The final lunch

This is a back post. Last homecooked meal before I flew back to Glasgow. Simple yet soul nourishing. Some Ngor hiang to start off.

Fresh Fish from the sea in a soy sweet chilli gingery sauce.

EXtremely fresh squid from the beach just down from my house. Squid was stir fried with veges in a oyster sauce.

Some greens with fresh prawns.

Missing the luxury of home cooked food already............

ben and jerry

I could not believe what I saw when I steped into this shop, previously occupied by O'briens. COLDSTONE style icecreaM!!!!!!!!!!!. This truly is an amazing discovery. Never would I have expected a concept ice cream like this to appear on Byres road. Think about it, who eats ice cream in such a cold place.

Whatever it is, this place has really gotten me excited. Previously located on creswell street (Which I totally was not aware of), this shop has taken up a prime location on byres road next ot pepparinos. This is a little humble shop beautifully decorated with lotsa candies and candies, accompanied by a small sitting area for up to 5 groups.

I counted about 12 different types of icecreams from your usual classics to american favourites like strawberry cheesecake to your local favourites like caramel and tablet. Wat it is tablet ? well... No idea but it tasted sweet and had some caramel short cake type sprinkle on top of it.

For the unintiated, cold stone style ice cream involves scooping up some ice cream onto a cold marble stone and sprinkling any type of toppings and sauces before battering all if together to form your "creation".

My creation was a 2 scoop combination of strawberry cheesecake ice-cream, a ferraro rocher, marsh mellow goo and some hot chocolate sauce that instantaneously solidified upon pouring. All of these for only 3 pounds!!!. Its really cheap for such good quality ice cream. Seriously.. and the portion is enough to make you feel like stopping . Oh my was a medium. The large tub goes for 5 pounds and its almost twice the volume of the medium .

I highly recommend this place and I can't wait to go back again!


3 Steps 2 Heaven
Byres Road (Opposite Iceland)
Glasgow
07881401216
http://www.3steps2heaven.co.uk/

Coit Tower, Swenson's

I love ice cream. Swenson's is one way of enjoying some styled sundaes without bursting my wallet. Haagen Daaz is good but just too expensive to gorge myself. I had a coit tower after contemplating whether I should have an earthquake all by myself. However, it would have been an overkill had I chosen that.

This classic is a very basic creation of chocolate and vanilla ice cream with nuts, banana and chocolate and strawberry sauce. The combination was so familliar that someone asked whether it was a banana split.

Split or not, I finished it really fast and was craving for more.

Swenson's
Tampines Mall
4 Tampines Central 5
#03-30
Tel: 6781 5489

Opening Times:
10.30am - 10.30pm [Weekday]
8am - 10.30pm [PH & Weekend]

Sushi Tei, Tampines One

Sushi Tei again but this time at the newly opened Tampines One shopping mall. The restaurant has 2 floors of sitting with a nice view of tampines on the upper floor. The deco was in typical chic Modern Japanese styling with a super powerful aircon (brr.. freezing)

We tried a Dai Dai roll which consisted of salmon, fish roll and crabstick? . Weirdly, it tasted like a mexican chicken sandwichfrom Glasgow.

The girls had a portion of salmon sashimi. I din't try but it should be good.

and they had deep fried squid as well. I wonder where's the Japanese mayo?

On top of that a vegetable tempura. I like the way the golden mushroons were fanned out before being deep fried.

I had a jumbo chicken yakitori. It was jumbo in size but really lacking in taste and texture. Super dry and tough. Wasn't what i was expecting from what looks like thigh meat. Tori Q is still the way to go. Conclusion, don't order this

Otoro belly soup? or was it just fish meat soup. Tian was keen on soup so she had this for herself.

I had a ebi and egg rice set. Actually I just wanted some rice with sauteed onions and egg in a gooey Jap sauce. The prawns were alrite but not fantastic. Soggy in fact after immersing in the sauce. Maybe they should put lay the prawns on a seperate plate the next time.


