farewell dinner for soo lin at merchant court

had been wanting to meet up with soo lin before she leaves for her 2-year study course at indiana university, usa on 12 august. finally settled on a date (4 aug) and place, so daniel, ms chui and i had dinner with soo lin at market cafe, merchant court. we did not approach the others as it would have been a problem coming to a consensus on the date, time and place.

we - daniel and i - both have feed-at-raffles cards, so we thought we could save some money by using the cards to obtain the 50% discount. it turned out that the cards could not be used on weekends. at hotel outlets, friday is considered the start of the weekend.

as we had to pay the normal price, we thought of switching to blue potato, located in the same hotel, where they were offering bbq dinner at $41 per person. they could not accommodate our last minute booking.

had buffet dinner. food was quite good, with a wide choice but we did not touch the fresh oysters. maybe we did not think they were that fresh after all. there were teh tarik, yam paste, muah chee and peranakan food among others.