Happy Halloween!

In London, Halloween weekend meant a huge amount of effort and expense being thrown into a great costume-making plan, ready for Karen’s annual Halloween extravaganza. In fact, as Karen’s housemates gave up on the plan last year we hosted it at The Palace, which meant a ridiculous amount of decorating, planning and preparation were involved too. It was always a huge great big fabulous Halloween adventure, and one that I absolutely loved!

            This year was slight different. There were no costumes, just lightweight clothing to try and prevent death by overheating in the steadily worsening humidity, and there was no great big drinking session, but rather a very sedate and quite grown up dinner party for four.

            It being Halloween we had to do something at least a bit different, so we met up with Mike and Tilly and booked ourselves to dine in the dark at Nox. This is something that I wanted to do for years but never got around to. Now I’ve lived in Singapore for less than a year and this was my second time visiting. Still, it was a first for the others, and so I like to think that made it a suitably scary night out for them all too!

Before entering the pitch black room - note, no white shirts braving gravy and wine spillages!

I had a slight panic when we arrived that the whole thing was going to be Halloween themed, that the food was going to be dressed up to have the texture of gross things like brains and spiders, or that people were going to launch themselves out of the dark at us with gory glow in the dark accessories and fangs.

            Thankfully (because Nick would never have spoken to me again) this was not the case, and they maintained their standards for very good quality food, served well in the dark with very friendly staff.

            It was a delicious and slightly more boozy affair than when I went to Nox with work, but it was great fun and a really lovely way to spend the evening doing something a little bit different. It’s also so hard to find a day when Mike has time to meet for dinner, so it’s nice to mark each of the days that we can book in with something a little bit different.