With a baby in tow, I haven't had the luxury to go round the island for good food for the longest time. :P
It didn't occur to me until recently that I actually had good food being delivered to me every weekday and that I can actually blog about it!
I used Mom's cooking for my confinement and have continued using their services ever since. Yes, I did not 'subscribe' to those overly-priced confinement food catering because I was skeptical that oily food like pig trotters with vinegar, etc can do me good :P and that the food from Mom's cooking are nutritious enough for me.
If you are doing your confinement soon / are looking for catered dinner, do consider Mom's cooking. No added MSG, use of canola oil only, and use of environmental friendly and quality paper containers.
If you are also a customer of Mom's cooking, do drop your comments and let me know if you agree with my food reviews! :)
Showing posts with label Food: Asian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food: Asian. Show all posts
Monday, September 6, 2010
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Yes Asian Cafe
I wanted to go to the porridge steamboat buffet recommended by Jaime, but we were bogged down with many bags of grocery after shopping at NTUC. We decided to dine at this place, so that we don't have to walk far before hopping on to a taxi.
Baked Potato (8/10)
It's baked potato on the bottom half, mashed potato with ham and cheese? at the top. The mashed potato was fantastic! My only grouse is that it is not piping hot, as I thought all baked potato should be... It just doesn't taste as good to have it in a less-than-average temperature.
Shanghai Pork and chicken chop with rice (7/10)
The gravy was not bad. The pork chop was a tad too overcooked and thus, pretty hard to chew. Overall, this main course was served quite cold, which is again, a minus point.
Service
Prompt
Price
$21.80 for two sets of the above, 1 baked potato and 2 drinks.
Place
AMK Hub
$01-40
Baked Potato (8/10)
It's baked potato on the bottom half, mashed potato with ham and cheese? at the top. The mashed potato was fantastic! My only grouse is that it is not piping hot, as I thought all baked potato should be... It just doesn't taste as good to have it in a less-than-average temperature.
Shanghai Pork and chicken chop with rice (7/10)
The gravy was not bad. The pork chop was a tad too overcooked and thus, pretty hard to chew. Overall, this main course was served quite cold, which is again, a minus point.
Service
Prompt
Price
$21.80 for two sets of the above, 1 baked potato and 2 drinks.
Place
AMK Hub
$01-40
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Kee Ling Garden Steamboat BBQ
It's a buffet style kinda steamboat.
Soup base (8/10)
You get to choose from Chicken, Tonic Chicken and Tom Yam for the soup base. My hub asked me which soup base I would like to have, but I already knew that he wanted the Tonic Chicken, so I went along with him and told the man that we wanted that.
Tonic soup are usually not my cup of 'soup'. Surprisingly, I can make do with this one. Sure, it had the bitter tonic taste that I dislike, but the 'chicken' flavour in the soup seemed to conceal the bitterness. Well, a little. As more ingredients were added to the soup, it got more and more addictive.
I believe that a lot of msg was added to the soup because hours after the meal, I still feel thirsty. :P
Price
$12 for adults and $6 for kids. For a eat-all-you-can, I thought this was quite reasonably priced.
Place
Blk 722 AMK Ave 6 (The same coffeeshop as Tip Top Curry Puff)
I still prefer steamboat at Parkway Parade :P
Hong Kong Chit Chat Cafe
Seafood Fried Nissin Noodles (8/10)
I like it so much, I gobbled the noodles up within 5 mins. :P My hub find it so-so only.
Ice Cream - Milk Tea (5/10)
They claimed that they only have 3 left for the day. I thought it's a must try. Looks like the traditional chocolate flavour is still the safer bet.
Ice Cream - Chocolate (8/10)
Still not rich enough to be considered my favourite.
Price
$18 nett for 2 meals which includes the fried noodles, an ice cream and a glass of orange juice each.
Place
267 New Bridge Road
I like it so much, I gobbled the noodles up within 5 mins. :P My hub find it so-so only.
Ice Cream - Milk Tea (5/10)
They claimed that they only have 3 left for the day. I thought it's a must try. Looks like the traditional chocolate flavour is still the safer bet.
Ice Cream - Chocolate (8/10)
Still not rich enough to be considered my favourite.
Price
$18 nett for 2 meals which includes the fried noodles, an ice cream and a glass of orange juice each.
