2 days ago, we thought we wanted to try out other food that is available at the PGP food place. A colleague saw some people ordered the mini hot pot with big flames the other time, so she is back to order this.
She liked it. I tried a bit, not too bad too. But food's on the pricier side at PGP compared to the rest of NUS. This was $5.30
(We think only the hotpot is nice at the Viet stall, others err...)
It's a very busy today, wanted to post last nite's dinner, but am too tired to download the photos. Here's a quick photo for today. This was me making some juices on a weekend morning.
Florida's Natural orange juice with fresh pomegranate with lots of ice.
I had lots of pomegranate, but it seems to have sunk.
Are you all one of those people who only buys juices not made from concentrate? haha... One of the reasons we buy Florida's Natural or Tropicana. Last year we discovered a HK brand that is also all natural juice and not concentrate, but can't remember the name. It was quite nice too. We realise one of the brands will be on sale, so we buy that's on sale that week. :-p
It was a double makan yesterday, Japanese in the afternoon, and at night, we went to this place called Made in China at Haw Par villa. When was the last time you visited Haw Par Villa? For me, it must be when I was a little kid!
Anyway, when we reach, we were surprised. There's actually a Museum there as well, the Hua Song Museum. (In Praise of Chinese Musuem) While waiting for the food, you can take a walk round the museum and read about lots and lots of stuff, when you finish, the food's arrived!
What did we have?
Pickled lotus root, instead of peanuts on the table...
This soup is delicious. I am not sure how long they prepared the stock, but the Fish Maw Bisque is good. We had 9 people, but shared 5 bowls. $30
This is prawns with pumpkin sauce. Hey, it is delicious! Very!
With fried lotus root rings and strawberry. Very light tasting. $48
Aunt says she has not had this for the longest time, so we had 'serng puah chee' in hokkien or Yam Abacus. $27
This is Xue Yi - Cod in Teriyaki Sauce. It is nicely done and it put over a bed of egg white. $48
My sis and aunt says it looks a bit like Kong Bak. haha....
The Special Tofu with Mushrooms. Many types off mushroom and the tofu is delicious. $27
This is one whole Crispy Chicken. Not the dry type, but it is absolutely juicy and skin crispy. The meat is very tender. $36
This might look plain, but it is one of their famous dishes. Bee Hoon that has been braised in Sharksbone and Crab. You got to try it to know the taste. We have it served in individual bowls. $36
We absolutely enjoyed the meal, the tour and also celebrating bro's return, aunt and uncle's wedding anniversary and also uncle's birthday. So many lump into one. 7 adults and 3 kids. Approx $30 and very good food and very filling. Good place to bring your foreign friends too!
Oh ya, this is an interesting place. As usual when we pay, we always ask, which card has discount. Interestingly, the lady says everyday diff card. Mon-Fri, you get discounts if you use OCBC, weekends it is HSBC, UOB, Citibank.
Today we celebrated uncle's birthday earlier. We actually wanted to go to Aburiya Monday nite after seeing the photos and writeup by Camemberu. But as things turn out, they only have time for today's lunch.
So, we detoured to Sun instead. It has also been a long time since I went to Sun at Chijmes. It has been a long day, will only post a short one today. Just my dish. The rest another day perhaps.
(we also had dinner together and we all just came back.. sleepy and so full....)
Sun @ Chijmes is at the 2nd floor.
I had Hossai bento. Doesn't it look so pretty?
At the centre of it is this...
I think I shall not bore with you with the other individual dishes photo. haha..
Hope you all had a very Blessed Weekend. Tomorrow's another working day!
My brother just arrived in Singapore today. The time he touch down in Changi is the same time I am attending a wedding of our ex-CG leader. Both sis and I can't meet him at the airport, and he has no keys to enter the house. Our dear friend momo, came to the rescue. She picked up bro from Terminal 1 and they went to kia kia in Vivo City.
We met them later at Vivo after the wedding and a wonderful wedding reception. It was dinner time, ask bro what he wants to eat, criteria for someone living in UK for so long is no western. So, we walked to Dining-in, to 'xi chen' a bit. haha...
