Thursday, November 26, 2015
Jollibee Breakfast - Chicken Tocino Set
Tried this today... Rice has strong garlic taste which is good, but a little little too soft... chicken is in cubes, and leans towards the sweeter side... Reminds me of eating Char Kway but using meat instead of the kway... hahahaha... not bad...
Sunday, November 1, 2015
New IT Gadget a.k.a. Toy(s)... Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0 (LTE) with S Pen
Yeah! Bought my new IT "toys"!!! The Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0 (LTE) with S Pen is bought from Harvey Norman, at a good price of $400! However it does not come with the free cover, but I have already ordered 1 from Taobao.com... the Strontium Nitro 64GB MicroSDXC card is bought from Challenger for $55... expensive MicroSD card but is hoping the fast speed benefits the data transfer...
... Tab A 8.0 de-tombed... and also the accessories...
... Nice... Like the S Pen feature as I can draw on the Sketchbook app... shiok...
... I remember I have a old Starhub 1GB data SIM card which came free with my internet plan, and I had not been using for a long time... Decided to mod it into a microSIM card using a template and cut to size... Turns out the thickness of this SIM card is too thick and I had to file down the thickness... so far working well...
...and eagerly waiting for my tablet cover to arrive...
... Tab A 8.0 de-tombed... and also the accessories...
... Nice... Like the S Pen feature as I can draw on the Sketchbook app... shiok...
... I remember I have a old Starhub 1GB data SIM card which came free with my internet plan, and I had not been using for a long time... Decided to mod it into a microSIM card using a template and cut to size... Turns out the thickness of this SIM card is too thick and I had to file down the thickness... so far working well...
...and eagerly waiting for my tablet cover to arrive...
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Good Saturday Breakfast...
Had a good breakfast with my parents on Saturday... Went to the Bedok Bus Interchange (air-con one!!!) row of food stalls (need to take the escalator outside Bedok Mall up to 2nd floor) and upon my parents' recommendation, we had the Wanton Mee ($3) at 1 corner of the row of eateries... Nice...
The noodles are slightly springy but leaning towards to the softer side... Sauce for noodles is quite good! Just nice in savoury and sweetness... The best is the char-siew... very nice, and not the typical red-dye version.... solid char-siew...
Unfortunately the wanton is the Singapore version (small and small), not the Hong Kong style... but the soup is surprisingly good... It has the after-sweet taste (回甘) and so seemed to have put in quite a bit of Lohan fruit... Very tasty...
We also ordered the Thai Style TauFoo, and it is quite good! The tau foo is fried once and put at 1 side, and refried when ordered, so the double-fry makes the outer crispy, even after soaked in the Thai chilli sauce for some time... The iiner of the tau foo is very very soft and silky... Very good mix of texture... Cost $3...
Sigh, when will haze go away....
The noodles are slightly springy but leaning towards to the softer side... Sauce for noodles is quite good! Just nice in savoury and sweetness... The best is the char-siew... very nice, and not the typical red-dye version.... solid char-siew...
Unfortunately the wanton is the Singapore version (small and small), not the Hong Kong style... but the soup is surprisingly good... It has the after-sweet taste (回甘) and so seemed to have put in quite a bit of Lohan fruit... Very tasty...
We also ordered the Thai Style TauFoo, and it is quite good! The tau foo is fried once and put at 1 side, and refried when ordered, so the double-fry makes the outer crispy, even after soaked in the Thai chilli sauce for some time... The iiner of the tau foo is very very soft and silky... Very good mix of texture... Cost $3...
Sigh, when will haze go away....
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Ah Heng Curry Chicken Bee Hoon Mee and Toh Kee Dark Roasted Duck Rice...
Today's breakfast was a heavy one... super heavy... Ah Heng Curry Chicken Bee Hoon Mee, at Hong Lim Market & Food Centre (the 2nd floor one...) Yeah, saw some reviews talking about the forgetful auntie helper, and today finally can attest to it, hahahaha....
I ordered the thin bee hoon and mee version, medium portion at $5.50... Was surprised to find big chunks of the chicken meat and lots of tau-pok...
