7-11 Chicken Chop in Black Pepper Sauce with Spaghetti Aglio Olio , Japanese Spicy Cheese Tamagoyaki

The Chicken Chop meal is newly introduced in 7-11... at least for the outlet at my neighbourhood... and surprisingly the chicken taste quite good. The quantity for the spaghetti is a bit too little though, but for that price, I think the main focus is the reasonably sufficient portion of proteins (a.k.a. chicken meat)... The vegetables especially the broccoli is a nice touch. The tamagoyaki is good as usual.... Lots of proteins... and probably sodium... hmmm... just go and jog more...

Hoshino Coffee 星乃珈琲店 @ Chinatown Point - ( Brunch ) Pancake & Omu Soufflé with Sausage & Bacon

Not sure why but perhaps is the sudden crave to want to try soufflé pancake, hence decided to try out Hoshino Coffee... So I had my meal at the Chinatown Point outlet today...


Nice decorations...


Menu... in the end decided to have the brunch ( available on Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays ) instead... Ordered the Pancake & Omu Soufflé with Sausage & Bacon, and selected the Hoshino Blend Coffee, at $18.80++ (total $22.10)...



Table pager eliminates the hassle for both customers and waiter/-ress...


Coffee was served pretty fast... I trust this was still hand-dripped and not pre-prepared... Smells fragrance before adding the milk, but tasted a bit thin, perhaps I am used to thicker/stronger (arabica beans) coffee... After adding milk, the taste is still a bit thin for me, but the fragrance is good and texture turns slightly smoother. It has a very light and comfortable acidity...


And the set arrived... Portion looks sufficiently good (in the end it proved so too)...



Omu Soufflé - Very very pleasantly surprised when I took the first bite, as I have never tasted anything like this before. It was very very very good! Outside is a good textured egg layer, and the inside is soft, fluffy (not runny). The inner has a good slight savoury and strong buttery taste, the combo is excellent. The drip of tomato sauce (?) does not make drastic impact on the taste of the omelette as the omelette itself is already tasty... It is a wow for me...


Salad - This is also a surprise for me. The fried (?) mushroom is GOOOD (if you don't hate mushroom)!!!!!! The vegetables are crunchy and the 2 broccoli is cooked just well enough without the raw taste but still have slight crunch to it... The fun part is the dressing is quite nice - sourish-sweet, and the first bite weirdly reminds me of the salad in McDonald's chicken burger, don't know why, hahahaha....


Sausage - Chicken? Not sure, did not ask them, but I suspect is pork, as I felt it has a distinct pork taste. Quite good textured skin, and firm chewy meat inside... It can be a little saltish if you eat too much at 1 go, but it works pretty well if you eat it alternating with the Omu Soufflé or best, the salad. Quite good!


Bacon - 2 small pieces, perhaps price of bacon is rising... It has good chewy lean part mixed with the fatty part, and is cooked right without charred parts. And it is not the saltish type unlike the typical bacon often tasted, nice...


Soufflé (?) Pancake - I put a question mark for the "soufflé" part as I don't know if this is really a soufflé pancake... Yes, I had never eaten one before...


Very cute tiny jug containing the syrup... so cute....


Based on the videos seen online, I thought soufflé pancakes should be thick and super soft (slight wobbly when shake???)... So when I put the knife down on it to cut, I am a bit surprised to find the pancake.. well, put it this way, it not as soft / super fluffy as I expected... Maybe it is supposed to be this degree of firmness / fluffiness... anyway, the first mouth of it brings me back to the fact that it is still a "pancake", with the familiar smell and taste of pancake back. In fact, the taste is good! And strangely again, the first bite reminds me of the old-school steamed egg cake texture but with pancake taste... The 2 pieces of pancake is also sufficient in portion, feel blissfully full after the meal... Please do add the syrup and spread the whipped butter (?) and then eat the pancakes, very delicious!!!



Overall, it is a good dining experience, and I will certainly want to try out the full-fledged soufflé pancakes next time.

( ヤマダイ Yamadai ) New Touch ニュータッチ Nagoya Taiwan Mazesoba 名古屋発 台湾まぜそば

Bought this from Iroha Mart in Chinatown Point... I think it costs SGD2.90... can't really remember... but find this instant soba quite nice, so bought a couple that day. The soba has a nice chewy texture after cooked, and the overall taste is quite savoury-sweet with a tinge of spiciness. The small bits of mock (???) meat are hard to find after mixing though... Had this for lunch with some blanched kailan with teriyaki sauce (from Iroha Mart as well)...

