Day 31 – 22 Aug (Fri)Fri’s lessons are quite bearable coz it’s only half a day, and we’ll just start with a few people’s presentations on the previous movie before watching a new one this week, to be reviewed in the subsequent week… so far, the movies we’ve watched are all pretty nice… and educational at the same time… kudos to our teacher for choosing all the right movies! =P anyway, after lessons, William, sharnice & I had lunch at this western restaurant near school called Joyful. It’s similar to another chain here called Babela, with an ambience similar to that of pizza hut’s. William & I both ordered a cheesy chicken steak, but he topped up his set meal to get an additional side of fried shrimp while mine came with rice and miso soup… the miso soup was good, but the chicken was far too salty and quite oily… =( if the chef had just been a little stingier with the salt and oil, I believe it would have tasted much better and we wouldn’t have felt like our kidneys were gonna fail after ingesting that piece of chicken… thank goodness I had the rice and soup to down the chicken with, or it would have been quite wasted… >_<
After lunch, as we were walking to xu jia hui mtr station, we entered 太平洋百货， Pacific Shopping Centre coz sharnice wanted to shop for a pair of shoes… but as expected, she didn’t get a pair there… coz for some reason, the huge departmental stores in china mostly sold their shoes at a really high price! Despite a supposed 50% discount for some of them, the shoes were still very ex! So well, sharnice had to go elsewhere to shop for her shoes… we went to the basement to take a look, and saw some shops selling food… there was a jap bakery called yamazaki as well… the bread there looked really appetizing, so we decided to buy a few back for our breakfast the next morning… there was a wide variety of bread sold, mostly priced between 6RMB – 10RMB, which was about S$1.20 – S$2, around the price range of bread talk… William & I bought this very nice bread with 2 small takoyaki (octopus balls) on top for 8RMB each… it was really good! =P there was really a cube of octopus in each of the takoyaki, and drizzled on top was lotza bonito flakes, which complemented the taste of the bread & takoyaki… =)
After getting our bread, we took the mtr to raffles city (莱佛士坊) at people’s square (人民广场). It was my first visit there, and from what I’ve heard, it’s supposed to be a very Singaporean place… probably owned by a s’porean or something… but well, after walking around, I didn’t find it particularly s’porean… it felt just like any other shopping malls at xu jia hui that I’ve been to… the only s’porean elements I saw were bread talk & prima taste, a restaurant selling some famous s’pore food dishes such as hainanese chicken rice, fried kway teow, bak kut teh, laksa, as well as some other asian cuisine… as it was a rather warm day, will & I went into kfc to get a sundae… haha… will recommended the grape-flavoured sundae coz he tried it previously and found it nice… something different from the usual chocolate or strawberry sundae we get in sg, and it suffices as a simple dessert on a hot day… =) as we continued walking around the shopping mall, and passed by bakerzin, we saw a poster that said that their chocolate soufflé was on promotion! sold only for 10RMB = S$2!!! What a deal… how could we miss that… haha… so will & I sat ourselves down in bakerzin & just ordered 1 serving of the soufflé to share coz we were already quite full… as expected, the soufflé was really delicious! Definitely didn’t regret walking in… Piping hot soufflé served in a small ceramic cup, along with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream served by the side… heavenly combination I tell you… the price was heavenly too… hahaha… too bad the promo would only be for a limited period of time, or we would have wanted to visit bakerzin quite often… =)
bakerzin's chocolate soufflé!
After raffles city, sharnice headed home while will & I decided to move on to our next destination… 陆家嘴 lu jia zui… we supposedly read this booklet given by the gip club which said that the last remaining yaohan in the world is somewhere near 陆家嘴 so will & i wanted to check it out… but when we asked the staff at the 陆家嘴 lu jia zui mtr station, they said that yaohan was at another station, and that we would still have to take a bus from that station or something like that… oh well, so will & i decided to check out that yaohan another time instead since we’d already exited from the ticket machine.. we went back to the SUPER GRAND MALL, where we shopped till we dropped previously… haha… ok, strictly speaking, we didn’t really SHOP that much, coz there were mostly restaurants… and although there were indeed quite a no. of shops at the mall, they seemed more like the kind where you do your window shopping rather than real shopping… =)
some buildings at 陆家嘴 lu jia zui
Oh well, since it was still too early for dinner, will & I decided to grab a drink frm macs… i redeemed 2 drinks using 2 wining macs Olympics games coupons coz the coupons showed 2 olympic events in which china won a medal in (regardless of the colour). Haha… armed with our free drink, we sat at the macs, watching tkd Olympics finals on this big screen in the centre of the mall… the matches weren’t all that exciting coz most of the time, the fighters merely hopped around, neither parties daring to initiate the attack… well, after all, these national fighters have been training for 4 years just for the Olympics, & I guess they didn’t dare to risk making a wild move & suffering the consequences of an imperfect aggressive move…
Finally…dinner time!!! Hahaha… we headed for this hk-portugese restaurant, called Lisboa Restaurant, which we’d noticed previously coz of a crowd queuing there as well as the awards it’d received… so we decided to try the food for ourselves… since it was a fri evening, there was an expected long queue of customers, so we had to take a no, & waited for about 20mins before we were finally shown to a table. While waiting, will & I already browsed through the menu and decided what we intended to order, so we quickly got the waitress to take down our orders so as to reduce our waiting time! =P anyway, will ordered this escargot baked rice while I ordered a chicken broth baked rice (鸡汁焖饭)… haha… I’ve tried escargots before but will hasn’t, so I told him that escargots are quite nice, and that the texture’s actually a little like shellfish…so I encouraged him to give it a try! =P I’m glad that he liked it in the end…=) oh, we also ordered their egg tarts! The yellow ones were like typical egg tarts made with egg yolk, while the white coloured ones were made with egg white! Both types were nice, though we sorta preferred the yellow egg yolk ones coz they were slightly sweeter… but well, get the egg white tarts for a healthier choice… =)
pearl milk tea
egg tarts
chicken broth baked rice 鸡汁焖饭
