on a fun sat soiree and nearly missing church because of that...

Went out to meet a bunch of friends at Chjimes last Saturday's evening for dinner. Went to Sun - not a bad place. The ambiance is nice and cozy. The price is slightly more expensive than Waraku's . My friends were trying out the ramen. Decided I wanted to try the unagi-thingie. Turns out to be something like claypot rice, with unagi and vege.

Timer to time your 1 minute of steaming...

My dinner

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Coupled with the miso soup, with the nice kelp and mushroom - stupendous! The portion was just nice - enough for one person. My friends ordered desserts for us to try - the tofu cheesecake is interesting; light fluffy texture, and yet still have the cheese taste. I didn't try the hot red-bean-paste mochi thingie, cos was feeling a little bloated then.

After that, took a slow walk over to my friend's car parked at Shaw centre. Drove down to Dempsey Hill to chill out. We went to this House thingie to hang out - pretty hard to describe the place, save it's a spa, restaurant and novelty shop all rolled into one. The atmosphere is akins to PS cafe, except it's more "open" with more space. We chose an outside seat, as it was very cooling with the breeze wafting in.

While the drinks are ok, the cakes are just fabulous! Must try is the Mochaccino Bread Pudding and the apple-cider butter-scotch cake. Both are served pipping warm: the bread pudding is delicious with the warm mochaccinno sauce poured over it; the apple-cider cake is simply heavenly, just the right tinge of sourness and cinnamon sweetness that goes very well with my glass of white wine.

The service wasn't that great though, as they had a couple of new waiters who weren't so sure about the menu or the promotions. I told the girls to be gracious, even though our patience was quite tried by the number of times we had to keep asking them to get us stuff. I think we must have been voted the Most Troublesome Table to Wait Upon by those guys there :p

Save the earth, dun use electricity

 

 

Interesting drinks menu on a cube

The Logo

 

(For more info, goto

http://www.visitsingapore.com/publish/stbportal/en/home/about_singapore/ezine_home/Sept07/60_seconds/house.html)

Stayed up past 1 am to "talk-cock-sing-song". Again, good questions were posed to me so that I get to rack my brains a bit to explain concepts such as "calling", "the will of God" and "confirmation" before my pre-believing friends. Well, burnt a big hole going home via cab. The next morning, woke up at 9.15am - panic! In the end, bit the bullet and took a cab to church, so that would not be late for the 10am service. Argh! Must resist! Cannot become cab king! :P