Good ole Balestier Market is Re-opened!

Its now a 24hr Banquet makan place! yeah!

Coral Weed

In our visit to an old friend's house, she introduced to us this product for strengthening of the joints! (If you see an 82yr old man doing squats after taking this for a couple of weeks, when previously he has problems walking about... you know that this stuff works!)



Turns out that its actually dried up in this tiny packet... so you've gotta soak it in water for about 3hrs....


and it grew so much that it almost overflowed the pot!


Gotta double boil it with some rock sugar for taste and consume it like bird's nest when its hot. It turns into agar when its cooled hee...

Let's see if I still hear the clicking sound in my knee after trying this stuff out....

Have You Had it Green Before?

First time I'm seeing a GREEN tomato and Eating It! hee



crunchy, juicy and not sour at all!

Jenad's Tirumisu attempt!

Are you wondering where is the end product??

It was so delicious that we forgot to take pictures of it!! Yummy!!! Must do it again!

But this time, we'll be more prepared to get a bigger espresso coffee maker... I had to boil like 10times! *tired*

But most definitely well rewarded with a yummy dessert!!

Yeah!

*success*

Cakes from Shang

One evening a few girls were gathering under the starlight with some good cakes from Shangri-La.

They were so yummy!

First one from the left is a Almond Nut Cake, followed by something White Chocolate cake (was it apricot? hmm...), then it was the something chocolate cake and then the very tasty, very sweet Chocolate cake.



They ALL were so yummy! You gotta go try it yourself someday.

Specialized eateries popping up at TP

These are just two of the many that was spotted at TP Central.


Their business seems very popular, its usually sold out by 7pm!!




not sure if there are so many almond lovers out there, I only like them as raw/roasted nuts, never enjoyed those almond jelly, got funny taste!!
someone should try their cakes and let us know if they taste nice!! hee

BBQ!

Yes after a long absence of charcoal burnt food in our diet, Canticle has revived BBQ!!

The night was filled with food, alcohol, games, fun and laughter.... kids had fun playing squash, table tennis, swimming in the pool (Big Brother R included hee) as well as the good dose of running around playing catching.

While there's a strong rotation of chefs at the pit churning out large amount of good quality food to feed us, its the gang of RED that takes the day like a storm!

oops sorry, that was mostly just ME hahahaha
the others in the background are the accessories

After a long time, I finally got to hug and play and take picture with one of my favourite young man!!!!

Lamb Lamb where are you?

Gotta friend who is planning to set up his own F&B catering biz, he's been generously letting us try out his recipes.

This meal was a lamb chops and roast chicken....

Yummy!


next time when he officially open for biz then I blog more of his contact k?

In the meantime, you can continue to salivate.... hahahahha

Eden Cafe

with a name like that, food must be heavenly right?

RIGHT!!
the chef is some ya ya chef from some ya ya hotel and his dishes are unique using a floral theme.

was in numerous media interviews and recommendations.

We tried 3 out of their many many desserts and found them YUMMY! Rating 4.5 Stars!


Chocolate mousse cake, heated up with a soft chocolate interior that will melt away as u break its soft creamy cake apart. It has rum inside I think but can bearly taste it. Chocolate is sweet but not overpowering sweet, hence a great cake for those who are concern with sugar loading.


Next was a peanut-black sesame cake which has a soft cake interior to balance out the rich creamy peanut butter-black sesame exterior. Not something which I would eat daily but would be great for those peanut butter lovers. Dun look down on its petite size, it can certainly fill you up!


last but not the least, sorry for the cut up photo, forgot to take the "before" picture hee

cos its the MOST delicious pastry/cake I've ever tried (after Jane's caka station and the strawberry mousse cake which is my childhood fav....).

This cake is some hibiscus something something cake, it has a light fluffy pastry wrapping the hibiscus interior that is soft like ice cream, overlaid with strawberry sauce, absolutely yummy!

Go Try It! The shop is along Club Street. Cant miss it!

GST made my tabao cost increase by 10%!

Its NOT true that its only a 2% increase in GST. If you think about it, its 2/5 which is 40% increase! Scary hor??

All's well until I found out that buying food at our coffeeshop gets ALOT MORE EXPENSIVE since the GST hike!

We used to enjoy a 2meat+1veggie dish with rice for $2.50, cheap and good which is perfect for hardlanders. Fills our tummy and doesnt harm our purse so much.

Just as our garmen increased their "2%" hike on GST, our tabao lunch boxes also went up alot MORE expensive. What used to feed me well at $2.50, now can barely pay for 2 dishes only! :(

Angri!


guess the cost of this meal? $2.20!!

Yummy food along Thomson Rd

Thomson Road's food scene seems to be building up rapidly over the past few years. Every few months, new stores pop up and serve a new taste. This time we tested the HK style resturant which serves some of my favourite food! They even had a huge plasma tv tuned to channel 48 on SCV to show HK cantonese programs! hee....

check out the yummies....

noodle soup, soup base was very fragent and delicious, can tastes the hours of effort put into boil the soup.


the looks of the porridge is very cantonese also! thick and tasty! After almost finishing the bowl of porridge, Mummy E discovered the egg underneath it! hahaha


This is mee sua, a steal for taste and quantity. Comes with pork chop on the side as well. BabyA could not stop asking for more! Even attempted to abandon his porridge for this mee sua. Soup base was delicious as well!

yummy!

Botak Jones in TP!

Botak Jones has finally arrived in TP!



In the industrial park somemore haha.... one evening, after much hype, we finally went down to try out the food.

