Visit to a unique stall in Lucky Plaza

This is another old entry which I am trying to update now.

It was a visit to Orchard Road few months back and we were passing Lucky Plaza and my fren suggested to go and try a small eatery in Lucky Plaza. He mention you can try things like shark fin soup and abalone dish at under 10 bucks.

Out of curiosity, we went to the eatery. It was called Rabbit brand Seafood Delicacies. It is located if i recall correctly on level 2. The below is the screenshot of the menu.

The three of us each ordered different set menus each for variety.

The picture below is the Buddha Jump Over The Wall set menu.
I tried the soup and it was not bad.

My other fren had the shark fin soup set.
Myself I had the abalone noodle. I liked the noodle with the gravy and the special chili paste.

For the abalone, I not able to comment too much as not an expert on it. I liked the noodle so much I ordered another plate. ( Me noodle crazy :) )

Anyway it was an interesting experience and was quite value for money especially for the food you get in the city.

Only problem is there is limited seating and is quite full during my visit.

(Guess news spread fast)

Visit to Peach Blossom at Marina Mandarin Hotel

This is a review of a visit to the Peach Blossom restaurant to try out their dim sum Al carte buffet.

It is only available on the weekend afternoon from 12 noon to 3pm. If you are planning to go, it would be better to give a call a day before the visit to book a table as it is quite occupied.
The menu if i recall had about 30 plus items and there is a selection of deserts although it is limited to one order per person.

The below picture is the table layout.
The below is the stand for the teapot, quite interesting to me as first time see the teapot with a warmer below.
The following pictures are some of the fotos for the dim sum items we ordered. There were more items but was too busy eating and forgot to take foto.

The first item is the har gao or steamed prawn dumpling. It was quite ok. The filling was sufficient and the prawns is fresh and juicy.

The next item is the char siew chee chong fun. The texture was very smooth and went well with the filling.
The below is one of the unique fried items but have forgotten what it is.
The following two pictures are a snap shot of the various items that we had that day.

After which we decided to order the sweets to try out and the below are the fotos.

In general, the food was excellent although the service was a bit slow partly due to the large crowd of people in the restaurant at the time.

It is a place worth visiting again :)

Wedding Lunch at Si Chuan Dou Hua

This is my first entry in a long while as have been caught very occupied with work as well as playing some online games :)


Anyway this review is about the wedding lunch I attended recently. It was held at the Park Royal hotel ball room and the food was supplied by Si Chuan Dou Hua Restaurant.


The wedding was a very elaborate affair and especially like the entrance portion.


Firstly have to thank the people sitting at the same day as me for the inconvenience of giving me time to take fotos of almost all the dishes.


The first dish to arrive is of course the cold dish. They termed it as Dou Hua Combination Platter. It comprises of Thai Style Silver Fish, Shark Fin fried with Egg, Salad Prawn, Jelly Fish and Deep Fried Soft Shell Crab.



I liked the soft shell crab personally.





The next dish is the 8 treasure seafood soup. It consists of dried scallop/abalone, sea cucumber, crab roe, fresh prawns, crab meat, spinach juice and a superior soup base as per stated in the menu.



The soup was actually quite nice with the predominant flavour of the Spinach and the prawn and crad flavour. I must be unlucky as not able to find the abalone :(

Steamed Red Garoupa.

The people were quite skillful to remove the bones of the fish. Nothing outstanding for the taste as to me it is just a steamed fish.

The next dish is the Braised Sea cucumber and duck stuffed with chestnut. This dish was quite good. The meat of the duck was tender and it went well with the sea cucumber. Only think is I seem not able to find the chestnut.

The below is the spicy seafood combination. The quality of the picture for the below is a bit blur.

Anway it is a dish where there is fish slices, cuttlefish and prawns cooked in a spicy sause. Do not let the color of the dish think that it is a very spicy dish. Actually it is not very spicy and it is a bit on the sweet side with a tinge of spicyness. It went well with the Fried Man Tou though. ( Something like the Chilli crab gravy)
The below is the steam prawns in chinese wine. It was ok.
As I was away from the table when they serve the baked pine seed rice in lotus leave, hence only able to capture what was left after they serve each person one bowl. For the tastewise, it was nothing really outstanding.

The last dish is the double boiled Hasma with red dates and lotus seeds.

Interesting website from Taiwan

The below link is a fren who send it to me and I found it quite interesting.

http://tw.superfate.com/channel_fortune/

This link to a website which from considering your time of birth predict your fortune as well as other aspects in life.

Interesting for trying out though not sure how much is true.

Do give it a try. Some more you are able to translact to the English version as well.

