Nothing to complain about and thankful for the kind gesture from them to help us de-shell the crab :)

Long Beach Restaurant @ IMM

Jurong East Street 21, Singapore 609601

Privé Cafe @ Chijmes

Part of my 28th birthday celebration was a mini birthday celebration/meetup with Kai Ting. I have been chatting with her for almost a year before we finally meet up in real life :) We basically chat about anything under the sun  on whatsapp but it was mainly on online shopping (new launches, what dress/top we are getting from the next launch and etc) 

It's through social media app whereby we get to know each other in depth. Amazing isn't it? Kai Ting was my good friend, Yi Ying's younger sister. We knew each other existence for a long time but we don't talk at all. To be exact, we didn't see each other before back in those secondary school days because when she just entered secondary school, we have already graduated from there. 

So one day, she saw my #OOTD shot on my instagram for Nana's wedding, that's where we get to know each other more indepth. 

Okay enough of the lengthy story, time to get into the actual details. 

Make up of the day :) #selfie before heading out.

We decide to meet at somewhere central which is convenient for both of us since she stay in the west while I'm at the north-eastern part of Singapore. 

So the meetup place was at Chijmes. It's been way too long since I last went there for a meal because on normal days, I'll just passed by there to head to other places. The very last time I went there could easily been 4-5 years ago when Sun with Moon still had a branch there.  

The ambience at Chijmes was much better than I've expected especially at night :) 

Kai Ting has especially made a reservation prior to our meetup. So we didn't have any trouble waiting for our seats.

Some food pics coming up!

Cajun Chicken Burger - $21

This was what I ordered. I finished every bit of it because they were really good (despite nothing special haha!) but I guess I was famished lol. In terms of portion, I would say it's good enough for me.

They have all day breakfast but I find it weird to have 'breakfast' for dinner so I went ahead to order from the dinner menu then.

Linguine Carbonara - $18 

This was what Kai Ting has ordered. It was yummy but again, nothing really special about it.

#welfie before our dinner.

I brought along the fisheye/wide lens I bought from BKK so we made full use of it haha!

Mandatory shot

And this is Kai Ting :)

After our dinner, we went around Chijmes to find the perfect spot to take #OOTD. 

A close up and clearer #welfie of us.

We walked to different spots in Chijmes and took what seems like 50 shots for each other before we are finally satisfied and found 'the one' to post on instagram.

#OOTD 

Love this pretty stairs a lot and it does seems like the perfect place to take #OOTD haha! Much better than the other poor lighting places in Chijmes.

A kind passerby helped us to take photos too. Grateful for that haha!

We were both in the same off shoulder top (just different color) from Fayth :)

Twining with Kai Ting :) 

It was a great meetup with Kai Ting. Once we were done with the #OOTD shots, we went to Fayth popup stall at Citylink to try on some (already launched online but we were contemplating to get it anot) clothes before we call it a day. :)

Overall, the service/ambiance at Prive @ Chijmes were good and perfect for girly meetup or a date with your other half :) And as for the food, they have a wide variety of mains so everyone could probably find something they would love to have

I did meet up with Kai Ting once again for dinner not long after this meetup. The food we had were much yummier as compared to Prive @ Chijmes.Will blog about that soon!

Privé, CHIJMES

#01-33, 30 Victoria Street, Singapore 187996

28th Birthday Celebration - Birthday Cake from SugarbyJ, CantonParadise @ Compass One, Cityhotpot Shabu Shabu @ One Raffles

Months back I've blogged about my birthday celebration at the Pokemon Exhibition Center and now I'm back to continue other details of the birthday celebration on the day.

For my 28th birthday, I wanted a matcha flavoured and yet instagrammable looking cake. I knew I've to asked my good friend (the owner behind  SugarbyJ) to help me customize the cake according to my liking haha! 

My birthday cake from SugarbyJ. 

So pretty right? :) I was into drip cakes and never had one before. So my wish came true hehe!

With my birthday cake :)

A #welfie before I blow the candles and cut the cake..

And that's what the interior of the cake looks like. I'm feeling hungry while looking at this picture haha!  

Anyway, the flavor of the cake is Matcha and Black Seasame. To me, anything matcha is nice haha! It does goes well with lots of other flavors like white chocolate, chocolate and etc. So far, I haven't find one person who doesn't like Matcha! 

Do visit SugarbyJ, follow them on Instagram and Facebook okay? :) I love their cakes the most haha!

We went out for our late lunch(after cutting and eating the birthday cake) at Canton Paradise @ Compass One. Was craving for some dim sums and were lazy to think of elsewhere for lunch hence we settled it at somewhere nearby. 

Comfort food but I think we over ordered lol.

This cute piggy bun is actually Molten Lava Bao (Liu Sha Bao)

Can't help but take a picture with the cute piggy buns haha (even though can't really see from the picture).

Very yummy but the down side is that it's quite small in size. 

 CantonParadise @ Compass One

#03-19/20 Compass One, 1 Sengkang Square, Compass One, Singapore 545078

After our late lunch, we head over to Sentosa for the Pokemon Exhibition. As mentioned before in that blogpost, we had sometime to spare before meeting Pikachu at the Pokemon Exhibition Center. So we went to the Sea Aquarium first to kill some time.

Not our first time to the Sea Aquarium and we felt it didn't change much since the last time we went (years ago). 

A very blur #welfie of us because of the lighting inside the Sea Aquarium.

Hello Nemo and Dory! :) 

We were there when the divers were feeding the fishes. So we spent some time watching what's going on for a good 15 minutes or so and we do enjoy it.

Cute jelly fishes!

Always find them very pretty and of course cute haha! 

Thought this will make a good OOTD shot but okay la. Very dark inside and I'm way too lazy to edit it haha!

A not so blur #welfie :) 

A very random place and I asked Derp to pose lol. 

One of the more interesting fishes that I've spotted. I think it's name has something to do with Dragon (due to it's shape). 

Before we leave the Sea Aquarium, took more shots! But the photos all turned out way too blue though :(

The official birthday #ootd shot that I posted up on Instagram. 

We head for our early dinner after the Pokemon Exhibition. Though we weren't hungry yet but we just made our way down to the restaurant. Birthday dinner was not at any fancy place but at Cityhotpot Shabu Shabu @ One Raffles! I've actually blogged about it before here when I went there with my gfs.

Had a good experience that timje so I decided to have it again on my birthday. It's Derp's first time though and he do enjoy it as much as I do (especially the Tom Yum soup!).

Alright pictures below...

There's a group of friends throwing a birthday surprise celebration at the restaurant too. So much of a coincidence haha! I do wonder if the birthday girl/guy has the same birth date as me. 

We ordered the set for 2 (the basic set is good enough for us to feel very full after that).

The mixed soup base which require us to top up $$ for it. Worth it! 

This is just part 1 of the food served..

The meat (my favourite) and seafood came shortly after..

All the yummy food for hotpot! 

Lots of smoke blowing out from the hotpot haha! 

And last but not least, before we dig in (concentrate on eating), we requested the waitress to help us take a photo on this special day. Thumbs up for the good service from them.

:) 

Am always glad that I have my love one celebrating my birthday year after year for the past many years! I've already reached the age whereby I feel that birthday is just another day perhaps for me to just relax and chill around, That will be suffice enough because it's the companionship that counts :) 

Cityhotpot Shabu Shabu @ One Raffles

1 Raffles Place, #04-28 One Raffles Place, One Raffles Place Shopping Mall, 048616