Czzar - 13 Feb 2011

Located at Great World City, Czzar is indeed a chinese restaurant with a spread of local dishes. On 13 February, Jenny, Peichin, Kok Choong and myself met up for lunch to celebrate chinese new year.

A spacious restaurant we opted to dine at the inner dinning section where it was more enclosed. Customers started to steam in past lunch time. Nice decorations - the red designs eemed to blend in with the festive cheer.

Our first dish was none other than Prosperity Yusheng priced at $22.80. For the 4 of us, the small dish seemed like a large dish of Yusheng.No wonder we still had a small plate of yusheng at the end of the meal.

Prosperity Yusheng

Fish maw & Crabmeat Soup

Next we had the fish maw and crabmeat soup priced at $12.80. Tasty and delicious. We ordered the medium serving and the bowl could serve up to 5 servings. KC had the remaining bowl of soup.

Scallop Asparagus with XO sauce

A healthy and delicous dish, the XO sauce brough out the flavour of the dish. Wished the portion could be more. Priced at $19.80, I wonder which was more expensive - the scallops or the asparagus?

Steam Crab with egg White

This was the first time I had steam crab with egg white. The egg white is so smooth and it melts in your mouth. The crab is simply delicious. Very meaty and fresh.

Yam paste, Strawberry Pudding, Avocado Pudding, Mango Pamelo

How can we forget dessert. I had the mango pamelo and it's thumbs up for me . Not someone who loves  strawberry dessert, I didn't mind the strawberry Pudding. The avocado pudding was just a little blend for me. It didn't have the avocado flavour. Peichin had the yam paste and then she had to leave. She had another lunch appointment after this.

Jenny & Peichin

Jenny & Pat

Pat & Peichin

KC, Peichin, Jenny & Pat

I had a fun and enjoyable time catching up with my friends. Thanks for the good food and company.

Daffies Nite Out - 18 Feb 2011

My Classmates from our DAFF course ( Diploma in Adult Faith Formation) met up for drinks and dinner on 18th February. It was great fun and fellowship.

Glass of Muscat

Plate of cold cuts - Salami, Bresola,Proscuitto, Plain Ham

Our first Stop was a drinks place at No 24 Ang Siang Hill. It was my first time drinking Muscat, a white dessert wine and really like the sweetness. We ordered a plate of cold cuts, which included salami, Bresaola, prosciutto, plain ham. With bread and butter with the cold cuts and our glass of wine, it was just delicious. For the first round, we had Karen, Ana, Kris, Pat and Jeremy.

We were supposed to meet at Chinatown Complex. We caught up with Clement, Violet and Stephanus there. Jeremy had to go in search of Stephanus who landed himself at the bak gua stall - must be post CNY blues :)

Then we headed to the Zi Char Stall called "Hometown Cuisine" unit no #02-153/54 thanks to the recommendation of Ana. She even ordered 2 crabs for us. Yes the crabs have to be pre-ordered. We overheard Clement and Jeremy saying those 2 crabs were just for them. Lucky there was no crab-fight.

Upon arrival, we had a table to ourselves. We proceeded to order the food. These are the dishes we had. Simply delicious, I will definitely want to go back to the stall to eat.

Sotong balls

deep fried tofu

Brinjal with mince meat

 Fried Seafood Mee Sua

Pork Ribs marinated with wine

Kai Lan

The highlight of the evening - Chilly Crabs 

Daffies on a Friday Nite with fellowship and fun

Dinner at Newton Circus Food Centre - 21 Feb 2011

SJI Prefect Exo with Ms Ang - Dinner at Newton Hawker Centre

It's been over a year since I met up with the Prefect Exco for a meal. Hence on 21 February 2011, a Monday night, I headed to Newton Circus Food Centre to meet up with the Josephians.

As one enters the Newton Food Centre, I was immediately confronted with a whole row of stalls selling all sorts of foods. Wandering around the food centre, one will find many more rows of stalls, and quite likely, will be at a loss as to what to eat and how to order it.

