Showing posts with label dining and dance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dining and dance. Show all posts

Thursday 19 July 2012

Trite Trivia: To a Second Home

On Monday, I decided to visit a new cafe in town called Home@68 while dragging my friend along. The cafe also organises dance socials, and the fact that they had one in the middle of the afternoon was the one thing that pulled me in.

So, I formulated my game plan - to have a light lunch before dancing, and then going out after the socials to shop at China Square or something else. However, that plan deviated badly. The menu of the day didn't have the ham and cheese panini, so my friend and I had a set meal. IT WAS GOOD. I tried out their Asiatic Mushroom Soup, and they made it in such a way that there's a burst of flavour as you chew on to the chunk :P I'm making myself hungry as I type away. Then I had the Tom Yum Fish and Chips, which isn't as  spicy as I thought, but it's still good since I can't really take in spicy.

Asiatic Mushroom soup. Notice the amount of cream in it, yum!

Then I went to the dance floor to find that no one is there...except for the owner (who can dance). Hence I was able to try out his leads and dance salsa, west coast swing, and sample out bachata and zouk! The ambience of the dance floor is really Christmas-y - table top disco ball and fairy lights ftw. I guess not many people come by on a Monday afternoon.

And here's where the plan completely deviated - we went to the second floor and chilled out at the lazy boy couches...and let time fly by completely unnoticed while enjoying hot chocolate and Gryphon tea. They also sold bags and little trinkets there, so it can be something interesting to check out. As time flew, my friend's sister decided to join the fun and played card games with the owner before dinner (and ordered a set dinner which I couldn't finish because my eyes are big and my stomach can only take that much :T)

Cream Shrimps in Drunken Sauce (wordplay with drunken prawn, a local Singaporean delicacy.) This was the dinner that I couldn't finish lol

After dinner I expected to see more people filling in on the dance floor, but there wasn't anybody. Again. So I left early around 7:30 pm, and I wasn't really sure if people came late. But at least I used the dance floor to work on my salsa styling so not all is lost (other than lots of cash on their tasty food & drinks. But it's money well spent nevertheless.) Hopefully this blogpost can urge the other local salseros & salseras about this great new place to social dance!

Credits to Dingyan (photographer) and Eugene (owner of Home@68) for letting me use their pictures!