Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Vivo Dim Sum

Last Sunday, was an outing with my aunties, cousins and uncle. Again, I am the youngest. We had dimsum at one of the most well known Chinese restaurant in Singapore. Been told that when my cousin got engaged about 10 years ago, they had their meal here.

it is called, Hundred Years Oat Swirling Restaurant. (direct translation...)

I dont really bother about the name of the restaurant because I was clueless when I got into the car...

Mongkok Cha Chan Teng have Kwok Chun On to be their ambassador. This restaurant got their head chef instead.

at the entrance...

his face can be seen every where around the restaurant. In the elevator, throughout the stair case leading to the restaurant's entrance, the entrance, even on TV!!! There is 4 TVs in the restaurant and all they play is recorded shows, news...etc etc where the head chef was in. Forgotten his name but he won gold madel in Gourmet 2005. While we walking up to the restaurant, we saw the real person...

all the awards they got...

what a way to promote this restaurant, but if you dont tell me there is a restaurant on top of a 9 storey building, I wouldn't know because it is near the port with lories and big containers around.

it is a typical restaurant that will turn while you are having your meal so you can have best view around the town, like the one at KL Tower. But nothing much you can get from a 9 storey building.

cousin Amy said when we finish eating, it will complete 1 round and it took about 1 hour to complete turning. Does that means the restaurant want us to leave in 1 hour time?? Maybe that is their strategy to have more tables turnover.

we start off with Vivo City...

Vivo City and Harbourfront Centre at the back.

then the city....

then the port and the city...

then the chasiew bao...
once back in KL, my aunt told us while we having have dimsum for breakfast. She said "you cant say you had dimsum unless you ate a chasiew bao"

then I saw the key player of Singapore...

what??? the moment I saw them, this is what in my mind....

dont they look alike??

just imagine will you??

well, maybe you guys think about something else...

this place is where the entreport thingy happen...thats why I say it is the key player of Singapore.

seriously, do you see what I see?? Dinosaurs drinking water??

ok, fine..back to the restaurant.

the restaurant is quite small actually, but I cant see the kitchen at all. Until one point when I saw this...

food elevator...

the reason why I didnt show all the dimsum I ate because they are just the same. But this 1 is quite special...

goreng pisang with crab meat...

the taste is abit funny cause of the sweetness of banana and the savoury of crab meat. But it is something new for me...

when we almost finish eating, we saw Sentosa...

monorail heading to Sentosa...

I can see Merlion from here...

Starcruise!!! I feel like working in a cruise in future...

the sky is quite hazey cause of Indonesia and somewhere in Tampines. But the main cause for this is we, HUMAN!!!

this place opposite Vivo City have 8 pubs inside. All of them played different type of music from Jazz to Pop.

then we have a group photo...

all the people I 'hang out' with...

not all actually, 3 of them from KL and Ipoh. My aunt's sisters and my mom's cousin. Then there is my aunt's family with 2 cousin sis. The reason why I have to dinner at the park is because they came over to shop with my aunt.

after lunch, we went to Vivo City...

the inside of Vivo CIty. The latest shopping mall in Singapore.

while the ladies went for shopping, I went to walk around alone...
something caught my attention...

not hot chicks...

but...

imagine...

(drum rolling for few seconds)

(then trumpet sound that goes like this..)

bum bum bum bum bum
bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum..
(repeat)

(then slow trumpet sound plus violin...)

(then fast trumpet sound again)

then you see 1 yellow rectangular come out from black background...then many many yellow rectangular...

err...nvm la, forget the stupid intro I made...
yup...a National Geographic's shop..

it is everything under National Geographic Society...

from documentary dvd to books and megazines, from furnitures to photos, from t-shirts to pants...you name it, they have it. Everything by NGS.

the horse made by wood...

I cant afford most of the things inside, 1 T-shirt simply cost 40SGD...so all I got is a book.

Story of NGS for 11.90SGD...

just want to find out more about this Society. Now only I know Alexander Graham Bell was one of the director of this society...

after that I walk around the whole Vivo City and found out something very interesting...

not hot chick still...

imagine....

on the beach...

a curly hair man with Mariah Carey printed shirt and a super short jeans.

ok la, forget it...all I want to say is if you still remember Zohan went to find job at a children hair salon...

this is what I saw in Toy 'R' Us...

they have a screen infront showing cartoons...so innovative!!!

with this, Zohan dont have to use that special pinch at the back of the neck anymore!!!

other interesting stuff is...

huge directory on the wall!!!

power high tech directory system!!!

still no sign of hot chicks...lol

now a days escalator determine how good a shopping center is...like Pavilion, Vivo City have a more complicated escalators set up...

flying everywhere...view from highest floor.

if anyone of you crazy on chocolates or sweet stuff...do visit this outlet

wow!!!

then I went back first cause I have done walking the entire Vivo City in 2 hours time...

on the way walking around the place I stay while waiting for them to come back...

I saw lots of tissue on the floor...wth??

look closely only to found out...

its flowers...

then I went to stone at the park again while looking at people doing exercise and I saw this...

aged couples exercising in their traditional costumes...very romantic actually.

there is the hazey sky...

and the end~

oh ya, Kenix just intro me this funny website. It's call
Fmylife.com.
Maybe I should type something there as well...lol.

thats all, I have an assignment which due date is this friday and I didnt start yet...woohooo!!!

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