Jojo aunty birthday
Right after my event, I rushed back home to put down my bag and had quick change to meet Bf and his family members, Such a good occasion to celebrate Jojo aunty birthday. Trained down to Nex to meet them as they came all the way from the mint museum. Wanted to join them but so coincidentally my race was on the same day too.
Boyfriend reserved table at Bali Thai and they were nice enough to prepare the table way before 7pm when we actually reserved at 7.30pm. What's more? It was very nice of them to give us a comfy sofa seats. The interior of the restaurant is pleasing and the ambiance is cozy. The staff are friendly and greet the customers enthusiastically as they enter the restaurant.
Indonesian Chicken Paggang
We decided to try the Indonesian chicken for my ‘main’ dish. The charcoal smell was evident, which is good that they used charcoal, but generally this chicken was rather dry and lacking flavour. They did not provide any BBQ sauce to go with it for more flavour, simply just thai chilli sauce.
Chicken Tom Yum Soup
Kinda of special when I saw this Tom Yum Soup serve in a claypot. The chicken Tom Yum soup is also one of the better tom yum I have tasted. You can really taste the authentic tom yum spices and the lemon grass that was used in the soup. There was also a generous serving of meat in the soup.
Pineapple fried rice
Half a pineapple fruit used as a 'bowl' for better relation to the dish, but that 'bowl' was also the only source of pineapple. No cut pineapple chunks at all - you have to dig out the hard flesh from the walls, and it really was a bother. Fried rice itself was was rather typical.
We started off with a sizzling hotplate of Tao Hoo Talay beancurd with seafood, which was really indistinguishable from our local cze char dish of hotplate beancurd. This was a very no-fuss, standard dish, with a garlicky eggy oyster sauce based gravy slathered over the silky beancurd and the requisite prawns, squid and fish slices.
Mixed vegetables which consists of Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, peas and mushrooms.
Phad Thai noodles
The noodles had superb texture and aromas with wok hei flavour and the beancurd were succulent. This is one phad thai I would gladly come back for. The fried chicken wise was fried not too oily and tad. The meat is soft enough to bite off.
After a good dinner, we execute our plan and our plan was to surprise aunty with a cake in the public. First to lure her away, Bf and I excused ourselves to the washroom and told the rest that we will come and look for them after that. Gullible aunty doesn't suspect anything as we acted out normally, with no spill of the beans. So while we were setting up, we aliased well with Jaslyn and she brought us over to where aunty jojo is. And there, the video showed all her expression. She was so touched that she almost burst out into tears. OH WELL, a good surprise for her!
And then, HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNTY JOJO. Stay young forever (: The kids will always love you.
Till then.
