Hearty Discoveries & Great Company! :D

Great food! Good for the tastebuds, terrible on the waistline! But no serious regret at having sampled these delights over the weekend lah... Heeheehee.

SHOKUDO Japanese Pasta & Pizza @ Citylink Mall

Last Friday, Hubby and I met up with Beebee after her work for dinner and some light shopping. I'd been at work the whole day too -- physical work, that is, cos I had to relocate to another workstation due to a change in seating plan in the staff room. So by the time I got to town, I'd worked up quite an appetite already, and was whining about me starving. :p Good also lah, cos that evening, we tasted the following:

Cabbage Bacon Miso Cream Soup (So creamy and savoury! Yum!) & Hokkaido Kani Kaboch (ie. Pumpkin soup with crab meat)

Beebee's Beef Patty and Rice with Curry, my Chicken and Tomato Spaghetti in Basil Sauce & Hubby's Mushroom Cheese Burger with Fries

Umeshu cooler (nice plum alcohol drink!) & Fish with Cod Roe

Actually, the service there's not bad. Although Hubby waited for about half an hour before he got his burger (after asking about it once and requesting to cancel his order after the burger was still nowhere in sight), we were told that the burger meal would be on the house, and yup, we really didn't have to pay for it in the end. Hehe, that wasn't the first time Hubby encountered problems at restaurants where his order would come really late or simply got forgotten, but it was the first that he'd been offered a free meal to pacify him. Haha. But the good man still felt pretty guilty about eating for free later on even though it wasn't his fault. (Anyway, he shouldn't feel too guilty. It's Beebee who ate up most of his fries and the top of his burger in the end mah. Hohoho! :P)

Bakerzin @ Vivocity

Yesterday, Hubby and I met up with HZ and Jess for lunch here. HZ's recently received a promotion so he treated us to a fabulous meal there (congrats and thanks to him! ^_^). Even before we got there, his SMSes about how Jess was going bonkers over the menu managed to whet my appetite, so I was really in the mood for some good food. And I soon learnt that Jess had every reason to be raving about the menu! ;) What a spread we had in the end...

Summer Salad with Chicken & Tomato and Cheese Bruschetta (especially loved the latter! Seeing the picture makes me feel like just cutting up tomatoes, spreading them on slices of bread and melting cheese over them for a snack, although I know the taste will be far from this one...)

Clockwise from left: Jess's Spicy Aglio Olio Spaghetti with Bacon, HZ's Seafood Pasta, Hubby's Braised Pork Belly with Japanese Rice & my Spicy Linguini with Bratwurst Balsamico (gotta admit, this course contains one of the yummiest sausages I've ever tasted!)

And the pretty little desserts we shared!

Greenhouse Cafe @ Vivocity

Later that evening, Hubby and I stumbled upon this place at the 2nd level basement, which offers good weekend set meals at relatively reasonable prices and doesn't charge for either GST or services. Cool. So we had our own dinner there. It's really just a small cosy place with not many tables, but the place had a pleasant feel cos of the soothing jazz music it plays and a background of many flowers cos apparently, the place doubles up as a florist's too. :)

Hubby got this set of King Prawn Aglio Olio which comes with pumpkin soup, a fruity drink and a piece of peach cake as dessert, all for just $15.90! :) To minimise calorie intake cos of the fulfilling lunch we had earlier, I had pumpkin soup and grilled chicken salad. :) Liked the soup but didn't quite fancy the salad though. Pretty plain if not for the dressing and even the chicken tasted bland. But Hubby's prawns were fantastic!