When they announced the venue of the work function this year, we were all pleasantly surprised that our usually kiam siap (okay lah, maybe use the word prudent?) company chose to have it at The Old Church restaurant.
Today, I also decided to open up my pack of grey contacts and give it a go. It’s my day off so I’m going to also experiment on putting a bit more colour on my face.
Doesn’t look grey here…
This is the best I can do with what I have. I am also FINALLY wearing the dress LiMay got for me for my birthday last year (tak jadi to wear it on my birthday in Melbourne).
Can’t really see the dress here and grey stockings because it was cold! It’s really difficult to get a full self portrait.
Ye Olde Church.
My Midori with lemonade (Sprite) and guess what? I didn’t get ID-ed!
*haha*
We got the corner room leading out to the garden. Exactly where I was the last time I came here with Hazel.
Jaime, our sober driver for the night.
I’m working tomorrow so only one glass of alcoholic drink for me (not that it matters because I can only tolerate one these days).
Polly want a cracker?
The lovely young couple – Alex+Sam.
My starter – wild mushroom cappuccino with porcini foam, truffle oil and brioche grissini.
The other starter – duck liver pate with apple cranberry chutney and crostini.
I am NOT a fan of liver pate but I could think of a few dear friends who love them.
Cherry and rosemary sorbet to cleanse the palate.
The party hat is too big for me.
My main meal – sage and Arataki honey marinated grilled pork loin steak with red cabbage stuffed Granny Smith apple, bush mustard crushed potato, baby carrot and pomegranate molasses jus.
The other option (in hindsight, I should’ve picked that) was apple and chestnut stuffed chicken, roasted baby onions, fondant potato and sour cherry jus.
Viv, our naturopath at Dunks.
Sam and Jantina (with Sandy at the back)
Sandy, our faithful delivery man!
Lynnette and Kim.
I insisted that they posed – Lynnette initially showed me another type of finger formation…
Doesn’t it look like a turkey?
Not my dessert – hot chocolate fondant, salted caramel, jaffa ice cream.
My dessert – classic pavlova with fresh fruit, fig and honey ice cream.
See the fork?
I think it’s supposed to be “cream” instead of “ice cream” because there definitely wasn’t any ice cream on any of our pavlovas. I passed on the chocolate fondant because the only fondant I know of is the one you use to decorate cakes and I DISLIKE them. Oh well!
Never fail to capture my attention.
Good night, Ye Olde Church!
The downside to the night was the starting time. Granted, it’s fine dining, but the 8pm start was a little too late (I think initially it was planned at 7pm) – I was STARVING waiting for our starters…I think our mains came out near 10pm. Contemplated going to a fastfood drive thru!
In the end, the night was good – catching up/chatting/joking with work colleagues is very different when we’re not interrupted by the call of duty. It is unfortunate that we only sit in our own cliques (according to where we work) but I suppose no one else would want to sit with us either. We were the NOISIEST table and Leslie kept looking over her shoulder to see what’s so funny.
Gotta love Hastings!
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