went with RI bros LCM & LKY to kovan market to try out yame curry chicken noodles..but kovan is closed for reno..

LKY brought us to hougang hainanese village centre..though hougang is teochew…lol!

fishball noodles, fried carrot cake, oyster omelette, bedok chui kueh

fish ball noodles

fishball noddles ingredients very good (3 liver, 3 fishball, 1 meatball), chilli, soup all good, meepok NOT qq..that would be a failure…

laksa

LCM ordered laksa…i tasted the gravy.

laksa savoury type like weiyi not just lemak..this the style i like…

fried carrot cake

fried carrot cake

fried carrot cake looked anaemic but quite fragrant… same for orh luah fragrant though frozen oyster, a pleasant surprise.

fried carrot cake stall

S$2 bedok chui kueh

bedok chui kueh good, but chinatown stall felt better..

da zhong cafe

da zhong cafe

da zhong kopi

there were like 6 coffee stalls here, and of course LKY knew which was best.

had the da zhong kopi c gosong tiklor.

coffee very good..

lai seng dessert@ blk 628 amk ave 4

ice kachang @ blk 628 amk ave 4

ice kachang @ blk 628 amk ave 4

later LKY & i went to 628 amk ave 4. i wanted to get something. found the shop but decided not to get it.

..ice kachang only $1.50 but so so…

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Hougang Hainanese Village Centre

wonderful dinner for 2

had very good 2pax dinner with lisa @ the halia botanical garden..

all the dishes we ordered were good-

• non alcoholic cocktail $8 very good
• 1/2 oysters $26
• carpaccio $18
• mixed mushrooms $6
• pangrilled sunchokes (like artichoke) $6
• boned in wagyu beef rib $48 – this the best rib 👍👍👍
• die die must have chocolate $10 ok
• flat white $6 very good

wonderful dinner for 2

we were here actually just few weeks back with my OPS bros & spouses on 10.10.2018. we had a great time and dinner.^^wife though had to rush off somewhere & only returned later. and it was pouring that evening & not so many customers.

this evening, even though we booked 9pm to use chope offpeak vouchers, halia was full and the ambience was wonderful.

S$26 oysters 6 pieces

S$26 oysters 6 pieces

we didn’t want too much food and carbs.

wife ordered the oysters. we ordered first 3 oysters for S$13.50, oysters were great..then as we liked it we added 3 more oysters and the server changed it to 6 for S$26 in the bill. 🙂

service here consistently good. the 2 vietnamese servers last visit and this time the filipino server.

S$6 mixed mushrooms garlic butter

the mixed mushrooms with garlic butter was good as before. simple yet excellent dish this.

S$6 panroasted sunchokes

we liked the sunchokes..it kind of looked like old ginger than artichokes though it had the texture…anyway i loved the dish, lots of fibre too. lol!

S$18 blackmore wagyu chuck rib carpaccio

S$18 blackmore wagyu chuck rib carpaccio

blackmore wagyu chuck rib carpaccio was the natural sweey kind w/o sauce. i liked it this way too though i don’t mind sauce too.

vegetable chips

vegetable chips came with the carpaccio. good!

S$48 blackmore wagyu spare rib

S$48 blackmore wagyu spare rib 

and the best had to te the wagyu spare ribs.

it was braised, soft & moist, and extremely flavourful as the collagen became flavourful gelatine.

really excellent this!

S$10 did die must have chocolate

S$10 did die must have chocolate

the chocolate was pedestrian actually, good enough i guess for restaurant standard.

i think the date pudding was best, and the ginger was good (from previous dinner).

S$48 blackmore wagyu spare rib

had a relax evening with wife and enjoyed delicious food at very affordable price after chope discounts.

c.h.e.f andy

 

curry chicken noodles with WM on 19.10.2018

hong lim food centre is closing for 2 months for reno.

my OPS bro WM arranged 2pax curry chicken noodle at ah heng on 19.10.2018. ^^

wa…so shiok la! never have enough for me! 🙂

queue at ah heng curry chicken noodles

we were there at 11am. queue was like 5pax <10mins..later when we were leaving, queue was long…

curry chicken noodles = 8pax RI bros at hong lim by LKY

RI bro LKY organised 8pax early lunch at hong lim. ^^

LKH favourite outram road char kuay teow closed for early vacation since 25.10.2018. me think hawkers really need a break la…lol!

most of us took ah heng’s curry chicken noodles ..i bought 3 bowls for LKY, LCH & me…luckily no queue..

ping ping curry chicken noodles

CCG took curry chicken noodles from his favourite stall teochew stall ping ping..it looked as authentic. i tried the gravy, it was not as intense and savoury sweet as ah heng’s…maybe try this myself next time.

