After celebrating our V-day dinner last year at Suntec’s CrossTalk Cafe, which was cosy and quiet (and cheap!), we decided to go to somewhere different this year.
This time, we headed to Gillman Village, for a nice dinner at Brazil Churrasco.
Gillman Village sign… which looked a bit broken from this angle.
Brazil Churrasco!
The dinner was a buffet spread of 14 different cuts of beef, together with beef sausages, piping hot yet awfully tender chicken thighs, fish, pineapples… The passadors just kept coming with the meat! I had a few helpings to some beef rump, beef sausages and chicken, before I gave up and attacked the salad bar, which was filled with delectable lady’s fingers, potato salad, banana fritters (yummy!!~~) and many, many more. It’s safe to say that I can easily be full just getting food from the salad bar.
The Valentine’s dinner package comes with a bottle of red wine for every couple as well, and it’s my first time drinking red wine, really. I had tried red wine previously but argh, I’m really not a wine person. This time, I watched with trepidation as the waiter poured the red wine into my wineglass. However, after the first sip, I realised it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. So… I ended up drinking quite a bit. Haha! Reko, on the other hand, is a champagne person more than a wine person, but even he said that the wine was pretty good. So he ended up drinking quite a bit too.
Nah, we didn’t finish the whole bottle. Only half of it. Well… we don’t really wanna get too drunk, you know? :D
After the dinner, we decided to walk off some of the calories (and guilt, on my part, for eating so many banana fritters), and so we went to walk on the famous Southern Ridges, walking from the Alexandra Arch to the Henderson Waves, before heading back home. Below are some of the pictures which I had taken of the Alexandra Arch.
Alexandra Arch
It’s pink this time!
Upclose, when the lights turned purple.
Blue!
All in all, it’s quite an enjoyable and different (in a sense) Valentine’s Day. We’ve yet to buy the gifts from each other, because we both haven’t really decided what we wanted. XD He has just way too many things to buy, so he’s trying to figure out which one to buy first. As for me, I’ll have to wait till my mom decides to throw away my sis’ bed in my room, before I have space to get another new PC. :D (Yes, he’s buying a whole new unit of PC for me, together with a spanking new LCD monitor.)
Well, it’s our third Valentine’s together (at least IRL, not online), and… we are still trying to find new ways to celebrate it. Let’s hope things won’t get dull anytime soon!
Yuka
Sunday, 15 February 2009, 22:33 at 22:33Happy Valentine’s Day! :D Looks like you had a nice one.
This year wasn’t so eventful to me though- all the places were jam-packed with people and the food was expensive and not very nice either :| So I spent mine shopping and then having home-cooked food XD It’s a nice twist though.
I still can’t figure out what to get him, although he bought me my yukata set :)
Arell
Monday, 16 February 2009, 22:12 at 22:12Home-cooked food is good! :D It’s always better than restaurant food, especially if it’s prepared by the two of you! xD
Ey you should blog, my dear girl >_> It’s been ages since your last entry… :(
trepxe
Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 17:55 at 17:55how much is the food at ‘Brazil Churrasco’? Is the same style as carnivore right?? I tried carnivore though, but damn exp lor…
Arell
Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 21:23 at 21:23CY: Ya same style… Hmm, I can’t remember what’s the usual price, but the V-day package wasn’t too bad. S$120++ for a couple, including a bottle of red wine.
Brazil Churrasco at Gillman village has a much wider variety in its salad bar, and you really can get full with just helpings from there. So if you are not in the mood for meat, you can always head there for just the salad bar buffet. It’s a lot cheaper, and there’s a lot more healther options than just meat, meat, meat. XD Be careful not to take too much of that banana fritters though! They are heavenly… but very sinful. :D