Crystal Jade Xiao Long Bao Buffet (Holland Village)

Hello Humans,

Shan and I- do we look alike? Most people say no, haha. Anyway we were making our way to Holland Village to meet Adele for our XLB Hotpot Buffet! I was kinda excited cos I've always heard how great it was- free flow of XLB and locating at Holland V sounds kinda good too-I don't know why. 

Our only group photo of the day! HAHA, I was so happy that we got this seat in the sense that there's a huge mirror next to me and I can take a group photo even though I don't really look good here. LOL. So this was taken right at the start of our feasting. We were too busy eating and some photos were taken randomly thereafter. 

So our feasting started! Not sure if I should say we ordered a lot or not. But we've ordered quite a lot of mushroom and veggi. To be honest, I was quite sad that don't have fish, prawn, scallop and chicken slices (their's come in pieces). So for meat wise since I don't eat beef (not sure if there's beef though, I didn't even look much at the menu) and mutton, I ate mostly pork, and those meatball thingy. The Szechuan soup base was spicy, and hence I didn't have much of that. 

What's Xiao Long Bao buffet without XLB right?! I was kinda a little disappointed cos I prefer Din Tai Fung's XLB. Perhaps I didn't eat it asap while it's hot... Oh well...

Char Siew Bao

Gui Hua Gao and Red Bean Jelly

We weren't very hungry to begin with though we didn't really have much for our lunch. We were basically stuffing ourselves with the food we ordered and I was super full! Well, I seldom eat steamboat (at least that's what I think) and this pretty okay in the sense that the ingredients are pretty standard like like tofu, veggi, mushroom and meat. But I'm quite sad that they don't offer seafood choices like fish, prawn (we were given 3 each FOC but that's of course not enough) and scallop. Yes I know I've said that but I'm just trying reinforce how sad I am for that. HAHA. Drinks can be only refilled when you finish them, so it's too bad if you wanna change your option (they have coke, barley and Chinese tea). 

And another thing that I'll probably comment is the dining duration. It's only around 2 hours for you to enjoy the buffet and to catch up with friend/family. HOW IS THAT ENOUGH?!): Personally it wasn't enough for me cos I eat pretty slow. The place is slightly crowded and noisy so I could barely hear NPM when we were doing some catch up.

So would I go there again? Well, probably not anytime soon. If I've a craving for XLB, I'll probably head down to Din Tai Fung. Oh ya, Mayim (in WestMall) serve pretty nice XLB too. If I've a craving for steamboat, Xian De Lai is much of a good choice. I've tried it in August and they serve scallop, fish and prawn if I didn't remember wrongly. And they do not rush you off! Maybe it wasn't crowded that's why we could take our own sweet time..

So anyway, Thanks NPM for treating the Ho sisters! It's expensive, especially on a Weekend! Lots of love from us to you! HEEEEHEEE.

So after our buffet, we grabbed some bread for next day's breakfast and headed down to D' good Cafe for MED flea! We just wanted to take a look and see if there's anything for grab. The queue was super ultra long before we head for buffet and the queue was pretty short after our buffet. And guess what, we met XQ at the stairs! HAHA. I got myself a pretty green top, whereas XQ and Adele got themselves a dress each. 

Took photo with the pretty swing in the cafe before we parted:

Shan and NPM

The Ho Sisters. 

Pardon the big fat legs.

:D

Group photo: thanks to the free photoshoot booth at the flea! Reminds me of neoprints.. HAHA.

Loves,
Bean

meet up with loves

Hello Humans,

Here's a very outdated update regarding meet up with my loves! :)

This was taken during BFF meet up in Feb at LingZhi, my first time trying vegetarian buffet! We decided to have steamboat cos it was near Chinese New Year and perhaps steamboat will have more feel. HAHA. Anyway I always look like giant next to them -.-

Hello to our Mushroom hotpot buffet!I think the soup base on the left is original and the one on the right is tom yum (:

Please boil faster cos we wanna eat.

We had some dimsum too. Overall we think it's not very worth it cos it's quite pricey with quite limited choice of food. Being called mushroom hotpot buffet, I was really looking forward for more variety of mushroom but disappointingly, there is very few that we can choose from. ): So probably I wanna visit it anytime soon X:

But anyway the quality time with friends is always loved! We then proceed to town area and not knowing what to do, we wanted to head to some free museum. But we had to change our plans due to the change in weather! Seek for a shelter at TCC and we had coffee and chatted. (:

Me and xq shopping at topshop cos she wanna spend her vouchers.  Haha. This kind of hairband seems to be wore during photo taking only. Haha

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Birthday celebration for Bay and YT at Eight Treasure (:

This looks so like a family photo and I love everyone of us here! :D

These are the food that we ordered: Satay, cereal prawn, pork, kang kong, and 猴头菇。I was really hesitating whether or not to vote against 猴头菇 cos it sounds so... you know right. HAHA. Not yeah end up we decided to give it a try. Great food and great friends, hope the birthday girls are as happy as us. HAHA. 

