Tteokbokki buffet & Roller skating!

This was the very first time that my poly school friends and I hung out together outside of school! This outing took us quite a bit of effort to plan but it was fun nonetheless! We started our day together to have lunch at a Korean restaurant, Dookki. There are 2 outlets in SG, but I went to the one located at Suntec City. This Korean restaurant is really unique for its Korean Tteokbokki (rice cake) hotpot buffet (it is also halal). Unlike other Korean restaurants where they only offer the typical cylindrical rice cakes, this restaurant offers an interesting range of rice cakes imported from Korea, thus they can only be found in this particular restaurant. Besides the usual fresh ingredients, there are actually 8 different types of rice cakes - cheese, sweet potato, flower & heart-shaped rice cakes and more. I must say that the sweet potato one is rather interesting, because there are actual sweet potato paste inside the rice cake itself. We also got to customise our own Tteokbokki sauce based on the spiciness level to cook our ingredients. They also have a mini Eomuk (fish cake) skewers station, so while waiting for our food to be cooked, we could also munch on them. What's more unique is that after finishing the food in the pot, we could fry our own Kimchi rice with the leftover sauce with added seaweed and corn! Hence its name Dookki, where in Korean it means "two meals", having the Tteokbokki hotpot first then the Kimchi fried rice with the remaining Tteokbokki sauce. What's also nice is that the staffs there would introduce the food and guide us through the whole process.

For $15 student meal, we had 60mins to gobble everything down so we did not have any time to waste. In fact, my friends and I probably did not eat up to $15 due to its time limit. So I would recommend paying an additional $2 for an extra 30mins if you are a big eater. Here are my friends and I enjoying the food at Dookki! I wish I took more pictures & videos of the food to show everyone, but I wasn't used to blogging yet, so i'm still learning!

Moving on, we went from Suntec City all the way to Pasir Ris, Downtown East for our activity, which is roller skating. At Hi Roller, it is the largest indoor skating rink in SG (tbh it isn't that big at all lol) and they offer inline skates (4 wheels in a straight line) and quad skates (2 by 2 wheels). We were allowed to exchange the skates once, hence I figured that I should first try the quad skates since I have not tried them before. Despite many people saying that quad skates were supposedly easier to skate in than inline skates, I definitely think that it is so much harder to control, because here's my stupid theory: When you let go of a bicycle, it falls to the side (without its stand). But if you let go off a car, it rolls away (without its brakes on). There. So I changed my quad skates to inline skates because it was much easier to balance and control, whereas I kept rolling away uncontrollably in the quad skates haha.

But still, quad skates are pretty cool, especially being in the dimly-lit rink with crazy loud music, I felt like I was skating in a music video or movie. I especially liked the atmosphere for their choice of music and also because of the company I had hehe. Oh and there was also a mini Floorball court - lucky me, I took roller

skating and floorball lessons hahaha. We bought the 2-hour session student pass for $10 + $5 for the skate rental, which I thought was pretty okay considering how I had fun and that I managed to bond with my friends. In fact, after the 1 hour mark, we were pretty much done with the activity already HAHA. Overall, I thought that that outing was a successful one and cheers to many more outings with my friends hahaha.