Egg Tarts from Fancy Delight

You think only old foggies eat egg tarts? Not so. We the younger generation also like the good old fashion egg tarts. Introducing a twist to it doesn't sound that bad, in fact it adds some variety to our stale conveyor belt lifestyle.



A colleague bought us a box of egg tarts for tea. They are from Fancy Delight. A sharp colleague said hey that was shown on Makan Sutra Raw. Now, that caught out attention a bit.



Usually egg tarts do not look like these ya? These looks special! Looks like 'kueh pai tee' cups, but a bigger version of it.



How shall we put it? The pastry is not the usual flaky pastry, but it taste like the crust of delicious cheesecakes. Does that describe it well?

This is the portuguese egg tarts.



Cut them into half and let you see the inside.



This is the orange chocolate tarts.



We cut them into halves, so we can share (also the calories).
The tarts were all nice and warm, and the melting chocolate makes us melt too!



This is the pepper chicken. A colleague describe it as savoury custard, something like quiche.



Well, that was our short entertainment break today. Thanks to Mr Lai for buying us our snack.
You can buy them at Fancy Delight at the address below.



Have a good weekend!

Boon Lay Raja Seafood @ Jurong East

Hmmm you must be thinking I am so contradicting. Yesterday, I just grumbled about 6.6% inflation and today, we are at Boon Lay Raja having a nice meal. Haha... Well, a colleague "die die" want to eat here, and he proclaimed he is treating, the other 6 of us could not disappoint him right?

There was a deja-vu feeling today. We ordered a set meal for 7, when the food was served, it was like we had it before! If you click on the label and view the pictures, it might be the same!

The homemade tofu and mushroom dish that was oooo, so yummy.



The prawn rolls that is crispy outside and moist with succulent prawns inside.



Yes, the set meal came with siu mai. :-)

We also had an order of Char Siu Pau, because one colleague who calls herself a 'preggie' had the urge to eat it. :-) (maybe our future lunch, we might be eating the food that she has the urge to eat! that solves our headache of thinking what to eat every day!)



The deep fried fish. So nicely deep fried, crispy outside, yet the inside's not very dry.

When we ate this fish, we all remembered our CNY lunch at our workplace that was horrible. Everyone just grumbled on.... We all thought that we should come here for next year's CNY lunch instead!



Celery with scallops.

Talking about the CNY lunch, we thought, we sort of heard that the per-head was $40 and we had such horrible food, we think this lunch is much better and worth it.



Marmite Pork. We were suppose to have Roast Chicken in the menu, but we were told, it wont be ready till 12.30 and we did not want to wait like 45 mins for it. So they said we could choose any pork dishes, so we chose the Marmite Pork.



Prawns.

More about the CNY lunch, we sort of heard that if they chose the restaurant that we ate the CNY lunch so that we could save on transporting everyone here. But another colleague said, if they paid a cab for 4 persons to come here, it could still be cheaper to come here.



And.... since we were at a place that serves Dim Sum, how could we not order our favourite food - Phoenix Claws!

We said "wu3 long2" and the person who took of us proclaimed so loud, FIVE?! haha...



Hmmm sorry for having you read the grouse that we have about our CNY lunch in between the photos.

Tomorrow's Friday! Hope you get to finish off all your week's work and have an enjoyable weekend!

Chicken wings horfun @ Science Canteen

This is one of the quick meals that I have too. Have been having cheap and fast meals during lunch time. Why?
1. Rushing for work.
2. Weather's too hot to go anywhere.
3. Colleague's are busy too.
4. Food's getting expensive elsewhere. Inflation for Jan is 6.6% in Singapore!!



So, lunch like this one is tasty and cheap. Chicken wings horfun at the Science Canteen in NUS. Adding extra portion of veg, I think it is $2.30

Blooie's Roadhouse Bar & Grill @ Science Park II (Main Course Pix)

Sorry to keep you waiting. Here's Part II. Today's a busy day too at work.



Colleague's Beef Burger. Looks absolutely delicious! $18



Another colleague's baked chicken pasta. (which happen to be the set meal of the day, which came with clam chowder, which we all think errr...) $18



This is Cheese Burger. Our boss' lunch. Yup, he joined us for lunch. $12



Another colleague's Cajun Chicken. $16



This is my rack of ribs. hehe. I seem to be always eating ribs eh? It's called BBQ Ribs A Nice Rack. (the even bigger version is called a Great Rack) $15.80



Oh yes, the other side of it, which had the mash and vegetables. Do you find it interesting that they serve xiaobaicai instead of the other normally expected veggies? I think I like xiaobaicai better! Yes, most of the main courses had the mash and veg. (or variants of potato, eg wedges)



The birthday boy had fish. I remember the name, it was called Blackened Dory. $18 haha..



