A Birthday Celebration

Food Glorious Food
Birthday Girl
Cheers to Kang!
Jes & I
Three White Beauties
God-daughter & God-Ma
Silly looking Linda wants to show you her naughty side.
Linda & Jes
Buddy
Buddy


It's my god-daughter's birthday and we met up for dinner at Merchant Court last night. I was all excited about dinning at Ellenborough Cafe coz' they are pretty much well-known for their reasonable price and good food, mmh...especially their durian pudding... just yummy...

When we reached there, it wasn't crowded like it used to be and we were seated near the main entrance of the cafe. The cafe was cozy and gave me a homely feel... heee...

They were serving international buffet and last night's variety was quite alright except Linda was complaining that Satays & Buah Keluak were missing in action.

However, the starters were not too bad when we tried the mango prawn with peanut sauce... not too bad, the mango was good. There were also shark's fins soup with 'fake' abalone (it tasted more like abalone mushroom) but the plus point was... the Chef preparing the soup was really a good looking chap. He's a China National and can't speak English for nuts.

I took Jessie to have a good look at him and she replied telling me 'wow... not many China man are that good looking hor' and I grinned and said 'ya lor..' then she had to spoil it all by saying 'this one so good looking, thought most are like Sun Zhi Hai' (in case you aren't sure who is that.. he's playing for Manchester City in English Premier League). My goodness... so anti-climates!!!

During dessert time, Jessie & I decided to dig in for the durian pudding which I was craving for... but it wasn't refilled. That good looking Chef was very helpful and told us to wait for refill. He told us in mandarin 'please wait for us to refill, we have to get the refill underneath (Xia Mian)!! The refill is underneath (he pointed the floor this time) so, we will take a couple of minutes to get it done. Please wait for my return'. Both Jessie & I immediately burst out laughing as why on earth is the refill underneath? Was the durian pudding so Wicked that he had to refill it from hell!! We were puzzled but found it very funny... and we thought about it and probably he was trying to tell us that the stocks are stored at the basement...but he used 'underneath'!!! Faint!! Aiyo lor...

After a couple of minutes, we went to check out the durian from 'underneath' and it was indeed refilled. I went to his Shark's Fin counter to thank him. Being naughty, I asked for his name. He proudly pointed his name tag to me and I saw the name 'Thomas'... I smiled and walked away. Back to the table, I told Linda & Jes that his name is Thomas! We started laughing coz' we were all guessing his chinese name earlier.

Linda said 'aiyo... can't speak English but got himself an English name!! That name tag must be a spare one la... and the management must have taught him how to pronounce it.' In fact, he didn't even pronounce his name but just proudly showed me his name tag which was tagged on his uniform.

After the desserts, I politely asked the waiter to invite Thomas over to have a pix with us so that all you readers out there can see his face. He was really shy and after taking pix with us, looking worried and shy, he asked for permission to be excused!! Wah lao lor...

Trio & Thomas the Chef

It was indeed an enjoyable dinner and bet you people will keep a look out for him the next time you dine at Ellenborough Cafe.. hahahaa...

Kang kang, thanks for the dinner and we really had a blast last night.