Scenes from the Streets of Chinatown Singapore

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A busy street

The past few weekend we have been heading down to Chinatown for Dim Sum these past weeks after the boys swim class. It has been a while since we headed down to Chinatown for a meal. We usually settle our craving for Dim Sum at the Old Hong Kong restaurant in Marine parade. Unfortunately since the end of last year the standard of food there has deteriorated tremendously and we had to search for a new place to patronize.

The Yum Cha restauarant at Chinatown is one of the few places that offered Dim Sum for breakfast. Many of the Chinese restaurants only open after 11am and cater only to the lunch and dinner crowd.

A statue at the Indian Temple

After our breakfast we took a walk around Chinatown to take a look at the architecture of the area. I didn’t manage to get many snapshots as it was a real challenge trying to aim with the DSLR while carrying Tiger girl in the other hand. In the end after two shots I gave up and placed the camera back in the box instead. It is really no joke trying to balance an active 13kg toddler with one hand while positing the camera with the other. Hopefully the next time we go to Chinatown Tiger girl will be more cooperative and let R carry her instead.

What have you been snapping lately?

March 5, 2013

Happy 9th Birthday Monkey Boy

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The kids and me

Over the weekend we celebrate Monkey boy’s 9th birthday. This year I didn’t get around to making him a 3D Formula One car as he requested as I didn’t have the time to get all the necessary ingredients. I decided on doing a chocolate cake with a variety of different chocolates for him.

The cake close up

I used biscuit sticks to represent the different lanes and Kinder Bueno white chocolate to represent the cars. I used buttercream to decorate the top of the cake and piped in stars all around. Monkey boy’s name was also written by using butter cream. The kids love M & M chocolate and they were use to decorate the side of the cake. I threw coloured sprinkles on the top to jazz up the cake and make it more colourful. It was a 3 hour effort baking and decorating the cake in between Swimming and Sunday school lesson.

Getting ready to blow out the candle

The kids took turn blowing out the candle as all of them loved seeing the fire being extinguished as they blow. I guess all kids love this the most during the cake cutting session. All three of them couldn’t wait to blow out the candle. It would have been great if I bought the candles that would automatically relight by themselves like the ones I used for Doggie boy’s birthday last year. It would certainly save me the hassle of having to manually relight the candle more then six times!!

After the candle was finally blown up each of them started attacking the “cars” and wolfed down the chocolates and biscuit sticks even before I could take the cake away to be cut up properly.

What types of cakes do you have for your kids birthdays?

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