I think I have one dish missing. I think it was the Cajun Chicken Burger. Hmmm how did I miss it? Must be too hungry. :-)

Blooie's Roadhouse Bar & Grill @ Science Park II

You know it's not a good day at work when your phone rings non stop, so many emails from helpdesk gets escalated up to you. Usually it stays at helpdesk. It was just fixing this and that. Horrible. (yes, it's Monday too.)

But... we are not going to let some pesky things at work prevent us from what we planned last week. Today's a colleague's birthday. We are all going out to eat! We have been having too much cheapo food and rushed meals too.

The birthday boy got out of meeting at nearly 12 noon, and off we went. We planned to go to HV, somehow we all ended up at Blooie's Roadhouse Bar and Grill at Science Park II.



OK. The food we had. This was the Nachos starter that was quite yummy. (anything was will good to hungry people) $12.80



We were so hungry and this was what was left. Surprised that no one licked the plate? haha...



We had 7 of us today, so we also ordered another starter. It's a Sausage Salad. 3 different kind of delicious sausages. We like the middle one best. $16



See, I only get 10 seconds to take photos, see how fast the knife and fork is!
I have to always take picture like a paparazzi.



The rest of what we ate? Tomorrow lah. Had a tiring day. We had to fix more stuff when we came back from lunch. The phone was blinking with missed calls. Anyway, lunch was a good temporary break!

Happy Birthday Mr Lai!

Mien by Firstpasta @ Bukit Timah Food Centre

Once in a while, sis and I will think of having nice pasta at very good prices. We have this at the Bukit Timah Food Centre. It is also very fast! He chef can dish out something delicious in a few minutes. Talk about fast food.



This was eaten today, Chicken and Pesto Linguine.



Unlike other places where the linguine is too soft, this one is al dente too. Well, he has lots of food reviews pasted on the wall. $4 only.

Brunch @ Clementi West St 2

I have this bad habit of sleeping in on Saturdays. This morning I was woken up by my mobile ringing and it was sis asking if I want lunch? I said yes, just get anything that you are eating.

Then I was going to get back to bed that I realise it is 11.45 AM! Wow, I have been feeling very sleepy the whole week, after being given anti histamines by the doctor to ease the itch I have on my skin.

Anyway, this is my brunch. It is bought from the stall at Block 727 Clementi West St 2. My sis seems to love to buy food from here. It has been a long time since we ate from this stall, and she misses the food.



The big yummy fried chicken, with a piece of fried toufu and brinjals. The nasi lemak is pretty fragrant too. Yummy! Food's getting expensive. This cost $3.30 Well, when you gotta eat, you gotta eat.

Chocolate Ice Kacang @ Chomp Chomp

Tired of the same old kind of ice kacang? Well, Momo and her friend had this in Chomp Chomp. Chocolate syrup Ice Kacang. Here are two photos of it to show you the two sides of it.






Are you a purist or would you accept fusion food? :-)
Have a good weekend!

Anjappar Indian Express @ FoodgleHub PGP, NUS

No, it's not Friday yet, but we had some Indian food. Colleagues and I, decided to just head down to PGP to try some other food. Everyone ate different food, but another colleague and I decide to just try out this Indian stall and see how it is.

OK it comes in compartmental plastic containers like this. This is a set meal that cost $4.50
You have 2 meats, 2 veg, 1 dessert, 1 rice, 1 naan, 1 papadam.



The taste is not too bad actually. Compared to some other, this is the chicken drumlets.



The long beans and other mix veg mix.



The chicken curry.



Whenever you see this, you think of super sweet indian desserts right?
We took one mouth, hey, it's not that sweet. We finished it. hehe..



Boleh tahan lah. I actually quite like the long grain super skinny rice. Yummy.

It seems that food places at this Foodgle Hub are "express" outlets of well known food outlets. Wonder if anyone knows this is the same as the Anjappar Authentic Chenttinaad Restaurant in Racecourse Road?

Ajisen @ IMM

This was dinner on Sunday. We had wanted to go to Holland Village for the Jap there, but last minute we decided to go to IMM, because someone wanted to buy something for Daiso.

Since we already decided on Jap, so we just went to Ajisen. It must have been a long time since we stepped in here.

We ordered stuff to share instead, so we get to taste more things. Eating big bowls of ramen is just too filling and boring. LOL

So, we only ordered two Ramen Sets.
The slices of pork (sorry, forgot the name) Ramen.



