Birthday Lunch : Coffee Club @ Holland Village

A very Happy Birthday to our colleague, Ms Preggie. (that's an alias she gives herself in English, the chinese version is 'da du por')

To celebrate it, 8 of us who was in office went to Holland Village to have lunch. It was a pity for those who could not make it. I guess they can give her a separate treat :-)

Ms Preggie has suggested we go to Coffee Club. As it was not 1 pm, the upstairs that is bright and sunny is not opened, so we sat downstairs. It has been some time since we were here, and we realised that the menu has changed. (sad to say, also the pricing).

The 8 of us shared two starters. The Calamari Rings.
It sure is better than the ring rings on our office phones the whole day, which we think is a suffering. :-)



We also had the Spice Chicken Wings.



DP has something called "really huge chicken sandwich". It sure is big. High in calories, but he doesn't care. He is one who gets the best rating for his medical report among us.



SI had 'Gobble & Oink' sandwich. Ya you can guess what it is. Turkey and Crisp Bacon.



Was it sandwich / burger day? WY and I, both ordered the "Coffee Club Burger" each. I had the one with an egg. The beef patty is big. This thing really fills you up. The wedges fills you up more!



Ms Preggie had Beef Daube. She says it is nice, but a tad generous on the salt.
Sorry for the a bit blur photo. I realise when my food comes, the next photo that follows always get blur. LOL...



The 2 network guys in our team had the same thing. Hmmm is it an occupation hazard I wonder. They ordered pasta, doesn't it look like network cables? hahah...

Looks good ya?



ET our colleague from another building joined us too. He had the Chicken and Zucchini Baked Rice. His dish came last but he finished his food first. Is it really so good? :-)



Clever readers like you should know. What do we usually eat at Coffee Club? It's something we always have without fail. Too many photos today, shall post it tomorrow.

Tiramisu @ Kev & Pris

After the dinner yesterday, we went to Kev & Pris for dessert. Sounds like a dessert place ya? Maybe Kev & Pris can really open up a tiramisu place. :-)

The container of home made tiramisu, truly made from the heart.



The layers of it... Pris is the dessert queen, so you can't expect anything less than yummy.



A half slice of it. Kev & Pris added cognac to it.



This is the recipe that they used. It is delicious. Their Kenwood Mixer broke down and Kev had to hand whisk it! Maybe that's why it tasted better.


Tiramisu Recipe

Ingredients:

1) 500g Mascarpone Cheese
2) 5 egg whites
3) 100g sugar
4) A pinch of salt
5) Sponge biscuits
6) 100ml espresso power (4 teaspoon)
7) 60ml brandy or wine

Method:

1) Beat cheese & sugar together. Loosen cheese
2) Beat egg white & salt till a firm foam
3) Arrange sponge biscuits on tray & pour coffee mixture onto sponge
4) Mix egg white together with mascarpone cheese
5) Spread a layer on the sponge biscuits

If you want to know if you made it correctly, invite us over. We will tell you ;-)

Cafe Cartel @ IMM

Yesterday, we had our Melb friends monthly meet up again. Only 5 adults turned up this month compared to sometimes 18 over in certain months. Some had to do RT, some went for holidays, others had to rest more because the baby is coming out anytime! With fewer people, we had a very cosy dinner.

We met in the West this time because we were going to someone's house in the 'westest west of Singapore' (sorry for the silly English, but I am sure you can know what I mean) for their homemade tiramisu for supper! (yum yum!)

Everyone knows Cafe Cartel serves bread. Kids are all the same! 3 kids that was with us only ate the middle part of the bread! The crust was all passed to their mummies, but the mummies dont want to eat them, so the daddies had to eat them. (If you are a parent, are you the bread crust person too? haha...)



We were in a mood for their St Louis Pork Ribs, and guess what?
We ordered 5 sets of it!



The 2nd plate of it. I think I shall not show you the next 3 plates. :-)



We also had a starter salad.



OK, this is a rare picture. We get messy when we eat!



The ribs are delicious, but you get 'jelak' eating too much of it. We should have ordered maybe 3 sets of it instead and ordered other things ;-)

Hope you weekend had been great!