Talking about basket ball... its been a real long time since i throw one, and i've never been a good basket player anyway. We went for a shooting practice at Khatib Basket ball court for 20 mins before heading to the Nee Soon CC (opposite GV Yishun) to look for some challenges. At first, we were the only ones at the court, after in which 2 quite pro looking guys came along... for the first set, we won! but lost the subsequent 2 matches. when i got home, i knocked out immediately after bathing... haha.. luckily i did woke up for the movie: BEE MOVIE!
Review: This movie is about a Bee who just graduated and is about to chose a role in the bee hive in which is to work in all his life! Well there are many many roles in which i find them all very stupid except for one particular one in which is the nectar gatherer. They look like fighter pilots and they are very different from the other worker bees, they have this macho and cool factor. Barry on the other hand, wanted to be one of them, and he had the chance of his life to leave the hive and look at the world around him. This lead him to meet Vanessa, a florist and the story begins... about how he fought a law suite against the human for stealing the honey and the story goes on....Very interesting and entertaining movie indeed... great for all ages... SCORE: 7/10
For dinner, we went to this Xin Wang Hong Kong Cafe. Its at Cineleisure. Serves mainly Hong Kong dishes. Trying it for the first time!!! We joined the qeue and got a table almost immediately (cause we 2 person only mah, the rest were in groups of more than 3.) The place was very big and the thing about this cafe is that, everytime we pass by, there is always a very long qeue and we wonder why? and for today, even though its at 10pm the qeue was quite a long one... later on, we realise why, 1. cause we took something like 10 mins to read the menu for the first time and boy does every items look delicious, and we could not decide what to eat/try, in the end, we did something that could land us in their hall of fame(not me but Marcus.) 2. We notice something funny, some of their customers (Group of 4 - 6) would just come in and order a ice desert or french toast, and Ha Ha Ha all the way, while the qeue is snaking all the way outside... (guess its not a good place to chill rite?) and the waiters and management is like hurrying them and later on us to eat finish and get out... Ok now, for what we ordered from the menu:
1. First off the menu is this Black Pepper beef cheese baked rice which is very delicious and flavourful. The cheese is very sticky and beef well cooked. rice was just nice and not over cooked and the beef was very well marinated. SCORE: 8/10 (Awarded by Marcus)
2. Second off the menu is the spicy beef ramen. First look and smell like those instant noodles top with some beef and 1 stalk of miserable vegetables. The beef was just nice and they were the minced type. Noodle sauce was flavourfuly and not too salty or bland. Serving portion was just nice. SCORE: 7/10(Awarded by Marcus)
3. Third off the menu is this salted fish with chicken rice and 1 extra Sunny side up egg... (this is the dish that i will always order during lunch with my colleagues) i always use Fried rice and Sunny side up as a bench mark for the chef, if they cant get this 2 right, then they are still not skillful enough (didn't one famous artist start off by perfecting the art of drawing eggs?) This dish is not too oily (at some places that i had this dish, its like eating oil rice) and the sunny side up was perfect! Serving portion was adequate and there were no signs that they are saving up on the salted fish and chicken, boy were they generous. SCORE: 7/10 (By Me)
4. Fourth off the menu is this Beef Hor fun... in case ur still wondering, we had all this in 1 day at the same time... ok back to the review... this dish is ordered by Marcus since he had the philosophy of "since we are here, might as well try it" so he ordered it since he still has space in his stomach... they were generous on the beef and kway teow, the sauce was not so much of a special and Marcus was saying that it is not "very" special compared to the outside Cze Char... SCORE: 6.5/10
5. Fifth off the menu is Pork Chop burger... okay, this one is my fault... i forgot that Marcus has this philosophy of "since we are here, might as well try it", i told him that in one of the documentary that i watched, they were introducing one of the famous food in Hong Kong and Pork Chop Burger was one of them... so he was so tempted that he ordered it... i must say this is a MUST TRY from me if you ever set foot in this cafe... the pork chop is not hard but very tender and full of juicy tender meat... there is cheese in it and some vege like tomatoes and the bread is toasted french toast. very very nice indeed... you can taste the pork in it... SCORE: 7/10 (by Marcus) 9/10 (by Me) My score is more accurate cause im still half full and Marcus is already full.6. For drinks, its Hong Kong Ice Milk tea... it cost $2.90 and were served in a tin mess... feels like those that were used in the Hong Kong Prison(from one of the Chow Yun Fatt movie) nothing special, but it did quench our thirst!
SCORE: N/A
Lastly, we had Japanese mochi on peanuts.... this was the sucker punch for us.... never ever order a JAPANESE Dish in a Hong Kong Cafe/Restaurant. Why? cause they dun specialise in it... would Japan serve nice laksa? or Korea serve nice Roti Prata (by the way this cafe serves roti prat... try at your own risk.) Not that it is bad, but its just basically rice flour ball (Kosong Tang Yuan) on peanuts. SCORE 5/10
All in all, the service was good, food arrived very fast and luckily for Marcus, the waiter saved some embarrasement for him, as you can see, he tried dish after dish and they were quick in clearing off those plates, else it will seems to others that we are at Sakae sushi eating from the conveyor belt (with plates after plates being stacked up.)
This restaurant is a definite must try and WE WILL BE BACK for more!!! i've just got a feeling that my blog is going to become a food blog...
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