Our day started off with a sinful breakfast... sinfully fantastic breakfast... hahaha... my dad and I wanted to get breakfast somewhere near our hotel, but we saw a stall selling the all-famous 阳澄湖 (lake yangcheng) hairy crabs! Haha... after bargaining a bit with the seller, he quoted us 55rmb for each crab (male/female)... well, my dad was saying that hairy crabs in sg can be really quite ex, especially those sold in restaurants... coz they’re somewhat considered a relatively rare delicacy in sg since you gotta import the hairy crabs from china or elsewhere... so 55rmb was already considered quite cheap... haha... so well, we bought 2!! =P haha... the crab seller even helped us to cook the crabs on the spot, for us to eat them in this small Chinese eatery right next to his stall... it was a very simple cooking process... he just placed the 2 crabs in a pot of water, sprinkled some salt into the water, and placed the pot on an electric stove... it took around 30mins for the crabs to be nicely cooked, after which, the crab seller brought it into the Chinese eatery for us... as he entered, we were greeted by the steaming hot and highly appetizing red crustaceans and simply couldnt wait to feast on them! =P true enough, the crab were not the least bit disappointing... the freshness and natural sweetness of the crab meat lingered in our mouths even after we took the first bite... heavenly... the tinge of salt added brought out the taste of the flavourful seafood... yummy...=D
阳澄湖 (lake yangcheng) hairy crabs!! (before cooking)
阳澄湖 (lake yangcheng) hairy crabs!! (while cooking)
阳澄湖 (lake yangcheng) hairy crabs!! (after cooking)
omg... look at all the roe inside...=O
after our satisfying breakfast, we went to science & tech museum’s underground shopping mall... my dad was busy looking out for some golf equipment, but apparently, the stuff there was too chui for his liking... shopping here is really a good test of your bargaining skills... I had gd practice once again... bought a nice pair of court shoes and a grey hooded jacket which you all will probably see in some of the pictures uploaded...
after some nice shopping, we had lunch at a Chinese restaurant... there were actually 2 rather similar restaurants side by side, and we were wondering which to enter... in the end, we just chose the one with more people inside... haha... follow the crowd... hope it doesn’t go too wrong... and yay...thankfully, the food was pretty good!
sci & tech museum restaurant - braised mushrooms
prawns!
chicken 三杯鸡
sweet & sour fish
sumptuous lunch... =P
After a great lunch, we went to ren min guang chang to walk around... went to the nearby 南京路步行街 with the beautifully lit shops and took some pics there... since china’s national day was in a few days’ time (1st oct), there were lotza china flags hung outside buildings, flying in the wind... quite a pretty sight... =)
happy national day, china! =P
pics taken at 南京路步行街
We were finding a place for dinner, when I spotted this restaurant on the 2nd level of one of the buildings along 南京路步行街 which looked really crowded... so we decided to check it out... the restaurant’s called 干锅居 and had a full house! so we figured that it must be quite good and decided to wait... we got a table soon after, and ordered some stuff... but ALL turned out to be disappointing!! Omg... their supposed specialty, 干锅鸡 was just bones with hardly any meat! And the whole dish was just bland... not salty, not spicy, just bland!! >_< the 麻婆豆腐 tasted alright but was freaking oily... and the vege soup with meatballs was so average... all in all, a lousy meal! >_<
yucky 干锅居
disgusting 干锅鸡 at 干锅居... >_<
super oily 麻婆豆腐
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