Saturday, January 24, 2009

1st round of reunion dinner

Since my sister got married, we have been having two reunion dinners every year so that we are still able to have our reunion dinner together despite her being married. This year we decided to eat at NUSS, not at the suntec branch, but the Bukit Timah one. This is my first time there and at the start i wasn't too fond of the place because the customer service was not as good as the one at Suntec, but after tasting the food I must say its good. Its slightly more pricey and more towards the fine dinning type so its not as children friendly with the multiple cutlery and wine glasses all over the place. The restaurant is situated in an old colonial looking building with a tinge of oriental look because of the timber decorations inside.
The building
Love the big gold plates
My sis and I
It was time to order and when I looked at the menu, i was already unsatisfied with the soup, definitely not something i would order on a a la carte menu, but nevertheless i decided to try. Turns out that everything on the menu was good and very refreshing.
I chose the cold appetizer which is raw salmon; my main was grilled lobster with assorted seafood and the dessert was warm banana with rum in crepe. As mentioned, the soup was seafood with green chilli chowder. And in between our appetizer and main course, the served some lemon sorbet thing with sakae jelly which was new to me; i thought sweet things were always left to the end.
I must rave about my main course, the grilled lobster with other seafood type like scallops, prawns, cod fish and clams. They were all freaking fresh and juicy! Every bite into them revealed something sweet and succulent, and they were all very chewy too which means fresh! Haha. Even the clams were not fishy and this is my first time eating chewy cod fish as well. Mmmm...next time if i want seafood, i will think of this place definitely.
The left-overs, nothing but shells
After our dinner, we went on to explore the lounge upstairs and were just hanging around the balcony. I found another nice chill out place ; ) Best part is its not crowded so we won't have to queue next time.
My sweet pea
Definitely a happy reunion
That marks the end of our first round of reunion dinner. Tomorrow it will be with the old foggies like my ah gong and aunt, but this year it would be in the garden i think. Doubt i'll take pics so see you all after CNY or after the first day, Happy New Year to all and Gong Xi Fa Cai! God bess!

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