Sushi Tei
10 Tampines Central 1
#04-13 Tampines 1
Singapore 529536

Telephone +65 6784 7877
Facsimile +65 6784 7577

Opening Hours
11.30am to 10.00pm daily
(last order 9.30pm)

Hong Kong Kitchen, Whitesands

The desserts at Hongkong cafe always look nicer than they taste. Compared to the local desserts, I would give the local ones triple thumbs up. Haven't tried the dessets in HK before so I can't say how this compares to the authentic versions. I ordered the triple snow ice which came with 3 different drizzles consisting of red bean, pineapple and strawberry. I like the pineapple drizzle the best because it reminds me of this candy sweet that I used to eat when I was younger. The strawberry drizzle tasted rather artificial and the red bean drizzle seemed rather dry in texture. At least there was a generous serving of jelly and atap ji (palm seeds). My tower collapse before I could bring it down safely. haha

Tian had the french toast which smells really like oneof those franchise donuts. It was heavily ladened with caramel sauce. I was hoping to find some thing sandwich between the bread but it was PLAIN!!. oh well. I guess i was expecting too much . The dessert din turn out to be as sweet as I thought it would be and the ice cream help to provide a nice soothing feeling to each bite.


White Sands Shopping Mall
1 Pasir Ris Central Street 3
#01-14 White Sands Shopping Mall
Singapore 518457
Tel: +65-6583 3611

Operating Hours:
Monday to Thursday – 11am to 2am
Friday – 11am to 3am
Saturday – 9am to 3am
Sunday – 9am to 2am

Home cook again more food this time

Mum prepared lots of food for dinner. haha she cooked 3, bought 1 and got 1 from a friend. Knowing that I might take some pictures, she automatically arranged the vegetable dish in a rather neat manner. She likes this picture alot because of the vibrant colours. I told her this one can sell for $12 haha.

This was bought from outside. Few pieces of pork and a huge slab of pig skin... The eggs were added on our own. Ok la not very pang (fragrant/appetising) but still passable

Remember the omega fish from the other day? According to Dad its actually called MIlk fish and is very popular in Phillipines and Indonesia. I think we had an overdose so we din't manage to finsih one side of it. --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkfish

Sesame oil chicken provided by our neighbour. Very nice of them to share with us this dish. CHicken was burnt but that imparred a nice flavour to the meat.

Lotus pork rib soup. Very cheng. THink mum reduced the msg for this dish. Well, still works for me.

Yah ... been getting fat from eating so much . Need to hit the gym once I get back.

Braised Pork, originally uploaded by jiapui.

Cheng Tng

Afternoon snack of cheng tng prepared my mum consisting of ginko nuts, lotus seeds, dried longan and the better tasting yellow sweet potato. It was slightly blend but can be easily tweaked with some sugar.

Bought the ingredients for this to be brought back to Glasgow. Probably make it when I am free.

Sushi Tei, Paragon

Japanese food makes good food photography. Everything is so well crafted and placed to perfection. The myriad of colours help to provide a nice warm feel to the picture too. Met up with the 46sers for a reunion meal. Ask the SIngaporean guys and they will tell you conversations with their army buddies can be one of the most enjoyable things to do. It dosen't how many times the same stories are repeated, the humour just never wanes.

Ok anyway, KC had the sushi set above. If you like one of everything then thats a simple one to start off. I thought the set was pretty cheap compaired to UK but u know when u are in SIngapore earning in Sing Dollars then its a different story.

Next up TW's curry chicken katsu. Don't know how it taste but definately smelt good.

My first course was a chatsu ramen which was lovely. Sushi Tei may not be the pros at doing ramen but I am easily satisfied after being deprived of good Jap food for so long. THe noodles could have been a bit more chewy and maybe 2 more slices of pork would have made it the right man-sized portion.

