The good times are a-rolling
Long weekends are so awesome, especially when you find a new place to eat, find a new game to play, and play a few good points at frisbee!
New place to eat: Sho-U @ Central
Thursday night Pam, Daniel and I met up for dinner and tried out a new restaurant at Central, Clarke Quay. We chose to eat at Sho-U really more by accident - the other restaurants we were thinking of had queues out the door, and Pam reassured us that she had heard good reviews about Sho-U. We were STARVING, so we chose quick seating and gave it a chance.
The restaurant itself was quite uniquely beautiful, with themed black and white dining sections and a stunning night view of the Clarke Quay river in the white section where we sat. Even the waitresses had all-black or all-white uniforms, with the girls in all-white all accidentally or otherwise looking like they visited the same hairdresser and had the same sharp angular bob cut! The Sho-U specials that we chose were also inventive and yummy: the thinly sliced duck breast with citrus sauce was as satisfying as duck sashimi, mushrooms stirred in sake-infused butter decadent, and the unagi in/on an eggplant bowl was great fun to eat and very tasty. We also had tori karage (chicken), which wasn't quite so spectacular but Daniel appreciated it (MEAT). The main drawback? The portions were stunningly small. There were six thin slices of duck for $20. Maybe six pieces of chicken. Not that much unagi or eggplant for $12. The rice helped, but at the end of my meal I was still hungry! We were too cheapskate to order more, so decided we were ready to go for dessert/supper. :P Total damage was still an acceptable $24 per person. Not the most value for money, but at least it wasn't bad expensive food.
So you heard it here first: go have dinner at Sho-U if you want very tasty interesting Jap-fusion food in very hip surroundings, but go when you're not starving (like we were) or when you're prepared to shell out upwards of $50 per person at a minimum for dinner. (HA beat Chubby Hubby to it! :P)
New Game: Citadels!
My favourite public holidays are the ones where I get to sleep in, then go hang out with my friends. Yesterday I hung out at a church friend's house, where we ate much and played board games all afternoon! My favourite is this card game Citadels, and oh my gosh this paragraph sounds like a direct translation of one of my puerile high school chinese compositions.
Suffice it to say I have a view towards acquiring one of those sets and must endeavour to get a group up to play it again. Perhaps on the next public holiday in May? :)
Frisbee
Got CS down to play frisbee with the gang this morning, and he did pretty good for a newbie! I had a streak of good play as well, which was a bit of good luck but still nice. :) Afterwhich our whole gingang headed down to Chinatown for our current favourite frog leg's porridge place - friendly service, the fattest frogs we've eaten on the island so far, spicy sauce with a mega kick and AIRCON are the reasons why we keep coming back.
Good times. :) And suddenly it's T-5 days before my flight to Washington DC!
New place to eat: Sho-U @ Central
Thursday night Pam, Daniel and I met up for dinner and tried out a new restaurant at Central, Clarke Quay. We chose to eat at Sho-U really more by accident - the other restaurants we were thinking of had queues out the door, and Pam reassured us that she had heard good reviews about Sho-U. We were STARVING, so we chose quick seating and gave it a chance.
The restaurant itself was quite uniquely beautiful, with themed black and white dining sections and a stunning night view of the Clarke Quay river in the white section where we sat. Even the waitresses had all-black or all-white uniforms, with the girls in all-white all accidentally or otherwise looking like they visited the same hairdresser and had the same sharp angular bob cut! The Sho-U specials that we chose were also inventive and yummy: the thinly sliced duck breast with citrus sauce was as satisfying as duck sashimi, mushrooms stirred in sake-infused butter decadent, and the unagi in/on an eggplant bowl was great fun to eat and very tasty. We also had tori karage (chicken), which wasn't quite so spectacular but Daniel appreciated it (MEAT). The main drawback? The portions were stunningly small. There were six thin slices of duck for $20. Maybe six pieces of chicken. Not that much unagi or eggplant for $12. The rice helped, but at the end of my meal I was still hungry! We were too cheapskate to order more, so decided we were ready to go for dessert/supper. :P Total damage was still an acceptable $24 per person. Not the most value for money, but at least it wasn't bad expensive food.
So you heard it here first: go have dinner at Sho-U if you want very tasty interesting Jap-fusion food in very hip surroundings, but go when you're not starving (like we were) or when you're prepared to shell out upwards of $50 per person at a minimum for dinner. (HA beat Chubby Hubby to it! :P)
New Game: Citadels!
My favourite public holidays are the ones where I get to sleep in, then go hang out with my friends. Yesterday I hung out at a church friend's house, where we ate much and played board games all afternoon! My favourite is this card game Citadels, and oh my gosh this paragraph sounds like a direct translation of one of my puerile high school chinese compositions.
Suffice it to say I have a view towards acquiring one of those sets and must endeavour to get a group up to play it again. Perhaps on the next public holiday in May? :)
Frisbee
Got CS down to play frisbee with the gang this morning, and he did pretty good for a newbie! I had a streak of good play as well, which was a bit of good luck but still nice. :) Afterwhich our whole gingang headed down to Chinatown for our current favourite frog leg's porridge place - friendly service, the fattest frogs we've eaten on the island so far, spicy sauce with a mega kick and AIRCON are the reasons why we keep coming back.
Good times. :) And suddenly it's T-5 days before my flight to Washington DC!