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The weather was pretty amazing for alfresco dining today. :) Kim treated SW & I to lunch at Rakuzen at Millenia Walk. This place is ideal for friends who aren't very mobile. We parked our cars right beside the restaurant and SW just had to manage one step and she was in the restaurant. Perfect! :D
SW's regaining her appetite and was able to finish more than half of the saba with brown rice set! :)
Kim had an eel with brown rice set. :)
Both set lunches came with chawamushi, which SW & Kim passed to me. SW can't take any prawns due to the surgery and Kim's allergic to them. So they became my gains! :)))
I had ebiten rolls (the prawns were so fresh & succulent) and
fire beef. The beef slices were seared using a blow torch. They were very tender and the ponzu dip further enhanced their flavour. :)
Thanks Kim for the lunar new year treat! :)
Details of Rakuzen:
#01-14 Millenia Walk
9 Raffles Boulevard
Singapore
T: +65 6333 1171
W: http://www.rakuzen.com.sg/
Valentine's day falls on the 5th day of the lunar new year this year. And nah...we didn't receive any flowers (we were busy delivering them) and we didn't have any romantic dinner. Instead we did dinner at a zhi char stall, Kimly Seafood with mom, Beanie & Lidia. :)))
The three-cup chicken was flavorful & tender & so was the stir-fried venison with spring onions. :)
Stir-fried nai bai with garlic (mom likes this alot), beancurd on hotplate, san lao (sliced fish hor fun),
chilli crabs & prawns with salted egg yolk (sinfully good).
This is one zhi char stall we wouldn't mind patronizing again. :)
Details of Kimly Seafood:
347 Ang Mo Kio Ave 3
#01-2150
Singapore 560347
We finally had a clear afternoon on day 3 of the lunar new year & we gathered whoever was at Grandmom's place for our annual family portrait taking. Grandmom was busy in the kitchen to take any pics though... The numbers present were miserable but at least we got to snap some pics of our loved ones.
This is probably the first time I took pics of Grandmom's new year spread. :) We have two types of chicken...
two types of veg...
ngor hiang, preserved sausages, century eggs...
steamed fish & seafood soup...
Lydia is deprived of home cooked food and she downed a huge bowl of rice! :)))
After dinner, we headed to the theater with mom, Beanie, big uncle & aunt, Lydia & her parents and Aunt Alice for another CNY movie. Lin & I are never into HK's Chinese New Year movie as they are often silly. But "I Love Hong Kong" caught us by surprise. It actually did have some substance. :)
新春快乐，主爱永偕！As usual we are celebrating the first day of the lunar new year at Grandma's place. Despite being an old house, it has its charms. :) It has been our mom's, aunts, uncles, ours and now our nephews and nieces' playground. :)
Uncle Francis' Hai Tang Hua is blooming gorgeously this spring. :)
We didn't managed to get our annual pics of our cousins in the garden this year due to:
1) the rain
2) Yahui, her parents and Big aunty are in Taiwan
3) Grace has been hospitalized since Chinese New Year's Eve for dengue
It's a wet wet new year. During the short interim, we managed to get some snapshots of mom, dad, Koka (who's feeling blue due to the rain and lack of nap), Lin & myself. :)
Oh and we managed to harvest rambutans during the short respite from the rain!
Surely our cars were in good hands...Second uncle did the plucking while Justin tried to catch the red hairy fruits as they fall!
Bountiful harvest this year. :) We can possibly use them for mandarin oranges exchanges instead. ;)
Lin & I bought a cute merigue snake from Da Paolo. :D Aunt Peggy has the honour of posing with it as she's borned in the year of the snake! :D
Another round of loi heiing. :D
We ended our first day of the lunar new year with a movie at the theater. It's an annual affair. :D We came out sleepy...the movie "The Grandmasters" was wayyyy too slow... *.*
This is the first time we do reunion dinner with our maternal family on Chinese New Year's Eve. :) This is also the first time we are having buffet for reunion dinner. :( We, the cousins, very much prefer the traditional sit down dinners.
The buffet dinner was at Park Royal on Beach Road. It's a mass dinner with different groups of families, held in a ballroom. It's so noisy.
There were stage performances too. But the progams were weak. Instead of singing Chinese New Year jingles, the singers cum MCs were belting out mandarin pop songs. *.* It's feels like a 7 month festival dinner instead. Utterly noisy. The lion dance and tea pouring performance was perhaps the only items relevant to Chinese New Year. We didn't really like the Fortune God throwing chocolates either...We had to duck to avoid being hit... *.* It rare for us to gather for dinners and buffet dinner and such performances makes communication almost impossible. We needed to shout across the table.
二姨, can we switch back to good old sit sit down dinner with set menu in a restaurant next year? :)
Lunar new year is just round the corner! :) This week has been unbelievably hectic for us at work and I'm thankful I need not help out with spring cleaning. Besides, I'm allergic to dust... ;) It's true!
After a week of rushing, all Lin & I looked forward to, was mom's home cooked reunion dinner. She makes the best reunion dinner, using the freshest ingredients. Yahui joined us for the feast. :)
From the sea, we had prawns & chives, cold crabs and steamed fish. :)
The other not to be missed dishes: Roasted chicken, stewed veg (our fav) and abalone, sea cucumber, fishballs & cabbage soup.
And my first loi hei for this lunar new year! :D Tossing to a wonderful year ahead!
The salmon, veg & crackers salad was from Imperial Treasure Teochew Restaurant. While most people will aim for the fish, Lin & I only aim for the "gold", i.e the crackers. :)))
15 days of feasting here we come!!!
Wishing everyone Abundant Blessings this Spring!
恩上加恩，乐上加乐，主爱永偕，恭喜恭喜!
Too bad Ivan hasn't learn to take solid food yet. So the chocolate chips & banana pancakes and bacon are no no for him. :)))
But he's still happy baby! :D
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