Another Sinful Feast

It has been ages since we last had our department gathering, so we decided to take things in our hands. During one of the forecast meetings, we dropped big hints to our bosses that it was timely for another department gathering. Our bosses left the planning and the dates to us. With the impending forecast coming, it was better to organize it soonest possible.

Date: 6 September
Time: Lunch
Venue: Hyatt’s Straits Kitchen
No of persons: 13 (eventually only 12 turned up as YM needed to rush her project paper)

Straits Kitchen offers a range of local fare from Malay to Chinese to Indian, ie more high class hawker food. If one is a fan of local food, one will certainly be wowed by its variety all under one roof.
- In the Malay corner, there is satay, otah, nasi lemak (with fried chicken wings, buah kelak chichen and sambal prawns.
- In the Chinese corner, there is stir-fried lettuce, fried carrot cake, cha kway teow, roast duck and chicken, Hainanese chicken, prawn noodles.
- In the Indian corner, there is naan and curries.
- The local snacks corner offers rojak, sambal stingray, gado gado, muah chee and pancake (mee chiam kueh).
- The dessert section includes an overwhelming variety of kuehs – mainly made from rice floor and with coconut syrup, including the famous teochew yam paste.
- The drinks counter produces a colourful range of bandung, sour plum, barley, pineapple and apple juices.

However, our favourite was still the tropical fruits ice-cream and sorbet. Personally, I find the soursop sorbet the most refreshing especially after the strong-flavoured main course.

We were so full after the lunch that we decided to walk back to office despite the strong afternoon sun. I have to confess that we did have a strong urge to go shopping during the walk back... =p