Hmm my other half is midway through her bar exams now.. so I'm bored :D

So having no one to share half portions with these 2 weeks, what else to eat but a buffet right? That way I can get to pick my own portions. Of course that never works out in reality cos I always always overeat at buffets and live to regret it after that (esp the dinner buffets cos I can't sleep after).

So for my first buffet since probably chinese new years eve, I went with my family (incl my brother who is incidentally back from Italy for 2 months for the birth of his 1st daughter) to Penang Place at the Intl Business Park at Jurong East. Its a Penang food buffet (which was quite pricey: $20 for a sat lunch) which had Penang laksa, char kway teow, prawn noodles, rojak, nasi lemak, beef rendang, chicken curry, otak otak among other things.

The penang char kway teow was constantly in short supply - once it came out it was instantly cleaned out.... and no wonder.. it was one of the better ones i've tried. Quite light, not too oily, and quite a general serving of fillings (there must have been a billion cockles inside. and quite a number of prawns). The rest of the food was so-so, but the dessert was pretty good too. The kaya on the steamed tapioca rice cakes was made from really fragrant coconut sugar, and the coconut sugar syrup for the chendol was really something too.

All in all not bad. But yups quite pricey for nothing fancy (it really sucks when everything is judged by the standards of Summer Palace). But once again, overate so had no more momentum to go to the Akira warehouse sale next door.. Came home and just plonked (full stomach + duty = sleepy) on the bed.

Brother brought back white truffles (or to be exact 1 white truffle + a shaver.. a truffle shaver) from Italy which he prepared for dinner. He prepared it 2 ways: shavings on a sunny side up and shavings on tossed tagliatelle with olive oil. The sunny side up was a lot nicer (surprising coming from me cos well i hate sunny side up. with a vengeance) cos the tagliatelle was cold already, and the olive oil was a little overpowering. Plus the truffle didn't shave that well probably cos of the humidity (and age.. 4 days is prob too long). But still, it was really really good lah. Really fragrant.. quite the epitome of what a mushroom should be like. So 1/2 a bowl of tagliatelle was my dinner.. all thanks to my buffet lunch *gag*

So its sunday =) 5 more days to go before getting to eat half portions again! Yay!Probably gonna take a walk later to finish up some film.