friends, food and fantastic weather

Last post, I mentioned something about a entire day of eating out with friends. So I guess it's time to write about it.

I was so early that day that I managed to pay my school fees (boo tuition increases ...for two consecutive years) and find that Adonia was quite empty (actually, it was empty when I arrived and then a group of middle aged Chinese ladies came in - reminded me of my mom and her friend's biweekly tea meetings). My friends arrived and we ordered the following:

Judging by the pictures, we thought: this must be good, and we were right! Especially the strawberry crepe... it was the BEST! It's not the crunchy kind (more like the soft, chewy kind) but it was still really good and we finished it super fast. The tea (I believe it was the blood orange one) was okay, my friend ordered a mango slush and that was AMAZING. The creme brulee we ordered came the same time as the crepe, it was finished last... possibly because the crepe was so awesome. Then the chocolate souffle was brought to our table, my friend that's been to Adonia before said the one we got paled to the one she got on her first visit. Nonetheless it was quite good.

Service wise, at first I found the waitresses to be quite distant. But after all Adonia is a place for afternoon tea where the majority of the time spent should be devoted to gossiping with your girlfriends (or boyfriends). Other than that I thought it was an okay experience overall. I would definitely go back for the crepe :D.

*Sidenote: Two Chinese girls came in when we were there, and it was funny because the two of them kept taking pictures of each other (we did that too but not as extreme as the duo) and occasionally they stood up to pose with the food/ interior of the shop. (I have to admit the interior of the shop is ridiculously cute.)

Moving on, so after the satisfying crepe ( see how much I enjoyed that crepe). One of my friends who was in the same shoes as me said she had nothing/ no one to eat with for dinner so we hopped onto the 480 to head over to Richmond for some form of dinner although I was already somewhat full from Adonia. If you take the 480 on a somewhat regular basis, then you'll know that driver that talks along the way, I had him during the Christmas time and HE'S SO FUNNY! Anyways, back to the food... we decided (well I did because I've always wanted to try the food from this place) to go to Nan-chu.

Nan- chu is located on the lovely Alexander Rd, it's really close to "Gam Do" and Tuttimelon (which I will be talking about shortly). Nan- chu's like your typical Guu place, a lot of the same items on the menu, similar prices etc etc. The food also resembled what what you could find in most Guu places. Nothing surprising here but there were some "Magic Mushrooms" on the menu... no we didn't order it.

As with most Guu places, the waitresses are all Japanese: really polite, REALLY attentive ( I just poked my head out a bit and this waitress zoomed over :D ... but we were not ready to order ). They didn't have my beloved sake mojito, so we stuck with water to start.

Food!!!

We ordered some skewers, ebi mayo, this mini mentaiko don thing ( I LOVE anything mentaiko), and some udon. As I said, nothing new, except we noticed that the portions here are a bit smaller than a lot of other places (say Guu with Garlic/ Aberdeen). We also noticed that there were several items on the dessert menu that was from Chicco (no parfaits though). Since we already decided to go over to Tuttimelon for dessert, we didn't order any. Overall, I liked this place but I don't think I will be back anytime soon.

On to the desserts, well, we were already full but we reallllllllllly wanted to try the frozen yogurt for comparisons sake. So we did a little walk over to Tuttimelon, we were the only ones there except for the girl behind the counter (my friend caught her avidly shoving frozen yogurt into her mouth when we were there by the way... I want her job). Since we were so full, we decided to go for a medium with 3 toppings to share, it came to just under $6 if I remember correctly. It was good, but we had a hollow middle :(. But I guess the overload of toppings partially compensated for it. I think I will visit during the summer, but they do not have free wifi anymore :(.

*COMING ATTRACTIONS: dine out, Italian Kitchen and its mishaps, godiva chocolate. It's not gonna be in one mega post but I guess we will see. Maybe I will do a post on night market food, had a mini trip there last night but then the lines were scarily amazing and I just wasn't hungry. I sniffed a lot of popcorn though. Hopefully, I will get the parking pass from my sister's work place soon enough to avoid that parking scam they have down there ($5 dollars for cramp parking...).