Celebrated another birthday yesterday, but it was quite in advance, seeing as the actual date is almost a week away. Oh well, it turns out that the organiser has another event at the same location yesterday so yea. It was a spike in money spent again in a relatively short time, but at least I think all these are gotten out of the way now. (Our joke of the day, don’t have too many good friends, spread their birthdays out, reject when quota is met! HAHAHA)

Anyway this time we went to JP Yaki-Yaki Bo, another jap cuisine outlet. Opted for some value set meal (there are choices of either chicken or beef) and I upgraded the rice to garlic fried rice. Overall there is like the rice, miso soup, salad, fried egg tofu, fruits, bean sprouts, and either chicken or beef atop a slice of toasted bread. Actually I can’t actually comment too much on the worth of it. Perhaps I was quite hungry and erm it didn’t feel filling at all. Hurhur… But of cos this time the extra food was reserved for the birthday guy, which includes his mini cake, and a chawan mushi. The cake has some Ben Ten picture on top, gosh I must say we must feel old now. Totally dunno the guy is a cartoon series hero, hah…

Who: minyao, gary, susan, huixin, clarissa, sherlyn, me
Where: Yaki-Yaki Bo @ Jurong Point
Cost: ~21 SGD (my share)

Oh yea, something to add. I think there was a Raymond Lam autograph session down there yesterday or something, dangit. If only I can see him… My idol leh. Well anyway after that Clar has another erm session with her family members to celebrate her dad’s birthday, at the same place, lol… Yep I was talking about that just now. Rest of us decided to watch Ice Age 3, and we have like 45 minutes to spare. So we hopped down somewhere to treat ourselves some ice cream, at BenTen Cafe. I got a Blueberry something and mine was the last to come and it was a respectable size, though quite ex at 5.80 prior to extra charges. So I had to gobble it down and voila, after that it was movie time, but sadly, 2nd row thanks to last minute-ness and gosh… I must say I enjoy the theatres at Cathay much better.

It was an enjoyable day, and I think this clique might sort of maintain a longer term relations that most others, which kind of slowly drifts away.

Went out for a gathering with jc clique to sort of celebrate jh’s birthday. We decided upon Le Le Pot, which is situated somewhere in Tiong Bahru. Well, it is located at one small street and somewhat hidden from view of the major roads, so I guess it wasn’t very well known too. In fact, there isn’t much web presence either. Anyway, it was opened by this Chinese celebrity who used to appear in my local tv dramas, but I cannot recall his name. He seems rather friendly and even come out to serve customers a couple of times (but he has this erm, how should I put it, lack of expression).

Ok so we have this steamboat buffet in the small shopspace, which eventually felt relatively hot due to the many many many steamboats snuffing out the aircon, but it was still better than most of those you find in Bugis anyday, those are REALLY HOT. With 5 persons, we could only get 2 soup bases, so eventually it was tom yum and herbal chicken. Another thing is you order the food ala carte style and they will bring it to your seats, so no need to keep elbowing your way to the food trays and compete for the stuffs you want. I thought that was a great feature that most steamboats outlets lack.

To comment on the food, the variety is ok for the size of the shop. Very reasonable range of food within each category. And I might also add that they do have a small selection of fried food and prepared dishes that you do not need to cook. It received bonus points from me because these felt non-oily at all! And they taste reasonably good. You know, have been to many many buffet style places and they like to try many many ways to make customers eat less with varied ingenious methods such as having very oily food etc. But over here even the servers ask us to eat more! I think I should also commend on the attentiveness and friendliness of the staff. I’m sure the layout also made it very easy to notice and look out for your customers.

1 more thing about the food. Be on your toes when getting the mussels clams blah blah. Not sure if they had been cleaned properly. Thankfully we only got those on the 3rd round of our orders. Coz after that we ate SAND. Now thats a turn-off. And it also made our appetite goes down I suppose, as nobody seemed to want to eat soon (and also the range of food, coz we more or less ate most/all of the things we wanted to). Oh it came with 1 desert each too, which was some much needed ice. We didn’t order drinks though some of them went next door for a slurpee when we are done. Overall, I still think its one of the best steamboats I have had at this kind of price range. Great, recommended to try.

Who: jiahao, ken, dom, zong, me
Where: Le Le Pot @ Tiong Bahru (58 Seng Poh Road)
Cost: ~19 sgd (my share)

Lol and behold, first up I had a get together with moi JC clique yesterday. Its the New York New York trip, something that we had already been contemplating on for quite some time but never got to go. Look, we had been going for semi-regular buffet trips, + I actually think most of us eat alot more than our size suggest, but alas, this is the one epic time we failed! But a glorious fail nevertheless. jh you did damn great for attempting the epic $32.90 yankee burger challenge. When jh fails, all else fail. Everyone of you who knows me, please stay far far far far away from the challenge in case you have not seen my msn nick. (4 people sharing is ok though hahahaha)

Who: jiahao, ken, dom, zong, me
What: Makan session
Where: New York New York @ Citylink
Cost: ~17 sgd (my share)

How do I describe the monstrosity that jh decided to whack? 8-inch beef patty burger with a MOUNTAINLOAD of fries. This is damn sick, so sick that many heads were turned when the plate came out of the kitchen. So sick that many passersby pointed here and there and gasped in awe. So sick that jh couldn’t finish it, nevermind the 1 hour limit. We sat there more than 2 hours, and still many french fries survived the horror of getting crunched between teeth. I still cannot imagine seriously. Dom had some salmon thingie which looks quite small to be honest, ken had eh wassat, fried fish fillet izzit. And I shared a meat platter with zong. Most of it was pretty normal, but I like the lamb steak, its nice. (I had a mini phobia when I saw Mac for the rest of the day…)

Next up, thanks minyao for attempting to organize a class outing, lol… though it turned out to be like a 3-tenth class outing. Its my first time eating at Breeks. I love peppermint ice cream hahahaha. I had some fish and prawn fritters in dunno what sauce (whoops sorry my memory is crap). It was quite an appetising meal, albeit not too filling.  Most of the main courses are of relatively small portions. Aye next time go somewhere nearer lah… all live west side…

Who: minyao, gary, weeboon, soonhui, jiening, peihuang, hidaya, me
Where: Breeks @ Taka
Cost: ~23 sgd (my share)

Until next time, ciao