gong xi fa cai~!

hope everyone had a lovely 年初一 with lots of food and angpows!  ^^

i had a horrible, horrible one. lol. i even made extra effort to kiap (aka straighten) my hair in the morning. only to spend the first half of the day lazing and snoozing around at home and the other half doing the same thing at SSD's place. -.- with whatever's going on at home, i even lost the mood to camwhore my pretty bling dress. and i thought my makeup today was not too bad too. double sad.

oh wells. hope this 龍年 can 手下留情 cos i'm pretty much stressed out from all the job-hunting already. argh.

2012: 鱼生 no.1

had my first 鱼生 this year during reunion dinner with maternal grandparents and family. it was at the nearby ban heng (boon keng), apparently a pretty 老字號 teochew restaurant. the place wasn't very big as far as i could see, so the tables were quite close to one another. the chairs and utensils look just a teeny bit worn out too.  

but the food was good! no complaints actually. lol.  probably except the soup. instead of the usual sharks' fin soup where unscrupulous restaurants could replace the fins with 粉絲, this one served it with chicken and whole pieces of fins (see photo below). which means...confirm chop they used sharks' fin. BOYCOTT!! >.<

anyway, i am somehow rather happy with how the photos turned out today, considering i haven't been shooting food with wall-e for some time already. i hope they make you hungry the way they're making me now.

pricing is on the high side though. =(

i have one more reunion dinner tomorrow tonight (which i'm probably not gonna blog about), and then it's the new year! not really in CNY mood though. boo.

why i cannot camwhore

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had dinner at nihon mura today and realized they increased their pricing from $1.19 to $1.48 per plate! i think after sakae, nihon mura shall be the next sushi chain i'm gonna boycott. honestly speaking, every time they increase their pricing (second time now), their sushi standard drops. the salmon slice gets thinner and thinner and their rice gets more and more. i think it's definitely more worth it to pay two cents more per plate at sushi express and get good quality sushi with thicker sashimi slices and smaller rice balls. boo. 

sushi express, please take over all the nihon muras!! but leave one nihon outlet for me to eat my cha soba. lol.

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pasar malam at hougang central. I HAD MY 臭豆腐!! so happy. haha.

it smells quite similar to the one from taiwan (士林) but definitely doesn't taste as good. expensive also; this piece is $2.50. -.-