Friday, May 30, 2008,10:38 AM
went for a wedding dinner at Club Chinois in Orchard Parade Hotel, was too bored so decided to do up a post abt it, and started snapping pics....no comments for dis though....
heres the little gift that was placed @ each seat: dark chocs!
heres the menu for the nite:
the 1st dish, cold dish! it consists of tempura prawns, roast duck, suckling pig, jellyfish and vietnamese spring roll:
2nd dish, sharksfin with crabmeat and dried scallop!
next, prawns & scallops with asparagus:
Shell mushrooms (tastes and looks like abalone!)with spinach tofu:
this was supposed to be some steamed Marble Goby (also known as Soon Hock) fish, but when it came, it was 'viciously' attacked, and i forgot to take a pic of it, so heres wats left:
Roast chicken with keropok and some haw-marinated peach slice:
Fried mee sua (the worst dish of the nite):
dessert, chilled aloe vera with lemongrass and jelly!
me and colleagues went KTV-ing last thurs.....and it was damn fun lah....i tink the 3 of them were trying to sing their guts out, and ended up making me laugh my guts out lah! :)
me and L (she wanna be secret ming xing, so i shall leave her name out from here...hahah!) :
chmm & jeanette (seriously, the 2 of them combine tog, damn potent lah!! hahahha!):
jeanette & me posing with Jay Chou:
lastly, the 4 of us finally managed to sqeeze in a shot after dunno how many times of trying:
due to a slight glitch, heres the 2nd half of the prev post:
heres a short post on a famous confectionary dat most of Singaporean foodies know, which has lip-smacking desserts:
yeah, dats no other den Canele! went there for desserts with the OH, although we (or rather, me) were quite stuffed with our Shokudo pasta dinner.....oh, sidetrack abit, the tomato cream-based pasta in Shokudo is damn filling lah!! even ME couldnt finish my portion of pasta! so for those who dun really love cream, or cant eat too much, best not to order their cream based pastas....ok, bk to Canele, i had the Exotique dessert, which is Passionfruit & Banana Sorbet, with chocolate almond crumble and dark choc shards
honestly, the sorbet was pretty good, apart from the interesting flavour....it combines the unmistaking recognition of good'ol bananas, and the refreshing tartness of passionfruit...and the scoop was pretty big, so too bad for me dat i ate too full for dinner to fully finish the sorbet...the "supporting actors" however, were very ordinary.....the pieces of choc almond crumbles tasted like choc biscottis dat TCC and some other coffee cafes serve with their coffees....and the dark choc shards? well, they weren't even dark choc to begin with, tasted more like milk choc....but they were too insignificant, so i cant be bothered to feedback dat to the staff....and so, all these for $8! not too cheap, but not too ex i guess....other den this, they also have other interesting flavours in their ice cream and sorbets section, like rose ice cream, earl grey ice cream, calamansi sorbet, etc...worth me gg bk again to try!
the OH had 2 small sweets instead, 1st is a pistachio macaroon, coz the OH has been craving for macaroons since dunno when....lol....well, tried a small bite, and all i can say is dat its much palatable den Gobi's, for those dat do not have dat much of a sweet tooth....this is not as sweet, and has a nice crunch to it....its $2.30 for each of this...
the other dessert is the tarte griottine....becoz the OH wanted something tarty and fruity oso....and since they didnt have the original choice of carrot cake, we settled for this.....however, this tarte is the worse of the lot....nothing very special....tarty, yes....crumbly, quite....other den dat, nothing much.....damage for this is $5.50 a slice....
my verdict? go bk for the other ice creams, other cute desserts in the glass case (like the lychee and the strawberry gems) and maybe the crepes....
i realised doing a fotoblog is much much easier den doing a real food blog, coz all i need to do is post pics, write abit of stuff here n there, and voila! haha ok, dats the lazy me bk in action.
nway, was doing canvassing with colleagues in tanjong pagar last wed, when me and Jan decided to take a teeny weeny break, and went for desserts at this rather famous tong shui place at Tanjong Pagar Plaza....so heres a pic of the menu:
i had the cold mango sago and Jan had ice red bean....well, no comments on her red bean coz i didnt try coz i DUN LIKE BEANS!! but the mango was not bad though....its the "gao gao (thick thick)" type, with a heap of crushed ice to dilute it a little....well, i was too excited to finish it, so i forgot abt taking pics! heh, so heres a pic of the mango sago on the menu:
worth trying on a hot day! other den the Tanjong Pagar outlet, there are also outlets in People's Park Centre and The Arcade
retro song:
在你的眼里
我是你可以对饮言欢的朋友
你从不吝啬催促我分享你的快乐
在你的眼里
我是你可以依靠倾吐的朋友
你从不忘记提醒我分担你的寂寞
你从不知道我想做的不只是朋友
还想有那么一点点温柔的娇纵
你从不知道我想做的不只是朋友
还想有那么一点点自私的占有
Tuesday, May 20, 2008,3:19 PM
heres my lunch dat i cooked 10mins ago, Cream of Asparagus & Mushroom Penne!
ok, pics quality not very gd lah, heh.
