Va Va Voom

36 Seah Street
This is our third visit to this little Vietnamese restaurant and this time I remembered to take out my camera.



We like this restaurant because it serves simple but tasty Vietnamese food and it's not overflowing with crowds like most places in town! Finding parking around the Seah St/Purvis St area was HELL(!!) and we resorted to paying a hefty $5.25 for parking at Raffles Hotel. By the time we got here, it was past 8pm.

We would always order the sour plum (S'ng-buei) drink with soda because it's so refreshing. For appetiser, we had Morning Glory salad with Chicken, which we initially thought would be kang-kong. It turned out to be this shredded greens which looked like spring onions but didn't taste as pungent. It went well with the fried onions, chillies, peanut and plum sauce. Yummmms...



Here's Mag looking like she's enjoying squeezing the lime into the beef soup!



Oh! The Authentic Grilled Pork Noodles was good! The grilled pork had a light charred taste which we love. Mag's complaint for this dish was - there are too many tau-geh's (bean sprouts)!! No matter - they went into MY tummy!



What's Vietnamese food without Beef Noodles, right? The wholesome hot beefy soup can make anyone warm up and feel right at home! I didn't really like the beef balls though - too 'beefy'! LOL... Next time we shall order pure beef slices.



We paid a very reasonable $23 for our dinner and hey(!), there was still time for shopping!! We walked through Raffles Hotel, smelling the REAL pine tree on the way and chanced upon a choir Christmas carolling! They were not bad at all. Tenors were right up there and sounded very pleasant. Can't say the same for the girls though - they could do with more anchoring and support.

Found out that it was the VJC choir (that would explain the high standards of the boys, hehehe...) and it almost made us wish we were singing in a choir again! We quickly shook that thought from our heads and hurried on towards Raffles City.



Is the theme of this year's Christmas decoration "o-biang Christmas Trees"?? Yesterday I saw a pink tree. Today, it's this weird green tree with strange fuchsia coloured flowers. Bizarre..



And the "late-night shopping" was a farce! What late-night? All the shops started to turn off their lights and close by 10pm!

TWO more days to Christmas!!!!