吳寶春麥方店 Wu Pao Chun Bakery - 荔枝玫瑰麵包 Lychee Rose Royale , 酒釀桂圓麵包 Red Wine Logan

Should have taken the other half of the 酒釀桂圓麵包 Red Wine Logan (bread) too... the taste is very good!!!!!


Visited the 吳寶春麥方店 Wu Pao Chun Bakery today, at Capitol Plaza. It was raining pretty heavy, so probably the no-crowd there... I immediately looked for the 2 champion breads, and was surprised to find they are selling half-loaves. But I also realised I should have bought a whole loaf of the 酒釀桂圓麵包 Red Wine Logan, very very unique. The first thing that caught my attention is the weight of the loaf, quite heavy compared to similar-sized bread. The inner was moist, much more than what I expected (meaning when I microwave for about 15 - 20 seconds, the bread is still moist and soft, nice...) and there are plentiful of the smoked dried-longan and nuts (walnut I think?), and there really is A LOT in the bread. The "wow" factor is the strong "smokiness" smell and taste, very very very unique. Combined with the elegant taste of the red-wine smoked dried longan, the bread is just very tasty ( with the nuts giving some crunching feel when chewing the bread).


The other bread 荔枝玫瑰麵包 Lychee Rose Royale is quite nice too, having a very light but elegant rose fragrance and big bits of dried (?) lychee makes this a very unique taste bread...

Having said that, the price is a bit high... SGD14+ for a half-loaf, and SGD20+ for a full loaf of bread is somewhat pricey... though the bread is pretty big and heavy, and the ingredients are A LOT... and most important the taste is good... So will I make a return-purchase? ... Well... probably yes, though not often... The bakery does also sell the smaller bread/bun and other stuff ( I bought some too, see the pictures above... ) which are not that expensive compared to this 2 types but somewhat similar priced to those in Breadtalk...

Tiger Sugar 老虎堂 Brown Sugar Boba Milk

Somehow felt the boba (big pearls) not as soft as the Xing Fu Tang's... maybe is me getting older already... But still quite nice to drink!!!!

Daiso Instant Rice, Instant Japanese Curry, Kelly's Luncheon Meat, 伊莱福 Instant Tomato & Egg Soup

Daiso Instant Rice - SGD2.00
Daiso Instant Japanese Curry - SGD2.00
Kelly's Luncheon Meat - approximately SGD0.50 (or less; discounted price
伊莱福 Instant Tomato & Egg Soup - SGD0.xx (bought too long ago

Not sure why I prepare and eat this when I can just go down to buy a packet of freshly cooked soy-sauce chicken rice at SGD3... anyway...

Maruchan Seimen Noukou Toro Tonkotsu Instant Ramen マルちゃん 正麺 濃厚とろ豚骨

Purchased in Iroha Mart, should be around SGD4++... The noodles have a very nice and chewy texture, which many instant bowl or up noodles lack in... The broth is quite ok, savoury and quite thick... bite on some sesame seeds, and the spring onions gave the bowl of noodles good appearance... The kelp (???) pieces provided some good chewing texture... Overall a very nice bow of instant ramen...

Myojo Wonton Noodle Chicken Salt Flavour 明星 評判屋 わんたん麺 鶏だし塩味

Bought it at Iroha Mart, can't remember how much it cost.. the portion is a little small... but the noodles are chewy!!!! Very nice. The small wontons are very cute, though can barely taste the "meat filling"... soup is savoury with a bit of sweetness, and topped with lots of spring onions and egg bits... Nice...

金磨坊 : 鱼豆腐 - 烧烤味 香辣味 Jin Mo Fang : Fish Beancurd ( Tofu ) - Barbeque and Spicy Flavour

Bought from Taobao... costs around SGD11 for a bag of 50 pieces. Can't really differentiate between the 2 flavours, but they both have a very typical taste and smell found in the Mala hotpot... think is the 孜然 or something like that. Quite nice. Will probably buy the Three Squirrels brand to try next time...

Nissin Tokyo Shoyu Instant Ramen Bowl

Not too bad... The noodles are the thicker type and is quite chewy. The soup though is ... is ok,but nothing too special... quite typical Singapore-ish taste for the soup... The noodles are good..

