Monthly Archives: February 2008

Updating and Bugis Junction

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I’ve spent quite a bit of time today updating our blog. I’ve finished uploading all our albums and catching up on past blogs. Now I’m finally up to date to today 🙂

To reward myself today I decided to sign up for a new mobile phone plan and get myself a new phone! I’ve been searching for a while and been thinking for a while and finally decided. So I went with Ron to the Hello! Singtel store at Bugis Junction. I got myself the HTC Touch Dual mobile phone along with a phone and browsing plan. Yay! I’m happy.

We had dinner there at a place called MOF My Izakaya.

We had for appetizer their tofu avocado salad with wasabi dressing. I was craving avocados. I really do miss them.

I had the Tan Tan Ramen which is a minced beef and pork ramen in a spicy sesame soup.

Ron had the Katsu Toji (deep fried pork in egg sauce) with plum rice.

For dessert they gave us this:

But instead we had ordered this, black sesame mixed imo (soft serve with black sesame paste, yam and Japanese sweet potato):

They kindly changed it although it took a while to fry up the sweet potato.

After dinner we wandered around a bit and checked out the CNY decorations:

Now for today’s blog updates:

Jan 7 – El Patio at Holland V

Jan 13 – Mellben Seafood on Ang Mo Kio Ave 3 Blk 232

Jan 17 – Takashimaya Basement 2

Jan 18 – Steamboat… but no BBQ

Jan 20 – NYDC and The Coffee Club

Jan 24 – Coffee Club Take 2

Jan 25 – Heading for Jakarta, Indonesia to spend the weekend…

Jan 26 – Exploring Jakarta

Jan 27 – Last day in Jakarta

Feb 1 – Cancer Institute CNY Dinner

Cancer Institute CNY Dinner at Majestic Restaurant

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Even as the new pharmacist, I was invited to the Chinese New Year dinner hosted by the Cancer Institute. Their office is located on the 2nd floor of the main building at NUH and we attend meetings there but most of the involvement of pharmacists is with clinical trials. I’m not completely authorized yet to do much with clinical trials but help with double checking things once in a while.

Anyways, the dinner was held at the Majestic Restaurant located in the New Majestic Hotel. Our “big” boss (= manager/director of pharmacy) gave us a ride to the restaurant, very lucky for us because it was a bit rainy. When we entered the restaurant, it was quite interesting, very contemporary looking near the ground but when you look up, it looks quite barren with concrete beams and interesting lighting.

We came at the right time when they just started serving although we missed the “show” at our table. Here in Singapore for the CNY they have a traditional dish called “Yu Sheng“. It’s sort of a raw fish salad that is tossed with chopsticks by everyone sitting at the table. The higher the dish is tossed, the more prosperous their year will be… or at least that was the way it was explained to me 😛

It was quite tasty though, lots of peanuts!

I took some pictures at another table to show you what it’s like, aka salmon lo hei:

Next dish was shark fin soup with crabmeat:

Steamed fillet of sea perch with light soya sauce:

Fried lobster with creamy milk and lime sauce:

Abalone with fish maw, tendon, and garden greens in oyster sauce:

Sauteed fresh scallops, prawns, and squids in X.O. chili sauce:

Steamed rice with Chinese preserved sausage:

Chilled mango puree of mango with sago and pomelo:

Traditional brown sugared glutinous flour cake:

Fresh watermelon juice:

The staircase in the middle of the restaurant:

Also, a pretty cool thing about the restaurant is that in the other part of the dining room, the ceiling has circular openings which allows you to see into the pool. Although it was dark already, it’d be pretty nice during the day I think.

Dinner was quite filling and we had good conversation with everyone at our table. I got some good recommendations about what type of fruits to buy now and where so I’m going to go tomorrow to buy some fresh fruits for the CNY. Can’t wait.