Hedgehog's (Whole) Month- or Two

Just the other day I wrote about the celebration we had on Hedgehog's birthday. 

What I didn't say then was that the celebration actually continued on for the entire month, with drinks here and there, meals here and there.

It's not our style to have a big extravangza on the actual day and be done with it. 

Rather we like quiet celebrations here and there. 

There are three traditions which we try to do year on year on year. 

One is to have a dish of noodles- doesn't matter what sort of noodles they are and what kind of noodles they are. 

One is to have a cake- usually with a bit of chocolate somewhere. 

And one is to have a bowl of glutinous rice balls in ginger soup. 

We started the third tradition about two years ago so it's considerably new, but hey, why not, when it's warm, it's comforting and ginger soup always makes for a great sweet soup to have whether on a hot day, or cold. 

There have been years when we cooked our own ramen. 

This year, however, we decided to have our dish of noodles at Kai Duck over at Ngee Ann City. 

The place being popular for Peking Duck, along with the noodles we got a dish of Peking Duck (tortillas?) and an okonomiyaki-like radish cake dish too. 

There was a day where we had rosti with sour cream over at Wild Honey. 

But because you can't just order the rosti without ordering a main, we ordered a plate of scrambled eggs with vine tomatoes and brioche bread as well. 

Of course there was the delish murtabak from Al-Azhar which we had a on a weekday. 

I cannot describe just how delish it was to have the warmth of hot, crispy, multi-fold murtabak, mutton bits and onions over my palate in every bite. 

Trust me, it was bliss eating it on a Wednesday.

One of the things we like to do on special occasions like these is to have meals that we (somehow) don't usually get to have. 

So for a Friday dinner we went to Poulet, and ordered chicken and cranberry sauce with a side of fries and a side of macaroni and cheese. 

It was, shall we say, unusual, because the charm of the chicken was really the cranberry sauce. I didn't know they had sweet ones. I thought they only had savory

All these meals were really memorable, but what topped it all off- I must admit- was the brunch we had at Conrad Centennial in Marina Bay. 

I'll write about it another time but let's just say there were a lot of (Freshly shucked) oysters, a lot of meats here and there, ice cream, and pretty little cakes which wrapped up this year's birthday.