Ashima Mushroom Hotpot

Decided that we needed to have a good dinner tonight and hopped over to the Ashima Mushroom Hotpot Restaurant at 11 Tu Xuong in Dist 3. This mushroom specialty restaurant serves everything mushroom. We ordered a mushroom hotpot soup (what else??) with beef, and 4 dishes of different mushrooms. Turned out to be more than sufficient for the both of us - even had to cancel the order of noodles. There are so many varieties of mushrooms - prices range from 65k to 190k per dish of mushroom. Total damage for the night was 410k (including soft drinks and service charge) - which was a reasonable price to pay in view of the quality of food. Ashima has 5 branches in HCMC which speaks well of its reputation, I guess. The downside was that it was rather noisy in the restaurant - looks like Vietnamese are very affluent nowadays - the restaurant was quite packed and it looked like most were Vietnamese diners.

Opening of the Alpha-SYC International Kindergarten

Our 2nd kindergarten finally opened on my sister's birthday - 8 Jun 2009. The renovation works were delayed and could only be 90% complete on Saturday. We had to work through the weekend to get the place cleaned up and looking presentable for the opening. As usual Murphy never fail us - we could only get the aircon in the main room to start 15 min before opening time, the TAIK kids came early (what are we going to do with them??), the class furniture did not turn up until the afternoon, but we still survived the opening. Have a look at more photos here :

http://alpha-syc.blogspot.com/

Will you ever see a cow grazing outside a kindergarten in Singapore?