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10/4/09, Friday - This year's Good Friday, our cell group organised a harvest event filled with games, food and fellowship. Our games master decided to play Twister which everyone had to twist their body to get one colour to other colour. It was a tough game, I must say. I think those who do yoga or pilates may have an advantage when comes to playing of Twister.
After the games, all of us sat down to watch a video called "The Crossing". Subsequently, after the video and the sharing of our dear sister-in-Christ, Justine's testimony, we finally get down to our dinner.
Here were the food that were contributed that day:
Hawaiian Pizza from Pizza Hut.
Red Jelly from Jo, our host.
Sushi Platter.
Green Salad which had Sunflower Seeds littering on top of the greens.
Chicken Curry. It was superb and everyone managed to polish off the entire pot of chicken curry. Sorry for the blurry photo. :(
French Loaf. The bread was soft and combining it with the chicken curry, it was heavenly!
For desserts, we had chocolate cakes, contributed by Pheb. I tried one of them and it wasn't too sweet, something which I adored.
Then, our dear Char who rushed down from work at Ben and Jerry contributed B&J cakes. The two cakes at the bottom are apple crumble pie. Due to my filled stomach, I didn't really try the apple crumble pie but I heard it was quite good.
But during the dinner, we had a little accident. I offered to help Jo's maid to get her 7-up drink which is a gassy drink from the table. And since no one open the bottle yet, I had the honour to be the first one to open the drink. However, as I started to open the bottle, the gas inside the drink rise up to the brim and because I was panicking, I failed to close the bottle in time. Thus, the 7-up drink started to spray everywhere like nobody's business. I was utterly embarrassed though.
26/3/09, Thursday - I came home feeling a little surprised to see something different on the dinner table. "Daddy cooked baked rice for you.", said my mum who was eating her dinner. Later I realised that he was trying out some new recipes which he eventually called it Italian Baked Rice.
He chopped up a couple of potatoes, marinated some pork ribs with garlic and soy sauce and he threw them onto the baking tray. As for the rice, he mixed it with tomato-based sauce, cheese, potatoes, mushrooms and peas. After everything has been baked in the oven for an hour or so, the rice looked like a huge cube and my dad used a knife to cut it into portions.
The rice was quite tomato-ey though I don't really fancy tomatoes and I realised he shouldn't have stuffed potatoes into the rice as it tasted really bland on the tongue. I will remind him to stuff some savoury hams or bacon the next time round.
23/03/09, Monday - I had a steamboat dinner with the 5ofus at House of Steamboat which is situated at Tan Quee Lan Street (yes, it's along the same stretch of shophouse that has other steamboat eatery, including Tian Tian Steamboat). Initially, Gin wanted to have dinner at Cuppage Road, however, that Japanese eatery was closed on that day. Alternatively, we had steamboat.
Prior to that, I had vegetarian meal for lunch with my classmates and I was wondering if my stomach had some space left for a round of steamboat. And as one know that steamboat is pretty much a eat-all-you-can buffet and surely, anyone wants to maximize their dollars. So I tried my best to eat whatever I could.
When I went to the place, I was already late. I was flustered of what to do in the eatery when Ellie, Cheryl and Gin had started on their meal. I went to pick whatever I had taken a fancy to, which includes my all-time favourites, fishball, and the other food.
There were two choices of soup: the ever-popular Spicy (Ma La) Soup and Ginseng Chicken Herbal Soup.
Here is the thing. I was really eager to try the soup and so I scooped the Ma La soup into my small bowl. As a result of my eagerness, I gulped the spicy soup down my throat, thinking it was Tom Yum Soup. How interesting you may say. Not long after, I found myself choking and coughing due to the chilli seeds which might have stuck onto my esophagus. I was coughing so badly that tears began to roll down my cheeks. Cheryl was stunned and I guess everyone on the table and other tables were looking at this flustered girl coughing and choking. I immediately ordered an iced water to clear my throat. Lesson learnt, never ever be too greedy. :D
We get to choose whatever we feel like putting into those two soup base. Food ranging from seafood - crabs, prawns, cockles, crabmeat, fishballs and sliced fish. I must say the sliced fish was really good. I think they used dory fish.
