Friend's wedding dinner @ Qian Xi (Farrer Park)

Recently I had attended a friend wedding at the Qian Xi restaurant located at Farrer Park. It was a nine course dinner.

1. Suckling Pig Cold dish
2. Braised Shark Fin Soup with Crab Meat
3. Roasted Crispy Chicken
4. Steamed Red Garoupa
5. Braised Duck with Sea Cucumber
6. Fried Prawn with Cereal
7. Braised Abalone with Spinach
8. Fried Rice in Lotus Leaf
9. Yam paste with Gingko Nut

The first dish is the cold dish. I found the jelly fish a bit too sweet for my liking. The rest of the items is ok, nothing memorable.

The next dish is the shark fin. They are quite generous with the sharfin and the crab meat. Me really enjoyed it.

The third dish is the crispy chicken.

The following dish is the steamed red Garoupa.

The above is the sea cucumber and the duck meat. I find this dish quite yummy as I liked duck prepared using this method.

The fried prawn and cereal. This was excellent. The prawns were big and crispy that you could eat the outer shell. The best was the cereal. In the end, it turned out everyone wanted the cereal more than the prawns !

Braised abalone with Spinach. Nothing outstanding

Fried rice in lotus leaf ( a dish nowadays more popular @ wedding dinner)

I find that overall the dishes was ok and only one or two dishes really stand out.

Dinner at Paradise Inn @ Sommerset 313 B4

In recent times, there has been a lot of new malls that have taken root along Orchard Road. Example are the iconic Orchard Ion as well as Orchard Central and Sommerset 313. These new malls have a lot of new and exciting eatries for foodies to explore.

Recently, my friend and I visited Paradise Inn which is @ Sommerset 313 B4 located near the escalator. It is operated by the Paradise Group which also have outlets at other places like the Singapore Flyer.

The below is the snapshot of their opening page to their menu.

We decided to order 3 dishes to share and try out. The dishes are seafood with tofu and pork floss on top of it, sweet and sour pork and chicken fried with young ginger.

The first dish is the chicken fried with young ginger. The chicken is flavoured with the ginger and deep fried. The meat is very flavourful with the taste of the ginger and the meat is very tender.
This dish was excellent.

The next dish is the seafood tofu with the pork floss. The seafood gravy was very good and it went exceptionally well with the rice. The tofu is very soft and has a melt in your mouth texture when you bite into it.

The last dish is the sweet and sour pork which is absolutely delicious.

The food were excellent and match or exceeded our expectation. The only downside is the rice serving is very small. Even my friend who is not a big eater also required 2 servings of the rice.

The pricing is quite reasonable as it is about slightly more expensive than a zhi char. This is a place I would recommend people to go and try :)

Random post about Yahoo Fantasy Football

I am sure some of the people watching the BPL do play some of the online Fantasy League games where you either pick 11 players or 14 players from the pool of all available players in the BPL. The choice of players will be limited based on a 100 pts system.

The objective of the game is to pick the individual players whom you think will perform the best for a particular week. The only constraint as mention above is the whole team total worth is 100 pts.

I have already played it for 2 seasons yet I still not able to get the hang of it.
It seems this game favour players who keep on shooting since the points awarded for a goal is 7 pts but an assist is only 3 pts. Playing this game makes us support more on individual then an overall team performance.

I have tried choosing players where the allocation is focus on two areas (striker and midfielder) and for the rest of the position it is really picking the players to fill the numbers. I have also tried going for an all rounder team allocation. However none seem to work well :(

If there are any other people who is playing this game and is able to advice on the best strategy I am all ears for it :)

Lunch at Angus Steak House (Takashimaya)

These days fusion food is getting more popular as it seems people are more willing to experiment the various cooking techniques across different culture with existing/new ingredients. A good example is the use of Wasabi in Chinese cuisine.


Angus House can be considered as a fusion food as their menu offering is mainly based on American and Italian dishes but there is a fusion of Japanese cuisine in the preparation of the dishes.


The decoration of the place is classy and spacious. The place has a warm ambience created by the background music from the auto-piano shown in the background of the below photo as well as the warm rays of light gently propagate from the exterior.





The below photo is the table setting.

We ordered their set meal to try out. Their lunch set meal consists of a soup of the day, a salad, a main dish and a dessert.

The first dish to arrive is the Japanese theme salad. It is a bit different from the normal salad in the sense the dressing instead of thousland island dressing, they used a soy sauce based as the dressing. Guess it will be more healthy :)

The next item is the day soup which happen to be mushroom soup that day. It was creamy and very rich in taste. Loved it

The soup also came with some toasted bread as shown below.

The below are some of the main courses that we tried.

The first one is the fish and chips. The fish was very tasty. The only downside is the portion is not so huge. Would have been better if there is one more slice.

The second one is the black pepper steak. As I am not a beef eater so not able to comment about the taste but like the arrangement.

The next one is the seafood platter. The seafood were really excellent but the serving is really too little :( The seafood were grilled and then a very excellent sauce is used to tied the dish together.

