Happy Birthday Dinner

Today evening, we celebrated my wife's birthday with my family. We had dinner at Peach Garden Restaurant at Thomson Plaza. Fortunately, my sister booked a table for us. The queue was ridiculously long and the place was packed. Wonder what was it that makes this place popular?

We sat down and browsed through the menu. Finally, we decided to have a set menu. (Nothing surprising. We always order set menu whenever we go to restaurants.) We placed our order and waited as more and more people fill up the empty seats.

Our first dish arrived. Without much ado, we started our gluttony. I guessed everyone was hungry. It was already 8.45pm!

There was Shark’s Fin Soup. My dad added mustard in to the soup. Yucks! But he argued that this is the way that Cantonese eats and that I did not know how to enjoy. I verified the statement with my mum. She replied that ever since she went dating with my dad, he had been eating Shark’s Fin Soup with mustard, just that nowadays, restaurants seldom provide mustard that my dad had changed his taste to accommodate the common vinegar and salt. I tried a spoon full from his bowl. Quite a unique taste and quite tangy. I added mustard to mine too, rather than the usual vinegar and salt. Finished everything and I had a headache. Too much mustard.

We finished our meal at 10.15pm. It was a seven course dinner and it was great! I will go back to that place but not in the near future. I felt a bit heavy after the meal.


Anyway, we went back to our place to cut the birthday cake. My wife had always told me that she wanted to have a birthday cake to cut and someone to sing birthday song to her. I guess this really made my wife happy. She was grinning all the way, especially when we were singing the birthday song. I think she felt giggly. She made her wish and blew out the candles and we had a wonderful time munching the Chocolate Etoile Cake from Sweet Secrets.

My wife really enjoyed the dinner and the cake I bought and I am really happy for her!