Random updates on food

Hello Humans,

Here's a random updates on food:

Lady M 

@ Marina Square

Vanilla Mille Crepes with 20 layers- New and interesting

Green Tea Mousse Cake-Light and spongy, the green tea taste isn't those dominating kind

Strawberry Mille Feuille- Ok ok only

A pot of Tea

Costs around $32.

Yomenya Goemon

@ Star Vista

Generous portion but it's slightly oily. Though it's not really to my liking, I took damn long to finish it.

Gelare

@ Star Vista

50% off on Tuesday is still on! Waffle smells damn great when we haven't step into the shop but when it's served, I couldn't really smell any waffle fragrance. Nothing special about the ice-cream (Macadamia Nut and Honey something) and waffle ):

Around $10 (ate it on Tuesday!)

Lerk Thai 

(i think it's Lerk Thai, can't really remember X:)

@Chinatown Point

Satisfied my craving for thai food!

Green Curry Chicken with Rice- Serving of Green Curry just nice for 1 bowl of rice!  Pretty not bad.

Pandan Leaf Chicken- I can't remember the taste...

Soft Shell Crab Rice Vermicelli- Crispy Crab with slightly moist Rice Vermicelli. Very yummy esp when it's served hot!

 Peach Blossom

@Marina Mandarin

Lots of food that took damn long to be served. But they taste nice, though it's rather expensive and the portion can be quite small....

 Paradise Dynasty

@Causeway Point

Lots of yummy food, meet up with Bay!

生煎包- Not really crispy for the pan fried part

小笼包- 8 flavours original, foie gras, garlic, crab, cheese, black truffle, szechuan and ginseng (pretty interesting huh)

Braised Pork Belly Ramen- Braised pork belly is nice (:

李白酒鸡- standard

It was around $20 per pax after 20 % off for student  :) So do remember to bring along your student card if you have one. And the outlets in Causeway Point and Lot 1 are having promotion for 小笼包 (:

Everything With Fries

@Holland Village

Grill Pork Chop + Curry Shoestring Fries ($17.90)- Tender and juicy meat that's easy to cut. I like the taste too! Curry powder plus curry leaves makes the fries yummy yummy.

Ham & Cheese Sandwich + Garlic & Herb Straightcut Fries ($13.90)- ZY loves it.

Nutella Tart with Ice Cream ($9.90)- Pretty nice and sweet. Good to share if not you'll get sicked of it. Nutella taste is pretty special cos doesn't really taste like nutella to me...

I wanted to try their Salmon hence I was super surprised when one of the first thing I was told was that there's not Salmon that day. Never mind, I'll visit it again one fine day.

 

Okay enough, I don't want you to hate me.

Loves,
Bean

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMA :D

Hello Humans,

It's been a while for my family to have staycation for NDP preview+ mum's birthday and coincidentally it was my eldest sister's first anniversary with my brother-in-law*! We got a good room at level 16 with this view (refer to images below)! So we got to watch NDP preview from the balcony of the room, which is quite clear though camera can only take blurry images of the stage. I think my mum did mention to the manager that she wanna watch NDP preview before her birthday dinner and the manager tried to arrange it for her! So sweet right! But hmmm, it took damn long for us to check in cos the rooms are not ready ):

*1 year pass damn fast cos we recalled last year,13th July 2012, Shan and I were in Zurich and we just got back to hotel receiving my brother's whatapp saying that they were busy preparing for my sis's tea ceremony. We tried to skype them but the connection was very bad and we actually thought the tea ceremony is on 14th July. LOL. So yeah, we managed to skype a bit with our family for a very short, hoping that they did not forget about us. haha.

Proud to be a Singaporean, born in this generation. Be grateful and count your bless. Though sometimes I love to complain about Singapore this or that, like.. eh I can't really remember what I've complaint but anyway, I know I'm a very fortunate one to be living and growing up in this city-state in this era. Though we don't really need to travel to learn to appreciate things, but sometimes it just helps you to contrast the difference between countries etc. There are always the good and bad, and all this make me love you, Singapore. :D

Five stars are rising~

A day of celebration.

We made a reservation at Peach Blossoms Restaurant for a table of 10 for my mum's birthday! :D Customized menu for my mum's birthday dinner! (She chose the dishes herself)

寿桃 is loved! I had two, nobody ever fought it with me for that. HAHA

Looks a bit cruel but we loved Suckling pig! My grandma didn't eat it cos she thinks that suckling pig is disgusting or cruel though she loves roasted pork etc. LOL. 

