September babies birthday celebration at Wah Lok Restaurant

As we have many family members celebrating their birthdays in September, we had a gathering for that. It was also a celebration for Uncle Jason's 60th birthday. 六十大寿快乐！Birthday celebrations like this always feel like wedding dinners. Food at Wah Lok is Yummeh.

The young ones. Gosh, my hair needs to be saved.

Hello to the LADs!

Birthday card for Uncle Jason.

Rum and Raisin Chocolate Cake from Awfully Chocolate

This cake is amazing. It's pandan!

Wearing Asther dress from www.fayth.com . Wearing size S but gosh! I look damn fat in it. I wanted to get the purple one but I couldn't find it. Managed to buy this from a reseller. My mum is actually taller than me. I'm cheating with my Melissa Wedge :P

With my dearest mother. Asther dress from www.fayth.com

Happy Birthday To You!

Behind the scene

My dearest family

With Love. #rochorgang

Flying Boy!

Trip to Kyushu (Day 4)

Day 4 was spent in Beppu!

We visited the Hells of Beppu. 

There are 8 but we only visited 5 because it started snowing!

First stop was Chinoike Jigoku (blood pond hell). 

I love these foot baths!

With my cute mummy!

We were slightly disappointed as the water was not as red as we expected it to be. We expected it to be blood red but it was more of orange colour? It's the colour of clay.

Next up! Tatsumaki Jigoku!

We bought the ticket for 8 Jigokus for 2000YEN.

The 3rd bath, Oniishibozu Jigoku (mud bath).

 Really love foot baths!

The next 2 baths! Umi Jigoku and Yama Jigoku.

Love the blue water.

Eating these in the cold makes the simplest things taste good.

After the hells, we went for an experience at the sand bath! It was too cold along the way and also no pictures allowed at the bath, I totally forgot about taking pictures. I went to the onsen and sand bath while the rest of my family went to the sand bath only. I still prefer the normal onsen. The sand bath will probably be for those who are too shy to strip totally naked as you are still allowed to wear the yukata to the sand bath. The sand bath was not shiok enough for me. It does not have the kind of heat that I want in the cold weather. The heat is also not sufficient to make me feel less tired after many days of walking. Soaking in the hot water is still the best. 

As usual, we KO-ed on the train ride back.

Snacking on the train.

Dinner was settled at Hakata station. There are many shops selling food there so we don't have to worry about not having food to eat. As Hakata station is surrounded by shops, we also have no lack of shops to look at. After dinner every night, we will always take a short walk to the super market/ tokyu hands etc and will always end up buying alot of things.

Le Chasseur 食乐轩

We celebrated the mother's birthday at Le Chasseur 食乐轩! 

As dinner was just after my brain taxing class, I was hungry and grumpy.

Have not tried the food at this place before but heard that this place opened at this location not too long ago. It was not too hard to find the place because I drove. There are parking lots beside the food center. Heard from my family that it is only a short walk from Eunos train station.

I will sort of classify Le Chasseur as a Zi Char strore. It is a very spacious place and there are 2 zi char stores located there. The other one sells more of seafood. Other than that, there is a drink store and also other food stalls that were closed when we were there for dinner. They probably do not serve the dinner crowd. There was an area cordoned off just for Le Chasseur and that area was full by the time we got there (around 7pm). However, there were still plenty of seats outside the cordoned area so no worries about not getting seats for dinner!

I love their cutleries! I am going to get similar ones for my future home.

The shy boy.

Pork knuckle

The famous claypot rice

We ordered quite alot of food. Salted vegetable duck soup, coffee pork ribs, grilled cuttlefish, 2 kinds of vegetables, otah omelet,  pork knuckle, 2 servings of claypot rice. The other food looked normal so no pictures of them!

The salted vegetable duck soup was good! Not too salty, not too sour. Portion was alright for the 6 of us. I love my soups and this one passed! Coffee pork ribs was alittle bitter to me. Maybe because I personally don't like coffee. Otah Omelet was slightly salty but will go very well with rice. I like the sauce that came with the pork knuckle! The pork knuckle without the sauce was just normal but the sauce made it alot bettter! The claypot rice was very well received. The rice was the right hardness. Not too hard/ soft. The rice that they use are also different from the rice that we eat daily. These grains are longer. The rice with the sauce and ingredients make up a really good claypot rice. The only thing is that the rice came last and we were already full from all the food in front, we over ordered. The large portion itself would have been sufficient for the 6 of us but we added another small one because the lady mentioned that the large one might not be enough for 6. That will be true if the rice came first.

