All flavors in a night...warm, spicy, cold, sweet, tipsy...

This is one of the unusual saturdays that I have had since a long time. Me & hubby were planning for a nite-out but both din hv any ideas where to go :)

Hubby suggested CheongQing Hotpot at BeachRoad for steamboat buffet. The queue was really long, and they had 3 outlets along the same road !! We had to wait for 30mins before we got a table, it was a bit disorganised. Although it's pretty warm but the delicious soup made up for it. I chose the least spicy broth + normal chicken broth, hubby really cldn't take spicy stuffs, he kept choking haiz...tsk tsk...and sweating..luckily the thoughful owner put a tub of tissue on every table ;) The food is cheap and fresh, great for family/group outings. The whole street was bustling with activities, parking lots were full, hungry crowds milling around deciding what to eat. Alot of steamboat eateries and desserts shops sprung up over the last 2 years. We took a walk along both sides of the street leading to Bugis Junction, and spotted several nice cosy restaurants that we planned to check out the next time around.

After dinner we went over to Shaw Towers to visit Lawrence's ice-cream shop. We tried the new flavor wasabi-lime and black sesame. Wasabi-lime is pretty refreshing but this is an acquired taste haha, black sesame had full flavor yet not too sweet, NICE! We each had 2 flavors, wasabi lime, dark chocolate, pink guava and lavender..Lavender is yummy!! They self made all the ice-creams and ensure that it's low in sugar content. There are different flavors every month, heaven for ice cream lovers. Check it out http://patkoh.multiply.com/journal/item/45

By then, my tummy was almost exploding, had too much and too varied kinds of food at 1 go...I was too greedy :P

I decided that we shld not go back too early and went to Tanjong Pagar to roam around. Had wanted to bring hubby to Mahoney pub for some nice jazz music but haiz, it had closed down!! Must find out where the band goes..And there was a Ah Pek lurking in front of the pub recommending us to check out his band at another pub along the same stretch, heehee. We took a look but thought that the music was too loud for chilling out. Feeling bored, we tot of going home already but we drove by The Scarlet Hotel. We ventured in for a drink at the lounge as it seemed rather quiet for a Sat night.

We had a great time chilling out, it's been quite sometime that we hang out together, chitchat. So sweet to just laze around on the comfy couches and it was really funny esp when hubby shared some of the guys' jokes. Luckily there was not much ppl around else they wld hv shooed us out for making so much noise ;P The drinks were pretty reasonable and they had promo for martinis, I had chrysanthemum and Lychee martinis, delicious :P~

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