Putien @ Kitchener Road

I had some vouchers that was given when I ate here the last time. Each time you eat here, it seems they give you some vouchers. The ones I had was worth $160. So we thought we could come here and use it up.

Guess what? We did not read the terms and conditions at the back. We thought that we could just use it like cash like the ones we had at Waraku previously.  It was only when we were paying we found out that we could only use each $20 vouchers with every $100 purchase! Arrghh...

Anyway, we did not want to let that bother us, we could at least use $30 worth of vouchers.  We enjoyed the food, service and the fellowship at the table.

The last time I was here was with mum and 2 aunts. Sis and the rest did not try it. So we ordered food that we had previously.

This is the Iced Bitter Gourd sliced thinly and served with a little bowl of honey. As a family of bitter gourd lovers, we like this. ;-) ($4.80)





We also ordered the braised pig intestines for sis to try too. ($12) It's not that scary actually. Try it!





Another of our favourites. Cold Pork with garlic sauce. ($7) The ones here are really cold, so it's very nice! You know how some food taste really good after being left in the fridge? This is one such dish.





My favourite noodles. Fried Hing Hwa Bee Hoon. I like the super fine bee hoon that has absorbed all the flavours of the seafood.





One of sis favourite is Yam. So this is ordered for her. Stir Fried Yam. ($10) It's crispy outside but it's soft and mushy inside. The sauce is sweet. So it taste really nice.





We were going to order the main dishes and were choosing when the service staff suggested we should order the set meal for 4 persons instead. We  had 5 persons and we were ordering things that are quite similar to the sets. The sets are priced cheaper. We could add a few others if we think the food's not enough.

So the following dishes are part of the $88 set for 4 persons. (the set meal details I just realised is on their website too)

We had the Claypot Sea Cucumber with Chestnuts. Guess what's my favourite inside this pot? The roast pork! Of course we like the sea cucumber too. ;-)





The Pu Tien Sweet and Sour Pork with Lychee. Done perfectly. Crispy and sweet and sour enough. Also you can bite into real meat instead of mostly flour in many places.





We also had the Steamed Seabass. It was quite a big fish. Our cousin is a fish person. A young girl finishing up even the head. She can really eat every part of the fish!





The set also includes a main that we can choose. We had the Pu Tien Lor Mee.
Yes, the Lor Mee that's not dark. It's yummy. I like to eat it with the chilli sauce that's very spicy and sour (that's on each table). It goes really well.





Since it's a set for 4, so we only had 4 bamboo containers with 2 prawns each. We just shared the prawns. What a cute little prawn. ;-P





We ended the meal with a sweet note. A complimentary dessert.
White fungus and white lily seeds. Sweet and cold. Ahh.....




We had our meal with a pot of Tie Guan Yin that's really nice. The lady asked if we would like to try some premium tea leaves. So we did. The tea was good and of course expensive! It was $14.40. We had 3 packs of the tea leaves over lunch.


I still have 6  pieces of the same vouchers that I used to pay for the meal. It expires on 28 Jan this month though. If you want them, you can have it. Remember that you have to spend $100 though to use it. (I found out only when I was paying.)

Just drop an email at keropokman @ gmail.com and if you are the first 6 persons, I will mail them to you.


Pu Tien
127-129 Kitchener Road
Singapore 208514

Tel: 6295 6358

Leftover Food Day

Last Saturday was finish the leftover food day for sis and I.

I stayed home the whole day finishing up some work. After Sis came back from her Bukit Timah hike with her ex-colleagues, she too was busy with her work. Aiyo, not sure about you all, we seem to be buried with work and can't get off our computers or notebooks!

So around 6 pm, sis got up and decided to ransack the fridge for food.  So this was what she came up with.

Leftover Christmas turkey. Aunt packed them with cranberry sauce for us too!
The holes in the meat, can anyone guess why it's there?



The eggs in the fridge is about nearly two weeks old, so time to use up the eggs too! But we got 1 day old bitter gourd. So sis stir fried the bitter gourd first then turn it into an omelette. I like the bitter gourd omelette!



Also found in the freezer were a few Bak Changs. We were thinking hard, who gave these to us. Anyway, sis just steamed it.

Oh, we steamed it using our Panasonic Microwave / Convection Oven with Steam.  When we got it a more than half a year back, we did not know how to use the steam function and food never got cooked. Only after a two months, we saw those demo video that keep running while walking around the shopping centre then we found out how we should use it. I am sure you all have many things at home that you don't know how to use!  (No, this is not an advertorial ok. It's true!)

But now that we know how to use it, we steam a lot of things in it, including these bak changs. We got a surprise when we cut open the chang. Sis said: "Aiyo! The Bak Chang "Orr Chae" one! Come see see see... Blue black bak chang!" She added: "Bring your camera as well, and take a photo of it and post it up!"  (The reason I put up a leftover food post!)

These are Nyonya Bak Changs!  We were trying to guess which bibik made it for us. ;-) We think we know who!




Hope you all have:
- A good start to your work year if you are working.
- A great start to knowing more friends if you have just started school.
- A great family that will help you out if you are a stay home mum or dad.

Spice Peranakan @ Biopolis

I am back. I was too busy over Christmas meetings in church, and also feeling lazy and wanted to take a break from blogging over the holidays. Today's the first day of work and I think I am back blogging again. ;-)

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This was lunch I had with a Gorilla who picked me up for lunch last week.
We went to Biopolis to try Spice Peranakan. I had wanted to try it since they moved to Biopolis but did not have the chance. The last time I had lunch at Spice Peranakan was when they were still at Bukit Timah Shopping Centre. That must be so long ago! (I just checked this online food diary and it says April 2008!)

We texted a friend who works in Biopolis and wanted to have lunch with her. However she was stuck in a meeting. We took our own sweet time to order and ate really slowly. But her meeting only finished when we finished our meal!

While waiting for our meal, I took this first photo with my mobile phone. We sat outdoors. It was a nice cool day that day.




So what did Gorilla and I have? We initially wanted to try the Set Meals, but they were not offering that on the last few days of the year as they were expecting everyone to be on leave and not working in Biopolis. But they were wrong, customers were streaming in because the restaurants beside them were closed!

So we had ala-carte dishes. This is the Ayam Goreng. ($9.80)
Lovely fried chicken with caramelized onions and soy sauce. I love caramelized onions!



We also had the Chap Chye. ($7.80)
Found out that gorilla likes Chap Chye.

It goes very well with the free flow of rice we had. (rice is freeflow at $1.80 per person).
I only had 1 serving, but Gorilla had 3 huge servings. Yes, we always know he likes rice.



We also had the Beef Rendang. ($13.80)
Oh, the rendang was spicy! Real spicy! But we like it. It makes you want to eat more rice!
The pieces I had were quite tender and flavourful.




The food is still as nice as I tried it over a year ago. The last time, we had rice that was not cooked properly. haha.. This time it is nice that our friend had 3 platefuls of it.

The menu states that they do not even use any MSG. So those allergic to MSG do not need to worry. ;-)


Spicy Peranakan
20 Biopolis Way
Centros Building
#01-01
Singapore 138668

Tel: 673 888 7