Went for a dinner celebration for my daddy's birthday at No Signboard Restaurant at Esplanade. It's a super advanced celebration since my dad and mum will be away for their 二人世界 (er ren shi jie). On cruise for the weekend of my daddy's actual birthday, leaving their poor single daughter ALONE at home for FOUR days! Poor me, but then again that leave me to be king for 4 days too, wOOhOo!
We squeezed 6 into a car, Adrian was behind the wheel and obviously daddy was in the front passenger seat, leaving Leon to squeeze with the 3 ladies in the back. Luckily we are generally of pretty small build so it wasn't that much of a discomfort. I enjoyed my ride hugging on to my darling, with the excuse of leaving more space for my mum and sis. Ka you in progress. Hehehe. When we reach Esplanade, my mummy said a very lame joke, which surprised me, 'cause I never knew she could be so lame! My sis was telling her we are in the "durian shell" aka Esplanade, then she went, "Haven't smell the durian smell leh." The only reactions she got was blank stares from the rest of us and and flying crow with "ah-ah-ah" sign from my sis. So cold.
Reached the place and settled for the set dinner for 6. The food was great, but service was pretty bad. Not in the sense of rude service, but not up to standard as to simple courtesy to customers when serving food, refilling teacups and clearing the table. Luckily the food was wonderful. Lobster salad, shark's fin, No Signboard tofu, cereal fried prawns, steamed crabs, yangzhou fried rice and longan almond tofu. Very fresh and surprisingly I ate a lot even though it was seafood. Learnt something new about eating crabs today. If possible order steamed crabs, especially at such reputatble restaurants, as they'll have to serve the freshest crabs as compared to chilli or black pepper where the taste is masked under the sauce. Yum-yum for my tum-tum!
Other than the food what was nice was the people at the table. Daddy and Mummy, Sis and Adrian, me and Leon. A complete family dinner. Glad my family is mixing well with dear, puts me more at ease each time we have such get-togethers. I'm getting so settled down I feel I'm ready to get married. Oh my god, I can't believe I actually said that! But ya, it was that kind of feeling.
After dinner, the whole family had a slow walk around Esplanade, listening to the outdoor performance and enjoying the night breeze. The only bad thing was the air was pretty polluted with the many smokers around, surprisingly mostly kids who looked like in their teens. Government ban smoking indoors, they change to smoking in masses outside. People, this is the future of Singapore. Very bright indeed.
Anyway I enjoyed myself even though it was just a simple dinner out. Wish we could have these kind of get-togethers more often.
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