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OK Mee Rebus at Rahim Muslim Food on 18Dec2017

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mee rebus at rahim muslim food

6 of us RI bros  (JLKY, JT, YKK, NCL & me) met up at rahim muslim food at  721 Ang Mo Kio Ave 8 for mee rebus. TCH joined us later.

rahim muslim food queue

rahim muslim food queue 

a queue formed up as the stall opened at 11.30am. my friends queued for quite a while actually, maybe c15mins even for a short queue.

they have this S$3 mee rebus that had been featured i news articles. top up S$1 for chicken. my friends bought 5 bowls all with chicken, S$4 each.

the bowls were topped with satay sauce, added a nutty flavour but i thought a bit sweet. some friends thought it was better w/o the sauce.

mee rebus not really my favourite, so i was not hot about the dish..

just OK! edible & good taste, not something i would come just to eat.

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afters we visited OCH at ang mo kio – thys hua kwan hospital..

c.h.e.f andy

5pax Family Dinner at Our Favourite Yakiniku @ Aburiya on 15Dec2017

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wagyu sashimi S$18

had 5pax family dinner at our favourite yakiniku restaurant aburiya this evenin gon 15.12.2017. ^^

really shiok better than buying & cooking wagyu ourselves la! 🙂

this a place we come regularly. the last time i made a blog post on aburiya was on 3.6.2017. 🙂

we took the wagyu sashimi. very sweet. some parts have small bits of residue, but bascially a very good beef sashimi.

kurobuta platter

we ordered the kurobuta platter.

it was good but perhaps next time we would try individual cuts like secreto…

wagyu karubi

we had wagyu karubi (ribs)…

aburiya yakiniku

aburiya yakiniku

the open hearth was smokeless, with good ventilation.

wagyu jo karubi

& 2 orders of wagyu jo karubi (prime ribs)…

wagyu jo karubi

we added another 2 orders of wagyu jo karubi..

kimchi chigae

the other dishes we like here were kimchi chigae (stew), bibimen (cold noodles) and bibimbap.

the kimchi chigae here is the best i had any place, better than some of the kimchi hotpot..very very tasty soup with lots of oomph!

bibimen

& we all like the bibimen. it had lots of vege & also some meat, also among the best korean cold noodles i had..

bibimbab

bibimbab

bibimbap also very good here…better than many other places in singapore.

we came for the meat, but balance of dishes very important, so it was quite perfect that we get good bbq meats here and also all these favourite cooked dishes to match.

c.h.e.f andy

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Aburiya 烧屋
Address:
60 Robertson Quay, Singapore 238252
Contact:
aburiya.com.sg
6735 4862
Opening Hours:
daily
  • 6–11:30PM

7pax Hotpot Home Dinner 海底捞火锅 with OPS Buddies on 14Dec2017

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7pax home 海底捞火锅 with OPS buddies

had 7pax home 海底捞火锅 with my OPS buddies this evening on 14.12.2017. ^^

followed by MSW durians from ah seng@ghim moh…

海底捞火锅items

this time it was quite easy, a breeze, having learned from my last one with my RI friends.

steamboat is easy as only need to prepare stock & ingredients, no cooking required.

last time i spent too much effort cooking individual bowls of soup & noodles. this time i just let everybody do their own as in usual hotpot meals.

海底捞火锅 ikan bilis + yellow bean soup base

i used ikan bilis & yellow beans as stock base..

so the stock was clear & sweet…

海底捞火锅items

i had meats, seafood, of course vegetables & mushrooms..

meats, fish, prawn & sotong + cheese & egg beancurd

2 types of pork – iberico at 300g for S$14.95, very ex…ordinary pork collar just 500g for S$4.30!

the iberico was good of course but the pork collar was pretty good too!

meats, fish, prawn & sotong + cheese & egg beancurd

i had also seafood – prawn, sotong & fish fillet, cheese & eff tofu & also a sheet tofu..

