Chinese New Year 2011 Day 3 – Visit to Sentosa Flowers Festival 2011

Haha… its the third day of Chinese New Year~! I went to Sentosa Flowers Festival 2011 with family. But half way through the trip, the sky turn dark and rain… and then it stop raining for a while… and then it rain again… sigh… =(

Luckily I still managed to capture some photos of the flowers which I personally find it slightly better than those photos I took in the past… lol ^o^ Photography skill improved a little bit with the tips I learned from brother and colleagues… hehe… ^_^ On a second thought, perhaps is because the flowers are nice which gives me the illusion that my photography skill improved… haha

The following are a few photos I took using my Panasonic DMC-LZ10 camera…
 

The holy giant green rabbit~! I think it is as tall as a 4 to 5 storeys HDB flat~!

Rabbit made up of flowers…

In case you guys and gals didn't managed to guess it right, the photo above is a rat made up of several purple flowers… lol ^_^ There are also other Chinese zodiac animals made up of flowers, but i only managed to snap a few… haha

Yes I know, you all saw it… the brown colour patches on the purple flowers… they are withering… =(

Chinese New Year 2011 Day 1 - Dinner at RamenPlay (NEX)

Chinese New Year, as usual, most shops and eatery stalls are closed… And what my family usually did was, go to KFC for our lunch… lol ^_^

But there are some changes this year as we have our lunch at home 1st before set off to relatives house to bai nian. At the end of the day, we settle our dinner at RamenPlay 拉面玩家 at NEX.

Pork Katsu Tori Set
Somehow, i find this dish a bit filling (maybe because ate too many CNY titbits before dinner ^_^)… so its definitely worth the money in tems of $ spent over food amount. Onion-haters will not like this dish because the pork katsu is covered with eggs, onions and ONIONS~!

Wafu Shoyu Ramen

Yaki Gyoza
The Gyoza are nice~! Crispy dumpling skin at one side with juicy meat inside it… wow~!
One thing I am quite puzzle over is that, why is it that only one side of the dumpling skin is crispy? Went to Wiki for it and found the following:

“The most popular preparation method is the pan-fried style called Yaki-gyōza (焼き餃子), in which the dumpling is first fried on one flat side, creating a crispy skin. Then, water is added and the pan sealed with a lid, until the upper part of the gyōza is steamed.” ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiaozi

So its meant to be like this, one side crispy only.

When billing, we got 3 time chances to play the lucky DIP.

Of all 3 chances, we get 3 free drink vouchers… chey~~~ haha ^_^

Chinese New Year Eve Family Reunion Dinner 除夕夜团圆饭 2011

Yoz its Chinese New Year Eve~! The following are the dishes we have for our Family Reunion Dinner 2011…

A lot of food ah~! Wahaha~! ^_^

黄油鸡
Chicken

Mixed vegetables

盆菜
Poon Choi

Prawn

烧肉
Pork

莲藕汤
Lotus Root Soup

So what did you guys and gals have for Family Reunion Dinner?
Lastly, I shall wish all a Happy Chinese New Year 2011~! ^_^

“猪” 大家新年快乐！