[My Weekender] with Sandy Lu

Solid food with Sandy Lu - Aug 01, 08

Sandy is a marketing promotions manager at Solid Vodka.

T.F.I.Fri night. I'm going out with my Solid work colleagues to the San Gu Bullfrog Restaurant, it's a Sichuan food restaurant especially famous for their spicy stir-fried bullfrog hotpot. During busy hours you have to queue up for at least an hour to get a table, so it's better to get there after 8:30pm.

After dinner I'll meet up with my fiancé and go over to ILS for their new drink menu opening. Apparently, the menu's got more absinthe drinks than before so I may not make it anywhere else. I'll sit and wait at the end of the bar until SexyPaul's consumed his body weight in mixed spirits and Jeff's panty dropper shots. Maybe if we get the munchies pop into Tasca, the new third floor restaurant above Judy's in Tongren. Wonder if they'll be busy for the next few days with the closure until 1am. I reckon the hookers will charge double to make up the money lost. Sucky sucky?

Saturday I'll get up around 11am and make my special weekend breakfast: eggy bread, bacon, mushroom and hash browns for me and Paul. Then off to Carrefour to get the supplies for next week. Then go home make a jug of caipiriniha and watch a couple of scary movies. Evening will start with roast dinner at Bulldog with one or two or many ciders. It's gotten really busy in there recently and I was especially surprised at their Music Matters party last Sunday as the place was PACKED and on a SUNDAY TOO!!!! Then go off to Vue Bar at Hyatt on the Bund, sip some really cool cocktails and enjoy the outdoor Jacuzzi, plus the great view. Possibly pop into Velvet on the way home to meet up with some friends and then watch Paul drunkenly abuse the dj for "not playing any 80s."

Ahhh, Thats why I'm easy, easy like a Sunday morning. Get up late, throw some Lily Allen on the ipod speakers and blast it around the house whilst making fresh coffee and cleaning up the take away boxes from our late night snack. Sunday brunch with my girlfriends at Lynn, all you can eat Catonese and Shanghainese dim sum for 78RMB. Afterwards will be serious shopping time on Changle and Xinle Lus. Then grab a cab and refill at Royal China on the 8th floor of Sogo for some dessert. I strongly recommend papaya stewed with snow clams - very good for women's skin and breasts. Afterward go home, clean up the house, order delivery of spicy crayfish, then here comes everyones favorite Sunday event: "DVDs On The Sofa Night" with some cuddles and "love abuse" from my sexy fiancé.

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