Valentine's Day Celebration 2017

This year we separated the Valentine's Day celebration and Wedding Anniversary celebration because we will be overseas on the Wedding Anniversary day itself. So looking forward to it and with that we decide to have a simple Valentine's Day celebration this year.

Rainbow baby breadth from Derp :)

I've been wanting one since ages ago so I'm glad Derp bought it for me on this special occasion.

This bouquet is very photo worthy hehe.

#welfie before we go out for our early Valentine's Day dinner.

Took the bouquet out with me for more photos if not it will be very wasted haha. 

#OOTD

1 more shot with the pretty bouquet of baby breadth.

We reserved in advance a table for 2 at Saveur @ Cathay for our Valentine's Day dinner. I have been to the other branch of Saveur and I find the food pretty affordable so I recommended Derp to go there for our celebration.

So that's what we were there for, their Valentine's Day set dinner for 2 :)

Here's what was in the set dinner..

2 Mocktails

Apparently it's some lavender fuzzy drink which taste pretty refreshing. 

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Saveur Pasta 

This is one dish which I always order when I'm there

French Onion Soup

For our mains, we both ordered the Duck Confit.

This is definitely their signature main dish. I had it the other time I'm there and it still taste as good! 

Yummy Duck Confit for both of us. 

Both of us ate finished it and by then we were actually quite full. But there's still desserts for us (part of the dinner set).

If I never remember wrongly, they served us the Tiramisu Cake which comes with a macaron. 

We were way too full to finish both our cakes though. The Valentine's Day dinner set cost $59.90 (before gst) for 2 which we find it pretty affordable with the amount of food we were given. Total worth our money and it was an enjoyable experience. 

Saveur @The Cathay

2 Handy Road

#01-11/12 S229233

Daily 12pm -9.30pm

We went for a impromptu movie session after our dinner before heading home. One of those rare #saturdate whereby we hang out late in town to reminisce the good old dating days :) 

It's just like any other day but what most important is spending quality time with each other. And that's something which I always think couple should be working towards to.

Looking forward to many more years of Valentine's day with Derp! 

Chinese New Year 2017 Part 1

It's Chinese New Year once again! This year CNY happened way too early (late Jan) so there weren't actually much time to prepare. Overall, it was a simple CNY for the both of us as the 'break' given to us were just a few days only. Totally dread going back to work thereafter :(

CNY Deco was up 1 month before the actual day. Oh hello 'Chicken' year :) 

No time to waste so better put it up fast if not it will only last for short while and it has to be taken down already.

And I've some chick on my nails to welcome CNY. Thanks to my SIL who helped me do my nails. It has been a yearly affair.

As usual, I went back to my parent's place to make Arrowhead (Chi Ku) chips with my mum. Told her beforehand to reduce the quantity but she still buy alot of them to make it. And somehow, I nagged this to her every year but seems like my message didn't get to her afterall lol.

All of them waiting to be packed into containers.

All packed properly by yours truly :) That's my 'job' every year though.

I still think she make a little way too much, should cut down somemore haha! But this is counted as little compare to the past years. Still feeling blessed to get to eat this every year though. Home made always taste the best :)

This year, I have Matcha Latte cookies to add on to my CNY goodies. So happy to eat Matcha related goodies for CNY. 

Matcha Latte Cookies by Sugar By J :)

I've also ordered the earl grey cookies from them. Definitely something different from the norm. 

They are not as heaty as compared to the the other CNY goodies but still, have to eat in moderation.

Chinese New Year's Eve

It have been a tradition to go to derp's side for reunion lunch first before heading back to my parent's place for reunion dinner. Glad that all these years there isn't any clash in timing and we can have best of both world without missing any of the reunions.

#welfie before heading out for reunion lunch.

#OOTD for the reunion lunch. In white this year :) 

First Luo Hei of the year! Huat ah! 

Before we start to luo hei..or should I say before we start creating a mess..

Time for some family pics before the reunion lunch ends.

Derp's family with Derp's Maternal Grandmother.

All of us present for the reunion lunch :) 

Head back home thereafter to rest before reunion part 2 with my family. It's hard to feel hungry during CNY because there's way too much food to eat and it all started from CNY's eve.

#OOTD for reunion part 2 

Changed into something more comfy and am in my favourite tsum tsum top and matching shoes :) 

Anyway, no need to wear so formal when going back to my parents' place haha. Comfy is more important! 

This year I did not really want my parents to prepare/cook too much food on CNY eve (save the energy for CNY Day 1), I offered to sponsor some add on dishes for the reunion dinner. 

The rice and the cold dish (in the middle) are from Soup Restaurant. They weren't too pricey to begin with but the food was so-so. Nothing to rave about. The rest of the items were prepared by my parents. 

That should be it for CNY Part 1 and I'll be back to update the rest of the Chinese New Year celebration soon! 

Bonchon @ Compass One

Bonchon has opened at Compass One for quite sometime and I've actually dined in there quite a few times because the food is pretty good. 

The menu..

The mains..

They served army stew too :) Had not try that till date though..

The main highlights have got to be the various kinds of Korean chicken they served..