The last time I stepped in here was like in 2006. It's been a long time. Yes, it's that place with the double pair of chopsticks.
Sis and I, we just watch bro and momo eat. After that huge reception, no space left to fit in food.
Bro had beancurd and scallop soup. $8
Momo had mushroom and bamboo pith soup. $10
Scallop and stringbean dish. $22 How interesting that they make it look like olden time gold nuggets.
A duck, mushroom and ham dish. $16
I taxed this a lot, coz I like it. haha.. Spinach and Egg claypot dish $16
I like it because it has chai poh inside the egg :-p
How interesting that bro said that the rice taste so good here. He says he buys Thai fragrant rice in London, but it just does not taste the same. haha... Maybe he should bring back some rice to UK. LOL..
A few days ago, a colleague was telling us: Hey! Astons has opened in PGP. Let's go, let's go. It's Friday, last week we said we gonna make it Indian Food Fridays, but the two pro-Indian food person's on leave, the two anti-Indian food also on leave. We have only 3 neutral food person.
So today, we went over to PGP to have lunch. We abandon all of them!
There were the sets, where u pick a meat, and two sides. 
Prime Rib Eye, House Salad, Baked Potato $11.70
Prime Sirloin, House Salad, Garden Veggie $9.70
This is the side dish that coincidently all 3 of us had. haha...
Honey Bourbon Ribs, House Salad, Mashed Potato $12.30
I think there's a tad too much sauce over it yah?
Not bad. We liked our food. The prices are cheaper and also the portions. You wont get the super bloated feel.
Click here for our pictures of food we had at Astons Specialties some time ago.
This stall in PGP has just opened about a week or so. I guess they have arrived in the Western part of Singapore.
The address:
Astons Express
27 Prince George's Park
Blk 8, MB 1 Stall 5
Singapore 118425
Last Sunday, we had a sumptuous dinner at our aunt's place. There was some relatives that was visiting, so it was a big dinner.
After dinner we had lots of fruits. We had grapes that was very sweet.
We also had this big Hami Melon. Yup, I was the one that was cutting it.
Not sure how you cut it, but it was so huge, so I cut them this way.
Because aunt knows that one of her niece loves mangoes, so there was lots of mangoes!
Do you like to eat the seed portion? I do!
And this... I forgot what it is.. But it tasted good.
I think it's what Haw Flakes are made of. So, these should be Hawthorn.
We all love fruits, do you?
Today for lunch, one colleague said go Jap, dun want same old Jap, so eventually it was decided, we shall try Ichiban Sushi. So we zoomed off to IMM.
No point showing the individual sushi plates from the conveyer since it is always almost the same. Here are our mains...
One colleague ordered he Salmon Chilli Don. $10.90
Mine's Hayashi Bento Set. I ordered it just because of the word Hayashi. haha.. some of you might know why... $15.90
This is the beef in Hayashi Sauce. I must go find out more about Hayashi Sauce. Hmmm..
Another colleague had Gyu Teridon. $10.90. When this was served, the smell was heavenly... Beef always smells good ya :-)
Another colleague had this sumptuous set! Sit too far away, so hard to take photo. Its the Amazu Shiromi Sakana. $14.90
That's the fish from this set.
The guy's food above all came first, when we were almost finishing, the poor ladies were still waiting for their food!
Finally, one colleague's Ebi Fry Don came out. $11.90
When those who started to eat first had finished their food, only did this colleague's Nabeyaki Udon arrived. $11.90
Overall, ok lah.
Just came back not long ago from supper. A bunch of us (around 20 of us) met up with a friend who came down from KL. It was a nice time to meet and chat.
We were hungry, so we ordered 60 satays, 4 ketupats, 15 chicken wings, hay mee, chai tow kuey, etc...
Only manange to take photos of 2 things, after that hands oily after eating chicken wings, decided not to take photos and dirty the camera. haha...
We had Satay from Pondok Satay at number 9 this time. Not bad actually.
Chicken Wings was also nice, and it's from Super Satay at Stall number 13.
