birthday girls!

Today was another day out with the Starhub gang (: we decided to try this new "xiaolongbao buffet" ($16.80++, comes up to about $19.80 per person). Ok, numerical value wise, it may not seem cheap, but considering that they offer food items like xiaolongbao and wasabi prawns in their buffet menu... it does seem quite a deal isn't it? Furthermore, its cheaper than the Crystal Jade XiaoLongBao buffet over at Holland V. So why not?? (:

Anyway, this restaurant is called Nanxiang Steamed Bun Restaurant, which apparently is a culinary icon over at Shanghai (like how DingTaiFeng is legendary in Taiwan). So far, the only outlet that seem to offer this buffet is the one at City Square Mall, right above Farrer Park MRT (:

here's the buffet menu, you can check it out (:

think i need to grow my fringe, even jasper's is longer than mine now. >:(

this is their interior design. a pity i forgot to take more shots ):

it was FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD! check out some of the dishes we ate!

steamed egg with clams which was YUMMSSSS

a cold dish: poacked chicken something... hahaha.

cold dish as well: beancurd with century egg

homemade style beancurd which was quite tasty too! comes with thai sweet chilli and mayo!

shanghai fried rice and it was yums too! haha pity we didnt try the other rice and noodles ):

and now, here are the mains! XIAO LONG BAO!! teehee! compared to the Crystal Jade's Xiao Long Baos, this one's skin (only at the opening) is slightly thicker than normal. But nevertheless, there is A LOT of soup within each XLB (Y) and the meat is rather tasty! they have 3 types of XLB, and yes we tried all three- pork, pork and vegetable and mushroom! the mushroom XLB is probably the most interesting of the lot! the soup tastes like mushroom broth and i thought it was really quite yummy! you probably can only get it over here! haha

PORK XIAOLONGBAO!

MUSHROOM XIAOLONGBAO

wasabi prawns! and i am surprised at the quality. it was really nice i must say!

and these are barely a quarter of what we ate. 5 of us ate $400 worth of food (yes, crazy!) and we were sooo bloated. We ended up watching a movie to chill and let the food settle.

The sneaky boys planned to celebrate me and jieling's birthday and they secretly (and it was quite a failed attempt) got us a cake each! (: THANK YOU GUYS! i know that the whole mission is quite fail, but its the thought that counts!

jieling and her chocolate cake! YUMS!

me and my cheesecake! YUMS!

they asked me to pose for a wishing shot, AND SHAWN U ARE DAMN RETARDED.

Terence is gonna leave for USA in like 3 weeks time. AWWWW /: it will be like another year or so till we see him again. While we will continue having uber fun outings without him (oops!), he will truly be missed when he's gone. SO TER, COME BACK FOR ME AND JIELING'S 21ST BDAY!!