SG Dec11 - Singapore Zoo

Again, this is a back dated post.

Singapore Zoo is the first place of interest that we visited upon our trip to Singapore.

Looking at the map

At the entrance, took a photo with 弟弟 first.

Inside the zoo...

It's not a good day, drizzled. We had to carry umbrella on and off.

We managed to see the Elephant Show as we visited at afternoon time.

However, the show theater is so crowded especially all the audiences with umbrellas.

We just stop and watched for a while and then proceed to other area.

We see a lot of animals there but the most attractive part is Pony Ride.

I found the Pony Ride in the map provided and requested mommy to bring me there.

It was raining day, pony is not out for the ride. We went there but no pony there. Kind of disappointed.

After a while, 舅舅 brought me to check again. This time, the pony is out as rain is stopped.

Finally I had a chance to ride on a pony! It was a very great experience. This is also my first pony ride.

Before the pony ride, it was rain heavily. We went for the Carousel Ride as it's covered.

The 3rd ride we had in the zoo was Boat Ride. We took the boat trip before we ended our visit there.

It was a great trip and we did enjoy seeing those animals. But as I mentioned pony ride still the best and I told 舅舅 I want to visit zoo again just for the ride :)

Cartoon Butter Cookies

Mommy baked some butter cookies for us last weekend.

Those cookies are cute as it was cut into cartoon shape.

There are Piglet, Minnie, Mickey, Pooh and Hello Kitty.

Those cartoon cookies are for the kids.

Mommy also prepared some for adults as below.

Strawberry Butter Cookies with star & heart shape.

The butter cookies recipe as below:

Ingredients:

150g butter at room temperature

100g icing sugar

1 egg

250g rising flour

Method:

1) Beat well butter and sugar till butter change to lighter color.

2) Add egg and continue to beat well.

3) Add in flour and mix well.

4) Wrap in plastic and keep the dough in fridge for at least 1 hour.

5) Roll the dough to 3mm thickness and cut into the shape you like.

6) Bake in oven at 180’C for 12-15min till golden brown.

This recipe not really give a good hardness on the dough to roll out and cut into desired cookies shape. It's too soft even mommy kept in fridge for more than an hour. This recipe is more appropriate for piping cookies. Mommy have to use a lot of flour to prevent it stick on the rolling pin and table. Mommy still try to find a better recipe for molding butter cookies.

Dinner with mommy's friends

Tonight I follow mommy went to a dinner with her friends.

We went to Good Friend Seafood restaurant at Bayan Lepas.

This is a new restaurant, for us at least.

It's the same as Good Friend at Teluk Kumbar, but this is nearer...to us.

No seaview as it's just opposite Dynacraft factory.

It also open during lunch time where they served economy rice, chicken rice and "choo char".

Now I can eat spicy food, in fact I like spicy food now.

Like I can eat Char Koay Teow with little bit of chili, Hokkien Mee without chili but the soup taste a bit spicy to me also.

Good Friend's satay grilled together with the sauce, so it taste a little bit spicy but it's just nice for me. I took 2 sticks before the dinner.

Mommy special ordered a fried egg for me as she knows that I am a picky eater.

But actually I had my dinner with fried Kai Lan (crispy type), fish and fried egg.

Part of the dishes that ordered:

Beggar Chicken and Prawn steamed with Egg

Baked crab & salted egg crab

There are 12 crabs that ordered for 6 adults.

First time I tried crab meat and I think it's delicious. I like it!

From now onwards, mommy can bring me to seafood dinner as I can eat few of the seafood dishes already.

Car Free Day

Penang Car Free Day starts on 11-Dec-2011. Since then every Sunday, 7am - 1pm, the area around Beach Street is closed for motor vehicles.

We went to Beach Street area on last weekend. This is the first time we visit to that area since Penang Car Free Day implemented 11-Dec.

There are people cycling on the road, around that area as only bicycle is allowed.

Some family even brought badminton rackets along, may be they played badminton in the middle of the road.

Some came with their professional camera, I think this is a good opportunity to get a very good angle photo shoot without worry about the vehicle on the road.

There is a temporary stage in the middle of the road by the time we were there.

But we don't know what is the purpose as we went there around 11am.

We also took some photos on the street but mommy tried not to let 弟弟 run in the middle of the road as this will let

弟弟 thought that he is allow to do so...all the time.

We took a rest at Old Town restaurant after the walk around that area.

The view from Old Town restaurant, still under Car Free Day coverage area.

It was a good walk but I think we should go there earlier next time as 11am is too hot for us.