Place
267 New Bridge Road
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Oasis Taiwan Porridge Restaurant
My mum used to tell me how I enjoyed having my meals in this restaurant and how I ate many bowls of porridge even though I was still very young then. It makes me really curious if the dishes are really THAT delicious.
It was until I read that the Taiwan porridge Restaurant is going to close down for developments in Kallang that I thought, 'You mean it's still there?' :P
So I decided to jio my family there to relive the times we had in this restaurant when I was very young (though I can remember nothing more than pink bowls and a dim environment) and the tasty Taiwan porridge we had in Taiwan few weeks back.
Look at how thoughtful they are in the design of the the cup... Thoughtful, but obiang. :P
Taiwan Porridge cooked with sweet potato (8/10)
We were given free flow porridge in one small bucket.
Chye Poh Omelette (8/10)
I ate a lot of the omelette even though I am not a fan of chye poh. :P See how good it is?
Promfet in Black Bean Sauce (8/10)
Frankly speaking, fish was the last thing on my mind to go with a porridge. I think the combi just doesn't go well together. Well, I've changed my opinion. This does go very well with porridge. My mum and I love it.
Braised Beancurd (9/10)
Ahh.. the favourite dish for me and my brother. Surprisingly, this is not the 'signature dish'.
Salted chicken (6/10)
Too saltish for my liking.
It was until I read that the Taiwan porridge Restaurant is going to close down for developments in Kallang that I thought, 'You mean it's still there?' :P
So I decided to jio my family there to relive the times we had in this restaurant when I was very young (though I can remember nothing more than pink bowls and a dim environment) and the tasty Taiwan porridge we had in Taiwan few weeks back.
Look at how thoughtful they are in the design of the the cup... Thoughtful, but obiang. :P
Taiwan Porridge cooked with sweet potato (8/10)
We were given free flow porridge in one small bucket.
Chye Poh Omelette (8/10)
I ate a lot of the omelette even though I am not a fan of chye poh. :P See how good it is?
Promfet in Black Bean Sauce (8/10)
Frankly speaking, fish was the last thing on my mind to go with a porridge. I think the combi just doesn't go well together. Well, I've changed my opinion. This does go very well with porridge. My mum and I love it.
Braised Beancurd (9/10)
Ahh.. the favourite dish for me and my brother. Surprisingly, this is not the 'signature dish'.
Salted chicken (6/10)
Too saltish for my liking.
Snow balls (forgot the full name) (7/10)
It looked so much better on the menu. :P
Almond Jelly with Longan (9/10)
This is the type of Almond Jelly I like most! When I asked my mother whether she prefer the one I did or this, she actually paused for a good 5 seconds before replying that mine is better because of the stronger almond aroma. LOL. How sweet of her! I would say I prefer this to mine! :P
Ambience
Surrounded by waters...
The interior. Pretty empty for it's a weekday night.
The view from inside.
We were seated near the windows. See that few rims of lights across the sky? Was pretty amazed to see that on the preview screen after taking the picture because I ain't no professional photographer and I did practically nothing but a point-and-shoot. Kinda cool how the photo turns out yeah? It's as if there were some treasure where the rims of lights meet. hehz!
On a side note, I used my bro's camera (only 5M) for the photos above. Not very used to it.
Service
Ooook lah.
Price
$61.50 for the above. $16+ for just the fish! $4.50 for the bucket of porridge (it's probably $1.50 per pax), $6.50 for the snow ball dessert and $5 for the Almond Jelly. $2 for the salted vegetables (appetiser) and $3 for tea/towel/peanuts.
Place
50 Stadium Boulevard
- a $7 taxi ride from Kallang MRT station during peak hours on a wednesday evening.
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Baystreet 21
I can still remember how disappointed I was 2 years? back when the waitress told us that the restaurant will be closed down for renovation for a year. Time flies, this restaurant has re-opened for 6 months already.
My hub and I have not forgotten about this restaurant, or rather, the food it serves. :) As soon as we touched down at IMM, we began our search for this restaurant. We almost thought that it has changed its name to streetz (happen to be another restaurant of a similar name), but we managed to find the restaurant tucked in one corner of Level 2.
