Ying Ying Beef Noodle

I'm really thankful to God (and my sis) that I have additional tuition near Old Airport Road hawker centre. Hurrah to additional income! Hurrah to the prospect of tasting good food!

I usually go there to have dinner before giving tuition, if the time allows. At first, I was always in a rush, so I always bought something quickly prepared and can be eaten fast, like the Special Chicken Curry Rice from "Jack's Place" stall. It's quick, nice and within reasonable price ($3.5), but it's not that healthy. The combination of chicken cutlet and curry and eating it every Wednesday and Friday frightens me as time goes by, especially with my cholesterol level history. Yeah, can you believe it, the 48-kg me has a high cholesterol level. Actually, it's just slightly above the 200 limit, so it's not that high, right? Right??

I decided that I gotta survey around and find other stalls selling decent food at decent price. One evening, I didn't feel so well and actually felt like throwing up. At time like this, usually I can only eat porridge, but I couldn't find a stall that open and sell appetizing porridge.

I remembered there's a stall selling beef brisket noodle that looks very nice. Unfortunately it closed that day. I walked around some more and found this stall. It doesn't really look like it's going to be delicious because of the signage. Come on, take a look at it. It actually looks like it's selling fresh milk to me. But I thought, why not?

I ordered beef ball kwetiaw noodle soup. You can choose the types of noodle you want. They have yellow noodle, kwetiaw, mee kia and mee pok (I think) and rice vermicelli. They give quite generous numbers of beef balls. Usually, you either have numerous beef balls but small in size or a few but big. But I get the best of both worlds from this stall. And in a blink of an eye, it's ready.

It has a very reasonable price too ($4), like most stalls there except one or two. And mmmm... the warm soup and tasty beef balls calmed down my stomach. The broth is not that thick but it's nice and warm (nearly scalding hot, but who cares). The beef balls taste similar to those at NTU canteen 2. My taste bud is not like a gourmet (and I was pretty sick, mind you), so I might be wrong. Anyway, because I'm just like most other normal human beings, I can safely say that the food is absolutely edible and won't disappoint you with that price :)

So, next time you're at Old Airport hawker centre, be sure to pay a visit.

*Update on 13 Jan 2014
I visited the shop again to try their dry beef ball noodle. It's not as nice as their beef ball soup noodle though :(

Dry beef ball noodle

Smoulder

As a farewell token for my (ex-)colleagues, I bought chocolate lava cakes from Smoulder. At first, I just wanted to buy simple snacks from Old Chang Kee or the likes, but since there's no nearby OCK outlet near my office and my break time was limited, I decided to look for some dessert shops nearby office from hungrygowhere.com.

I stumbled upon Smoulder, which was placed 1^st in my search result. Lucky the place is very near office, within 15-minute walk to and fro office, plus buying time.

I like their website (http://www.smoulder.it), though it gets a little bit confusing when you scroll down. Almost all the flavour are listed there.

I went to their main outlet at China Square Food Centre and bought a combination of 9pc and 3 pc boxes. Yeah, they have an unusual package for ordering. I thought they would offer the normal half dozen / a dozen pricing.

The available flavours at the outlet vary a bit from what is listed in the website. There are additional oreo and milk chocolate; less mocha and raspberry flavours. The rest are the same as in the website. I bought all the available flavours there.

I named the signature chocolate and dark chocolate wrongly in the picture. They are supposed to be the opposite.

They are best eaten warm. They come in small sizes, so those with large mouth can eat one whole piece at one go. For me, I still need to bite twice. Actually I can eat it in one mouthful, but it will be very unsightly. And the melting filling is hot. I'm not that good with hot stuff.

I ate the rum raisin, and it's nice! It contains alcohol though. The rest of the office all exclaimed that the cakes were very nice. So, I didn't make a bad decision on buying from Smoulder. All are satisfied.

For those on diet, you can consider to buy this when you are very tempted to eat sweet stuff. At least they come in small sizes, so they won't add too much calories into your body :) You won't feel that guilty :) Just don't buy too many.

Main outlet:
China Square Food Centre
51 Telok Ayer Street #01-04
S048441, Singapore
Phone: +65 6225 6422
Opening hours: Mon-Fri, 8am to 8pm. Closed on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.

