Mark's birthday dinner @ Ritz Carlton

This was certainly one of the best restaurants I've been to for my birthday. Nice ambience and a wide choice of food for buffet. We almost missed this meal as we went for a wild goose chase and went to Carlton Hotel first before moving on to the correct 'Carlton' (with a 'Ritz' in front) Hotel. After walking some distance and arriving at the wrong hotel, we decided to ease some of the frustration by taking cab. Haha.. it was certainly worth all the effort and money after all..

The lighting was comfortable. While the buffet area was very brightly lit, the dinning area was cosy and easy on your eyes with rather dim lights.

We started the course with raw food, comprising fresh oysters, salmon sashimi and cold crab. Sashimi was decent, but oyster and crab was better. The former was really quite fresh for what you can get in Singapore while the latter was sweet.

We moved on to cooked food. Big barbecue prawns and cod fish were some of the better dishes. The prawns were prepared on order and takes around 5-10 minutes to cook.

The dessert, in terms of variety, taste and looks made us question if Fullerton's Chocolate buffet was worth your money. Well.. of course at Fullerton, the desserts were chocolate-themed. But throw in the ice cream (the sorbet ice creams taste really really REALLY GOOD!), and the winner for dessert is clear. Your can literally taste happiness when it comes to Ritz Carlton's ice creams. TRY IT!!

Look at our blissful faces, and you know you can't go too wrong with RC. Its $178 but with UOB card it costs around $160 for 2. Pamper yourself on those special occasions! A place we'll definitely visit again.

12 Dec - Home cooked lunch

I've simply forgotten about this until I was uploading photos from work. On this day, I decided to cook lunch for Mark. It was an in-prompt-to thing. So we didn't caught a video of the process. Only the result, TADA:


My famous green curry chicken, dear's favourite saba fish, leftover fried rice which granny cooked for my brothers and 2 lovely coconuts!


The price for saba fish has increased 2 times ever since more korean restaurants and stalls have opened in Singapore. Shop n safe sells it in slices as above. Raw of course. It's easy to cook. Procedures are as follow:

1. Wash fish and drain off water.
2. Season with salt.
3. Heat pan with oil.
4. Pan fry fish till cooked
5. Serve with lemon slice.

Christmas Eve Dinner

This is a long overdue post covering our Christmas Eve celebration together. Wanted to give Shirley a surprise and I started feeling cocky when she made all the wrong guesses where I was about to bring her. And well.. sigh.. as usual the surprise turned to 'no surprise' as she still managed to figure out it was 'Chocolate Buffet' treat she was in for eventually!



We had a short stroll along the river before heading for the well anticipated Chocolatey treat which starts at 8pm and is available till 11pm. According to the website, Chocolate Buffet is available on Fri and Sat, however on Christmas Eve, a Thu, it did not disappoint chocolate loving peeps like ourselves looking to pamper our taste buds during the festive season. It costs around $60 a person and comes together with dessert wine (we thought the wine was nice).

A place I wanted to bring Shirley to for some time already. The Fullerton Hotel's Chocolate Buffet was well-known and recommended by many. Well, the treats were equisitive but the experience fell short of our expectations, factoring the rave reviews it has earned over the years.

As we step into 'Courtyard' for the buffet, our eyes combed the place, expecting long stretches of tables displaying chocolate desserts, however our eyes were the not getting the treat as expected. Visually it could have been more impressive. What the place had were a) small round table displaying assorted chocolate cakes and desserts




b) section where you can choose from a variety of solid chocolate which the staff will melt together with milk to give u a chocolate drink ( u can choose to infuse Rose Petal, Lavender, Szechuan Pepper, Chili, Star Anise, Black Cardamon, Wasabi, Lemongrass, Ginger and Coffee into your drink but we say it doesn't taste that different) and




c) a fondue area where u basically mix and match fruits and mush mellow for a sinful chocolate dip!




With that said, it was still no doubt a worthy trip to uncover all that hype behind the Chocolate Buffet. A place we will still visit, but maybe well.. not that frequently? Below are some pictures covering those sinful looking faces indulging in a chocolatey evening..



That's all for 2009! Have a great 2010 to all!