Also the Pork Rib Ramen. (Pai Ku Mian) I always like their yummy paiku. :-)



With the set, we could have two side dishes, so we had the mini orangey octopus and also the fried chicken wings.



Cousin is getting to be a salmon sashimi fan. We ordered this for her and it is proving to be too little nowadays.



So, she pestered her mum for another plate of sashimi, I think only at this place, do you find a flower shape salmon sashimi! :-)



Everyone also ordered what they want. So we had 2 Tako Yaki. (Octopus balls thingy with lots of benito flakes above)



Sis will 101% order this when it's on the menu. So we had 2 Okonomiyaki.



Maybe we were feeling gluttony, so we ordered some more after we finished the above.
So we ordered a Tonpei Yaki. It's pork slices inside the omelet that is covering a mountain of shredded cabbage.



Haha... guess what, we shared desserts as well. I think weekends are pigging out nites!
Oh, if you pay with a Citibank card, you get 10% off. With things rising in cost nowadays, every discount counts! Haha...

Ragazzi @ Ghim Moh (with the food pix)

The sausage salad that we shared.



The following, the various combi of linguine and fusilli that each of us had.



Sorry I forgot which picture matched which name. hehe...



But we liked it. Because the pasta are all al dente. Just the right texture.



This is the picky colleague's aglio e olio with mushrooms.



Another colleague said let me hold up the fork and let you take some photo. LOL.
I seldom do that right?



Overall, we were quite happy with our lunch that day.

Ragazzi @ Ghim Moh

Just before Chinese New Year, colleagues and I, we tried to go to this place the 2nd time. The 1st time we went there, it was closed.

Ragazzi, it's a coffee shop stall selling quite delicious Italian Fare.



Hey look! Anthony Bourdain autograph too!



See the prices are not that expensive. Colleague who is picky says it is good too.



If you are wondering where it is? It's in Ghim Moh. But the Monday we were there, it was closed. Hmmm...



Rushing to do lots of things today, will post the food pix for tomorrow's installment instead :-)
Have a great week everyone. Hope you all did not have any Monday blues today.

Cheese Cake

Few days ago, around 30 over of us threw little birthday party to a friend. You know some people are really sharp kind. They can detect any hint of conspiracy amongst friends. LOL.

But with people nowadays who are certified project managers, crisis managers (+ all kinds of courses are going through), some good planning and the use of technology, everything worked out so well! haha.. Ms Tan was totally surprised.

Some cake photos.



How do you distribute cake to 30 over people? Cut it this way! It's the easiest to distribute.
(We have a Professor whose research area is computational geometry amongst us. LOL.)



The cake was quite good. Though I am not sure which shop it came from :-p



Happy Birthday Ms Tan. It's wonderful to know that you are pleasantly surprised. :-)

Vanilla Ice Cream Coffee @ Haagen Dazs Holland Village

Yesterday I promised to show you the picture of the coffee my colleague had. He said it's two of his favourites in one!

Vanilla Ice Cream and Coffee. It is called Affogato if you wanna order it next time.

You are served a scoop of ice cream, no it's hard, but we were 'stealing' some of his ice cream, so we had to like flip the ice cream over to hide the hole and the bottom is already melting. haha...



Then the espresso is slowly poured into the cup.



and some more....



Even more......



The last few drops can't be wasted!



There you go. Affogato.
Obviously no need to add in anymore cream or sugar. :-p



Colleague said it was heavenly.....

Desserts @ Haagen Dazs, Holland Village

Today we had lunch at Holland Village, lunch errr was not really worth posting up. But we did stop over for some ice cream on the way back to the office.

We have not stepped in here for so long, always choosing to go to Coffee Club instead. The menu has changed quite a bit. (How ah pek and ah soh we have become).

Talking about ah pek and ah soh, we initially wanted to go to Cold Rock just opposite, but the moment we went in, it was super noisy rock music that was blasting at the top volume. We thought we did not want to shout to listen to ourselves, so we walked out. haha... The oldest colleague said, he felt so out of place, so glad that we walked out.



We had 5 of us. 3 just wanted some ice cream, 2 other wanted drinks.
So this is what the 3 (+2 haha) of us shared.

We were thinking of the fondue, but thought it might be too much.
This was the flowery looking ice cream that had 6 scoops. (it's 6 mini scoops that we found out later)



But it does look pretty eh? That's mango puree below. Is it still Valentine's Day? LOL..
The 6 flavours we chose was also yummy.



A photo of it before it was totally gone. Yes, the waffle used as the bowl was also eaten.



One colleague had an interesting coffee. Maybe will post it tomorrow then.
We were wondering, what happened to the flavours Baileys Irish Cream. How come they don't have that in the menu anymore. Hmmm

All of us concluded that we all liked Plain Old Vanilla best! What is your favourite ice cream flavour?