Branch:
Raffles City Shopping Centre
252 North Bridge Road #B1-68
S179103, Singapore
Phone: +65 6338 0661
Opening hours: Dailiy, 11am to 10pm

Email: enquiries@smoulder.it
Jobs: careers@smoulder.it

The Gourmet Pie Company

I've passed by this shop numerous times when I went out for lunch in my previous work. The logo and the interior of the shop make me think that the pie will be delicious. But they also make me think that the pie is expensive. And yeah, it is...

Finally, after so many times cancelling to buy, I bought one Chicken Mushroom Pie from the shop. They engrave the initials of the flavor on top of the pie. For Chicken Mushroom flavor, they engrave "CM" on it. The rest of their menu can be seen here.

Inside the menu, they provide canape, snack and hearty pies. I intended to buy the snack size as a trial. When I was in the shop, I didn't know which one is snack or the hearty size; they don't put any sign other than the flavor signs. All pies inside the display look snack size to me, so I just pointed there. How surprised I was when I paid, because that's actually hearty pie! Wow... $8 just for that size.. I felt brokenhearted. My money...

Argh, the marking on top of the pie is barely seen, but it's there.

But it was delicious. The chicken breast chunk was big and I don't know how, but the pie still had some chicken broth inside. I like it. It's best to eat it warm.

They provide meals inside the shop, but I don't know the price. For meals, they serve pies with 2 side dishes (from what I spied on the plate of the only customer eating there at the shop).

Though it's delicious, I think $8 for a pie is still too much. Well, maybe the prime location contributes in the expensive price. Afterall, it's in Boat Quay/Clarke Quay area where a lot of customers swarm in at night for a drink at nearby pubs and restaurants.

They have three branches and the one I went to is the Boat Quay branch.

Boat Quay
72 Circular Road,  Singapore 049426
Telephone: +65 6557 2734 (or Head Office 6570 0094)
Fax: +65 6491 5968 

Opening Hours: 
Mon to Wed: 9.30am – 10.00pm 
Thur to Sat: 9.30am – 11.00pm 
Sun and PH: Close

Serangoon Gardens
myVILLAGE (SERANGOON GARDENS)
#B1-K2, myVillage, 1 Maju Ave
Serangoon Gardens 556679
Telephone: +65 6636 9045 (or Head Office 6570 0094)
Fax: +65 6491 5968

Opening Hours:
Mon to Sun & PH: 10.00am – 10.00pm

North Bridge Road
GREAT VALUE PROMOS ON WINE AND BEER AVAILABLE AT THE NORTH BRIDGE ROAD STORE…

776 North Bridge Road, Singapore 198744
Telephone: +65 6298 8896 (or Head Office 6570 0094)
Fax: +65 6491 5968

Opening Hours:
Mon to Wed: 9.00am – 6.30pm
Thur to Sat: 9.00am – 8.30pm 
Sun & PH: Close

foodiesss (and other thing)

hehe for the past dunno-how-many months, we've been tasting a lot of dessert places. the most visited one is......

tadaa!!

honeymoon dessert!!!

at one time, we went to this dessert place for 4 consecutive weeks! sampe uda nyoba sgala macem mango desserts available in the store. hahaha

lately, soya bean pudding is gaining fame in singapore. so i tried once, from lao ban. hmmm.. just so so... (maybe bcos i don't really like soya bean curd haha)

and... when my surabaya friend came here, we tried one dessert place. very ulu, near leban cafe. i forgot the name :P anyway, the waffle ice cream is nice hehehe.. too ulu, so if by chance we're eating around leban there, maybe going to drop by again.

and and... just last sunday we went to Charlie Brown's cafe. the dessert serving was small compared to the price :( but anyway, we were too full, so we didn't really care hahaha.. they draw snoopy's characters on the cakes and coffee foam! i like it :P

cute righttt.... niat bener. tp ada cetakannya lah pasti hahaha.. left: lava cake (nice!); right: oreo cheesecake (just so so..)

and and and... my sister and i went to watch NANTA show hohohoho.. when i was in 4th year, my korean language teacher recommended us to go and watch NANTA because it is very famous in korea and USA. at that time, no money, so don't bother to look for the show hahaha.. now, got a bit of money, so just try :p and it's good! 

