Last Wednesday we visited a regular spot for dinner - cosy, casual and friendly staff. The restaurant is on the Eatigo app, and so the food is not only delicious but well priced too!
We had lamb shank and a Greek salad with cream dressing instead of the usual oil based vinaigrette. It was *different* but not unpleasant.
The chicken wings were so good on their own that I ignored the dipping sauce altogether!
Last Friday was a bit of a miss. I wanted to wear my new red shoes so I thought I'd pull together a casual black outfit and let the shoes and the new balloon sleeve cardi dress it up. It looked nice. We went to a dim sum restaurant that was recommended on a local site. The waiting time was 45 mins at least. And for some reason their online booking system doesn't work for same-day reservations. According to the lady for same day bookings one had to call the store. Ah well.
Then we walked down the stretch but everything that was good eating was wait-list only. And my feet and toes were beginning to hurt so I didn't want to explore anymore.
We headed to Chinatown to get some dim sum from a place we KNEW - but that was full house too - I rang! There *was* another restaurant which could seat us but when we reached the mall it was located in there were traffic cops waving people away as the street was crowded, the mall was crowded, it's as if the whole country decided they wanted to be in Chinatown. I think it's because we're about 2 weeks away from CNY. Sheesh. It's strange tho since there is to be no street fair this year, cos you know. #Covid, right? I thought it wouldn't get crowded since the usual night bazaar had been cancelled. But nope.
We ended up driving 15 mins to a different place which was a bit more casual (A LOT MORE CASUAL) for coffee shop Dim Sum.
The South East Asian countries have food courts (airconditioned, clean-ish food centres, often within malls), cafes (like Starbucks, Dean and Deluca), and then we have the good old-fashioned coffee shops or Kopi Tiams.
Here are stock photos for some reference -
They're often by the side of the road, open-air and noisy and hot as fuck.
And this is where we found a gem of a dim sum shop -
It's all disposable plates and chopsticks, and self-service, but at a flat price of USD 99 cents a dish, I'm not gonna complain!
We had fried prawn dumplings, steamed prawn dumplings, a double portion of siew mai, fried radish cake (rectangular pancake looking things at the bottom of the picture), jyu cheung fan or rice noodle rolls with prawns, rice noodle rolls with char siew, fried spring rolls, fried beancurd skin rolls (with meat and shrimp filling) and stewed pork ribs in black bean sauce... all the yummy dim summy things!
Dinner was under $10USD. It was so good and cheap that I located another branch near my home and took mum there for dinner Saturday. She was impressed at the price. Considering it was just as tasty as restaurant dim sum that costs easily 4 times that, we're now huge fans of this stall.
And tomorrow, we've both taken a day off work to celebrate BIKSS' birthday! We're having Keto Breakfast, then a PROPER (expensive?) dim sum lunch at a famous Cantonese restaurant that I've never been to so that's more of a treat for me than for him, I suppose. LOL.
And shopping! We're going to see if we can get him a new suit now that he's lost about 8 kg and his clothes don't fit properly anymore hahah. It's a good problem to have, I reckon.
Will update!
My mood pic today ~
