Christmas Dinner @ Loch Fyne

We had our own mini christmas dinner last friday at this lovely scottish seafood restaurant at Covent Garden. 8 turned up (CR was wasted, well I won't be surprised since she was drinking with her colleagues since lunch and Charles was hit by the flu bug, poor him) so it was a nice little group where everyone could sort of see and hear each other across the table. SR had to make alot of calls to get the bookings and menus sorted for us and thanks to him the evening ran smoothly. He even made a list of who ordered what to eat, which was brilliant, cos the sotong queen in me forgot what I had ordered, as usual. =P

The earlybirds met at the Leicester Square funfare before the dinner to catch some rides on an empty stomach. Jo and I went first for the washing machine ride, under the misconception that it is quite mild, because the platform was turning nice and slow but it turned out to be our worst nightmare because we forgot to factor in the guy they had positioned on the platform who spun us round and round manually. The spinning went so fast that Jo and I who were initially sitting beside each other ended up sitting right opposite each other in the donut-shaped seat with our hair in disarray and our neck aching from the ride. Well, next time I'll try to go later in the night when the 'spunner' was less full of energy. *LOL* We took the Merry-go-round horse/chicken rides next and then everyone went for the Bumper cars which was madly fun and reminded me of the bumber car rides I used to take with my cousins at Genting Highlands. =) oooh... i missed those times...

Well, here's a sample of the christmas dinner I had at Loch Fyne all for 30 pounds (incl. drinks). The restaurant gave us 1 bottle of free champaine and complementary crackers as well. =)

Starters: 6 fresh Loch Oysters. They actually taste better than sea oysters, less of that strong fishy sea smell, and the most important thing was they are fresh!!


Main: 1 whole grilled sea bass.... yummy.... well, I tried not to imagine the korean skin shredding suana treatment that Joan was sharing with us before the main course, using my (erhm..) table as an example....
Dessert: a slice of apple tart. As you can see, it's literally a slice... hahah... but it's nice. And there were toffee and coffee after that which I do not have pictures of.
And there we are, enjoying our dinner, and also the secret santa gifts that we've got for each other. Everyone had to pick a card and gets the present with the same number card placed on top.

Well, it was a great evening all in all, and a wonderful weekend up to saturday. I caught the stomach flu on sunday and threw up everything I ate, including my panadol, until I drank the lingyang cold/flu/fever herbal tea that 21 gave me when I visited her in May. I'm okay now, just a couple of days late for my blog updates. Anyway, I'm sure it wasn't the food on friday cos I was still alive and jumping on saturday but the fatigue over the last 2 weeks and being out in the cold on Saturday certainly took its toll. I look forward to a good rest this christmas holiday. =)