Dessert time after our dinner. Had a hard time finding table for the 6 of us but nonetheless we got it (: after that was home sweet home since yt working the next day.

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I can't wait for the picnic session on coming saturday with you girls! 

Loves,
Bean

Steamboat buffet and New phone (:

Hello Humans,

Met up with laopos for dinner steamboat buffet at Royal Hotel, which is near Novena MRT. The food are okay, not bad but not too fantastic. Their yam is super nice and they have chili crab and peking duck too, but the skin for peking duck wrap wasn't nice but overall still okay. It was a good session to stuff ourselves with food and the surrounding was relatively conducive for gathering cos the place was quite quiet! Perhaps we went on a Wednesday or maybe it's the same throughout the week I've no idea. But anyway, it's a get-together-session for us and we had good laughs too! (:


Out with Xin ytd, and we went to recontract our plan and these are the phones that we got:

WHITE S3 which I prefer. Actually I can tell my sister likes it too. Moreover we got it using her plan, so I've no idea whether it will be mine. LOL.

Sony Acro S, which my sister have been looking at.

So after we got our phone at JCube, we rushed down to FarEast Plaza to get her dress altered and we kept eating! First was at JCube where we ate sushi, chocolate cake and drink taro fresh milk then was spicy tofu + fishball + cabbage, bacon sausage, beancurd, luo mi ji and chicken meatballs. LOL.

 Have been trying out the phones and downloading apps for both phones instead of doing my assignments. clap claps. But who can resist playing their new toys right? (:

Loves,
bean.

Hello October

Hello Humans,

It's October 2012. How fast is 2012 passing man!

I've been going out most of the days since recess week started unofficially on 29th September.

29th Sept
Out with family to Town for lunch. Xin bought voucher from groupon so we went to Chatterbox for lunch. Ordered claypot veggi tofu ):, seafood horfun /:, curry fish (: and coconut icecream (:. Looking at the emoticons you should know how I'd rate the food. I've no idea why the gravy are so thick, which makes the food not so nice. Walked around to look for gown for Ying's wedding in mid-November (: Glad that I didn't miss out too much! Xin bought a lovely earrings and I eyed on one but didn't buy cos it's the last one and we don't like to buy display item /:

30th Sept
Out to look for mama's clothes for Ying's wedding. Headed to clementi and cabbed to paya leba's city plaza! Glad that mama managed to eye on some dresses and aunt too! After that was grandma's birthday celebration at Boon Lay Raja Restaurant, which we've been visiting since long long ago! But it's kinda weird that we don't feel that full after the meal. Usually we were bloated even at the mid-way or near the end. Don't tell me their portion is shrinking or my appetite is expanding. LOL.

1st Oct
Meet up with YQ at JP for lunch and KBox! Singing session got to extend, perhaps it wasn't crowded that day. We were waiting to be chased away but no one ask us to make payment even when the time is almost up. And so we played old songs and sat and listen and sing along some. It was a super hot day and perhaps monthly-friend is making me sian and tired. Sorry if I appear shag or show disinterestedness X: Straight after the singing session was meet up with Tiff, YX and SM for Tiff's advanced birthday celebration. Too bad Eileen and Cal couldn't make it. We had our dinner at Sakura and it was bad and expensive! Why is my first try for Japanese buffet such a bad experience. Besides the limited variety, the food doesn't taste nice and the lighting is damn dark and I was sleepy. First time in buffet that I ate so little I think. But anyway company was great. Hope to see you girls in Nov for Cal's birthday if possible. HAHHA(:

2nd Oct
Out with Shan to Chinatown to collect nail polish top coat that I got it free from Groupon. They sent me a $8 credit so I just find a $7.90 deal to use it! HAHA. After that we collect our ukuleles- hello Uku and LeLe! :D Headed to town to look at wedding gowns for a while behind parting Shan to meet Cherlyn aka Monkey for dinner! Ate at a Chinese restaurant and had small catch up, and some walk around (:

3rd Oct
Out with Shan again to accompany her to dental. Poor girl's retina cracked and she gonna remake one for the top ): I hope my retina will be good and stay strong! Anyway she's going to extract her wisdom teeth tomorrow and most probably I'm going to accompany her. HAHA. Random walking in Bugis and happened to chance upon some nice and relatively cheap gowns! (: We were excited and thus we went back to the shop again on the next day,HAHA.

