- Three day weekend. Happy 45th Birthday Singapura!
- Relaxing at a poolside candlelit table at the 'All you can eat & drink (Margarita) buffet' at the Grand Hyatt on Friday night
- Finding a funky rooftop bar in Club St, where we enjoyed a couple of pre-dinner Asahi's on Sunday
- Going to see Salt at the Gold Class Cinema - separated from the normal riff raff cinema with it's own private bar, first class airplane seats, blankets (air con makes it very cold after a while!), a little side table complete with a wine holder and a button to call your waitress, a full menu of meals and drinks including a Chocolate Brownie (guess what Dave ordered). Supping on red wine and eating freshly made popcorn.
Lows
- Dave having to pop into the office to do some work
- Our Italian meal on Sunday evening was our first bad meal experience. Well to be fair it wasn't 'bad' it just wasn't very fulfilling!
- Going to the gym
And for the Foodies
Friday - The Grand Hyatt - $68 each for 'All you can eat & drink Buffet', half of which we could expense meant only one thing....TAXI! We started with beers, some garlic bread and some more garlic bread, then we went for our second entree, a selection of salads, we esp liked the green papaya salad and the asparagus & avocado, they also had a massive plate of smoked trout with lemon & capers - YUM! (when I helped myself to the trout, Dave looked at my plate and said 'ok shall we just share that?' I turned with a confused look 'err no!') Time to hit the BBQ; steaks, chicken, pork, calamari and monster, I mean monster, prawns! I started with a plate full of monster prawns & some calamari and then finished with a plate full of monster prawns & some calamari. Dave went more for the meat and sausages with a couple of monster prawns on the side. We washed it down with as much red wine as we could guzzle, they were pretty efficient at topping up your glasses which was good! We had a bit of a rest after which Dave went for dessert, no brownies though - poor Dave :( Then it was Margarita O'clock baby! They were too icy to drink quickly but we perservered! The buffet finished at 9:30pm so at 9:25pm when the waiter was coming around with the jug to give everyone their last drink we frantically tried to down the ones we had = BRAIN FREEZE.
Saturday - We ended up down at our local Japanese restaurant & we had a pretty satisfying cheap & cheerful meal. Sashimi to start which had an array of different fish; salmon, tuna, prawn, yellowtail, red snapper and smoked eel. Then Dave asked them to make something that wasn't on the menu - Gyūdon (rice topped with fried beef & onions in a mild sweet sauce with a raw egg on top). It was his favourite dish from his time in Japan and as I tutted and shook my head at his cheekiness, the waitress knew exactly what he meant and was happy to acquiesce to his request. I had fried rice with Kimchi and pork belly with a side order of lightly battered prawns covered in Wasabi Mayo. Both were scrummie esp the prawns! Although when the prawns arrived, on one side of the plate was your usual meat of the prawn which had been fried in a extremely light batter & then covered in Wasabi Mayo. Then on the other side were all prawn heads, eyes, legs and all. They had been covered in breadcrumbs and deep fried as if to be eaten! YUCK! Obviously this was much to the delight of Dave who continued throughout the meal to advise me that I had to eat the prawn heads otherwise they will not fulfil their prawn head destiny. My argument was that a prawn's head destiny is not to be eaten but to be thrown in the bin! As much as I love prawns I could not bring myself to eat a prawns head battered or unbattered. When the waiter was clearing the plates, Dave asked 'are you sure you don't want your prawn heads Jayme' with a smirk, this prompted the waiter to look at me for an answer 'no I'm quite sure, thank-you'.
Sunday - We wandered down Club St to find somewhere for dinner, we checked out some menus inc an Italian restaurant and as soon as I saw Linguine Vongole I had decided for both of us! There was no fault with the starters, we shared some Bresola & a Bruchetta. The mains were also good but tiny! Dave had lamb ravioli, it was fresh but they only gave him six bits and I had a pitiful amount of Linguine. It's always annoying when Italian restaurants skimp on pasta, it's not like it's really expensive (it's just flour & water after all) esp when your paying £13 for it! When the waitress asked if we wanted dessert we replied 'can we have a garlic pizza bread please'.
Monday - Whilst eating our bacon & egg muffins (I would like to add that we boiled the eggs instead of frying them & cut all the fat off the bacon) Dave reminisced about how much he had missed bacon.....until I reminded him that we had in fact had bacon in our sandwiches yesterday morning at a cafe and then he remembered that he had a bacon roll on Friday when he had gone 'out for breakfast' with his boss! Later that arvo (after the gym!) we went to do a food shop but we were a bit peckish and as everyone knows, shopping on an empty stomach is very dangerous for your wallet. So first stop was the food hall and at the very last stall we found the most delicious yummiest delectable freshly made Gyoza's (nearly as good as yours Jax!) and beef pancakes (tasted like Gyoza but with beef) ever! We dipped them in ginger & soy and very hot finger chilli's and soy. Exhausted from our visit to the gym & our shopping we couldn't be bothered to cook so we ordered a lamb, cheese and mushroom Murtabak, an onion Prata and a Mutton Mysore curry to share from Spize.
What an awesome food weekend!!
oop.s. sorry it's sooo long!
Brain Freeze
Seeing Stars
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