We woke up bright and early at 6.15am ( i woke up before that because 1. could not sleep due to excitement and 2. i had to rinse since i didn't rinse much the day before after dyeing my hair) and set off at about 7am. We chatted a little in the car and before long we reached the causeway. fortunately it wasn't super jammed and we managed to get into malaysia pretty uneventfully. (the other highway lane was already jammed at that early hour already though)
playing with my hair on the way to the mall
dad drove for about 20 minutes until we reached the mall (called Aeon), but since it wasn't opened yet we had breakfast in the part stall opposite first.
we had pratas and thosai and milo and teh tarik all for a grand total of 21 rm ( or 7++ sgd) which is INSANE considering the prata meal i had with (the shitties hahahaha) the day before was like more than twice the price in sgd? thank goodness for the 3++ conversion rate.
we headed to tesco to shop for groceries and it was huge!!! size wise, i wasn't like super duper impressed probably because i've seen bigger supermarkets but price wise, WOAH. they sold legit water bottles for less than 10 bucks and their baked goods could be as low as a buck for a sizeable portion of cake. Shi ying and xin ying ( for simplicity's sake i'll just henceforth refer to them as 2ying) bought a lot of stuff but fortunately i had my parents there so i didn't have to buy anything! also got contact lenses for a fraction of the price here in singapore :>
went to Aeon after that and 2ying and i diverged paths from my parents and agreed to meet for lunch at 12.30pm. we had a pretty swell time just walking around the malls and popping into random stores that looked affordable and basically just not giving a heck about time unlike the past 2 years. also happened to meet lynettelimenxuan in one of the stores hehehe such fate with each other :'))
just after lyn burst forth
there weren't many options for clothes, the only prom dress i managed to try made me look like a nun . bought eyeliner and eyebrow pencil then went to get tau sa pia and stuff! happened to bump into the parents there :)
debated whether to eat kenny rogers or secret recipe for lunch as the two stores were parallel to each other but in the end we decided on the latter for the cheesecakes!
yay 'family' shot
the food variety really astounded me! they had a wide range of cuisines from the quintessential western to vietnamese and japanese etc...
xinying's japanese soba
my beef noodle
shingz's thai aglio olio
le spread
the food was great! or at least mine was haha can't say for the rest though from the few fries i lynched from my dad, it was awesome as well :) the soup from the beef noodle was a tad too salty but the beef was tender and managed to satisfy my craving for meat :)))
moving on to desserts because that was the main point of choosing secret recipe in the first place:
yoghurt cheesecake
i liked this! it was tangy and not too sweet, yet light as well. my type of cheesecake :)
i don't know what this was- some chocolate walnut brownie with chou mousse on top? it was studded with walnuts and some cookie crumbles. the base was nice but i didn't fancy the mousse top much because i have an aversion to creamy desserts.
and the weirdest and most novel of all- high fibre cheesecake!! just the name itself seems to be an oxymoron but this was quite nice surprisingly. its rather an acquired taste as its like a highly dense cookie dough ( the less sweet version) studded with various nuts and oats with a cheesecake base. at least i felt almost healthy eating it :)
then it was back to sg! played kpop songs on the care and 2ying went berserk (esp xinying) but it was so fun and nice, like having sisters :))) jammed another 1++ hours on the courseway before we reached singapore. t'was an awesome day :)))
