Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Beauty & The Beast // So much gelato I can't even
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After my very disappointing experience from CATS, I decided not to spend money on watching Beauty & The Beast simply because I can't handle another disappointment. (Though I really really really wanted to watch it)

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But lucky me got to watch it for free, thanks to James and LF!! And my seat was legit. The view from my seat was amazing! (to quote LF, "老闆坐的位置會差到哪裡") *insert love eyes emoticon*
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And the musical was ah-mazing. Excellent cast and stage design (though Belle's iconic yellow dress looked more like a chrysanthemum than a pretty dress..). Most importantly, THERE WAS A LIVE ORCHESTRA! So everything sounded amazing.

CATS was absolutely crap, but Beauty & The Beast regained my confidence in musicals (in Singapore)!

After that we went to the Gelato World Tour!
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Very misleading tickets. Initially we only bought 1 ticket, but after seeing the line "with 2 tasting (coupons) you get a cup", we thought that 1 ticket will only give us 4 cups. So decided to get 2 tickets, so that we can get to try 8 cups (there was 16 stalls for us to try from).

But maybe they were being generous since it was the last day of the tour; 1 coupon alone got us a cup. Meaning, we had 16 coupons for 16 cups LOL

Death by gelato, really. Being a huge ice cream lover, I thought that I'll be able to handle 16 cups. But we all died by the 11th cup. I can't even tell which is what from the photos. Anyway, here's some of the good and bad ones:
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Some tiger beer creation by a local gelato artisan! Yumz!
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Mango and purple yam gelato by a Filipino artisan. The tartness of this gelato was much welcomed since our palettes were exhausted by all the sweet gelato by then. By saying "by then", I mean our 4th cup, LOL.
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Chendol gelato! Good stuff.

Okay here's some of the bad ones:
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BALSAMIC VINEGAR, TOFU AND RED DATES GELATO. A charismatic Italian artisan was serving this, so of course, I fell prey to his charming spells (picture a Casanova handing you a cup of gelato, patiently explaining to you his creation while shooting you with megawatt smiles).

To put it nicely, it's an acquired taste. Which is a taste I can't fathom.

But, I still went through 3/4 of it (I didn't want to break the cute artisan's heart )
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This is an entry by a Vietnamese artisan. I hate it because it's eggnog. Hate that"eggy" taste! But it's definitely just my problem; everyone else seemed to love it!
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Gelato stuffed bellies and faces.

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