This is a restaurant that I love having my xiao long bao and la mian at, besides Din Tai Fung.

I ordered the pan fried version of the xiao long bao. The outside skin is made of flour, like ordinary pao, but the fillings inside also contain the same type and amount of soup and juicy minced pork meat.

I also ordered the Chinese pancake, turned out to taste like crumpled roti prata, something new and strange, but I like it. It was served in a basket.

I ordered an iced horlick to go with my dinner.

I like horlick, especially for breakfast as I'm a breakfast person and it's important to me to have something in my stomach before I start my day, yet sometimes, there are days when you wake up without an appetite or in a hurry for work. Horlick, being a malt drink, saves the day!

The service here is prompt and friendly.

A cool 'Beverly Hills' setting selling frozen yoghurt. They'd usually have 4 flavors available to choose from. I had my medium cup share of mixed berries and milo, yes milo, the sound of it brought my interest to a higher level.

The yoghurt's texture is rich and creamy. Kind of makes you forget that it's yoghurt because it tastes like ice-cream. Didn't add any toppings because it's good on its own.

I would sometimes get economic bee hoon for my morning breakfast when I can't decide what to have. I'm a breakfast person and I don't like missing breakfast.

Economic bee hoon are always cheap but not necessarily good. This one, at Cafe Lobby, turned out to be yummy. Better yet, it wasn't too oily.

I added a piece of luncheon meat to my breakfast, that was oily though. Luncheon meat is definitely a no no next time.

There's always a long wait here at Astons Specialities @ The Cathay. It's better when you dine during off-peak, like 4pm.

I order the Sirloin Steak that was apparently spammed with mushroom sauce which I don't understand why. From the vast variety of sides to choose from, I chose garden veggies (broccoli and carrots) and french fries.

The steak came served at medium well even though I asked for medium, but that's alright. The sides were good, the portions were just nice to fill my tummy.