Good Points:
(1) Curry is very very flavourful!!! ... and probably very sinful, but hey, who cares!!! Hahahaha... ok, seriously, very nice curry soup, good enough to drink almost the whole bowl, but do think twice for health's sake...
(2) Thick big chunks of water-boiled chicken (白斩鸡) ( I think... ), not overly cooked, tender, and chewy... As the chicken meat is not immersed in the curry soup (gravy), the "chicken taste" is not lost, nice...
(3) Lots of tau-pok!!! And the tau-pok has no "ow-long" smell (i.e. smelly frying oil after-smell/taste)... Solid...
(4) Mee (noodles) and bee hoon were cooked just nice, and the mee didn't turn soggy even at the last mouth...
Bad Points:
(1) Only (a total of) 1.5 pieces of potato... and while the potato is cooked to soft and not mushy, somehow it is not able to absorb the curry, so a very strong raw potato taste can be felt... maybe it is the type of potato used... not sure... maybe just my personal preference...
(2) Curry soup (gravy), while flavourful, does not have the fragrance I anticipated, in fact, when I put my nose just above the curry and breathe in, I could smell only a bit of the curry smell... perhaps it is because my nose has not "woke up" yet in the morning... hahahaha... maybe...
The chilli is kind of like slightly sweet sambla-chilli type, and quite flavourful too, but personally I feel there is no need for the chilli; the curry chicken mee is already sedap enough... hahahaha... Overall, I think it is the best curry chicken mee I tasted so far, and probably will go back to have another round next time... not in the near future though (*look at big tummy*)
Did some shopping at Daiso and window-shop at OG before going over to Toh Kee at People’s Park Cooked Food Centre to buy my packed lunch before heading to CSC... yeap, their famous Dark Roasted Duck Rice... $5... It is quite expensive compared to other roasted duck rice stalls, but looking at the big chunks of roasted duck meat (the picture below does not do it justice; they are very big pieces if you see it from the side), and the strong fragrance of 5-spices when biting onto the meat, I can overlook that... The chilli has a tangy-sweet taste, weird but quite good (though I pray is not because I happen to get a spoilt packet of chilli... pray hard hard... hahahahha...) Overall, quite good, if you are prepared to pay a bit more for more meat and tasty meat...
I ordered the thin bee hoon and mee version, medium portion at $5.50... Was surprised to find big chunks of the chicken meat and lots of tau-pok...
Good Points:
(1) Curry is very very flavourful!!! ... and probably very sinful, but hey, who cares!!! Hahahaha... ok, seriously, very nice curry soup, good enough to drink almost the whole bowl, but do think twice for health's sake...
(2) Thick big chunks of water-boiled chicken (白斩鸡) ( I think... ), not overly cooked, tender, and chewy... As the chicken meat is not immersed in the curry soup (gravy), the "chicken taste" is not lost, nice...
(3) Lots of tau-pok!!! And the tau-pok has no "ow-long" smell (i.e. smelly frying oil after-smell/taste)... Solid...
(4) Mee (noodles) and bee hoon were cooked just nice, and the mee didn't turn soggy even at the last mouth...
Bad Points:
(1) Only (a total of) 1.5 pieces of potato... and while the potato is cooked to soft and not mushy, somehow it is not able to absorb the curry, so a very strong raw potato taste can be felt... maybe it is the type of potato used... not sure... maybe just my personal preference...
(2) Curry soup (gravy), while flavourful, does not have the fragrance I anticipated, in fact, when I put my nose just above the curry and breathe in, I could smell only a bit of the curry smell... perhaps it is because my nose has not "woke up" yet in the morning... hahahaha... maybe...
