Wasabi Tei @ Far East Plaza

Hmm today's post has no food pictures. Why? Because where we went for lunch today, no one dares to take photos!

One colleague is treating us lunch and off we went. He die die want to eat here. Why?
Because we like to be served generous and fresh servings of food by a chef with an attitude!



Really, the couple at the shop got this 'attitude' one, he will serve food by putting plates not gently but very hard on the table. You can't book the place, only a full party is allowed to enter. You just got to go there. Colleagues loves the sashimi here.

We wanted to say Nazi, but not really nazi lah, we call him the chef with an attitude. haha..

Hawker food @ Dover Market and Food Centre

Today's lunch was at Dover Market and Food Centre. This place's not going to be around for long. If you go there nowadays, you can only see a few stores left.

What did we eat?

Two colleague at Vegetarian from 2 different stores, the pictures are not here. They ate too fast. haha..

Another ate the Beef Rice from the Zhi Char store at the market side.



Another 2 ordered Kuey Teow Mee, one person loves 'hum' and the other do not eat 'hum'. haha..



I ate Pork Rib rice also from the Zhi Char store. Both from the Zhi Char taste ok, but a bit oily lah. But all nice food's oily right? Unless it was yesterday's sandwich. haha...



We ended our meal from this dessert stall, where one colleague said the lady makes dessert with the most passion. (The rest of us translate passion = long wait. haha..)

2 ate bo bo chacha, not shown here. 3 of us ate Chendol. It always look whitish right?



So, I dig abit lah, then now you can see the chendol and the ang tow. (red beans). Not bad....



We realise that we should have ordered Ice Kachang instead! Look at all the Ang Tow on it! This colleague's dessert had the stare from the rest of us.



Wonder tomorrow, jiak si mi. haha....

Chicken Sandwich @ Spinelli

Wednesdays are my Cardio Fusion days. We begin with kickboxing or aerobics every alternate week for half an hour, and then continue with another half an hour of upper or lower body strengthening also on alternate weeks.

Colleague said I should go try Spinelli's salads. So after exercise I went, but aiya, too late, no more. So I ended up with a Chicken Sandwich. It's toasted just before serving as well even though I requested for take away.





Why only half? Because I was too hungry and much it down and then realise, oops, forgot to take photo.


It's not too bad. I think I might have it again next week, if the salad's sold out again.

Stylo Mylo McDonalds Cone

I did not take any photos of what I ate today, except for supper. Friends drove to 24 hour McDonalds. 2 ate the big cup one, for me, I took the cone.

I took cone because I don't eat the cone and don't feel like having sauce toppings. Also the Sundae come in plastic which is not environmentally friendly. The cone, I know I don't eat it, but it is bio-degradable right?



Well, today the cone that was serve quite stylo right?
Like Elvis hairstyle like that...





After I lick a few mouth, it became like this. Not bad also right? Like wearing a buret now.
haha....




OK. I think I need sleep. I not very OK up there liao...

Patara Fine Thai Cuisine @ Raffles City (Part 2)

We tried 2 different kinds of rice as well. Crabmeat Rice and also the Black Olive Rice.
We like the Black Olive Rice better. Maybe its because it has those fragrant pieces of meat. :-)



For the veg, we ordered the Aubergine. It's Aubergine stir-fried with shrimp paste, chilli and basil. Sis is tasked to cook eggplant until it taste like this. haha... I like basil fried like this.



Green Curry is ordered when our uncle joins us. He likes green curry, so do all of us!
Chicken green curry with aubergine and sweet basil. Ingredients almost similar to the top one! But it taste so different.



If you are like us, want to try it all, you will order the Mix Grilled Platter.
It has the grilled Australian Sirloin and grilled Pork Neck, with Essan style glutinous rice. I don't know what Essan means, but its the thing wrapped up in the green leaves.



We have the option to pay an extra $7 for the desserts buffet, but we could not eat anymore. Maybe another time. Wonder if they have only dessert buffet without the mains. hehe..

How much? Not posting the receipt as they still print the full credit card number on it. (err time to update system and print only the last 4 digits please...) $215.40 Quite all right for 5 and provided excellent service and food.

