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Sunday, May 23, 2010

JPot

Moi just couldn't have enough of it. I went back for the 5th time in 2 months time. Hahahaha! The steamboat portion was just nice and we could have it ala-cart instead of stuffing ourselves with buffet. Quality of ingredients are good and fresh not like the usual steamboat place where the fish and meat might not necessary be very fresh. ON top, it has a great variety of soup base to try. I would highly recommend the porridge soup and the Jumbo superior soup stock (no msg) and so yummy yummy. Moi doesn't get the dry-ness in throat after drinking bowls and bowls of soup.

(2) Marinated Chicken: It comes with a tiny quail egg that you need to break it and marinate the chicken with it.
(4) Bean curd skin: Unique tasting. Moi must order minimum 2 every visit. Whisk the beancurd skin into the soup once and take it out immediately. This will retain it crispy-ness and yet allow the soup taste to soak into the skin. Really divine. LOVE IT.
(5) Seafood platter: $30 plus but comes with 6 pcs of big prawns, scallops, fish, clam slices, etc. Very good value for money. And extremely fish.
(8) Fried fish skin: Another "killer" like the bean curd skin. So crispy that it just breaks with every bite.
(9) Dim sum combo: A little disappointing. Size is too miniature. You wonder if the dim sum is for barbie.
(10) Dessert: mango ice: This is like the taiwanese shaved ice dessert. The white fluffy things are all shaved ice. COLD and just melt in your mouth. YUMMY!!
(11) Fish glue : Kids will love this. It felt like cake icing.
(12) Sauce : The sauce is really unique. And they got 3 variations - spicy, garlic chili normal. And it's refillable.

In clockwise starting Top left corner : (1) Jpot Superior soup (2) Marinated chicken (3) Yong tou fu combo (4) Bean curd skin (5) Spinach (5) Seafood platter (7) Prawns and kurobuta slices (8) Fried fish skin (9) Dim sum combo (10) Dessert: mango ice

(11) Fish glue (Jumbo hand-made minced fish)

(12) Jumbo signature sauce

JPot
1 HarbourFront Walk
#01-53 VivoCity (Lobby F)
Tel : 6273 3536
Website : www.jpot.com.sg

Sushi Tei

My previous visit was for work and this time was for pleasure. I felt the service standard dipped a little but sushi was still fresh and nice. Nowadays hardly have the opportunity to have sushi, sashimi and natto for meal so it felt really great to enjoy this meal.

Oyako in Japanese, means Parent (Oya) and Child (Ko) so Salmon Oyako-don is a combination of salmon fish (parent) plus egg (child). Interesting? Yuzu is a little sour, and sweet with a very refreshing and tangerine taste.

In clockwise starting Top left corner : (1) Hamachi shioyaki (broiled yellowtail cheek) (2) natto maguro (fermented soya beans with tuna (3) Salmon oyako-don (4) yuzu (pomelo) with biscuit

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Tatsu Sushi

It does felt really rather good that an overseas ex-supplier actually gave me a ring to ask me for lunch while he dropped in for a business trip recently. Well, at my new workplace, unfortunately, I do not have that leisure long lunch hour that I used to enjoy at my previous company so Moi had to tell NoNo-san that it got to quick and near my workplace. And the sweet him did oblige. ^_-) arigatou!

So we ventured to Tatsu Sushi inside Chijmes for lunch. This was Moi's second visit as I recalled after my first visit, I felt this place thought serve very fresh and nice sushi and sashimi, is really too pricey. Maybe it was with economic downturn, I was surprised to enjoy my bara chirashi sushi set at $18. Bara chirashi sushi is actually diced version of chirashi sushi and chirashi sushi is like your usual rice-don set except that instead of pork cutlet or chicken on top, you got scattered sushi on top. Not only was sushi fresh and tasty, the vinegar sauce tasted just nice.

Yummy yummy!! Thanks NoNo-san!!

Tatsu Sushi/Tatsu Sakae Bar
30 Victoria Street
#01-16/18 Chijmes
Tel: 6332 5868

Operating Hour
12pm - 2:30pm
6:30pm - 10:30pm

Black Angus

Quite a secular little place so when Bread Marmas was raving to me about this place, I felt I really need to go take a look. It was a little obscure so we went down a little dat earlier to ensure we have enough time to get lost. I like the serenity, the quietness, the earth fresh smell.....

located just opposite NUS Law campus

cosy...inside

Can't recall exactly what we had cause I didn't manage to capture any shots. But definitely must tried their Wild Wild West Onion. It was so addictive but Moi felt the portion was a little too huge so if you are not with a big group, it will be hard to have this huge onion dish by yourself.

We ordered the Rib Eye Beef, Chicken and Prime Ribs. Black Angus is supposed to be famous for their beef but the feedback I got was mediocre. I felt the chicken was a bit too dry but though the skin was roasted rather evenly. The Prime ribs bowled over SuSe who thought it tasted so much better than Tony Romas... i felt it was rather comparable.

