Peking Duck & Wine with V!

Pending impromptu travel plans, I didn't fix a firm date with V to mark her birthday. When we did fix a date without a confirmed venue yet, the birthday girl promptly went ahead to book her dinner at her restaurant of choice and informed me — Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck. That was at lightning speed. Hahahah! She had a craving! Of course she pre-ordered a whole Peking duck. LET'S EAT.

V brought along a lovely bottle of Bourgogne in a Pommard 2016 from Domaine Jean-Marie Bouzereau. She said that the selection of wine at this restaurant wasn't great, so we might as well pay corkage and have ourselves a satisfying liquid complement to the yummy duck. Agreed. Most Chinese restaurants have a  crap wine list that is wayyyy overpriced. 

We knew we would be able to pack away any leftover food. Two stomachs weren't gonna be able to clear all these foods. To that, we ordered judiciously, but we also bravely added fried prawns, two beautiful bowls of soup, as well requested for the leftover duck meat to be shredded and stir-fried with thin mee pok. I shamelessly packed home the mee pok and four prawns. That carbs would feed me fine the next day, and the prawns would be a great topper to the man's salad.  

A 6pm dinner meant that somehow the night felt longer and we had more time to chill out before bedtime, and doing all those winding down things. We adjourned home for more drinks and dessert. Luckily I had a few bottles of red at home still. Got out a bottle of heavy Italian red to complement the earlier French red — an Il Poggione Brunello di Montalcino 2017.

Well, the birthday girl isn't fond of much sugar or cakes and such. No need to get a birthday cake. Birthday wishes could always come in different forms. So I had prepped a box of bonbons for all of us to share. Got them from Mr Bucket in the afternoon. I was pleased to have an array of flavors in the two boxes. One was a June special of dark chocolate and whisky Glenfiddich 15 y.o, as well as the usual assorted box of six bonbons which included two pieces of my favorite double soy sauce caramel. Heh. I probably like the soy sauce more than the caramel. 

Happy Birthday, dearest V! You're like this beautiful dim sum basket of har gau — elegant, tough and full of substance. Be like har gau forever! 🥂