Patara Fine Thai Cuisine @ Raffles City

Sunday afternoon, we thought of trying Thai food at Patara. My guest blogger did post it once and said the food was good.


So came here because we had a $40 voucher. Err. come to think of it, that voucher is enough to off set the Service charge and GST only! haha...

We truly enjoyed the food there. Fine table cloth and nice plates. They changed plates after our starters too. Realised they are particular on how the plates are laid in front of us. The patterns are placed correctly.




5 of us were there. Tried the Ice Lemongrass Tea. 3 of us took this, 1 hot lemongrass tea and at the back of the picture, 1 watermelon juice for the kid.



We ordered stuff that has a recommendation mark on the menu.
This is wraps that we ate. It's called Miang Kam. It has betelnut leaves wrapped over minced chicken salad, peanuts, chilli, lime, onion and ginger.



This is Porpia Pak Ar, Thai tacos served with stir-fried minced chicken, prawns, tofu and beansprouts. We liked this very much.



The soup on the menu looks tempting, so we ordered 2 of them.
This is the Fish Maw Soup. Sis and Aunt loves fish maw, so they enjoyed it lots. It comes with quail eggs in it.



We also had a Seafood Tom Yum Soup. Photos came out too too blur, so it's not appearing here. hehe.

What else did we have? See tomorrow's post.

Island Cafe @ Tangs Orchard

We have the Tangs Visa card and it gives rebates when you spend at the store. I had like $42 rebate in it, and it is like expiring anytime these two weeks, so had to use it up. Did not fancy anything in the store, but... hey, we can use it at the Cafe upstairs!

Sis and I walked in, hmmm what to eat? So we picked those with Chef Recommendation on the menu. How typical! haha... We were seated at a place that did not have enough light. Errr.. it's going to be dark grainy photos again. haha..

Anyway, this was what was dinner earlier on.


Asian Pork Salad. $11
It was deep fried roast pork on the side, quite a big portion. With Thai style salad.



Crab Tung Hoon. $13
Crab Meat Fried Tung Hoon, black pepper sauce and a deep fried soft shell crab on top. I like it, but not sure if you would :-)




Tom Yam Goong. $6
Aiya, my camera decide not to focus on this leh...
Seafood Tom Yam Soup, quite tasty actually. Not overly spicy. The two slices of buttered toasted bread with the soup is actually quite nice!




Polemo Salad. $11
With squid, prawns, lettuce, and pomelo in lemon dressing.
We thought it was too a tad too sour. The pomelo was a bit bitter, I think they did not remove the part of the vein thingy from the pomelo. Sis and I was comparing it to the ones we had in Bangkok. So we were biased. :-)




Damage incurred see for yourself.



We only pay $6.26 after rebate for dinner. :-)

Mumtaz Mahal @ Far East Plaza

Colleagues and I, we were suppose to have Jap food in Far East Plaza but it was so full and had a long wait. We decided to go elsewhere. A colleague's nose brought us here. He smell from the kitchen earlier while walking in from the carpark that the naan was heavenly!

So we decided to venture into this shop. It's called Mumtaz Mahal. The place is very dimly lighted and I did not want to use flash much, so the pictures are a bit dark and grainy here.



We ordered the set meals. I had the Quantas Set, while the rest had Tandoori Chicken Set.

We were served this. Think it is called Lacha Pratha. Tandoori bread made of wheat and wholemeal flour.



It comes with this container of 4 things. The one behind is some chopped onions plus something mix. The one of the left is mint. The one on the right is something very very sweet, its some kind of jam we think. The front one was bitterish something.



We ordered Indian Tea Tarik. We thought we would want to try something different.
We were served empty cups on our table. Huh? We thought. How are they going to tarik the tea? (tried to upload a video of the guy coming with a pot of tea and tarik the tea in front of us using the new blogger tool, but it failed. aiya)



My Quantas Set arrived. We found out that it's actually the same thing as the what my colleagues ordered! haha.. Except mine came in individual portions. Here's the tandoori. We all think it is absolutely delicious. It is very moist and not dry at all and full of taste.



