Dian Xiao Er @ VivoCity

Phew, and finally it's the week marking the end of lectures, tutorials and projects for this semester :), as well as the beginning of those stressful exams ahead of us. :(

Both as celebration and motivation, a few friends from Temasek Hall and I had a relatively luxurious dinner at Dian Xiao Er 店小二, VivoCity.

Seriously, I'd rather be seated inside than outside facing the sea.
Despite the little bit of resemblance of a gazebo, firstly it's so warm outside and secondly, there's no light that favors photo capturing without flash light.

Please bear with the angle and quality as it's snapped with timer.

It's pretty uncommon to see such comprehensive surface-level nutrition facts on a menu.

Apparently I didn't bring a tripod, and the dishes had to be captured using flash light.

鐵板菜香豆腐 Hotplate Beancurd w Minced Meat & Pickled Vegetable ($16.50) ★★★★★


媽蜜雞翅皇 Marmite Superior Chicken Wing ($14.30) ★★★★★



當歸烤鴨 Duck Roasted w Angelica Herb ($23.20) ★★★★☆

My friends kept comparing the dishes with hall's. It's indeed incomparable (just look at the prices) but we should actually be thankful because hall food is considerably nice and in fact, quite delicious sometimes, with fruits and free flow of drinks and soup.

It can be foreseen that the upcoming weeks are going to be the extremely stressful ones, let's chiong instead of holding onto God's leg during the last minutes.

#02-137/8 VivoCity
1 Harbourfront Walk
Singapore 098585

Bicycle Playing Cards

Finally!! And finally I've got myself my first (two) decks of Bicycle Playing Cards.

Blue and Red Standard Decks at $4.50 each (U.P. $5 each)

It started when I went to pay the flight ticket fees to Sweden at Chinatown on a Friday since I have no lectures to attend for. Since I was already out, it makes sense that I drop by VivoCity to scout for some useful stuffs besides enquiring about mobile plan renewal and number portability.

I started surfing the net to find that whether there is anywhere that I can buy a Bicycle deck, and Toy Outpost was the only appropriate result. Lucky me, I really found the decks there and they do sell the Standard Decks (cheapest ones).

By the way, I bought Bicycle not for playing but to practice and perform card magic tricks. I probably would use only the lousy decks I have to play card games with friends.

Reasons? Bicycle Playing Cards are the most quality playing cards one can find on the earth's surface.
All famous magicians like Lu Chen, Cyril Takayama and David Blaine use them as well.

The cards are really smooth and this makes it a lot easier to do spreading, fanning, multiple lifting etc, apart from nice touching feel.

Also, I realized that each deck contains a Red/Blue Double Backed Card. This is prepared to perform Color Changing Deck magic.

Check out the Bicycle Rider Back Poker Playing Cards - 2 Decks now at Amazon for ONLY US$2.95!!

Toy Outpost – Vivocity
1 Harbourfront Walk
Vivocity #02-27
Singapore 098585

Gong Cha 貢茶

We finally reached HarbourFront Stn from Punggol. Since we're already at VivoCity, it's reasonable to get ourselves each a cup of drink at Gong Cha after the walk for whole day.

We found ourselves so stupid that we're searching up and down for the queue number on the receipt and couldn't find it and kept peeping on others' receipt to find out, until we saw the instructions on the collection desk. LOL~~
CONCLUSION: The queue number is the last two digits of the receipt number. For my case, it's 34. (Why do they have to make it so complicated? Unless they have orders from more than 100 different customers at one time.)

The shop is located near to the Sentosa Broadway at Level 1. No more than 100 customers there right?


Milk Tea w Pearl 珍珠奶茶 ($2.50) and Fresh Milk w Herbal Jelly 鮮奶鮮草凍 ($3.40)

Buying Fresh Milk w Herbal Jelly is another thing that made me feel stupid. Because of the crown symbol at the side of it in the menu, I thought it would be special, but it tasted really ordinary and Joling said to me, "Just buy a Dutch Lady fresh milk plus few pieces of 龜苓膏, nah, your $3.40 'Fresh Milk w Herbal Jelly'". Rather, the $2.50 Milk Tea tasted even nicer.

VivoCity #01-111
1 HarbourFront Walk, Singapore 098585