wow i already had three steamboat dinners over the past ten days! you know how steamboat dinners tend to be. people always stuff themselves with more food than their body can take, and that’s exactly what happened during each and every one of those dinners.

the first was a reunion dinner at home on chinese new year eve, which i had already blogged about. the second was on saturday at tian tian huo guo (happy pay steamboat) at primero place along tan quee lan street, behind bugis junction.

as with almost all steamboat places, we could have unlimited food servings including tiger prawns. the corn ribs soup and snakehead fish soup in particular were pretty good. stay away from the mala soup though. it’s too spicy and oily and didn’t taste nice at all; it’s basically just chili oil. not too sure how much it cost per person because it was my brother who footed the bill.

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i went to the river hong bao at esplanade park a few nights ago. this time it wasn’t as crowded as the previous time i went, which was last year.

i really liked the decor of the place this time round. they had transformed the otherwise dull area into one thick with the lively chinese new year atmosphere. red, yellow and purple little bulbs, as well as huge peach lanterns adorned every tree.

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hello people, i’m back from relative visiting in pengerang. i actually came back a day earlier than planned because i intended to complete some work over there, but forgot to pack my laptop charger.

(we go to pengerang every year so i didn’t really take many pictures this time. for more pictures of pengerang, see these posts from last year’s visit: pengerang day 1, day 2 and day 3.)

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i had reunion dinner with my family just now. we used to have it at my granny’s house but stopped ever since she passed away a few years ago. reunion dinner for us now is just a simple affair at home, which is exactly how i like it — dinner with just family. for us, having a meal together comes just once a year.

it was steamboat with a lot of food like chicken, abalone, scallops, prawns, etcetera. as usual, mom overestimated and bought way too many ingredients. after each of us had been stuffed with food, there was still plenty left over. so we’re gonna have a second reunion dinner again next week.

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happy chinese new year everyone! i spent the whole of last night making an e-card for all of you. here it is!

gong xi fa cai!

much love,
veron

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