Gastronomic Staycation

Tim and I had a wonderful time at the Marriott over the weekend. When Tim booked the room, he informed the hotel that it was to celebrate our wedding anniversary, so the hotel welcomed us with a bottle of Shiraz from Wyndham Estate (I have absolutely no idea if it is a good one since we never even opened it. ha) and some humongous chocolate-coated strawberries (yummy!). They even threw in an early check-in and a late check-out. So we effectively spent more than a day in the hotel!

The original plan was to take advantage of the GSS since we were already in Orchard. In the end, after shopping for two hours, these were what we got:
- Japanese curry rice
- Otah
- Har cheong kai
- Japanese fish cake with natural wasabi
- Japanese seaweed crackers

We went back to the hotel empty-handed but with our stomaches filled. A couple of hours later, we headed to Shashlik at Far East Shopping Centre for some Russian cuisine. The borsch (soup) and escargots were really good. The steak was good too except that it was a tad too salty for me.

Instead of having desserts at the Russian restaurant (we just found out that the desserts at the restaurant is supposed to be sinfully good), we went back to the hotel for some cheesecake and strudel at the Executive Lounge. We ended the night drinking coffee and green tea in our room.

The next morning, we had a swim before having a sumptuous continental breakfast (you won't believe how great the spread was and it came absolutely FREE! That's the advantage of being a Gold member. hee) at the Executive Lounge. After we checked out, we had lunch at Taka food court where Tim got a dolsot bibimbab and I got myself a omu rice. Before we headed home, we bought some macademia nuts from a Taka nuts counter and several boxes of cookies from Marks & Spencer.

This evening (June 9th), we went to our favourite restaurant Gyu Kaku at Chijms for a yakiniku dinner. The first time we went to Gyu Kaku was in LA., California. I could still remember distinctively that Wen and Celia did not want to join Yiren, Zing and us for dinner as they did not want to spend unncessarily when they were not that hungry. They will never know what they missed! It was one of the best meals we've ever had! I'm sure Yiren and Zing will vouch for that.

That ended our gastronomic 2nd anniversary. Now it's time to go on a diet (or so I say).