Dimsum lunch at Peach Garden (OCBC Centre)

Peach Garden is one of my grandma's favourite Chinese restaurants, cuz of the consistently superb food and service. Their jumbo prawns in wasabi mayo sauce with fresh mango is really delish, and my dad loves their siew yoke and roast duck. Come to think of it, should have brought Siew Yoke there when he was back.

Anyway, this was a team lunch to welcome the newcomer to our team. We basically first ordered everything on the dimsum menu to try, then ordered seconds of whatever we liked. Which means that we ended up with lots of food and very happy bellies. I'll just mention the dishes that stood out:

The good- the har gau, siew mai, char siew pau, fried beancurd roll with prawns and congee were all well executed. I'm a har gau fiend (i can eat 2 baskets of har gau on my own), but had to control myself since I was lunching with colleagues :( wish i could have had the entire basket of hargau to myself!) The char siew sou also deserves special mention for being flaky and crumbly without being messy to eat, and the not too sweet filling went down well with me. Nowhere near Wah Lok's standard though- i think their char siew sou is pretty much unsurpassable in Sg :)

The bad- The filling in the custard pau with salted egg yolk was abit too runny and salty for my liking, and I would have preferred whole prawns in the prawn cheong fun rather than small pieces of chopped up prawns held together to resemble a whole prawn. Also, I found their egg tarts a little too sweet and artificial tasting.

As i'm not very fond of pork, I didnt try the xiao long bao or guo tie. However, feedback fr my colleagues on these 2 dishes was good.

The bill for a table of 9 came up to about S$22 each. Pretty reaonable, considering we were all stuffed. Service was good- tea was consistently refilled, plates were changed and staff did not mix our orders up. A plus would be the nice views fr the 33rd floor of OCBC Centre :)

Desserts at Adam Road Food Centre

Teck Kee Desserts at Adam Road Food Centre is my fav stall for local desserts, esp the cheng tng and tau suan! So i dragged my friends down after dinner at Newton Circus FC..

Their cheng tng is really famous cuz the tong shui is not too sweet, and you can really taste the outcome of hours of boiling the dried longans, red dates, winter melon strips and lotus seeds. Like Siew Mai, I can never get enough of gingko nuts, so each time i order cheng tng I'll add an extra portion of gingko nuts (at a dollar more). I think Teck Gee's cheng tng is the only one that can rival the famous cheng tng from Zion Road Food Centre.

The tau suan here is one of the best around simply because it isnt too starchy or watery, its not too sweet or too bland, and the you tiao pieces always taste fresh and not stale. At $1.20, its very reasonably priced too!

Ice kachang with only gula melaka- my parents eat their ice kachang this way and its a habit i've gotten used to. The not-too-sweet gula melaka (brown sugar sauce) topped with cream corn tastes really good...and for me, the best part abt eating ice kachang is digging for 'treasures' beneath the mountain of ice! I love the red beans and chin chow bits... :) i remember causing Siew Mai's red bean ice to collapse once at a HK Cafe cuz i was happily digging for the hidden 'treasures' below...oops.

Newton Hawker Centre

this is one of my favourite white carrot cakes around- Heng's carrot cake. The kueh is home made so its soft and tasty, and they are extremely generous with the egg and shrimps. Another good white carrot cake worthy of mention would be Chey Sua at Toa PAyoh Lorong 1, while the stalls at Red Hill market and Ghim Moh serve up the best black carrot cakes imo. Lots of garlic, black sauce and cai por and neng.



from all the accolades and newspaper cuttings, the hokkien mee from this stall seems pretty promising doesnt it?




unfortunately, the hokkien mee was way below par. the stock lacked the umami taste, and the noodles were a little too al dente for my liking. apologies for the lousy shot- my friend decided to sneak a bite just as i was taking the picture.





yum! we had 2 such plates...2 with chilli and 2 without. as much as i enjoy having chilli with my food, for some reason i eat my popiahs without. guess i dont want the chilli to interfere with the taste of my fav sweet savoury sauce.


queueing for the famous Bee Heng hokkien popiah took me 10mins. but it was well worth it!



sambal sotong! one of my must-order dishes when eating bbq seafood at hawker centres. not too bad but the best are still the ones at bedok85 and east coast park food centre i think.



pretty meaty grilled sambal stingray, with spicy yet sweet sambal. not bad!


sorry i didnt get a chance to take pics of the kangkong, chicken wings, satay and sugar cane drinks before they were snapped up. but they were all just passable- nothing to write home about.

This was where we sat at the first time we visited newton together- right outside the 24hr bak chor mee stall. I took a pic of it for memories' sake as I was queueing for the popiah. We had come from watching (another) movie, and wanted a heathy supper for once. It feels like such a long time ago, but it actually isnt. His skin was peeling after a day at the beach...hmm happy memories from the past.

Laduree and a Nice Home-Cooked Meal

Nokia N97

Laduree @ Harrods

Chocolate Macaroons

Chicken Porridge

Fried Egg with Cai Poh

Braised Duck

Fish Cake

Sambal Kangkong

Grilled Curry Chicken

Grilled Chicken

I had a huge craving for Laduree Macaroons today, so got 4 of them chocolate ones after class! Like nutella, these macaroons are absolutely delightful and can be described as sex in a box!:) The chocolate filling in the macaroons are absolutely heavenly. £3 each for a large macaroon, kinda on the pricey side but really good.

Had a home cooked meal at my friend's house today. On the menu was some local fare, kinda impressive for my two friends to cook all these dishes and hunt for the necessary ingredients in London.

These new photos are taken with my new baby, my Nokia N97!:)

Tandoori House

During Easter back in Singapore, my Dad brought me to Tandoori House (I think...) at Balestier. The food was good and the prices were reasonable as well. The restaurant is located at a little shopping complex opposite the original Boon Tong Kee. I can't really remember the names of the dishes besides the Tandoori Chicken (the obvious one...), but I would recommend anyone with a liking for Indian food to give this restaurant a shot. When we had our dinner there, this place seemed to be pretty popular with the expats (Ang Mohs). Anyway, enjoy the pictures!

Give Me a Dose of Local Food

Rojak

Mee Goreng

Stir-Fried Mee Sua

Ice Kachang

Us eating Krispy Kremes at 5 am in the morning during the Christmas Holidays!:)))

It's midnight in London. I'm supposed to be doing my work but here I am craving some food from back home. Give me some Nasi Lemak, Mee Goreng, Chicken Rice and Wanton Mee! Aarrrgghh.. I can't wait to go back to Singapore to take pictures of all these food... I miss you my babies!:( Pictures from Serangoon Garden Country Club bring back memories of the good ol' times...

Zion Road

There's lots of good food to be found in the Zion Road area, and i'm not just referring to Spize or Boon Tong Kee or 5 Star chicken rice or Tong Shui Cafe.
Besides Sin Hoi Sai along Tong Bahru Road, Siang Hee at Zion Road serves up really good cze char too, at lower prices. Sorry I didnt get to take a pic of the pork ribs or sambal sweet potato leaves- but be assured that all the dishes were well executed and deserving of a return visit :)


Butter pumpkin prawns from Siang Hee Cze Char, Zion Road.



Roast pork trotters at Siang Hee Cze Char, Zion Road



Zion Road FC char kway teow- one of the best char kway teows around. Not too wet, not too dry; just the right balance btwn savoury and sweet.