However I felt the tranquil ambience and environment does make the food taste more pleasing and nice..well of course the company does play a good part too. Kudos to Goku and ChiChi with their new additions. ^_-)

Stuart Anderson's Black Angus
NUS Bukit Timah Campus, Faculty of Law
1D Cluny Road, House 4
Tel : 6468-1191
Website : http://www.blackangussg.com/

Friday, May 01, 2009

Rojak?

Well this place got a 8 on hungrygowhere.com but for Moi it will rank much lower in terms of quality and price. The food was not too bad but for that price, Moi will expect a better quality service and food. The chef tries too hard to be unique (Japanese and french fusion) that he is losing the idea what basis food requires. Well, let's said, they could be better.

In clockwise starting Top left corner : (1) bread with cream and caviar (2) Japanese tofu with plum sauce (4) Sushi with miso soup (5) lobster soup (6) soba dish topped with grated dry mullet roe (bottarga) (7) Some kind of fish brain (8) Duck (9) fried grains (rice) (10) Pumpkin soup

The ten course meal comes up to $138+++ per pax. I think it's some kind of promotion. Moi didn't manage to take down the names of the dishes so can't recall the dishes well.

Shibaken French Cuisine
1 Nanson Road
#02-02A The Gallery Hotel
Tel: 6836 1613

Opening hours
Tue - Sun, 6.30pm - 11pm
Closed on Sat

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Sunset Grill and Pub

Had long heard about this secluded place from A-De and had wanted to try her highly recommended super spicy buffalo wings. Well it's really unbelievable to be able to find such a secluded restaurant (FULL OF GUESTS) in this super extremely ulu part of Singapore.

Despite detailed directions from the internet, we still got lost for quite a while trying to get to this secluded place. Moi fell in love with this place immediately for the simplicity, for the laid back environment, the lovely sunset and awesome feeling of seeing the planes up close and personal.

kampong place got lots of mosquitoes. Thanks goodness got mosquitoes coil

I am bored... =p

Chilled your beer in tin of ice

Ginger Ale for the little boy

Oh...there is a beef and chicken version. The mini burgers are really yummy yummy. We like this dish so much. Though the waitress made a mistake and we needed to wait quite a while. The combo set was a little disappointed though, the baby ribs and the chicken thighs were rather dry.

Mini chicken burgers

Baby ribs and Chicken combo

Well, the chili for the buffalo wings was really SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Shiok!!! Moi's lips were on flames but I still LOVE them so much. The spiciness can actually be determined from a scale of 1-10. For starters, they recommended Level 3 spicy. The mini mushrooms were rather refreshing too.

Famous Spicy Buffalo Wings - Level 3

Fried Mushrooms

And will I come back again?? Definitely!!

oopss.. and a little advice to drivers. Drive carefully cause this place is so super ulu and badly lilted. We saw a car got one of its wheels inside the big drain at the side.

Sunset Grill and Pub
140B Piccadilly, Seletar Air Base, East Camp
(Near Singapore Flying Club / College)
(from Piccadilly, turn into Lambeth Walk, Hampstead Gardens, Western Ave, into East Camp, all the way to Singapore Flying Club)
Tel: 6482 0244

Opening hours
Daily 4pm to 10pm
Closed on Tuesdays

Back to School

Didnt know this place exists, if not that we wanted to catch the local movie,18 grams of love @ Sinema.

It brings such nostalgic feelings of school days. Really nice place....

And so how much does love weigh? 10 grams for the envelope and 8 grams for the letter. In this new age times, when email, sms, mobile phones gave instant communication, these 18 grams serve more sincerity and meaning as a tool of communication. Really admire Director Han Yew Kwang talents to put forth such a meaningful movie and rather sad that this movie did not make it to the BIG screen because of budget issue. It's a thinking movie, a movie that one can relate to, a movie that send you home thinking about the importance of communication between husband and wife. And the need to constantly remind each other and to think back the very first reason when you fell in love and wants to marry with your better half. A wonderful movie.

Well, there is timber @ old school and a quieter restaurant, Chalk located nearby. We decided to try CHALK..... (not CHAIR, Uncle) ^_-) The food was just DAT..nothing special but ambience was nice.

Outdoor

Indoor

Pizza was rather pleasing as it was served on thin bread. Moi quite like it especially the chicken sausages pizza (pic not included).

Parma ham Pizza

Spaghetti was too dry for Moi's liking.

Carbonara

Chalk
11 Mount Sophia #01-03
Tel: 6883 2120

Opening Hours
Daily 12pm - 3pm, 6.30pm - 10.30pm

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Brewerkz ReRevisited

The thing about dinning at Brewerkz, you never get "tired" with the atmosphere...good beer, junk food (translated as high calorie, unhealthy but irresistibly tasty food) and good company. For a gang of three, we had...