Birthday 2015: Lady M + Just Acia + D' Good Cafe + Japanese Gourmet Town

Saturday 25/7/15

Right after our tasting at Criollo Cocoa Cafe, we immediately went to Lady M to have sweet indulgence. So glad we were there early because queues started forming after us. Lady M's signature cake is Mille Crêpes that features no less than twenty paper-thin handmade crêpes layered with ethereal light pastry cream. 

We decided to go for Lady M Green Tea Mille Crêpes.

The green tea powder was infused into the Mille Crêpes, bringing out the vibrant green tea flavors gently. Super nice. We went to count the number of layer and it was more than 20.

After satisfying our tummy, we walked over to Plaza Singapura to book our tickets for movie. I haven't been to cinema for movie for a couple of months so I wanted to watch Minions before it stopped airing. Treat Grace to the movie because she treated me to lots of good food today

Since we have one hour buffer time, we went to try llao llao. This was my first time trying, it was chilling delicious. No wonder it attracted such a long queue every time I past by llao llao. Good food always brighten up my day.

After the movie, we walked over to The Cathay for dinner at Nihon Mura Express 日本村.

Nihon Mura Express offers a wide variety of Japanese sushi and dishes at a plate of $1.60. You can either grab the dish from the conveyor belt or order using the tablet that was placed at the side of our seats. We keyed in our order using the tablet because we wanted the food to be served fresh from the kitchen.

Some of the plates we ordered:

Hotate mentai is a must try when you are at Nihon Mura. Japanese-style baked scallops in mentaiko sauce were soft and succulent. The sauce further enhanced the flavour of the scallop. It was so addictive that we kept ordering it. Though they placed 3 hotate mentai in a plate, do note that 1 otate mentai costs $1.60. They stacked the other 2 plates below.

Totally in love with it.

Thanks Grace for the generous treat and dedicate your entire Saturday to me.

We have so much things to chat about, we even discuss our plan to travel overseas together next year. Simply enjoy going out on weekend because there is no need to worry about time constraint.

A photo of us 5 years ago. Wow, we have known each other for so many years. Time flies.

I am really glad to have you as one of my closest friend, one that I can count on when I have difficulty and will always be there for me. Now that we are all studying and working, the frequency of us meeting  in a year is countable using 2 hands, our friendship still remain strong. Let's try to meet up more and more often.

Thanks for making my birthday a memorable one.

Monday 27/7/15

Met up with GF on a Monday afternoon for lunch at Just Acia, our usual hangout place. We loved coming back here for our meal because of the affordable set meal that comes with free flow of drink and ice-cream.

GF ordered a gyoza for sharing, the Japanese dumplings tasted normal. Dipped it with the broth to enhance the flavour.

Just Acia has a different promotion menu that is only available for lunch. Both of us ordered the same set - Fried Chicken Ramen. The ramen tasted delicious and the chicken was crispy good.  

Thanks GF for the delicious lunch treat and the birthday pressie. Most of all, thanks for making time to just have a simple meal with me before your Japan trip. I appreciate it very much. 

Thursday 30/7/15

Happy birthday to me!
Took leave off to laze around and give myself a break from the never-ending work. For most of my life, birthday has never been a big deal to me since teenage. Remember when I was young, my mum will always  bought me a cake. When I grew older (during Secondary School time), I told my mum not to buy me cake, it's a waste of money because we couldn't finish it all. So instead of cake, she will make me Chinese red eggs (红鸡蛋). So to me, birthday is usually just another day.

KP brought me to D' Good Cafe for afternoon tea.

Was really surprised to see the cafe so crowded during a weekday afternoon. It was crowded with students and teenagers. It was full house on level 2 so we went up to level 3.

I got a gigantic size of chocolate chip frappuccino that could be shared among 6-8 pax.

Our drink was attracting too much attention. The table besides us, the 3 of them took turn to secretly take photo of the drink. Think I don't know meh?

Onlookers were astonished when passed by our table, one girl even spueaked "Omg!"

Aww, I just want to shy away from the crowds to enjoy our meal.

Oh yeah, just to share with you this, you can get this gigantic frappuccino of your choice on your actual birthday. Just flash your identification card to the staff will do.

Sea Salt Caramel Cheesecake. It was appetizing, perfect to go with coffee.

We also ordered a buttermilk bread bite-sized in hazelnut flavour, dipped it in the fresh milk. A simple snack to enjoy with.

We spent the afternoon, enjoying the cakes and trying our best to drink as much as we can. We could only cleared half the glass.

Thanks cousin for the afternoon tea treat and also take leave to accompany me. I always feel appreciated when people make time and effort for me. 

Friday 31/7/15

Another round of birthday dinner with my awesome poly peers. So happy to see them again. I always love meeting them because they are only brunch of people who never use their phone (to surf net or login to social media accounts) when we have our meal because we have neverending topics to chat till we don't have time to take out our phone to check. 

I suggested to have dinner at Japanese Gourmet Town because they have dinner promotion which include a ramen, drinks and side dish. The four of us opted for fried toufu, baby octopus, takoyaki and gyoza.

I opted for Miso Buta Shabu Ramen which was non-spicy. I was having cough so I decided to abandon my plan of having my usual pork curry ramen.

Dinner will never be complete without dessert. 

We went ice-cream indulgence at cold stone creamery. Grace knows me so well, she guessed that I will choose the mint chocolate chip flavour. Bingo!

We only left the place when the staff chased us off. How I wish the night will be longer. Hope to see you guys soon again.

Oops, realised we haven't took our mandatory group photo after Grace left.

Thanks Chan Lin, Maggie and Grace for the dinner treat. Thanks Maggie for the birthday gift, I love it very much. Thanks Chan Lin for the ice-cream treat. So glad to have you guys in my life, I really really appreciate it, made me feel so loved (: