On Thursday, I went out with Song Guan, Sze Yuan and Mr Tan Chee Boon since the CSC gathering is cancelled... Knowing that I'm going out with Tan CB, the location is always Chinatown. However, I was told to meet at Orchard instead. I was quite surprised. Then again, Tan CB called when I'm on the way to our rendezvous point, saying that Sze Yuan is intending to buy a phone, and so the location was changed to none other than... Chinatown.
It's been around 4 months since I last saw Tan CB, still as chatty as ever. His mouth just would not stop talking from the first minute I met up with him. Song Guan came later when Sze Yuan is choosing his phone. We thought Sze Yuan is prepared to get a new phone on that day, but when the salesman opened up a new set for him, he suddenly said that he needs his father's approval before he could get it!!! Luckily, the man accepted his reason and did not force us to buy even though he has opened a new set. Phew.
We later walked around most of the nearby CD shops, I was just looking around while the others are seriously finding the DVDs they wanted, and they spent quite a lot. We stopped at the Chinatown Hawker Centre and we saw this incredible long queue for a stall selling chinese snacks, mainly Yam cake and Carrot cake. Song Guan and I have no interest on such snacks, but Tan CB insisted on buying it. Song Guan wanted to have Steam Dumplings, so we went to get it, while Sze Yuan accompanied Tan CB. On the way, I have also bought the Bedok Chee Kuay. After around 10 minutes, we got back and saw the queue for the snacks did not seemed to be moving. We ignored them and started eating. Haha. They only joined us after another 10-15 minutes. And after trying the popular cakes, we have no comments because they tasted ordinary. Looking back at the people queuing for it, we then realised most of them are elderly, most probably have been patronising the stall for years and really liked their taste.
The others decided to go for another food hunt for desserts, and they bought Sesame Paste and Gingko Nuts and Barley Soup. I didn't buy anything as I was quite full. We then loitered around the town for another hour. Along the way, I stopped by the Anime CD shop located in the Chiantown Point. It's also been a very long long time since I visited that shop. Half of the shop has become a Doraemon Land, selling a lot of Doraemon Merchandise. It was really adorable. I am more attracted to the whole lot of Anime CDs and DVDs on the shelf.
In the end, I can't resist temptation and bought 2 Detective Conan Movie DVDs. Movie 11 is the Taiwan Edition which costs around $37, while Movie 12 is the China Edition which costs around $13. The shop also sells the China Edition for Movie 11 which costs $13 too. But, I still bought the one which costs $37. And I did not regret as the quality is so much better. Indeed, the Taiwanese subtitles and the dubbing is so much better for Movie 11, and the China subtitles and the dubbing for Movie 12 are total disappointment. I made the right choice of not buying the China Edition for Movie 11. But still, I still prefer the Original Japanese Voice, is just that I had to tolerate Movie 12 lousy translated subtitles and try to make it out the real meaning.
After the shopping tour, we landed ourselves in the usual Holland Village Famous Fish Head Bee Hoon for dinner. The taste of the food varies everytime I patronsied, and it tasted really nice that day, and I could finish the whole bowl despite my glutted stomach. I was wondering is it because of Tan CB is their regular customer? I was totally bloated after that meal, but Song Guan insisted for another dessert that we both find it irresistable. However, Tan CB bought us to another dessert stall for its signature dessert: Mango and Pamelo Sago. He insisted everyone to have each a bowl. I thought my stomach has already reached its limit, but as soon as the first bite went into my mouth, I can feel my stomach is trying to make space for that bowl of dessert to be digested! It is that exaggerating.
Well, that dessert made a fine finale for our night. I had to drag my heavy stomach back home, and I still felt quite full the next morning I woke up.
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