The Bistro @ NUSS Suntec City Guild House

My Friday night hung out with my colleagues at the NUSS Suntec City Guild House. Thanks to a colleague who brought us there as she is a member of NUSS Graduate Club. We had our dinner at The Bistro and a Karaoke session at The K room.

I must comment the food at The Bistro is considerably good and quite reasonably priced. However, it takes a while for the food to come. So please be a little patient ^-^

This braised dish is chicken wrapped in cabbage.
The chicken meat is tender and juicy; and the cabbage is so soft.
The gravy goes well with rice.

This lobster with asparagus dish bowl is in their CNY menu and
a little overprice as the serving is small. But the presentation is lovely :)
The lobster meat is fresh and the asparagus is very crunchy and not overcooked.

Crispy Soft Shell Crab

I must say this is my favorite dish ~
Coffee Pork Ribs with almonds slices which is savory and appetizing!

Oops! A blur photo of this Deep Fried Brinjal with Bah Hu (Pork Floss)
This is my first time eating Brinjal cooked in this way. Thumbs up!
The leftover Bah Hu goes well with our rice too :)

Stir-fried Sweet Potato Leaves with Dried Shrimps
~ Spicy Vegetables ~

Silky Tofu with Mushrooms and Vegetables ~ The tofu is so soft and smooth.
A delectable dish ~ I like it ^.~

Next, our desserts ~ Mango Passion Oreos Cheesecake
Tangy and not very sweet. Nice.

Baked Apple Crumble Pie with Vanilla Ice-Cream.
The crust texture is nicely baked, crispy and not hard.
The apple slices are so flavorful with a hint of cinnamon.
I just cannot resist this dessert as it is too yummy ^.~

After a heavy dinner, we continue with our Karaoke session ~ chilling out with some beers, honey-lemon beverage and sings to de-stress ~ wo0OhO0o!

HaPpY NeW YeAr !!

*blink* *blink** and we have moved into another brand new year of 2011!

It's also time to list down your New Year's resolutions Well, I used to draw up a long list of what I wanted to accomplish but just didn't realize them all ~ Now, I just hope to stay healthy and happy throughout the years. I think it's much easier to do and fulfill it ~ haha!

Here were the shots on my New Year's eve potluck party



Fried Bee Hoon which we ordered from one of the Amoy Street hawker stall.
They were generous in giving the ingredients.



My colleagues requested for my mum's otah ~ thick slices of the tasty otah




I love Totistos whole grain tortilla chips and their yummylicious~
smooth & cheesy dip and all natural chunky salsa dip - slurp!







Sotong & Crabmeat fillet



This wonderful salad was done by an aunty working in our company. She has a flair of decorating the fruit salad. Each time we requested her to make the salad and it turns out lovely.




Last, but not least, how could we miss out a bottle of good wine for this celebration
~ Toast to all for a good year in 2011

MeRrY ChRiStMaS

It was kind of a last minute decision to arrange my annual Christmas eve gathering with my dear friends ~ Eve, Geok, JC, Li, Lyn and ST. Unfortunately, Emmy could not make it on that day but I hope she will join us next year. She better make sure she can or ELSE....:( LOL!

I decided to have our dinner at a neighborhood restaurant instead of going to town which could be crowded, long queue and also dinner prices tend to be little more expensive during Christmas.

Well, I did not make the wrong choice of going to Joe's Kitchen Thai Cuisine for our Christmas gathering. When we reached the restaurant, our wine glasses and cutlery were all set neatly on our table. I brought 2 bottles of wine since there was no corkage charge (unless you broke their wine glasses ~ please pay, hehe!) They got my wine chilled and even allowed my log cake placed in their fridge. Such great service in a nice little restaurant ~ Awesome!

With such great company of friends, delicious food and good wine, it definitely made my Christmas a super duper enjoyable one. Wooohooo!

I bought Rosemount Sauvignon Blanc ~ a white wine with a flavor of grassy, passion fruit and tropical fruit. It has an alcohol content of 7% so it's quite light.

