Yucky Food

There's a new Hong Kong style restaurant at Whitesands Shopping Centre... Hubs and I decided to try it out since the exterior looked quite posh.

There's a lot on the menu and we ordered: Roast Duck Noodles, Century Egg Porridge, Lotus Leaf Glutinous Rice and Siew Mai.
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Verdict: YUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Let me tell you why:

Duck Noodles: The noodles were too sweet (dessert-like sweet) while the roast duck was too salty (preserved duck during CNY kind of salty). What a conflicting combination! And to add on to the bad experience, the green vegetables were filled with sand. Angry!

Century Egg Porridge: It was lukewarm! And bland, and watery. Not like they had a ready set of condiments for you like soya sauce and pepper. What they had on the table was a bottle of chilli sauce! And the kind used for western food!!!!

Lotus Rice: One word. Bad. The rice does not even have the fragrance of the lotus leaf! It's just normal glutinous rice with chicken and mushroom. The chicken, not marinated properly, was tough and tasteless.

Siew Mai: It was our last hope.... dashed. It tasted just like the siew mais we get in school canteens. Full of fatty pieces and more fatty pieces.

We just fell short of flipping the table over in our angst. Throughout the meal, Hubs and I were daydreaming about how we'd come back in the middle of the night to vandalize the place. Haha! Anyway, we decided that without us doing anything, this place should fold soon. It's not even an authentic Hong Kong restaurant! We tried speaking cantonese to the staff and all turned out to speak either mainland mandarin or english. Cheh! At least the Hong Kong Tea Place on the 2nd level have managers from Hong Kong. We paid $27+ for the miserable meal and decided we could have eaten to our fill with much better food at a kopitiam stall with that money!

And to make sure we were not the only ones grousing, we scanned the restaurant and saw many furrowed brows. In fact, we couldn't even see a smiling face! Aiyo!

Just call it a lesson learnt for us. Since then, I've been telling all my family members and friends not to patronize the place unless they are really desperate. It's just not worth it to have them spoil your day....

I'll leave you with a picture of our almost-eaten yucky meal. Jaa!















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Where have I been???

Oh my oh my... it's March!!!!! What have I been doing with my life for the past 2 months????

Arrrrrrgghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *runs around screaming*

*Takes a deep breath*

I have not been doing ANY crafts since I started the new term in January. The work at the new school is simply horrendous. Hours are long, the food is beyond gross, and it's not like the pupils are angels as well....

Anyway, I will stay till the end of the semester at least... it's just not responsible to leave mid-term. What will happen to the pupils?
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Well, it's not exactly right to say that I have not been doing ANYTHING this 2-3 month..............................................................................

I have been trying to grow a baby!!! ;D ;D Yes yes, the baby is now 4 months old in my tummy. I went to check on it (don't know boy or girl yet) last wednesday and the little bugger was moving around so much! We saw it kicking my guts, and sucking his little fingers. It was also doing little twists and turns in my tummy. So exciting! I really thank God for watching over this little bugger and me... Amen!

Baby is currently 146 grams with a heartrate of 153. Length is about 13 cm. Heh heh....
Because it's an ultrasound scan, we could see the spine, the heart, brain and eye sockets. Everything seems alright... we will be going for a detailed scan next months... most likely can tell the gender if little bugger cooperates. We'll see!

Oh! Like I said, an email from a friend jolted me into action... So, I set on carving rubber stamps again! Did a few random minis to see if my skills are still there... turned out that I got rusty after all... but still managed to carve lah... Here they are...















Hope to be able to do more... am dreaming of making little baby shoes now. ;D

Remember to tune in! (once in a while!)
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