Lily Tan's Birthday National Day 2007

Sophia Tsen and I celebrated Lily Tan's birthday at Beijing Restaurant at Kg. Nelayan, Tun Fuad Park, Bukit Padang on National Day 2007. We celebrated a day earlier cos Lily was not free on the next day.

I was glad I booked a table for three a few nights earlier cos on the late morning of National Day 2007, the restaurant called me up to confirm my booking. As I was not feeling well that day, I told the person who called that I will confirm by 5p.m. By 5p.m., my headache had disappeared and so we were able to have dinner together.

This restaurant is an al fresco restaurant and the stoves have both the steamboat pot and teppanyaki plate.

When Lily and I reached the restaurant, there were quite a lot of people there already. There were also quite a lot of people celebrating their birthdays as well and I could remember the birthday song was sung at least three times that night.

The steamboat in this restaurant is buffet style. You chose whatever you want to eat and if you waste food, there would be an additional charge. Choice of soup available is either chicken or tom yam and if you have a table of about 10 people you can ask for two stoves with each type of soup.

Besides a vast array of raw food avaiable for you to cook, there are also a few cooked dishes for you to dig in, in case you have an extremely hungry stomach. On the night we were there, we enjoyed the fried 'man tau' the most. I forgot all the other dishes.

For seafood, there are prawns, crabs, sotongs, fish, fishball, etc. For meat, there are lamb, chicken, beef, beefball, etc. There are also a lot of veges such as kangkung, mushrooms, etc. Other things are eggs, noodles, vermicelli, etc. There a lot of condiments/sauces for you to add to the taste like fried onion, soya sauce, chilli sauce, oyster sauce, oil, etc.

Lily and Sophia enjoyed eating the marinated beef while I couldn't stop having the marinated lamb and shitake mushroom.

For dessert, we had ice cream 'potong' and I enjoyed the chocolate favour and had three servings.