9/10/2013 Lunch with Bay + Chin Yang's belated birthday

Lunch out with Bay at Swensens @ Clementi Mall as he came down to work at Toh Guan. He wanted to try out the new menu as recommended by bloggers while I went for the more conventional ones. At the same time, Swensens is having a lunch promotion whereby a side dish is served complementary.

Spiced maple chicken waffle ($14.90)

第一次見到有少許獨特的菜餚

味道更是美味喔

Breaded chicken ($15.50)

典型炸雞西餐菜點

沒有可圈可點的地方

Butterfly shrimp （贈送品）

不錯啦這個

Mozzarella cheese stick （贈送品）
別被其名或賣相給騙去

裡面不熱的，很難咬

下次不會點這個了

Spiced maple chicken waffle ($14.90) was a wonderful dish! It fuses both the popular fried chicken and waffle and together with maple syrup, made up this dish in a creative way.

Breaded chicken ($15.50), as conventional as it sounded, tasted conventional too. Nothing extraordinary to comment about.

Butterfly shrimp (complementary) was something I had for the first time at Swensens and they were delicious! The same can't be said to mozzarella cheese stick (also complementary), the cheese wasn't hot (as if I'm biting a piece of rubber), and there wasn't any taste to the stick. Very poorly done. Could have used something more fragrant, but I think the temperature killed it.

Talked about my interview at airport there. The moment after I finished described what happened to him, his first reactions were '低'、'太遠', which were in line to what I thought as well. But anyway, I didn't pass the 2nd round interview, so have to continue looking for more jobs.

After which, went to meet up with the uni clique at Tiong Bahru Plaza. I wasn't the first to reach despite having the jobless status now. LOL~ After meeting Max, we both went to 3rd floor to source for a birthday greeting card for CY, ranting about the interviews at the same time. The world is small - so coincident that we bumped into HY and LF in the same shop!

Next, the girls were thirsty so they bought drinks from Koi. As we waited for them, I continued to rant about interviews. Moi guess Max was tired of my interview experiences ba... Haha...

Then, we moved down to level 1 to look for a birthday cake. Initally, they wanted to buy a small sliced cake from BreadTalk. But Max suggested we should look at Coffee Bean instead coz the name sounds more atas and cheaper(?). In the end, we settled for the Boston Nut Brownie Cake. As there were still time, we began to fill up greeting messages on the card while waiting for the birthday boy to reach Tiong Bahru.

And then, to hinder our plan, the birthday boy reached rather early. We scrambled and in the end I led the birthday boy around level 3 while the rest settled the remaining stuff. LOL~ Then we moved off from Tiong Bahru Plaza to Big Mama Korean Restaurant nearby.

It was a lot of firsts for the 4 of them, 1st time visit Big Mama, 1st time drank Korean Soju, 1st time drank Makgeolli (막걸리), 1st time eating dakgalbi (닭갈비), 1st time eating pancake (파전). 1st time celebrating CY's 21st birthday too. Food wise, this was my first time trying out their grilled pork, tasted nice leh! For the rest, they all gave thumbs up for the food! Haha, 我介紹的準沒錯喔！

Drinks wise, the soju had a more alcoholic taste than the makgeolli which turned out to be our favourite! The taste is exactly the same as what I had in Seoul. Probably next time don't order soju le lo...

For Max and CY who aren't a fan of Korean cuisine, I think this is their first time trying out Korean dishes at an authentic Korean restaurant. For LF and HY, I think this satisfied their cravings for Korean food, 全部一網打盡……

해물파전

海鮮不會太少，酥脆很好吃！

닭갈비

主角登場咯

還未完成……

不過賣相還是不錯的

越看越餓！

忘了這個在韓語叫什麼

總之就是韓式烤豬領 (BBQ pork collar)

很香很好吃

把닭갈비吃剩下20%左右

加飯菜又翻炒過

又是一道很美味的泡菜炒雞肉飯了！

韓式燒酒

還是막걸리好喝^^

Max跟HY

LF跟我

壽星公

一起喝막걸리！Yummmm... senggggg!

After the dinner, we celebrated birthday for CY. The plan was a bit failed coz he came out of the toilet a bit too fast! T.T 氣氛還是不錯的…… 恭喜恭喜CY長大成人了！

因為晚餐過於豐富，所以我們買了一個超迷你蛋糕

給壽星公一個人吃完就好了哈哈！

合照

After which, just when I thought everything was over and was getting ready to go home, Max and HY suddenly had cravings for karaoke. OMG~ They really too high liao. We took 2 taxis to Teo Heng @ NTU Alumni Club. Thanks CY for the taxi fares, knowing I'm real jobless now. 雖然明知道不夠時間唱，但每個人還是有唱到幾首歌啦。

While we were walking out to the main road to hail taxis home, the easties were very lucky that a cab was 'waiting for them'. Actually the taxi didn't wait for them, happen that the taxi wanted to go back to eastern area after some resting at NTU Alumni Club. But me and LF wasn't that bad neither, we got a cab just when we reached the main road. Everybody reached home fast and safe!