This is the Nasi Briyani. Very good too.



This is the mutton curry. We finished every drop of the curry.



This is some yogurt thingy. For this, I only had a few scoop. Such a big bowl. Help!



This is some dahl thingy that was very tasty too. The other set did not have this, only the Quantas set.



This is curry veg, it's very frozen mix veg tasting. haha... Coz it was carrots, peas, etc...



This was how it appeared in front of me, with my chicken being nibbled already.



If you ordered the Tandoori set, it's almost similar, but served in a metal container, what we call hostel style. hehe..



Yup, it came with this naan that was delicious. Those bits are garlic and for garlic lovers, it is yummmmmm... How did the various curry and sauces finished? It was wiped off with this naan.



This was served after they empty our tables. Another set of metal containers with 3 things. In front is sugar coated cumin seeds, the left it is cardamon seeds and the third one rock sugar.

We were taught how to eat the cardamom, we are suppose to peel off the husk and eat the black seeds inside. Both the cardamom and cumin taste so good! Our mouth did not smell of curry after!



After that mango ice cream came. I ate the cumin with the ice cream in my mouth. Good combi!



The damage? See for yourself hehe...



Damaged was picked up by this senior colleague. He said it is his treat. Thanks Mr T.
One thing we laughed at was the bottom of the receipt. It told us to exercise regularly!

Fong Seng Nasi Lemak @ Clementi Road

The other nite, was hungry and tapow-ed food back. Thought of Fong Seng and ok lah. Get some food from there.

They have for sometime used boxes instead of plastic containers. It is suppose to be more environmentally friendly. These boxes supposedly keep the food warm too, and is microwaveable.



Depending on what you order, you pay for it. I thought the big black pepper looking drumstick was interesting. So big some more. I had 2 other veg.



Err.. a bit the expensive lor. $5 for it.
Come to think of it, somethings for $5 we think its expensive, others we think is cheap. haha...



There's this blogger I know, Decay On Net loves to 'chio' pple go Fong Seng. Wonder if he still does it....

Marche @ Vivocity

Sis and I, we were at Vivocity and decided we should grab some quick dinner. Heard that Marche moved here, but I did not know where it is located, sis said its upstairs. She brought our cousin there to have afternoon tea before.

Located at the roof, or the open area, you can find Marche.



For those who have not been there, they have these signs on the table to indicated if the tables taken or available. This was taken from our table.




Instead of a flimsy card they used previously, they have caught up with technology. Proximity cards are now used. You take this card around the restaurant and order your food, they will electronically note it in the system.



We wanted something quick and easy so we can go on with shopping.
We had a medium vegetable. You get a medium size plate and fill up with whatever you want from the veg counter. You can see the mushroom that we love. Carrots, cauliflowers, etc are all hidden below :-) $7.20



This is the other thing we ordered. Mediterranean Seafood Paella. Very tasty. $15.80



Might come again to try other stuff.

Kiwi & Tomato Karaage

Tonight I was rushing and did not have proper dinner. I only had 3 sotong balls bought from Old Chang Kee and 1 cup of soy milk from Mr Bean.

Came home hungry at 10pm. Dug what's in my fridge and I made this.

Chicken Karaage, chuck them in the oven toaster, depending on how many pieces you want. While it's cooking for around 5-7 minutes, cut into tiny cubes 2 tomatoes and 1 kiwi fruit. After that chop up the karaage into bite size pieces too. Then mix them up.



It taste good to me. haha... Very cold and chunky bites of tomatoes and sweet kiwi. Together with crispy and hot chicken karaage. Try it, only takes less than 10 mins to prepare.

Yong's Teochew Kueh @ East Coast Road

Colleague bought this as well. Teochew Kueh. Can you guess what it is before scrolling down?

The address etc is all on the box for your reference.



Slowly opening the box. Can guess?



Ku Chai Kueh!



Not everyone likes Ku Chai right? But they are delicious.



This is taken from colleague's hand. He took a bite of it.



I did not eat it because after so much food, I can't stuff anything in. But colleagues could! Super stretch stomachs they have.