LKH took some wanton noodles..CCG bought beechiam kueh..

afterwards CCG had to leave, 7 of us walked over to people’s park centre for tong shui..

curry chicken noodles with WM WT 30.10.2018

curry chicken noodles with WM WT 30.10.2018

the very next day my OPS bro met again WT WM and me for one last round of curry chicken noodles on 30.10.2018! ^^

tapao 3 packets curry chicken noodles 30.10.2018

this time i tapao 3 packets for wife and children. ^^

kopi

kopi here also good next to ah heng, not LKY’s usual stall next to outram road char kuay teow.

curry chicken noodles with WM on 19.10.2018

how can i ever have enough of this?

c.h.e.f andy

RI bro bought 2pax lunch @ crossroad cafe

my RI LKY arranged lunch at cross road cafe, level 1 of mariott at scotts road today on 29.10.2018. ^^

he had an expiring S$100 voucher to use by 31.10.2018. haha! 🙂

S$20 calamari

didn’t know what to order?

we decided on S$20 calamari. it was average, pedestrian, actually my helper made better calamari, haha! 🙂

we ordered a calamari $20 (average), crayfish laksa $27 which the server split for us into 2 bowls (average), wagyu burger $35 (quite good)..bill came to $96nett

S$27 crayfish laksa split into 2 servings

S$27 crayfish laksa split into 2 servings

the laksa was like S$25, and S$27 if add crayfish. we ordered the S$27 crayfish laksa, not that 1 piece crayfish made much difference.

they split the bowl for us, and each pax had a good serving of laksa.

it was ok laksa, better than some hawker centre. just very lemak & savoury enough like my favourite weiyi laksa. so i guess this was quite ordinary.

wagyu burger

the best dish was probably the wagyu burger.

this was not quite the foksner gourmet burger that we had at bohinj slovenia.

still it was a good burger, the pattie nicely done.

the bill came to like S$95, so LKY used his S$100 voucher, quite ok, just about there.

well considering free lunch thanks to my RI bro, more than good enough la…don’t think will come here at normal price.

ondeh ondeh

toastbox kopi + begawan solo cakes

octopus carpaccio 

wife organised a small party for my birthday on 25.10.2018. ^^

family & friends

family and friends

i invited 8 bros = 5 RI and 3OPS; my godsis & her hubby; and we have 8pax family including our helper aunty Bes (PT unable to make it).

total 18pax this evening… 🙂

5-course S$90 menu

i have never been to alba…wife & daughter had. i saw on alba website they had a regular S$90 menu.

for this evening, wife selected the dish options & ordered the S$90 menu, but the restaurant gave us the large function room w/o charge (they could not officially reserve the whole space for us but no one else was seated in here so we effectively had it to ourselves).

wines 

there was 1 for 1 wine so we ordered a few bottles wine and had corresponding bottles corkage free..

octopus carpaccio 

most of us ordered octopus carpaccio. it was very good, tender and tasty, with excellent cream and squidink. so so beautifully plated.

beef tartar

the beef tartar was excellent too, this style w/o course pepper & other seasoning, very tender and pure natural sweetness of the beef. very good indeed. 🙂

truffle mushroom veloute

truffle mushroom veloute

the truffle mushroom veloute was tasty, intense, and nicely flavoured with the truffle. very nice. the onsen egg gave it a silky texture.

seafood soup

seafood soup

the seafood soup came with loads of ingredients, with a tomato shellfish base.

seafood soup

it was a good soup, perhaps more robust & less fine c/w the truffle mushroom veloute. the prawns & squid were overcooked, so that part less good.

fregola

fregola

the fregola pasta was apparently a signature dish here.

it was good, and quite tasty. the serving was too big being a plain pasta w/o ingredients and one gets satiated eating all of the plain pasta.

spinach tortelli

spinach tortelli

the tortelli looked pretty, and nice & tasty too, a bit on the simple lighter side taste wise. in the way similar simple yet good taste for both the pasta dishes.

crusted lamb chop

crusted lamb chop

the crusted lamb chop was very good standard.

crusted lamb chop

nice if quite strong lamb taste. purple potato was interesting side.

pan seared black cod

pan seared black cod

pan seared black cod was quite tasty, nothing special.

pan seared black cod 

meat was firmer white fish, not so like the flaky sweeter chillean seabass or cod.

pistacho parfait

pistacho parfait

son liked the pistacho parfait…it had firmer texture c/w japanese macha parfait with superb combination of different textures from cornflakes tp cake to mochi.

lava cake

lava cake

the lava cake was the better of the 2. it had a bit less lava but the dark chocolate flavour were wonderful. a very good standard lava cake. 🙂

birthday cake

birthday cake

then we had the birthday cake, took loads of photos with family and friends, then cut and shared the cake. 🙂

octopus carpaccio

ye lai xiang techew muay dishes

sis wanted teochew muay, so went with sis & bil to ye lai xiang 夜来香 bukit merah view for techew muay dishes on 24.10.2018. ^^

we had a bad experience with 夜上海ye shanghai at lengkok bahru 3months back where they overcharged us by S$3 then tried to wriggled away by obviously fake GST with no receipt on 18.7.2018 (see here).

so we voted by our feet never to go back to 夜上海ye shanghai, haha! 🙂

sis ordered 2 fish, 1 sotong & 8 veg dishes for like S$31.

i am finding this teochew muay stuff a bit expensive these days c/w the earlier cheap & good dishes.

