A Brand New Number

whoa i lost 3 kilograms recently, which i was pretty darn happy about. but from the amount i’ve been eating over the past three days, i think i’ll gain back the weight in no time at all!

saturday was spent at plaza singapura. boy is that place crowded on weekends! it was so difficult finding a nice place for dinner as most of them were full house with snaking long queues. we ended up at swensen’s instead, where i had my crayfish pasta. sad to say, i actually prefer the one at pastamania!

Crayfish Pasta
Price: $14.90 + 10% Service Charge + 5% GST
Dish rating:

Swensen’s
68 Orchard Road
#03-23 Plaza Singapura Singapore 188034
(65) 6837 0650
Service rating:
www.swensens.com.sg

by the way, has anyone been to the manhattan fish market? it looks like a fish & co. ripoff to me, but it does seem pretty popular. a couple other places i would like to go to are uber burger at millenia walk, and giraffe restaurant & bar near plaza singapura. if anyone has any feedback about these places, please let me know!

aussino was having some sale so i ended up with two spanking new bedsheet sets from there, one pink and one purple. and, and, this extra special bed canopy! there goes a large portion of my progress package payout. it’s my first time getting any form of government payout, since i only turned 21 quite recently.

i had always wanted some form of canopy over my bed, and this time i finally got it! although i initially wanted a four-poster canopy bed, i didn’t get that in the end. the next best thing is to have a ready-made canopy that hangs from the ceiling. i’m quite happy with it, although i have to say that sleeping with something over my bed does take some getting used to. when i told minyan about my new bed canopy, she commented that it would look quite ghostly. i really have to hand it to her! she has a knack at connecting almost everything to supernatural beings.

kevin and i are quite crazy over word dojo at the arcade. and we are getting pretty awesome at it too, hitting over 900K a few times. one of the arcade machines over at plaza singapura has our names filling up most of the high score chart. damn, i wish i took a photo of it! and i can’t wait to play the game again.

Lamborghini Coffee
Price: $10.90 + 10% Service Charge + 5% GST
Drink rating:

i really like the liqueur coffee over at tcc. i ordered a lamborghini coffee which i thought would come flambe but didn’t. nonetheless, it was pretty good. strong, but good. the rome coffee was pretty addictive too. coffee with a strong texture and slight tinge of alcohol. coffee lovers would definitely crave this.

tcc, the coffee connoisseur
60B Orchard Road
#01-17 Tower 2 The Atrium@Orchard Singapore 238891
(65) 6884 9223
Service rating:
www.thecoffeeconnoisseur.com

there’s a flea market that opens at china square every sunday. i was there with chup on sunday. it was my first time there and i must say the places around there are quite confusing. there’s far east square, china square central, china square FOOD center, which are all different places but in the same vicinity. it gets quite confusing over there. i was over at the flea market to add on to my wanroom capsule collection. for those who might be curious, here’s what i have currently:

ain’t these adorable? i only just realised that each piece of furniture has both arms and legs as well! the flea market has quite a few stalls specialising in capsule toys.

in particular, i found a few toy sets that i like, such as the hello kitty casual time set that looks too cute…

and the doraemon set, which kicks ass because it has all the different rooms that doraemon fans would be familiar with. so you can sort of put them together to form nobita’s house or something.

but i won’t get them anyway. it would be an expensive hobby that i can’t afford currently. focussing on one particular series would be good enough and cost less. other interesting stuff that were sold at the flea market were these…

in particular, one shop was selling all kinds of vintage junk. any of these looks familiar?

groovy shades!

an old sewing machine.

later on, we came across one stall that sold care bear cousins, which are worth a lot because these are the rare retro edition. but they were going at quite a steal! i suspect the stallholder didn’t really know the value of these rare toys since her stall sold a wide plethora of items and didn’t specialise in toys. so needless to say, we haggled down the price and i got all the seven cousins they had. there goes another large portion of my progress package payout.

from left: lotsa heart elephant, playful heart monkey, loyal heart dog, brave heart lion, gentle heart lamb, cozy heart penguin, treat heart pig. another shop over there had a gigantic larger-than-life stuffed cheer bear. it was the largest care bear i had ever seen! right in front of my eyes! it was one meter tall easy! if it had looked to be in a better condition and less worn out, i would have gotten it in a heartbeat.

after the excitement had died down, we went to bugis junction for dinner. actually, we were supposed to go to the nearby national library to do work, and we even brought our laptops along. in the end we spent our time eating and shopping. dinner was at siam kitchen, which had their dinner buffet a la rice table style, going for $19.90.

just like the rice table indonesian restaurant, they would serve all their twenty dishes at one go, all in small portions so that we could sample each and every dish. it was the thai version of the rice table!

i especially liked the tom yum prawn soup, which was very sour and very spicy.

the green curry chicken didn’t appeal to me initially due to its icky color, but it tasted good nonetheless.

the spicy pomelo salad was one unique dish and was quite delightful on the tastebuds, although i wouldn’t exactly ask for a second serving.

the chicken satay was a huge letdown, with the one at the rice table faring much much better. the sauce was bland and the chicken was roasted to dryness.

then there’s the crispy fish fillet in a yummy sweet chili sauce which i really liked.

the stir fried prawns with red curry sauce was good too, except that we had to shell the prawns ourselves, a task which i absolutely hated. but it was good that i didn’t have to peel the prawns myself after all. anyway for our second prawn serving, i specifically told the hardworking waiter that we wanted peeled naked prawns. and he obliged!

Siam Kitchen
200 Victoria Street
#02-46 Parco Bugis Junction Singapore 188024
(65) 6337 3777
Price: $19.90 (dinner buffet) + 10% Service Charge + 5% GST
Buffet rating:
Service rating:

overall, i still prefer the rice table over siam kitchen. i didn’t really care for the many salad dishes that siam kitchen offered. with prices to both buffets being similar, i would go for the rice table anytime! not anytime soon though, i really need to watch my diet.

another thing i have to watch is my expenditure. chup helped by giving me his cute little teddy bear coin bank that he got from bangkok. so all my spare change would go inside his tiny belly from now on.

dinner yesterday was at the beppu menkan japanese noodle restaurant at tiong bahru plaza. they serve spicy ramen where you get to indicate your chili rating from 1 to 10, 1 being the mildest and 10 being impossibly spicy. in the past i always went for a 4 which made me tear and my nose run everytime. so this time i opted for a 2 instead, which was already quite spicy.

Oniyama Jigoku (Crispy Fried Chicken with Ramen)
Price: $8.60
Dish rating:

as usual, i ordered the oniyama jigoku, or demon hill hell. it’s crispy fried chicken with some vegetables in the very spicy kyushu soup. one interesting thing we both noted about the place was that all the serving staff were chinese nationals, while the place itself was a japanese restaurant.

Beppu Menkan Japanese Noodle Restaurant
302 Tiong Bahru Road
#02-16/17 Tiong Bahru Plaza Singapore 168732
(65) 6273 0013
Service rating:

anyway, i have changed my mobile number to a “nicer” number that can be more easily memorised. most of my friends should have already gotten wind of my new number. this would be a good chance to purge certain nuisances and psychotic bastards out of my life completely.

a brand new number, a fresh new start, a spanking new beginning. i can’t wait!

news updates

February 3, 2007: My list of Best (& Worst) Restaurants in Singapore for 2006
- Siam Kitchen has been nominated for “Best Value Buffet”

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