SengkangBabies, Author at Sengkang Babies

Date Nights had long been overdue in our home 🙁
The kids have always fight for Mummy’s attention, and we got four !

Finally, the time is ripe.

Phase 1
[Daddy] : Ah Boy Ah Girl come, Daddy and Mummy need our own time ok, ON?

We persuade, bribe, compliment, and negotiate with the kids. They are bewildered for two seconds, then they go back to their games and TV programmes.

Phase 2
After the kids approve our rendezvous, we engage 奶奶 (Nai Nai) to help us look after the kids for a few hours. Thank you Nai Nai 🙂

Phase 3
The angus beef is succulent, the baby squids crunchy, the kangkong not too spicy.
We were at New Ubin Seafood (at Sin Min).
Ubin is a seafood joint, but the popular dish is actually the US Angus beef ribeye steak.

[Close your eyes, smell the fried rice, filter out the voices in your mind]

Now, can you imagine the freedom without the kids around :p
No fighting, no shouting, no pestering and no messy house, carefree for two hours.
We can focus our attention on each other, besides the damn good succulent steak.

So this is Date Night 🙂
Just like our courtship days, we savour each other’s company.

[ THE PHONE RINGS ]

The kids did not forget to call us every 10 mins.
Kid : “Mummy, are you coming back already?”
To avoid annoying us, they take turns to call.

[Mummy] : Ok Ok, we are coming back soon, don’t call again.
(repeat the above cycle every 10 mins)

At that moment, Daddy and Mummy do not need candlelights to improve the romantic ambiance, 老夫老妻了, we understand each other. After a sweet two hours, the couple walk hand-in-hand back to the MRT station, moonlight shining our path, just like the old romantic days, 真浪漫 ♥

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After we have kids, our priorities have changed, “Parent” has substituted “Couple” in our vocabulary. We even address each other as “Mummy and Daddy”, what happens to “Honey, Darling, Sweetheart, 老公, 老婆“?

Daddy had hinted so many times to the children that parents need “Time off” to chit chat. We adults need to indulge in each other company’s in order to build a stronger family core. Only when a marriage foundation is firm, then our family can be stronger.

Kids will try their best to understand the logic for 2 minutes, before someone shouts “MUMMY, WHERE ARE YOU?” again.

[Daddy] : Whenever the kids ask me about my wishlist, I will tell them “more Date Nights“.

Happy Father’s Day 🙂

When we talk about food in Malaysia, Penang (Asam), Malacca (Peranakan) and Ipoh (Hor Fun) are always popular. We have been to Penang and Malacca recently, but the last time we set foot in Ipoh was 11 years ago.

Last week, we went on a food trail to Ipoh. It is almost 500km away from Singapore. We need to know whether Ipoh’s white coffee is different from our supermarket’s 3-in-1 version :p

Boon Kang loves his toast. Look at the Kaya oozing out of the crispy crust !

We know we are near Ipoh (Perak) when we can see all the picturesque hills surrounding the highways.

Breakfast. Our first taste of aromatic White Coffee, coupled with freshly baked egg tarts and bread toast!

Lunch. Ipoh is famous for salted chicken, we tried claypot rice too 🙂

Tea break. Buns, desserts, or tim sum aplenty. Which one is good?

It really does not matter where we settle our meals, follow the locals. Drinking 豆花 (bean curd) in a car is so authentic !

Shopping. We should choose those brands not found in Singapore supermarkets right? Problem is there are so many brands to choose from ! (Bisuits, crackers, cuttlefish, Tau3 Sah2 Piah4, and Mah3 Ti2 Soh1)

We strongly recommend family with young kids to visit Lost World of Tambun. The petting Zoo, Hot Springs are a nice distraction from food experience.

Dinner time. Yummy Bbq Chicken wing.

Cuttlefish kangkong at Woolley Food Centre. This is the best dish of our trip, voted unanimously by Mummy and Daddy. This 5 stars dish is very affordable, the satay gravy so fragrant and the cuttlefish so chewy. It appears on almost every table.

Daddy might have to boycott Singapore’s Satay bee hoon :p

Dessert. You must try the cendol and ice kachang. We love Ipoh’s version compared to Penang (Sweeter). The below left pic is actually a mixed-fruit and topped with chocolate ice-cream (just like a salad).

We did not force Boon Xin to sip off the last drop of Ice. It is that Good !

If you find the above street food appetising, it is only 30% of what we have savour !
Can you imagine why our waistlines have balloon over the short Ipoh stint?

Poor Boon Yee. He was stuffed with so many goodies on Day 1! No wonder he is hesitant about another mouth of goodness.

We will recommend Regalodge to our friends, we stayed three nights at this cozy hotel. Click for Tripadvisor and Hotel website.

Meanwhile, we will share more about the food locations in the next few posts. Meanwhile, you can drop by our Fanpage Day 1 album, or reference and google :

a) F&B names (to be updated)
– Salted Chicken
– Woolley Food Centre (Ipoh garden 怡保花园)
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b) Blogs
– Eunice (TravelFolio)’s Ipoh list
– Motormouth ( An Ipoh food blogger)
– Ipoh Food GPS

c) Some of our food joints were from XinMSN’s recent “Volkswagen Holiday On Wheels”.
(link no longer valid)

d) How does Penang and Malacca street food fares ?

– Malacca Fenix Inn (Budget) Day 1 and Day 2 albums. Older Malacca post from 2010 Holiday Inn.
– Penang (HRC)

Although we drove 7 hours to reach Ipoh, budget air Firefly takes only 1.5 hours. In case you choose to drive, we have just blogged about our driving experience on North South highway too.