The chef did it well cos the Suckling pig wasn't too oily, unlike those we ate elsewhere! I had 5 of those in the photo cos the combination of wrap + crispy skin + spring onion + sauce= PERFECT!

Garlic Prawn- 1 plate with chilli padi and the other with garlic only. This is actually requested by my dad, who want it to be cooked somehow like this but not really like this. Guess he wanted the grilled or baked one that he had somewhere else. lol, can't blame the chef cos I think he/she really tried it. Anyway, generous portion of garlic made the prawn yummy yummy but hmmm, look at the prawn! THEY ARE SO SMALL! ): We actually made pre-orders so we were very disappointed by the size! )):

Check this out! The crab is a gigantic one!

Mee sua, probably the only dish that is less salty. We were thinking that the chef is probably very 重口味person cos shark fin etc are very salty! But anyway, this mee sua is nice and simple (:

Pretty cake from Prima Deli! Shan was the one who chose this design, think of the words and she carry it all the way! Hee, it's yummy cos the roses are made of white chocolate, chocolate sponge with real hazelnut and creams sided with chocolate pieces! Glad that everyone loves this cake! :D

Happy mum and dad.

Pop a champagne! My mum took damn long to pop it. It was hilarious that the angmors and staffs were kind of worry that somehow the thing will hit them. Tell you a secret- this champagne is 1 year old already cos I got it from France last year! That's the first thing that I got from my Europe trip last year, and that's for my mum. So sweet of me right?! Especially when I still have so much more travelling to be done! Not sure if that's the real taste of the champagne cos it tastes kind of weird. HMM, i hope it's the original taste. LOL. 

Family portrait! Do we look alike? Can you make a guess of the sequence of my siblings (if you don't know)? Empty spaces to be filled up with our future partners huh? LOL, someone in my family mentioned it last time before. HAHA

Shall end off with a happy photo of my mum! Happy birthday mama once again. Hope you had a blast and enjoyed your dinner! :) Stay healthy, pretty, safe and happy! (hello to the balloon that xq got for me the other day! it's still surviving well, though it has leaked some air already!)

Lots of love,
bean

Birthday celebration is just another excuse to feast!

Hello Humans,

As the title says it all, my birthday celebrations were all about eating and eating! HAHA. Even my sister couldn't tahan me and asked me how many birthday do I have and when is my birthday. X: But oh well, it's like one of the best excuse to feast, apart from maybe CNY. lol.

1) Tim Ho Wan with family!

So lunar birthday marks the feasting period. HAHA. Gonna queue since it was lunch time and we took an hour to queue. They will need every guest to be present in order to allocate you a seat and we have quite a big number of 8 pax so we gonna wait for big table (aka more seats) and those groups with 3 or 4 or even 2 went ahead before us before there are seats for them.

Check out their menu! It's only 2 pages only. Also, look at the amount we food we ordered. I think it's quite scary to tell people that we ordered 30 plates of them. But it's really okay! As in everyone will be full and all, especially when my grandparents don't eat much and we have to eat their shares. LOL

Some of the food of the day. I love the hot-from-oven BBQ charsiew bun! Cos it's hot and crispy though it's like the combination of normal char siew bun and polo bun. I can't really recall how the food taste like now, but overall I think they are okay okay. You can try it at least once and decide it yourself. HAHA. According to my fading memory, their food are quite soft and piping hot. But anyway we spent an hour eating, which is kinda a bit rush but the speed that they are serving the food was quite fast and the space is actually quite cramp.

桂花糕 or something. This really reminds of me those ancient time where the queens like to enjoy dessert in their 宫殿. lol. There's not much to talk about after our lunch at Tim Ho Wan cos we simply just walk a bit in town before heading home. lol.

2) Hatched

My very first time having brunch and my first time being here at Hatched! It wasn't in our plan cos we were planning to go Food for Thought and walk around Botanical Garden and enjoy all the scenery and probably visiting some museums after that. But all thanks to the haze, we changed our plan to Tiong Bahru Cafe and another last minute change to Hatched just right before our train reaches Buona Vista!