Overall, I will return for the claypot rice and salted vegetable duck soup!

 Of course there will be cake for a birthday celebration. At the point in time, we were all so full from the food. Luckily we got the smaller cake.

 

Mango cake from River Gauche

Happy Birthday Mummy! Hope you stay healthy and forever young!

A very random farewell picture!

Do drop by to try out the food!

Le Chasseur
27 Eunos Road 2
Singapore 409387
Tel: +65 63377677

Weekends!

Had ramen at Ramen Kagetus Arashi last weekend.

It was an impromptu thing as we didn't know what else to eat. 

I think that going to Japan multiple times spoilt our taste buds.

We saw that the shop was quite crowded previously when we walked past so we decided to give it a go. Sad to say, it does not meet my expectations of a good ramen. 

To me, a good ramen has to be slightly less salty because if it is too salty or just nice at the beginning, it is pretty hard to finish the whole serving. Secondly, THE EGG. 

How I rank ramen is:

1. Soup

2. Egg

3. Noodles

The soup is alittle too salty/ rich. Egg was horrible. As I know how to marinate my own ramen eggs at home, I have really high expectations of the egg in ramen. Japan's ramen eggs are DA BOMB. The original egg that comes with Ramen Kagetus Arashi's Ramen is a hard boiled egg and it is not possible to change to the semi hard yolk. We had to buy an additional egg. Egg was overcooked. 

Noodles was alright I guess. 

One of the rare days when I'm in a picture as I am usually the one taking the picture.

The Hmmmmmmm face.

His order of some curry rice. Pepper lunch's version is better.

 

My ramen does not look appetizing because I requested for no vegetables.

We probably will not head back there again as we have had better ones in Singapore. 

Till the next Ramen!

Also over the same weekend, I went to my favourite Kim Dae Mun Korean food stall again!

This time with alot more people!

Whole table of food!

My usual spicy chicken soup.

Another usual!

Love bringing new people to try my favourite food.

Happy customers!

 Kim Dae Mun will be moving to #02-17/18 of the same building starting June 2014! Please take note!

Moving on to Thai food! Favourite version of glass noodle salad!

Same taste, different place.

These pictures are making me hungry now. 

It's almost 12 midnight so i have to control myself.

On a side note, I'm loving the new camera!

Trip to Kyushu (Day 3)

On the third day, we ventured to Nagasaki.

I didn't have much time to do planning so we just went with the flow.

On the list in Nagasaki is definitely the Atomic Bomb Museum to learn more about the tragedy.

We bought a day pass to travel around.

At the tram station.

The train pass and map of the area.

First stop was the Peace Park.

The only picture I have of the fountain as there were alot of tourists when we were there.

One of the statues in the park.

Peace Statue

It's quite ironic that it was a really sad tragedy but so many people at the park are not there to understand or remember/learn from the past event. 

They were there just to take pictures and show people that they were there before. 

Hypocenter of the atomic bomb.

The atomic bomb that landed in Nagasaki.

We visited the atomic bomb museum too. As we rented the audio guide, we spent quite abit of time in the museum. It was pretty solemn in the museum as they showed the build up to the actual bombing.  

After the museum, we went to visit the Chinatown. Read up somewhere that it was one of the oldest Chinatown in Japan. Was expecting alot when we went there but was quite disappointed as there was nothing much except for eateries and 1 or 2 souvenir shops. 

The restaurants there were pretty pricey as well. 

Entrance to Chinatown in Nagasaki.

We settled our lunch in Chinatown then walked over to the Megane bridge (spectacles bridge).

What's special about the bridge is probably the heart shaped stone on the wall! It was not hard to spot as there were many people waiting to take pictures with it. If you look clearly, it actually says 'I Love '. So if someone stands under the heart sign, it would say 'I Love (the person standing there)'. Quite cute I must say.

Spot the heart shaped stone on the wall.

Mentaiko Prawn crackers.

It was a nice trip down to Nagasaki. The only bad thing was the weather. IT WAS REALLY COLD.

We were not expecting the weather to be like that. Ended up buying warm clothing from Uniqlo. I am usually able to withstand cold but this time it was horrible.