Farwell treat...

Yesterday my boss, Doctor Linda treated us to lunch at a posh resutuarant at Big Thumb restaurant, 唐朝. It was qte a conincident too that it was to be Marie's (Gary's IC with Francois in France), Gary n me ending work next wk, plus Racheal' bday on that same day, Jane's 1st wk in office and Siron's return to Givaudan aft her long maternity leave. So lunch had so much more meaning than just a farewell.

Anyway the food was totally awesome, after eatin too cheap food in Shanghai tat lacked substances. Had 7 cold dishes (think Shanghai'nese all like it alot) which were mainly Shanghai standard dishes, got like water chestnut tasting chinese yam in choc n strawberry sauce (shiok la!!!), their famous something fish (thumbs up), lousy veg pudding, nutzs, sliced mushroom (tasted like fish cakes), steamed 虾仁（not exactly exciting)- cant remember the rest. Than also got killer egg tarts (flaky n soft, best thing yet), mala char siew bao fried, roasted pork thigh (think i single-handedly finished 4/5 of it), cod fish in mala oil (heavenly...) n foie gras (seriously wats the fuss abt it; think nothing fantastic). O ya the corn juice was totally UPZ also... overall i give it 10.5 out of 10 for the meal. Super full w/o eating rice at all.

Next wk Linda is gg to be in Mumbai for the whole wk so it happens that the 1st week that i came and last wk im abt to leave she is not to be around (1st wk she was not ard due to family matters). Was talking to Siron and i mentioned that Linda seem to be happier since she got back n she replied ya, I remember u getting only 2 niao'ing from her...haha i totally agreed. In the past it was like 1 mistake means kena liao...now she like tell u nicely one...stunned lor...o ya Jane is the latest Master's student intern to join our department aft Tony (great chap; totally helped with the translation of the killer lab manuals when i was 1st here), Chelsea (the MIA all the time but at least she helped me with my essay) and now the super friendly Jane. So im the lao jiao intern liao...lolz


Lunch Treat at 唐朝 (from left front row, Siron, Jane, Marie n Racheal; left back row, Me, Boss Linda, Gary)

Me in the lab, with my assortment of weapons for deadly concoctions of detergents

Siron (Linda's 2nd in command; if only she came back earlier than i would have been protected from excessive niao'in)

Doctor Linda Li (she says she dont like to take pics anymore...i like had to plead with her to take lor)