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Happy Birthday Daddy!

Last Friday was Daddy Ong's birthday.  Since he turned the big 4-0, he has lost interest in celebrating his birthday and keeps telling me "a low key birthday will do" with each passing year.  We did tell Izzy that daddy's birthday is coming soon and she got all excited and kept asking "where are your birthday balloons, daddy?"

I wanted to surprise K and so I ordered an ondeh lapis cake from a Malaysian baker who lives near us, thanks to the recommendation of our friend CY.  (It was really yummy).  CY also suggested to me to order the Burger & Lobster DIY kit, and we could have a lobster roll in the comfort of our home.  Ooh lala, we love Burger & Lobster - so that's what I did!  I chose the delivery dates for both food items, which was the night before K's birthday.  

Friday lunchtime, we had some pizza, garlic dough balls with chicken noodle soup - all pretty simple stuff from the supermarket.  We didn't have the luxury of time for lunch as Izzy had to go to the childminder at 1pm, and K said he wanted to power through his work day and try to log off early.  I even made some pineapple mocktail for K and me, and a mini version for Izzy who got all dizzy-excited by her first mocktail drink in a little wine glass, no less. We sang the birthday song, brought out the surprise cake and of course the kids were the most excited to see the CAKE.  Gabriel kept looking at it, and Izzy kept asking for a slice.

Birthday drinks - cheers


For dinner, assembling the lobster roll was pretty simple, though I have to mention I had to use a lot of bowls - mainly to heat up the butter and the garlic butter dipping sauce, and a big bowl to mix the lobster meat with mayonnaise. K was upstairs giving Izzy a shower and I could have some time to read the instructions and assemble them.  When dinner was served, he was pleasantly surprised when he saw the lobster roll.  He thought I had made some crab rolls (duh.. it's lobster!).  And he couldn't believe it was Burger & Lobster.  He thought I had made it from scratch.  On hindsight I probably should have just went along - more brownie points for efforts eh!  We both enjoyed our much missed B&L food whereas the kids looked at the roll with suspicious eyes, for they have not tasted lobster before.  Izzy was excited but after a two bites, she started picking out the lobster meat leaving her with just the brioche bun!  Gabriel too, wasn't a big fan.  He tried but halfway through he just decided to look at the trains passing by outside and didn't want to eat anymore.  It's ok.  Their loss, our gain!  We decided to finish their leftovers and give them a bigger bottle of milk at bedtime hehe.

K said it was a low key but enjoyable birthday overall.  Even though it was without any birthday balloons.

Birthday boy with his lobster roll





Love this pic but oh so wrong placement of the salad spoon! lol

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