Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Celine's farewell dinner at Nanjya Monjya, Grand Copthorne Waterfront

Met up with Celine, Alfred, Neil, and the Little Superhero Girl last night at Grand Copthorne Waterfront for a nice farewell dinner at Nanjya Monjya, a seemingly authentic Japanese restaurant where you get to cook your own Okonomiyaki, which would more or less be the Japanese equivalent of pizza. I must say the place isn't exactly in the most accessible of locations, but Celine's leaving for London soon, so I guess giving some way wouldn't hurt that much.

The Little Superhero Girl turned up in a stunning number for the night, and we made our way to the Grand Copthorne from Orchard. I, being the extremely terrible multi-tasker, forgot to count the number of stops cos I was busy talking to her and had to rely on looking out for the bus crossing the river before knowing where to alight, but we still got down at the right stop anyway.

Stepping into the place, I realised that the people working there were actually Japanese! Well either that or their English was really really atrocious for a Singaporean.. Haha but the service was excellent nonetheless. It was interesting trying to cook the pizzas cos all this while I've only had people do it for me while I stood in front of them waiting for them to get it done, and I think we had our fair share of screw ups, but it all turned out fine in the end. The pizzas were actually quite good stuff, especially the scallop Monjyayaki which we had as the finisher, but somehow I couldn't taste the green tea in the Cha Soba.

After that was the Pump Room at Great World City as we were initially looking for an ice cream place which I had suggested earlier, but stupid me did not plan for which one to go to, and didn't have a contingency either. I felt like slapping myself for that, but anyway we decided on Liquid Kitchen, but realised Pump Room, which I actually prefer, was still open! Had a nice drink, some wedges, and chat with Little Superhero Girl who sneakily changed her name in my mobile to something else, which almost caused some panic when I tried looking for the name later on in the night when I was sending a text message but couldn't find it.

Quite a pleasant night in the end, had some good laughs over dinner and the drink. And ZITTLE Superhero Girl, you looked quite the stunner as always.. =)

Anyway some pics for the night, courtesy of Celine's facebook..


Neil was the MasterChef of the night.


Celine trying her hand at flipping the pizzas.


The other side of the table. Quite nicely taken!


Me and the Little Superhero Girl


I think they were all hungry..


Me and the Little Superhero Girl again with that seemingly tasteless Cha Soba.. LOL


And of course a group shot to end off the camwhoring while waiting for that Scallop Monjyayaki to cook.

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