ergh.. a bit blur.. zoomed too much :p

they mix all sorts of performance inside. they have magic show, ballroom dance, acrobatics, comedy, pantomime, etc. however, the main performance is still the korean traditional percussion music (사물놀이), though not using the traditional instruments. they use kitchen utensils! and it's actually a musical, so they have a story going on. the story which unified the whole performance is about 3 cooks trying to prepare a wedding banquet within a limited time. BUT, the incompetent head chef's nephew is going to be working with them. for complete story and description, can read here

well.. if there's a new interesting musical, surely we're going to watch again, as long as the price is still within budget :p

foodiess

di zaman2 pengangguran yg lama banget (untung kasi tuition, klo ga ud super bokek), i cook my own lunch and dinner during weekdays. weekends saatnya makan makanan berdosa sama org2 gereja hahaha.. lately i didn't cook as often as i used to, soalnya ud mau masuk kerja lagi. i managed to take photos of 6 of them. the rest are not so good looking, so i deleted the photos haha.

masa awal2 sering bikin makanan di atas, gampang sih haha

i tried korean cuisine after getting bored with the usual :p

i like 닭볶음탕 (spicy braised chicken) a lot! it's easy and super nice hahaha.. i followed the recipe from maangchi.com/recipe. she has a lot of easy-to-make korean food.

i also cooked pasta and jangan asem, but they are not so good looking when i took photo of them hahaha.

in anyway, cooking really reduce my dining expenses a lot! but after starting work, i won't have time anymore :p

I dropped my new iphone T.T when it was just a few days old T.T hiksuuu...

Anywayy... these 2 days i was attending meeting whole day. no time to do my paper work or do the tender questionnaire i'm supposed to finish this afternoon? hahahah.. aiohhh.. tmrw sure kena whack by heerrr @.@ 어떻게요???? huaaanngggg...

suddenly i miss canteen 9 western food so bad.. just now i dabao chicken cutlet from the hawker center behind my place. it was awful. they packed it hastily, my fries were all over the chicken and coleslaw and the red beans. the chicken was almost burnt @.@ and the fries tasted bitter, not salty at all!! even tho i ate it w/ chilli sauce, i still can taste the awfulness. groaarrrrr...

the canteen 9 chicken cutlet on the other hand is superb!! can order w/ rice and fries together, the sauce is super nice and it only costs around $3.5 last time.. how i wish i could go back there and eat @.@ other menu also nice :) cheap, full, and delicious. hohohoho...

hiks.. laper.. what to eat T.T

masak masaaakkkk

yak, berhubung duit di kantong makin mepet.. maka.. akhir2 ini aku masak sendiri buat hemat duit, hahahahaa.. lmyn hemat duit sih, tp ga hemat waktu, huhuhuhu.. buat masak+cuci2, perlu waktu total 3 jem -.- luar biasa...

hehehe.. kmrn2 ini berhasil masak lmyn macem2 sih.. tp dr smua masakan, yg paling sering dimasak adalaaaaahhhhh.. :

orak-arik wortel + sosis tumis saos bbq...
mrk berdua yg paling gampang dimasak sih, paling cepet jg, setengah jem beres..

berikut ini lah hasil masakannyaaa... masi jelek sih rupanya, hahah.. yg penting rasa lah ya..

ini nasi goreng pake telor+sosis+wortel, dimasak pake saos bbq, hahahha :D enak sih, tp mnrtku kurang asin.. klo buat org laen sih should be ud cukup asin, wakakkaka..

ini jg cepet masaknya, 30 menitan jadi..

yg ini.. orak-arik wortel+perkedel kentang campur sosis potong kecil2, ahahahaa.. ini mayan lama, tp seru... akhirnya bs bikin perkedel sendiriii, yosshhhh :D

yg ini harusnya sih chicken katsu curry, ahha.. masi jelek bentuknya T.T

btw, foto2 di atas di-edit menggunakan picasa (promosi, hahahaah).. padahal pny adobe photoshop cs3 di laptop, tp ga didaya gunakan.. kaga bisa pakenya, hauhauahuhaua :D super bego... editannya masi cupu banget sih, hahahaha.. cm saturation, b/w focal, trs pake settingan auto2 yg laen yg ud disediain picasa, huahauhauhauha...

another snapshot of my cooking :)

apakah cukup menggiurkan??? hahhahaah.. lmyn, abis duit justru ningkatin skill yg laen,hohohohoh...