To kick start the night, Ad ordered their Hoegarden....

foamy and in a huge glass, yum yum

the food was ok, but the mint sauce that went with the lamb chop was delicious, it went well even with fries hee

there was a bar with a pool table next to it. a pretty relaxing place to chill out if one is not too particular about airconditioning. With a definite place to sit for sure!!

But they are CLOSED on sundays hor....

The Perfect Half Boil Eggs

YES!! No more worries!! NO more over-cooked or under-cooked half boil eggs in the morning!!

Very *embrassingly* we've been having half boiled eggs at the coffeeshop downstairs our house which usually cost $4.20 for 4 half boiled eggs together with a cup of kopi and milo. Which is enough for us to buy a whole tray of eggs and a pack of refillable milo/kopi hee so we figured we might as well do it ourselves.

But hor, we always tend to OVER cook the eggs or Under cook it, seldom ever perfect.

Then the OTHER problem is: we tend to forgot the other 6 eggs in the tray/fridge hahaha

we came along this gadget which is pretty retro cos I remember seeing my aunties and uncles use it in their homes when I was a kid, we thought it'll be fun to try it out at home hee



So after putting in 4 eggs, I filled it up to the line (with 4 eggs icon) with hot water which I just boiled....


as I was watching the water drip away into the container underneath it, I noticed some white stuff coming out of my eggs (2 of them to be exact)!
I broke the eggs!!! ARGH!!



I totally did not expect the eggs to crack when I dropped them into the container, I guess I must have been too anxious to cook them haha

so after all the water got drained away, (leaving behind 1inch which Ad claimed it will NEVER get drained away completely), we removed the eggs and tried it, yum yum, it was abit on the over cooked side but still delicious! hehe

In our 2nd attempt, we had PERFECTLY half-Boiled Eggs!! hahaha

3 reasons contribute to this success...
1. the eggs were NOT broken hee
2. the eggs were chilled (not room temperature like we just bought)
3. we removed the eggs when the water level could not drop any further ie. cannot leave the eggs with the remaining 1inch of water

So cool!

next time u come to our house and wanna eat half boiled eggs, just ASK and you will b given!!

we'll just charge coffeeshop rates hahaha

Jap Dina!

Yeah!! Ad is back on form one of those nights last week, he prepared Theme Dinner hee....

It was Jap NIGHT!!

woah, its been a very long time since we last had themed dinner, besides Instant noodle theme or frozen pizza theme haha

And the food was so yummy, I ate and ate so fast, that I almost got indigestion. hee

yummy food in TP Central

there was this shop that sells great traditional chinese yummies like sticky/glutinous rice and desserts. Abit pricey and barely over 10 different selections. But its still yummy...





i like the water chestnut dessert *slurp*

Yummy Oxtail

Ad's passion for cooking never ceases, his constantly works on perfectly certain dishes, this entry is about the PERFECT oxtail stew that he prepared... yum yum



lucky I caught the picture early, because it was totally wiped out at the end of dinner! haha

so folks out there interested in preparing a solid solid oxtail stew, get the recipe from AD!

I'm hungry

dunno who i'm hungry v v often these days, take my breakfast around 7am and by 10am my stomach is screaming for more FOOD!

even if i were to cheong down to the canteen to fill my stomach up, most of the stall vendors are just starting to prepare for the lunch crowd, way to early to have proper food at 10am.

Besides the walk to and fro the canteen will take over 30mins with eating time included, seems like a pretty long time away from the desk.

So my best solution is to bring snacks and titbits to my desk ha ha ha

(this helps in keeping up the imagine of snacking-queen) :)

Happy Grilling

One of the things that Ad loved to do is to cook!

His latest fetish is to grill stuff.... why because after eating delicious beef, he went on to research about how to grill them the PERFECT way. He found out... not only does he need fresh beef to have fantastic tasting beef, he'll also need a grill pan to cook it to perfection.

(I secretly think that its his excuse to go SHOPPING for MORE kitchen stuff!!!)

Nonetheless, he found his perfect grill pan.... one that has got a temperature sensor (to tell you when the pan is HOT), one that has got grooves that allow the oil from the meat to flow out of the meat so that the meat would taste yummy and best of all, it has a circular rim around the outer zone to drain away the oil that oozes out of the meat. So its infact healthier to get the grilled meat!

(because in the real bbq/ outdoor grill condition, its over a live fire where the oil can drip onto the charcoal, so it wont go back into the meat...)

Hence the ultimate Tefal round grill pan (dun be fooled by the square ones, they do not have the oil oozing out, being drained away function!)


can you see that the red tefel logo is almost all RED? You cannot see the lines anymore, so it means the pan is really hot hot now, good time to put the meat onto the grill pan. (its quite dummy proof lah... plus its non-stick, so dun even need to put oil on this pan, can save more$$)

For our virgin use of this grill pan, we have Salmon! yummy!!! It was with the recipe that came with the grill pan, so it worked wonderfully well, we loved it!

Salmon grill: fresh slice of salmon, coated with a thin layer of olive oil, light salt & black pepper.
Grill 3mins on one side, 2mins on the other. or until the skin turns crispy brown.... if its a thick slice of salmon, then you may have to cook it abit longer...



after cooking... check out how happy Ad is...



jenad food

Nuts over doNuts

There seems to be a new craz in town. First it was the bubble tea, then came the papa beard now its doNuts!

This long crowd of more than 20 people in line, stopping human traffic in the T-junction was hard to miss at the new Raffles City basement.



And when you look up at their menu, you would think that they are copying the famous american Krispy Creme....


*tsk* *tsk*

nothing beats a good warm donut... have tried one really good one that leaves you savouring for more?

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