Opinion on Euro 2008

Tonight is the final between Germany vs Spain. It should be an entertaining final as both teams have been playing attacking football throughout the tournament.

One of the more refreshing thing in this tournament is the determination by the majority of teams to play attacking football. They will not sit back after taking a goal lead. They will go for the kill and try to claim a decisive win.

In this tournament, one of the surprise so far is the performance of the Russian team. Excluding the first match and the semi final defect both times to Spain, they were really outstanding against the rest of the teams. One of the best matches was the Holland vs Russia game. It was end to end stuff and the passing movement was so fluid.

The other surprise team is tonight finalist Spain. The usual under achiever is playing some of the most fluid football and in my opinion when Cesc Fabregas is playing Spain play a level of football that no team could cope with.

The disappointing teams in this tournament are some of the big guns such as the aging Italy and France sides as well as the Czeh republic.

For the first two teams, I felt that they were counting on too many of their aging stars to pull them through. This is especially true for France which had many of the first team players were from previous world cup and euro teams.

For the Czeh side, they were unlucky in their final game vs Germany as I felt that they had a very strong midfield especially with Modric in the team. He is really outstanding and will be a great addition for Spurs in the coming season in the EPL.

There is no real standout player in this tournament so far and it seems like the team is been given precedence ahead of individualism.

May the best team win the final

Lunch at Sabai ( Thai Cuisine)

This is really a very belated article as have not work on it since April.

I had brought my mum and relatives to the Thai restaurant located at Takashimaya level 4. The name of the restaurant is Sabai and it was featured in a newspaper review. Hence the decision to bring them there as firstly my mum like Thai food and secondly going to try a new place.

The below is a picture of the entrance.

A picture of one of the displays in the interior of the place.

After reviewing the menu, we decided to order a few items to share which are shown in the following photos.

The first dish to arrive is the seafood tom yum soup. The soup is delivered on top of a flame to ensure the soup is still hot when is served to us.

As can be seen, the soup is very clear which does not look very hot. However believe me when we had the soup it was really spicy. The soup was spicy enough and it had a sufficient sourness which give a very strong flavour and unforgettable flavour.

This was really a very excellent soup.

The next dish is the chicken fried with dried chili. This chicken was deep fried to a crisp and it went well with the dried chili.
The next dish is the boneless whole grouper cooked in Thai sauce. This dish was one of the best I had. They had debone the fish from the tail to nearly the head and they had curved up the meat and deep fried it. Hence from the fist glance of the picture, it looks like there is only the fish head.

The meat was very tender on the interior in spite of the exterior was very crispy and the sauce complimented the fish taste very well.

The below is the scallop cooked in a dry curry style. This was the dish which was not up to the expectation. There was nothing outstanding in this dish.

The below is the sambal Kang Kong. It was quite good.


The below is the deset buffet spread which is charged at 8 bucks. There is about 15 different desert items to choose from. My family really love the desert as it was very well prepared especially for the deserts which contained coconut milk.

In my opinion, if you are a desert loving person, you should have it. The sequent photos are some of the items that were taken from the selection.

In summary, my family really enjoyed the food and mention it was one of the best Thai food they have had. The majority of the dishes were excellent. The only downside is the pricing is on the expensive range.

Sample of local food (Bukit Timah Hawker Centre)

This article is about my recent visit to the Bukit Timah Hawker Centre. Actually it was my first visit there. It is a two storey building with the ground floor been a traditional wet market ( less common nowadays) and the second floor is the hawker centre.

The hawker centre had about 40 stalls selling a variety of local delights. The below is what my frens and I had for lunch.

The below is the wonton and char siew noodle. The noodles' texture was quite good and the sauce base of black sauce and chilli compliment the noodles quite nicely. The char siew is also quite good.
The next picture is the fried carrot cake. This version is the one fried without the sweet sauce. As can be seen below, the exterior is fried to a crisp and the inside is soft and moist. ( unlike the sweet version)

The one that we bought was actually quite good although it would have been better if the exterior is a bit more crispy.

The following picture is the satay been hoon. It seem to be very popular as there was a long queue of people. My fren commented that the flavour was very good and was worth eating. ( should try it out next time, hopefully the queue is not so long)
The below is the char kuey teow. ( Singapore version) It was fried with cockles and fish cake and most importnatly it was fried with lard which give the dish the extra kick. It was alright although I still prefer the penang style of char kuey teow.
The below is the rojak. This is something quite commonly found in hawker centre. This is a chinese version. There is also the Indian rojak which is something like the chinese Ngo Hiang where there are a lot of fried items.
The last picture is a local desert.

Anyway I feel that if you happen to be in the area, you could drop by and try the large variety of local delights.