OSK is 21 yo

yeah man, just to expand a little bit on seow's entry!!!! Actually, the guys in NUS, namely osk, seow, horse, weiming, cheeyaohui, osk and ME went out to eat and relax ourselves every friday. We will just whack some good food or just spend $$ on friday after 1 whole boring week of school!!! I think this is the best way to release stress man, though school isn't exactly very stressful la....

so last friday we have our usual friday night outing. And becos it's 1 day before our class chairperson, MR OSK's ,aka crystal, bday, we decided to spend even more money on food man!!! Anyway thanks bixian for lending us the car on that day. haha, so we drove to clarke quay to find things to eat. Immediately the two 兵馬俑 at the gate of the Forbidden City by IndoChine attracted our attention. After walking the whole stretch of clarke quay, we decided to ignore the price and go in there.

As zhixiang described, the place is damn shuai!!! Everywhere you can see 兵馬俑, so cool hor.... I dun see the link between 兵馬俑 and 紫禁城 (forbidden city), cos the former was something in the 秦朝 while the latter was only used since 明朝. OH anyway i saw the link liao!!! Both got CheeYaohui involved. He was 蒙將軍 in Qin dynasty and he's the emperor in Ming Dynasty. Sorry no link, not funny.....

The table and chair was like 精心製造, carved out from expensive wood that type!!! Damn beautiful. The lighting is dimmed yellow, just nice for you know what.... Yes, of course eating!!! Then we were given the menu, on every page of the menu, there's a portray of 乾隆. Dunno for wat!!! Anyway we've decided that the 6 of us, each order a main dish and then a soup and a dessert...

Oh 1 more thing. B4 they 上菜, the waitress helped us to put the napkin or wateva it's called on our laps. Then me and OSK were served by this quite cute waitress. When she smiled, got the 酒窩 and 梨窩, that's so damn cute!!! haha, the other 4 were served by an ugly malay waitress (Not being racist here, there ae beautiful Malay also. lots of them!!! but this one just happened to be ugly, so anyone come upon this dun sue or report me, i am not making any racist remarks!!! All my friends can justify that i am no racist!!!)

So we happily enjoyed our meal and we asked for the bill. Weiming joked that will it sum up to 300+, then we laughed it off and regarded it as ridiculous. BUT THEN, THE BILL WAS A FUCKING $357.23.

SINGAPORE DOLLAR THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SEVEN CENT TWENTY THREE ONLY!!!! It average out to be about $60 per person.... Woah, expensive sia... so let's review why we ate so much!!!

First - Tonic of Three Deities

It was named Tonic of 3 Deities and it actually just a soup. What a high class name right? It was the 1st to be served, everyone got 一盅湯. The 1st sip make you drop tears man!!! 那味道簡直讓你感動到眼淚和鼻涕直流. When i asked seow how long had he not tasted such nice soup, his reply was 21 years.... It just showed how great the soup is!!! 湯的材料有, 鮑魚, 海參, 花旗參, 冬菇, 百合, 杞子, 瘦肉, dunno i got missed out anything or not... And this is the same thing that let us drop tears when we saw the bill. It was $18 per soup, so 6 of it cost $108.

Second - Hoi An Sizzling Tofu

Ordered by CheeYaohui... This tofu was served on a hot-plate. The tofu is those typical type where outside is rough but inside damn smooth that kind. There's brocoli, scallop and squid cooked together. The 調味料 was some 菜脯... it is $22.

Third - Double Element Chicken

Ordered by OSK. This is named the double element chicken cos the sauce or gravy on the chicken is prepared by two very distinct spice but i cant remember what that is liao. The chicken itself was light fried, a bit like the way lemon chicken was prepared, but the standard is 天淵之別. Cost $24.

Forth - Tenderloin of Pork

Ordered by me. By the name you know this dish is 豬的嫩肉. It was barbequed and of course 淋上美味的 barbeque sauce. It's served with Japanese Ginger too. Cost $22.

Fifth - Stir Fried KaiLan

炒芥蘭, it's supposed to be a simple dish. But then on top of the kailan, there's 猴头菇 and other type of mushrooms. So shiok right? Just $14.

Sixth - Fragrant Jasmine Rice

See, hight class restaurant is high class restaurant man. Even white rice can come out with such a name!!! We ate it with the 4 above dish!! One scoop of rice each. The value for them coming up with such a pleasant name is that the one scoop of rice cost $3 each!! for 6 scoops is $18, equivalent to 9 plates of chicken rice.

Seventh - King Prawns with Lychee

It's alwasy exotic to mixed fruit with your wateva meat. Of course lemon chicken is another thing la.... But then this Lychee with King prawns is such a perfect combination. The lychee when eaten hot is 另一番滋味. The prawns itself is just heaven. It was so FAT and MEATY that it just seems like a mini lobster. Ordered by seow and cost $32.

then the desserts, some order tiramisu and some chocolate cake, nothing much to shout about!!! each dessert is $12.

So that's basically how we spent $360 on that night... but the birthday boy sponsored $100 la and the rest we splitted ourselves, still quite ex. But then the food is really damn good, never eaten anything close to it. So those of you feeling in a mood to throw money can go there and eat. Or you feel like eating good stuff and dun ind the cost. HAPPY BIRTHDAY OSK!!!