What a busy weekend!

We hosted my aunt, uncle and Kara at the No Signboard restaurant on Saturday. The seafood was really good although the service sucked somewhat. But hey, it’s Singapore, ’nuff said! The restaurant has a signboard and a name to go with, which might account for the little turn out on a Saturday night. The chill crab was beautifully spicy, just the way I like it and I couldn’t help but wish that my hubs was there to savor the sweet-sour tang of the dish. The one that we had when he was here in February was somewhat tasteless and dull, all for the same price too! Complaints aside, the ‘rents promised that we would go to Long Beach for quality seafood the next time he comes. It was also great seeing Kara again since NYC and our road trip last summer at the Chesapeake and Williamsburg. I love how she’s her chirpy self, full of comments about everything with an insatiable buzz of curiosity about her.

Business-wise, I had 7 orders on friday and saturday alone! It felt really good to get so many sales.. I made a mental note to do some major bead shopping on monday. Which was what I did today after a titillating brunch of Dim Sum with Joyce.

It’s pretty good but we agreed it was nothing compared to the chinese restaurants in New York, Toronto and Los Angeles. The irony is sublime ; dim sum in N. America is WAYY better than that in Singapore. It’s because of the influx of immigrants from Canton that made their way to the US at the onset of the Maoist Revolution as well as the PRC takeover of Hong Kong. Many people, mostly the rich were afraid of being subsumed under the communist government because that would mean that all their wealth would be redistributed according to the Marxist mantra. So of course they left to seek greener pastures with the blue, red and white. And while they’re at it, their capitalistic instincts kicked in which explains why you have a deluge of Chinese restaurants springing up in every nook & cranny of china town!

Anyway, as you can tell, I’m in a sprightly mood today. It felt so good to just chill out with Joyce with a delectable array of chinese cuisine and really good brewed jasmine tear. Its the excellent company and the knowledge that I only have one semester more to go before I’m outta here. Singapore sure ain’t that bad if you know the right people to chill out with

Next stop, La CantinaVenetia.