{"id":422,"date":"2004-12-26T10:33:52","date_gmt":"2004-12-26T10:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=422"},"modified":"2004-12-26T10:33:52","modified_gmt":"2004-12-26T10:33:52","slug":"popiah_party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"Popiah Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have to give a big shoutout to Dawn, a good friend from uni, who invited me to her church on Christmas Eve to join in the dinner party they had that night. Thanks to you and Leonard for the gifts dear!
\nChristmas Day was another food-filled day. Went for dimsum in the afternoon with my extended family. Carlton Hotel’s Wah Lok restaurant serves pretty good dimsum and it was packed. Dimsum is best eaten when there are many people at the table ‘cos that way you’ll get to try many of the dishes. Dimsum’s no fun when there are only two people. You don’t enjoy much of the variety available. I liked their fong zao (chicken feet), charsiew bao (roast pork buns) and steamed lor bak gow (steamed carrot cake) best.
\nAfter a satisfying lunch, my cousin and I took a short walk just up the road to the Singapore Art Musuem to view the Botero<\/b><\/a> exhibition. The museum showcased his paintings and smaller sculptures. The larger than life-sized ones are all around the Esplanade Park and the surrounding area. I’ve seen most of those. Because it was a public holiday yesterday, entry fees to all the museums were also waived. Yipee! Then again, it isn’t that expensive to enter either. Only $3. Which is good really, ‘cos I don’t believe that art should be so inaccessible to the masses.
\nFernando Botero stands by this principle too. Hence his art is not abstract and baffling. People can relate to his paintings of curved, round figures, and the everyday scenes he portrays–a nude woman in the bathroom or undressing in her bedroom, a couple dancing, a man and woman at a dining table, a picnic etc. The colours he uses are often bright and cheerful, often lifting the spirits of the viewer and inviting them to take a closer and longer look.
\nIn the evening I headed off to overacuppa’s place for dinner. Her mum had prepared popiah<\/b><\/a> and we had a lot of fun preparing our own popiah. Your mum’s popiah is the best overacuppa! It was an enjoyable conversation-filled evening with other friends of ours and overacuppa’s family. Lovely.
\nSo that was my Christmas. Was asked by another friend if I wanted to head down to a bar but I was just too tired to do so. Got home at about 11.30pm and promptly hit the sack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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