The Handburger, 313@Somerset

Momo and I went to The HandBurger to try out their Gourmet Burgers few days ago.

It was pretty interesting! The food was served in a huge 'ping-ping bat' lookalike wooden coaster.




Both of us had The Handburger Original. $7.80.
I loved those caramelized onions! The meat patty was definitely tastier and thicker than the ones by Golden Arches company.

The greens was so fresh and it does look as if it's freshly harvested eh?




When you order the burger, you have the option to 'top-up' with sides dishes and a drink.
Momo had the $4 top-up, which she chose the onion rings from a list of sides. She had hot green tea to go with it.

They taste a little spicy which was kinda nice.




I had the $6 top up which gave me the option of choosing Buffalo Winglets amongst 3 other choices.
I had it with ice green tea.

They were spicy according to Momo. I was not feeling very well that day, so my tastebuds were not 100% working. I thought it was just slightly spicy. ;-)



Other choices of burgers and sides are available at their website:http://www.thehandburger.com/

Another location to add to your own list of better burgers.


The Handburger
313@Somerset
313 Orchard Road
#B2-17/18/19
Singapore 238895

Hours: 11.30AM - 10.00PM daily.

The Scholar @ NUS Society Kent Ridge Guild House

This was our office lunch with a few days back. Can you guess who funded this lunch? Money we got from the company's productivity / Office of Quality Management fund!


My office mates and I enjoy food and we tend to go all around this little island for lunch. We got a problem though. If we travel out and back, it sometimes exceed the 1 hour lunch time. So how not to get the sack?

We think of ways to get things done accurately and quickly. We also carry devices that allows us to connect back to the machines when we are away! It might sound shameless, but we all think we are doing very well! In fact, we submit our work processes and suggestions to the Office of Quality Management and they found it good, and rewarded us with cash! The cost savings from our project is 50 times what they reward us!

This will be one of the many lunches from that stash of cash. We used to go to places that are more expensive and we realize the money depletes too fast. So this year we are going to places with nice food and not so expensive. We want to have more meals!

This was lunch at The Scholar. It's the Chinese Restaurant of the NUS Society.


We started our lunch with a good old Herbal Duck Soup. Hey, that piece is sea cucumber.
It was delicious!




This was the Pan-fried Marmite Chicken with Broccoli.
The chicken was good. Anything marmite always taste good right? Unless you hated it while growing up. ;-)





The Wasabi Prawns. Little round balls of fried prawns coated with mayo with wasabi. I think if there's more wasabi it would have been better!




The Crispy Yam Ring. The yam was not bad. It taste rather good.

Breaking it up reveals all the delicious ingredients inside. It's like our close knit team. We think we are the treasure of our organization. LOL




The pig liver with kailan. I am not a pig liver person but many of my colleagues are. I liked the kailan beside it though. We realize the dishes here all have generous amounts of greens beside it. It's rather healthy eh?




The Long Bean with Crispy Brinjal dish. This dish is rather unique. I have never tried this combi before! The fried brinjal was excellent! It taste a little like fried tofu!




The promo that they have was the DIY Popiah. We had two sets of it, so that it could feed the 10 of us.
Two colleagues volunteered to be the Popiah wrapper. ;-)




Looks rather appetizing eh?




The carbo dish was the Hokkien Yellow Noodles.
Not too bad, but probably not lardy enough for some people. No 'lard crispy' was found! LOL...




For desserts, some of us had the Mango Pudding. Who can resist the mango pudding?




Some had the Warm Purple Rice with Durian Syrup. (Or Chok Bee)
Those who had it said there's durian smell, but no durian taste! LOL..




The Yam Puree (Or Nee).
Those who ate it said it was quite decent.




We got to thank one colleague who did all the work of submission our projects. If not, we will not be able to win the cash for this lunch. ;-)


The Scholar
National University of Singapore Society
Kent Ridge Guild House
9 Kent Ridge Drive
Singapore 119241

Reservations: 6586 3710

Cedele @ Wheelock Place

This was last weekend's brunch at Cedele at Wheelock Place.

I had to get some errands done at Shaw Centre. After settling what I had to do, Momo and I were wondering where to have our brunch. We walked around Shaw Centre and nothing fancied us.

We decided to walk across the street to Wheelock Place. Again, we walked around Wheelock Place, and nothing caught our eye nor attracted our nose. But when we saw Cedele, we knew that was it. It will be a good choice.

I was having a headache that day, so I wanted some hearty soup stuff. I ordered the "Home Style Chunky Beef" $10. It was a good choice. Lots of vegetables inside with the cubes of beef below. It was a wholesome tasting stew.






The stew was a tiny bit salty if you have it by itself. But if you have it with the self service organic bread (complimentary), it was just perfect. The bread was nice, it was rustic and fragrant. It goes very well with my beef stew. The bread sponges up the soup and when you put it in your mouth, it was delightful.

(There were two ladies, I believe expatriate wives who loved the bread and asked the waiter if they were also for sale. Not that morning though. The waiter gave them a bread schedule. I searched their website and realize it is indeed a bread schedule. You can see it here. )




Momo had the Black Pepper Crab Pasta $16.90.
She liked her penne. The deep fried soft shell crabs she said was good. The cut chilli that was in the pasta gave it a hint of spiciness.




While flipping through the menu, I could not help noticing the word "Cedele Fiery Wings" $8.80 in it. So we ordered it. When it came out, we were a bit shocked. It was a little dark / over-fried. If you don't mind the oil on it, it's actually quite nice. You can taste the black pepper plus some other stuff and it goes well with the sweet Thai sauce.



Cedele by Bakery Depot @ Wheelock Place
501 Orchard Road
#03-14 Wheelock Place
Singapore 238880

Tel: 67238520