We had a couple of servings of sliced fish. Then there were some meats, which are Gin's all-time favourite, sliced beef, pork and chicken. I didn't really try the meat though I did fish out some meats onto my plate. There were also other food such as corns, shredded yams, straw mushrooms.
Towards the end of the meal, the server gave us a plate of deep-fried mantou and from my first instinct, I recalled not ordering of such food. Little did I know that, it's actually a complimentary dish from the eatery as according to Gin. I tried two of those and it was really sweet and yummy.
Minutes later, Zoe entered into the eatery and surprised Cheryl with two slices of cakes - a heart-shaped strawberry chocolate cake and a strawberry shortcake.
We really had a fun-filled time catching up over a meal of steamboat and the meal was really good. Each of us paid about S$17.90 at the end of the meal. I may come back to try their steamboat again.
Dear readers,
Yes, I know what you mean. What the heck have I been for the past one month? Alright, I have a confession to make. I have been doing productions back to back and sadly, I neglected my food blog which I sorely missed so much.
And since I am having a three-months break, I decided to get my fingers off from all the lighting equipments and props and start catching up with my past food posts.
So more food posts coming up!
Cheers,
Munchie The Foodie
P/S, I begin from the earliest post which is in March. :D
23/03/09, Monday - My classmates and I went to Fortune Centre to have our lunch after our sound class. We went to our usual vegetarian restaurant at level 2 (sorry, I didn't take down the name of the resturant ). The thing about vegetarian food is that not everything is all about vegetables. There are meats stuff such as chicken, pork and fish but then they are all mocked meat, not real meat. I have tried some of the mocked chicken and fish and they tasted like the real stuff except that most of them are all made up of gluten, soy beans and flour.
I ordered the Lemon Cutlet Rice (S$3.50) which comes with a bowl of vegetables soup.
The chicken cutlet is breaded and fried till crispy. They toppled some lemon sauce on top of the chicken cutlet yet the meat wasn't really soggy when it arrived on my table. They even gave a stab of vegetables as the side dish. Yum!
The meat itself tasted really nice and crispy. I think this is the best dish in that restaurant apart from their curries.
A month has passed and my last food entry was still in February. Yes, I know. I haven't been updating my blog for that long. I'm guilty now. However, having said that, I have actually done my homework but it's just that I didn't have the time to put it up on the blog. So here it goes...
1/03/09, Sunday - I attended my niece's Sarah's full-month birthday celebration at my second uncle, Uncle Tong's clubhouse at Faber Garden after my church service in the morning. When I arrived, people started digging into their plates of scrumptious food. My cousin actually ordered lunch buffet as part of the birthday celebrations for the guests. It was quite a spread. Unfortunately, when I went to queue to get my food, there was a snake of people queuing behind me and it was totally impossible to hog up the line with my camera-taking session of the food.
So in the end, I took picture of what I choose from the buffet spread. :)
(L-R) Sweet and Sour fried fish, Sotong Ball, Fried Chicken Wing and Kai Lan on top of a small heap of fried rice.
The fried fish and the fried chicken wing were not too bad. Sadly, the fried chicken wings were almost half-empty when I went to get my lunch.
Sushi Platter.
Green Salad which had Sunflower Seeds littering on top of the greens.
Chicken Curry. It was superb and everyone managed to polish off the entire pot of chicken curry. Sorry for the blurry photo. :(
French Loaf. The bread was soft and combining it with the chicken curry, it was heavenly!
For desserts, we had chocolate cakes, contributed by Pheb. I tried one of them and it wasn't too sweet, something which I adored.
Then, our dear Char who rushed down from work at Ben and Jerry contributed B&J cakes. The two cakes at the bottom are apple crumble pie. Due to my filled stomach, I didn't really try the apple crumble pie but I heard it was quite good.
But during the dinner, we had a little accident. I offered to help Jo's maid to get her 7-up drink which is a gassy drink from the table. And since no one open the bottle yet, I had the honour to be the first one to open the drink. However, as I started to open the bottle, the gas inside the drink rise up to the brim and because I was panicking, I failed to close the bottle in time. Thus, the 7-up drink started to spray everywhere like nobody's business. I was utterly embarrassed though.
