We decided this would be probably the last time we would be throwing her a birthday party for a while, since next year onwards she can celebrate in school with her friends. So when we went to order the cake from Jenni Cake House, they recommended us to have our party at Victorian Garden tea room and cafe, which is situated just behind my office. We had gone there a few times for lunch and the food was pretty good. They also offered quite a good package for our small group so we decided to book the place.
Rewind a bit to the day before her actual birthday, my mum decided to have a small party for her at home, just to capitalise on her love of birthday songs and cakes!
She decorated the house with balloons and cooked all her favourite food :)
Nobody was more excited than Helene when she saw her cake!
Our 3 princesses. She put an arm around each of them when we asked her to take a photo with her sisters :)
One with Nanna and Kung Kung - she already started clapping even before we started singing haha.
And one of the 5 of us :)
My mum even bought special candles so that she would have plenty of candles to blow (instead of just 3!). After that, we recycled the candles for her party the next day :)
Blow the candles, make a wish and cut the cake!
One of the whole family:
The next day was her actual birthday. She was so excited and kept asking the whole day "When is my birthday?" So we had to actually take her for a drive so that she would doze off and nap in the car. When it finally came time to get ready for the party, we dressed her in a pretty new dress (gift from the UK). Hubby left first to pick up so extra food which his mum cooked (the restaurant allowed us to bring our own food).
So here's what happened as I stepped out of the door about to leave for the restaurant. The restaurant owner called me and was super apologetic as apparently some other group had insisted that she had promised them the upstairs space (which was meant for us) so she asked if we could have downstairs instead. Of course, we were not too happy as we would have more privacy upstairs but she assured us that she would decorate the place nicely and would give us a 10% discount off the total bill. With only an hour left to the party, we didn't really have much of a choice.
But I must say that they really made it up to us in terms of service and quality of food. We had complimentary ice cream for the kids, complimentary coffee and tea, and the owner even offered to plate nicely the food which we brought - fried noodles and spring rolls made by my MIL. And the star of the day was the roast pork - we were too busy eating that we forgot to take any pictures of the food! Their chocolate brownies were really delicious as well. My SIL asked to take the whole plate home! :)
Birthday girl:
Since we ordered the cake from Jenni and they are affiliated to this restaurant, they delivered the cake here for us. It turned out pretty nicely and we recycled the candles from the day before as well as the Disney Tsum Tsum figurines from Heidi's cake. As expected, this little girl was grinning from ear to ear when she saw the cake :) She likes to play "masak-masak", hence the theme of the cake.
One of her with aunty and uncle who look after her when Mummy and Daddy are at work. They love her to bits and spoil her rotten haha.
This time, there were many more people to sing the birthday song for her. She got shy after a while but she didn't stop smiling haha.
And in fact when the people upstairs had left (it was quite early), the owner asked us to go upstairs to take photographs, which we did!
Thank you everyone for coming!
It was a happy day with excellent service, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this place to anyone.
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