My 28th Birthday

Yep, I'm 28 years old already. Time really flies. I was really excited about my birthday because I've been preparing for it. I even bought a dress that I will wear for the whole day.

My day started at exactly 12MN or make it 11:59PM when Doms greeted me in Facebook.

He was beside me while writing this message and I was listening while he was reading a loud to me. I was so touched when I got this message. I'm so lucky to have a sweet, corny and funny hubby!

Around 5:00AM, I went online to talk to my parents, LA and Ate Bern. They greeted me and made me hear the "Happy Birthday" song.

So anyway, I was on leave on my birthday. Doms and I had dinner at Swensen's NEX and I loved the food that we ate.

The mussels were great! I didn't like the soup bowl that much but all in the food was great.

Aside from the camera that Doms bought me, he also gave me a birthday card and a very cute piggy shower cap.

After the wonderful late lunch, we went home to prepare for dinner. I wanted everybody to taste my pancit canton so I decided to cook pancit and order pizza. My visitors just includes our house mates and some friends.

Everybody was so full after the great dinner. There were a lot of left over pizza and pancit. I truly enjoyed my 28th birthday. Even if my family was far, my husband and friends were there to celebrate it with  me.

The next day at work, I also ordered chicken and I celebrated with some of my colleagues.

I'd like to thank everybody who greeted me on my birthday. It was surely an amazing event. I thanks God ofr giving me another year to celebrate. I got older but I know I got wiser.

sharing to everyone the camera that Doms bought me. Isn't it cool?!?!

Dessert Making Addiction

I suddenly became addicted to make my own dessert. It started when I made a Peach Refrigerator Cake. I loved it and everybody who tasted it also loved it. Then, I tried making my own version of Semi-Sweet Dark Chocolate Truffle. I loved it so much to the point that I wasn't able to take pictures of it because it was eaten immediately. 

Now, I'm searching for another dessert to make. I'm kinda hoping it's a dessert that needs no baking because we still don't have our own oven.

I'm now looking at the No Bake Cheesecake recipe. It seems easy but I wonder if it's OK to use my hand in making the cream fluffy instead of a mixer?

Well, I guess I'll just get to know the answer when I try the recipe that I saw this weekend.

The Handburger Experience

I was craving for "something" when I woke up this morning. I wasn't sure what type of food was it I was craving for. I wanted something new to my taste buds, something unusual. Good thing I checked one of my favorite Singapore based bloggers' site and I saw her post about a burger joint in the city called Handburger.

The Handburger is an elegant burger joint located in 2 distinct malls here in Singapore namely Raffles City and 313@Somerset. We tried the one in Raffles City mainly because that resto just opened.

The Handburger's Unique Wooden Serving Dish aka Place Mat

 The Handburger serves fresh gourmet burgers made from the finest ingredients. From a far, we can already smell the baking buns in the air. Doms and I had a hard time choosing which burger to get because everything in the menu looked terrific.

Doms ordered "The Works" which made of grilled beef patty with onion rings, bacon, fried egg, mushroom, cheese on a toasted onion bun. I think there were more ingredients but I couldn't remember the rest of it. He topped up around S$4 for drinks and a bowl of wonderful tasting fries and the magic dip.

Milk Shake, Iced Lemon Tea and Fries with the awesome Magic Dip

 When his order arrived, it looked heavenly!

The Works Burger from Hand Burger

I wanted to taste it right away! Doms was just trying to figure out how he will "attack" his burger. When he tasted it, I was very sure he liked it because he finished it right away!

The Thinking Doms

As for me, I wanted a little bit of everything so I ordered the The Sliders. It consisted of 4 slider burgers of my choice. It's a recommended order for people who are not familiar of how the different burgers tasted.

The Slider. Consists of The Handburger Original Slider, Pulled Pork Slider, Battered Dory Slider, Chicken Caeser Slider

The first one was missing because I ate it right away, my bad! I loved everything about The Hand Burger. The waiters were nice and the ambiance was great! The waiting time was kinda long but it was understandable because they were baking the breads right on when people order. Also, their 1 for 1 Milk Shake promo was kinda unexplained to customers that well. But I don't like to dwell on that.We loved their burgers and we will definitely come back and try the rest of their burgers in the future.

 Total Cost: S$35