4th Oct
So Shan got her gown and I was indecisive whether to get one from the shop or not. I wasn't super ultra into the gowns but they are pretty nice and cheaper! So it is highly possible for me to get one from there and so I put deposit for a gown! (: Oh ya, we had lunch at our favourite place- 食为先! Perhaps it is true that you can't keep eating the same food though you like it cos you might lose interest in it or the taste will change. HAHA.

5th Oct
I finally NUAH AT HOME! (: I was too lazy to travel to school for the exercise program and hence I skipped it! OOPS, I better take note that I can only skip it one more time in order to be paid! :D

6th Oct
Out with Shan again. HAHA, this time round was Central which we didn't managed to see much gowns and Town which sell gown at super expensive price. Perhaps we didn't get to see most or all shops so.... it was quite tiring to walk around and to hunt for gown. So end up we bought some other stuff -.-

7th Oct
I'm at home again, finally (: Was nuahing and listening to new songs from 丁当and Jolin! Nice huh! (: and was trying to type stuff for FYP. I'm so sian diao. LALALLALAL

It just feel like.. holiday. With some stupid stuff (school) to work on occasionally though it shouldn't be. I guess I haven't tune my mood correctly yet, just like my un-tuned LeLe. lol

Loves,
bean.

hohohooliday

Hello Humans (:

I'm finally stay at home again! Great to wake up at 10.30AM and nuah around! Currently trying to catch up a Korean drama which I watched half way last holiday! LOL. And yes, surf net randomly.

Actually I'm supposed to think whether or not to have a mini 21st birthday celebration! It's quite contradicting in the sense that it would be good to have a celebration to see people who I don't get to see often but actually I'm thinking whether or not to ask people who I don't really talk much to. And in fact, I still feel kind of weird. HAHA. So, to have or not to have?

Anyway, here to post some photos taken over the weeks:

#1. Starbucks mugging with Adele and Yi Lin.

Had First mugging session with both of them! (: Well it's not the first time with Adele but first time threesome at Starbucks lah (: Spent quite a bit over there. D: Library is still the cheapest option man! HAHA (: Yilin is not seen in any of the photos above cos we were serious muggers (ahem) and we only took photos when we had breaks! And Yilin actually go shopping during the break! HAHA.

#2. Post-Examination Dinner with Adele and Valerie.
@ JP's soup restaurant(: I ended my HRM paper early by leaving the hall 35minutes earlier! (: Poor Adele ate 180g (or so) of Korea maggie cos she thought dinner will be late! HAHA.

Cam-whored before val came (: And we finished a plate of samsui chicken before she even arrived! X: No la, still left a few pieces. HAHA.

Hungry Adele who is not really hungry.

Chatted over the dinner (: The lights were rather dim and a full-stomach made me feel sleepy! Will be meeting the girls soon this Thursday with Wanxuan (:

#3. Dim Sum buffet with Lao Pos- ZY and HL.

First ever Dim Sum buffet (@Toa payoh) with my laopos! (: Paid for the price of 2 for 3 person (:

Dim Sum....

And more... (:

Seems like I took damn many photos! I mean bay took many photos of me! HAHA. She didn't upload some of them on fb so perhaps that explain partly for my so-many-photos. HAHA.

Shopped a bit at Toa Payoh before heading to town. Here we are at Orchard Central camwhoring(: I like orchard central for its quietness! But things are rather expensive here huh!

#4. Out with sister.

Random outings with shan(: Anyway we had Thai Lunch at Central Thai at Orchard Central cos it was having some 1-for-1 sales (:

Shan ordered her favorite green curry and I ordered chicken fried rice. By the way, their menu is in Thai and translated to English! Good way to learn thai huh? Gai=chicken, Goong=Prawn! HAHA. Oh ya, I love pandang fried chicken. Too bad it's too expensive! But we still gave it a try! (:

#5. KBox with Adele.

Photos with Adele and not uploaded cos her HDD is currently on strike! So naughty huh! Anyway first time singing with university friend! 3 hours of singing is really short! Moreover the person forgot to operate our room! As in we sing half way then the system says something like our room not activated and worse still, "this is our last song". I was like WTH waste our time so I called the person la! Too bad our list of songs still deleted D: Nice singing though there were times of awkwardness. HAHA. Oh ya, how could I forget to mention the 1 hour plus of waiting for the shop to open at fareast! HAHA. Brought Adele to the shop to try the yellow dress I mentioned earlier. LOL.

Okay, till then.

Loves,

bean. (: