Early Celebration

Mountain man brought me to a romantic dinner at The Courtyard for an early birthday celebration. The view was breathtaking as it overlooks the Forbidden City, service was excellent, but the food was a little below my expectations.

We were alone on the 2nd floor of the restaurant. i think it was planned.


Mountain man ordered Atlantic Cod, and i ordered the Marine Scallops. The taste was somehow a wrong. The cod was too sweet, and my scallops didn't blend with the bean sauce it came with. A little disappointing, but the desert was goooood... Very thick and rich chocolate mousse on a heavy sponge, topped with some caramelly choclatey thingem. (i am NOT a good food reviewer)

After dinner, we adjourned to The Emperor's Hotel- each floor of the hotel is named after an emperor. There's a very nice rooftop bar, also overlooking the forbidden city. Drinks are quite expensive in general (above RMB 67), but the rice wine cocktails were half-off last night and they were not too bad! Can get high on rice wine OK, dun play play.

Our friend Zaheer- cool n laid back kinda guy.

Mountain Man took a nice picture of me. Actually he took some nice pictures of me, but my side profile is usually my favourite.

This isn't too bad also.

I took some pictures of mountain man too. These are my favourites.

Kinda grainy, but there was very little light so bo pian.