You like Ku Chai kueh?

Tau Kua Pau @ East Coast Road

There is sort of a war between the Tau Kua Pau at East Coast Road. Guess what, they are so so near each other too. After lunch at Aston's. Our colleagues who are East Coast kakis went around to buy more food to tapow back to office.

He said that he has been eating from the real original one since he was young. So he bought it from the original shop like he always did. When he was younger the shop was not in the current shop, it was a few doors away, now it is at Hock Ann Eating House, 131 East Coast Rd.

Tapowed the Tau Kua Paus back in boxes of threes.


This is with the duck sauce poured over. I think it will be even more tempting if the chilli sauce is poured over. Too late lah, ate it up without taking anymore photos! hehe..



Something though was missing, they don't come with duck meat anymore!


If you are interested, read about the comparison between the two from Singapore's makan guru at Makansutra.


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Astons Specialities @ East Coast Road - The Food Pix

If you look at the receipt photo yesterday, here's the photos in the same order.

The Tenderloin that one colleague ate. Very good. Bloody good if you take it literally.



Another colleague ordered the Rib Eye. Just see for yourself. Tempted? (unless you are a vegetarian)



Two other colleagues ordered Rib Eye ExtraCut. So there's 2 different photos here.






Yes, these colleagues are vampires. They love blood. This shot will please you bloodsuckers. haha...



This is the Cream of Mushroom. It's good, you got to try it. Thick and creamy and very mushroomy was what they told me.



The non red meat eaters ordered this. Grill Fish with Herb.



Another ordered the Black Pepper Chicken. The guy who ordered this is afraid of blood.



This is what yours truly ordered. I love ribs and yes it is good......
Honey Bourbon Ribs.



Another colleague who wanted the best of both worlds. Chicken and Sausage Combo.



It was a very satisfying lunch!



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Astons Specialities @ East Coast Road

Today while we were all so busy in the morning, one colleague who is suffering from overloadedness proclaim, let's go have some real meat. Let's go to Astons.

This is it. Housed in a very nice shop house eh?



What you will see right in front of the shop. Yes, we got to the right place.



Look on what's on the blackboard specials!
But we did not order those there, we missed the blackboard on the way in!
Only when we were going out then we realised, wagyu leh..



Curious to find out what we ate? Here you can peep the photos that will be published for tomorrow's post.



The address:
Aston Specialties
119/121 East Coast Road
Singapore 428806

Tel: 62477857 63462131
Operation Hours: 11.30 AM - 11:00 PM
Close on Monday



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Sardine Sandwich with Oranges.

This was prepared last Saturday morning. A simple breakfast to go with cable television. haha...

1 can of Ayam Brand Sardine with Lime (new flavour, it comes with lime now)
1 bunch of parsley (cilantro)
2 naval oranges
a few slices of white bread.

- Pour the sardines into a bowl and crush it.
- Cut up the bunch of parsley finely and then pour them in the bowl and mix well.

Spread the sardines on the white bread.



Cut up the oranges into tiny chunks. Serve them on top if you like.
I think the cold juicy orange chunks makes it really tasty!



Usually I will add in some onions and lime, but since it comes with lime now, and I am too lazy to cut the onions, I just totally omit it.

Just a simple breakfast from ingredients found in the fridge and pantry.

Holland Village XO Fish Head Bee Hun

Tonight, our CG met to have dinner instead. It is outing day, we were suppose to go have dinner at Settlers Cafe, but someone said we should go to the XO place instead for a yummier dinner.



So, here's what we had. Everyone who comes here will definitely order the famous Sanlou Hor Fun. I can never get tired of it. It is a huge plate of it too.



Another popular dish ordered is the Prawn Paste Chicken. (Har Chiong Kai)
Another of my fav.



For veg we had baby kailan.



We also ordered Pork Rib King. (Pai Ku Wang)
Another of my fav food too.



It was a hearty meal for the 4 of us. 3 others could not make it, but its ok.
$50 for the 4 big dishes.

After that we went over to Settlers Cafe and spent the time playing card and board games.




