Thai Accent

Ok, it's my fault for insisting that 3 dishes and 1 Soup and a staple is just about nice for the two of us. It's not. :P

I was just too hungry and it's not everyday that I can get my hub to enter a Thai Restaurant, ya know?

Stir Fried Kang Kong with Shrimp Paste (8/10)

It was so tasty that I kept digging into it. There's a price to pay, though. I gulped downa few glasses of water after I reached home. Must be the MSG. :P




Pineapple Rice (8/10)





Stir fried beancurd with minced pork and mushroom (8/10)




Green Curry Chicken (7/10)

Ever since a Thai acquaintance told us that one can tell how good a restaurant is by trying Green Curry Chicken, this dish is always on my list whenever I order food in a Thai Restaurant.



Tom Yam Prawn Soup (Clear soup base) (7/10)




We left the place with a bloated tummy and half a bowl of green curry chicken behind. :P

Place
1 Harbourfront Walk
#02-145/146 VivoCity

Bali Thai

My favourite Indonesian and Thai Food combined!

Soto Ayam (8/10)

Phad Thai (7/10)

Service
I didn't like it when the waiter's fingers dipped into my bowl of soto ayam. Then, he flicked his hands and the soup droplets came flying towards me. :/

Place
2 Jurong East St 21
#01-21 IMM Bldg

Lotus Thai Viet

Whenever I go to a food court, I will usually walk one big round before deciding what to have. Sometimes, I ended up ordering food from the first stall I passed by. :P

This time, I zoomed straight into Lotus Thai Viet. I knew there are still many dishes waiting for me to try.

Minced Chicken Omelette with rice (9/10)



I wanted to order the set, which consisted of the main (above), a bowl of tom yam soup and fried spring roll. Auntie later apologised and said that they ran out of spring roll. I had no choice but to take the ala carte rice with omelette.

As I stood there waiting for the dish to be served, I started to have doubts. "Geez... is this appetizing enough to finish? It's just rice and omelette. Should I change my order? But there must be a reason why two others have chosen to have that too, huh?"

The omelette, as unpromising as it looked, turned out to be great! It had a light crisp on certain areas and a consistent savoury flavour throughout.

Just the omelette to go with the rice and I am contented.

I can hardly find any minced bits of the chicken though. :P

Soup (7/10)



Auntie was nice enough to offer me a bowl of soup even when I did not take their set meal.

Price
$4

Place
Tiong Bahru
Food Court

Thai Express Bistro

"I am waiting for you at Thai Express"
"Huh? Why Thai food again?"
"I thought you like Thai food?"

Thai food was probably not what I have in mind for dinner back then. At least, not at Thai Express. But well, it was really nice of hub to suggest a place in which he thought I like, so I went along with it. Besides, he was already in the restaurant when he called. :P

Green Curry Chicken (6/10)



The chicken was quite rubbery. :P Bangkok Jam's green curry were certainly better.

Square Tofu (8/10)



Comes complimentary with Standard Chartered card. Goes very well with the Thai sweet and sour sauce.

Chicken Meatball Tung Hoon soup (9/10)



Probably just what I need, after the recent series of heavy meals.

Price
$37.15

Place
Raffles City Shopping Centre
#B1-13

Lotus Thai Viet

Pineapple Rice Set

Pineapple rice (8/10)



Side Dish - Vietnamese Roll? (3/10)



It's probably just me. I don't like the overall bland taste of this roll. If there is anything that I have tasted, it's the mint. And I don't like the idea of eating something that taste like toothpaste. :P

Clear Tom Yam Soup (8/10)



You don't have to go to restaurants to get a good bowl of Tom Yam Soup.

Price
$6

Place
Tiong Bahru Plaza
Level 3 Kopitiam

Bangkok Jam

I was oh so deprived of Thai food ever since my hub went to Thailand on business trip. He came back feeling so sick of Thai food that he declared he won't be touching Thai food for the longest time.

