qian hu fish farm+essential brew+bambai food catering

the day started off with a field trip with meimei to qian hu fish farm at cck...i brought along dad's terrapin too...the idea was to bring him/her there to determine his/her sex and get him/her a partner...lol...

the little bugger kept scrambling around his tank during the trip...like chuah sai liddat...and thus he/she was named chuah sai for the time being...

as for the determination of the sex of terrapins, we learnt that if they have a depression at their belly area, they are supposed to be males. no depression=females.

the guy at the fish farm said chuah sai is a male...but it will not be easy to find a female in their tray of "for-sale terrapins" cus females are supposedly filtered out already...so in the end after touching a number of small terrapins (the guy said smaller ones got higher chance of being a female) in search of one with a flat belly, we decided to get xiao qing...
xiao qing on meimei's hand...we are still not 100% convinced for sure that xiao qing is a male/female though...hurhur...his/her belly like have/dont have depression liddat leh...

anyways we also learnt that terappins can only mate when they are bigger...so if chuah sai and xiao qing are indeed male and female respectively, they might be able to produce mini versions of themselves in the future. if xiao qing really turns out to be a male...hurhur...oh well...at least there is some good brotherly love for chuah sai...lol

lunch was at Essential Brew at holland V. a very nice cosy setting whereby there was an area for customers to sit on beanbags on the floor to makan...

we ordered honey mustard chicken which was splendid...sweet and juicy...yumyum...soup of the day was some vege soup which had some slices of carrots and celery...the berry flavored tea we had wasnt that amazing though...abit siap siap and sourish one...hurhur...the smell very very berry-ish though...but the taste didnt do it any justice unfortunately...

our dessert---apple crumble with green tea ice-cream...yum

as the sky kept pouring and pouring...we ended up spending our next 3hrs+ or so at the eating place...thank goodness we got the best floor seats...can lean back one...hehe

apart from the mini horoscope books, we completed meimei's first robot "model kit" too!
and we did a photoshoot for the 2 little green buddies

chuah sai and xiao qing in their tank...their water got dirty really fast for some reason...

chuah sai and xiao qing out of tank

xiao qing measuring at about 3.25cm as of 10/12/07

chuah sai measuring at about 4.5cm as of 10/12/07

walked around holland V (for my very first time) before making our way to tanjong pagar railway station for dinner...and guess where? Bambai food catering!! and no need to guess what i was craving for...

the ever so-delectable RAMLY burger...mmmmmmmmm...yum

and roti-john...fyi...it tastes just as wonderful as it looks...
dinner was completed with teh tarik and those 3 for $1.20 malay snacks which included goreng pisang and something flour-ish lapped with some excellent chilli sauce

a very very fun and memorable day indeed...

oh ya...i even got to try the fatty cheong char siew rice at abc market (sthg which i've been wanting to go eat for the longest time) with boss kevin on saturday...then sunday got to satisfy my RAMLY craving...hohoho...woohoo!