Luckily, we didn't have to fret what to eat as Jianhao knew the food to order. Seems like he is the "small boss" of Newton. Roderick, Marcus and Jianhao were there first. We had the carrot cake and popiah while waiting for Agung and Michael. Michael met Agung who was coming from NTU. By the time they arrived, it was around 8.10pm.

Fried Carrot Cake

Delicious Popiah

Sugar Cane Drink

The plates of food came streaming in. In total we had 5 popiahs, 2 drinks each, carrot cake, chilli lala, 2 stingrays, sambal kangkong, fried rice and 60 sticks of satay. Each of us paid $20 each. Good spread of food and great company.

Chilli Lala - Clams

This plate of LaLa is pretty addictive. The sauce is a bit spicy but the Lala is just so chewy. Something different from the seafood dishes that we usually eat.

Stingray

I still love the stingray they have at Marche. Not a person who takes hot stuff, I always make an exception for stingray. We ordered 1 chilli stingray but 1 stingraythat was partially hot and the other side that was not hot. For the latter, there was a seperate plate of chilli.

Fried Rice

The Fried Rice was the staple food of the evening. It was the one of the first few dishes to see an empty plate.

Sotong

Sotong was nice, we were too full to finish off the entire dish. Hope we don't end up being too blur after this dish.

Sambal KangKong

The vegetable dish that was the greens of the day.

60 sticks of satay

Satay & Gravy

60 sticks of satay, yap, that's what we ordered. We were supposed to have 10 sticks, but at the end of the day, I only had 7 sticks, so did Michael. We encouraged Agung not to waste food and complete the remaining sticks of satay. There were 3 remaining sticks at the end of dinner.

Agung, Pat, Roderick,Michael, Jianhao and Marcus

It was great catching up with Josephians and good to know all of them are doing well. We'll catch up again before Mike flys off for his course abroad. Jianhao, thanks for organising. Stay in touch guys! Study hard. Ora Et labora.        

Lo Hei at Beng Thin Hoon Kee Restaurant - 16 February 2011

Participants from the Dinner

On 16th February 2011, members from Marketing Executives Group and Strategic Management Group from SIM had 2 tables  at Beng Thin Hoon Kee Resturant to celebrate the CNY festive period. Located at OCBC Centre at #05-02, Beng Thin Hoon Kee is known as one of the best and oldest hokkien restaurants in Singapore. We were certainly delighted with the spread of of food. The Chinese New Year menu consisted of 8 dishes.

Beng Thin Prosperity Yu-Sheng

Our first dish was Beng Thin Prosperity Yu-Sheng. Tossing the Yu-sheng as high as we can, it's amazing to see the bonding and unity of our members as we tossed to a roaring year of abundance 2011.

Crabmeat Fishmaw Soup
The soup was delicious and the ingredients were aplently. All ready for  a second helping.

Cripsy Roast Chicken

A few of us started on the cripsy crackers before we ate the roast chicken. A little on the tough side, the chicken was still tasty.

Steam Fresh Sea Bass

The Sea Bass was certainly very fresh and tender meat.

Steam Fresh Prawns

A fan of seafood, i couldn't resist the succulent prawns. Absolutely juicy and fresh.

Mushrooms and Vegetables

The sauce added to the flavour of the dish. Good combination of mushrooms and vegetables.

Fujian Fried Noodle

Usually the rice or noodle dish is something I do not look forward to, as I always look forward to dessert. Yet this dish was really tasty. The portion was just nice and it was different from our usual noodle dish.

Longan Almond Jelly

Something sweet to end of the night.

Esther, Michelle and Pat

All smiles after dinner

Members for dinner on 16 feb 2011

We would like to thank all for coming down to this event. Many thanks to Esther for the coordination and assistance. Look forward to more SIM events 2011