meats, fish, prawn & sotong

& i made a very nice sauce, combining 沙茶酱 & mala sauce. everyone loved the sauce. it was like the sauce at 海底捞..i had not been to one in singapore but the one at shanghai was good!

i also had the goma – roast sesame sauce, which was also very good especially with the meat.

mushroom, lettuce & beancurd skin

and i had lots of mushrooms – shitake, abalone mushrroms & shimeji, enoki mushrooms.

steamboat not really my favourite..but it is a very communal dining & popular in singapore, HK & china, i guess many places.

i don’t mind it, and it was a great occasion to gather the friends & shared a hotpot together.

ah seng MSW durians at ghim moh

i pre-ordered some MSW & D13 from ah seng & this time i was able to collect in good time w/o too long queue.

we really enjoyed the MSW. i think this recent season MSW very creamy & flavourful & small seeds, and some with bitter flavours. D13 was good but the more expensive MSW much more satisfying & maybe more worth the money.

c.h.e.f andy

4pax RI Bros Home Lunch on 13Dec2017

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4pax RI bro lunch

JLKY, LKH, TCH came by for lunch..

We had-

1 HK styled claypot rice 
2 steamed minced pork with lifgt soy sauce
3 white braised belly pork
4 scallions baked salmon fish head 葱焖三文鱼头
5 fried romaine lettuce 油麦菜

HK claypot rice 香港沙煲饭

i cooked the HK claypot rice 香港沙煲饭 as it is easier than claypot chicken rice – no chicken to prepare, just add pork & hong kong liver sausage..

an important addition for this is the drizzling sauce. this the sauce they used at dimsum places to add to steamed rice like 凤爪排骨饭 or 粉肠. i did not have recipe but i gazak something similar which i had used many times.

just 1 tbsp light soy sauce, 1 tbsp sugar, 1 tbsp dark soy sauce, 6 tbsp water… 

while claypot chicken rice would be much tastier by comparison, the pork & especially liver sausage flavours stood out in this simple HK claypot rice 香港沙煲饭 , very “pang” ie fragrant…

white belly pork 白腩肉

i got the texture right, but flavours so so, as i did not braise in the sauce & only added the sauce afterwards..limited taste..

minced pork

steamed minced pork with light soy sauce

steamed minced pork with light soy sauce a very simple, and really tasty dish, the fragrance of top quality light soy sauce…

salmon fish head

i got the salmon fish head for just S$3 at sheng shiong.

it was a good opportunity to test the scallion baked fish head, like the very good 葱焖鸦片鱼头 at老吉士in shanghai.

scallions baked salmon fish head

i added light soy sauce, olive oil & mirin (the last i shouldn’t have), then added the scallions & pinned them down with bamboo skewers, and baked in the 250degC oven for 15mins.

scallions baked salmon fish head

scallions baked salmon fish head

the result was ok. it’s like any good tasting fish head, nothing special, not quite the result i was looking for.

i think my recent scallion baked seabass experiment was better!

looking at the photos, perhaps today’s was too wet, so did not achieve the baked but instead more like steamed fish head…so maybe no mirin & drier if i would experiment again.

after lunch we set off for amk again. i bought the bosch vaccum hose this time. after went for coffee at teck huat amk.

c.h.e.f andy

Good Friend Called, We Went Out for Kopi @ Teck Huat on 11Dec2017

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my RI bro JLKY came by..

i cooked a spicy black bean sauce song fish head 松鱼头 (above photo)..

..didn’t eat myself..not feeling so great & didn’t want to eat..

the looked delicious..i know it is delicious! haha! the thickened sauce was just right..it’s a small fish head..so no problem for my friend 1pax to finish..

teck huat kopi

 

teck huat kopi

after that i needed to get flexible hose & hepa filter from bosch in amk so we went together..

then had coffee at teck huat, as good as 五十年代Chinatown … 

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also bought persimmon, dole pineapples, envy apples

later in the afternoon, nespresso delivered the capsules & free gift = 4 cups cappuccino & expresso cups + saucers

dinner was fried romaine lettuce & fruits…bot eating much today..

c.h.e.f andy