Joanne's Birthday Celebration 2014 @ Dancing Crab

Today i meet up with Joanne to celebrate her birthday and we checked out the current ever popular Louisiana style of seafood.

You most probably would have heard or tried a couple of the popular names like Cajun King, Full of Crab, Crab in a Bag etc.

Today we headed down to Dancing Crab which was under Tung Lok. I must say, with the Tung Lok's endorsement, it sips in an element of trust.

and being a birthday celebration, i bought a balloon and got the server to pass it to Joanne right when she arrives...

and its star shaped because just yesterday over our conversation, she was just telling me she likes star shapes over a chanel ring. The friendship with Joanne is nice and sweet. It can be totally random and over watsapp but we keep in touch. Over very random stuff. And i like that.

Happy Birthday Joanne!

and her present was a Fushia Pink VS passport holder. Something that i think is very her!

Food!


We ordered Crab Cakes to share...

Joanne felt the crab cakes were good. i found it ok, i didn't think it was superb, maybe i prefer a more crab-ish taste or chunkier meat. But i spoke to Bernard about it at a later point, he thought it was good too. I liked the sauce though.

we also ordered a lobster in their crab sauce....

That was superb! The size was just right, the sauce was yummy and the meat was succulent. Thumbs up! and btw, Lobster is IN. haha

we actually also went for one of their Combo (S$80) which comes with a Sri Lankan Crab, 300g prawns, 250g mussels, potatoes, corn and sausages....

And as you already know, its served in a big plastic bag and you are expected to use your hands and dig in.

I liked the idea it was Sri Lankan crab. I guess my previous experience at Cajun King on the dungeon crabs left a bad impression so i wasnt that adventurous in terms of the choice of crab. The dungeon crab we had previously at Cajun King was skinny and hairy, not much meat yet very expensive. So if you ask me, im happy that they have Sri Lankan crab cooked in the louisana style of sauce.

The crabs included in the bag were really big and succulent as well.

We chose the mild spicy Dancing Crab Signature sauce. I pretty liked it. It was not too spicy and had some tomato taste. I think its pretty good!

we also ordered some Oysters to share...

THE OYSTERS ARE CRAZY AWESOME! They are BIG AND FRESH! crazy good! Makes you want to go for seconds! and it appears it's not just me, had conversations with my cousin Wendy and my Bernard subsequently on different occassions about Dancing Crab and they both agreed the Oysters created an impression. It will make you want to go back for more!

and because we didnt have any carb, we ordered a Cod fish and chips as well. It was really yummy too and i loved their sauce.


And after conversing with the server, we decided to give his recommendations a try, to try this stone crab that he assured me it's defnitely sweeter and more meaty than the dungeon crabs i tried previously at Cajun King...

I must say the stone crab was indeed pretty good. The meat was tough and went well with the sauce!

By the way, ought to have a disclaimer that its not that Cajun King was not nice. I totally loved their calamari but maybe i didnt order the right kind of crab, i didn't enjoy the seafood bits as much.

Overall i must say it was a good meal! And i probably forgot to take pictures of our drinks but they have a lavendar lemonade drink that was really good. Its very fresh and appetising with that tinge of lavendar that didn't make it taste like aroma therapy. It was really good. I will order that again if i head back.

 The staffs were also nice to serve the cake that i had previously arranged for Joanne to be served in a rather special way. They had it served on a plate with dry ice below so there was smoke and all....

The cake is a pomegranate cake in a lovely heart shape that i bought from Laman Delight's. I don't know if they are the only Russian Cake shop in Singapore but their cakes are crazy good. Always moist and yummy! Its not cheap but its just so good!


and i believe its age, haha after dinner we were both just exhausted and so there wasnt part 2. Although, a impromptu jio-ing by Quek and Doe resulted in 2 quick rounds of mj and mj typically supercedes fatigue (well, mostly). It was a nice catch up with the girls and with mj. haha

When doing your best is not enough

Sometimes we set out to do our best, to give our best. We take 101 steps to ensure results are the best.

What if our best is not good enough?

Or fate comes to twart our best?

Twinkle twinkle little best :)

中秋节快乐

再一次的祝你中秋快乐。

人月两团圆

The significance of the mid autumn, this is cute... on my favourite starbucks.

An unexpected gift.

To many more mooncakes years...

