Ultimate Hawker Fest 2012 @ Millenia Walk

Have you heard of the Ultimate Hawker Fest?

Imagine Singapore hawker food that uses the best ingredients available in Singapore.
Imagine...
- Wagyu Beef Satay.(from the Singapore Halal Culinary Federation)
- Popiah with Lobster (from Kway Guan Huat Joo Chiat Original Popiah)
- Bak Kut Teh with premium loin ribs (from Song Fa Bak Kut Teh)
- Gu Bak Kway Teow with Wagyu Beef. (from Hock Lam Beef)
- Char Siew made from US Pig Jowl (From Fatty Cheong)
- Laksa with Boston Lobster meat. (by Chef Eric Teo)
- and many more...


The many premium food supplier that supplies these top end ingredients to restaurants have come together with these famous hawkers/chefs to re-create their signature dishes.

The full menu can be viewed at: http://www.touch.org.sg/ultimatehawkerfest2012

Here's a video to tell you more.


I am helping to publicize this event because of the noble aim to raise $150,000 to support the beneficiaries of TOUCH Community Services. The beneficiaries includes children from low-income or single-parent families, youths at risk, needy families, people with special and healthcare needs, and the frail elderly.

Date: Saturday, 20 October 2012
Time: 5pm – 10pm 7pm (Arrival of Guest-of-Honour)
Venue: Millenia Walk, 9 Raffles Boulevard, Singapore 039596 (Next to Promenade MRT station)

Coupons ($50 per sheet) can be purchased from www.touch.org.sg/UltimateHawkerFest2012
or the Millenia Walk Service Desk.


Note: On the purchase website, it states that all purchases and donations are tax deductible. Donors get 250% tax deduction. So this is a good time for you to support this charity, help the disadvantaged, reduce your payable taxes and at the same time eat delicious food!

The Neelys in Singapore

If you have Food Network Asia on your cable TV, you would have watched the promo clips reminding people to catch Pat and Gina Neely's fourth season of their show, Down Home with the Neelys. The Neelys are owners of Neely's Bar-B-Que in the United States. They are known as the King and Queen of BBQ of Memphis, Tennessee.

If you think Gina's a bit loud and funny on air, she is in person too! Pat is more controlled just like on TV. MissTamChiak and I got to meet them and their team in person recently. It was a bit daunting when we were asked if we would eat with them.  We were to bring the BBQ King and Queen to try local BBQ in Singapore.



I guess MissTamChiak and I did quite all right. We met them at Singapore's most famous Hawker Centre with tourist worldwide, Newton Circus Hawker Centre.  Here is a picture of them enjoying BBQ Skewered Meat - Satay!

We walked them around the food centre showing them what food's around. They were quite amazed at the different kinds of food in we can get here and also the food that we usually eat. Gina's a funny girl, she squeaked in her high pitch voice when she saw the long tail of huge stingray when we showed it to her as we passed one stall having it on display. 



One of Singapore's most loved BBQ Food. BBQ Chicken Wings.

BBQ over charcoal (for most stalls), these marinated wings having an intense heat therapy over hot charcoal produces one of the most delicious food around. Gina who was sitting opposite me agrees!

She loves the spicy lime-chilli sauce that goes with it. This girl can take the Singapore heat as well the heat from chillis!

The BBQ King and Queen loves our BBQ Chicken Wings!




We also ordered a variety of Satays for them to try. Yup, putting it in a language that they will understand, it's BBQ pieces of marinated meat on bamboo skewers. What a mouthful, Satay is so much shorter!

It was a test of our skills trying to explain what's in a dish! How do you explain Satay sauce? Peanut based sauce with chilli and tamarind juice. It's good that I have seen mum prepare all these things before!

The BBQ King and Queen loves our Satay too!

MissTamChiak whose day job is a newspaper reporter have all sorts of facts about Singapore and other stuff food related. Do you know how many hawker centres are there in Singapore? MissTamChiak can just spits out all these facts when asked! *kowtow to her*

Pat and Gina and her team was game to try everything that was ordered. The ugly looking stingray was grilled over banana leaves and it was so soft and tender. Pat says banana leaves are a great idea. Who knows, they might be using banana leaves in their BBQ in future?

Pat seems to like the Hokkien Mee! Laksa was also all right with him. He ordered the famous Singapore Beer, Tiger Beer!

Gina did not like our sugar cane juice. She found it too sweet for her. From just a meal, you can tell that Gina does not like things too sweet. She had some Rojak and found it too sweet too. It was interesting how we see and describe things differently. We described rojak as a fruit salad with dough fritters mixed in prawn paste sauce. Gina described it as fruit with molasses. Interesting eh?

Enough of our stories. We found out quite a bit about them too. Interesting things that happen behind the TV shows. That's for us to know. ;-)

Want to know more about them and watch them cook on TV? Catch "Down Home with the Neelys Season 4" on StarHub SD Channel 433 and HD Channel 468.

You can click on FoodNetworkAsia website to find out more about them and the schedule of their show.

Satay Power @ Lau Pa Sat

The Monday night 4 of us went for Satay supper because it has been so so long since we had Satay! The 4 of us were Momo, MsMHA, Gorilla and I.

Our favourite stall goes with the name of Satay Power. Don't ask us why, we just happen to like it from our last taste test of the many stalls. (no, we did not receive any free satay to say this. LOL)



We ordered 4 chicken wings. We regretted. The wings were not tasty at all. For chicken wings, you still need to go inside the main building. I can't remember which stall inside.

(Pardon the neon-ish photos, we were sitting under neon street lamps, and I am too lazy to adjust the white balance and just wanna eat my satay. )



The Satay was quite all right. We ordered 30 sticks. 10 chicken, 10 mutton and 10 beef.

We liked the beef and chicken a lot that we ordered another 15 sticks of chicken and 15 sticks of beef.



The satay sauce. I love satay sauce but found this a little too thick. Guess what I did? The lemon from the chicken wings, squeeze the lemon juice in the satay. It will dilute the sauce a bit and the sauce will taste nicer too! (Some satay sauce add pineapple puree, adding lemon juice is a good alternative)




Satay Power
Open air area on Boon Tat Street
Lau Pa Sat Festival Market
18 Raffles Quay
Singapore 048582

Supper @ Lau Pa Sat

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...

100 Satays and 20 chicken wings @ Lau Pa Sat

Last Thursday night, a group of friends who have not met for a month had supper at Lao Pa Sat. We just wanted to 'snack' and 'catch up'.

So, we went to Lao Pa Sat, because it was the nearer place after our fellowship at a church nearby. I can't remember how many of us were there, but we ordered 100 satays and 20 chicken wings. Initially we thought that it might be too much, but turn out no.... we wanted more!

Everytime we come here, it seems that we end up sitting in front of Stall 8. They are kind enough to arrange the tables for us to fit all of us.



The orders came in a few plates like these ones...





We thought 20 wings were too much, but don't they just look yummylicious!





It's always a good time to catch up over food. Oh yes, it was also someone's birthday!
Happy birthday Estella.

Lao Pa Sat : Satay ( Stall 7 - Best Satay)

Just came back from Lao Pa Sat after having supper there with some friends.

There are so maany satay stalls there, and we sat at the one call "Best Satay". There are others like Power Satay etc...

Here's a picture of it.. Yum.... Sorry lah, only got street lamps, so photos are a bit dark. We ordered 60 sticks of satay.



And the sauce came in like 10 little containers..



I am now so satisfied :-)
Anyone wanna guess, what else we ate?