CNY Steamboat & Lou Hei

CNY is a season where you get fat and never enough of eating. This post is dedicated to post the number of steamboat and lou hei I had!!!

Steamboat:
Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Lou Hei:

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Vday/ Bday Celebration

We had a total of 4 stops during that day! Had fun travelling together, and we took a bus home from last stops back home which had a total of 44 stops!!

1) Ssikekk Korean BBQ @ Novena
-Decided to go back to here to eat instead of Tampines 1
- Though T1 is nearer to both of us, but heard reviews that the outlet there is not as nice
- We paid $15 per pax for Weekday Lunch after adding those charges
- Very good place for meat lover, and those that are looking out for a place for gathering
- However, might be noisy and cramped with people at night


                       

2) Movie at Marina Square GV- Parker
- Action movie, worth watching
- Price: $7 (Weekday price)

3) Cookies for Sid at City Link
- Saw people's posting pic of these cookies so I gave it a try
- Bought 3 cookies: Choco Chip, Oatmeal Raisin and Mocha Espresso
- If I remember correctly, it is $4.60 for 3
- Website: http://www.cookiesforsid.com/

4) Tonkatsu King at Tanjong Pagar
- Went there because of the high reviews on HungryGoWhere
- Reached there about 6.20pm and there are seats available
- However, about 7pm there is no more seats already
- Allow to queue and wait outside
- Restaurant is quite small in size
- Complimentary bean sprout and eggs
- Ordered their Ramen with all the ingredients ($12.80)
- Soup base is not bad, however quite salty for me

Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

Sorry for not posting for quite awhile due to studies! I've completed my 6 semesters/3 years of my polytechnic studies!! Now, I'm left with Graduation Ceremony which  is on the 21st May.

Okay, so this post I will blog about the Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe.

Serves 15

Banana Cake's Ingredients:
140g butter
355g white sugar
2& 1/2 eggs
8ml vanilla extract
310g all purpose/plain flour
6g baking soda
1g salt
295 buttermilk
8ml lemon juice
280g mashed ripe bananas

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 135 Degree Celsius. Grease a 9x13 inch pan.
2. Weigh banana and mash them with a fork. Add in lemon juice and mix. Set qside.
3. Weigh buttermilk in a small bowl. Set aside.
4. In a medium bowl, weigh flour, baking soda, salt. Sieve and set aside.
5. In a bowl, weigh butter and sugar. Cream till light and fluffy.
6. Beat in egg one at a time, then stir in vanilla extract.
7. Beat in flour mixture alternately with buttermilk.
8. Stir in banana mixture. Pour batter into prepared pan.
9. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour and 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
10. Remove from oven and cool it on a cooling rack.

Cream Cheese Frosting's Ingredients:
95g butter, softened
185g cream cheese, softened
350 confectioners' sugar
4ml vanilla extract

Method:
1. In a bowl, weigh butter and cream cheese. Cream till smooth.
2. Beat in vanilla extract.
3. Add in confectioners sugar and beat on low speed until combined, then on high until frosting is smooth.
4. Spread on cooled cake.

Wordings is pipe-written using Nutella Chocolate.

2nd Bday Cake baked for the Bday Boy!

Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting! Letters piped using Nutella. Candles and Happy Bday Tag is from Phoon Huat.

Recipe will be up soooon!!!

Bday Boy Dinner at Jin Hock Seafood @ Tampines

We ordered the set meal of 10 items for 10 pax, but we upsize for the cost of additional 40 dollars because there are 14 pax. The total price came up to about 300SGD. The food served I can said, is GOOD! And service is fast. The place is crowded, therefore reservations booking is recommended. A must go back place!

Chu 7/Ren Re Dinner at Hougang

Actually my family wanted to eat Leong Ji Seafood at Hougang Green. However, they could not give us a table for table of 14. Therefore, we decided to give the tze char stall beside a try. The dishes are okay, just that it kind of a little salty. The meal for 10 dishes (ordered by ourselves) cost 240SGD. Would not really go back to eat the tze char again though because it is quite pricey i.e. 1 Crab cost 50, Plate of Chicken cost 30.

Happy Ren Re Everybody!!

CNY 2013

An update about my CNY 2013! (:
Always love this period of the year where you get to eat, play, chat, catch-up etc!
I had also uploaded my outfit of the day pictures!
Sorry that some pictures are quite blurry as phone camera was used.
Photos can be seen at Instagram too @thatsmecrystal

1) Reunion Dinner @ Putien Tampines







2) Chu 1/ Day 1













2) Chu 2/ Day 2






3) Chu 3/ Day 3








4) Chu 4/ Day 4











Had a great and enjoyable cny everybody! ^^

Lunar New Year

Happppy Lunar New Year peopleeeeee!!!! :D

CNY Gellish Nails

Did my nails at Tampines (a shop that is opposite KOI and is beside a fruit stall). The shop is packed with people thus appointment must be made. There is extra surcharge during this CNY Period. I did gellish manicure, i decided to choose pastel pink and blue colour and topped it with glitters.  It has kind of a gradient effect! It cost about 60-70bucks~! Loving it!! So ready for CNY!!

Short Updates for this Week

A short food updates for this week:

1) Laskania at Nex. 

- Find this place quite innovative as usually laska to create different dishes!

- Cosy and nice environment. Service is quite okay

- However, food might be a little too pricey than average

- Price for a dish cost about $8~

- I tried their laksa lasagna and laska dry goreng and fried chicken wings 

- Worth a one-time try I would say (I went to try because I used its Groupon voucher ^^)

2) Paradise Inn at Changi Airport Terminal 1

- Crowded with people. Good service.

- Love their Chinese Tea, Pu-er. Stay warm for a long period of time

- Tried their fried rice, dry noodles, spinach with 3 eggs, Omelette, Kong Ba Pao etc

- Good for family gathering , though expensive

3) Pepper Lunch at Hougang Mall

- Require some time to wait for seats. Self-service service

- Able to have 15% off as a Student after 6pm

- These two pictures are Salmon & Teriyaki Chicken, $13 and Curry Chicken with Cheese, $9

4) Ipoh Lao You Bean Sprout Chicken at Chinatown Point

- Fast service however food is expensive and not worth it.

- Tried their Ipoh Coffee and Kampong Chicken (First two picture in the last pic above)

5) Lai Lai at Opposite Bugis Junction

- Fast service. Affordable food prices.Taiwan's Cuisine

- Love their Ru Rou Fan and Milk Tea. Ramen's meat is tender and soft too

- Price range about $12~ per person. Set meals available

(Pictures can be seen in the last picture above , last four pictures)

6) Just Acia at Downtown East

- Cheap and affordable. Some set meal are worth it

- Cheapest set meal $5.90. They served free flow drinks and ice cream

- Ordered Dory fish with cheese and Ginseng Chicken

- Price range about $10~ per pax. 

Other than food, as Chinese New Year is coming and this year is Snake Year!

Chinatown had a yellow long snake and red lanterns being hung at the road! 

Pictures can be seen below:  

Alsooooooooooooooo, last but not least, Ah Boys to Men 2 is out already!!

Remember to catch it in the cinema! Watched it today to relax myself after a long week of school work!

Nice and funny movie!! Worth watching! 

Okayyyy, that's the end of a quite long post! Enjoy the upcoming week guys!