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Reunion dinner

Thursday was a happy day because I do not have to wait up at 4am to rush for work. Its simply a NO ALARM day for me. Both my parents had their off day too so basically I spent my whole day with them. In the wee morning, we drove down to Serangoon to buy ingredients for evening's reunion dinner and I simply bought my clutch & some accessories too. What made me feel good was to get a piece of button down shirt for my boy since Cotton on has 38% worldwide discount. A piece of collar shirt that cost $15 (original was $25). Such a good buy right!

Before getting our stuffs, parents and I had a good brunch over at Nex and we decided to order Dim sum since the rest of the food store has really long queue. There's isn't much choices to choose and we simply cleared away all the food that were left behind.


Featuring The pork ribs. I didn't order this but the aunty insisted I did. Not gonna argue with her and I just paid for this dish.


Chicken claws. I used to love this but when I grow older, i felt disgusted sucking away the skin and the juice.


My die die must order Liu sha bun. I love egg yolk custard or anything that is sweet so this dish is definitely a 'must buy' item. How it looks special was the skin of the bun. Instead of the plain white bun, they chose Pandan skin bun. The aroma of the pandan blend well with the egg yolk. You won't get sick of it.


I always take picture of the inside, the yellowish fluid flowing out of the bun. That's the star of today!



Just an ordinary pork lean porridge. 


Glutinous chicken wrapped rice. Taste like BA ZHANG.  





Reunion dinner was none other steamboat and it seemed like every household were having it. My instagram were flooded with pictures of hot pot reunion dinner. The ATAS family dined in at restaurant instead. I love having steamboat mainly because I won't have to blurge myself with food and of course soupy food is much more healthier than fried food. Popo prepared braised duck and pork intestines/ skin/ fatty meat for the grandchildren who loves to eat any part of the pig organ but yeah, not for me!



Boy came over to look for me after his reunion dinner with his dad's family and we headed down to Marina float platform to watch FIREWORKK!! Oh my god, another memorable day with him. We actually witnessed the whole 5 minutes of ceremony. Good thing is, the firework exploded right infront of our eyes. LUCKY US! Dad, Mum and Sharon aunt came along with us too (: 








Lets take this few minutes to enjoy the firework (:














HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! MAY 2014 CHINESE NEW YEAR BE A GOOD ONE WITH LOTS OF ANG PAO AND FEASTING OVER AT RELATIVE'S HOUSE. EVERYONE HUAT AHHHHHH!



TILL THEN

Friday Reunion Dinner

It was a perfect Friday Morning with the Boy. Because of my dental appointment, I took an off day from my company and to a happier side, Boy booked out on Thursday afternoon (: It was a random thoughts of making a good breakfast for him when I happened to see a video of this guy preparing poached eggs for his loved one. And also craving for Egg Benedict striked into me and I told myself why should I have to spend $18-$20 for 1 serving of Egg Benedict when I could used $20 to get 3 servings (total cost of my ingredients) of my Egg benedict set. So I discussed with Boy and he stayed over on a Thursday night accompanying me to get all the things that I need for the next morning. 

Waking up at 7am is definitely my style as im used to wake up at 4am on weekdays. Before I could start off my culinary, I woke him up and asked him to run with me but in the end we didn't because im too lazy to allow myself to sweat it all out. Lucky us, we prepared Egg Mayo & broccoli the night before so lesser things for us to prepare. What got me excited was to cook my poached egg. Its an easy 4 mins work. All you need is an egg, vinegar and water. Simple 3 ingredients to start off with. My first poached egg was nicely done, the second poached egg broke off and the egg yolk started flowing out but subsequently the third was perfect. Looking through blogpost on how to prepare egg benedict, I didnt really follow their steps, trying to implement my own self ingredients. But 1 thing that didn't outshine my dish: I forgot my hollandise sauce for the benedict egg. It should be the main actor for this dish.


But still, I got praised by my BOY and 3 special words from him <3 
How does my egg benedict set grade?


After a good breakfast, off to my dental appointment. My first ever dental consultation by the dentist. He checked through my whole teeth and engage a conversation with me. "Why do you want to put braces?'' This first question prompted me. I'm like "Why shouldn't I?" inside my mind. He told me my jaws shaped protruded alittle out and in result some of my teeth will be protruding out too. So even if I have to put in braces, the outcome might not have a big improvement. And also, if I insisted, I have to pluck out 4 teeths (2 above, 2 below). Its like a 50-50 bet. This news doesn't convince me much. With the strong urged of deciding to put braces, the dentist's comment got me half-hearted. He told me to reconsider again as it will be a great sacrificing of my teeth. 
In the end, I held on to my own stand and decided to gamble it away. And yeah, they perfom the next step which is to do a mold for me tomorrow. I hope to get this done after 1 month. I don't mind putting braces during Chinese new year. This couldn't stop me from snacking away all the goodies. Heh.


Moving on to evening, I headed over to Boy's home to have their advance family reunion dinner as his Mum and Sister will be flying over to Bali on the 29th Jan. Poor boy couldn't join them as the government prohibits them to travel overseas so on a good side, Boy will be coming over to my visiting on the Lunar Chinese New Year. So reunion dinner was everyone's favorite. Easy prepared steamboat dinner. We even did grocery shopping together with his Sister and Mum. And split job to ensure all the food are placed nicely on the table. I intook too much of abalone till I kinda sick of it. No abalone for me for the next few days.













 Two sisters posing with the food lah! HAHAHA.


And this two baobei hereby to greet you guys a happy chinese new year. GONG XI FA CAI! So adorable little peeps, especially the brown dog (MY MOST BELOVED!)
And last but not least, TGIF with the BOY <3

Till then.
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