Finally, got round to making this post! Went out like… two weeks ago with my sis and her friends to celebrate her bday… and I snapped some photos! Her bday is on the 3rd of Jan, right after the new day, so the christmas decorations were still around! And there’s the Orchard road (premium shopping street in SG) pedestrian night too. It’s a trial that’s underway, where they close the road once a month on the first Saturday of the year to well, let you roam the streets. It was kinda… pathetic though IMO. There were some random performances here and there, a stage, with a very noisy MC. And is was pretty crowded with tourists and Singaporean alike… but the whole atmosphere was lacking. The street performers were still by the sidewalks, as they always were, because they are not license/authorised to perform in the middle of the road. It’s a once a month, 6 hour event, so they didn’t think of setting up stalls in the middle of the road. Some snack stalls and such would certainly give the whole place a more… carnival, festive atmosphere. Thankfully the Christmas lights were still up so we had something to see on this occasion. But otherwise? Kinda disappointing. There’s so much more that could have been done really. And considering how much SG depends on tourism to survive, the Singapore tourism board really should have done better.
Okays. Without further ado, photos!
We meet up for lunch at this Japanese-French restaurant in Plaza Singapura. Hashing Coffee as you can see from the pic. Thankfully there wasn’t any queue when we arrived. The food was superb!
Curry pot. Delicious!
Lobster bisque spaghetti. Oh the lobster bisque. Heavenly! It was really mouthfuls of lobster!
Finally the fuwa phew souffle rice! Well you can’t really tell from this pic but...
Yes the souffle has risen a lot! I ate at miam miam before, also a Japanese-French restaurant serving souffle dishes… and the souffle only rose like… half the height of this one. What’s more, the service at this restaurant is excellent. The chef (a Japanese), I’m guessing he’s the owner, serves the dishes personally. He seemed pretty amused that both me and my sister exclaimed ‘sugeii!’ in unison when this was served.
As there was only three of us, we only ordered three main dish.
What about dessert you ask? We went to another shop!
Too many good food, too little $$$, and too little stomach space. This was from Nana’s Green Tea, also in Plaza Singapura. I ordered the hojicha with hojicha ice cream and mochi balls. That’s the main drink shown in the above pic.
Then there was the green tea latte with soft serve ice cream.
And finally the sweet potato parfait. Sweet potato is like, their special ingredient of the month, and they had various sweet potato desserts.
A quick peak at the pedestrian night at Orchard road. It’s not that late yet, maybe just after 6pm (the event starts at 6pm). But as you can see, it’s CROWDED!
We met up with more of my sis’s friends and went to far east plaza for dinner. It used to be our old hangout in secondary school. Cos our sec school (yes, they are all my juniors) is just like, a 15 mins walk away. There used to be loads of hip shops for teens, but seems like a lot of the shops have closed down and are vacant now. And with my sec sch moving to a new location in idk how many year’s time (the news first came out like 5 years ago or something?), this place is gonna end up pretty dead after the move.
Saveur, french for dinner!
Saveur’s pasta, which used to be called angel’s hair no the menu. Delicious. And cheap.
Cappuccino? Nope! It’s mushroom soup!
The best dish in Saveur, as I’ve been told by numerous people, is the duck confit. It tastes like the Chinese 金华火腿, or jinghua ham, but it doesn’t make the dish any less delicious. Best of all the prizes at Saveur are really affordable. I can’t stress that enough.
Dessert! Their dessert menu changes every month, I’m told. This time it was pandan flavoured crème brûlée and pistachio panna cotta.
A pretty signboard at the restaurant.
Pedestrian night at Orchard… the promotion banner.
We went out and walked a little on the road once more after dinner. But there was really nothing much to do. And it was just a really small stretch of road that was closed so…
They placed chairs in the middle of the road for people to take photos.
A pretty Christmas tree in front of the paragon shopping centre.
Some Christmas decos that were still hanging.
Random photos of random shopping centres along Orchard. The road closure isn’t in effect on this stretch of the road.
Well the exterior is quite pretty… though the tall trees are kinda blocking.
Inside orchard central. It was pretty late then, all the shops have closed.
Again, at the basement of Orchard central. Quite a pretty decoration.
The long corridor to the toilet...
That never fails to amuse me.
A really tall sculpture in the shopping centre. It’s supposed to be of a lady holding two shopping bags.
And that was all! It was what… 10, almost 11pm by this time? Pretty much all the shops have closed already so we headed home right after.
We had a mini bday celebration at home the day after…
Mum got some frozen crabs back from my gran (a fishmonger). She wanted to make like… crab soup? with it and got me to help. It turned out… quite a failure though. This crab isn’t really suitable for making soup. The taste is pretty blend. It should have been steamed instead.
Still… I tried my best to make the ramen crab soup!
Then well. My mum helped and ended up kinda… making a mess? She added too much fish stock, so there goes all the crab flavour… :X
Mum got turkey drumstick from the supermarket. We tried a turkey leg in Harbin too, but this was nicer. Not so dry and more tender.
And what’s a bday w/o a cake right? A ska cake for my sis! :)
And that’s all the bday related photos! That’s all for now! Till next time! Now it’s time to head to bed!