Korean meal is incomplete without their fried chicken wings..

6 pieces Wings  - $8.90

We ordered the 6 pieces wings to try. We go for the half-half flavour (half spicy and half soy) as I can't take spicy food as well as Derp does.

Their fried chicken is not bad even though our top favorite has got to be those from Four Fingers :) Just a reminder, the spicy flavored wings are really spicy though. If you can't take spicy food that well, please go for the soy version then. I had 1 piece and that's the maximum I could go.

Chicken Spicy Ramyeon - $9.90

The chicken rameyon was good too. It provide us the comfort food kind of feeling. Best eaten on a rainy day :)

The chicken they used is those fried chicken type so I actually took it out from the rameyon to prevent the chicken from getting soggy. I was expecting those bulgogi chicken so this is kind of surprising for us. For the value of the dish, it's pretty worth it.

All in all, the food served at Bonchon was good and the price is affordable. We shared the chicken and rameyon and it's more than enough for us for our dinner :)

We go back there pretty often these days as long as we crave for korean food! Glad to have this Korean eatery (definitely something new) added to the hood for us.

 Bonchon @ Compass One

1 Sengkang Square

#01-14/15

Singapore 545078

Dinner @ Watami Japanese Restaurant, Dessert @ Ice Lab

December is meant for meeting and catching up with friends before the year ends. 

On my previous post, I met up with Sharon for lunch and in less than a week, I met up with Li Hua for dinner. Just in time to make it before 2016 ends. December is definitely a month of feasting! 

The last time we met was before we got our driving license (yup was struggling with it back then) and ever since then we didn't meet up with each other only until the end of the year. 

No solid plans on where to have our dinner so we walked around Ion Orchard and decide to dine in at Watami Japanese Restaurant. It have been ages since I last ate there though. 

Didn't took much photos but this is what I had at Watami Japanese Restaurant. :) 

Can't really remember the name of the dish but it was grilled pork on top of rice. I must admit the pork is not easy to chew and I have a hard time biting it. Will not order this if I ever go back there again for meals. 

 Watami Japanese Restaurant

ION Orchard #B3-23

2 Orchard Turn

Singapore 238801

We head to Ice Lab for round 2 as I was obviously not happy with my meal earlier on. Our original plan was to eat to the DOTS cafe (Dal Komm Coffee) but it was getting late so we change our plan and went to Ice Lab instead. Totally no worries because Ice Lab operating hours are way past midnight :)  

Not my first time there, probably the 2nd or 3rd and the place is still crowded as ever. Seems like the hype never goes down at all probably because of it's strategic location. 

So crowded even though it was already late night..

We ordered the Chocolate Bingsu for sharing. It does look like milo hor? haha! 

Since we are seated 'infront' of the bear, shall not waste the chance and took advantage of the situation to take photos haha! 

My dinner date that night..

A #welfie nicely taken with the iconic bear at the background :) 

More than a decade of friendship! I still remember clearly how we know each other even before year 1 of our poly started haha. So she's counted as the first few friend of my poly life back then as I have zero friends going to the same school as me. Good old days indeed. 

This marks the last post of 2016 happenings. Shall start typing on 2017 soon! 

Ice Lab

Orchard Shopping Centre, 321 Orchard Road #01-01/02, Singapore 238866 (Somerset MRT)

Opening Hours: 1:30pm – 1am (Mon-Thu), 10am – 1am (Fri-Sun)

X'mas 2016 Celebration

X'mas 2016 was a simple affair for us. We have had home parties in 2014 and in 2015. So time to take a break from hosting it at our house :) Hence, X'mas 2016 was held at Derp's brother's place instead, which is also in the North Eastern part of Singapore.

On X'mas eve, it was raining heavily especially in the evening. There were flash floods at various areas in Singapore. I'm gladful we are not spending time in town or squeezing with the crowd, but rather spending time with our family members. 

Derp decide to bring our own bean bag to his brother's place. 

All the food that evening. 

Nope we did not eat any snacks in the end haha! The pizza and xmas cake were more than enough for us :)

Pretty Xmas Tart (not cake) from Paris Baguette

Comes with the pretty box too. No idea why we lit up the candle also haha! 

All the presents for the Xmas exchange placed under the Xmas tree.

And so we started the Xmas exchange shortly after some gaming right after our dinner.

This was us before opening our presents.

We took more photos before eating the cake too.

We had Brown joining us for Xmas celebration hehe. 

A close up shot of us. 

The Brown bear has brought lots of entertainment for us that night. He's super nice to touch even though he's really heavy haha! 

We hanged out till really late that night, reached home at 2am and finally on bed by 3am haha! It was many rounds of playing till it's late then we made a move lol. Thankfully there's no work the very next day and it's a long weekend.

Love breaks like such to the max :) 

Ending of this post with this cute and hilarious photo..

SIL send us a photo of Brown with the nerf gun which Derp's bought it for the gift exchange and his brother was the one who was picked up this gift. Seems like the toy is for Brown instead? lol.

That's all for X'mas 2016. Instead of squeezing with the crowd at town area, we are happy to spend time gathering with our family members because family comes before anything else :)  

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