My 2nd course was an oyakudon. Din't get a picture of it because I was too hungry and totally forgotten about it.

Shang's beef sukiyaki. I might try this the next time when i return to Sushi Tei. I wonder when :( Downside to this dish is that it dosen't come with rice. And you know me.. I eat lots of rice... (reminds me of see woo and the ripping rice haha)

They call this the phoenix roll. A tempura prawn with rice rolled over it topped with aavacado. This type of sushi roll seems to be gaining popularity here. (also one of my to eat list at sushi tei the next time)

KC's Eel set. This dish seems quite wu hua ( worthwhile). 5 different ways of serving the eel allows for 5 different ways of eating them.

Post dinner drinks at starbucks. Green tea frappacinno. Nice creamy and vanillaish but not green teaish enough.

Streets Café Restaurant 街头茶餐厅

Met up with Char for a quick lunch at Raffles City's Street Cafe. Another one of those Hong Kong cafes.

Char recommended deep fried pumpkin fries coated in salted egg yolk. This was going to be a killer for me . I don't like pumpkin and salted egg yolk. Turns out it wasn't so bad once u get pass the salted egg. the pumpkin tasted a little like sweet potato but texture wise felt like a pumpkin

I had the beef noodle which could have been much better. Stock wasn't robust and the few pieces of meat din fill me up. It was ok that means more space for street food

Char had BBQ chicken with nissin noodles. Comes with one egg and the chicken was smeared with a sweet looking sauce

Drinks.. Plum juice with lychee and the one behind is honey lemon

KL Food Hunt

Yup, I was in KL over the weekend. My 2nd time in KL in umpteen years but its nice to see the petronas towers in its full physical form. A pretty impressive structure that is visible from all corners of KL.

Zac and San brought WY and I to this place in petaling for some authentic malaysian food. Read so much about Petaling street food and finally I am here to savour them all. I was quite ambitious intially and wanted to try everything but my big giant belly was starting to burst my pants so I decided to go easy haha.

We ordered some yong tau fu . Tasted different la and its like due to the fresh fish paste that they use and the huge amount of oil that they bath-fried them in. I ate almost half of the whole plate because no body was eating haha.

WY decide to order po piah but for some reason no one ate it and I have to finish it. It was light than the SIngaporean version. Especially the skin which was super thin and there wasn't an overdose of the sweet sauce.

And there was dry ban mien. I am not a big fan of ban mien. I told them I havent heard of a dry version of ban mien with a soy sauce gravy. Looks nice and the noodles tasted really chewy al dente what ever u call it.

Ok here's the char kway teow. Tasted awesome but I was almost full by this time and still have to eat one more plate on my own after devouring a bowl of assam laksa. so the char kway teow tasted good and taste better than the average ones u get back in singapore. Not to forget, they use really fresh prawns here too and the good frying technique imparts a nice wok hei flavour to the local kway teow

OH and there was the bowl of assam laksa which I finally got to try after hearing so much about it from PY. Its nice but not something I would immediately order on first instinct. Tasted almost like meesiam but I found the combination of mackeral fish with a soury sauce and thick rice noodle with a table spoon full of prawn paste ( hei kor) quite an unusal combination but somehow when u mix eveerything together it still works . OH well... haha apparently girls like this really sour dish. I agree. What say u guys??

A nice lime juice to cool down the heat. Notice the difference in colour from the ones in singapore. This looks more liek sugar cane. haha. It comes with a piece of sour plum hence the spoon.

After that we went to KL Convention Centre, beneath the petronas towers, for some desserts at Madam Kwans. I had the ice chendol. Pretty normal but the gula melaka was really fragrant.

WY had the ice campur which resembled an ice kachang but Mel was quick to point out that ice campur uses a really red syrup and not the usual red green syrup with gula melaka. Any malaysians out there can differnetiate between the 2?


Thanks WY , Z and San for the wonderful treat. PLease invite me back soon lol.!!!