Seafood Paradise

Surprised by the frequent updates recently? heehee! We're working very hard to sort out all the pictures, consolidating them into their respective folders - it was quite a chore when you have pictures all over the place, in hard-disks, cameras and laptops :( We'll get it sorted out, somehow!

We have done up the pages (consolidated records) for our wedding journey and renovation at the side bars. I'll update the links as the posts get published on blog too. Taking a break for some seafood feasting :)

Colin told us about seafood paradise and insisted that we must pay a visit~ so off we go on a wkday night for awesome seafood! Even though they are located at Defu Lane - which sounds awfully ulu to me - the place gets packed as night approaches. We left it to Colin to order, as he's a regular of the restaurant. The chilli crab was superb, one of the better ones that I've tasted!

Hoping on the bandwagon of Seafood Paradise's promotion, we visited the place again on a Tuesday, where you get 30% off crabs! This time round, Claris came along too! We ordered 2 types - butter crabs and chilli crabs, with lots of other side dishes. For the prawn lovers, go on Thursday, where you get 30% off prawns items. Pay with citibank CC and get an additional 5% off prawn items - while stocks last!

Food Tasting @ Grand Park City Hall

1 month before the wedding, we had our food tasting @ the hotel. This will be the only time that Leecher & I get to taste the items served during the dinner.

Beloved bro and GF, who have been very supportive during our wedding preparations.

With Leecher and coincidentally, dressed in the same colour combi.

Venue for our food tasting

with soon-to-be-my-new-family

Feedback form

Complimentary parking coupons for the drivers.

Jasmine tea to kick start the event

Suckling Pig Combination, which includes suckling pig, jellyfish, salad prawn, baby octopus and roast duck. We changed baby octopus & jellyfish to deep fried silver fish & spring rolls.

Braised Shark Fin Soup with fish maw and crab meat

Sauteed scallops, asparagus with macadamia nuts in XO sauce. A tad salty, but love munching on macadamia nuts

Deep fried large prawns in wasabi sauce topped with sesame seeds - a refreshing dish that you don't get to see in other hotels. Well-balanced quantity of prawns & fruits.

Steamed red garoupa in teochew style, a must-have for all teochew family.

Roast crispy whole chicken topped with fragrant minced garlic. We almost thought those were fried 金珍菇, but was actually stripes of garlic.

Briased Ee Fu noodles with seafood and mushroom, thankfully wasn't soggy.

Yam paste with ginkgo nuts and pumpkin - a twist to the traditional oor nee. Another must-have for teochew family to end the night on a sweet note :)

Wedding Invites

The next item to do was to select wedding cards for our guests. We went to T-dragon for the selection. Some couples are particular about their wedding invites and would want it to be customized. For us, we don't see the need to spend extra money as most of the times, these cards will end up in the dust bin after the wedding. So, we stick with the selection that we are provided.

The final ones that we have shortlisted from 2 booklets.

The final selection, in purple and pink. Purple as it was Mummy's dearest fave colour and pink for Leecher's mummy.

Collected the wedding cards, envelopes and map from T-dragon. We printed our inserts in JB, henceforth, we needed to make a trip across the causeway.

We printed our wedding inserts @ T&T Instant Printing, located on the 4th floor of City Sq. You just have to choose your layout & wordings, no additional charges for icons (so add as many as you want!). Wait for 1h to view the artwork, so we went to Old Town for lunch.

My my my! Rem our bad experience with Old Town in Singapore? JB's version is so much better & we ate more than usual! They even have a 15 min challenge, where you can get a free voucher if food is not served within 15 mins. We went back to T&T to view our artwork and all ready to be sent for printing, ready for collection in 1 wk.

Writing wedding cards took more time than I imagined! Leecher took charge to tie the inserts while I did everything else. We took almost 1 week to finish everything and sending them out to our relatives and friends.

Porn's & Tom Palette

** All pictures credited to dear FMQ & her trusty DSLR :)

Extremely backdated, trying to make it onto the blog before the GF celebrates her next bdae this year, haha! The usual meetup session @ Porn's by Pornsak.

This suggestive name also got Leecher conned, as he was expecting an atmosphere similar to Hooters, LOL!

We went to the branch @ Liang Seah street

The normal menu vs the CNY menu - speaking of which, CNY is around the corner! haha, a bit not looking forward to it this year as I need to give out angpaos :( heehee!

