zenn bites...

a quiet weekend. finally.

some happy moments, others, rather down. this rollercoaster i'm on is still moving along at its blinding speed.

sometimes i find myself barely clinging on. sometimes, i feel like i've already fallen off.

sometimes i wonder why i even try so hard to stay on.
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i'm growing fat - comfort eating? maybe - have been eating so much that my stomach constantly feels bloated. sick.

mummy's green bean soup

mum cooked a pot of green bean soup on saturday, and i finished half of it all by myself. (it's raining! rain = cold = need nice, warm food like green bean soup. plus rain = no coaching = more time to eat)

and this was after i chomped down an entire bah zhang for brunch (haven't eaten bah zhang in such a long time that it tasted so good! but it almost made me puke in the end...tsk, no self-control!)

japanese restaurant

fawn's jap food obsession continues and the family ventured to this jap place at parkway (can't remember the name of the restaurant).

it shares the floor with the heartland k-box so there's no peace, but the food was better than expected.

they had a jap-cum-local food buffet that was going for $26 per person but we figured we shouldn't pay for ee-min and fried rice, and fried bean sprouts in a jap restaurant, so we went a la carte.

the sashimi's shiok *drool*, the chawanmushi so-so. the fried tofu's nice and hot, the first plate of gyoza i had to send back coz it's cold. the sushi's comparable with that of sakae's.

not too bad at all! *burp*

corduroy & finch

i continued my gastronomic adventure at corduroy & finch the next morning - the food was only so-so and they have a very small breakfast menu.

i could've made better scrambled eggs. the sausages were yum though, but the mushrooms in cream were way too salty.

the beef mignon's perfect...mmm...

the ambience was pretty nice - cosy, and the display shelves're colourful & kinda old school...but the food lacked quality control (the moody chef has a very i-can't-care-less attitude, or so the waiter told us)...and at over a 100 buckaroos for 3 people, rather extravagant a breakfast...think having lunch there would be a better choice...

many thanks to tristan for that treat. (i'm hoping i worked it all off during my swim after)

wah lok restaurant

lunch yesterday was at carlton hotel's wah lok restaurant. the dim sum's scrumptious...very fresh prawns in the har-gao (however you spell it) and fu-pi-juan. the yabbi pie's yum (i always thought it's spelt yabby and pronounced "yeh-bee" so when the waitress suggested that we order "yah3-beee1" pie i was abit lost...).

they had this special carrot cake fried in xo sauce which tasted just normal though.

the mango and pomelo dessert with sago's my favourite - juicy pomelo bits, sweetsour mango chunks, bouncy sago bits, creamy mango 'soup' - shiok!

many thanks to my committee member laura for this treat.

new zealand natural

or "new zealand fresh" as feng called it. haha

they serve the best mango passion yoghurty-ice cream thingy. though the 4 scoops i had yesterday night almost made me ill. (ok, 3 scoops...the first 2 scoops were so small - silly malay woman who didn't weigh my ice cream - that they're half the size of the second 2 scoops - good chinese girl who weighed it properly.)

thanying restaurant

located on the 2nd floor of amara hotel, thanying restaurant's a gem.

piping hot green tea, steaming clear tom yam soup, fragrant white rice coupled with creamy green chicken curry, together with crispy fried fish in sweet chilli sauce, sauteed vegetables and an interesting piece of fish cake.

perfect for a cold, sleepy tuesday afternoon.

many thanks to golf committee member mr ng for the treat.


that's all my big lunches cleared for the weak (unless ian and helly decide to go to some posh do tomorrow), so *phew*! detox time...porridge, water, exercise!
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all the smoke from the burning of things for 7th month's hurting my eyes...urgh...