The Reunion Dinner

After my family and I left a relative's home whom we visited for Chinese New Year, we set off to a restaurant for a reunion dinner with my maternal family.

21, Pioneer Road- Pioneer Seafood. It was such an isolated place, I could not understand nor imagine how anyone managed to find that a place for dinner. Resting at the end of the PIE, beyond Tuas, my father and I flipped through the street directory, constantly measuring distances with its built in distance-measuring bookmark.

After driving along a straight road, bounded by many factories which included an oil refinery and other electronic-related facilities, for a kilometre and a half, we manage to seek out the building.

Walking in, the live crustaceans in tanks sort of broke my heart. I wonder if they knew their fate in here, to be caught and served as a delicacy and 'enjoyment'. Fortunately, our tables were on the second floor in a karaoke lounge.

My family did not had much, just a plate of vegetables and fungi-green peas, carrots, button mushrooms and shitakes, and two servings of noodles, after which we played with the microphones. When the others had enough food, they turned on the television, and I realised that all of the songs, chinese or english were oldies. So there, we left at 8.30 to 9.

The journey back was not any easier. Though my dad wanted to avoid a usually busy section of the PIE, he took a wrong exit off the AYE/KJE/BKE (I forgot which) due to unclear road signs, which led to the CTE and in the end, still led to the slow moving traffic on the PIE. It was 10 when we reached home.