Saturday, November 19, 2005
wow! it's been a loong time since i blogged...
haha, actually there's really nothing to 'wow' about cos it's not much of a surprise really.
okayy. first, let me touch on wat i did since last last wk. ha.
oral presentation for pw ended on 7 nov (mon), and we finally completed out pw journey on tue, after handing in our grp file with all our individual pieces of work inside! yeah! op wasn't exactly a success. oh well. and so on the 8th, after submission and washing our hands off increasingly sickening pw, we went on a foursome foodtrip!
foursome foodtrip #1:
participants - huixuan, pam, tiff and me :)
total no. of stops - 5
total no. of hrs - 6 hrs!!!
haha, couldn't believe we had our mouths munching away on food for 6 hrs! okay. not for 6 hrs, but we started our trip at 12 plus and ended t 6 plus! our destinations included: adam's rd, holland v, chinatown, little india, and jln kayu. and we began our tasting adventure with adam's rd!
1st stop: adam's rd
we contemplated on having nasi lemak, but due to the differing taste of pam, we then settled on prawn mee. the mee was a little too dry for my liking, but the soup was fabulous! v prawny and adequately tasty. yum! we also ordered a sugar cane drink, which huixuan suspected was a phoney, ha, cos she hadn't tried sugar cane that tasted like that. but pam verified that it was sugar cane all right. the drink tasted quite pleasant, so we all sipped on it anyway.
2nd stop: holland village
yep! we stopped for a goldmine cheesecake at nydc, but before that, we were approached by a 'tony and guy' trainee hairdresser who wanted to use huixuan as his model! he striked some sort of weird deal - he'll give hx a free straight haircut, w/o any layering (i dun think tt will look gd on hx!) , and subsequently layering, if she desires so, all free. condition is that hx has to be his model i think for a couple of months. and she has to keep going back! (thought it sounded quite ridiculous). his smoking in front of us and the way his lips curled at times as he spoke made his motives even more dubious. so we quickly dismissed his offer. phew! oh yes, back to the cake. the cheesecake was substantial enough (i love the heavy sort), but sadly, the base was not biscuity enough. the relatively large chunks of chocolate hidden within the base sort of compensated for this though.
we met joce at the bus stop as we waited for half an hr for the stoopid bus!
3rd stop: chinatown
i certainly felt like a tourist as we walked along the streets peppered with many small stalls. and we felt like we were in china! haha. we proceeded to yum cha upon reaching, but alas, we were not fortunate enough to have a taste of the delectable dian xins there. sigh, cos of a power failure! once we entered the restaurant, it blacked out! wat luck. ha, but we managed to take a few sips of the fragrant crysanthemum tea and finished a small plate of peanuts :) i love peanuts! having had no fate with yum cha, we left in search of another dian xin restaurant. so we came to lao shang hai. it was rather quiet though. the restaurant at that time only housed another group of customers (a family of 3) other than us. the food was quite nice, but we felt that some dishes were not up to yum cha's standard. certain dishes also weren't heated up long enough. it was warm, not piping hot like it should be.
4th stop: little india
varnakuum! (dunno how to spell) yesyes, we took the mrt to little india, and the pretty overwhelming scents at the station welcomed us to little india! it's been some time since i've been there. the food at the tandoori restuarant was good! we had a curry chicken, cheese naan (generous amts of cheese, i must say), poori, and..and sth else, i forgot. it's similar to prata, except that it's much less oily?
5th/last stop: jalan kayu
we had prata and prata and more pratas. we ordered the usual egg, a sinful ice-cream prata and tissue prata. and also a terribly sweet bandung. we wanted to try the milo dinosaur - luckily we didn't! we were all quite bloated after all the food! 11 dishes in all. (hope i got that right)
so that was the end of the eventful food trip!
*check out PHOTOS link for more pics!
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