Sunday, February 19, 2006

Baby rice cakes from Hanoi

Early this week on Mon and Tues evenings, I met a friend from Hanoi who was in Singapore for a meeting. I brought her to Tangs, Wisma, Far East Plaza and DFS Galleria for shopping. On both days, we had late dinners after 9.30pm.

Mon: We relaxed @ Indocine outside Wisma Atria and enjoy our meal and music by the live band. Huong was very happy to hear them singing the song "You're beautiful". She gave me and another friend 2 boxes of baby rice cakes from Hanoi. The green coloured cakes taste like our ang ku kueh and has white bean paste and are very sweet.


Tues: We reached Din Tai Fung @ Paragon @ 9.30pm and luckily the last order was extended to 9.45pm. We had these pork dumplings with crab meat and soup inside, vegetable dumpling noodle soup, dou miao and some pickled vegetables. Huong liked the taste of the soup in the dumplings. After dinner, we met 2 other friends to have drinks @ Wala Wala @ Holland V. The 2 girls recommended Sangrila as they remembered it as a nice drink with red wine, fruit juice and pieces of fruits like apple. However, we were quite disappointed that the concoction turned out to be more of red wine, tequila and some slices of lime, orange and a cherry. My face and neck turned warm and red after a while as usual.

It was quite a nice atmosphere and didn't resemble the scenes we saw in Orchard. Here were groups of people rather than couples celebrating Valentine's Day. We may be seeing Huong again in Vietnam if we are attending her wedding end of the year in Hanoi :>

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