I'm back from Taiwan! Had a good day's rest before I met Woon Ching for lunch to catch up on stuff. I've a craving for steamboat/BBQ these days so we thought of Seoul Garden at Marina Square. It's expensive (compared to the student price we could be having) so we opted for Yuki の Yaki instead. It is a steamboat/BBQ eatery as well. But I've always wanted to try this place, not forgetting they have DIY ice cream too!




The hot plate and the steamboat are separated on the table, unlike Seoul Garden's. Which is a good thing since we get enough oil splashing onto us even without soup dripped onto the hot plate accidentally. We went for tom yum soup and miso soup. The miso soup is delicious while the tom yum was super spicy.

We ate so many skewers of hotate scallops! We weren't the only ones. The first batch was wiped out in no time and we had to wait for the staff to replenish the stock. Woon Ching was over the moon when she went to check and saw a full platter of them. Lol.


Hotates left to sizzle in hot bubbling butter. Buttered scallops, anyone?

For those who have dined there, you can choose to pay another $2 to try out their DIY ice cream. If you're having the ice cream ala carte, you have to pay another price but I think it's less than $10. The staff had to shift us to another booth because we can't possibly wait for ours to cool down. It's the same plate for hot and cold plate.


The chiller is filled with cups of ice cream mixtures. Plenty of interesting flavours on top of the common ones. They have flavours like berry mixes, durian, passion fruit, yam, vanilla, etc. I took green tea, chocolate and tiramisu. (:


Our first time using a cold plate. Naturally, our first few attempts flopped. Look at how the residues stuck to the plate. Couldn't scrap it off until I added more ice cream mix to dissolve it. But we got the hang of it pretty fast enough.


Woon Ching's having fun with the chocolate rice.

Ah darn. My green tea ice cream has begun melting. And I drew the smiley face on my chocolate ice cream mix! Haha! :D


Woon Ching's getting good at this! And her berry ice cream is tempting me. (:





After we have finished, we scraped all the ice cream off. The bits and pieces of green and pink don't look appealing at all.


Walked around Marina Square for a bit after that before we met up with Woon Ching's father and brother for dinner at 313@Somerset's Food Republic. We were still full so we had dim sum. Bought lo mai gai (steamed chicken and glutinous rice in lotus leaf wrap) and green tea custard tarts. I love the green tea custard tarts!

Made a quick trip down to Far East Plaza after dinner as Woon Ching wanted to get jeans. She managed to get 2 pairs (fully paid for by her father). We each got a pair of specs too. Not the normal kinds or sunglasses. Really wacky ones. Mine's got pink bling all over it while her is hollow plastic striped (not sure how to describe it). Gonna take photos with it one day!

CHARMAINE CHEONG.

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