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Fruits and more Fruits

Do you store fruits at home? I do... I just stocked up these fruits on Monday nite.

Last week's fruits were Summerwhite Nectarines and Naval Oranges.

This week's fruits, I have gone mad... I bought more Nectarines. I bought Kiwis too, as I think the stock is fresh and they are those huge ones too. Also saw some reddish on one side and green on another Forelle Pears. Also got some Tulane Giant Plum.





Hey, did you all know that when you don't ask for plastic bags and carry the stuff in your bag, Fairprice rewards you with a BYOB 10 cents off your price.

I had a $10 voucher that I got from the Health Points as work, so with a 10 cent rebate, all the fruits I bought cost me only 5 cents! haha...

Do you like to eat fruits? When I got home, I ate 3 plums, 1 pear and 1 nectarine. oh so yummy....

Western Food (Half Spring Chicken) @ New Arts Canteen, NUS

The NUS Arts Canteen has reopened, and everyone who is kepo kepo all went to see see.
We heard about it and travelled there and joined the crowds too. (we must be mad).

It was chaotic. Anyway, another colleague and I queued for the Western stall. I ordered this. Half Spring chicken. Long long wait. $2.90




The canteen has two sections, upper and lower Level 1, and Level 2 - which has aircon restaurants like Burger King, Lerk Thai Bistro and Olio Dome.

Yes, there's discount for BK here.




Some sights of the Upper Level 1.






Maybe when the crowd dies down, we might visit this canteen again.

Bak Kut Teh @ Aunt's place

Just a one shot photo. While waiting for lunch this afternoon, we had some Bak Kut Teh made by my aunt. Yum....



I love Bak Kut Tehs. Do you?

Economic Kuey Teow that's not really cheap. haha...

This was lunch for Saturday afternoon, tapow-ed from the Economic Noodles stall at a Kopitiam in Clementi West St 2, just beside the post office.

I was lazy to go out the whole day, so sis tapow this for me.



Was delicious, and the drumstick is so huge. Together with brinjals and garlic shoots.
$3.50, why do they call it economic? haha... Well, comfort food.

House of Peranakan Cuisine @ Hotel Meritus Negara

It was suppose to be a curry fish head night, but guess what? They were sold out on that item! We were all surprised as we never encountered a sold-out on fish head curry before ;) Parents and i ordered other food instead.

First, you will be served the sambal balachan, which is not that spicy actually.



First dish was Nyonya Chap Chye



Then came Sambal Sotong



Pabi Pong Teh, which i remembered according to grandma, this was supposed to be cooked in pork belly. But many restaurants have modified and used lean meat nowadays for healthier reasons.



Lastly, to replace curry fish head, we had another fish. Cant remember the exact name, but it was supposed to be the next house specialty.



It was a rather delicious meal, just that i missed my curry fish head fix. Maybe next time....

Crystal Jade Kitchen @ Holland Village

Few nites ago, sis asked if I wanted to join her colleagues and her for dinner. I guess you know the answer, or else these pictures would not be here! haha..

They were going to have dinner at Crystal Jade Kitchen @ Holland V.
Sis has a colleague who does not eat meat, so these dishes are mostly meatless.

I arrived later and food was already ordered, so I don't know the name of these dishes :-)

This is tofu skin with mushroom and veg. I think this taste very good!



Mapo Tofu...



This one was on my plate, with the sauce on....



Kung Bao Chicken. (This has meat, obviously! doosh KM! Km shouts: ouch!)



This is the Veg with 3 diff eggs dish. We always enjoy eating this...



Do you like eating vegetables? Just wondering...

Fatty Cheong @ ABC Market

It's been some time since colleagues and I went to ABC, so off we went to eat one colleague's favourite "shao la" stall.

Since I have taken photos before, so only took 2 this time.

The yummylicious Roast Duck.



And the equally delicious Roast Pork mix.



We had the "shui jiao" soup etc, but I did not take any photos of it. I wonder why?....

But another colleague bought us some Popiah to eat while we waited for other colleagues to arrive.



I love Roast Meats, do you?

Sushi Tei @ Raffles City

Last Saturday nite, we met a friend who have come to work in Singapore for a few months and met him for dinner.