Do you all have a favourite stall here in lao pa sat? I am more of a whoever arrange the tables for 20 of us, we eat at their stall. haha...
Today's lunch was at Dover Food Centre again. Wondering what to eat, 2 of us decided to share share curry. Long time no eat this guy's curry liao...
We decided to share share, we ordered one curry vegetable.
and also one pork curry.
Then when we walk back to our table, another colleague walked towards the stall too! We caught him in time, and we had a triple sharing curry today.
This is the chicken curry.
3 curries with 3 plates of rice. 
It was hot and really spicy too!
Yum yum... Total cost for all, $10.50
Any curry lovers out there?
Today's lunch after church was nearby church. We had chicken rice. We usually have it at 5 Star, but today we thought we will give it a chance.
So we went to Boon Tong Kee instead.
The appetizer which is quite appetizing. We were hungry, anything would be.
Since we had 4 of us, we ordered a Jug of Herbal Tea ($6)
While waiting for our food to arrive, I snap a picture of the chickens hanging.
The first dish that arrive was Tau Geh with Salted Fish. ($7)
Then our rice came, hey, fanciful pyramid shaped rice!
Then it was half a white chicken. ($13)
We also had a Pork ribs, it's quite tasty, but on a sweetish side. ($14.80)
Hope you have had a very blessed weekend!
Had dinner with Momo my co-author of this blog last night. She said we should meet up and try this place. So off we went.
While we were there, there were some media students doing filming and photography, most probably for their projects. Haha.. I took pictures of them taking pictures of people etc... LOL...
The quite friendly staff that was there.
We asked what was nice, and was recommended the Slow Roasted Pulled Pork Sandwich.
We took the combination thingy, so it was either Half a Sandwich with Salad or with Soup.
This is the Pulled Pork Sandwich with Chicken Salad that Momo had.
Momo also had the Watermelon Mint Freeze.
I had the (aiya I forgot) half sandwich with pumpkin soup.
Many people rave about the bread, but for dinner it was a bit not so satisfactory, maybe we shall try it again and maybe the cakes too.
Visit their website too, at www.foodforthought.com.sg
Last Friday I was on leave, so colleagues came here, they say this place is not bad, so today the 3 that came last week became 5 of us. Yes, all Indian food lovers.
This place is a very interesting. You see lots of interesting deco. This is right at the door. There are more, but I did not take other photos.
All of us settled for set meals. There are 3 non veg and 3 veg ones.
I think you all can guess which ones we took.
This is how the set meals all arrived. It comes with rice and 1 naan, and 1 crispy crispy piece of I don't know what its called! haha..
This is the chicken set. The first bowl was the chicken curry, then the peas whatever that is really really yummy!
The next to it was the chickpeas curry. Next to it, the yoghurt thingy. On the most right, the dessert.
This is the mutton set.
This is the fish set that I had.
Last Friday, they ordered tandoori, so this week, we ordered something else. Sorry, can't remember the name of this. (will update it when I find out from colleague who ordered it).
But the chicken was good!
We also ordered an extra Mix Bread Basket, which consist of:
1 Plain Naan, 1 Garlic Naan, 1 cheese Naan 1 Butter Naan & 1 Tandoori Roti
As usual, just take a photo of the details, so you know where to go.
Their website lists out the full menu. We are thinking of going back again next Friday to try out more stuff. We were admiring other things that other tables ordered. haha...
(You might wonder why Friday? We usually go out for lunch in a group, but lots of people are clearing their annual leave slowly, and our "i no touch indian food" colleagues seems to be taking Fridays off till the end of the year. haha.... we happy, they also happy.)
Today colleagues and I wanted to eat swedish meatballs, but Ikea was so packed, so we detoured to ABC market, hoping to eat Fatty Cheong. But... it was not opened!
So, 2 of us ended up eating Malay food, while the rest ate other things.
Not sure which one is good, we saw this stall had a bit of queue. Haha... So we ordered from here.
I had Ayam Penyet. I enjoyed looking at the lady hitting the chicken with this steel hammer, then dipping it inside the oil to deep fry it. Taste ok lah. So so.. chilli is not pedas.
