Poochi’s 13th Birthday & homemade cake

The dog is 13th years old today!

Decide to make a mini cake using some ready made ingredients.

Bought these at a supermarket recently and decide to use them as the sponge part of the cake. Simply microwave them for about 1 min.

These are the ingredients for the Poochi cake. Was so happy to finally find whipped cream at cold storage yesterday and immediately grabbed 2 of them.

Tada~! I used a piece of the pancake as the bottom and put whipped cream with cut strawberries on it and then placed another piece of pancake on top and finished off with some whipped cream and cut fruits such as apples, blueberries and strawberries.

The dog keep screaming for it and have to be hold back while singing the birthday song. 

Happy 13th Birthday! 😘

The dog gobbled down the cake in less than 1 min....😅

Throwback to the 22 Mar 2020-Ocean Restaurant

Although it had only been about a month ago, it seemed like another era to me. About a month ago, before this covid-19 thing gets serious and before this circuit breaker even exist, I was at Ocean Restaurant located at Sentosa’s underwater aquarium to celebrate my birthday. Hubby made the reservation ahead and I remember during that time, all the guests in the restaurant were Singaporeans or locals since tourists were already banned from Singapore. The only difference from now is that its now impossible to dine outside anymore 😞

Here, u can dine while watching the fishes swim around. It’s v therapeutic watching them swim in this blue environment and I almost felt guilty eating their own kind.

Think it cost about $72+++ which rounds up to about $100SGD per person for lunch. We picked the 3 course meal which includes a hot/cold appetizer, one main and 1 dessert. The only difference from the 4 course meal is an additional hot/cold appetizer.

The food is just normal to me, the main thing is the environment and dining experience. The servers were all v polite and friendly. 

I noticed from online that their menu changed regularly which is great.

I picked the hot starter which is the little neck clam risotto with onsen egg and tom yum emulsion. It also had some ikura and caviar on top. Yummy 😋 

Hubby choose the salmon tartare which I dun think taste v fresh. 

We also added an extra entree of seared scallops. The portion is so tiny...

For the mains, I chose the Pacific Tarahiki, a certain type of fish I have not tried before. It comes with back fungus, bamboo shoots and oriental broth. Not bad, the meat was on the firmer side. Only cons is that it’s such a small piece of fish.....

Hubby ordered the slow braised pork belly for his mains. 

Dessert was Tropicana consisting of pineapple salsa, coconut sobet ice cream and sago. For me, I ordered the lemon scented pound cake.

Coffee and tea were served after that and it’s complimentary. 

Surprise, surprise! I got a free chocolate cake from them as it’s my birthday😊 yeah!

It was a nice dinning experience and I’m glad I get the chance to go before this Circuit breaker thing kicks in. Coz who knows when it’s ever possible to go out and dine ever again.....I longed for the day when I can go out and sit in a hawker center and enjoy my food there instead of tabaoing back. 😭😭

Day 22 and 23

Day 22 saw an increase of 528 new cases and today saw an increase of 690 new cases. Majority remained foreign workers in dormitories. Singaporeans and foreign workers not living in dormitories still remained in 2 digits and have not gone down to single digits yet. Total case in Singapore is now 15641 to date. Yup, we exceeded the 15000 benchmark liao.

There are news that bubble tea shops, barbers, hair salons and cake shops will be back on 5May. Hopefully so......if situation does not worsen.

Due to closure of cake shops, there won’t be a birthday cake for Poochi’s birthday. Tmr will be his 13th birthday. Yup, the old dog is 13 years old in human years liao....time flies.

Flashback to his last year birthday celebration. We got his fave strawberry cake from Chateraise. Sadly, no more Chateraise this year due to covid-19. Instead we decide to make one for him tmr. Btw, the silly old dog juz swallow a durian seed while I was feeding him some durian. 😱😱 

Hopefully he will survive....

Day21

Today saw an increase of 799 new cases, with Singaporeans and PR making up 14 of the new patients. The total number now is 14423, passing the 14000 benchmark. 

Latest news is that 12 residents and 2 staff members at Acacia home were tested positive after a 62 years old resident tested positive on sat night. Another nursing home again.....

Day20

An increase of 931 new cases bring the number to 13624, which makes us ahead of Japan now. Among the new cases, all were foreign workers in dormitories except for 15 who were Singaporeans or PR. 

There were also 2 imported cases from Singaporeans who were on SHN since April 10 which means it has been more than 14 days but the virus is still alive inside them?! So does that means that ppl in quarantine after 14 days are still positive for the virus? Then, in this case this circuit breaker might be extended again if the govt wants to make v sure it’s safe again? There are still many questions and mysteries surrounding this virus and WHO recently just announced that ppl who caught this virus may get it again so it does not mean that if one get this, u are immune to it. Oh dear...

Day 18-19

Yesterday, we have crossed the 12000 benchmark by another 897 new cases, bringing the total to 12075. Today, another 618 cases was reported which brings the total to date to 12693, think we are just behind Japan now....the reason due to the low numbers being reported could be due to number of testings done as workers who show respiratory symptoms at the severely affected dormitories will be isolated immediately instead of testing them for covid-19 since they are most likely to have it.....so no point wasting the test kits on them anymore? Anyway, the low number of 618 cases reported is not a sign for celebration yet as it’s not indicative of some workers who were not tested. I have a feeling that the worst is yet to come....

Anyway, finally did a video on some of my Japan hauls. 

Check out my YouTube video here

Dinner tonight was homemade kaisendon. Bought salmon sashimi, ikura and scallops from Don Don Donki today and cooked Japanese rice with sushi vinegar. 

Tada~! It was super delicious and yummy. The warm vinegar sushi rice taste so much better with the fresh seafood as compared to store bought kaisendon as their rice was cold. It was the nicest sashimi don I ever had for a long time....😭

Day17

Another 1037 cases bringing the total to 11178.....which means we have overtaken Korea in the number of positive covid-19 cases! Total death stands at 12. Comparing between us and Korea, our death rates are vastly different. To date, South Korea has 10702 cases and 240 deaths.