Another seafood meal

Following on from our seafood lunch at Kai's Plato, decided to try another type of seafood meal. 'Shelled Out' is in the same neighbourhood....

Check out our bibs!

We took a set platter which meant everything is cooked in the same sauce.  Pity, I was planning to try out a few of the sauces available.  But the kids don't like seafood so we couldn't order a lot.  Got sweet potato fries (loved this!) and chicken wings (all right, nothing to shout about) as well.  Kiddy meals aren't available.

Munching on fries and wings... when pile of seafood arrived

Check out pile of seafood!

Problem was, I didn't really like the 'Shell Bang' sauce.  And since everything was cooked in it, including the sweetcorn and broccoli, that meant I didn't enjoy the food much.  The fun effect was there = having food poured out onto the table, eating with fingers, throwing the shells into the bucket provided.

Pens are provided to draw anywhere you want.  I didn't like the resultant graffiti-covered effect - makes the place look dirty and down-and-out.  The kids loved it and didn't want to leave

I drew all this!

I drew a princess, a flower, my name...

If I ever come again, I'd definitely choose different sauces.  For now.... been there, done that.

SE's drawing

SE drew a few turtles on a piece of paper.  They had the usual shell with heads, legs, tails.  Except for two which was only the shell without additional appendages.

SE: This turtle went inside the shell. See?  Coz it was scared and it went inside. Then you cannot see the head, no legs also.
ME:  Thaaat's why.
ME:  (pointing to the other only-the-shell on the paper)  I see this one is also inside the shell.  Is this turtle scared also?
SE:  Oh. That one is just a rock

Err ok... hahaha.

Don't sweat it, Mummy. It's just a ROCK!

Speaking of drawing, SE sometimes doesn't go for the usual things.  Back when the other girls were busy drawing rainbows and princesses, she drew two parallel curved lines on a paper and informed me that it's "a Giant Leg".  It did look like it, but I don't have a photo of it.  I do have a photo of this one from a year ago:

Look, Mummy

SE:  Thih ih an elephant crying.  (She couldn't pronounce 's' yet that time)

Actually the picture does bear some resemblance to a crying elephant!

SE and her 'eyeglasses'

'Eyeglasses' is what our maid calls SE's specs.

She has a love-hate relationship with her specs now.  She reaches out for her specs first thing upon waking up, so I guess she needs them to see properly.  But to take photo...

Waittt.... *whips off specs*

Smile! *happy*

I do think she looks cuter without her specs.  I've been careful though not to let that out.  But she obviously feels that she doesn't look good with specs.

SE:  Next time, I don't want to do concert
Me:  Oh why? You can dance so well
SE:  I don't want because I have spec

Poor girl.

Another time that she whipped off her specs the moment I took my camera out...

Without my specs!

I look nicer right?

Not that I mind having some 2-eyed photos of her, truth be told.

More CNY pics

Another post to record what we did... as a safeguard against lapses in my memory.

CNY Day2:  Lunch at a restaurant with hubby's sister #1 and #3.

Day 3:  Finally, lunch with my side of the family!  We all brought food to share (except my sis who brought ice-cream that was only enough for the kids hmpfff)

Huat ah!

Selection of food

And we took a family photo this time:

GXFC from all of us!

Day 5:  Photo of all the girls wearing the dresses my mum made for them.

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

We come in peace and we are friendly

CNY 2017

Happy Rooster year to all!

Gong Xi Gong Xi!

This CNY found me quite unprepared.  Firstly it came early... seemed like Christmas/New Year was just over!  I'd also been stressed out over the kids starting school.  I made peanut cookies, spring-roll crackers, seaweed crackers and sesame cookies (not disastrous but not that nice).

Luckily for CNY eve dinner, hubby got the 'poon choy/treasure pot' package from Canton-i.  We loved it!  The treasure pot tasted good and had decent ingredients.  The set also came with yee sang, waxed-meat rice and a 'tong sui' sweet dessert.  All I had to cook was my usual signature pork (3kg this year), smoked chicken, a broccoli/carrot dish for the greens and rice.  I rather think we should do it this way next time too.  I'm not a great cook and this is kinder to my dinner guests hehe.

Treasure pot, smoked chicken, yee sang, waxed meat rice

Err somehow can't find any pictures of people for the night.


For CNY day 1, went to the Secret Garden as usual.  I'm quite pleased with the photos as all I request is ONE nice one. :)

Hello from the Secret Garden!

Another pic...

That night had dinner guests again.  This time hubby said he will handle everything haha.  So together with the relatives on his side and our maid, they came up with abalone/mushroom/fatt choy, stir-fried greens, roast pork, steamed fish, salted chicken (from Ipoh) and leftover treasure pot.  Not a bad spread actually!

The food

This time found a picture of the people...

The people

No to surprises!

A relative gave the girls something... "Frozen"-themed chocolates with a surprise inside.  JE got Olaf. SE got... a troll.

Resulting prolonged bawling session is captured by amused mummy...

*sobs*... waaa.... WAHHHH

WAHHHH... I don't want this!!

(The offending troll is in front of her)

WAHHHH... I want Anna.. or Elsa!

Someone took the effort to think of the girls, bought something nice, hand-carried it over the border and handed it over.  And this is the reaction... aiyoyo.

Luckily JE eventually agreed to switch her Olaf for SE's troll.  So this ended well!

Water play

First they played with the kittens while hubby was washing the car.

Check out our kittens!

Then they helped to wash the car.  Then they got hold of the hose.

Yayy this is fun!

Gahh see how wet they are getting?  OK enough already!  Time to bathe!

SE: But I want to hold the hose

OK fine... Jo Ern, pass the hose to Su Ern.

JE:  But whyyy....

Just pass it to her ok?  After that it's time to bathe.

SE: YAYY!

JE: Hmmfff

Kids.