Ah... this piece of paper on the table hasn't changed one bit. :)
My hub said he wanted Assam Fish even before looking at the menu. I guess that dish really set quite an impression on him. All main courses came with a soup, a dessert and a beverage. This was his watercress soup.
Watercress soup (5/10)
We kept pushing this soup to each other. :P
Assam Fish (6/10)
My hub was very dissapointed with the Assam Fish. It didn't have the flavour that he used to like and it wasn't fresh, according to him. The gravy tasted fine to me, but I had to agree that the fish wasn't fresh.
Came the Tom Yam Soup that comes with my main course.
Tom Yam Soup (8/10)
Curry Chicken (9/10)
The curry is superb lor! ^_^b Thick but not chokingly spicy. My hub kept digging into my dish. :P
Look how I drenched my rice with it? Sedaappp!
The chicken was not that tender though. My hub remembers that it was better previously as they had used the whole drumstick. This dish could have been perfect. 1 point off for the chicken. :P
One thing I like about this restaurant is that they allow you to choose your dessert from a wide variety. It's not like they dictate what you have for your dessert, like in most restaurants. We were given the choice of watermelon, beancurd, tapioca cake, marble cake and waterchestnut agar agar. We wanted the agar agar, but they ran out of waterchestnut. :P
Tapioca cake (8/10)
I hardly take tapioca cake, but this one's goood!
Soya Beancurd (9/10)
Smooth and it's the melt-in-your-mouth kinda beancurd. ;)
Ambience
It has 'brighten' up from its previous setting, yet maintained the cosy feel.
Service
Generally good. We feedback the taste of the Assam fish to the waitress. Although she could not comprehend why we didn't like the Assam Fish (she got a 10/10 positive feedback from customers on this dish so far), she said she will take note of it and kept apologising to us (we didn't really expect that).
Price
$30+ for these two very complete meals. Good deal, sia!
Place
IMM Building
#02-28
It seems like my hub won't be returning to this restaurant, at least not so soon. Maybe I should bring my mum here one day. I miss the curry chicken gravy already! >_<
My hub and I have not forgotten about this restaurant, or rather, the food it serves. :) As soon as we touched down at IMM, we began our search for this restaurant. We almost thought that it has changed its name to streetz (happen to be another restaurant of a similar name), but we managed to find the restaurant tucked in one corner of Level 2.
Ah... this piece of paper on the table hasn't changed one bit. :)
My hub said he wanted Assam Fish even before looking at the menu. I guess that dish really set quite an impression on him. All main courses came with a soup, a dessert and a beverage. This was his watercress soup.
Watercress soup (5/10)
We kept pushing this soup to each other. :P
Assam Fish (6/10)
My hub was very dissapointed with the Assam Fish. It didn't have the flavour that he used to like and it wasn't fresh, according to him. The gravy tasted fine to me, but I had to agree that the fish wasn't fresh.
Came the Tom Yam Soup that comes with my main course.
Tom Yam Soup (8/10)
Curry Chicken (9/10)
The curry is superb lor! ^_^b Thick but not chokingly spicy. My hub kept digging into my dish. :P
Look how I drenched my rice with it? Sedaappp!
The chicken was not that tender though. My hub remembers that it was better previously as they had used the whole drumstick. This dish could have been perfect. 1 point off for the chicken. :P
One thing I like about this restaurant is that they allow you to choose your dessert from a wide variety. It's not like they dictate what you have for your dessert, like in most restaurants. We were given the choice of watermelon, beancurd, tapioca cake, marble cake and waterchestnut agar agar. We wanted the agar agar, but they ran out of waterchestnut. :P
Tapioca cake (8/10)
I hardly take tapioca cake, but this one's goood!
Soya Beancurd (9/10)
Smooth and it's the melt-in-your-mouth kinda beancurd. ;)
Ambience
It has 'brighten' up from its previous setting, yet maintained the cosy feel.
Service
Generally good. We feedback the taste of the Assam fish to the waitress. Although she could not comprehend why we didn't like the Assam Fish (she got a 10/10 positive feedback from customers on this dish so far), she said she will take note of it and kept apologising to us (we didn't really expect that).
Price
$30+ for these two very complete meals. Good deal, sia!
Place
IMM Building
#02-28
It seems like my hub won't be returning to this restaurant, at least not so soon. Maybe I should bring my mum here one day. I miss the curry chicken gravy already! >_<
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