Since it was Charine's birthday on the 10th and my birthday on the 11th, we planned a whole lot of festivities for the weekend. It started off with surprise cakes from the boys of room G04, who claimed they baked them but actually bought them from Tesco. They were good nonetheless!
group photo :)
On Thursday night, the night of Charine's birthday, we decided to try a contemporary dim sum teahouse restaurant called Yauatcha in Soho. It was a really nice place filled with adults sipping on wine and chatting. Good thing we dressed up for it, or else we would have stuck out like a sore thumb. At first we went just to try the desserts, since everything on the menu was pretty expensive, but after glancing at the dim sum dishes they had, we decided to order some salty food as well. Lynn and I shared the prawn cheung fun and the pan-fried turnip cake (our favoriate dim sum dish of all time!).
turnip cake
prawn cheung fun
we also ordered fruit martinis
After the dim sum came the much awaited desserts, which were super sweet but super delicious.
I forgot the one on the bottom left, but after that (counter-clockwise) is the caramel pannacotta, chocolate raspberry delice, and milk chocolate praline
... and a group picture! it was a great meal
On Friday night, we decided to book a table at a club called Cafe de Paris, which had a burlesque show that night along with some live music and whatnot. Although the music wasn't exactly what we would normally dance to, we made the most of it and at least we had a table, so the dance floor wasn't the only option. There was also a pretty cool show of this lady doing acrobatic moves on a ring hanging from the ceiling. We went with a bunch of people, and two friends visiting from New York came straight from the airport to the club to celebrate with Charine and me! Here are some pictures of this unforgettable night:
at the entrance
John holding the reserved sign
our waitress bringing the champagne with sparklers
group picture again with champagne :)
Of course, we ended the night at McDonald's. Not surprising at all...
The next day, Saturday, Kathryn and I decided to head to Brunswick Centre for some food at Hare & Tortoise. After ordering, we realized that there was a market in the centre on Saturdays with a bunch of food stands offering all kinds of cuisines from churros to paella. There was a stand for Japanese octopus balls which smelled really good so Kathryn and I decided to try them and they were really hot at first but really tasty.
8 octopus balls covered in dried seaweed and "Japanese sauce"
That night, we decided to go to dinner at a restaurant called Belgo, which specializes in Belgium food. Unfortunately, some peoples' plans changed so it only ended up being Charine, Kathryn, Jocelyn and me. I ordered the Florentine mussels and we just couldn't resist ordering a Belgian waffle for dessert. Good thing Charine and I shared, though! The mussels were delicious and the waffle definitely hit the spot.
Florentine mussels
Belgian waffle with chocolate sauce, vanilla ice cream, and whipped cream on the side
Derek also stopped by to drop off something for Charine and I for our birthdays, which was really sweet of him. Charine got chocolate and I got cupcakes from Bea's Bloomsbury, a tea and pastry shop nearby that I've been wanting to try for a while. Of course, we shared the cupcakes, which were really yummy and they looked cute too. Dan and Yan also dropped off these salt and pepper shakers that they bought for us from Paris.
cupcakes from Bea's Bloomsbury
the cute cupcakes packaging and the shakers
And that concludes my post on our birthday weekend, which was filled with good memories and good food, always a great combination! :P I'll have to do a separate post on what I did this weekend sometime this week. Now that all my midterms are over, I just have one marketing presentation to do this week and then I'll be done for a month!
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