Evolution :: BBB to BetaCub3: Reunion Dinner

::12 February 2010::
Chinese New Year 2010 is nearing and we decided to organize a reunion dinner for BBB. As the actual reunion dinner for Chinese would take place on 13th Feb (one day before the first day of lunar new year). Our reunion dinner would be held one day earlier that is on 12th Feb instead. From there we started to confirm attendance as well to figure out where should we have our dinner at. After some initial meet ups, it was decided to go over to Italiannies for our reunion dinner. Why the non chinese cuisine? No price hike like other chinese restaurants, food quality is compromised and the place would not be as crowded compared to chinese cuisine. Well all in all our purpose is to gather around and do some catching up before the year ends. Nevertheless Italiannies had a 2 course meal promo that seems like a good bargain too. xD

Promotion Bargain

Dining Table

Testing flash :P

Time decided was 8pm where most of us were already after work and should be able to reach Italiannies at The Curve considering the buffer time for the traffic jam around. Jessica and David were among the early birds arriving at The Curve, they even managed to catch a movie and do some shopping as it was still early. I reckon that they must have their day off or something. Started my journey to The Curve on around 7pm, went to Midvalley to pickup Samantha after her work. It has been quite many years since i met her, did some catching up while on the way to The Curve. Finally reached the parking bay and got lucky as the traffic was smooth all the way. Received call from Wah while i was parking, Wah and JiChen just arrived and got themselves seated. Samantha and i bumped into Jessica at the entrance, we went in and met up with Wah and JiChen. David came after we were seated not long.

Jessica

Samantha

David

JiChen and Jess

Jason and Wah

Called Adrian and Sico and they will be running abit late. So we decided to order as everyone is already hungry. The orders were random, we just ordered anything which sounds delicious plus we plan to share all the dishes since Italiannies has been known for its generous portion.

Seasonings

Bread, olive oil and vinegar

On the tables, it is a customary to have bread served with olive oil and vinegar. It seems to be a pre-starter for some hungry souls.Finish ordering our starters, entries and drinks, we started some photo session. Too bad our cameraman didnt bring his DSLR, so we settled with Jessica's digital cam.

Free Flow Ice Lemon Tea

Toasted Bruschetta

Pizza Caprese

Stuffed Mushrooms

Italian Clams Soup

The service was fast, in no time all the portions we ordered started coming in. We started our dinner without hesitation as everyone is already hungry by now.

Smoked Salmon Pizza

Shrimp Linguine

Sausage Carbonara

Seafood Risotto

Parmesan Crusted Fish

Adrian came while we were halfway munching our food. There are still leftovers for him and he ordered some more food as he was hungry. Then came in was Yip, this time no food was left and he had no choice but to order.

Adrian Ganas

While Adrian and Yip were eating, we took our time chatting and talking. It was a great experience as it has been quite some time we didn’t meet Samantha, Jessica and also JiChen.

Yip with menu

So Good, So Much, So Share!

To our surprise, EJ came after his work. We decided to continue our chats in Italiannies since EJ too didn’t had his dinner yet. Overall it was an enjoyable night and there were so much to talk about.

We left Italiannies only when they are starting to call it a day. Although me, Adrian, JiChen and Yip decided to call it a day. Jessica, David, Wah and Ej went over for some drinking session. As some said, alcohols are always good for digestion xD. Too bad I can’t join in as I need to be back to my hometown the following morning.