I took a day leave today and planned for it to be at least an eventful one. Well… not bad I think… haha…=)
This morning, as usual, I was woken up by the stupid alarm which I didn’t bother to turn off the night before. I thought I’ll just ignore the alarm when I woke up realising that I’m supposed to be on leave today. However, to my annoyance, I couldn’t really get myself to go back to sleep after a futile attempt as I was already quite wide awake… guess I just couldn’t adjust my body clock around… what a waste, since there was a slight drizzle outside and it was meant to be the PERFECT weather for sleeping or at least lazing in bed.
At about 11am later, mum and I went to Sengkang, planning to meet third aunt for shopping and lunch later on. Initially, we took the MRT to harbourfront thinking that we’ll eat the ala carte buffet at the dragon gate restaurant. However, we were late when we reached (almost 2pm) and the last order ends at 1.45pm. I didn’t even realized we were that late… haha… so paiseh when the waiter pointed that out. In the end, we didn’t eat at the dragon gate restaurant.
Our next destination was Chinatown and we thought we could probably settle on a decent restaurant there for our lunch.
Well… we did settle down for lunch at almost 3pm at Yum Cha restaurant in Chinatown. There was a dim sum high tea buffet from 3pm to 6pm and it was only available from Monday to Friday excluding public holidays (wow… just happened to be something I was secretly craving for a while ago… haha). We eventually settled on that and these are some of the dim sum we ate:
Sesame prawn and mango roll (right) and prawn dumpling? (left)
Sesame prawn and mango roll (again?) nope… haha… from the main plate…
The variety… consisting of steamed chicken claws (bottom) crystal chives dumplings (top left) and erm... scallop with pea shoot dumpling? (right)
Steamed Xiao Long Bao!!
One piece missing in action…=)…
The menu….
Introducing the delicious mango pudding…
The pan fried carrot cake I waited so long for (left)… and the crystal (wonder why?) paper chicken (right)
The lemongrass jelly with fruits… it has a special taste, I like it… =)
Overall, I think the food is nice and the prawns used in their dim sum were fresh. A great experience I would say. The bill totalled up to almost 60 bucks which I think was rather worth the price as I think almost everything tasted good. Even third aunt, who was usually picky about food, commented that the dim sum were nice… =)
After the dim sum high tea, I left to meet my friend W at orchard to catch the movie Mama Mia at Lido. I accompanied W to have her dinner at Sakae Sushi. I didn’t eat anything cos I was still feeling extremely full from the dim sum just now. After the dinner, W and I went to shop around as well as to buy some tibits before proceeding to Lido for the movie.
The movie was nice and I really like the songs in it… such as “I had a dream”, “Mama Mia”, “Dancing Queen” and many others that I didn’t know of the song titles. It was classics… and the tunes were like so catchy that makes u feel like singing along…
Well.. glad my leave today turned out to be an fufilling one =)
