Monday, July 03, 2006
Pig Out at Teahouse
Dinner was an ala carte buffet at Teahouse at China Square. A cosy 4 of us - Meowmeow, Chien, Catholic boy and myself. Not pig out JUST on tea. Though Meow Meow probably did that. Heh. I chose that place cos it's the first time every dish on the menu caught my interest. *grin*
Meow claims I conned her into dinner. Chien didn't know it was a buffet. HF didn't know it was today. Emay didn't know there was dim sum on the menu. K gals, my fault... Heh. Next time I suggest, someone else organise k? Hee.
Oh before I forget, I had the privilege to give directions based on memory and I felt like I was in virtual reality. Something like Mission Impossible 3 which featured Tom Cruise in China or the like, where you use high-tech methods to enter and navigate round a building or place... with someone giving you directions through your ear piece. I did exactly that with Chien as she combed Far East Square and China Square. Haha! Quite fun.
The funniest thing was guessing what she wore. Spaghetti straps? Skirt? Pants? White top? What bag? What shoes? What colour? Ultimate guesses which popped up were... "I bet she has long hair", "I bet she's wearing shoes", "I bet she brought both limbs". How ingenious!
Ok, now to the food. No photos here but you can fuel your imagination and whet your appetite.
Individual sharks' fin soup, herbal prawn (yummy soup), Peking duck, cereal softshell crab with curry leaves, braised beef brisket with radish, ostrich meat, tofu with mushroom, scallop with cuttlefish and vegetables, garlic kailan, salad prawn, salmon sashimi, mini octopus, jellyfish....
Topped up with varieties from the dim sum menu: siu mai, har gao, chicken claws (2X), char sao pau, deep fried prawn dumpling, chives har gao...
Dessert: Dried tang yuan with sesame filling, honey guiling gao (with no wu gui and no pot of honey for me to drink from), mango pudding which was supposedly yummy but I didn't get a taste of (humph!), cheng ting....
The fun part of it all was the laughter. The suaning of Meow Meow, her gaining comfort from her little teapot, us egging her on to exit from the exit door just a few inches from her to wallow in her pity, attempting to throwing food which you can't finish out of the exit door so that no one will know, making Catholic boy finish the food, plotting of ways to dunk Meow into water (Either a bucket or a toilet bowl), Catholic boy figuring out why and how Meow is the president of Calculus club, waiting for Chien to grow hungry in an instant, etc.
The wits of my friends. I like. Heh.
Meow claims I conned her into dinner. Chien didn't know it was a buffet. HF didn't know it was today. Emay didn't know there was dim sum on the menu. K gals, my fault... Heh. Next time I suggest, someone else organise k? Hee.
Oh before I forget, I had the privilege to give directions based on memory and I felt like I was in virtual reality. Something like Mission Impossible 3 which featured Tom Cruise in China or the like, where you use high-tech methods to enter and navigate round a building or place... with someone giving you directions through your ear piece. I did exactly that with Chien as she combed Far East Square and China Square. Haha! Quite fun.
The funniest thing was guessing what she wore. Spaghetti straps? Skirt? Pants? White top? What bag? What shoes? What colour? Ultimate guesses which popped up were... "I bet she has long hair", "I bet she's wearing shoes", "I bet she brought both limbs". How ingenious!
Ok, now to the food. No photos here but you can fuel your imagination and whet your appetite.
Individual sharks' fin soup, herbal prawn (yummy soup), Peking duck, cereal softshell crab with curry leaves, braised beef brisket with radish, ostrich meat, tofu with mushroom, scallop with cuttlefish and vegetables, garlic kailan, salad prawn, salmon sashimi, mini octopus, jellyfish....
Topped up with varieties from the dim sum menu: siu mai, har gao, chicken claws (2X), char sao pau, deep fried prawn dumpling, chives har gao...
Dessert: Dried tang yuan with sesame filling, honey guiling gao (with no wu gui and no pot of honey for me to drink from), mango pudding which was supposedly yummy but I didn't get a taste of (humph!), cheng ting....
The fun part of it all was the laughter. The suaning of Meow Meow, her gaining comfort from her little teapot, us egging her on to exit from the exit door just a few inches from her to wallow in her pity, attempting to throwing food which you can't finish out of the exit door so that no one will know, making Catholic boy finish the food, plotting of ways to dunk Meow into water (Either a bucket or a toilet bowl), Catholic boy figuring out why and how Meow is the president of Calculus club, waiting for Chien to grow hungry in an instant, etc.
The wits of my friends. I like. Heh.
# posted by Banana Saviour @ 1:07 PM 
