Dinner @ Manna Story, Plaza Singapura

 Finally got the photos from cousin, Carmen. 

It's our September's cousin gathering again. This time round we have new addition member in town. So they decided to have Korean foods @ Manna Story, Plaza Singapura. 

Photos of the interior restaurant credited to Alex.

The restaurat have a homely decorations feel with pots of artificial flowers and garden designs on the walls. The surroundings are very comfortable but the seats are quite limited and narrow. We are not satisfied with the service crews as they do not have smile on their face while serving us. They are not prompt to the services as well. We waited for more than 15 minutes and asked for the ice water to be served.They are not friendly service crews as well. 

Photos below credit to Carmen's Olympus camera:-

We used soft lens filter to capture our photos :)

There are 4 side dishes for each set of main course we ordered from the menu.

The side dishes are refillable but in the end the crews are not prompt to refill them for us.

 

Foods that we ordered that night:-

Yukgaejang (Spicy beef soup) @ S$12.80 per serving. The soup is very spicy for us but the overall dishes are acceptable. The dishes are served hot and it makes the foods taste good!

Kimchi Jeon (Kimchi Pancake) @$7.80 per serving.

Just a simple pancake with added kimchi flavor.

 Tasteless i would say for the pancake.

Alex's choice : Bibim Naeng Myeon (Buckwheat noodles with spicy sauce) @$11.80 per serving. Feedback from Alex blog: The noodles is too soft and sticky as if it had been over-cooked while those spicy sauce though not really spicy, do not really taste well inside my mouth. I didn't get to taste it so i cannot comment on the taste wise.

Bibim Bab (Steamed Rice mixed with assorted vegetables and Beef) @$11.80 per serving. Striking hot serving and taste like bibimbab. Haha! I love the half raw eggs as it blend well into the hot pipping rice and the vegetables. Delicious for me although it is very spicy for me.

We ordered another type of pancake to serve as ala carte. 

Pa Jeon (Spring Onion Pancake) @$7.80 per serving. The spring onion pancake taste better although the overall taste is tasteless. 

Thanks to the spring onion that added into the taste of the plain pancake.

Sundubu Chigae (Soft Beancurd Soup) @$11.00 per serving.Rachel's choice as she wants to have less meat consuming. It's basically beancurd mixed with vegetables and blend into the kimchi soup base. 

Dinner was pleasant with cousins companion. We had bonding session together and share laughter together. New member of the gathering this time and we are looking forward for more members to join us. 

Took a group photo to mark the end of the gathering of the night :)

Post Celebration for Angel @ Hangang Korean Restaurant

This post happened on 20th July which i know it is superb outdated. Pardon me being slow like a tortoise updating my blog. I been busy working OT almost everyday. So my youngest sis was telling us that her 18th birthday will be very plain because it happens on weekdays and we are not at home to celebrate for her. So we (my 2 other sisters and me) decided to have a post birthday celebration for her on friday night.

Rachel bought a deal for the dinner celebration. The name of the restaurant of this place is not the same as the name stated in the deal voucher that she purchased. It's named HanKang Korean BBQ Restaurant on the deal but the signage outside the restaurant is named HanGang restaurant.

It's kinda disappointing when i arrive the place. It is reachable by taking MRT to Little India Station and Exit A to reach the restaurant. It is a short walking distance when you exit from Exit A and basically the restaurant is located at the back lane. It's not easy to be notice as you don't expect the restaurant is near to the dustbins and rubbish at the back lane.

The foods are totally disappointing as well.You can see from the picture by yourself. The food varieties are limited as well. The pancake is simply tasteless and the noodles are like maggi mee taste only.There are flies flying around the serving table and you need to be alert to shake them all away so that you can have your dinner.  

Basically i only eat BBQ chicken with white rice for the whole dinner. The frozen chicken and pork are the only choice that i can go for to have my dinner.

One thing to note that the place is not air-condition and only ceiling fans and standing fans to support the ventilation area.

The space between the tables are quite squeezy as well.

 We don't really enjoyed the dinner. 

