Food Tour~

Haha gonna update more about the food tour with pics.. ( very little pics though )

Gonna be in a real casual tone this time round.. dun have too much time to refine my words this time round. Shall edit along as i remember more stuff...

Happened on tuesday...

Supposed to meet up at 1 .. but some people were late :D

Patrick brought along his 2 canadian frds and his brother if i'm not wrong ( once again i'm not very good at remembering names ) .. and Patrick looks so different when he wears casual and his spectacles ... Normally he wears smart-wear to work and goes without his glasses ... i couldn't recognise him at first until he spoke to me... >.<"

Serena and her sister Pamela a.k.a Venus , were our tour guides... ( William sisters.. ring a bell ? )

Then there was also Ming, James, me, Jeanette, Melissa, and Eileen.

So ok.. the first destination was China Food Square near Raffles Place.... k so basically we tried the .. claypot rice, homemade noodles ( ban mian ).. and Thunder Tea Rice... and one more item which i can't remember. LoL.. the thunder tea rice... supposed to be a nurtritional dish... and it came as one bowl of rice mixed with organic foods such as nuts and stuff.. and another bowl of .. erm.. "tea" ? And that tea tasted... strange.. had mint.. but bland... Ah but the claypot rice was good.. really nice.

So actually the next stop was supposed to be the food museum.. but it was closed... so we moved on.. to Maxwell food centre for desert instead... And my god.. the ice kachang there is damnnnnnn huge for 2.30.... largest i've seen in years. Forgot to take a picture though... Then however.. Serena asked the ppl in my table whether we wanted to try the char kway teow and the carrot cake... so we agreed and tried it... it was also good.... especially the carrot cake. At the same time.. it just so happened that we were sitting with the Canadian friends that patrick brought along... so we learnt more about canada's education system and policies as such... something similar to that of japan's i guess.. in having something like a entrance exam...

Next stop was much of a debate... and after some discussion.. they decided to go to Mustafa to take a walk to digest the food... it was around.. 4pm i believe... So we broke up into our own groups and walked ard... Pat with his frds, the gals.. and the guy's groups.... and i bought a nike soccer ball there.. 20 bucks. Haha.. then i learnt Eileen was planning some kinda street soccer thing at Safra of the like.. and i volunteered.. haha as keeper ... let the gals have the fun :D Oh... and James decided to "disappear" at this point...think he had something on...and told us not to tell anybody until the appointed time to meet up again ... So after we met up again.. the girls were asking " Ey? Where's James "... So Ming said that he didn't know... and i said "Oh he went off first." Then suddenly Melissa went "You're lying right ?" ... I really wonder at that point of time.. what made her think that i was lying ... my face? or my tone ? or my body language... hm... Jeanette also left as she had.. some cycling going on later....

After which we just went across the street to one of the indian shops for .. PRATA ~. Tried the various different types of prata.. and the different kinds of curries.. fish curry.. chicken curry.. spicy chicken curry.. arloo ( i think its spelt that way ) prata , egg prata, cheese prata... etc.... and wow... it was not bad honestly... especially the cheese prata.. REALLY CHEESY TASTE to it..and generous too ! Not like some other miserly shops that give u one slice of normal cheddar cheese...

Ok so finally our last destination was the Balestier franchise outlet of Boon Tong Kee.... So as some people know.. JCU singapore may be moving from its SPRING campus to the one in toa payoh.. and we saw it / passed by it... it looks like some secondary / primary school from what i saw on the outside... So since i asked patrick regarding the moving of campus and he said that they are waiting for approval... but still JCU is under consideration to take over the campus in Tanglin where UNSW used to reside... and that the current campus cannot afford to take in any more students due to restrictions in size... so which means that we may have to move by October when the next batch of students come in... so i asked him again whether there's a hostel or something of the like in the toa payoh campus.. and he said yes... but i'm not too sure about that considering that he may not have heard my question properly and that he hasn't been to the toa payoh campus also..cause i'm living in Jurong la... so damn far away from toa payoh... So anyway moving on...

Shall let the pics do the talking here.. mainly tried the chicken.. salad you tiao, kang kong, salted fish + chicken, and vege with oyster sauce ( i think oyster sauce ) ....

