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(Photo courtesy from Conan Seow)

What a huge lump of meat spread across the entire bed! If it's pork, there's going to be at least a year's supply! I can brew soup, fry vegetables, stewed meat with potatoes...No, that's not just a lump of meat.

It's GOH YONG WEI, totally knocked out in bed!

What exactly happened to him?
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Rewind back to 18th Feb 2011, 9.30pm

I arrived at Aloha Changi Terrace with Bf, Yingzi and Samantha to attend Yongwei's 19th Birthday Chalet. The two-storey house was really spacious, with a really big front yard for BBQ and games.

Everyone at the chalet was enjoying their can of Chilled Tiger beer, thanks to APB(Asia Pacific Breweries) for the drinks!

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(photo courtesy from Samantha Whang)

I made by way to the BROOM CLOSET where the birthday boy was hiding and told him to get out immediately unless he's a broom himself. Still laughing, he welcomed me as he stepped out of the broom closet. I seized the chance to pass him his birthday gift.

Awww... looked at the Barbie gift wrapper I chose. It was perfect!

I was utterly famished! As if i could teleport myself, I was already at the BBQ pit before you know it, waiting for the food to be cooked.

Thank you Calvin Timothy for sparing me some of your chicken wings. Trying out food cooked by a food blogger is really once in lifetime! You don't get to eat food from food bloggers because usually when we do food reviews, we eat something cooked at a place WITH the food bloggers.

One of Yongwei's classmate even cooked a big tray of maggi noodles for everyone!

Soon, Nave and Bf were too in action, barbecue-ing under the moonlight.

I didn't waste any time. While the men were busy bbq-ing, i was practising my songs with Desmond at a corner of the front yard.

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(photo courtesy from Conan Seow)

Whatever happened next was the highlight of the night:
Yongwei was made to drink Vodka from the bottle- 5sec for multiple times.
He finished half a bottle all by himself, in less than 10 minutes.

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(photo courtesy from Samantha Whang)

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(photo courtesy from Samantha Whang)

The birthday cake was served. Everyone swinged into action. Some prepared the cake on the table with the candles, others got ready at their positions to sing the birthday song. Everyone except one; he was busy rubbing charcoal all over the birthday boy's face termed as 'camou'.

By then, the only thing Yongwei did was to keep laughing, and asking people who they were...

Video exclusive on Mint's Blog:

Video title: Yongwei doesn't remember you.

I guess that he could not even remembered that we took several group photos with him!

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(photo courtesy from Samantha Whang)

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(photo courtesy from Conan Seow)

He was so drunk friends took turns to nurse him in bed.
He really befriended many good friends who'd took really great care of him.

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(photo courtesy from Conan Seow)

For the sake of helping Yongwei to remember his drunken moments, we decided to capture them down!

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(photo courtesy from Calvin Timothy Leong)

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(photo courtesy from Conan Seow)

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(photo courtesy from Calvin Timothy Leong)

Made-up Caption(top photo): Hey guess what, I know Kung Fu- the drunkard fist.

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(photo courtesy from Calvin Timothy Leong)

Made-up caption(above): (mother-like)Ok Yongwei, you're very smart. Be a good boy and drink your water after fighting your Kung fu. You must be thirty.

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(photo courtesy from Calvin Timothy Leong)

Made-up caption(abv): Okay mom, I'll be a good boy. After this I'll show you more Kung-fu I've learnt at Er-mei mountain!

(photo courtesy from Conan Seow)

Finally at dawn, he fell asleep.
Everyone was beat!

========Yongwei, do you remember all these?========

Happy 19th Birthday Yongwei!
Let's do it again on your 20th Birthday, this time round with Flaming Lamboguini, Waterfall, Submarine and more!

Welcome To Shanghai!

Actually, you don't have to travel all the way to Shanghai to satisfy your Shanghainese-food cravings. Head down to Eastern Restaurant at Centrepoint instead.

Looks like Moses Lim got ahead of me. He was already there when I reached.

Even he says it's good. I can't wait to feast! However it's not going to be candlelight dinner with Moses Lim though. It's going to be.... a feast with a group of friendly bloggers & freshly-made friends- (clockwise) Wendy, Valentine, Yongwei, Dennis, Ginny, Joyce, Yingzi(standing), Zelia and me!

I'm so happy because Eastern Restaurant serve hot chinese tea in BIG glasses!

Fret not if you can't read these chinese characters on the menu. All you require is just to recognise the stars under the lines. These stars meant that they are the chef's recommended "MUST TRY" dishes.

Alright I'm kidding,

The English translations of the dishes are on the top left hand corner of the menu.

3,2,1- FEAST!

Question: How do you differentiate between a normal customer and a blogger?

Answer:

The one who starts taking out his/her camera and starts snapping away at the food for the next 10minutes determines the blogger.

Are you ready for the mouth-watering dishes?!

(not by order of preference):

Cold dish: 绍兴醉鸡 (Chicken marinated with shao shing wine)

The meat is tender and soft- QQ texture. Also, it's not chilled meat taken straight out from the fridge. The meat is slightly chiller than room temperature- a wonderful starter dish for meat lovers.

