August is indeed one of the many eventful months throughout the year. I am already worn out by now with the boyfriend's birthday, friends' birthdays, clubbing events (coming up) and etc. As the boyfriend's official birthday fall on the 19th of August, we had a continuous birthday celebration for three consecutive days! It was also my first time celebrating his birthday and boy, listening to him saying "Thank you bi, this is definitely the best birthday ever!" definitely made me smile from ear to ear :)
The first part of his birthday celebration was at Ibuki, Flinders Lane for dinner. As it was a working Thursday, I patiently waited for him to come get me for dinner and also managed to schedule dinner at 830pm as I was pretty worried if we might be late. I like having my plans to be perfectly executed (I'm a perfectionist like that, sigh).
I have heard, or rather read aplenty of reviews on Ibuki and since the boyfriend insisted to give it a try, we managed to book a table for two at its new branch in Flinders Lane. Ibuki serves a standard menu of 5 course meal for only $50 and 10 course meal for $100 (both deals are priced for each person) to its customers. We were starving as hell when we reached and without a doubt, we went for the $100, 10 course meal. *gulps.
To be honest, by the 7th or 8th dish, we were already stuffed to brim and our tummies were crying for help already. The quality of food was pretty mediocre and unfortunately, it doesn't make me long for it like how I long for Nobu :( However, the prices in Nobu is definitely incomparable to Ibuki as Nobu's prices are way far-fetched to Ibuki's. Besides, the catch to dining in Ibuki is to dine with a big group of people (10 or more) as the servings will worth more. Enjoy the pictures! So that was my preference, what's yours?
The first part of his birthday celebration was at Ibuki, Flinders Lane for dinner. As it was a working Thursday, I patiently waited for him to come get me for dinner and also managed to schedule dinner at 830pm as I was pretty worried if we might be late. I like having my plans to be perfectly executed (I'm a perfectionist like that, sigh).
I have heard, or rather read aplenty of reviews on Ibuki and since the boyfriend insisted to give it a try, we managed to book a table for two at its new branch in Flinders Lane. Ibuki serves a standard menu of 5 course meal for only $50 and 10 course meal for $100 (both deals are priced for each person) to its customers. We were starving as hell when we reached and without a doubt, we went for the $100, 10 course meal. *gulps.
To be honest, by the 7th or 8th dish, we were already stuffed to brim and our tummies were crying for help already. The quality of food was pretty mediocre and unfortunately, it doesn't make me long for it like how I long for Nobu :( However, the prices in Nobu is definitely incomparable to Ibuki as Nobu's prices are way far-fetched to Ibuki's. Besides, the catch to dining in Ibuki is to dine with a big group of people (10 or more) as the servings will worth more. Enjoy the pictures! So that was my preference, what's yours?
Please excuse the self-absorbed pictures! I was bored to death waiting for the boyfriend to come pick me up and the only thing that caught my attention was my camera left unattended. Hence, the pictures! :)
Quotes the sister "Going for the Japanese look eyh?" P/s: it was my first time curling my hair (by myself!). Hope it looked alright.
The birthday boy! :D
..who was starving.
And yours truly with her (temporary) new look!
Some Japanese sake, which I obviously do not know how to read.
The table setting :)
The first dish: Sashimi platter which was yummy! =)
Second dish: Beef Tataki which was pretty unique (my first attempt to this style of serving).
Third dish: Baked oysters, mussels and scallops of different style. This was just mediocre, nothing to shout about.
Fourth dish: Chawanmushi which was really good! By far the smoothest chawanmushi I've ever eaten! As expected, we licked the tiny cup clean! :)
Fifth dish: Sushi platter which was delicious too!
The setting for remaining dishes.
Sixth dish: Tempura platter which was EXCELLENT! Loved its variety ranging from lobsters to cauliflowers! Lol, yup, ever eaten cauliflower and other sort of vegetables' tempura before? ;)
Seventh dish (which was said to be a combination of the 8th dish as well): Japanese Noodle soup which was extremely normal, quite a disappointment, to be exact.
9th and 10th dishes (all put together): Fruits and Japanese dessert on the top left which were pretty good!
The happy couple :)
The stuffed couple :P- Ibuki
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Seeing that the initial plan whereby to host the cake-cutting session in the restaurants itself would have completely failed as we really couldn't take in any food anymore, we headed to The Centurion (Sup and E's place) which is located in Southbank and shared the mouth-watering ice-cream cake with everyone :)
Ice-cream cake by Wendy's :)Wait for it..
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TADAAAAA! Mouth-watering honeycomb crunch ice-cream cake! :D
The fat couple and for the countless time, I'm NOT pregnant. Kthanksbye.
Birthday boy cutting his birthday cake!
Time to dig in!
Wheee, all getting excited to dig in already! (the girls insisted not to have their pictures taken as they were all in their cute PJs already! Lol!)
Except for Nong, who was properly dressed! :)
And this was his birthday gift from me. Hope you like the birthday gift as this will be my motivation to work harder and earn more money! (I never believe in using my parents money to buy expensive gifts for the boyfriend as it isn't them who are dating the boyfriend!) :PSecond part of the boyfriend's birthday will be coming right up (in a few days!), so stay tuned! :D
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