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December 3, 2008

Dinner at Holland Village

Filed under: Dining, Going out — hendrikch @ 10:33 pm

After Sunday service, on Sunday of course, I met with my old time high school friend, Tobias, a.k.a Bobo. I went there with Ad and his wife, Marselyn, Ko Effendy, and Fonny. Tobias went there with Shihoko and another high school friend of ours, Reza.

I have not met Tobias since high school days, during which he went to States for study, and now is teaching political science at Universitas Pelita Harapan in Jakarta. Shihoko herself is trying to get a job as a nurse in Singapore, wish her well. Reza, well, still works in Microsoft and probably won’t be going out anytime soon. After more than 10 years of not seeing Tobias, he certainly has not changed much. Neither did I, I guess.

July 24, 2008

Mongolian the Tent

Filed under: BarCap, Dining — hendrikch @ 11:23 pm

To celebrate my boss farewell, we went to celebrate it at The Tent, Mongolian fresh grill & bar at Clarke Quay. Gengkis Khan Meal is a all-you-can eat buffet. What you do was to walk up to their bar, get a big bowl and a small bowl, and put them on a tray with a token of your table number.

After that, you walk up to vegetables bar and put all kinds of vegetables into the big bowl. Next up is a meat bar where you’ll see chicken, fish, prawns, squids, crab meat, mussels, clams, beef, lambs, you get the idea. :idea:

The last bar was the challenging one. They have no less than 20 kinds of sauces, grouped into sweet & sour, mild spicy, spicy, and very spicy sauces. You’ll see well-heard teriyaki, bulgogi, satay sauce, to Mongolian, The Tent house specialty sauces, lemon water, and hosts of other weird sauces on their bar. They have chicken floss, sesames, chili powder, peanuts, wasabi, etc. as the final top-up to your sauces, to be put inside the small bowl.

You pass the chef your choices and they’ll cook it Teppanyaki-style before delivering it to your table. As it’s my first time there, I mixed anything and everything I thought I could put inside my mouth, and here’s the result. 8-)

Somehow it turns out to looks like char kway teow. Can you spot noodle, tofu, fish cake, prawns, beef, fish slices, mussels, clams, peanuts, carrots, eggs, crab meats, and tomatoes in my dinner? Surprisingly, what I made up turned out to taste pretty nice. :!:

For drinks, as most of the places in Clarke Quay, they serve all kinds from juices to liquor to beer to expensive white and red wines.

As for the place, they have a very cozy place, very nice ambience, and soft-enough music in the background not to disturb your meal.

All were well until the time to pay the bill !!! It turned out to S$63 per person, the most expensive char kway teow I ever eaten. 8-O

July 25, 2007

Ex-SMUK 5 – 1999 batch in Singapore reunion

Filed under: Dining, Going out — hendrikch @ 9:57 pm

It has been eight years since we graduated from SMUK 5 back in 1999. Since then, some of us have ventured to study in NTU or NUS. Some have gone to other countries to study, while most people stayed in Jakarta for further study. Last Friday, after over a month trying to organize a reunion for those in Singapore, most of us managed to gather in Modesto’s Vivo City. So glad that so many people turned up, some already brought their husband/wife/husband-to-be/wife-to-be. Well, you get the idea. It was fun, really fun, and we must do this more often :)

After pizzas, pastas, ice creams, crepes, the bill only amount to $14 per person, a very reasonable amount for this kind of place :)

