Last Friday, I managed to get TOC, Looi and Nick. We went to Mid valley for dinner at Purple Cane - a first for all of them. I am surprise!!! Purple Cane serves food laced or marinated with Chinese tea. TOC was complaining to no one in particular that her Big Zero (Dah Ling in Cantonese) had not brought her to Mid Valley for ages. TOC - you need to complain to him, not to me.
At Purple Cane, I ordered a Tofu dish,
Chicken with mushrooms marinated in a fragrant rice wine, 
a soup - served from a Chinese teapot (quaint!!) 
and a dish of 4 vegetables fried together with a hint of some Chinese tea. 
There was also a dish of sliced fish with gratinated ginger (yummy) 
and even the rice is cooked with tea. 
All agreed the food was good. And we took our time sipping tea after the main meal and dessert - as should be the case to enjoy Chinese tea.
After that I volunteered to take them for fish spa. That's the place where we spend money to feed somebody's fishes with our feet. As it was 8.30 pm, the crowd has virtually disappeared and we had the place almost all to ourselves. 
Looi just came back from Shanghai where the weather was cold and probably dry. His feet has scabs of dried scaly skin and he was wondering if the fishes would eat that off. They did!!
All of them were initially hesitant to put their feet in the pool, resulting in all the fishes coming to my feet. And my first 5 minutes are always the most ticklish. After about 10 minutes, both TOC and Looi could tolerate the fishes, but Nick still could not. That's the first time i have seen someone who was so stressed out by the fishes that his head was breaking out in sweat!!. James Ng - you should have joined us. Besides the fishes, there were pretty girls there that you could have befriended - like Venky Tan here.
Eat your heart out!Updated on Sunday
Technically, the next event was not a Friday event, but since it will only take a paragraph, I am adding it here
Saturdays, we resumed our badminton sessions at Khoo's place. I expect most of the people are going to have sore arms, legs and butts by the next day. It's been ages since we played. The nets at the badminto hall were strung up in a strange way. the space between the courts are normally used to get back and forth for the players. Someone tied the ends of the net to the next court. As a result, you have an almost invisible string strung across the passage way.
Ian was the first to get hit for not noticing the string and ran right into it almost garroting himself.Ken followed close behind and in his enthusiasm to get the game going, literally jumped onto string, bringing down the net on the last court. But he was not as badly hurt as Ian.
After the game, we adjourned to Annie 1 and had a good laugh.
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