Lemongrass drink & the all-time fave thai ice tea.

Pornsak was there in person in person too. His bubbly personality remains the same off-camera.

Refer to FMQ's food blog for a full review :)

Always fun to hang out with the GF, even more so now that she's back in the area! Yeah to more lunches :)

Crossed over to Tom's Palette for ice cream. I've heard raves about this place and finally got the chance to visit it. Lots of media coverage decorating the board. The traditional homemade ice cream is made from scratch using fresh ingredients, and they introduce seasonal flavours to suit the occassion.

We did a lot of sampling before we decided on 2 flavours each. My fave is Granny's favourite (gosh, what an old name!) which consisted of malt, cookie dough and chocolate. It tasted a bit like Horlicks too :) We even gotten a special ice cream cake for the dear friend who celebrated her bdae during that wk and soon, she'll blow out another candle on her cake in another few weeks time.

Ivan & Yuxin's Bdae celebration

A new year means that my backlog of entries are piling up, though I was trying to document our wedding journey as fast as I could in December :) Thank god that Leecher was on a few days leave in Dec and he kindly made up for his lack-of-contribution-on-blog to doing my share of housework (except ironing, this guy can still pick and choose what he wants to do!) so I have more time to blog! Wa ha ha, I love it when Leecher's on leave :)

Anyway, bdae celebrations of Ivan & Yuxin.

Celebrated Yuxin's bdae @ home ground this year, with a meal @ MOF. Their bento sets were quite tasty, though I can't say for the rest.

Ivan's bdae celebration @ Hard Rock. My 1st time going to Hard Rock! Yuxin chose this place as it was near his workplace, but mainly, it was to tekan Ivan, lol!

Being called on stage to present him with his bdae sundae.

Think it's easy to earn a complimentary sundae?

See the long thin straw that the guy is holding in his hand? Ivan had to use that to blow off the candle on his sundae, haha!

Finally, back at the table with his well-deserved sundae.

Picture for remembrance of his wonderful time on stage.

Not forgetting the 2 oldest friends who made it happen!

Winston's Stag Night

We celebrated Win's stag night, starting with a meal @ Checkers Brasserie, located at Hilton Hotel.

Youming, the organizer for the night picked this place for one reason only

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Free flow of sake! Checkers Brasserie, renowned for its daily themed buffets & Sunday Champagne Brunch, offers a surprise in store for guests each day of the week. Youming purposely picked the night where they offer free flow of sake & of cuz, Japanese cuisine.

The early birds catching the worms

Started the night with salad.

Sushi & sashimi

more plates being piled on the table. The AF gang really like to whack buffet and all of them can really eat!

Desserts, but there wasn't a huge selection, kinda disappointing.

We celebrated Yunfa's bdae using one of the cheese cakes! And his wish did came true, so happy for him :)

Full after the meal and it was time Win passed the brothers their stuff for his big day.

HAHA! the theme was geeky and all the guys had to wear geeky specs. Leecher wore his own specs, which was deemed geeky enough by the rest.

Don't you think Yunfa looks like Smarty from Bookworm Club?

The brothers & the groom

Since when stag night is just about buffet? LOL, Youming was afraid that his reputation was at stake as he was the one in charge for organsing Win's stag night and if words leaked out that the night is not happening, he would lose face, heehee! So, round 2 @ CMPB!

The guys looking up the most potent drink to tekan Win.

more (finger) food for the stomach!

Win was still unaware of what was in store for him.

Then, the partying start. Or rather, the drinking session to tekan Win started. He got called up to the bar counter and patiently wait for his fate.

I think the guys ordered Waterfall, where flaming alcohol was poured into a martini glass of liquor and Win had to suck it all up with a straw.

All gamed for the drink, just for our viewing pleasure! haha!

He must be thinking "What have I gotten myself into?"

A picture first before Win collapsed for the night, lol!
Starting to feel uncomfortable....

Almost gone

Had to resort to dragging him up to take pictures.

This was after he came back from his puking visit in the toilet.

One final round of drinks before we called it a night.

Just when we were walking out, Win couldn't take it anymore and need to rest on the grass patch.

Chuan Yew kindly offered his legs for support.

The rest of the guys quickly gathered around him, haha!

Ended the night with this epic picture :) I'm sure Win will remember this night forever, haha!