We ate at Sushi Tei, why did we go there? Coz we wanted to use some Sushi Tei vouchers! Did I hear lame? haha..

Anyway, we had Asagao Sashimi. Yummy! $18



We like seaweed, so here's it is. $4



Sis wants to eat this, so we had Hotate Miso Mayo. Very very good if you like things a bit salty. I love it. $8



I saw this in the menu, and wanted to try it.
Beef in Miso, but you gotta cook it yourself. Gyu Miso Yaki $13






3 of us ate faster than we can cook the beef! haha..



Something Korean in a Jap place, (I think I have shown this before).
Tofu Kimchi Nabe $16.
We ordered this because the last time we took it, we loved it.



I like Kimchi and this soup, it's so addictive! Yes, I drank lots of soup!



We must be so hungry that we forgot to take the picture of Tempura Mori $10 that we ate!

It was worth it because we only paid $53.13 nett.
(after incl towels, the misc taxes etc....)

Ice Cream Weekend....

I think I have too much ice cream for the weekend. Just around a few hours ago, I had the muddy mud pie from Coffee Club.



Yesterday, after dinner, I had some Ben & Jerrys.



Actually yesterday morning, I also had Dark Choc Gelato from Magnolia that's in my freezer.
Do you like ice cream like me? hehe...

BaliThai @ Suntec City

Last nite, if you read by other blog you would have read that I met up with Kaa & Hubby from Vantaa DP. We ate at BaliThai.

These are the things we ordered.
Pandan Chicken



The starter platter.



That consists of Satay.



Fish cakes, spring rolls



and rice crackers.



This is the pineapple rice.



Phad Thai



Green Chicken Curry. I like green curry. hehe..



Stir fried Kailan.



This is so so deceiving.... When we sat down, we were asked if we wanted drinks. We said water, the lady said still or sparking. We thought still would be good. We thought that it is one of those places that do not serve plain old water.

At the end of the meal, we realise that all the tables beside us had the normal water and someone refilling water. Hey! We got cheated! We asked for water and they tricked us by asking for still or sparking. We paid $12 before taxes for water! haha....

The food is not bad. We just had a 'bad' impression left by the water. LOL...

Megabites @ NUS - a new eatery near the Science Canteen

Finally... Many staff and students have endued the inconvenience caused by the renovations beside the Science canteen. A new eatery called Megabites opened few days ago.

Colleagues and I (all very very kepo and hungry) decided we shall visit. We went early so the queue is not that long. It was already packed by the way.

Some of the things we ordered.

This is the combo meal that I had. Fish and Chicken Chop. Comes with mushroom soup and a drink from the self service machine. I had peach tea. This combination cost less than $5.







Then there's chicken chop only if you are not fickle minded like I am. This comes with mash instead of fries.




Another colleague decided to have cake. So this is the Black Forest Cake he ordered and all of us 'taxed'. LOL



There's a wide variety at this air-conditioned eatery. Pizzas and Sandwiches are also available.

Lerk Thai @ Square 2

It has been a long time since we went anywhere near Novena. We realised that there's a new 'Square 2' just beside the previously known Novena Sq that is now called Velocity. (confused? i was. haha..)

We ate at Lerk Thai.




The Rolls that was ordered. I particularly like the sauce that goes with it. Very peanuty. yum...



This is the fried Tang Hoon.



Tom Yam Soup. This is their offer item, we were surprised. This pot of soup only $2.



Pandan Wrapped Chicken.



Mixed Platter of Thai Dessert.



Red Ruby Dessert.



That was our quick lunch.

Quick Breakfast @ Bukit Timah Food Centre

After church service, sis and I were really really hungry, so we went to have breakfast at the food market next to our church.

We were going to have lunch soon, but we have not had breakfast, so we ordered some light food lah. But... this was only part of the food, we ordered many other things. haha...


Chwee Kuey. and oh..... how I love chai por.



We saw someone ordering so many of this Paper Wrap Chicken at the next table, so we thought we would try it too.



So so lah, the chicken sticks too much to the paper.