Fried Fish Beehoon from the famous-and-always-long-queue stall in Maxwell mkt called Jin Hua Fish beehoon (translated from chi lah):
no comments, so try it urself! but if u prefer the fresh sliced fish instead the fried ones, pls go early coz its sold out very fast. we were there ard 7+ and theres only abt 3 portions of the fried fish left
请让我靠近你轻轻对你说
别让我每个夜为你受折磨
是多么不容易才默默放手
为了我就当作这次为了我
别让我因为你被回忆折磨
而空气凝结了我们的脸孔
我别无选择
就算我们之间有什么问题
依然想念着你
虽然被放弃
虽然我愿意
就算我们之间有什么难题
黑夜我还想着你
心碎人孤寂
虽然我愿意
(心还想着你)
再让我靠近你轻轻对你说
当我说我要你从此好好过
是真的否则我怎么肯放手
为了我就当作这次为了我
赐给我你现在幸福的笑容
别让恨冻结了我们的脸孔
请你做选择
nice song!
Sunday, May 18, 2008,12:14 PM
its been a long long time since i blogged anyting interesting, so to celebrate the birth of my new baby, heres an international buffet of food pics from various parts of SG, but with lesser commentaries coz its tiring to comment on everyting!
1st up, singapore's infamous Hainan Chicken Rice! This is from a small coffeeshop along Purvis St, juz a short walk from Miss Clarity. Its prob also the only shop in SG dat has the Hainan Chicken Rice Balls dat can be found in Malaysia, but u have to go early, coz its prob sold out by lunchtime. However, other den dat, i dun tink the chicken is very spectacular, but at least the souop dat comes with the rice dun have much MSG dat will leave u thirsty after dat.
next up, Jap ramen! 3 diff kinds of ramen! Firstly, the Shio(pork broth i tink?) Ramen from Bishamon in Raffles City
next, the Spicy Miso Ramen from Bishamon. Honestly, i dun both Ramens are fully worth their price of $16 a bowl.
lastly, the Stewed Egg & Char Shu Ramen from Noodle House Ken in Orchard Plaza. So-so only too.
next on the line is Korean food from Jang Shou along Mosque St!
Korean Beef Bulgogi Set:
Korean Chicken Bulgogi Set:
Korean BBQ pork:
and now for most peoples' favourite, Western food!
Cheese baked Rice with sausage from the famous 18 Chefs Cafe:
Creamy Mushroom Pasta from 18 Chefs(paiseh for the lousy pics!):
Beef Stew from Cafe Cartel:
and now, DESSERTS!!
as a starter, different flavoured egg tarts from Fancy Delights @ Tanjong Pagar Complex.
(clockwise, from top left): strawberry, kiwi, curry chicken, mushroom chicken
and wat's desserts, without ice cream!!
so heres 2 Gelare waffle baskets with a total of 6 scoops of ice cream of ur choice @ half px with Citibank cards!
and of course, cakes lah!
Mango cheesecake by Dimbulah in Hitachi Towers (the 1 missing bite is by courtesy of ME! :p)
last but not least, to end off with a sweet note, Twin Divine cake by Miss Clarity Cafe! A bottom layer of crumbly biscuit base, topped with a layer of creamy-but-not-too-rich cheese bar, further topped with a layer of dark chocolate mousse, finished with sprinkles of cocoa powder! Definitely muz share!
"i'd rather you be mean than love and lie
i'd rather hear the truth and have to say goodbye
i'd rather take a blow at least then i would know
but baby don't you break my heart slow"
nice song by Vonda Shepard~~
took alot of food pics these days, waiting to be uploaded when i got my new lappy :)
chmm & jeanette (seriously, the 2 of them combine tog, damn potent lah!! hahahha!):
jeanette & me posing with Jay Chou:
yeah, dats no other den Canele! went there for desserts with the OH, although we (or rather, me) were quite stuffed with our Shokudo pasta dinner.....oh, sidetrack abit, the tomato cream-based pasta in Shokudo is damn filling lah!! even ME couldnt finish my portion of pasta! so for those who dun really love cream, or cant eat too much, best not to order their cream based pastas....ok, bk to Canele, i had the Exotique dessert, which is Passionfruit & Banana Sorbet, with chocolate almond crumble and dark choc shards
honestly, the sorbet was pretty good, apart from the interesting flavour....it combines the unmistaking recognition of good'ol bananas, and the refreshing tartness of passionfruit...and the scoop was pretty big, so too bad for me dat i ate too full for dinner to fully finish the sorbet...the "supporting actors" however, were very ordinary.....the pieces of choc almond crumbles tasted like choc biscottis dat TCC and some other coffee cafes serve with their coffees....and the dark choc shards? well, they weren't even dark choc to begin with, tasted more like milk choc....but they were too insignificant, so i cant be bothered to feedback dat to the staff....and so, all these for $8! not too cheap, but not too ex i guess....other den this, they also have other interesting flavours in their ice cream and sorbets section, like rose ice cream, earl grey ice cream, calamansi sorbet, etc...worth me gg bk again to try!
worth trying on a hot day! other den the Tanjong Pagar outlet, there are also outlets in People's Park Centre and The Arcade
