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Playfish's Restaurant City has just introduced a new drinks recipes, and thus the customers will now want drinks as well!The drinks recipes currently available are1) Glass of water2) Expresso3) Coffee4) Tea (yes they introduce coffee beans and tea leaves!)5) Chocolate milkshake6) Strawberry milkshake7) Lemonade (they introduce water and ice ingredients too!)8) Peach ice tea …
Pet Society is up after some maintenance and Playfish added in new gardens for everyone! I think everyone has one to two gardens depending on your pet's level. The garden is pretty empty and you can plant seeds to grow vegetables, flowers and trees! My tree has grown a little since last night (lower right).Together with the gardens, Playfish has also introduced the garden …
There is a new shopping centre at Bugis! It's the Iluma, right across from Bugis Junction, and next to Bugis Village. It occupied a spot that used to be a community centre, which was later converted to be a carpark. Ok this is somewhat old news, but let me share some of the pictures of Iluma that I took a few weeks back.Iluma has that interesting exterior with flashing lights …
Due to some corporate events, I've had a chance to visit the famed ONEº15 Marina Club, situated at Sentosa Cove. The place is beautiful! At the reception, there are nicely d …
My sister brought back durian puffs and cakes. That is a spectacular event in itself because she hates durians. Anyways the durian puff and cakes are great. The puffs and cakes are from Goodwood Park Hotel, and yes that is a famous place for durian pastry in Singapore. I read that the durian oreo cake she brought back is actually a new 'creation' by Goodwood Park. Here's the …
Tired of the usual 2/3/4 soups combi buffet steamboat along Beach Road? You could try the Hey Hey Hotpot @ Paradiz Centre. I did a search online and realised that the review is only so-so, but my personal experience at that place has been great! Been there once last year, and brought my family along recently again for lunch at this hotpot. A good point about the restaurant is …
We went to the beach near East Coast's revamped Big Splash for a picnic on Saturday. A very enjoyable trip (except for the car parking, which is madness...the wait can be very long!)! Guess there is a reason for the large crowd on weekends. The whole place looks very different from the previous Big Splash... *obviously*... *ahem*... *oops I'm really old*.There was a weekend …
Restaurant City is up! Initially I was puzzled why there is a maintenance and wondered if Playfish will add in new features for Restaurant City. Some of the online forums have plenty of speculations about what Playfish will add after the maintenance.Well, they added a Photo Feed function! This is similar to what we have for Pet Society actually so it is not that big a deal. …
Went to Kallang Leisure Park over the weekend and decided to try out the shabu shabu (see Wiki's explanation on shabu shabu) at Akashabu. I think we were among the first customers in the restaurant for the evening so the service is good. Ordered a number of dishes, including pork, duck (not bad!), mushroom, squid...etc etc. Here's a pic of the spread:Not bad hor? The food is …
I was surfing the salary.sg website and read the article about more people (2,751) earning at least S$1 million last year.Out of curiosity, I google and found a few more articles that commented that Singapore is Asia's Switzerland for Millionaires (2008), Singapore leads world in new millionaires (2007), where millionaires stash it away (2006), and Singapore chalks up world's …
Having played the MyBrute flash game for a week or so, here's some of the abilities that I have seen in the game.Some of the descriptions of the MyBrute abilities are:Pugnacious - In the arena, you're not really so ungrateful... When they strike you a blow, you give it back... for free!Shield - A shield. To stop the blows... sometimes.Bolt of lightening - You hit faster than …
Reading the news this few days, I've come to the conclusion that the current Singapore is not a nice place to stay when one gets old. Firstly, this article asked retirees to consider China as a place for retirement because one can survive well based on a limited sum of savings. I think the article is in response to a Straits Time article that commented that 2/3 of …
When we were at Chinatown for the mid-autumn lights up, we went to the famous Chang Cheng porridge (长城粥)located at the intersection at Keong Saik Road & New Bridge Road.The bowls of po …
Late last year around end December I decided to try out Internet advertising on blogs. I got interested from reading those stories about people earning their full income from blogging.Naturally the 1st thing to do is to subscribe to Google Adsense, and I must say the whole process is relatively easy. Next is to start reading up on those books and articles about blogging …
Restaurant City has offered the 'Plant a seed' option for quite some time. The 9 plots of land located at the upper right corner of the restaurant are available for seeds planting when the player reaches various level. For example, the last 3 plot of land at the bottom right of the farm, where the plots look filled with stones and weed, are unlocked when I reach level 28, 30, …
In my late teens years, my family often went to Whampoa market on Sunday for the fish head steamboat. Often the queue was long and we had to wait for nearly an hour. So when we heard that there was another Whampoa Fish Head steamboat around Rangoon Road we naturally became frequent diners at the place.Over time somehow, the quality of the Whampoa Fish Head at Rangoon Road has …
Today we went to Thien Kee Hainanese Steamboat at Golden Mile Complex. The food was great, and particularly so for a rainy evening. The outlet has expanded over the years, and now occupied multiple shopfronts. The building looks a bit run-down, but helps to add to the authentic dinning experience.The steamboat is traditional hainanese style, with food all piled together and …
One of the great food attractions in London is the delicious roast duck from the Four Seasons Restaurant @ Bayswater. Here's a photo of the half duck that we ordered. The skin is crispy, meat is flavourful, and of course the oil and fats of the duck pieces carry the aromatic fragrance that is hard to find elsewhere.Other than the roast duck, we also ordered the roast pork, …
Yes I finally got the high score of 50 for ratings in Restaurant City, and it is done without the use of arcade machines!Initially I only managed to have a score of 46.5. After some juggling of the employees (rotating 1 chef to be a waiter), and occasionally cleaning the toilet, I managed to get the score of 50 (second picture below).The score is maintained or quite a while …



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