Afternoon date

J and I took the afternoon off today to mark our fourth year together as husband and wife, wandering leisurely around Paragon and Takashimaya between lunch at Chikuyotei (unagi and tempura), tea at Shimbashi Soba (anmitsu daily dessert set), and dinner at Imperial Treasure Nan Bei Restaurant (cantonese roast duck and pan-fried sea bass).

We spent some time browsing the Straits Times 160th Anniversary photo exhibition in Paragon, admiring the images, exploring and recalling memories of past events - both happy and tragic - that had been dutifully recorded by the paper's photographers throughout the years.

J bought me a brownie from The Brownie Factory, one of the newer stalls in Taka's food basement. It's the gooey-chewy kind which I used to love as a kid in the States, and this one didn't taste bad at all, but stuff like that never seems to be as good as one remembers. (I guess it's near-impossible to compete with a treasured memory.)

We made a round through the food festival at the Ngee Ann City event hall after that. There's quite a selection of food in the aisles, ranging from delicate Kyoto sweets to hot spicy Korean kimchi, from mustard-dipped frankfurters to prata-rolled sausages, from refreshingly-cool ice kachang and chendol to sinful-looking, fat-free Italian gelato. Survived without buying anything, although we were sorely tempted on many counts!

Happy anniversary, J. I trust you enjoyed our day as much as I did.