That was bad news to me. I was kept away from Thai food for like, months? :(

Anyways, came this day when he had a meal not too long before we meet for dinner.

"I'm not hungry"
"So I guess I can opt for whatever I like? Say, Thai food?"
"Yeah"

Without a second word, I scurried to this Thai restaurant in Great world City - Bangkok Jam.



He wasn't hungry, but I knew he wasn't just going to watch me eat. He ordered the following 'side dish'.

Gai Kaw Baiteoy (8/10)

parcels of marinated chicken wrapped in pandanus leaves




The noise he made from unwrapping the pandan leaves caught the attention of a boy on the next table, who later asked to have the same dish. haha!

Gang keow wan kai/pla (9/10)
green curry with chicken, baby eggplants, wild ginger and basil leaves



This dish was fabulous, I tell ya. Having this type of dish makes you feel that the white Jasmine rice on your plate is never enough. After I have finished the rice, I scooped up the gravy and drank as if it was a bowl of soup. :P I kept my fingers crossed that I will not have to run for the toilet in the middle of the show later. >_<

Bangkok Jam's Banana Tempura (7/10)



This banana tempura didn't score as I subconsciously compared it with the sweeter goreng pisangs found in hawker centres. Those are still the best around.

The ice-cream's not bad though.

Service
Warm, friendly and efficient waiters and waitresses

Price
$29.65 (Before using the 50% voucher I had)

Place
Great World City
#02-26

We went for the movie "L" after the meal. Slightly disappointed, but why am I not surprised? It's a 'spin-off' afterall.

And no, I didn't have to leave my seat during the show. Thank goodness. :P

Lemongrass Thai Restaurant 2

After my previous visit to Lemongrass Thai Restaurant, I knew I had to return again. For the good food, and for proving my hub wrong when he said that I find the food tasty because I was hungry. :P I got my mother to come along with me this time.

The dishes were pretty much the same, except one.

This.

Hotplate Chicken (6/10)



It was really good initially. When it came sizzling and placed before us. The meat was tender and the sauce was complementing. However, when it cooled down, it turned for the worse. The meat hardened and even my chin-chye mother couldn't bring herself to eat it. :P

The rest of the dishes were the same as before...

... and much to my delight, my mother has agreed that this fried rice is exceptional! :D

Lemon Grass Thai Restaurant

I've got this 30% discount voucher for Lemon Grass Thai Restaurant and I just have to use it, somehow. *women and their discounts* :P

Type
Thai



Quality

Minced chicken stuffed omelette (8/10)



Prawn Tom Yam Soup (9/10)



It tasted so authentic, I was instantly reminded of that bowl of fantastic Tom Yam Soup I had back in Phuket. :)~~~


Thai Style Fried Rice/Crabmeat (10/10)



I tell ya, I have never eaten such tasty fried rice before. Even Chen Fu Ji's fried rice is not his match. The rice was soft and not oily. Flavourful yet not overwhelming. I noticed that fried rice cooked with crabmeat just taste exceptionally good. Coincidental? Hmm... Who cares! :)

Thai Kailan with Shitake (8/10)



Service
üüüüü
Normal

Ambience
Nice Deco.

Price
$$$$$
$30+ after discount. Value for money. :D

Place
260 Orchard Road
#05-02A The Heeren

All these dishes are enough to keep me coming back, not to mention that there are so many yummy dishes on the menu that I have not tried! If I am a rich tai tai, I will make sure that I patronise this restaurant at least thrice a week. No, no, correction. If I am a rich tai tai, I will hire the chef to teach me how to cook! Ok, dream on.

Although my hub had no complaints about the food, he felt that I have overrated the dishes. He insisted that my hunger caused me to make a skewed judgement of the food quality. He is one annoying critic. >_<

Thai Express

Type
Thai

Taste

Curry Chicken Rice (8/10)
Yum yum... the gravy is savoury and delicous. Not too heavy.


















