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My humble shots of fireworks from my house window

National Day dinner

The main courses were cooked by me, using the recipe from the cookbook meant as a belated birthday present from my friends, Wenwei and Huiqing. Thank you to my friends once again. There were adaptations. I don't take mutton hence I used beef. Steaks were expensive and still are, hence used roast beef ham to substitute. This was still expensive in comparison to normal pork and chicken ham. I had a lot of red wine in my fridge and hence it came to be useful in making the sauce. The sauce was quite nice.

The tiramisu was bought from the Cold Storage at Leisure Park, from something Swiss company.
It tasted delicious, with the liqueur not overpowering the entire taste.

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Dinner at Stonegrill

This was my first experience using stone to cook food, honestly, I don't really like it. The stone was really hot, big and bulky too, I was so scared to burn my fingers if I touch it accidentally. It made me feel cumbersome trying to navigate my fork and knife on the table.



The soup was not bad with the cheese bread (a surprise to me) and the chicken was average in my opinion. The appetizer which cost $2 was so hard that it made my bracket came off (that cost $20), so unlucky. The potato wedges came in a bowl covered with cheese. Probably due to my braces, these soft wedges appealed to me more than the rest.

Aerin and Qianhu

One fine day, My Dear dear and I decided to go for fish spa. We met at Raffles City to have lunch before going all the way down to Choa Chu Kang to take a shuttle bus to Qianhu.

At Raffles City, I saw Aerin restaurant and roughly recalled it being famous for some dish, but I cannot recall the what dish was that. Anyway, the food tasted decent and I ordered my carrot cake. It was famous for Apple pie or something along that line, and I missed it due to my forgetfulness.

The trip to Qianhu was quite fun. While waiting for the free shuttle bus, there was this old lady who waved her hands about to create way in between My Dear dear and me. We were like looking at her dramatic ways when there was so much space behind me and behind Dom. She purposely want to walk in between us, so we just let her through.
There was so many fishes at Qianhu (being a fish farm, it was expected). A few fishes left deep impression in my mind like the fairy kois (they really looked fairy like), the stingrays (they don't keep still) and the discus which were really colorful unlike what my mother used to had. The highlight was the fish spa, which was the main purpose too.

This was by far, the cheapest fish spa I can find, $10 per 1/2 hr. The sucking fishes which we were familiar given being shown on television were the smaller size. The big ones were scary in a sense. We saw them approaching and I wondered if their bite will engulf my whole toe...
they turned out to be extremely gentle and the image that formed in my mind was like we were king and queen with little servants serving us diligently (haha...). The experience was really fun and I did enjoyed myself a lot.