Birthday Bonanza. That was the title of the many emails floating around for the last few days. It was time to celebrate the birthdays of the March babies again with the 4/6 gang. Yep, we're the bunch of girls from rgs who were from class 4/6. It's a 4/6 custom to celebrate hatchdays and we've been doing it for the last decade.
Yesterday we headed for Westlake restaurant in Queen's Road off Farrer Road, which some of the girls frequent. It's supposed to be really popular, but I've never heard of it! Strange little eating house that has two branches stationed diagonally opposite each other. Each branch is under a block of greying insipid flats. You never know which one's open unless you walk in to check.
The only signs of live along the row of silent provision shops come from Westlake, with streams of customers - Japanese, ang mohs and locals - going in and out. Of course, FY contributed much to the bustle, as usual, with some confetti spray that smelt like shampoo and was deathly cold, and birthday balloons that she and YH blew to look like breasts with nipples.
Erm...the two have a constant preoccupation with boobs. Haha. And yes, all because of FY (psycho psychologist) and YH (ting tong primary school teacher), we other respected working professionals (lawyer, 2 doctors, garmen servant, writer) once again embarrassed ourselves. Think a bunch of idiots spraying stuff all over each other, screaming and blowing balloons that kept bursting at a dinner table. Gee. I wonder how we found jobs, said the garmen servant :)
Food was all right. Only the kong ba bao was fabulous, the rest - chilli crab, veg, prawns and all - were OK. The kong ba bao is famous, by the way. I must say the tender meat simply melts in your mouth. Oooo...
Oh yes, watch out for the sculpture of the kong ba bao attached to a pillar. It's hilarious. I wouldn't call it live size, cos it prob measures the length of both my arms. It's HUGE. Haha.
Interesting place. Food's ok, so the company made up for it.
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my parents used to take my sis and i to Westlake pretty often when we were younger. But the standard has dropped quite a lot so we haven't been back in ages!
Hey, I went to Borders on Saturday to look for the book by MFK Fisher - but it's sold out! So I took the opportunity to flip through Peter Carey's new book, it's actually called Wrong About Japan. Pretty cool book, especially if you're into manga, anime and Japan. He used his son's fascination with manga and anime as an opening to explore the country and its culture. Sleepy Girl - you should read it, I think Naruto was mentioned too.
yeah it used to be a whole lot better last time. altho i never went for the kong ba... my grandmother used to make the best ones around. well now my uncle's is pretty good too!
kartaly: oh...i shd read it then. haha. actually i'm not that great an anime fan la...just naruto. heh. thnks for the recommendation.
by the way kartaly, do i know you personally? :)
dsd n olduvai: fame does things to good eateries la. i saw some news articles on the wall i think. mayb it got popularised by the media too much? they got proud n forgot their good cooking! olduvai, leo's dad reminded me that he (ie leo's dad) makes the best kong ba around too, after i told him about westlake. haha
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