Another year older, another year wiser! After the big 30 last year, this year's celebrations seemed to be somewhat quieter, a few friends, some good food, a good birthday!
Every year, on each of our birthdays, we will try and bake a cake together. This year, after we've moved into our new house, we realised the existing oven is not working (or maybe we haven't figured out how to get it working!), so I requested a special Nyonya dessert instead. Can you guess what it is?
Got it? Yup, it's Onde Onde! Round and green glutinous riceballs infused with fragrant coconut milk and pandan, each with a melting piece of deliciously sweet Gula Melaka within, and coated all over with toasted dessicated coconut! Yum! Who needs love-shaped chocolates to melt a girl's heart when you have Onde Onde? Haha...love my Frankie-O-Doodle!
Also had a nice dinner at Guiseppe, Arnaldo & Sons, an italian restaurant at South Bank. For entree, we had thinly sliced prosciutto from the cheeks of the pig (Notice the layer of fatty goodness!!? No wonder it tasted so good!), and a plate of equally appetising whitefish carpaccio, with a drizzle of good virgin olive oil, scatters of chilli flakes and young mint leaves, all held together beautifully with a squeeze of lemon! DELISH!
Here's one of the Italian deli owners slicing up salami. The waiters are all dressed in white lab coats which makes the dining experience a little bit of getting used to, since we have always associated lab coats with chemicals and certainly not fine dining!
Our mains....Frank's dish of pig's hand stuffed with minced lamb sausage has quite a grisly presentation! But the pork is so tender it literally melts-in-your-mouth and together with the stuffing, releases a bundle of aromas and flavours. My dish of steamed Kingfish, with organic cherry tomatoes and herbs was fresh and delightful, but nowhere near that intense flavour of Porky's hand!
And here's to another great year! Cheers! Love the tiling too...
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