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♥ Part & Parcel of my Life ♥
Saturday, December 19, 2009

The festive season is here! Shopping malls getting packed! Spending power for everyone seems to have suddenly increase tremendously. Every place has queues, regardless if they are food outlets or retail stores.

Hubby & I joined in the crowds too. Bustling Orchard Road and everywhere else. Been craving for xiao long bao for some time. 17 Dec 09 - drove to Holland Village for Crystal Jade Xiao Long Bao as we were in the area. Upon reaching there at about 8.10pm, the entrance of the restaurant was packed with people. We went to find out how long do we have to wait and was told 1 hour. OMG! Looking at the time, we knew we would be in time to go back to Bishan's Ding Tai Fung - which we wanted to dine 2 days ago but the waiting time was close to 1 hour too and thus, gave it a miss. We kinda estimated that when we reached Bishan, the crowd would have subside.

True enough, when we reached there, it was not as crowded even though we still had to wait about 15 mins for our seats.


Where we had our dinner...

Hungry hubby...

That's me posing for the camera!

One more shot before dinner was served...

My shrimp dumpling noodle soup...

Juicy shrimp dumplings!

Hubby's fried rice with prawns!

Sweet prawns... *yummy*

Xiao Long Bao!!! Still prefer Crystal Jade's after so long...

Never perfect without shredded ginger.

Vegetable Pork Bun.

Totally not to my liking... hehe.

Red date and longan drink *thumbs up*

Our bill...

Went to NTUC for some grocery shopping and then, home sweet home!!!

The DIVA ♥