Mid-Autumn Festival @ The Gardens 2013

I have a great night at Gardens by the Bay today! Since Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, the gardens were lit up by beautifully crafted lanterns of different themes and characters and as usual, I happily snapped many photos. The gardens were surprisingly crowded on a weekday though.

 

 

 

 Mini Jurassic Park: The dinosaurs can waver and roar mildly.

 

 

 Chinese Opera: They have a couple of these faces along the walkway and look rather scary at night.

Birds and Insects Paradise:

 

Happy Ants:

Tired Old Tree - with eyes dropping

  

3 little pigs with big bad wolf.

 

 

 Traditional wedding:

 

 Lion Dance:

 

 Multi-racial:

 

  

World of Fairy Tales:

 

Sotong frog face. This frog was neglected because everybody was snapping pics of everything else except this poor frog.

 

 

It's a tiring day. Time to hit the sack.

 

Care Shop De Cafe

 

Taken from http://careshopdecafe.com

This is the place I have my dinner on a Friday night! The location is quite off - there are no shopping centre nearby and is located on the ground floor of an office building. However, they serve really yummy food at an affordable price.



The place was very empty on a Friday night. There was a pool table at the side as well.
We took quite some time looking through the menu because there are just so many options to choose from ranging from sandwiches, burgers, western to even Asian food.

 

 

Spicy Chicken Wing (100cc). They have it in different level of spiciness (come in 6 or 12 pieces) The price increase with the level of spiciness. 100cc is just nice for me. Any spicier, you may not be able to enjoy the taste of the chicken. We are not able to finish this though.

 

Seafood Pasta - Taste mediocre. Seafood were fresh though. The whole plate was whipped up fast. I guess he was really hungry. 

 

Chicken Chop with hollandaise sauce. They were generous with the portion. Chicken was tender and meaty enough to make you feel satisfied. Certainly busted my small tummy.

 

 

 Lava Cake - This is the best lava cake I ever tried! And it is only $8.80++! The chocolate was thick and you can see the chocolate flow out of the cake when you cut it open. And no, we did not ask for any add-on. The whole set comes like this - with the cookies and berry yogurt and the one scoop of vanilla ice cream. If only they are located at a more centralised area,  I can have this every week!

 

CARESHOP DE CAFE HOLDINGS PTE LTD 70 Bendemeer Road #01-05 Luzerne Singapore 339940
Tel : 62939298, 65343354 Email : enquiry@careshopdecafe.com
Operating Hours : Monday to Saturday 11.30am – 10.00pm, Sunday & Public Holidays Closed

 

Groupon: Ah Yat Dim Sum

 

 

We bought the Groupon for Dim Sum at Ah Yat Abalone Forum Restaurant located at Hotel Grand Pacific! This was my second time there. They have the freshest prawn. If only they have dessert under the list of items then that will be perfect:)

 

I called and reserved a table one month in advance as prior experience shows that they are always packed. The staffs distinguished those who purchased the Groupon from the rest who ordered from their ala-carte menu by ushering us to the second floor.

 

We, 4 girlies, actually finished all the food below that afternoon.

 

Abit too sweet for my liking but the rest of the girls loved it.

With the groupon, each pay only $29.20 for this:)

After the heavy lunch, we walked to Bugis and saw a long queue forming at The BlackBall. Since some of them did not try it before, we ordered 2 of it to share after a short shopping spree at Bugis Street. I guess we need to have this to compensate for our dessert shortfall at lunch.

Ah Yat Abalone Forum Restaurant
101 Victoria Street, #01-06 Hotel Grand Pacific S(188018)
Tel: 6332 2288 Fax: 6336 0207
Operating Hours (Everyday)
11.15am - 2.30pm (Lunch)
5.45pm - 10.30pm (Dinner)

BlackBall Singapore

12PM - 11PM (DAILY)

Tel: (65)6884-9579

Loc: 201 Victoria Street, Bugis+ #01-14, Singapore 188067.

Luk Yu Teahouse & Restaurant

 I don't really fussy Chinese cuisine so it amused me when the boy made a reservation at a Chinese restaurant on a Friday evening -.-

 

Anyway, dinner was at Luk Yu Teahouse & Restaurant @ Chinatown Point.

We ordered the 6 courses set menu for 2.

 

Shark's Fin Soup - The broth was thick and they were generous with the Shark's Fin as well

 

 Icy Pig Trotter with Char Siew - This is my first time I see pig trotter served cold. They tasted naturally good too

 

 Fried cod fish with crispy noodle - I would prefer if the sauce was served separately from the fish

Healthy Veggies

Noodle with prawn - Prawn was not so fresh but the noodle was good

Almond Tea - This ends the delightful dinner

 

The dinner came up to $90 for 2 which is very value-for-money. Would love to visit Luk Yu again for their dim sums which are only available during the day.

 

 

Luk Yu Teahouse & Restaurant
Chinatown Point, 133 New Bridge Road, #01-41/42
Tel: +65 6262 1717