Now u see it....


Now u don't ~


And the people involved..

Pat's brother ( i think )



Patrick ( in white t-shirt ) and his 2 canadian frds



Left to Right : Melissa and Pamela a.k.a Venus



Left to Right : Serena & Eileen


haha.. my photos sucks cause they're from my phone... So yea.. the food was quite good... 10 people for .. ard 125.20 i think... so ard 12.50 a person.. notch bad la.. for the standard of food.

Then after that.. the gals decided to go bowling.. patrick had to go to work the next day ( actually he came today on the pretext of sick leave from work :P ).. so he left with his canadian frds first ( but they may have gone to grab some booze first though... haha ) Ming was like " Oh man i really wanna go with em " ... but he decided to go bowling also.. and i joined in also...

So we moved on to SAFRA Toa Payoh ( i think )... and the place was really very nice... nice decor.. and the pool also... haha.. so we made our way into the bowling alley and played... until after one round..( i observed the group scores where the rest didn't really take note and were just playing for fun.. and we won by ard 20-30 points only.. ) where they decided to play a group match.The losing group would have to buy the winning group drinks... My group comprised of me, Ming and Melissa. The other group of Serena, Pamela, and Eileen...then they said " Guys must let us by 20 points.. so your group must let us by a total of 40 points." I went like O.o cause i didn't think it was possible at that time... neither of our groups have pro bowlers.. haha.. then as the 2nd round progressed.. Melissa's thumb started to hurt as she had long fingernails... then the other gals proceeded to help her trim it... and LoL.. serena said to tear the nail off.. and everyone went O.O ?!!! Haha.. then we all saw that melissa's pouch was full of stuff... REALLY full of all kinds of stuff... haha like doraemon... poor gal.. finger pain.. but she continued to bowl bravely.... and.. SHE WON IT FOR US .... haha... cause at the last part... Melissa managed to hit 3 pins as the last person to bowl for our group... to make our group have a total score of 297 ( and minus 40 = 257 )... and the other group managed to hit 255... win by 2 pins ! Haha.. just nice ...

So while our group were waiting for the drinks.. i accompanied Melissa to the toilet as she didn't dare to go by herself... and we walked outside the bowling alley in the cheap "makeshift" socks that we bought ( 1 dollar each i think as most of us were wearing sandals/flip flops ) as we couldnt wear our bowling shoes outside the alley.. ( yes yes i know its dumb and that i shld have worn my own shoes / sandals but wateva ... ) ... And so.. the toilets are like just a small cubicle / room by itself.. so you know those kind of doors that have ventilation slits at the bottom.... So she told me to stand just right outside the door so that she could see my feet... >.<" ... felt strange standing outside the woman's toilet in socks... Haha and so she was done after a while and we went back to enjoy the drinks....

Afterwhich it was getting late.. so we all decided to go back... and we all parted ways at the interchange...

Zzzz from toa payoh back to jurong.. a chore sia.. take mrt.. change here change here.. lucky my sister came to fetch me at Lakeside MRT.. ard 12+am already.. lunar 7th month some more...

Other random stuff from the day itself...

Haha.. so that was about it ... the day itself... but i'm still thinking about something melissa said... cause when i told her i stay in jurong.. she said that she had a long way back with "jurong kids" ... and when i asked her why... she said " Its for you to find out... " .... hm... jurong kids.. jurong kids.... no idea lol...

Hmm... Eileen's really into soccer... Man U fan ....

Didn't know patrick played Lineage... wonder how he gets the time to do so considering that he's striving for his doctorate and yet being a tutor/lecturer at the same time.... and i wonder how old is he... probably late 20s - early 30s i guess...

OH ... and i saw a Ipoh Hor Fun stall in chinatown.. dunno if it's authentic though... been bitten too many times already.. THE REAL IPOH HOR FUN IS SOUP BASED !!!!! NOT THE CRAPPY SAUCE BASED ONE THAT IS IN SINGAPORE....

And oh lastly... i FINALLY bought it.. damage of 109... ( yes i know can get it cheaper at quite a lot of other places.. but wateva.. in the end the transportation costs add up )



SWEE LA red red glory to LIVERPOOL ~~~ WAKAKAKAKAKA