Here are some shots we took.
Gals @ Modesto's 
The Beauty

Guys @ Modesto's 
and the handsome

Everyone @ Modesto's 
Finally, everyone taking a group photo

July 11, 2007

One week update

Filed under: Dining, Movies, Personal Ramblings — hendrikch @ 11:47 pm

federer wimbledon 2007
Since last week’s lunch at River City, it has been a busy week for me. First, the nights were spent watching Wimbledon, in particular Men’s Singles Final between Roger Federer (world number 1) and Rafael Nadal (world number 2). The match went very very tense, with emotions flying up and down. Federer won the first set 7-6 after a thrilling tie-breaks, but Nadal won the second set 6-4, then another tie break which Federer won, but again Nadal fought back to equal the set by winning the fourth set 6-2. Federer record in 5 sets are 9 wins to 10 losses, whereas Nadal’s 9 wins to 2 losses, so the odds are in Nadal’s favour. Federer was down 15-40 twice and Nadal just needed one point to break in the final set. Instead, Federer saved all four break points chances, and broke Nadal in the sixth game to lead 4-2. diehard4posterMinutes later, at 5-2, a first championship point for Federer was saved by Nadal, but he couldn’t prevent world number 1 from getting his fifth consecutive Wimbledon’s trophy on a second break point. The match ended 7-6, 4-6, 7-6, 2-6, 6-2 to the champion. Okay, before I sound like a sports news reporter, I’ll stop here, but it was a really really thrilling match. The best tennis match I’ve ever watched so far.

On Friday, I also went for Die Hard 4. The movie supposedly started at 8.50pm, we came in at 8.55 pm, and the movie has already started. Apparently, I have missed three scenes :( Very good movie it was.

Saturday was Iwan and Sari wedding high-tea reception. The first wedding that I attended that has drama in it. Good job for the organizers. Of course, congrats Iwan and Sari, not sure if any of you will ever read this anyway. A 7-years long distance relationship is never easy, and I salute both of you for pulling it through.

Monday was Monday blue.
Tuesday was normal.
Wednesday, another lunch, this time I went to Mustard’s at Little India for authentic Bengal and Punjabi food. Needless to say I didn’t enjoy it, but it’s a good experience nonetheless. Will I go back? Not a chance. Will I recommend? Well, if you like Indian food, I guess so :)

harry potter
At night, I went for Harry Potter movie. Quite short I felt, but the movie was just okay I felt. I’m still looking forward to Transformers though. Settled dinner at Kenny Rogers accompanied by all those romantic oldies song haha… Great day, I truly enjoyed today :)

July 4, 2007

Lunch at River City Restaurant

Filed under: Dining — hendrikch @ 11:01 pm

Had a lunch today at River City Restaurant for the whole group. It is located at Peninsula Excelsior Hotel, just behind Funan Mall at City Hall. Here are some photos that we took:

Lunch at Peninsula Hotel

Lunch at Peninsula Hotel

Lunch at Peninsula Hotel

December 20, 2005

Lunch at Greenhouse, Ritz Carlton

Filed under: Dining — hendrikch @ 7:49 pm

I had my buffet lunch in Greenhouse today. It’s located in Ritz Carlton hotel at Marina Bay area. I would say that the food there are really really good. Few recommendations on what to look for if you go there: salad, tomatoes, big prawns, fish, sashimi, sushi, and desserts like tiramisu. Pretty much sums up almost everything they have there, hahaha… But I am not exaggerating, the food there are good, though at $45+++, it’s in the expensive range for lunch. Anyone have also tried eating there before?

Me and Alvin

The complete photos here.

July 5, 2005

Movies and Dining Out

Filed under: Dining, Going out, Movies — hendrikch @ 12:18 am

After spending record expenses last month for dining and movies, I was telling myself that this month, I must not spend as much as last month. However, any hopes of curbing expenses this month were dashed as early as my dinner on the first day of July. $12 at MOS Burger . That was last Friday.
After watching Batman Begins two weeks ago, on Saturday eight of us went to watch War of the Worlds at Bishan. We had our dinner at McD before the movie and our supper at Cafe Cartel afterwards. In Cafe Cartel, I had Eastside Brownie Stack. It was two pieces of brownies with rich chocolate topped with a vanilla ice cream, yummy
Yesterday, I had lunch with my colleagues at Secret Recipe for a farewell meal. It was a $17 set lunch for a main course, drink, soup of the day, and guess what, another brownie.
Today, after lunch, I dropped by the new mr. bean opened in Tanjong Pagar. I bought their $1.20 soya-ice-cream. Tasted like McD’s ice cream cone.

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