The chilli is kind of like slightly sweet sambla-chilli type, and quite flavourful too, but personally I feel there is no need for the chilli; the curry chicken mee is already sedap enough... hahahaha... Overall, I think it is the best curry chicken mee I tasted so far, and probably will go back to have another round next time... not in the near future though (*look at big tummy*)
Did some shopping at Daiso and window-shop at OG before going over to Toh Kee at People’s Park Cooked Food Centre to buy my packed lunch before heading to CSC... yeap, their famous Dark Roasted Duck Rice... $5... It is quite expensive compared to other roasted duck rice stalls, but looking at the big chunks of roasted duck meat (the picture below does not do it justice; they are very big pieces if you see it from the side), and the strong fragrance of 5-spices when biting onto the meat, I can overlook that... The chilli has a tangy-sweet taste, weird but quite good (though I pray is not because I happen to get a spoilt packet of chilli... pray hard hard... hahahahha...) Overall, quite good, if you are prepared to pay a bit more for more meat and tasty meat...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Leisure Trip to Chinatown 20th September...
First up, went to Hong Lim Market and Food Centre... And decided to eat at this Bak Kut Teh stall... have a strange feeling that I had been here before for a meal... anyway... Tried the main dish, the Bak Kut Teh (pork-ribs soup) and also ordered a plate of Yau Zhar Gwai (fried dough fritters) to go along... Turned out to be a good choice...
Soup is the Hokkien style (i.e. herbal added) which is normally harder to find compared to the Teochew (i.e. pepper and garlic) style... taste is ok, slightly to the sweet side... will prefer to have more herbal taste though, but this also means this soup is quite ok for those who don't like heavy herbal taste... The stall owners do come out and refill the soup, but think only for customers who order more than 1 or something (yeah, mine is not refilled, so had cold soup towards the end of the meal... sigh...) Generous portion of 3 pieces of pork ribs in the soup, and the meat is quite tender-soft, nice... And as to why I said earlier that order of Yau Zhar Gwai is good choice, the reason is that you can dunk the Yau Zhar Gwai into the soup, and they will soak up the soup... Put them inside your mouth and bite... WOW!!!! NICE!!!!! Hahahahaha.... Next time will probably try the curry noodles stall... But if go on Sunday can only try the stall that opens on Sunday...
Took a stroll after breakfast...
And went to this shop that my brother's family chanced upon the other day... Very nice place selling many biscuits and snacks of the older days... nostalgic...
And my biscuits and snacks haul from the shop (in the plastic bag only)...
Soup is the Hokkien style (i.e. herbal added) which is normally harder to find compared to the Teochew (i.e. pepper and garlic) style... taste is ok, slightly to the sweet side... will prefer to have more herbal taste though, but this also means this soup is quite ok for those who don't like heavy herbal taste... The stall owners do come out and refill the soup, but think only for customers who order more than 1 or something (yeah, mine is not refilled, so had cold soup towards the end of the meal... sigh...) Generous portion of 3 pieces of pork ribs in the soup, and the meat is quite tender-soft, nice... And as to why I said earlier that order of Yau Zhar Gwai is good choice, the reason is that you can dunk the Yau Zhar Gwai into the soup, and they will soak up the soup... Put them inside your mouth and bite... WOW!!!! NICE!!!!! Hahahahaha.... Next time will probably try the curry noodles stall... But if go on Sunday can only try the stall that opens on Sunday...
Took a stroll after breakfast...
And went to this shop that my brother's family chanced upon the other day... Very nice place selling many biscuits and snacks of the older days... nostalgic...
And my biscuits and snacks haul from the shop (in the plastic bag only)...
Sunday, September 13, 2015
永和肉脞海鲜面 Yong He Bak Chor Seafood Noodles
Had this bak chor seafood seafood noodles today,and this is the 2nd time tried... Pics are taken when trying out the first time... Very solid noodles!!! The noodles are similar to that found in Koo Kee (Gao Ji) yong tau foo, and very nicely cooked... The sauce has a very nice seafood taste and fragrance, and the fried pork lard is fresh... The bak chor with mushroom is not too heavy in taste, but could have been a little more (this is supposed to be a bak chor mee, basically)... Not to mention there are the shell-seafood, prawn... very nice... The soup has a very nice seafood taste, typical of that when you have seafood steamboat, very nice... Do try it! Costs $4.50 for the seafood version, and also got the crayfish version and big prawn version, at $10... May need to wait a little, as the stall owner takes time to prepare each bowl... It is located in the coffee shop at Blk 18 Bedok South Road, opposite Temasek JC...
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