[Life] Dinner at Cocotte, Wanderlust Hotel

Went to Cocotte @ Wanderlust Hotel for dinner. It's a french restaurant. The hotel design is lovely and the food is great! =) The only part that's not so great is its location- it's near to Little India, thus very crowded and hard to find a parking space. Luckily, they provide complimentary valet service (don't get cheated by the uncle if he asked for 5 bucks service charge! it's absolutely FREE) 

The reception

 A big round table that can sit at least 10. Good for gathering.

 Weekly promotion/special is shown on the board.

Wine- essential for French dinner?

The most important part in every meal- dessert!

Resting area beside the restaurant::

The meal:: 

Cute petite french bread

 Soup which I forgot the name

 Poulet (chicken) with creamy sauce, crispy potato and baked broccoli

Tender fish with fresh veg

Pork with very juicy meat

AND dessert!! 

Citron tart

Apple Strudel 

Verdict:: Great meal. Definitely worth going back =)

[Random] You know your partner hates you when...

I started my new year by travelling to Korea for 10 days, a very good way to start a new year =) And it snowed quite heavily on the very 1st day!! I was soooo excited to see snow, k? Not that I never see snow before, but snowING! Not like raining (so uncool =x) And it only snowed once throughout my 10-day trip, so count myself lucky! It's also very cold there, 0c was the highest temperature. Can you imagine?? The lowest was -16c... I think I nearly died there =x And without fail, I was sick due to the low temperature.. Winter virus certainly is my best friend... =( Luckily, I recovered within 2 days =)  

Initially I was very excited about the trip, partly because I can take nice pictures. In snow. Not that we can see snow everyday, right?? BUT it's soooooo cold that I didn't bother to take out my gloves to take out the camera from the bag to take photos.. lol. I felt my fingers freezing every time I removed my gloves. So we took very very little photos, like 300+ for 10days? And some are repeated.. You might be thinking what have all I said to do with the title of this post-- it's RELATED, and I am not out of the topic, yet =x So with the little photos, I surely hope most, if not all, are nice photos, right? Actually, I didn't expect any bad photos. How you define bad photos? My definition: wrong angle (e.g. doesn't include the whole main thing/building you want to take), I am not smiling happily, prettily, or simply, I look UGLY. And being in such a cold weather, I didn't bother to check every single photo after taking.. And it turned out to be a tragedy-- NONE OF THE PICTURES WITH ME ALONE INSIDE CAN BE USED!THEY ARE ALL BAD PHOTOS! Yes, all. ALL. What I can conclude from these photos is that my bf hates me, he doesn't want me to be pretty (not even in photos), he wants me to be ugly forever (since the ways I look in photos are permanent) or worse, he doesn't bother or even hates to help me taking photos or he simply hates to see me.. 

My words are too strong? See the evidence below...  (All photos shown are BEFORE editing)

He said we must take the words 'Seoul Station'. As a normal person, I took one with both English and Korean. And come on, we are in Korea, of course we include 'Seoul Station' in Korean right?? Why is mine cropped then?? ='(

Was snowing quite heavily in the evening. The scene is outside of our guest house. We were so happy that we were there at the right time and he found a good place (beside the street lamp post) for us to take very 'drama' photos.. So the foci were the light and the snow and the person. Guess that's my foci.. For him, they might be me and the broom beside me ='(( Here goes my very 'dramatic' photo..

We went to the largest fish market in Seoul and had to crossed this bridge. Came across a very tall building (dunno what building is =x) and decided to take pictures.. I look sooooo tiny in the picture.. And his excuse reason is that I am short!!! I AM SHORT!! YES, I am SHORT but you can make me look TALLER in photos you know... ='(((

Photos taken at gyeongbokgung palace. I still asked him nicely to adjust his coat so the hoodie wouldn't be out of the board k... And mister, why are my eyes closing in this picture?? Queen doesn't sleep while she is standing you know? 

Finally a decent photo taken at Nami Island. See, when you give me a decent photo, I will repay you with an excellent one- a jump shot! with you smiling happily and your eyes wide open! 

Any girls out there can feel me now? This is the reason why I never post any photos taken in Korea for the past month..'cause I simply don't have nice photos worth posting =(

I can imagine him shouting:" You don't need to be a great photographer, just bring along a great one with you!"

- End of the story of a miserable gf -

[Holiday] Taipei '12 (4)

Last post on Taipei trip. All photos were taken on Day 6, it's also Christmas eve. 

Started the day at zhongxiao area again (ended there also =x)!

 Visited taiwan host, Xiao S's husband's bakery. Thought it was popular because of Xiao S's popularity but I was totally wrong! The breads are seriously delicious and they're sold out pretty fast. You can actually order all types of bread using the order form provided. Not only that, they also post a schedule telling you at what time certain types of breads will be ready! Can imagine how popular and fast selling the breads are now?  

Shopping at SOGO, thought the cute clothes are for kids, only realised they are for pets when I had a closer look. 

 I am not really a pet lover but imagining a poodle dresses up as Winnie the Pooh makes me smile =)

 Can't remember what we had for lunch but we went for tea break while waiting for Christmas eve dinner.. How not to be fat?? **extremely guilty now.. 

Reading some arty farty Japanese magazines provided in the cafe..

Baffi, an Italian restaurant where we had our Christmas eve dinner. It's just opposite Love Lovely. There's quite a few nice eating places (at least nice exretior design =x) around that area, so do explore if you can't make up your mind on what to eat; you might discover some unexpectedly nice restaurants =)

Warning:: The food serving is HUGE!
We ordered creamy soup for one but it is definitely enough for 4! Yes, it's a POT of creamy soup =S

Crispy looooooooong bread stick, served with extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar. We never try this dip before, it's quite interesting. I heard it's usually served in quality Italian restaurants, I must be very suaku ='( Can any knowledgeable, kind soul enlighten me why the dip is used?

Truffled potato wedges served with tartar sauce alike. What's special is not only do they use truffle oil, they also use real truffle. Simply yummy!

I can't remember the name of this dish =x Not sure is penne zita or pennoni as it's much much bigger than normal penne. It's served with tomato sauce and chicken if not wrong =xx
The portion doesn't look large in the picture but the plate is at least 12 inch wide! Yes, like your foot-long Subway sandwich..@@

Conchiglioni (shell pasta) in creamy sauce with salmon. The pasta here are all HUGE, around 2" each!! Unlike those shell pasta (conchigliette) that we usually see in Singapore, conchiglioni is big enough to stuff  some meat inside (like Chinese dumpling?)!

Roasted whole spring chicken. Maybe because of the carbohydrate in all the pasta, we like this dish the most.

The herbs stuffed inside the chicken help to add flavor from the inside.

And we ended the dinner with TIRAMISU! It's 1 serving that we ordered BUT the size is around 6"x 6". And it's really moist and rich with alcohol!! I SWEAR IT'S OMG-DELICIOUS! I should have skipped the main dish and had this straight away! Just think of it make me salivate =x

End the post with the pictures I took in the restaurant's ladies.. hehe.. The design is simply elegant! 

And they provide Aesop!And cotton pad! And dry cotton bud! And wet cotton bud! How can they be so thoughtful??

And this is what I saw on the cubicle wall! No one saw me looking at this poster but I could feel my face reddened.. hehe...But think of it, the guy is quite handsome and well-built, right?? =P