So we headed to Bugis+ (formerly known as Illuma) for movie treat to the birthday girl. We watched Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter which ended around 11 plus and i managed to catch the last bus back to home. Luckily still can save money on the cab fare :p

We watched the movie at FilmGarde and had bad experience with the staff attitude. Nevertheless the management has provided us a complimentary movie ticket as a token of appreciation on the feedback. It was quite a surprised for us that they do really value customers' feedback and provide the appropriate action over it. 

Ended my post with my sis grumpy face as she can't watch the movie she wanted that night. Oh man... time flies!She is a big girl now!

Project 365- My Grandpa

He is much better now based on mum. His eyes was swollen with bruises on the first day and today is better. But still the eyes are still red and swollen. There are stitches above his eyes at the eyebrow area. He can't sleep well as well and his memory is getting better as he can recall back that he was being robbed and worried about his house, car and stuffs. It hurts to see him like that. He was worried til can't sleep and keep thinking why this happen to him.

He is already 84 yrs old this year and has to suffer the internal and external injuries. Everyone who sees him like this will surely heart break.

Today, he is much better and he able to come out from the bed and walked slowly and brush teeth himself. But he still coughing badly :(

Hope grandpa will recover soon.

Pray for him :)

*Snap using iPhone + app*

What I did for CNY

Happy Dragon Year!!

Reunion dinner with big feasts, families, relatives and friends spend awesome time together. Such bonding is mean to be forever.

The familiarity and comfortable being together with one another just being who you are..

Every moment spent together worthwhile ...

Good start ahead with smile on everyone's faces.

TGIF

Evening view from my nearby office. How beautiful is the blue sky in the evening especially FRIDAY! Been busy with projects and work quite late throughout the week days. While waiting for Laurel to knock off, i met up with Tracy and HP for dinner @ Lucky Plaza. We headed to level 3 @ Ayam Bakar Ojelah which is famous of nasi ayam.

The vegetables salad with the satay sauce. Very refreshing taste.

Ordered nasi ayam and we like the crispy chicken.It cost S$6.50

Prompet fish with rice ordered by HP

After the dinner, i met up with Laurel and we went back JB together.

Healthy day to start off with the BLISS challenge. We bought a lot of yogurts!Few of the bloggers i came across are having the 14-days BLISS challenge and turned out well. They feedback that the constipation gets better after 14 days. Not sure how true it is but will give it a try.

We spent the whole saturday cleaning up the mess. Our house undergo minor renovation due to the mass termites that is found staying with us for 5 years! So we had to clear the mess.After the whole tiring clean up, we had steamboat for dinner. It has been ages since we had steamboat together. Mum prepared lotsa good stuffs. We had salmons,scallops,sausages,fishball & meatball,mushrooms,fish paste and many more.

Not forgetting to sip white & red wine enjoying the moment.It was great satisfaction of visual and craving. Visual in terms of house finally done with all the mess and everything looks new.Craving in terms of the foods prepared by our beloved mum.

Weekend is to spend time together with precious ones.Weekdays already pre-occupied with workloads thus no much time to spend with family and friends.

Time truly is precious especially when so many things are needed to be done. It's ok at least i won't keep thinking something that makes me emotional.

Bonding Time

Nothing beats with to enjoy dinner with family members after whole day work. It was a sudden decision to meet up with cousins and sisters. My sis was in singapore on last friday so we decided to have our dinner before head back home. Angel was delighted to meet up with cousins. They are all around the same age so they clicked very well.

We headed to Ichiban Sushi @ AMK Hub for dinner. We queued for around 20-30 minutes before we finally get a place to dine in.

Family bonding is very important and everyone plays a role to maintain the relationship with one another. It takes two hands to clap and surely enough time to manage it as well. It was not easy to have everyone gather at the same time same place to sit down have meal together. Everyone has their own lifestyle and things to do. Initiative plays a part too.

Glad to arrange the gathering with cousins. Everyone is happy and it always to stay connected as a family and not drifting apart and only meet up once a year during chinese new year. This is so unhealthy. More gathering needed to build a stronger bond.