Picnic @ botanical garden!

We celebrated mel's bdae by having a picnic at the botanical garden. Something different. And it has been a long time since we had our pig out picnic session.

This time round, our picnic is suppose to be high class kind. So we omitted out our old items such as roast duck, chicken curry and beehoon...to the disappointment of one of my fwen.

So we had sandwiches, ebi roe kani salad, sausages, cheese & cracker, potato salad, loads of chips, fruits and scones.

The weather was super hot that day!!! melting in the sun... nearly died... ha! a simple but enjoyable birthday.

We planned to have our local picnic the next time round! and our fav east coast park! bet it will definitely be much coooler!

I was incharge of potato salad..


bacon bits fried by me early in the morning...


my potato salad...


Our picnic...


the pretty tiny bday cake from rive gauche! love the cream!

Hyang To Gol Korean Restaurant @ Amara Hotel

Joined my bf for a dinner gathering recently. Forced him to take me along when I heard he was going for korean bbq! I have been craving for bbqed pork belly recently and was so looking forward for this dinner.

Amara Hotel has a nice interior design. I especially love its glass elevator. The korean restaurent is located at the 2nd level of the hotel.

The restaurent was pretty crowded. We were welcomed with the delicious aroma of bbqed meat when once we entered the restaurent We were guided by the waitress to a nice private room with a LCD tv. Classy!

We had a lot of dishes that night..




An appetiser that we had while waiting for the rest to arrive. I like it! Some others din like it. It's look like sushi but it taste abit different. The rice felt more like glutinous rice and it's filling are like picked veggie, kimchi and some other ingrendients that i cant figure out.


We were served this sourish water to drink. It is suppose to be appetising. The guys din like it. We gals find it quite refreshing.

the numerous side dishes....


We had two kinds of kimchi.. one is sweet and one is salty. this is the salty one. nice but too salty!!


The other kimchi...


looks like ice cream.. taste abit like ice cream.. yummy potato salad.... we cant stop eating it!


fruit & veggie salad.. quite nice too..


2 of the side dishes i din take. pickled chilli and the other is some radish thing which i find taste really sour and wierd. But there was some1 else who really enjoyed it. haha!


Sauces for our bbq meat...


Beef... the first batch we had taste so-so ... the second batch tasted better. But it was quite exp.. so we expected it to be damn good..


the long awaited sin....


bbqed pork belly...into my mouth.... my stomach..... and also my artery!! oh my!


spicy kimchi fish roe soup.... soup was sweet but nothing fantastic. i preferred the one i had in Melbourne previously..


ox tongue... abit too chewy.... disappointment...


second batch of pork belly.... Hee!


thinly sliced marbled beef... this was good! better than the other type of beef!!


enter into my mouth.... Mmm...


Korean pancake... is something i can never appreciate.... not bad i guess but jus dunno how to appreciate..


Bbqed mushroom is the best.... and look! o so pretty!!


seafood hotpot!! this was good!! the seafood was plentiful! the soup was super sweet from the seafood. Will enjoy it more if i werent so full by that time!

Overall, i think the standard is abit above average. However, there isnt anything there that will make me wanna go back there again. A good one-time experience however.

but i must say.. the service there was really good. We had a waitress stationed in our room. She bbqed our meat and serve us evenly. She served us tea dilligently and also portioned our food for us whenever there's a need to. I am glad i am not korean. The amount of dishes they used to serve the few of us was numerous.. imagine having to wash so many dishes!!!

Out of the Pan

Been really busy with work and stuffs....
nothing much to update recently anyway...

"Out of the Pan" is located at the basement of Raffles City where the escalators are. It is always crowded with customers and the crepes look really good. It is 1 of those place I usually past by, make a mental note to try it but never did. Because it's so centralised and accessible, we kinda take it granted it will always be there and can try it another time. Anyway, this time i finally tried it with a frn. Actually, we settled for that because most of the other places were crowded and it was getting late. Hees!

We could not decide to share a crepe or have one on our own. Finally, we decided to share a set which contains a savoury crepe, a salad or soup and an ice lemon tea. Cant remember the price now (think its ard $18) but it was really worth it!


We took the potato salad. not bad.


The crepe was rather nice too. Cant rem wat we had. But i do rem that we took the sun-dried tomato crepe.. nice!


The portion of a crepe was quite ok, considered we were sharing. Filling but we still felt a tiny unsatisfied. But having one alone maybe will be a bit too filling.

We took a dessert crepe! Strawberries & cream! Strawberries were abit sour but there were an overload of them!!! Generous. The vanilla ice cream was good!


Place is worth to give it a try. Dun mind going back there again! :)