Lunar New Year 2011

Today is the 1st day of lunar new year.  As usual, every year this day, we will gather with my family for lunch.  This year instead of usual lunching at restaurant having tim sum and chinese dishes, we had it at Holiday Inn Orchard City Hotel for buffet lunch (which is something new for us). 

Before i share some photos on the lunch.  Lets look at our reunion dinner last nite which we had it at Paradise Inn @ Bedok Point.  This year is special because Ethan is able to join us for dinner, but after dinner he messed up the place with all the rice over the floor.  After this dinner, we don't think we will dine out again for reunion dinner, maybe because Paradise Inn is new in Bedok Point (just open in Jan 2011), everything was in a mess starting from waiting for our seat and waited quite long for dishes to be served.  We ordered a set menu of 6 course dinner for 4 persons but the portion is quite small and not so worth it for the price of $180.  Below are some of the picture of the dishes...

1st dish - salmon yu sheng (one of the best dish)

2nd dish - Braised Shark's Fin with dried scallop - lots of soup, hardly see shark fin & scallop

Chilled jelly fish & crispy fried prawns, steamed silver cod fish (taste the best but too small pc, not enough for 4 + 1 pax, seafood fried rice (not bad but too small portion)

Dessert - chilled hashima with red dates and dried longan (can easily count how many of each item)

Lastly not forgetting 1 glass of homemade barley for each of us - no barley taste, like plain water.

Next is our buffet lunch today which taste better than our dinner....