Weekend was more than 两菜一汤

Howdy! It's been some time since I contributed. Well, my co-blogger has been updating quite regularly, giving me the chance to slack a little :) This weekend was more than just Princess Lu Lu and the home-cooked dinner, let me fill in the gaps.

We started our weekend by stuffing ourselves with a "half-chicken" of breast meat chicken rice on Friday night. It's still the best chicken rice I have ever eaten since young. For those who are interested, Sin Kee chicken rice stall is located on the 2nd storey of the food centre at Margaret Drive, within walking distance from Queenstown MRT station. Oily, but fragrant rice....with nice, tender meat... *drools once again*

On Saturday, we tried the newly-opened "Central" (Hong Kong Cafe) at Vivocity for lunch. I was disappointed that they did not have the fried "gong zai mian" (fried maggi mee). I ordered pork chop noodles, and Pete had dry beef hor fun. We tried pork floss pancake, which was not fantastic, but the Hong Kong milk tea was quite enjoyable. Later that evening, we tried to whip up a home-cooked dinner. I have to say that the dinner was not that delicious...edible if one is not a fussy eater (a.k.a Pete, *phew*). Just simple dishes that sure took some time before they arrived on the dinner table. Pete, my sous chef, should have given himself a little more credit than he did in the previous entry. Aside from the opening of cans, Pete did all of the chopping and cutting, washed up after the meal, and even watered the plants, and mopped the floor while the head chef tried to serve up a decent meal. (Reminder: To watch "No Reservations") And oh yeah, once we settled down to eat about 1.5 hours later, I sure did not have much of an appetite. I wonder if this is how most moms feel after they have busied themselves cooking up a storm for the family every night. Oh ya, just in case you are wondering why we are playing domestic god and goddess this weekend, it's cos my parents are away on an Alaskan cruise, enjoying the glaciers up, close and personal as best possible. My brother is training away in Taiwan, and thus, the dutiful daughter is left to babysit the house.

On Sunday, we managed to dragged ourselves down to Takashimaya for the Mid-Autumn Festival Fair. Mooncakes galore!!! Boy, it sure was packed like sardines. Did not manage to follow Sally's advice of scanning the fair from B1, zero in on location of preferred vendors, and then going down, shout "BOMB", and proceed to grab desired quantity of mooncakes and pay for them. It was a good idea, though. After some squeezing through, we settled on two boxes from Raffles The Plaza (dressed prettily in a cheongsam-like box) for our families, and a box of mini-mooncakes from Ritz-Carlton for my grandma.

Mooncakes from Raffles The Plaza

So much for making use of credit card discounts, we could not make use of them at the Fair at Taka. We really should have bought them at Vivocity, where the discounts are applicable. This has taught us to purchase what we have set our sights on in the first place, cos in the end, after all the squeezing and endless choices (not necessarily a good thing), we ended up with what we wanted to get in the first place, sans the discount!

We proceeded to Pete's place after the mooncake acquisition. Managed to look through some of Pete's old photos. Sooooo cute, although I must say I'm quite amazed that Pete can't tell from his younger photos, if they were of him or his brother. We had dinner at Pete's place. His mom prepared ginseng chicken soup, and delicious, sweet pork ribs. Had an enjoyable (and stressful) time competing with Pete on the Nintendo DS after dinner. Turned out Pete may not be the fastest in mental sums around here, huh? Muahahahaahaha!

We ended the day by paying a short visit to my grandma, and presenting her with the mooncakes. I hope she will enjoy them :)

That's about it for our weekend. Not bad for a pair of nua-ers. Signing off, time to get back to work :P