Tossing Yu Sheng @ Work

Yesterday was "Ren Ri" and it was our annual lunch at work. No, not working for a 'cheena' company, but it just happens that we voted once and prefer to have annual CNY lunch instead of Dinner and Dance. LOL...

Anyway, lunch was not very up to standard. We should remind management not to go back there again. (We all think it might be the lowest of 3 quotes? haha...)

But it was fun having lunch together and getting ang pows too.

Here's some photos of the Yu Sheng being assembled.
All the shredded veg stuff that gives the diff colours and flavours.



Then the crispy stuff were poured into the plate. That's suppose to represent gold is it?



Then the tiny bit of Salmon to top it.



Then the various sauces and oil poured over it.



I was too busy tossing the yu sheng that I don't have any photos of us tossing.
Here's the aftermath. This year we were not as violent as last year, else we have nothing to eat. Everything was tossed on the table. haha..



We were provided a list of "things to say" while tossing.



Wishing all of you all the 'chen yu' above and more and not forgetting Gong Xi Fa Cai.

Shokudo Japanese Food Bazaar @ Raffles City Shopping Centre (Part 2)

First of all, today's the 7th day in the Lunar calendar, and it's known as Ren Re, meaning man's birthday in the Lunar Calendar. So, wishing all Chinese a Happy Birthday!

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Continuation from yesterday's post. These photos are what we ate at Shokudo as well.

This was ramen soup that another colleague had.



This might be the most delicious looking! Such a huge chicken burger with a sunny side up that is soft in the middle!



Another colleague had some appetizer too.



This was bought by another colleague to share around. Paper thin pizza. We all liked it.



Shishamo. Another colleague's lunch, but we all 'pinched it' anyway. haha..



The same colleague queued up super super long time for these skewers.
The pork on the left was tasty. The asparagus is nice, but the bacon seems to be a bit unsalted. Hmm. wonder we wonder why everything that everyone ate was a bit heavy handed on salt, but this asparagus is a bit bland. LOL..



We saw many people queue for this fried rice. So colleague queued to try it out. LOL.
No, he did not finish it. Wonder why?...



After all the food, we wanted to try the desserts too.
This is the Mochi with Hokkaido sweet corn and red beans.
Below the topping is very very fine ice shavings. Quite nice.



Colleague saw what I bought above to share, decided to grab more. So he went for the same thing except that he took the ice cream instead of the sweet corn.



We still wanted to put things in our mouth and another colleague ordered this japanese version of mango ice kacang. Those long things are no taste jelly, but it goes well with the sweet mango syrup and mango pieces.



Lots more food to try, maybe next time.
This place is located at the Basement 1 of Raffles City Shopping Centre.

Shokudo Japanese Food Bazaar @ Raffles City Shopping Centre

One colleague was pestering another colleague to ask us all to go try out this new place at Raffles City basement. So when this place got reviewed on Sat's Business Times and also on Sunday Times, all of us said, OK lah.. Let's go, let's go...

So, we packed ourselves into a colleague's car (like sardines) and head off to Raffles City. Long queue! (realise it is not because there's lots of people, it's just service staff explaining things customers how things work here.)





It is the same concept as Marche. (Or another colleague said, it's Bangkok style food court). They give you this wooden token so that you can 'reserve' your place. They also give out this Japanese design RFID card for you to order food.



I had Fried Pork Curry.



Colleague had donburi.



We shared a sashimi sushi.



Another colleague had ebi and mushroom tempura.



with his udon soup.



Remember we like to eat in groups? We get to 'pinch' everyone's food. haha... Don't you think it is fun like that?

More photos tomorrow.

This place is still quite new, so expect long waits from inexperience staff. These electronic gadgets do hang too. I was ordering dessert and the RFID card reader machine had to be rebooted by the staff, and cards were not detected stuff. Overall, still OK. Give it some time to settle down.

Shokudo Japanese Food Bazaar,
Raffles City Shopping Centre,
B1-44E.

CNY Dinner @ Aunt's

It has been countless makans the last few days. That's what people do during CNY right? Pigging out. (thought the year of the pig is over. haha... )

The last few day's food was delicious, all the home-cooked food from recipes that are from many generations of mothers to their daughters. But they weren't eaten or cooked in Singapore, so they wont be shown here. LOL. You can just use your imagination for it :-)

Arrived back in Singapore last night, and this is what our family ate at our aunt's.


Sea Cucumber with Pork Tendon and Fish Stomach.



Veg dish with a dash of prawns.



