Wawa's Ramblings

This is a pretty good looking hybrid bike. Handles well too. It'll be put to the test this weekend when we take part in the singapore sprint series-duathlon. Yes, it's not a road bike and will be slower for the competition but it's more versatile (for other days) and a whole lot cheaper. We will be one of the 20 relay teams together with 500 other participants. Let's hope the weather will be kind this Sunday.

Labels: race

We planned to have dinner at Wine Garage on Good Friday but was told when making our reservations that the Amex discount was not applicable on public holidays. As there were five of us, the discount would have been quite substantial, hence we decided to dine there on Saturday evening instead. I have always raved about the service staff at Wine Garage and tonight was no different. It is like meeting old friends each time we come here as the wait staff would walk over and chat with us.

There were a couple of new items on the menu so we tried the Portugese style seafood stew ($36) and whole roasted pink snapper ($38).




The stew was quite ordinary but we all enjoyed the pink snapper, which was grilled to perfection. We had 2 bottles of Chilean cabernet sauvignon ($46) to go with the food.





We finished the meal with a platter of 3 different cheeses, including stilton blue and discovered that we actually liked the taste of some called it the stinky cheese.

Labels: dining, wine

Decided to have dinner at the dining room one Friday evening. Have always gone for their buffet lunch and saturday high tea and enjoyed the ambience, food and service. That night, it was kind of noisy as the function rooms above the restaurant were hosting several corporate events.

For starters, we had the roast duck salad ($19.50) and some seafood soup ($12), which must have been quite ordinary as I could not recall the taste while udpating this blog a month later.


For the main course, Co had the rack of lamb while I had the braised pigeon ($34 each).

We also had two glasses of Montes chilean wine ($16 per glass). The waiter must have been new to serving wines 'cos he filled our broad bottom wine glasses almost three-quarters full (wow that's almost two thirds of the bottle). We couldn't even swirl the wine but we're not complaining. We also chose to have the dessert buffet for $8 extra, including coffee. My favourite was the mini apple crumble, which was chockful of tiny cubes of stewed apples. Co as usual went for all the chocolate stuff. It was a sweet ending to a nice meal (especially with a 15% discount for citibank cards). Just wished that the place had been quieter and the service a little more attentive that night.

Labels: dining