helllooo end-oct

Got our prewedding photos (:

The above is unexpectedly one of my favs. 

This was the hairstyle I didn't like.

But this photo didn't feature much of the hairstyl (: yips!

Everyday seems to be a mad swirl these days. 

It's all about wedding this, wedding that.

Half of me cannot wait for the planning to be all over,

half of me wish it will never end.

Talk about being contradictory huh.
But at least things are movingggg,
we're doing invites already (:

In any case,

this was the bedsheets we got for our wedding!

Hadn't wanted something so red; had wanted pink.

But HS thought it didn't look so festive.

The difference between us is that I always opt for the different,

yet he likes the traditional. lol.

Well, both have pros and cons.

Traditional is being safe.

Different is well, different. 

Wedding stuff aside, we went to dine at Shashlik Restaurant!

It's an awesome ol' school russian restaurant in Orchard.

Totally love the food there (:

 Chicken kebabs!

 Waiter preparing to add flames to the cake (:

 Baked Alaska Cake!

Everything served in Shashlik is akin to a performance.

They will prepare the soup, and pour in the sour cream in front of you (:

The borsch soup is really good!

Can't wait to go back to dine some day again (:

Being a super duper fan of sukiyaki, we decided to cook it at home yday!

The preparation was fuss-free, and the ingredients were simple and cheap. 

As we needed the fire consistently to cook the different rounds of meat,

we ended up eating at the stove area. lol!

Cuz the steamboat pot was too big-sized for just two people.

The taste is super awesomeeee!

Here's the recipe to share (:

Just a brief background of sukiyaki:
Sukiyaki is a Japanese dish in nabemono (Japanense hot pot) style.
It consists of thingly sliced beef with other ingredients such as tofu, negi, mushrooms, jelly noodles and
cabbage. The sauce is made up of sake, mirin, sugar and soy. When eating , Japanese often dip the ingredients in raw beaten egg. It is extremely easy to whip up at home. It's always quite expensive when one orders it at Japanese restaurants with a few measly slices of beef, so making it at home is both cheap and easy.

Ingredients:
- 1/2 bottle Kikkoman Sukiyaki Sauce
- Chicken Stock / water
- Thinly sliced beef, pork shabu shabu
- 1 organic raw egg for dipping
- 1/4 Chinese cabbage, peeled
- Shiitake mushrooms
- Golden mushrooms
- Silken Tofu
- Leek
- Ito Konnyaku or shirataki noodles

Instructions:

- Bring the chicken stock & sukiyaki sauce to a boil in a deep saucepan.

- Taste to ensure it suits your taste 

- Add the cabbage, mushrooms, tofu, leek and noodles.

- Leave them to simmer 

- Once cooked, add the thin slices of meat on top and let them cook till ready (:

That's all to prepare for Sukiyaki!

Super duper easy right (:

It's an alternative to steamboat (:

Everything can be bought in a big sized NTUC.

We got ours at Nex.

Saw the stuff at AMK hub too. 

October.

Haven't been blogging for a while.

Emotions have been on a roller coaster ride these days.

In any case, I shall talk about the happier stuff (:

It was a colleague's bday on 1st Oct!

Decided to try a recipe that HS's mum did.

Steamed chocolate cake.

Yenlin has made this chocolate cake before too!

But both versions taste quite different.

Nonetheless, both are very very yummy.

Here's my attempt of this Chocolate Decadence cake:

Hee, I know it looks pretty!

The taste is alright, but I thought the texture wasn't done well.

The texture I wanted was of the Sara Lee pound cake kind.

It turns out to be more.. brownie kind. lol.

Some more photos of the steaming process (:

Starting to look gorgeous in the cake pan! 

 Added a layer of chocolate filling in the middle (:

Here's a photo of the pink ah-bian I got for the bday girl. lol.

She calls it the Orange ah bian's daughter.

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Been buying the most random stuff. 

Had a chance to shop at Bugis+, and came across this shop that sells Love Pink stuff (:

This korean bag is so pinkkkk, but so pretty!

I liked it so much that I'm shipping in the black version. heh.

The shop at Bugis+ is called Lavina.

It's the main retailer for this Korean Love Pink brand.

Heard that there are fake ones around.

So do get it from Lavina if you wish to own a Love Pink bag (:

 Went to one of my favorite Kalm's shop at Takashimaya!

Now they have a humongous-sized Toots.

But no, we didn't get it.

It's way too big.

But we did get these cups and passport holders!

I love Binky and Toots stuff.

Too bad they are no longer repeating the palm-sized dolls.

They're like the cutest things ever. lol.