Another colleague ordered the Nasi Ambeng. Ok, how do you pronounce that? "Arm" & "Beng" that sounds with Ah Beng right? Wrong! We were corrected. It is "Arm" & "Berng".
Many people also like to get the pork ribs noodles from the stall. Why? Because the portions are quite generous.
You get around 3-4 or sometimes 5 pieces of big chunks of meat. You can order the $1.50 or $1.80. This version is the $1.80 plus additional veg.
This stall in NUS has quite a following. The name is so so generic.
But when I come here, I usually only eat 2 things. Creature of habit. haha..
I always says 'chan chan'. or translated as mix mix. The guy will then take a bit of everything and give it to you. I love it! Oh, by the way, you don't see the 'chan chan' on the menu, it's a secret password. haha... $2
Been meaning to try this dessert place since i knew about its opening, just never got down to it. And finally when in Holland Village last friday, i bugged my friends to go, so off we went after dinner ;)
The "mains" are the desserts. While the "sides" are the savoury dishes that are suppose to make up for someone who would prefer something savoury.
We ate all "mains". This is called "Blueberry"
Followed by "Chocolate".
And we were greedy, and wanted more. So came "Twix".
Its really a nice place to chill out and talk to friends. Try it! And this place opened till 2am.
2 of us love the Vongole at Cafe 211. So when a friend suggested to have dinner at Holland Village, the first place that came to our mind was Cafe 211. So off we go.
But first we started with the appetiser, Grilled Portabello Salad.
One would not expect to have very nice food or tasty food at a organic cafe. But i was pleasantly surprised when i walked into 1 such cafe and tasted the food :)
Started with the Forest Mushroom Soup. Very mushroomy, no sight of creamy-ness and not even salty. Taste great!
Friend ordered the Crisped baked Vegetable Filo Pastry. It looks very healthy ya? It has carrots, spinach and mushroom wrapped in a filo pastry.
I ordered the Portabello Burger. Its marinated with balsamic vinegar and includes slow roasted red peppers. It's so yummy.
Have a look at the inside.
Finally, friend and i were still greedy. So we ordered a strawberry muffin to share. Here's how it looks inside after opening it up ;)
Its good to eat healthy once in a while :P
This is one popular stall in the Holland Drive Food Centre. There is always a snaking queue. Actually it is really interesting in this Food Centre. There's a long queue at both the Vegetarian stall and also the Roast Meat queue. One meat camp, the other anti-meat. haha..
Anyway, this vegetarian shop is really cheap. Used to be $1.50, but nowdays it is $2. Still quite cheap for its generous portions.
This is my colleague's lunch last Wednesday, 2 days ago.
Another post for the NUS/NUH/Science Park lunch people. Enjoy!
We were wondering what to eat for lunch, and we boarded bus 95 and ended up at the Holland Drive Food Center.
A few of us ate at the different stalls, and one colleague decided to eat at this stall. Blanco Court. It has some Live Eats! write up as well.
I stood there and the lady in the picture says what do you want? I said as long as not the intestines etc. haha... So she mixed up things for me.
Want to eat some too?
Colleague ordered the pig trotter.
This is what I ate. Egg, Tofu, Tao Pok, Meat and Kiam Chai.
Both of us chose rice instead of kway chap.
There was someone who left a comment and said he/she was sick of NUS food, come here :-)
Holland Drive food centre has some nice food.
Was on way to watch movie and wanted to catch dinner first. Friend suggested trying Cathay Restaurant as there was a Amex 1-for-1 promotion.
So here we are! There was a set menu for this promo and we just ate from it. All the dishes have fanciful names...aiyo. It was tough remembering them ;)
First dish soup - Braised Baby Superior Shark's Fin with Shark' bone Cartilage Soup
Here's the shark fin. (apologise to those who dont eat shark fin)
Second dish - Deep-fried Fillet of Sea Perch with Special Sauce
Third dish - Wok-fried Vension Cube with Black Pepper Sauce, served in mini golden cup
Fourth dish - Braised 8 head Abalone with Homemade beancurb
Last dish - Braised Green Noodles with Live Prawn and Egg White Sauce
Sorry, this came out really blur, so dont want to post it.
