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Culinary

WS's Culinary Tip:

Sprinkle chicken stock on bland tasteless food and boom! Tasty food! XD Never underestimate seasonings. Really lame, i know. But mum just cooked this horribly tasteless curry so i poured liberal amounts of chicken stock on top. :D

Food!

While i was out with Fish and Nico, we had lunch at Delicious Cafe / Ms Read / Ms Read's Delicious Cafe, which was extremely packed with customers.

I've been wanting to visit delicious cafe anyway for quite some time since Heko raved about it. Their food was delicious (otherwise it would be too damn ironic) which explains the amount of patrons.

My smoked salmon angel hair was served with a whole lot of smoked salmon, topped with a dollop of caviar. A little too salty for me, as they gave me far too much salmon (which is good thing, i suppose?) that the angel hair was not enough to balance the saltiness. The caviar that came along with the pasta didn't tame the flavour, either.

Nico's marsala lamb shank was, and i quote him, "heavenly". Huge, huge lamb shank, fantastically marinated and delectably tender. Served with nasi pilaf, cucumber raita & papadum. Nasi pilaf is, i suppose, the raisined rice in the picture. As i have no idea what nasi pilaf is, i'm not sure whether this is some Delicious Cafe innovation, tossing raisins in rice, or that traditional nasi pilaf recipe contains raisins in. Cucumber raita is some sort of cucumber-yogurt salad hidden beneath the papadums.

Fish's... grilled balsamic mushrooms on toasted multigrain... was just vegetarian. The mushrooms were fantastic and flavourful. But it was rather pricey, if you think about it. Mushroom sandwich for twenty bucks. No meat. XD I'm such a carnivore. I guess it sounds better than grilled vege and pesto on toasted ciabatta. Grilled vege... 0_O

The highlight of our visit would be the desserts. Oohlala. Deli-cious desserts!

Scones! Delicious Cafe's scones are just divine. I've always thought that scones were like.. muffins? Or muffin-ish croissants or something. But they turned out to be nothing like muffins or croissants! They were light and crumbly, and absolutely wonderful with preserves and pure cream. Scones! Just order scones when you go to Delicious Cafe.

Next up is the blackberry and apple crumble. Another divine dessert. Warm crunchy oaty crust and fragrant blackberry apple base, coupled with a large scoop of ice-cream. Ooh-lala! The apple cubes were dyed a sexy purple by the blackberry. :D I didn't recommend the peach and banana crumble as i've eaten it for years at Heko's Christmas Eve lunch, and i guess she copied their recipe.

Last of all, chocolate brownie. Chocolate brownie, with a large scoop of vanilla ice-cream topped with chocolate sauce. Absolutely sinful! So far the best chocolate brownie i've eaten. Warm, walnutty and not too sticky. Sinful. Very.

I've heard loads of good word-of-mouth about Delicious Cafe's desserts. Will pop by soon for more. :D I feel like trying the sticky date pudding. Or... the flourless orange cake. Hmm.

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I've visited Dave's again. Screw Italiannies and wherever. Dave's is the place for pasta. Sis recommended their aglio olio so i decided to give it a try (i ordered my favourite carbonara, regardless, and shared the aglio olio with fish).

Here is the aglio olio with mixed mushrooms and truffle oil. Definitely different from carbonara. It is definitely less cloying and much lighter. If you like simple and light dishes, try the aglio olio. The mixed mushrooms and truffle oil version is slightly spicy, with little bits of chilli tossed inside.

Excuse the dark picture as i forgot to turn on the flash. You could always select whatever ingredients/toppings you like. Mixed seafood, bacon, salmon & spinach, meatballs... (wouldn't recommend smoked pork sausages as they have an overwhelming smell). The one you see here is aglio olio with mussels (might recommend mussels, fresh + sufficiently marinated). The mussel aglio olio tastes very different from the truffle oil one, with a stronger hint of basil leaves, and not spicy.

