Showing posts with label cousins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cousins. Show all posts

Friday, August 10, 2012

Greedy Ghost Movie and Jusco JB

2nd Johor Bahru trip with the cousins again on Monday. Went to 士林(Shi Lin) to eat Oyster Mee Sua as I had strong cravings for it, reminded me of the Taiwan trip. 

$6.50 RM per bowl. Mee Sua plus the chilli is YUMS!
Although Westmall recently opened a small shop that sells Taiwan street food, it costs $4 for a bowl of Mee Sua. Therefore, I always ended up buying McDonalds as I just need to top up another $1 and I'll have additional fries and drinks. Also, I don't eat the oysters so its really not worth it. I think oysters are so smelly! Maybe thats the reason why I'm not blessed with big boobs because I saw from Taiwan beauty shows that eating oysters can help to stimulate boobs growth. lols.

Shopped abit and bought some finger food for movies. Previously there was no queue but Guo Wei and Guo Bin took a long time at the counter. 

Look at the queue caused by the two brothers. lols
We asked them what took them so long and Guo Wei replied with a frustrated face. 

"I wanted hotdog bun but they run out of buns and I cannot understand what she is saying. Pek chek." 

So he ended up getting a hotdog wrapped in tissue paper. lols!

Movie of the day, "Greedy Ghost".

Thinking that this is part of local production as Mark Lee is the producer, I decided show some support. I thought this movie might be abit little bit scarier but hell no. Ok, it is supposed to be a horror comedy but no horror at all. As for comedy part, it isn't that funny till the extent that you'll go laugh out loud. The standard Mark Lee's lame "jokes". Totally not worth to watch in the cinemas especially those in Singapore. I think I can come up with much scarier storylines. But its slightly better than the movie 吓到笑, 吓到笑 really made me felt like smashing the screen after watching. Local production please buck up on horror movies, seriously!


Dinner was at Vivo, not VivoCity but Vivo restaurant
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With the lovely cousins

Guo Wei and Xiao Li

Guo Bin and I




Meatballs Spaghetti
Healthy home-style chicken meatballs tossed in tomato sauce seasoned with herbs and spices

Guo Wei said it don't really taste good. Ikea's meatballs taste better.


Smoked Salmon Spaghetti
High quality smoked salmon slice sautéed with home-style creamy tomato sauce
Xiao Li ordered this and she said quite not bad.


NZ Mussels with Prawns
Fresh prawns and New Zealand green lipped mussels sautéed with special herbs and garlic in Marinara sauce
Initially I wanted to order this because it looked quite tasty on the menu but I've not recovered from the rashes on my body. So I influenced my Guo Bin to order this. The moment the waiter served this on the table, all of us went, "wah, looks good sia~!". There were only 5 prawns in total and he only left 2 after giving each of us one. We did said that he don't have to give us the prawns but he insisted. So sweet of him!


Creamy Mushroom
Fresh shitake mushrooms slow fried with butter and garlic finished with home-style creamy tomato sauce

Yup, I ended up eating this. The tomato sauce was creamy but not till the extent where you'll get sick of it. Also, generous amount of mushroom slices were given. Gave each of the cousins a small spoonful of spaghetti with creamy sauce and mushroom for them to try. As Guo Bin gave me a whole piece of prawn, I told him sadly, 

" Sorry Guo Bin, I've got nothing to give you except mushrooms! =( ".

and they all burst into laughter because mine really looked pathetic as compared to Guo Bin's dish.

Just found out that Vivo restaurant is available in Singapore as well. At least you don't have to travel all the way to Malaysia to try it if you're interested.

The Central
6 Eu Tong Sen Street.
Singapore 059817



Group picture before leaving

Xiao Li and Guo Bin
We bought some taiwan snacks for our family. I bought Mee Sua back for supper and for my dad. I even pysco them to buy and we ended up buying 6 bowls home. The Shi Lin staffs even remembered us. haha. Thrilled to find the Mee Sua still warm even after I reached home and dad loved the mee sua.

Overall, I enjoyed the outings with my cousins. Always filled with laughter even though all we did was  just eat. This trip was a little special with Guo Bin joining us. This little cousin(I know he don't look little at all, lols) of mine is an extremely shy introvert. He never like to talk much, only smiles all the time. He never had much conversations with anyone except his direct family members. Therefore I'm really glad that he joined us that day and he even joined in our conversations shyly. Most importantly, I could see that he really enjoyed alot. =)

Monday, July 2, 2012

JB trip and Rider's Cafe

I was always asked to go Johor Bahru by cousins and Wei Shan but because I didn't renew my passport hence I always reject the outings. Last Monday, finally got the chance to take public transport to JB with my cousins. Before the trip, Guo Wei even warned me not to wear too nice and shorts so that we won't attract crimes. lols. Made me abit worried about the security but that didn't prevent me from wearing shorts. Tried to be as casual as possible by wearing T-shirt. Jusco was the location of the day and it was my first time there.

The first thing we did was to look for food when we stepped into the mall. We chose A&W for lunch since we won't be able to eat it in Singapore.

No picture of Xiao Li as she didn't want to take one.

There was nothing much to shop in the mall hence we decided to watch a movie to kill time. I recommended Snow white and the Huntsman as I received good reviews from Sok Min. Overall I find that the movie is quite okay. The graphics are pretty good but some parts abit draggy. I'll rate it 7 out of 10.

Personally, I find the queen more attractive than snow white.

Movie is cheap there. Around $4sgd and popcorn with 2 small cups of drink for $4sgd. Cheap thrill! =D
After movie headed for dinner at pizza hut. I know its quite lame as singapore also has pizzahut as well but we just couldn't decide what to eat. Walked around the supermarket and we bought Magnum ice-cream which cost around $2sgd as compared to $4+ selling in sg. We just kept eating for the entire day!

Bought 3 slices of cake from secret recipe for around $10+ sgd.

 For the entire trip, I only spent around $30+ sgd. Will definitely visit JB often. I wanna try their seafood such as cereal prawns!



 Finally visited Rider's Cafe last Wednesday with Sok Min and Yin mei for breakfast.

Egg Benedict that Sok and Yin Mei ordered.

 My "The Usual" breakfast

 Tea

Orange + wild berries + banana + yogurt + honey smoothie





 The breakfast is just average in my opinion. Still prefer Wild Honey's breakfast. But if you are looking for a nice atmosphere and decent breakfast, this is the right place.