Total bill = $88++/ person. Will the 1-for-1, it came to about $50/ person
Enjoy....
Last week, we came back to this place to eat. Think posted this before, but we just wanted some roast meat stuff and this place was near.
We had roast chicken wing.
Then these other stuff we ate. We shared a soup.
We thought we will have a half half, but they gave us a full plate each of Cha Sao.
and a full plate of Shao Rou as well!
We had 2 veg too.
Enjoy your lunch today...
It was a rainy afternoon today. Colleagues and I, we manage to get out before the rain started, but we were caught in the rain after. Good thing we happen to be at the Kopitiam at NUH.
Aha... The Chicken Feet colleagues ordered 4 more extra plates of chicken feet. (We already had one, 'tax' it from another colleague who was eating dim sum for lunch.)
The Before....
The After..... (bones from 4 plates of chicken feet)
We think it's the cheapest chicken feet that actually taste good in Singapore.
Normally $2 per steamer. $1.60 if you use the yellow Kopitiam Staff Discount card.
A few of us had lunch at the YIH Canteen, after we finish, another colleague that was suppose to join us still has not arrived. We thought we will wait for him, while the rest of us have some drinks at Munchie Monkey upstairs.
No need to show pictures of drinks right?
This was what Mr T, who was late ate.
Looks quite appetizing hor...
Munchie Monkey is run by the student union. They don't actually open the whole year! During term times, they are closed.
You can read more about this student initiative at: http://www.munchiemonkey.com/
I promised to show you what we ate, why we ate here is because it is open at this hour. Many people says there are more spectacular ones, but anyway, here it is... (there's quite a crowd too)
The Quack quack Ducky...
Steamed Eggy.
Chicken Curry, yes eating curry for supper, i siao or wat!
Brinjal
This is fish cake or fish whatever you call it.
Very soft, I like it soft, but others says hard one nicer..
Chap Chai
This, I din touch at all. Big Intestines.
And of course, the porridge.
Total cost is $30. Eaten by 4 persons.
Tuesday nite, a few of us were so so so hungry on the way home after BS. We were 'lompang-ing' someone's car home, and someone said, "ei, hungry leh".
That's it! Names of many places pop up, some wanted to try this and that.... but ended up at Beo Crescent to have teochew porridge.
Yes, it was still open at nearly 10 pm.
Still got lots and lots of stuff.
Tomorrow then show what we all eat lah.. This is a short one today.
Monday afternoon, a colleague said, let's go out somewhere to eat. He did not drive, so we would a cab. But where should we go??? Someone said Gayatri, long time no go liao. Then another said, Fish Soup at Jalan Besar. So, how did we decide where to go? I came out with this silly idea. We gonna hail a cab right? Indian driver, we go Gayatri, Chinese, we go Jalan Besar, Malay, we go Adam Road!
You so clever, sure guess which one came right?
We got dropped off right in front of the food centre. (What a name, must be so clean!) Berseh means clean in Malay.
Colleague queue up, I take photo. Always long queue, you wont miss it one.
This place only has dining in! No take away!
If you are able to see the sign, two sets. Black White Set meal or White Set Meal.
All 4 of us ordered the White Set meal. Meaning not fried fish, but all like in these pictures. Mr Recommender said he likes white set and we all listen to him lor.
Yes, we all loved it. The white rice looks very shiny when it arrived, looks very oily, but eat liao, no leh...
You should try if you are a fish soup lover.
After church yesterday, thinking where to go, ended up at Vivo City. Met uncle and aunt who was having a coffee break there with You Tiao at Food Republic.
Decided to makan something. End up with Bak Kut Teh after seeing so many people eat. Try try.
The soup is the peppery kind and not very herbal. OK lah... I am a meat eater, see meat, I am happy! haha...
Err, this Mui Chai does not taste like grandma's mui chai. Sorry lah, you might like it, but not me. haha..
Hope you had a fruitful and blessed weekend!
