Start of Birthday Season

I'm surrounded by Springtime babies. From the start of April and all through May, there's someone I'm related to or close to that's celebrating their birthday. Sometimes, I think half the people I know have their birthday celebrations during these 2 months!

Feasting season starts with my father's birthday. It happened to coincide with Good Friday this year. So he doesn't have to work for a change! Me neither! He chose to celebrate at Peach Garden Restaurant, a Chinese restaurant at Novena Gardens (next to IRAS building). It's a bit of a family favourite as the food is modern Cantonese with an element of fusion.



It's very popular and often booked out at weekends. But as we decided to eat at 6pm, I figured it would be ok. And it was. The Captain introduced a few special dishes to us, and we ordered most of them. They were excellent!

The Menu:

Deep fried whitebait

Steamed perched Cantonese style

*Deep fried perch with plum sauce

Black pepper beef

*Lobster noodles

The asterisked dishes were the special items of the evening. The steamed perch and lobster noodles were fabulous! The noodles were in individual portions and a unique presentation of great flavour. Each portion came with half a lobster. The 3 portions came up to S$70. Not cheap, but I would prefer this to say a bowl of sharks fin soup any day! Yum!

Dessert consisted of either mango pudding or mango-pomelo-sago, birthday buns and mango cake.



We were pretty stuffed at the end of that, even though each dish was rather small. All in all, a great way to start off pigging season.

:o)