The Curve & Si Ham

Since I hardly ever (maybe never?) blog about my dates with Xian-Nian, I guess this is a good time to start. Holidays have been great! It's sooo good to just laze around doing nothing but eat and watch disc after disc of movies and then eat somemore. Thanks Andrew, Seng Kiat, Shing Wei, Meng Lee and Calvin for the beautiful birthday surprise!!! No, seriously I did not expect it! I'm sure the sight of me in my skanky nightgown and dishevelled hair is proof enough. Love you guys lots, as always. Too bad they've been really busy of late with major exams and assignments. Looks like I chose an inconvenient time to come home. And to the Adelaide IMU-ians, thanks so much for the presents! They're beautiful and I'll make sure they're put to good use this winter. =)

Anyway, Xian-Nian and I had a lovely food-filled Sunday. Crossed off quite a few 'food objectives' in the process. We visited The Curve flea market in the afternoon:

Lunch time!! Yes, this was on my list of foods to eat. There're so many new restaurants in The Curve now, but I didn't regret going back to this one. Should try a few of the others in the near future too. :P

Our main dish was (I forgot the name) some Argentinean steak with crepes and passionfruit sauce + peaches + plums. Delicious!

The desert was great too. Some apple fritter + crepe + vanilla ice-cream + fruits thingy. *Swoons*

Painted stone turtles I bought from the flea market. The latest addition to my legion of turtles!

Took a shuttle bus to the Kelana Jaya LRT station. Spotted this fella in the bushes outside the station. Looks so much like the tulan lizard in my garden! Poor tulan lizard was eaten by a cat last year. *Sigh* I miss him...

Threw a berry at him and he displayed some impressive split-second agility.

Xian-Nian's dad bought a bag of boiled peanuts! I am yet to see this in Australia. They really should make these there. These peanuts rock!

To make things better, I found this denim dress in Padini at Ikano Power Center. Quite happy with it 'cos I was looking for a denim dress and got this for a heavily discounted price to boot. =)

But the best part of the day was dinner! I think it had become somewhat a tradition for the both of us now. Si Ham for dinner at the good ol' Chinese hawker stall in SS19. In a way these taste heaps better than oysters and are way cheaper too! Xian-Nian hates si ham, but too bad. His girlfriend is in love with them. Refer to my previous si ham posts.

*Swoons even more* Half the fun is digging them open and plucking out the plump, juicy flesh.

We also had other mouth-watering delicacies such as beef and chicken satay, Hokkien noodles and Cantonese fried (does this sound correct? I suck at Chinese translations).

We finished everything. Every single morsel. Thank you Darling for the wonderful day!!!