Dim Sum outing!!!

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Finally managed to pull myself out of bed at 7.15am and went for a jog at 7.38am. It has been so so long since I went for a jog :// Surprisingly, I took 30mins to complete the usual route :oo Came back home to stretch and cool down, sort out some stuff and bathed.  Headed out of the house at 10.10am to make my way to Chinatown to meet HX and Sarah for dim sum brunch :> Apparently, HX waited at the mrt station since 10am HAAHAHHA oops.

Both Sarah and I just followed HX around because we don't know where's the dimsum place. We doubted him though because we walked to the end of the street but still didn't see the restaurant/shop. Apparently, we walked past it without noticing LOL.

It's a Hong Kong Dim Sum place called Tak Po. We ordered (I'll try to name all of them): custard buns, egg tarts, char siew pies, pan fried carrot cake, prawn in beancurd skin, har mai, siew mai, chee cheong fun with char siew, har gao, crystal chives dumplings, teochew dumplings, beancurd skin rolls in oyster sauce and chrysanthemum tea.

We didn't know there existed har mai (prawn siew mai) haha but they were quite nice ah, got like 2-3 prawns inside!! (those smaller ones la hahah) The 3 various crystal dumplings were not bad too!! (I think I prefer the chives dumpling over the teochew one though because the teochew one tasted like it has chopped radish/water chestnut which tasted kind of out of place in the dumplings imo) The prawn in beancurd skin was basically fried beancurd skin that has prawn inside and it came with a mayonnaise(?) dip. It was okay, I found it too oily though. I didn't eat the carrot cake. The chee cheong fun was not bad, the skin wasn't too thick.

Oh the egg tart was my favourite!!!! The tart was super flaky and has a nice buttery aroma (am I supposed to describe it this way?? hahaa) and the egg part was soft and smooth ♡_♡ damnn nice!!!

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Shared the char siew pie with Sarah and I was proud of my cutting skills AHAHHA managed to cut the triangle into almost exactly half woots. I found it a bit too heavy for me though, the pastry crust kind of too buttery tasting for me :/ The tea helped to get rid of that feeling though. Oh the first cup of tea was super tasteless but after that finally tasted the chrysanthemum haha.

From the night before, when Sarah asked if I wanted to go for dimsum, I was soo looking forward to trying custard buns (流沙包). I have never tried them before and it looked so good on insta when I see the custard flowing out omgg. But this place ruined my virgin try at that :ccc The custard was overcooked so it was just a solid lump there PLUS it's green in colour (???) which we guess was pandan flavoured. I was damn sad :cc

wts man what is this :c 

My hopes were abit crushed :c HX suggested going to the dimsum stall at the end of the street to try another custard bun instead. I was abit relunctant as I doubted the quality of the buns that are from the street stall. It was 3 Charcoal Custard Salted Egg Yolk buns for $5.90 (ex sobs) but I was so so glad that we tried?? Because the custard was super flowy and was damn nice!!!! Omg the salted egg custard was savory, hot and melty (everything that are warm and melty are always nice ie cheese ♡) and the buns are soft~~ Sorry if my descriptions suck haah

Can you see how good this look???? ♡♡♡

My cravings super satisfied after that bun omg yumzzz thanks HX ahaha. Today I found out that dim sum costs a bomb man... the total cost from Tak Po plus this bun was like around $15.60 per person sobs ;__;

It was still pretty early (around 12.40pm) and we had absolutely nothing to do hahah. HX wanted to go to the board games cafe which only opens at 2pm so we just sat there and chatted about random stuffs like guessing HX's brothers' and cousins' names (they all contain a ''huai" haha) We left at around 1.30pm and travelled by mrt to Dhoby Ghaut.

[side-track] As we were on the way there to the cafe, we walked past this korean bbq restaurant called I'm Kim, Korean BBQ. As I walked past the window, I saw something and backtracked. It was a poster of Jiyongie!!! ♡_♡ HAHAHA

The cafe is called The Mind Cafe and when we step inside, we can see like 2 shelves filled with all kinds of board games and card games which like 95% of them I've never seen before (well partially because I hardly play those games la :x) It's like a normal cafe where you can order drinks and food but you can also spend time with friends/family trying out the various games that they provide as well. It's $2 per hour (but I don't know if it's just a week day thing). HX and Sarah each ordered a Iced Mocha and Iced Latte respectively.

We were spoiled for choices actually looking at the amount of games available. We couldn't choose those that were fo ages 10+ and above because we don't understand the instructions at all HAHAHA too complicated man. We could only find those for ages 8 and below HAHAHA DON'T JUDGE. We started with the standard board game of Monopoly but the dog edition. Omg it looks daamnnn cute ♡

sho cute right!!!

We played this game for damn long, for almost 2hours sia hahha. HX and I kept having our 'wallets' being cleared while Sarah kept earning money omg. And she bought so many houses and the rents are as high as $550 or $900 sia sobs. I rather stay in jail than continue with the game hahaha. OH AND I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO BUYING THE SIBERIAN HUSKY AND WHEN I FINALLY LANDED ON THAT TILE, WE REALISED THAT THE CARD WAS LOST SIA :CC WHY YOU DO THIS TO ME SOBS

After Monopoly, we took Blockus (?) to play. It reminds me of Tetris and the translucent, crystal-like pieces look sho pretty ♡ I died on the first try because I didn't know that I could be trapped, I was just focused on trying to fit everything in hahaa. Afterwards, Sarah and I started attacking HX back ahhaha. #win

Our last game was Ugly Dolls (which became a really violent game when played with the class in the SL hahha) since Sarah didn't play with us the other time. But omg she's damn good at this game!! Her reflexes damn fast sia and no joke, she and Kailin can PK in terms of agressiveness hahahah. Sarah kept getting more and more cards after every round; I'm directly the opposite, the number of cards I manage to snatch kept decreasing until I only got 6 cards at the last round LOL)

In total, we spend 3hours there and I think we will go back again next time to try the other games :D Today was a good day spent out with them hehe (missed Mer though and ahahha her snaps are so funny and sad at the same time lmao) Looking forward to the next outing with 3 of them ie Karoake sess!!! hehe okie bye!!!