Saturday, January 27, 2007

::dinner at yaohan centre with nicole::
on thurday, i met up with nicole for dinner at yaohan centre. nicole had a craving for asian food so i brought her there coz i heard that the asian food there's really good and reasonable:)

nicole and i - on the bus. it was quite an eventful and long journey there. we must have been too engrossed chatting on bus - that was why we stopped at the wrong busstop and walked in the wrong direction, before we took a bus back to the right busstop. haha. this would not be a surprise to those who know how bad my sense of direction is.

but we made it there - a horrifying 1.5 hours later!! by that time, we were famished!! but we still had the energy to take photos from the outside. haha. seeing the yaohan signboard brought back a lot of memories. when i was younger, i used to frequent the yaohan branch at thomson plaza with my paternal grandparents, who both somehow loved going there alot:) there are now no more yaohan branches in sg already..

nicole and i - all ready to dig in, and happy that our long trip was worth it:)

i introduced nicole to our local specialty - hainanese chicken rice:) it was quite tasty but i found the rice a bit too oily though. i think the one karen had at primataste was better! but i was glad nicole enjoyed it:) oh yes, she really knows how to use the chopstick!! she was taught by a family friend back home in switzerland.

i decided to have a pork liver and century egg congee! yummy:) i really miss the congees at crystaljade back home! it was nice to have something piping hot when it was so cold outside! it was fun catching up with nicole:) and it was interesting how we exchanged lots of anecdotes on the idiosyncrasies of the people in our own country too!!