Back to normal…

It was back to normal after my Singaporean friends left town and that night, we went out for a simple dinner here at this restaurant – my girl, my missus and I.

We had their sizzling beef on a hot plate…

– another of my girl’s favourite at this place…

…which was as nice as always.

Besides that, we also ordered one of their signature dishes – their own made tofu, braised…

Theirs is always more special than elsewhere because their tofu is so soft and smooth, almost like tofu fua.

For the vegetable dish, we wanted something different from the usual and ended up eating this dish of snow peas…

…which was good as well. All in all, the total for the food was only RM26.00 (SGD10.00) for 3 persons which we thought was very cheap indeed. Of course, we did not have prawns or fish but then again, beef isn’t all that cheap here either.

The next morning, Saturday, I went marketing for the ingredients for a steamboat dinner. We would usually have that on New Year’s Eve but I think I did mention in an earlier post that this time around, we just had a simple dinner together on New Year’s Eve as I was out all day with my friends so we were not prepared for it and did not have much in the fridge to whip up something decent at such short notice.

That afternoon, we just had a simple lunch to finish off all the leftovers from the past few days and that night, we had our steamboat and enjoyed it to the max. We could not finish everything so the next morning, I had this…

…for breakfast. Yes, I bought those giant prawns – the smaller ones at RM50.00 a kg, not the humongous ones costing RM70.00 a kg. so I was able to get around 10 or more, more than enough to go round. If I had opted for the giant ones, we’d probably have to settle for one each only.

The authorities had extended the school holidays by one more week owing to the horrendous flood situation in the peninsula so we were able to spend a few days more together before my girl went back to her school to start their new academic year.