Yummy Yakiniku

Recently, we went to eat Japanese Yakiniku. Been eating a lot of nice food recently...haha....When we arrived, we were greeted with 'irashiramase' then we were led into an enclosed Japanese style room where we have to take off our shoes.

 There were apron for us to wear.

Junwen and WH each with their aprons on already. We all decided on the set menu for each.

 The starter dish was this Japanese style salad. The dressing tasted just like the typical Jap salad dressing. Pity it was too little to go around.

 Followed by this pancake with veg. Tasted like the chinese spring onion pancake to me, quite delicious.

 And a big hot plate of fish, prawns, carrots and assorted veggies.

 The meat fanned out with the white fatty edges was goose meat and the rest was chicken.

It felt especially nice to eat something like this on a cold winter night~ *_*

There was even a flask of hot sake..yeah~

 Think its pork and beef...The meat cuts were very tender and nice.

 There were also korean style bimbibap rice. The waiter mixed the rice in the hot stone bowl and distributed out to each of us on these little bowls. For me, I prefer to mix it myself and eat it straight from the hot stone. Loved the crispy burnt rice at the bottom.

 The smell of the BBQ meat and the sizzling sounds of the meat was therapeutic on a cold cold night. Its a good way to dispel the coldness. Must come again and eat this while the winter is still here.

Dessert was ice-cream! There's greentea, tiramisu, coconut and mango flavours. Nice! First time I saw greentea ice cream here, although its not as greentea-ish as I like but still better than nothing.

Overall, everything was delicious. We will definitely be coming back for second round when Ah Teck and Weizhong come back :)

V-Day celebration 2012

For Valentine's day, we went to this place called Hamat Gader Hot Spring and Spa resort situated near the sea of Galilee. Its about 2 hrs drive from the place where we stayed, so we had to leave quite early in the morning on that day.

 We took the package which include admission, massage and a lunch. So, the first thing we did was to have lunch inside the resort at a restaurant called Siam.

 View of the restaurant

 The menu

 The interior decor is still quite nice. We sat next to the window overlooking into the hot spring pool area, so can see a lot of people soaking in the water.

 Starter dish, some kind of fried spring onion pancake or sth.

 Spicy thai soup which did not look like thai soup at all to me, but taste ok

 Big fried spring rolls and fried pieces of white fish.

 I ordered kong pow chicken with cashew

 Hubby ordered fish

comes with rice and noodles.

Overall, the food was only so-so and the portions were too big for us that we did not even have space for dessert. 

 Views of the hot spring resort

The weather was very cold and it was rainy. Although there were steams coming out from the water, the water temp was not really as hot as the hot springs I encountered in Japan. 

We managed to soak for about 10mins before the going for our massage appointment. The massage was 45mins long.

After that, we soaked for another 10mins in the pool before calling it a day coz its very cold outside and staying too long in the water is making me uncomfortable. Its probably single digit temp outside, while I dashed shivering to the bathroom in just swimwear and a wet towel. I would prob enjoyed myself more if it werent SO freaking CCOOLDDD and crowded.

Part 2 of Vday celebration was at a very nice restaurant in Tel Aviv called Dallal, I love the decors of this place. 

They had a Valentine's Day menu in addition to the normal menu, unlike in SG, where there only served the overpriced V day menu for almost all restaurants on that day. In Israel, V day is not as commercialized as in SG.

We took the V day menu instead. The first dish consist of this artichoke soup. Tasted really nice!

 Also came with 2 cocktails- champagne strawberry soda. V interesting drink! I am too busy drinking the soup and looking at my cocktail, to notice someone taking candid pics of me.

 Our waitress was v friendly and offered to help us take a pic together

 There was some pieces of strawberries floating in a fizzy red mixture. Taste quite nice.

 Sashimi tuna...yumyum~!

 Cant remb what is this dish. There were so many dishes. All the portions were small and just nice for me.

 This pan seared calamari with chick peas and humus sauce was the tastiest of all. I had no idea it was in humus until the waitress told us.

 Salad with sour spicy sauce and crispy fried nuts.

 My main course was grilled fish with mash potatoes and black truffles. The mash potatoes together with the black truffles tasted awesome~The fish was perfectly cooked, soft and moist inside with a slight salty crispy skin.

 Hubby ordered lambchops with some risotto type rice.

 Pre-dessert was this champagne sorbet with strawberries. I can only taste champagne.....its quite strong.

Dessert was this funny looking dish with a hot pot of stew fruits and rasins, and we were supposed to add the cream, cookies and ice cream inside the pot and stirred. Tasted quite good.

While waiting for dessert, a lady came over with a huge basket containing many small gifts and asked me to pick one, sort of like a lottery coz there were chocolates and jewelleries inside those boxes. It part of the V day celebration. I got chocolate instead, but it was quite fun. 

Overall, it was a good V day dinner and a very good deal for only 220 shekels (about 70 SGD), which I dun think you can get such a price for a V day dinner in a fancy restaurant in SG on that special day. In fact, I dun even like to celebrate V day in SG coz its too commercialized and overpriced, kindda lost its meaning already. To me, anyday can be a V day, not just on 14th Feb coz its the thought that counts.

Idol fever~

I LOVE NICKY WU!!

After watching 'BuBu Jing Xin', I became addicted to Nicky Wu. He was my idol in 小虎队when I was still in Primary School or Lower Secondary, I think but had forgotten about him until now. OMG, he still looks as good as before! If you are damn good looking, even if you are 'botak', you still look good ok. I thought I had passed the stage of idols worshipping, but I guess life is always unpredictable. Or maybe I was always so busy with my life all the while but now that I am free and bored to death in this country, I finally got the time to 'kaypo' someone else's life. So, yupz...I have been very busy recently watching the films and TV dramas that he had acted in, and finding all those old songs that were sang by him, such as 祝你一路顺风, 追风少年, 双飞, etc and all those classic 小虎队精选集 songs. Brought back a lot of those old memories. I'm a eighties(1980s) era baby so to me, those were the golden days. If I can chose to live in a certain era, I would definitely wana go back to the 1980s period, where people still write letters by hand to each other and sent by post instead of email or msn nowadays, and where my friends and I played hopscotch, zero-point or five stones together in person instead of interacting with people through facebook. I get very skeptical of talking with people online coz I dunoe whether they really meant what they said and sometimes, it can caused a lot of misunderstandings....

Well, back to Nicky Wu. Here's a video done by his fans for his last birthday. He's 41 but dun look like it. He had 3 black belts in Judo and 5 black belts in Taekwondo and had always wanted to become an athlete but ended up being a superstar. Well, if you are born with such a good looking face, it will be a waste to become an athlete. After paying off his father's debt for 12 years, (hmm....quite a fillial son), he married a mainland actress but got divorced after 2 years. Well, I think not everyone is suited to get married. If you can only see your spouse 3-4 times a year due to ur hectic working schedule, the marriage is not going to work. Besides, as he is such a well known public figure, he dun belong to just one person only. For me, I think being married does not neccessarily mean living happily ever after coz life is not a fairy tale after all. 

Enjoy~! I like the song, sung by SHE.