Beef Kway Teow (8/10)

I don't take beef, if you didn't know by now. But this plate certainly looks very very appetising. I believe it is good because my hubby connoiseur gave thumbs up for this.


Pancake Popiah (9/10)


















I don't really know why they call it this, but who cares? This dish is really good! And it taste even better with the Thai Chilli Sauce. I don't usually dip my food into sauces, but this Thai Chilli Sauce might make me a convert.



















Omelette wrap (6/10)

We ordered above $20 and is entitled to free omeletter wrap if we use a Standard Chartered Bank card. So so only. Don't tell me it's because it's compliementary? :P



















Ambience
Casual

Service
üüüüü
Not too bad. Though there was once they make us stand at the counter for 15 minutes because they charge us the bill for another table. :P

Price
$$$$$

Place
Tiong Bahru Plaza
#02-09/10

Sticky Rice 2

Perhaps it's just very convenient, being located just at the entrance of AMK Hub, my hub and I found ourselves in Sticky Rice restaurant again, despite the fact that there are many other restaurants in that shopping centre waiting for us to conquer.

Even before I take my seat, I told my hub, "I want the Chicken Fried Rice I took the other time". See how much I miss my Fried Rice? Hee...

Type

Thai Food

Taste

Chicken Fried Rice (8/10)

It's slightly more oily this time, but taste just as good as the other time. No regrets on choosing this dish again.

Glass Noodle (9/10)

My hub's glass noodle taste really good too. It's so good that I helped myself to at least three forkfuls of it. If I wasn't worried that my hub would not have his fill, I could have gobbled up the whole plate. heh! I wanna order this on our next visit!!

Seabass salad (5/10)

Ok, I confess that this order was made by me. The first question that both of us asked when we took our first bite was, 'Where is the fish meat'? We were expecting fish in salad or something along that line (the bubble above my head shows the fish we had at Lao Beijing), but we were served crispy 'flakes' instead. Although it does have some fish flavour, but it taste and look very much like the Malay tauhu telor. It costs $8.90 only. Maybe that's why. :P

Overall, I had a very good meal there until I turned over to see what the two girls beside our table took. Just 2 or 3 vegetable dishes... no rice, no noodles. Very diet. kwa kwa... thanks for making me guilty hor! >_<''

Ambience

As per previous post

Service

üüüüü

Pretty prompt. Smiley faces all the time.

Price

$$$$$

Got a good deal again. $27.

Place

Ang Mo Kio Hub

#01-32

Sticky Rice

We were starving and needed to get food fast. At a late hour of 840pm, there are still queues forming at the entrance of restaurants. So we decided to settle for Sticky Rice, with only two customers in front of us. We got seated in less than a minute because we don't mind taking the seat at the entrance.

Type
Thai

Taste

Pandan Chicken (7/10)
The Pandan chicken really fragrant and tastes especially good when dipped into the Thai Sweet Chilli Sauce.

Fried Rice with chicken (9/10)

The Fried Rice was yummy! And I am pretty sure it wasn't because of the hunger. :P The rice is moist so I believe some people might not like it.





















Stick Rice Mango (3/10)
The Sticky Rice Mango is a famous Thai dessert, but I do not fancy it at all. Sorry, but I even had that 'yikey' look when I took my first bite. My hub said it's supposed to be like this, even though he felt he has eaten better versions of this in Thailand. When asked for a rating for this dessert, he gave only a 5.

Ambience
Crowded and a bit weird for our table coz it's almost at the passage way

Service
üüüüü

Pretty good. The waiter even warned us the dish we initially wanted to order is very salty and not everyone can take it.

He actually squat down to take our orders. With him at almost the same level as us, it not only helps us not to physically strain our neck and his back during communication, it also brings about a friendly feel.

Refills water promptly when asked. He gave me warm water instead of the cold water I wanted, but that's ok. Just something minor.Price
$$$$$
Very good value for money. For two tasty fried rice, 1 pandan chicken and 1 dessert, it only costs us about $30?

Place
Ang Mo Kio Hub
#01-32