Super Sunday, Again!

According to the Lunar calendar tomolo is the 7th day of the 7th month making it the day our ancient lovers, a princess who's skilled in weaving and an orphaned cowherd, meet annually. Yes, it is the Chinese Valentine's Day.

Surprisingly, it's a happening day in China and they are celebrating in big scale.

My colleague together with his visiting girlfriend went to the BRIDGE where families gathered to try match make their sons and daughters by putting up curriculum vitae on the lovers noticeboard.

My colleague and his gf were captured and appeared on the local night time newspaper!



Such a loving couple! :-)

I wanted to go and match make myself, too, for the sake of *cough* a news worthy blog entry. Too bad, it was raining like cats and dogs when I was ready to leave. So... no chance for your friend, me.
My prince charming could be waiting there, you know! Darn!



My other SINGLE colleagues and I heard that there's a Cantonese restaurant somewhere in town. So we decided to try it out.

You may think Cantonese food is nothing special but WAIT TILL you've trapped here in Mountain East like me for 2 months eating the same freaking salty and soaked in thick sauce stir-fried food everyday.

I want something SWEET! I want real SOUP!



Yeah, got soup! It's Wax Gourd (or Winter Melon, White Gourd) and Chicken! Yoohoo...! Well, though my mum's one is better but it's better than nothing loh.



Other than the Hakka Stewed Fatty Pork with salted veggie, the rest are just so-so.
Though fried 菜心 Chinese Flowering Cabbage is nice because it's hard to get in Mountain East.



My colleagues all gulped 2 bowls of rice. And this guy is still eating even though there's nothing left on the table! Really can tell how horrible food is here that we are so HUNGRY for Southern food.

So what do SINGLE people do on Valentine's eve?



We go to romantic cafes and order romantic food. :->
Well, I wanted desserts anyway.



See, they have swinging chairs in this cafe. So siok! Can swing swing while enjoying your romantic drinks and desserts.



Some people play chess while hanging out in the cafe. What a nice past time.



I was really excited they serve waffle, but they go and funnily call it the muffin. That sounds funny and nope... not going to order something RMB22 and don't know whether it'll come looking like a muffin or waffle.


I ordered these instead:



Mochi! Glutinous rice desserts! Quite nice.



Also ordered Lavender Fresh Milk. Yes, that'll be my favourite drink from now on. Smells so good and milk is thick! Make one yourself, ladies, boil NICE and FRESH milk with aromatic herbs (not too long)! Sure makes you feel good and sleep well. Take my word.



This is an awesome night... complete with lover's plum. How I wish my prince charming was here, too!