I'm always apprehensive about bringing Chubbs out at night. I don't want to keep him up late because the more tired he is, the poorer the quality of sleep he gets and you never quite know what to expect with a baby. However, this is one of those dos that we can't miss. So I let him take a late afternoon nap in preparation for it, and packed a pumpkin + apple snack along.
Fuzzy's aunts ordered the food. Needless to say, there was waaay too much food! Started with roasted pork and deep-fried white bait. Then there was soup, Peking duck, geoduck fried with fermented black beans, celery and spring onion, braised claypot grouper, stewed deer ligaments, spinach with deep-fried Shimeji mushrooms, grilled beef, prawns fried with salted-egg yolk, shrimp-paste marinated deep-fried pork belly, beancurd stuffed with mushrooms, lobster noodles and two desserts; almond and pumpkin cream and some pastries. Pardon me... I might have missed a couple more dishes out.
I'm feeling full just thinking back on the sheer amount of food. Fuzzy thinks that all the dishes were above average and enjoyed them all! Myy favourite was probably the deep-fried pork belly. What could be better than deep-fried fat, I wonder?
Dinner started at 8.30pm. It was past 10pm even before the noodles arrived. Fuzzy and I were too full by then to eat anymore (We were made to clean the plates for most of the dishes. The downside of being labelled the big-eaters :/). Chubbs was getting eye bags, and blood-shot eyes and we decided to pass on the rest of the food; I surprised myself when I said "no" to dessert. Well, they say there's a first for everything. We packed our little baby up, and said our goodbyes. The waitresses were particularly thrilled when Chubbs smiled, waved and said "ba-ba" to them.
Chubbs was more fidgety and cranky than normal in the car ride back because he was so tired already. But he did enjoy looking at the colourful, flickering lights along Orchard Road, and did so with mouth agape. He hardly ever gets to be down town this late :/ Chubbs hit the sack at 12am, after a bath, a feed and some mandatory crawling time. Long day...