Bak Kerng. Meat Rolls.
My bro who came back from UK missed this so much. LOL...



Kailan with mushroom dish.



Stuffed Mini Crabs.



Fried Chicken wings for the kids (and of course adults)



Mushroom, Dried Oyster and Fa Cai.



Braised Triple or is it Quadruple Layer Pork.



Have you all been eating well? I hope you all have!
Have a very very Blessed Lunar New Year!

We will be back next week!

Just like the many Chinese Shops that will be closed during this Lunar New Year Period, there will be no posting for the next few days. Not sure when we will 'kai zhang' again. haha...


Keropok Man is already on out of the country since Saturday.

Momo is also out of the country with her parents. Hopefully she gets her booking at Tetsuya's. :-)


Wishing all Chinese readers a Very Blessed and Prosperous Lunar New Year. May all the food you eat won't not add a single gram to your weight!

This is a virtual photo gift for you this Lunar New Year.
Two cans of abalone for you, with a can of Imperial Sharks Fin Soup.
(if you want the real one, head down to the nearest supermarket. it comes in a gift pack! the above was a gift to someone. i just had to take a photo of it. haha..)




Have a wonderful reunion dinner tonight.

Meat Dumlings @ Staff Canteen, NUH

This is one of my colleague's favourite. He seems to always order it when we are at eating at the NUH Staff Canteen.









Do you like this version or you prefer the pan fried crispy version?

More Bak Kwa munching in the office.

Two more vendors gave us CNY goodies. This time the Bak Kwa is from Bee Cheng Hiang. One of our colleagues was so happy because she only likes Bak Kwa from Bee Cheng Hiang. I think everyone got their own preference...

It's the CNY packaging. (It was the same packaging last year too)



Nicely wrapped too. It is then wrapper in paper. The photos of that and the bak kwa turned out so blur. No retakes, everyone wants the pack opened immediately. LOL...



Hmmm this is not a sponsored post, but thanks to this company, we got some Bak Kwa. haha...

Super Snacks @ PGP Residences, NUS

Colleagues and I, we were a bit adventurous one day, and decide to roam around the PGP Residences after lunch.

Ah, we saw this eye catching sign, and it magnetically suck us near to it. We were peering into the windows. You know those one way mirror kind of thing, it was brighter outside, so we can't really see inside.



It was drizzling too, so 'ok lah, let's go in' mood kicked in. It's a very cosy place. Soft music, soft lighting, it's air conditioned and it smells of waffles!



We ordered one to share. See the machine that is flipped up, that was where our waffles were coming from in a while.



Not too bad, the waffles was good, but we think the ice cream is not creamy enough. hehe.. Or maybe its the flavour that we chose. (choc chip cookies)



Quite affordable. I can't really remember the price but it was less than a green note. ;-) Will update it when I find the receipt. Update: Plain Waffle was $1.20, the ice cream is $1.

Nice play to 'chit chat'.

K Gourmet Cafe @ PGP Residences, NUS

A few days ago, a bunch of colleagues were out of office attending talks at a hotel. Then two more had to attend meetings. There was only 3 of us left.

We decided to just go nearby. Hop on a bus and got to PGP. We thought we will try this air conditioned place. It's called K Gourmet Cafe.



Two colleagues ordered soup, this is the pumpkin soup. Not sure how it tasted.




One colleague ordered the Fried Rice with Fried Chicken.



The other ordered Fish and Chips. Looks quite ok.



For me, I had the set meal of the day. It was Fish day and this is the "tau chu" or fermented beans sauce fish. OK lah.



I think what we enjoyed was the long time we had chatting and this ice cream. This ice cream cost only $2!



Remember to eat healthy for the coming week! It will be calorie laden food in the coming weeks! LOL.

Eating Lim Chee Guan Bak Kwa in the Office.

I think you can tell that the office people have not been very enthusiastic going around to new places to eat. Food has been flowing into the office and everyone wants to watch their diet! haha..

This is one of the many packets of Bak Kwa that has been landing into our offices. Thanks to vendors. LOL.

Let's showcase one. No, not related to them at all, only maybe our surname is the same. LOL.

One man's meat is another man's poison. Some in the office only swear by this brand, others look at it, and said, this brand, no thanks. For 50% of us, in the office, we just eat lah....

The Bak Kwa with the airplane logo comes in a bag like this.



Inside is a sealed bag that looks like this.



The back of the packet. It says unique to Singapore? I dont think so....



Will it last 10 days? This packet only has 2 slices left the next day.



When you open the sealed pack, a white package appears.



Here it is. One of the better known brand of Bak Kwa in Singapore.



Are you all also snacking new year goodies in the office? :-)