Hatched is pretty easy to find since it's located near the train station. Check out what we have ordered- Sir Benedict (ordered by me; bottom right) is quite a small portion of brunch, and Big Breakfast (i made up this name cos I can't recall what 117 ordered!; top left, haha) which is a pretty big serving with bread, pototoes, eggs, bacons and a pot of tea. Catched up with each other, but 117 did most of the talking, mostly sharing her pre-taiwan trip etc. HEE, you wanna excite me to go travel is it?! Back from toilet with a pleasant surprise cos this 117 paid the meal and I was still thinking that she was joking! SO MUCH THANKS AND LOVE TO YOU HUH!

And we went walk walk shop shop to get some of her pre-taiwan shopping trip done. Was kinda hungry after wandering around Bugis street and tatah~ My first try for Black Balls located at Bugis+! I would say they are not bad but they are not really that fantastic to me leh :/ We can't really taste each of the ingredient as they have undergone some processes to make them more chewy but I would definitely love their original tastes and textures. But anyway, tastes is something which is really subjective. If not, how could they open 10+ outlets in Taiwan in just 1 year right. HAHA.


3) Senki Japanese Restaurant

After our first driving lesson on 24th June, Shan and I had some mini celebration for my birthday by eating Japanese ala-carte buffet! Bought this voucher online long time ago and finally we got to redeem it! Hee. But anyway, we order this plate of sashimi to try since we rarely have the chance to do so and even if we have, it would probably be too expensive to order. Unfortunately, it wasn't to our liking and we prefer cooked fish. HAHA. I would say I don't have the taste to appreciate such a dish and we even thought we tasted fishes from sea and even fish tank. Ignorant us.

These are the food that we ordered! Out of that 6 bacons sausage and fried dumplings I had 5 for each cos Shan was too full and it's quite oily lah. But omg buffet leh, how can I not stuff myself with food right?! Happy Happy me :D


4) Jem

No food for this part since I didn't take any photo of the food. We had ramen at Jem and had a short meet up of 3 hours on the day before our birthday. HAHA. Gonna jot it done cos it's the first time the two of us meet up just right before birthday.

5) Peach Blossom

So it was finally the actual day for my birthday. HAHA. Dated with my mum to have some dimsum using our 50% off voucher! But ahem, after the discount it's still quite expensive leh. But luckily the food is nice and we even had take-away! Met up with Shan our lunch and we headed down for some movie.

Miracle in Cell No. 7

We didn't really plan to watch this but too bad the movie "The Hunt" (which we wanted to watch) was no longer airing and "Now you see me" doesn't have any good seats left. But heng, this movie wasn't that bad and in fact it was quite funny and we teared quite a lot too. 

How can birthday celebration be complete without free icecream from Swenson right?! HAHAHHAHAHA. Happy birthday to myself. Yes finally I'm 23. Okay not really finally but yeah.

Slight changes to wish list since I'm no longer schooling. So sad huh. But anyway, we had another dinner with my dad and brother since we only had this icecream and chicken wing after our movie. lol.

6) Carpenter and Cook

Woot, strike out the first cafe to visit on our list! It was actually quite easy to find, to think it's somewhere near the place where my sis's friend live. haha. Anyway, it was a tea time session.

Food we ordered! Basically they only sell these kind of food, and they aren't cheap. We spent around $13 per pax by ordering 3 tarts, 1 scones and 1 pie (don't know what is it called) to share. It would be good if you wanna nuah, spend some time with a cup of drink and a piece of tart and music/book/stare into blank. But it can be quite crowded.

One of the photos that I love, taken by BHL!

So after having our tea break, we went to Bukit Timah Plaza and Beauty World to have some quick walk to hunt for more food but we settled down at Bukit Timah Market for fried prawn noodle, satay beehoon, sugar cane juice and veg pasta. Hee, it's been really long since the four of us having hawker food together. The last time was probably when we were in secondary school. Good old days.

Okay, this pretty sums up all the fattening feasting for Birthday celebration. Shall think of other valid reason to feast after birthday. LOL.

Loves and till then,
Bean

Birthday Celebrations

Hello Human,

Happy Birthday dad!

3rd Nov: Birthday celebration at Peach Blossoms (Marina Mandarin Hotel) for dad but it was on Xin's birthday. The soup and mian xian are nice but they are freaking expensive! The complementary cake was great, very chocolaty and all of us love it. wish you good health and good wealth!

Loves,
Bean