American movie and French food

Finally watched The Great Gatsby yesterday at GV Vivo City! Been waiting for it to screen since last year after reading the book. There is this retro/indie streak in me, so I enjoyed the movie. More than the book whose prose were more challenging, I think. But then this seems to be often the case for most books-turned-movies... and I like Tobey Maguire :)

Vivo City has changed so much and it has only been over a month since I last visited! Gosh!

We had dinner at Poulet which serves casual French food.


Onion soup - nice and tangy (if you know what I mean?) :P I was expecting a puff pastry to go with the soup though...



 

The shop is named after this dish - Poulet :P Roast Chicken which was tender. The creamy sauce was just nice, not too heavy on the palate.



Braised Duck Leg - tender too. Portion was small though. I like the carrot!



Salad de Paris - a refreshing balance that went well with the meat. 

As the portions were small, we decided to add on order of a mushroom appetiser and baguette but they never arrived and we cancelled the order. Warm water (at $0.50 each) only came after we asked and asked and asked... Food was ok, not as value for money as I thought it would be.

Poulet is new to Vivo City, so I reckon that was why the service is slow and not up to speed (yet), I hope. But I'm glad we have more French food options now. If you remember, I had French food at Saveur a few months ago and I found the service better and the food more delicate. All these French food reminds me of my trip to Paris in 2011 and food for thought - maybe I should go search for some of the food pictures and compare notes one day (soon), I hope.

So this summed up my American movie and French food Saturday night ;-)

 

Ka-Soh@2 College Road

We read about Ka-Soh in The Sunday Times and decided to go there last Sunday (mother's day!). Not sure if it is a Singaporean thing - many of us would go out for dinner to celebrate mother's day. Perhaps to give our mummies a break from cooking?

 

We went to the outlet near Singapore General Hospital, a walking distance from our house. I know of another outlet in Amoy Street where I first discovered Ka-Soh because I sometimes go there with my ex-colleagues. That's where you want to go for a nicer ambiance :)

 

Ka-Soh was located at the alumni association and was not very posh ( a bit Malaysia style, I thought). Its focus is really on the food, not the frills :P

 

Highly recommended was the Fish Head/Fillet and Fish Meat Bee Hoon 鱼头米粉. Huge portion - a big pot of fishness. Some may find it a tat too fishy though. 



Homely flavours.
Top: Claypot Tofu 砂锅豆腐. Were surprised to find fish slices in this dish too! :)
Bottom: Stir-fried Kailan with garlic 蒜炒概览

 

Could taste the 'wokness' in these two dishes -  I must say the chef have controlled the heat well when cooking them up!
Top: Ginger frog legs 姜葱田鸡
Bottom: Fish Hor Fan 三捞和分

 

虾酱鸡 Prawn Paste Chicken - crispy. Chef was a bit heavy-handed on the salt though. Just nice if you have it with some chili sauce though :)



麦片虾 Oat-fried Prawns was very nice! Fresh prawns + a generous dose of oat = Heavenly combination!

Was a fishy feast for fish-lovers, I say. Happy (belated) Mother's Day! :)

Sydney in a Dropbox

Went to Sydney with the girls in April. As usual, tons of photos were taken. Usually we will share the pictures by:
1) Saving them into a thumb drive each
2) Meeting up
3) Transfer them to a laptop
4) Re-transferring to the thumb drive again.

This time, we decided to use the Dropbox which I must say is more efficient. Each of us just upload the pictures into Dropbox and then download the pictures we want - from 4 steps to 2 steps! The only drawback is probably space not enough as all of us are given 2GB free for a start.

If you have not gotten Dropbox and want to try, click here! If you join and install Dropbox from this link, both you and I will get 500MB of bonus space! :)

Enough said about Dropbox :P Although here's a group photo of us taken at Sydney Tower Eye that I just downloaded from Dropbox...

Us and fireworks over the Sydney Harbour Bridge! :)

I must say Sydney is really good at creating experiences and making money at the same time. Haha. At the entrance of major attractions, there was a photo stop where a crew member took a photo of us and then superimposed it onto beautiful backgrounds which were almost impossible for us to take on our own. At the end of our visit, we were asked if we wanted to buy the photos which were put into a nice album of the attraction. Being the laid back Australians, they were never pushy and yet we ended up buying 2 albums - one at Sydney Tower (see above - nice, right?) and another at the Sydney Opera House (see below :))

We took the essential tour! Sydney Opera House is gorgeous, I must say. Will definitely be dedicating a post to share my thoughts about it :)

I really like this fireworks picture. It kind of reminded me of our dinner at Cockle Bay Wharf where we also enjoyed a splendid display of fireworks which I captured in a video. Visit ilovelongvacation to watch it :)

Any plans for the weekend? Looking forward to it - I'm going to watch The Great Gatsby today (Saturday) and off to the Marina Regatta on Sunday!