Dave's bruschetta is definitely worth trying. Crispy bacon and salsa bruschetta. Scrumptious. Absolutely delicious. And once again you can choose various toppings. They used to have salmon, smoked duck and anchovy bruschetta but i couldn't find it on the menu.

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Shop

Oof! I haven't been blogging for a week now. Nothing much happened. Saw some movies. Played lots of basketball.

I did spend one whole day shopping (shop! shop! 血拼!) with Fish and Nico and i didn't know that aimless ambling around in a shopping mall can take up so much time! I finally acquired a pair of decent jeans (with no holes in them). The cutting is somewhat strange and baggy but am happy enough.

My fantastic white shirt (with bone/mother-of-pearl buttons) remains elusive. Bah! I poked my head into shops and boutiques, scanning around for some tell-tale sign of a fantastic white shirt but none caught my eye, so my search continues!

I did, however, purchase an orange-and-black pair of sports shorts to wear to play basketball but alas it turned out to be too tight for me. Damn. Should always always try them on. Thank god for the return policy. Returned and exchanged it for an orange-and-blue pair. Orange-and-blue was goddamn contrasting but though horrible, they were no match for the other two colours: brown (most unflattering brown colour, just imagine those buncho poster-colour brown) and orange, or sugarcane green and yellow. Nasty!

Also purchased were two pairs of socks, as mine were getting worn out and have lost their elasticity. And that was all i bought after a day's outing. Disastrous, really.

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I watched two movies. Wanted and Get Smart.

Wanted is really cool if you enjoy super-stylish and nail-biting action scenes with inexplicably impossible stunts. The Angelina sports-car scene was just damn cool. However if you are, like me, skeptical and inquisitive, you will be wrinkling your brows throughout the movie, thinking thinking thinking with disbelief. I mean, how! and how! can a person snipe another in such a manner from such a distance, with the bullet zipping between train carriages and donut holes? It's like shooting someone in 1U from my house. And the curved shots. I believe it is physically impossible to curve a gunshot using just a normal pistol. Incredible. Anyhow, Wanted was definitely worth the movie experience.

Get Smart = hilarious. Anne Hathaway was a brilliant candidate for Agent 99 as she really has this look as if she has had some work done to her face.

Streamyx

I friggin hate streamyx.

In addition to the shit ass tortoise-slow Internet connection they're offering, they have the tendency to crash on me. Internet was down the whole day today, which hampered my productivity. Productivity = downloading movies.

Spent quite some time with the annoyingly polite operators at TmNet who kept asking who my account owner was (sir?) and what my phone number was (sir?) for "reference" purposes. So each time i called i just spouted out my account username, my dad's name and my phone number, which seems weird, but it saved me a lot of time, and spit for the operators.

Turned out there was some problem with one of their "ports" and their technicians were resolving them efficiently so i asked them how long would it take to fix that problem and they said the maximum would be two working days (wtf!) depending on how "small" the problem was. Damn i should sue their incompetent asses off!

Anyway, i've finished downloading:

i) Run, Fat Boy, Run - But i haven't watched it yet.

ii) Vantage Point - I like the multiple point of views, but the repetitions were tedious.
iii) 21 - Sis had the DVD so i cancelled my download. 21 was fascinating. Man i've heard of card-counting but these people took it to a whole new level. aaaand, though i've never heard of her before, Kate Bosworth is one hot chick.

iv) Bee Movie - Bzzz. Found the bee-human interaction somewhat a buzz-kill. It's... bleargh.
v) 27 Dresses - Moderately entertaining at best. I never really liked romantic comedies.

New Word for Dictionary

I got this from a forwarded e-mail - check it out. Hahaha. Fucking hilarious man! :)

There is possible plan underway to apply to the Oxford and Webster to include a new word for their 2009 dictionary:


badawi [baa-daa-wee] (noun): To start something full of promises but ends in disappointment, failure and/or disaster.


Eg: I'm trusting you to perform this task well... don't do a badawi, ok?

Whatever I do, I will always find a way to badawised it.'

France badawied their Euro 2008 campaign. England pre-badawied theirs, while Italy were guilty of over-badawification.

source: unknown

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