Saturday, April 12, 2008

Sampled lots of curry dishes

Yummy. It was pouring outside at lunch time; lightning and all. So we decided to stay in to eat. Apparently the hotel we are staying, the Rendezvous Hotel, has a very locally famous curry restaurant (vegetarian no need to visit). Got all sorts of seafood and chicken curry. Fried boiled eggs. I was in heaven. My iron-wife not. Brent and Chooi would have been in heaven as well. Also, we ordered Chandol. It was a dessert drink/snack with palm sugar, shaved ice, coconut milk, green jelly and red beans. O la la. The place is called Nasi Pandang.

My iron-wife would have preferred the vegetarian restaurant called the Green Curry house of something on the 4th floor of Fortune Mall at Middle Road; after we finished eating the other night with some friends, we felt good and not greasy. The place sells organic food products as well; bought some nice black sesame seed powder; it is very good to be on food - sprinkled on. Or make a dessert soup out of it and put some nice dumpling balls w/ lotus past in them. Service is pretty much self serve. But staff were very friendly. The total with 5 of us and about 8 dishes or so costed S$60.00. Not bad at all. The menu included Japanese set, Korean's Bim Bim Bop, the locally famous beef bone soup on rice, Vietnamese fresh roll, sushi roll; all dishes are made of vegetarian ingredients; no meat or seafood at all. Nice... And the price is right.

Speaking of food. Our hotel seems to be tardy in collecting room service dishes. Everyday now, we saw lots of baskets of fruits not being picked up; whole apple, pears, grapes, oranges. Because we stay on the club floor, those were free fruits for the rooms. Guests don't seem to like eating them; so just left the basket with fruits outside the room. We in keeping of "why not". We have been picking up oranges and pears along the hallway to our room. How silly is that? But hey, it will be thrown out anyway.

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