The last main dish was the Japanese style spaghetti with scallop and crab roe. This is my favourite dish. As I am not really a cheese person, this dish is perfect for me. The stock of the spaghetti is really light on the palate and it fits perfectly with the seafood in the dish.

Recalling this dish is giving a urge to go there and have it again.

The last item is the day dessert. It is a slice of a cake with some custard cream if I recall correctly.

The taste of the dishes were excellent and the service was also quite prompt. It is quite a nice place to have a quiet dinner. The only downside as can be seen is on the portioning.

Jumbo at Dempsy

The following review is about Jumbo at Dempsy. The below is the photo taken at the entrance of the place. You are able to choose to dine in the air con dining hall or the outdoor area.

When we arrived at the place, due to the high number of reservation, the only seats available are in the outdoor section. We decided to order a couple of dishes to try out.

The first dish was the deep fried squid with honey. It was fried to a crisp and it was very crunchy. If you loved sweet and crunchy stuff, you will really loved it.

The second dish is the fried boneless chicken. It was quite good as well as it was not too oily.

The third dish is the deep fried prawns with cereal. It was very fragrant and the prawn is also big and juicy as can be seen in the photo below. It was an excellent dish.

The last dish was a home made tofu dish with mushroom. The tofu is mixed with spinach to give the top surface the greenish appearance. The tofu is very smooth and the vege compliemented with the taste of the dish.

The food was good and the service was also not too bad. It was an enjoyable meal.

There is also a lot of other nice eateries in the Dempsy area.

As anyone tried some of the eateries there, do share your experience :)

Recent trip to Phuket

This is about my short trip to Phuket about 5 months ago.

It was a free and easy trip and was an opportunity to laze about and enjoy the slower pace of life there :)

We arrived in Phuket in the late afternoon and had our dinner at one of the seafood restaurant along the seaside. We had a couple of seafood dishes and a vege for dinner.

Pineapple Juice in the foreground

Chilli squid, grilled plain lobster and grilled prawns

Closed up view of the lobster. It looks plain but the lobster was grilled very nicely and the taste of the meat was wonderful.

Closed up view of the grilled prawns. It was not that good. Felt that it's taste was a bit too blend.

Stired fried squid with chilli. This dish was very good. Favourite dish :)

Stired fried kang kong with chilli. It is not spicy enough :(

For the next 2 morning breakfast, we had the buffet spread provided by the hotel.

It was quite a good spread as it was a mixture of local food and international breakfast.

Hot items selection which range from sausages/ham/pancake to fried koay teow (thai style) and some stired fried local dishes.

Fruits and desert selection. The pineapple were super sweet. Yummy!

Cold cuts/cheese and cerel selection

Bread selections. Me prefer the one I had in Holland.

After which we went for a day tour around phuket island. We were brought to some of their local places of religion as well as to the highest point on phuket island. The picture below was taken there. We also managed to go to a cashew nut factory to observe the manufacturing process for the cashew nut.

After the tour, the local guide brought us to a local coffee shop for lunch. We had their local noodle dish which is a stired fried noodle as well as pork satay and pork intestine satay which are shown below.

Stired fried noodles with fish cake, sotong and prawns. It was ok.

Pork satay and Pork intestine satay. This was a favourite of mine and really enjoyed it. The only downside is that the pork was too thinly sliced hence it was not so juicy.

After lunch, we proceeded to walk the various street stalls and the shopping areas along the beach front. We had our dinner at one of the more modern shopping belts. The below photo is the water display in front of the restaurant that we had our dinner.

It was a quite well done up Thai Restaurant. We ordered some appertizer and main dishes to try out. In general, all the dishes were quite good though I had a few favourites.

Prawn toast. I loved this dish it was crisp on the outside and the interior is full of the prawn flavour.

Tom Yum soup in the background and squid cooked with garlic. I liked the squid dish but not so keen on the Tom Yum Soup.

Egg stirred fried with pork.

Kang Kong fried with garlic

Deep fried fish with curry sauce. This was surprising good.

Pineapple Rice. It was not very good as I felt the rice did not have enough of the pineapple flavour.

Dinner at Thai accent ( Vivocity lvl 2)

After spending the day at Sentosa, we decided to proceed to vivocity for dinner. At the recommendation of one of my friend, we decided to have Thai food as he told us it was quite good and the price was quite reasonable.

When we reached the place, there was a slight queue in front of us which is a relief as I was hungry and was not looking forward to having to queue a long time to go in.

Anyway we were ushered in a short while and actually the dining space available there is quite a lot.

The below are the dishes the group ordered:

Basil leaves stirred fried with chicken

Fried koay teow thai style.

This dish was very well prepared and it was delicious.

Pineapple rice with seafood.

I find it very tasty and enjoyed it a lot.

Green curry chicken

Stirred fried beef
Seafood tom yam soup which was very nice.

In general, the food was very good and the service was also quite prompt for a busy saturday. I also liked that they also took time to answer any clarification that you may have about their dishes. It was quite a pleasant experience.