20070718 Dinner @ Restaurant Bobby Chinn + Pho24

It's dinnertime... Pixie and I decided to treat Trixy to a sumptious dinner @ Restaurant Bobby Chinn (http://www.bobbychinn.com/). Located just below the Hanoi Tourism Office along Ba Trieu Street, facing Hoan Kiem Lake...the ambience was pretty intimate.
However the 5 of us was commenting that it was too dark to see our food!!!



To do me justice, check out (http://www.bobbychinn.com/en/ambience.htm) and that's the kind of lighting that we had. I guess that we'd have appreciated it more if it was a meal with that special someone.



Below are the photos taken at RBC:-




Cheeky menus...


Left: LiLi and Trixy Right: Jo and Pixie

HanSan, sorry...I think we've neglected to take a photo of you in RBC

Trixy and all the drinks (sexy, orgasmic, etc.) :P

Our mouth watering appetisers (photos above) and respective main courses, the following 4 photos (LiLi and Trix ordered the same thing - all appetisers in 1 main meal):-

We thought dessert in RBC would be an experience to remember but it was pretty sad. Of the 4 that we ordered, only 2 were worth mentioning...

Middle pic - Chocolate Pot de Creme

Right pic - Lemon Scented Creme Brulee

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Left pic - Chocolate Pudding (not as wonderful as in AlFresco) and Coconut Rice Pudding (it's just nicely decorated nasi pulut)

HanSan was craving for Pho, so Trixy suggested Pho24 (a chain of Pho restaurant all over Vietnam, with branches overseas too). Please check out http://www.pho24.com.vn/

Although we were kind of full to the brim, we also ordered a glass of Avocado Milk Shake :)

Tomorrow's our final day/night in Hanoi. Hope we can last the pace of traipsing around the sighseeing sites in the city...to be continued...

Beautiful morning on the bay

The 7 photos below were taken early in the morning, about 5:30am. I managed to crawl (seriously!) out of my bed and out the window (coz Pixie was holding on to my room key). Any one of the below qualify for a National Geographic-typed photos? Pray, do tell :)




The room HanSan and I shared.







There's an air-cond unit in the room BUT we could not turn it on (probably the boat operator did not turn the main switch on)....haih...well, at least we had our individual fans located over the bed's headboard to keep cool. Just beware of the creepy crawlies, as in cockroaches all over. I'm personally afraid of the flying ones.








Sweaty me, even after a cold shower. All of us opted for kayaking, thus the boat stopped at a kayak operator's floating home. Sorry no pics there as I was afraid of getting my camera wet. The sweaty me pic was taken after receiving call from HR personnel of my new employer. Took a while before the news sank in! Then I called home to my Mom (told her to inform my Dad & older brother) and younger brother in Singapore to break the good news ;)

Halong Bay, here we come!

At Halong Bay...Various photos from HanSan's pocket dynamo camera Casio Exilim and my Sony Cybershot (I shall try to do a short write up later, please enjoy the photos til then ok? TQVM):-

View of the Bay after coming out from Thien Cung Cave. By looking at a sweaty Jo, it's obvious that the heat was bordering intolerable. However we marched on to the next cave....


Next, Dau Go Cave

Not so yummy dinner time....but what the heck, we're famished!!!