Nice Things Come In Small Packages

Well some nice things do, to make it clear before we get told otherwise.

Like this wee bottle of Tabasco sauce we'd gotten gratis of Riblee's. We have no heart to use it yet. Probably one day it'll disappear into the kitchen for mum to wonder about it.

Or the Seared Salmon Fillet Tabac we had for dinner at Boathouse TTDI today. A small fillet on a large plate. Certainly satiated our salmon pangs for now - ever since mum made some salmon dish we know not how (steamed? baked?) that resulted in a large piece of salmon soaking in oodles of salmon fish oil we have had a mighty craving for something like it again. Unfortunately dad doesn't like the smell of salmon so rather than ask mum to make said dish again we thought of getting salmon satiation elsewhere.

Boathouse TTDI did make a nice salmon dish with the Seared Salmon Fillet Tabac. Since we're no food blogger we didn't take any pics nor shall make much culinary comments - we just enjoyed the dish. Here, use the description in the menu to help spur the imagination:

200g salmon fillet seared on a skillet, flamed with wine; set on a bed of honshinmeiji mushrooms doused with tarragon cream and tabac infusion.

Now the word tabac puts us in mind of tabacco. Can anyone tell us what it actually is? We didn't ask the staff - it wouldn't do for them to tell us we've been eating perfume - substance abuse you know. Then again if we've told that we've been eating tabacco we're not gonna be happy.

But nothing beats what lad and us found while at Gardens MV.

Cute fuzzy Sesame Street characters, dubbed the 'Flower Set'. Although it was only the Cookie Monster wot had a flower on his hand. Still did not stop both lad and us going, "OMG that is so kiut!!!"

Damage control was needed as we attracted the attention of a group of girls nearby who came and saw what we were looking at and themselves went into peals of OMGsoKIUTness themselves.

"Eh whose birthday is next-ar?"
"Puddy's."
"Then can use this for her birthday present! Stick it on top of her present once wrapped!"
"Yeah!"
"..."
"..."

Okay. Probably shouldn't have cared lah. It is cute after all.

And it fits nicely as a wallpaper on our L'Amour, both on the main screen and mini screen - the wee things were positioned near the top of the picture we took so it wasn't covered up by words.

Lad chose to keep Big Bird (probably because he didn't have a flower on him despite it being the Flower Set, and probably also because we keep getting reminded of Robot Chicken's Sesame Street's Bird Flu clip) and so we now own Cookie Monster.

And he's not going to be part of any birthday present!

Anyways - it's Monday...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAD! HAPPY BIRTHDAY IVAN!