I also bought another fruity red apple sparkling wine with 6.5% alcohol content which I forgot about the label name. But it tasted very refreshing and zesty.

Cheers to my dear friends for a great year ahead & bottoms up!

Now let's start off with our appetizer ~ Thai Mango Salad.
It's little sourish and those chili padi make it spicy too.

Stuff Chicken Wing ~ It's crunchy inside as they added water chestnut, corn, carrot, mushroom into the chicken wing.

This is Crispy Seafood Tofu ~ Silky smooth and tasted so good!

Thai Fish Cake ~ flavorful with fresh taste of the fish, herbs and spices.

This black olive rice is very fragrant and much more savory than pineapple rice.
It has served with toppings such as fried egg slices, onions, coriander leaves, ginger, cashew nuts, lemon pulps and chili padi.

Kang Kong in Thai Style ~ crunchy veg

Seafood Tom Yum Soup ~ Oh this was served after our appetizer but I was so fond of this soup and almost forgot to take a photo of it.

See the generous ingredients were almost all swept out, haha! The soup was just so0O appetizing and the color was appealing too. Do you want some too? hehe ^0^

Deep fried Sea Bass with sweet and sour sauce ~ yummy :)

A scrumptious dish ~ Clay Pot Crabs with Vermicelli which is the restaurant's signature dish.
The vermicelli is simmered with the flavor of crab and fatty pork bits ~ Wonderful taste ~ I'm salivating now ^0^

Fried Garlic Prawns ~ fresh and meat not tough.
Thumbs up as the prawns are de-shell ~ haha!

Here's come our Christmas dessert ~ LOGCAKE ^.~
The log cake was put in a lovely red box with a frosty snowman on it ~ so cute.

Ta..Da...~ Belgium Chocolate Log Cake from Lumont Chocolatier
~ Simply delectable ^.~

I shall order it again for my next Christmas party!

I receive a number of Christmas presents from my dear friends and colleagues.
Here's a glimpse of a few lovely presents from Naoko-chan, JC, Geok & Lyn.

Thanks so0O much ~ MAUCK MAUCK!

Just uploaded this pic ~ more prezzies ^-^

It was so nice and thoughtful of Naoko-chan who sent the famous Baumkuchen from Nenrinya to Lyn and me. The Baumkuchen was all the way flown from Japan and reached me on Christmas eve. What a surprise and the Baumkuchen was "Totemo oishii desu ne!"

Nenrinya's Baumkuchen is so popular that the shop is always having long queue ~ Naoko-chan mentioned that it could take almost an hour for waiting. I also remembered that there was a shop at Ginza and people would just queue for long hours to get the delicious Baumkuchen.

May all my dear friends have a blessed Christmas and a fantastic year in 2011.
Cheerios!

R & R day ^-^

Took a day off with K and we went to watch the Disney movie ~ "Rapunzel : A Tangled Tale". It was an awesome movie and the characters were interesting and hilarious too. I love the animation, visual effects and the characters were very well drawn and lively ~ Rapunzel's long golden hair was stunning and her big poppy eyes were lovely. Flynn Ryder was charming and funny too. Another 2 funny characters that kept me laughing were Rapunzel's little pet chameleon ~ Pascal and a Palace's guard horse ~ Maximus. The songs in the movie were great and I have posted a soundtrack here ~ Enjoy listening

After the movie ended, we went for our lunch at Sapporo Ramen Bishamon which is located at Great World City. As it was a week day, there were not many customers and their service was fast.

Typical bar counter ~ very Nihon look

We like this Tofu Salad very much ~ very refreshing and the dressing was so tasty.
We ordered additional toppings for our salad. Yum Yum

See the Tamago ~ this is what i like it cooked and goes with my ramen!

Okonoiyaki Gyoza ~ taste good too.

Close-up ~ it makes me salivating!

A little disappointing as the seaweed turned soft on my temaki.

A satisfying lunch & keeps me happy for the rest of the day!

It is 14 days to Christmas & I have yet to finish my shopping