PCS Flag Day 06 July 2019

And I forgotten to post this because... sigh... anyway, has been almost 30 years since my last flag day activity... really thankful to have this chance to be able to contribute to help other people through this...And a BIG THANK YOU to those who have donated...

Nissin Chikin Ramen 日清チキンラーメン 日清元祖鸡汁拉面

Bought it at Iroha Mart in Chinatown Point, at a sale price of SGD6.90... Previously tried the small packets of instant noodles sold in Daiso, and they are similar in how it would be prepared: just pour in hot water to the flavoured-noodle cake... Taste is... Though I did tried to watch as many CMs of this instant ramen before preparing it, I think I am too pampered by the modern and recent instant / dried noodles, hence this did not really leave much impact on me... but portion is quite big... I think perhaps cooking on stove for 1 minute maybe might taste better, as most instant noodles I tried... But I can understand how people in 1958 felt when they first encounter this... Salute...

Xing Fu Tang 幸福堂 Brown Sugar Bubble Tea

Hope the Takashimaya outlet opens soon, if have... This picture was taken during the recent food fair in Takashimaya last month...

After Many Years... Breakfast At Jollibee Again...

Place has changed quite a bit, and so is the menu... fried chicken is still as good though, and think the coffee has improved too... Really miss the times when dining here trouble-stress-less... sigh... life has to go on, i guess ...

Bootleg (?) DoraCat - Doraemon x Saint Seiya 哆啦A梦 x 圣斗士星矢 Gold Cloth Sagittarius Aries 黄金圣衣 射手座 白羊座

Gotten these 2 to complete my Sun-Moon-Rising-Venus....

Bootleg ( ??? ) DoraCat - Doraemon x Saint Seiya 哆啦A梦 x 圣斗士星矢 : Gold Cloth Taurus 黄金圣衣 金牛座

My birthday present I bought for myself... yeah... Only after buying I realized it is a probably a bootleg... but doesn't matter, as I am a KOllector to begin with... Problem is the QC issue is terrible... parts... many parts, are assembled wrongly and it is super tough to disassemble the figure... and superglue marks can be seen when the parts are pulled/dropped out... some parts are quite loose, while the head joint is ridiculously tight due to the neck's pan-head shaped design... I had to file down the straight-edge side of the head to round in order to pull out the heads to swap easily... Anyway, after all the fixing, it looks super nice !!!!!!! Have since bought 2 others for my Rising and Venus signs...

Gastric Flu Again Since NTU Days...

.. Hit by serious gastric flu on past Wednesday.... started at around 4am, had diarrhea and thought will be okay... went to work place.. and it continued... then started to had vomiting... had about 8 rounds of vomiting and 5 rounds of diarrhea in the short 7 hours at work... Struggled for another hour before decided to hit back to see a doctor to get an injection... The dehydration caused me super weak with sore muscles, giddy and fainting mode, as well as short breath... could not speak a proper sentence without catching my breath for 10 secs... Fortunately the injection does help... but now still recovering...

Breakfast Chickenjoy Meal at Changi City Point...

Cost $6... good points include very fragrance garlic rice with lots of fried garlic bits, and the chicken is still the thin skin crispy type with savoury mushroom (??) sauce, and a cup of quite good Arabica bean coffee... weak points include the quite small piece of chicken, and small cup of coffee... neutral point is the fried egg is ... well, fried egg... which should be a good point since it is ok...

Super Cup ( Ace Cook ) - Pringles : Jalapeno and Onion Flavoured Instant Cup Ramen Noodles

Bought from ezBuy during a promotion... Cost $3++... Taste is quite... Jalapeno??? Amigos!!!!! Noodles are the slightly thicker type which gives a nicer chewing texture... Quite nice... The last packer seem to be the Pringles Jalapeno seasoning to add accordingly for spice level (which I personally don't feel any after adding almost whole bag...)

MTR Meals-Ready-to-Eat ( MRE ) : Mixed Vegetable Curry, Masala Rice

Bought these some time ago, think is at NTUC Finest, and can't remember the price... The mixed vegetable curry has very nice savory curry smell and taste with a teeny bit of sourness. The vegetables quantity is also quite a lot... But it is quite saltish, and I think it goes better with plain rice than the masala rice MRE. The masala rice is the basmati grain type and it has a very rich spice fragrance with some vegetables inside, very nice too. Overall, I probably may be having future purchase for these...