Our lunch spread
Xiao Long Bao
The fried rice however, was a little disappointing. Dear took a bite of one particular prawn that stinks - presumably it has turned bad, so from that point on eating the prawns felt a little like taking a stroll across a minefield. Unnecessarily stressful. Otherwise the fried rice was fine.
We attempted to bake our own version of black forest cake, one of my favourite of all time, and the result was “F”. Unfortunately that’s “F” for “fail”, not “fantastic”. Well, it was our first time baking any kind of cake, so it’s understandable that so many things did not turn out right. For example the filling was too wet, and the cream used to plaster the cake was too soft, so in the end it looked like mount Black forest was spewing hot cherry flavoured lava. In our defence, the cake actually tasted like black forest cake, although looks wise it was a disaster zone.
In the end the cake didn't look (or taste) so bad
Dinner was meant to be special, and we planned to have it at home. Knowing that we were baking cake we wanted to keep things simple. In the end, we chose to have steamboat.
Steamboat. Enough to feed an army
After dinner we relaxed for a while, slacking around while I open my birthday present. Nice! it was a Tintin book and a travel guide. Tintin and the Alph-art was the last in the series, uncompleted before Herge's death. Dear also got me the lonely planet guide to Eastern Europe, knowing that I've long dreamt of going there. Thanks dear!
Afterwards we went out to watch “Land of the lost”. Dear said that it was an entertaining “C grade” movie. I think it was probably closer to B grade, but has more than its fair share of absurdly funny moments. In one short word “Insane”. Loved the moments when they were trying to swing to a tree to escape being trapped by vines, and instead swung towards the open jaws of a hungry T-Rex.
Well, like any good party, the day (and this post) has to end.