like a year ago we had 2 fish & 7 veg dishes for $18 on 28.9.2017.

teochew chilled mullet

but of course different fish. now this mullet was S$10, previously S$8.

chilled rabbit fish

rabbit fish was S$5.

chilled sotong

& sotong was S$5.

fried egg 

tau gay

ye lai xiang veg dishes 

so perhaps the remaining 8 dishes + 2 porridge for S$11 was kind of ok.

just that S$31 vs S$18 overall was some impact right?

anyway, the veg were not as tasty, and even ye shanghai (which i think vegetables there generally taste better) also not tasty as before. differnt people cooking now?

of course overall price still not high like S$10pax. just that also no longer cheap…

but fish & sotong no thrill for me as i can do just as well or better. the vegetables are the ones i like because variety c/w if we cook one of two veg ourselves & really they used to be very tasty.

c.h.e.f andy

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夜来香 YelaixiangTeochew Porridge (夜来香潮洲糜)

Address

#01-217, Boyang Coffee Shop, Blk 117 Bukit Merah View, 151116

thai style curry fish head

sunday. 2 old folks looking for a place to go. for dinner on 21.10.2018. ^^

wife wanted to go G7 sinma frog porridge but we couldn’t find parking at courts side, and the whole road was jammed.

so we turned back to try casuarina curry at 6th ave, no parking also, so decided to go to forture.

we parked at cherry ave.

thai style curry fish head 

we ordered only the thai style curry fish head. S$25.

fish head was still good, tangy tastey flavourful sauce, good amount of vegetables with the curry. fish head was fresh & sweet.

thought about the hor fun…decided not to have the carbs..later wanted to add prawn past e chicken but had to wait & we almost finished the fish head liao…so just fish head for 2pax.

it was enough la! 🙂

c.h.e.f andy

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Forture Seafood

Address:

terra 

J & my RI bro NCL bought lunch @ terra at 54 tras street today on 23.10.2018. ^^

J arranged the sumptuous lunch..

terra 

nice decor and ambience.

japanese server 

chef owner is seita san. Our server is sho san.

ingrdedients for lunch 

terra served only omakase or set lunch, & omakase dinner..

we ordered the $58pax 4-course set, and had to top up $10 for their signature uni pasta..

foccacia & pumpkin veloute

pumpkin veloute 

the foccacia & fungi butter very good..

the pumpkin soup fine presentation but pedestrian in taste.

hokkaido scallop excellent! 

the hokkaido scallop was excellent.quite exquisite!

scallops was totally tender ad sweet &  complemented well by the cheesy, flavourful broth.

sanma ceviche 

i tried a bit of the sanma ceviche…. very good too

signature uni pasta 

uni pasta was very good because of very sweet uni..

as a uni pasta did not really stand out say c/w a good mentaiko pasta..and i think many places can do teh same or better…maybe should have ikura added to the uni pasta..

beef 

i asked and sho san replied that the “wagyu” beef was not a graded wagyu. ..we guessing maybe 国产牛..

anyway it was quite excellent- sweet, nice beefy taste, smooth & tender

birthday cake

dessert was tiramisu..light nice not too sweet perfectly competent tiramisu.

terra birthday candle decor

the birthday cake/dessert decor was interesting.

the candle sat on a wine cork, which looked like a man sitting down. lol! 🙂

birthday chime 

there was a birthday chime too!

signature uni pasta

Thanks to my friends J & NCL for the excellent lunch, and great chat & sharing.

NCL was going for his kilimanjaro expedition, we were all happy and full of goodwill & support for his successful summiting of the tallest peak in africa.

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crab dinner at WM house

OPS bro Wm organised a crab dinner for 6pax (4 OPS bro + J + GY) at his place on 18.10.2018. ^^

crab dinner at WM house 

he ordered & collected 7 crabs from “old mattar road”, now called mattar road seafood. 🙂

the crabs were S$50/kg so the crabs were like 800g each size=5.6kg=S$280. 🙂

j’s yam cake

before dinner, J served some yam cake she made, super nice! especially with the very spicy chilli. i packet some home for wife and children. 🙂

satays

WM bought some satays too. this had the pineapple sauce which cannot get at many satay place.

satay was flavourful though it dried up a bit being out on the table for a while and while we ate.

butter crabs 

there was butter and white pepper crabs.

both crabs were nice. J like the butter crab more. i like the white pepper crab, very flavourful & i guess more sauce.

white pepper crabs, butter crabs and satays

white pepper crabs

white pepper crabs

i enjoyed both crabs very much.

usually i don’t take much crabs, lazy to eat & my family don’t eat crabs often also.

amybe one day go to the matter road seafood zi char to eat there with other dishes.

braised chicken

braised chicken

J made some braised chicken.

fried noodles 

and noodles.

very sweet pineapples and fragrant mangoes

WT brught very sweet cut pineapples, and WM served some fragrant mangoes as well.

tong shui

the tong shui was great after a nice dinner.

white pepper crabs, butter crabs and satays

WM, J and GY started shanghai mahjong. WT, HC and i watched tv.

had a great time this evening with good friends.

c.h.e.f andy