Foodie and Movie 23rd Birthday (Part 1)

Went to Lake Garden Restaurant at Orchard Country Club to have dinner with my family and a few relatives on Friday night. The food there is quite good and i think that the fried fish with sweet sauce and the pork ribs with barbecue sauce is very nice. Enjoyed my dinner there with my family.

Saturday, met up with Qy at Funan to buy an additional gift for Ys's 21st birthday. We bought a Audio Technica headphones and headed to Raffles City to meet up with the rest for lunch at Kuriya Restaurant. Ys's birthday is on 26 August while mine is on 25 August, thus we decided to celebrate our birthdays together.

Ys had booked a room in the restaurant and it is quite cosy inside. We took some time to choose the dishes coz we were all not too familiar with the Japanese words or English translated Japanese words except for Dz and Aaron. We were prepared to pay quite a lot for the food as the room requires us to spend a minimum of $200 there.

Starter (Radish)

Sashimi (either Tai or something else)

Sashimi 2 (either Tai or something else)

Enjoying the food

King Crab dish

Beef Soba

Some fish

Really cute Chawamushi

Nice looking King Crab soup in a hotpot

Fresh Wasabi

Sashimi, prawn and crab sushi

Desserts

Sake!

Birthday Boys

Cake!

We had a satisfying and full meal at the restaurant and the bill per pax was almost 2 times of my one day pay. Most importantly, i think the food is indeed yummy and very well presented. Can't go to these expensive restaurants often though. Thanks to Ys's mum for the voucher and Qy, Ys, Dz and Aaron for the gift.

The room (overlooking in from outside)

Bottles of Sake

Restaurant

Qy, Ys and I were intending to go ktv after our meal as Dz and Aaron had something on after that. However, we reached the partyworld outlet at 4.30 pm instead of 3 pm and they did not allow us to extend after 7 pm for the happy hour package. Thus we decided to watch a movie instead.

We watched Hairspray at Cine and we all think that the movie is fabulous. It is such a jovial, infectiously optimistic, happy and wonderful musical. The opening sequence of Tracy breaking into song and dance immediately planted a smile on every of the audiences' face and the smile never left our faces throughout the entire 2 hours of the movie. I am very sure that this movie will be nominated for Golden Globes Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy category next year.

The show is about Tracy Turnblad who is a fan of the Corny Collins Show. As a dancer in the show will be leaving for maternity leave, an audition is held to fill up her place and Tracy and her ditsy friend decide to go for it. The show not only talks about dreams and aspirations, it also doesn't shy away from discussing the racism issues as the movie is set in the 1960s. Imperfect people, i.e. fat Tracy, are also being sidelined and they want to change the public's discriminatory mindset.

The show is perfectly cast as Nikki Blonsky as the optimistic Tracy, John Travolta as the self-conscious mum who cares a lot about her family, Christopher Walken as the encouraging father who supports his daughter's dreams, James Marsden as the incredibly chirpy host of the Corny Collins Show, Zac Efron as the charming dancer on set, Michelle Pfeiffer as the menacing diva and scheming producer of the Corny Collins show, and Amanda Bynes as the cutesy blur gal and good friend of Tracy.

After 2 hours inside the cinema, i seriously did not want the show to stop. The humour, the songs and the dances are so entertaining and energetic that i craved for more.

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