'E' Day!

After a brief consultation with my good friend (the foodie), we decided to swing by Etna with the kids. So that's how we started the day's outing by filling our stomachs at Etna @ Upper East Coast Road.

They served us yummy bread while we were waiting for the food. Mmmm... I absolutely loved what we ordered. The usual fare, but it just tasted really YUM.

After that, we decided to go to East Coast Park for a walk. Cut across the path of the Standard Chartered Marathon runners, stood at the Cable-Ski Park for a while to admire the lanky and sporty. Then continued to walk along the coast. It was windy, sunny, what you would expect of East Coast on any other afternoon.

Then came the dark clouds and crackle of thunder indicating impending heavy showers. Okay, time to make our way back home. Pass the Cable-Ski Park again, no sight of our instant hit - this cute, young, blonde, curly-haired guy. Never mind, continue back on our path home, and cut across the running path of the marathon runners again. We ended the short walk there with a promise to the girls, that we would bring them back with their pail and shovel so that they could build a sandcastle.

Oh, by the way, it's 'E' day because we went to "Etna" and "East Coast Park". Both places begin with the letter 'E'. Hur hur.

All Day Breakfast On His Birthday

Had breakfast with Aslene this morning at "Hatched" (cute site with inverted "3"s that takes time to load. Be patient.). Always wanted to go there for breakfast on the Mondays when I used to bring Seo Yeon for classes at Julia Gabriels @ Evans Road. Pity they were always closed on Mondays. I wanted to go there even more when Aslene told me about this restaurant "Hatched" that she wanted to go to too because she heard that the food there was yum. So what better place to meet her at for brunch? Why, at "Hatched", where they serve "egg-inspired all-day breakfast"!

Service there gets 6-stars (out of 10), maybe they just aren't "morning people"? Haha... Food? Well... All I can say that maybe Aslene and I weren't very good at choosing good stuff from the menu. The food that others ordered looked gastronomical. Ours just looked at tasted like.... normal breakfast? Despite the fancy name 'Hitch Me Up'.

Brunch at Hatched

Ok, now, to catch some celebration lunch (or breakfast?) with PapaKim at "Wild Honey". Another all-day breakfast concept restaurant, this time situated in bustling Orchard Road, was my breakfast-theme eatery of the day. This was recommended by Aslene, whose opinion I did trust a lot especially when it comes to food, because her husband is a chef. LOL.

Caliornian (Left) & Italian (Right)

I think "Californian" beats "Italian" hands down. A pity that it totally slipped my mind to order the dish that Aslene recommended....

Back in Changwon

One of the must-see for this trip was the "House of Changwon", where I got married 5 years ago on a cold, rainy day. I had always wanted to go back to take a look and see whether the place "evolved" or not, and most importantly, eat at the restaurant where we served the wedding lunch. Yum!

It really felt like a much-needed excursion for my girls to be brought to see the place where Appa and Omma got married so that they would, hopefully, be able to relate to it when I showed them our wedding photos.

House of Changwon

Garden in House of Changwon

Here we are, the spread, and this is not all! We stuffed our guts full by just paying KRW10,000 per person! That's why I wanted to go back there so much. But the kids, gosh, they were a handful without the high chair to strap them in. (Basically, most eating places we liked to go to in Korea was quite difficult because the children tend to run around the place when they are not strapped in their high chair.)

Herb Garden in Changwon

We drove about another 20 minutes to Changwon "City 7", a lodging and shopping complex that is situated next to the Changwon Exhibition Convention Centre (CECO). While we were there, we wanted to check out SHREK 3D, unfortunately, seats for the next available showing were not very ideal. So, we had to take a rain check and took a break in "Angel In Us", a new coffee chain.

She loves 'Tau Sar Piah'!

She loves her 'Tau Sar Piah' (which will henceforth be referred to as 'tsp')! I can't imagine a child having her Grandfather's taste for food. My father, i.e. Seo Yeon's grandfather, loves tsp. So we decided to let her try tsp one day many weeks ago and voila! There you go! We have a toddler in the house who loves tsp. 

Today is an extreme case. If you will see the food intake list for the day, you'll understand why I said that.

- 3 miniscule pieces of boiled sausages in the morning;
- 1 tsp; 
- half a 'yu gwa' (유과: traditional Korean oil-and-honey pastry);
- 1 tsp;  
- a serving of fries;
- half a cup of iced milo (her favourite drink);
- 2 small spoonfuls of rice;
- 1 tsp;

Not to mention 180ml of formula in the morning and before she sleeps.

The picture below shows the infamous tsp and yu gwa. Seo Yeon's 2 favourite foods. En Bi likes neither. 

So, altogether, we see this toddler eating 3 tsp in a day! Record-breaking. I look in dismal at her food intake in terms of quality as well as quantity. I start to hope that tsp contains something good so that she didn't take 3 in for nothing today.

May tomorrow be a better day for Seo Yeon's diet!