AlexChen's Birthday!

I particularly love birthday party/bash cause it's damn of a sign of nice food and catching up session. Celebrated one of the close friends - Chen Ming Hui's 22nd birthday with the gang at Daorae Korean Bbq last night. It was my n times dining in daorae, be it KL/Penang/Ipoh, and it is still the best korean restaurant ever for me. At least the taste is authentic and genuine enough. 

The boss birthday. We celebrated on the 6th of December which was yesterday, coincidentally, it was the beginning of the close friendship which took place exactly a year ago when both of us were offered internships placement together at the same place and spending the next 8 months together. Throughout these 8 months, what can I say. We basically know each other flaws pretty well. 

Since there were 8 of us last night, we ordered 4 bbq sets: 80% porks, 20% chickens. The porks we ordered were the marinated pork belly, pork ribs and pork specials. While the chickens were just marinated chickens with sweet sauce. Price range for one set of bbq was between RM28-RM35, which was reasonable enough as it was quite a big portion. 

Serving with 8-10 main appetizers (for free and refillable), it was really good. I myself truly love the kimchi, steam egg and coleslaw. I think we refilled like 3-4 or more times yesterday. Part of the reasons why some of us feeling so bloated before eating some of other main courses. 

The highlight and my personal pick in Daorae would be the bbq pork belly marinated in specially made sauce. Upon bbq-ed, dipping it in two different sauces and wrapping it with super fresh vege was just beyond words. For people who know me well, I do not eat pork belly. But when it came to Daorae, I couldn't help but putting slices of bbq-ed pork belly into my mouth and chew to satisfaction!

We ordered one set of bibimbap as well since it was one of the recommended dishes by the restaurant itself. Serving at RM20 for one, it was definitely worth the price. With the serving size, it definitely can't be finished by just one person. Mixing it with the prepared chili sauce, stirred it with the spoon, and ready to be consumed.

Not missing the Korean pancakes which was omelette-like. I'm gonna try making this when I'm back in Miri as it seems pretty easy, except for the sauce which was their sort of secret-recipe. 

And the most appetizing of all and best served in cold weather/room would none other than the kimchi steamboat. Inside the steamboat were: korean rice cake, korean noodles, porks and kimchi. For a large set, just enough for portion of 8. 

Our last main course was the fried glass noodles which was Alex's most favorite of all. Do not look down on such a small plate of fried glass noodles, it may look normal but it absolutely do not just taste normal. 

It was definitely one hell of a nice gathering and celebrations. 

And the 5 of us called a night off by spending 4 hours in kbox, singing to the heart contentment. 

Happy belated birthday, Alex Chen!

23rd Birthday

Hi bloggie, :)

My birthday this year was celebrated in an extraordinary way. No drinking, no alcohol, no big group of friends but in a different country, with loved and a super nice fine dining experience in Singapore best fine dining restaurant - Forlino Italian Restaurant.

I was super excited flying to Singapore on 14th morning despite the fact that I hate flying, but what made thing better was I was going to meet the bf after 3 hell of weeks in the university. Upon his arrival, we quickly went to the hotel, checked in, hunted for the infamous katung laksa (will blog about it soon) and went back hotel again to get ourselves ready for the night.

<3

Forlino restaurant is situated at the heart of singapore, which is just right next to Fullerton hotel. Considering it is singapore's best restaurants, we had really high expectations on the food and service.

The view from Forlino was amazing. The waiters arranged us a window side seat which enabled us to overlook the fantabulous Singapore night view while enjoying our dinner. We had their degustation menu as suggested each. It was a 6 course dinner.

Bf

yours truly

As for the drinks, I had champagne myself and the boyfriend has margarita which was really niceeee! We were first served with apertura and their complimentary bread as starter. What was inside the apertura was actually super fine tuna with homemade sauce by the chef. It was really nice but too bad, such a small piece of it.

Next, for our second course, we were served with pan roasted goose liver with lambrusco wine and morello cherry which was definitely highlight of the night! Never thought goose liver could be this nice and now I understand why was it so expensive!

For our third course, we were served with black cod cappelletti with spicy broccoli and confit garlic which I never tasted something like this before. It was definitely nice and filling.

Our forth course was boston lobster with silican eggplant "caponata" which was really nice. The caponata itself was nicely made by the chef.

Our fifth course was wagyu beef check with 100% chocolate sauce and red wine sauce. This was the boyfriend most favorite I guess. I was feeling really full since the 4th course already. But oh my, how could I ever resist this?

After that, tadaaaaaaaaa :) my birthday cake with super nice decorations. AAAAWWWW. Super love the decorations on the cake and that guy beside me as well. :P

We were served with desserts as our last course together with one small piece of my birthday cake. It was superb! Our desserts consisted of small slice of my birthday cake, molten lava chocolate cake, mascarpone ice-cream and persimmon coulis!

Bf ordered this as well to go with his coffee, which I didn't really fancy.

It was a really great night with super good food. The total bill for our dinner came to SGD$420, which after conversion, lol, is quite pricey, but IT WAS WORTH IT. Looking forward to another fine dining experience in other lands again. :) :)

Thanks for the present, universal studio and everything, I'm officially 23rd!

Family and bf are always the best! :P

Friday Night

kicked off with William's farewell + ying2 early b'day celebration

followed by catching up

..... & lame jokes

... and end with a blast with k session

Oh wait! How could I not mention listening to 蕭敬騰's new album another round before I sleep? Good night! :)

His Birthday

29th :P

@mariott

no, i didn't bake this :P

This pretty much explained why I was MIA for the whole Saturday. All in all, I was knackered yet a totally blithe girl yesterday because my surprise was a huge success.

A private room warmly decorated with balloons, b'day cake and presents out of nowhere suddenly, who wouldn't be surprised anyway? (:

I wished him happy b'day too many times so i'm not gonna greet him again here.

The Terminal

*groupie*

the girl who has a mouth make of gold

My first time at The Terminal last week singing k with the gang and my gf. She has a mouth make of gold because she hardly sang and even if she did, it was softer than the birds' chirping.

Will definitely go there again, I hope soon. :)

To Club in Miri, I rather sleep

lemuel the vocalist @ CB

I think Lemuel is the main reason why CB is always packed with hot chicks. Even I myself hardly took my eyes off him especially when he was singing "waiting for you" by 胡彦斌. But too bad he is a Filipino and I was having a hard time communicating with him. Pffft.

Anyway, clubs in Miri seriously bored me off. It's either i'm too early or the people just love gluing their butts on the chairs, listening to songs, shake their heads from left to right and back constantly, drink a little, bluff a little and thats all. I did not see anyone on the dance floor at all except for one blonde wannabe and Preveen.

sylvia and alex

My initial plan was to make sure this guy got wasted before sending him back later after that but my plan failed miserably. :(

Thereby, I declareeeeeee that I quit clubbing in Miri. I rather spend the time staying at home or enjoying a plate of fried noodle slowly at any cafe shop (i'm craving for fried noodle now so pardon me).

i miss thisssss

I miss my usual clubbing group so much. :( I miss Fuad, Chuang Hwee, Mei Li, Zeuxiant, Steven Ngui (even though u always act emo there), Lee Chon, Darren and so many more. Ughhh.

By the way, if clubbing = i'm a bad girl, go bang your head on the wall now.

Good night!