謝霆鋒的24句話，針針見血，句句到肉。

1、人在的時候 ，以為來日方長什麼都有機會， 其實人生是減法， 見一面，少一面。

2、別人怎麼看你， 和你毫無關系， 你要怎麼活 ，也和別人毫無關系。

3、面子到底多少錢一斤，我們為什麼要在乎別人的看法。

4、有一天你會明白，善良比聰明更難。聰明是一種天賦，而善良是一種選擇。

5、不聞不問不一定是忘記了，但一定是疏遠了，彼此沉默太久就連主動都需要勇氣。

6、不要在心情糟爛差的時候， 用決絕的話傷害愛你的人。

7、有時候，沒有下一次，沒有機會重來，沒有暫停繼續。有時候，錯過了現在，就永遠永遠的沒機會了。

8、用心甘情願的態度，去過隨遇而安的生活。

9、所有的問題都是自己的問題。

10、有時候，我們明明原諒了那個人，卻無法真正快樂起來，那是因為，你忘了原諒自己。

11、一個人有生就有死，但只要你活著，就要以最好的方式活下去。可以沒有愛情，沒有名牌，但不能沒有快樂。

12、其實，人都是很賤的，愛你寵你的人你不稀罕，對你冷若冰霜的卻是窮追不舍。最後搞的遍體鱗傷的還是自己。

13、不要的東西， 再好也是垃圾。

14、如果你沒瞎， 就別用耳朵去了解我。

15、真正的牛逼不是你認識多少人，而是你患難的時候還有多少人認識你。

16、那些不需要解釋的事情， 從你張嘴那一刻起 ，你已經輸了。

17、很多人闖進你的生活，只是為了給你上一課，然後轉身離開。

18、距離，產生的不是美，而是詮釋了不堪一擊的愛情。

19、人生煩惱就12個字：放不下、想不開、看不透、忘不了。

20、女人沒魅力才覺得男人花心，男人沒實力才覺得女人現實。

21、慢慢的，長大了，卻感覺變沉默了，懂得多了，卻不快樂了。

22、明明不是陌生人，卻裝的比陌生人還陌生。

23、跟自己說聲對不起，這些年一直沒學會愛自己。

24、在乎才會亂想，不在乎連想都不會想。

Mala Hot Pot with Fishy!

We were around the area and Fishy has been pretty hooked onto ma la xiang guo recently. So we decided to share share and try one of the most popular ma la xiang guo around...

So apparently you choose the ingredients you want - the rathe typical steamboat kind of items like vegetables, meat, etc. The person then stir fry it in some ma la sauce for you.

 My initial impression was i thought it would be like steamboat. turns out it is dry with some sauce below. Pretty good. We asked for xiao la (a little spicy). But quite expensive. Ours cost us around $15! But good for sharing!

The happy fishy...

Birthday Celebration of the Lions Boss 2014

Gyoza ya is fast becoming one of my favourite joints. To begin with, friends who know me well enough will know that im not much of a gyoza person but their gyoza is actually quite good. But actually what i like about the place is not so much of the gyoza but the fried chicken soft bones and their chicken karage. To top it off, their pricing is very reasonable!

I have been raving about the place to a few of my colleagues so when the occassion arise for a reward lunch, it was the obvious choice.


Gyoza wise, they have the variety of pork, prawn and vegetable fillings in either boiled or pan fried style.

Today we ordered the prawn and pork fillings in both boiled and pan fried style.

 

But since the exteriors looked the same, i didnt take multiple pics or pics of the fillings coz we were too hungry! haha

The gyozas cost around $4.80 to $5.80 if i recall correctly. 

The tonkatsu noodles....

This is probably one of their specials. The soup was pretty good and the noodles were really soft. The pork belly as well was pretty good. The noodle cost around $6.50.

I tried the garlic fried rice the last time i was here with my cousin and it was awesome. So this time round since we had more people, decided to also try the seafood fried rice.

the seafood fried rice was good but not as awesome as the garlic fried rice. The garlic fried rice was really fragrant and tasty!

the chicken karage is also really tender (definitely not breast meat) and tasty...

with the ladies...

and the last dish... chicken soft bones...

the chicken soft bones are really good! The texture is just interesting! very good to chew!

we polished everything off!

Work has been overwhelming lately - for a good cause. Had to try hard to leave on the dot today because am meeting the Lions babes to celebrate the birthday of the boss!

We went to Riverview Hotel upon the recommendation of our birthday boy. It has a pretty nice view overseeing the bridge...

as it was an exhausting day, i didn't take much pictures of the food. But the oysters pretty much got me! It was so fresh and so big!

i think i had about 6 to 7 of them. Sooooo yummy!

and they had the usual selection of sashimi...

the other items they had were mainly local delights... things like rojak, bak kut teh, cuttefish with eng cai (i like!) and laksa with slipper lobster...

desserts included chendol, bobo chacha and durian pengat. I didnt try the durian pengat but those who did said it was pretty good!

and since it was a birthday celebration of a man who has everything, we got him small little sweet gifts....

the funniest has got to be the little pony from Lucy. She wanted to get him a Lion soft toy but she couldnt find the lion so she watsapp us the pic of the pony and said.. " i got him this instead coz lion is so passe " hahahha

mandatory group picture!

boss with his sweet treats...

it was also peishan's birthday!

nice night of catch up.


as for why im blogging (with pics and all) after so long coz im trying the pics upload function on blogger itself. used to use photobucket but that is kind of lay chey. Lionel introduced me this function some time ago but never had time to explore it.