This post came even later than planned because I literally got sick halfway whilst blogging a few days ago. Food poisoning - due to eating leftover noodles for lunch that my mom said she 'da-paoed' 2 days ago. Turns out the noodles had already been left in the fridge for 4 days...ugh. I vomited 4 times in about 2 hours and the doctor had to give me a jab to stop the vomiting. I was lucky to recover fast enough to go to work the next day so from now on I'm definitely more cautious about eating leftovers-_-".

That aside, I actually had a pretty great month thus far, busy meeting up with Dusk, Jellybean and Tuesday for movie & drinks (sorta celebrating my bday)...meeting up with Liping and spending loads of time with the bf! Speaking of which pictures from our short Taipei getaway are finally up:

The okra (that's ladyfingers for the uninitiated) was really good! They didn't look like much when it arrived on our table at first and coupled with the fact that I hate my greens, I wasn't tempted to try it but one bite changed my mind like, totally. I think the cheese they were smothered in made all the difference in the world haha!
We also ordered the 'DIY chawanmushi' where you crack the egg in and watch it cook yourself. It took like 10-15 minutes for it to be ready and as you can see, it's actually a very normal chawanmushi. Not worth paying $6plus for it.

I had my usual 'Sanpou' ramen and X had the pork katsu curry with rice. I wouldn't say that Ramenplay has the best ramen but it is still pretty satisfying when I have a craving for ramen=)

Next up is Thai food! We settled for Thai Express when we were at Marina Square. Service was a little shoddy probably because of the weekend crowd. Whilst my Thai iced tea came immediately, X was still waiting for his drink 15 minutes later. Then when we prompted the staff to check, they came back with another iced tea when X had ordered a watermelon cooler(or something like that). And halfway through our meal, they gave us an extra dish which we already had on our table so we had it sent back. Despite the little mishaps I wasn't really annoyed because I know they were busy. So anyway back to the food:

We shared the Tom Yum Hotpot which I enjoyed. X finds it a tad messy to eat though, because he's doing all the work I guess! I just watch him dump the food in, then tell him what I want to eat when it's ready and he scoops it out for me! Sweet huh? Thanks love.

We had Nando's on Saturday, my first taste of it in Singapore. I've tried it in London and Johannesburg, so to be honest Nando's here isn't great. My chicken was really salty. I only took one quick shot of it.

Yeah I'm greedy so I had 2 of the quarter chickens. I was slightly irritated by the staff though. She kept interrupting me when I was placing my order just to tell me that if I don't take their set I'll have to pay extra for my drink like twice. Seriously?! Do I like I can't afford to pay for a coke? I really felt like telling her that 'I can read'. DUH. After that we had some tau hua for dessert:

It says 'homemade traditional tau hua'. I ordered the one with pearls which unfortunately were tasteless and rubbery. It was a bit of a letdown since their tau hua was really silky smooth. Note to shop owner: your pearls needs improvement!

And I conclude with our dinner @ Ramen King on Sunday! I'm a sucker for ramen so I was really looking forward to trying this place which had garnered alot of rave reviews. It's a really small joint that sells ramen and only ramen, and you can choose between the normal, black spicy or red spicy (for the soup) as well as the toppings and texture of your noodles. I think basic is best so I went for the normal tonkotsu whilst X had the black spicy. Here's a pic of his:

No picture for mine because I didn't want the black fungus and spring onion, therefore my noodles looked really plain and didn't do it justice cuz the taste was great! The egg was cooked perfectly and the broth was really flavorful, it might be a tad salty for some but that can also be adjusted to individual preferences. My only small complaint was that the noodles were not enough. Although they were generous with the meat, I would definitely like more of the noodles please! We ended the night with coffee at Toms&Toms nearby so a little camwhoring while waiting for our drinks...
I'm beginning to think I need to lose some weight with all the eating that we do, I think it starting to show in some of the pictures haha-_-" Gonna come back with more updates as soon as I can I promise!
It's only been a few days away from X and I'm already feeling highly cranky & irritable. I'm thinking it's largely due to PMS and the fact that I'm stuck in a boring place with REALLY sucky food. I've had pasta that looks like it came out from an episode of 'Kitchen Nightmares' on my first day and my diet since then has pretty much consisted of mainly cup noodles. Not healthy eating so much processed food I know, but it can't be much worse than the crap they serve seriously.

I give myself a small pat on the back though cuz I haven't been acting all emo with X given the way I've been feeling. I know sometimes I'm not the nicest of people to be around when I get into one of my moods, but right now I just can't wait to fly home to X and spend my birthday with my one and only=) He's got something planned somewhere and I'm not sure what it is - but I have a feeling I'll be happy no matter what as long as I get to spend some quality time with the bf.

Pictures from our vacation in Taipei and other updates coming up soon I promise!