Cold Dish: 皮蛋豆腐（Century Egg with Beancurd)

Garnished unselfishly with roasted nuts; Beancurd lovers, this is a must-try, must-try, must-try! Be prepared to be overwhelmed with the smoothness of the white beancurd and crisp of the roasted nuts with a surprise bursting flavour of the chopped century eggs exploding in your mouth! The is one dish which you can control its saltiness; spread more sauce on the beancurd if you want it to be more salty and vice versa.

A heavenly yet much healthier delicacy indeed!

Yingzi and I loved it so much we ordered a second plate and finished it up in 10minutes.

红油抄手(Wanton with Hot Chilli Sauce)

Spicy index: 3/5

The concept of placing the spring onions aside on the tablespoon is interesting. Add as much to your preference. Don't waste. Love the freshness wrapped up within.

胶原蛋白拉面(Collagen La-Mien)

Premium Collagen + Handmade Noodles = Collagen La-Mien.

You heard it- men and women alike- this is the first and only COLLAGEN La-mien! Eating ramien can helped you maintain and enhance your beautiful skin too! This is a definite refreshing idea. First of all, you can a form of beauty supplement. At the same time, you can satisfy your empty stomach.

What an awesome deal!

*GRIN*

Best of all, it is on PROMOTION: $8.80 (U.P $9.80-$12.80 according to the size)

BONUS: Free gift worth $9.90 with minimum order of $25 and above.

担担面(Dan-dan noodle)

The bloggers who ate this went 'thumbs-up' for every mouthful.

The bowl was empty by the time I had finished my other dishes and heading for this one.

I'll head back to try again with my friends some other time.

炸酱面 (noodle with minced meat & mushroom in spicy sauce)

Zelia insist no matter how full I was, I had to give it a try. In the end I emptied the bowl on her behalf. *OPS*

I was telling Zelia and Yingzi that the taste of this noodle is indescribable. The sweetness of the sauce is really addictive. Mouth after mouth, I kept going until I finished the last of it.

After rounds of busy eating & photo-taking, it was then that I realize the kitchen was right beside me- seperated by thin clear glass panels. The noodles are actually handmade in their open concept kitchen-on the spot! Shifu's hands were so quick, the dough were pulled into noodles in less than 30 seconds.

How I wish I can try make some myself!

东方仪品小笼包 (Eastern Yi Ping Steamed Pork Dumpling)

"It's bursting, it's bursting! Quick, put it in your mouth!"

Made of slightly thicker skin as compared to the other pork dumplings I ate, I seriously don't think that the dumpling will burst that easily. Nonetheless when it really did after I bit into it(in my mouth), the sweetness of the pork has seamed into the soup so thoroughly that the after taste still lingers for awhile at the tip of your throat before it totally vanish down totally.

上海抄年糕 (Fried Shanghai Rice Cake)

Makes me think of the korean style fried rice cake with kimchi, without the Kimchi of course. This dish taste like those vegetables with oyster sauce fried with rice cakes- but I don't know if it's really oyster sauce or not. That's what this dish reminds of.

香江酸辣汤 (Spicy & Sour Soup in "Hong Kong" Style)

Comes in a claypot with fish slices. It is not anything like TOM YAM at all. You'll be able to taste the sour and the spiciness separately. Allow the soup to tease your taste buds slightly longer while biting on the fresh fish slices.

扬州抄饭 (Yang Zhou Fried Rice)

Yongwei ate so much there weren't much left for me! I'm a fried rice lover. The rice was fried to the right texture.

If you tried frying fried rice yourself, you'll find that the cooked rice will turn watery and lumped themselves together. That is because the fire is not big enough. When you use really big fire to tackle the problem, the edges of the rice grains will become really burnt. They say, the simpler the dish, the more difficult it is to make to perfection. Fried rice is one of the simplest dish to make- just throw in some mixed veges, meat, scrambled eggs. Add in the rice and fry. You'll get fried rice. But under every plate of yummy fried rice, there is so much more to learn and experience. There is so much story to tell...

Seriously, you would be able to smell the fragrance immediately as the plate brushes past.

龙井虾仁 (I suppose this is Shrimp in "Long Jing" style)

The direct translation of Long Jing is Dragon Well. Long Jing Tea is a famous variety of green tea from China, reowned for its high quality, with a portion of the production is reserved for the Chinese government customers.

I wished they'd peeled off the head and the shells of the prawns- the reason why I didn't touch this dish. However I did tried to bite off the shell of one of them and the sauce blended very well with the prawns! :)

I can't wait to introduce this section! I think by now the whole world knows that I'm a sweet tooth and desserts happen to be my favorite!

沙流包 (Flowing custard bun)

The fillings- custard and bits of yolk from salted eggs!

The dough: could be smoother and thinner.

I feel myself salivating just thinking of the fillings. Freshly steamed, the mist fogged my camera lens as I tried to take a close up shot of this baby!