Steamboat Madness

I have never gotten so sick of eating steamboat in my life. Last Sunday, I went out with Kai Yan, Alvin and Ming Jie to eat at "Chong Qing Zheng Zong Huo Guo" at Bugis, a dinner to welcome them back after a tiring sailing which lasted for 2 weeks. I did not know that place is so famous and Alvin said that once the place is open for business, you see a never-ending queue. The price is also quite reasonable, and there is quite a variety of food to choose, the drinks are also free-flow. The thing that most diners like to do there is to come up with their own dipping sauces. Ming Jie is one of them, but the 3 sauces he made tasted horribly. All 3 of us gave him the weird looks when we tasted, but that "Self-Claimed Sauce Gourmet" still like his sauce. Alvin and I tried making our own sauces too. Only mine won Alvin's and Kai Yan's taste buds. Wahaha!

After that night, Meng Yong SMSed all of our batchboys saying that he will organise a dinner to celebrate his ORD! Most of us feel sad for ourselves as we did not pass our NAPFA during our JC times and thus could not enjoy the "discount" of serving 22 months. Anyway, he told us to meet at... Bugis... Again... He also had no idea which place to dine in, and then we ended up eating Steamboat again! Only for me, Ming Jie, Alvin and Kai Yan... But we dined in a different stall from last week, it is the stall beside "Chong Qing": "Tian Tian Huo Guo". Although the soup base is better, but the selection of food is way lesser, the service is poorer, less efficient and only 2 jugs of awful lemon juice were served... And that is why one person costs $2 lesser compared to "Chong Qing's". Due to the inefficient service, no staff bothered to replenish the sauces, and so our very own "Self-Claimed Sauce Gourmet" could not show off his "wonderful" dipping sauce. Haha.

Since the food selection is limited, I kept eating the same food and got sick of it pretty fast, and so we stopped after dining in for almost an hour. We went to have our desserts at Swensens since most of us agreed to have ice-creams to sweetened our taste buds before we head home.

This year passed so fast. And I'm glad it did. I can finally tear myself away from the tiring life. Of course, that means I will have to be parted from my batchboys and my department Chiefs and Ls. But still, life still have to go on. At least, we will still have each other in our hearts. (Does that sounds mushy?)

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