Ah Loy Thai @ Shaw Tower

I skipped Bollywood dancing for this dinner because my dear YX used her life to endorse this. Haha. And yes, I was not disappointed! =D

 

This place is very simple and laid back. It's not like restaurants, but I prefer this kinda of feel sometimes. Just a simple place with cheap and good food and great company around you.

So, Jon ordered this urm, fish maw kway tiao. I kinda like it. The soup went into the fish maw and thus made the fish maw very flavorful. The soup taste great. But urm, I would probably not order this dish because I'm not a fast eater. And if you don't eat fast, or you wish to wait for your friend, then you would just have to accept that your kway tiao is a little too soggy. Other than that, it's pretty good.

Ordered some side dishes too. Great recommendation babe!

So if I'm not wrong, this is the mango chicken. The mango is sweet, the chicken is crispy enough without losing the juiciness of the chicken and the sauce that is beneath the chicken is woooo, nice! Dip it with a little more sauce and it's going to be reallllly nice!!

Pandan chicken. Wooooo! Hahaha. (Why did I said 'Wooo' so many times now? Ha!) It's soooo nice!!! YUM YUM!! There's 2 sauces at each end of the plate. Dip the chicken with both the sauce and you will go "orh, orh, orh. NICE!!!" Haha. (Well, at least that's why the drama me did.)

It was really nicely grilled. I love the outer skin and the juicy chicken. Hehs.

Woooohooo! My favorite Phad Thai! That's what we have to eat when we go Thailand right? Hehs. Flavorful. Like! I like the way the different tastes blend together. But in my memory, this is not the best Phad Thai in my life so far. Nothing beats Kan Eang so far. =D

Pineapple rice! Not too bad I think. Well, from a spoon of the rice, that's my conclusion. Hahahahaha! Of course, I would love it more if there's pork floss sprinkled on top of it. Hehs. I cannot remember how it tasted anymore!

Glass noodles. Okay. This is really nice! All the sauce that was cooked with was practically sucked into the glass noodles! No? Haha. I love this loads!! Maybe because I've always been a great fan of glass noodles, and maybe because I really love it. Ha!

But well, although all the noodles/kway tiao/glass noodles etc are very flavorful and nice, I think the accompanying ingredients are not. Like the prawns, it's a little too overcooked for my liking. And it's not as fresh as I would love it to be. So I guess, that's the only complain I could find. BUT HEYS! All the noodles were exciting enough for me to overlook it. And if you don't really mind it that much, I would have to say, they are really generous in their serving sizes of the accompanying ingredients! Ha!

So, I need to return there again. Haha.

By the way, we spend around $60 for 6.5 people. Ha! And that included all our drinks! Hmm. Cheap and good. I LIKE!

Address: 100 Beach Road #01-39/40 Shaw Tower Singapore

Eateries outside the Cheng Huang Temple at Hsin-chu City

I loveeee this place. For the food, and for the temple of course (I'm a great temple hopping fan.)

You yu gen. Hehs. I loveee this. It's the same soup as shark fins minus the shark fins. Ha. I love the crispy thing and all the ingredients in the soup. Woo. Yum yum yum. Best thing on a cold weather I believe!

Ahh.. I cannot miss this when I come here. Gong Wang Tang! Hehs. Well, I know I know, it's just like our pork balls. BUT! It's so much bigger and bouncier and yummier. Hah. I think the basil leaves contributed a lot to the soup. It's the taiwanese's favorite qiu cheng ta~

My favorite Hsin-chu Mifen! Hehs. Texture, sauce, taste. Woooo! Mama can't cook the same thing even when I brought the same mee hoon back the last time. Ha! So, I have to eat here. LOL!

All were ordered from this corner shop at the back of the photo. Haha. This is what surrounds the temple's door. Hehs.

I have no idea what's the address. I always tell the taxi driver "Uncle, Cheng Huang Miao please."

Ha!

Ice cream cake from Bakery World

Yum Yum.

I think it's ice cream cake. But I was told that it is not! It's some cream cake. But, if we were to ice the cream, isn't it ice cream cake? Ha! Okay, at least that's my logic. But hehs. If not for the thought that I'm going to get real fat from it, I would have finished every single bit myself. Hahahahaha!

Ghim Moh Hawker Center

It's been really long since we last went there for lunch. Oh, it's still as yum yum as possible. Should I just let the picutres do the talking??

They are the reasons why hawker centers never get extinct no matter how bad the hygiene gets at time. With just a bit of money, you get to enjoy such yummy food. My gooooodness. Hehs. You know, I'm a more hawker type of person...... Hehs.

Flor Patisserie @ Duxton Hill

I was trying to find a time to pull my foodie khakis down to Flor to try out their cakes after doing a little research on what to eat at Tanjong Pagar. Seriously, just looking at the website made me drool. Haha.

And so, when I was selected by inSing.com for the food tasting, BOY! I WAS OVERJOYED! Woohoo!

The place is a pretty little place tucked away at 2 Duxton Hill. I have a fetish for this kinda small and exquisite stores. And so, I fell in love with it! Immediately. =D

Shop front

Seriously, just look at the selection when you enter the store! This is crazily appetizing! I am at such a loss when I was asked to pick what I would want to try. I wanted to try ALL! Like, seriously, life is about too much choices recently. Can you just give me all you have? And if you don't want to give me so much, then, please give me limited choices and I will take all too. HAHAHA! Okay, crap.

I love photo frames on the walls. Nice nice.

Ok. And the food tasting begins. No, we did not get the full cake. Well, might as well. Since we are unable to finish the entire big slice ourselves anyway. We cannot encourage food wasting during food tasting sessions. So, small is good. =D

Top favorite top favorite!!!!!

I got the name wrongly. It was not mont blanc. Mont blanc does not have my favorite pastry on it. Haha. It's called Waguri Millefeuille. Woo. The cream is made from chestnuts and you can still see chestnuts sprinkled on top of it. God. I was seriously in heaven once again when I ate the cream. Haha.

What's best is actually the pastry/biscuit/crispy thing/base/whatever you call it. You do know what I'm talking about right? Haha. This is omg-ish kinda nice. Woo. *Drools* Just order any cakes with that pastry/biscuit/crispy thing/base/whatever you call it. 

Pretty little thing isn't it?

Next next next, Cacao Royal. MY GOODNESSSSSSS! Haha. The chocolates were great, the texture was great. Yum yum. But, well, I have to say, if I were to compare with the Waguri on top, this loses out in omg-ish factor. It's just another chocolate cake. A very well done chocolate cake though. Haha.

But please, even so, I did not say that the cake is not nice. It was super nice!! Haha. Because texture is very very important to me when I eat desserts. And it did fulfilled my requirements. =D

Berries berries/ Flor's strawberry shortcake/ Strawberry scoffle (please pardon me. I'm bad at names and memorizing things). It's Chef Yamashita's all time favorite, until he ate too much and decided that the Waguri became his favorite. Hahaha.

Boasted to be the best strawberry shortcake in Singapore. But, hmm, I am not too sure about it. We did not eat the cake when it was freshly taken out of the fridge. So, for cakes, after exposure to the air for a while, it will start to get a little rough and dry. And that's what happened. But even so, I can feel the cake melting in my mouth the moment I put it in. It's like, how did it managed to dissolve in just like that?! Crazy!! And then the cream. Woah. Nice. I would love to try it again the next time I visit Flor. I'm serious. Haha.

Berry Chocx. YUM YUM! The puff is really special and the custard cream was heavenly. They went so freaking well together. My goodness. *LOVES*

  

The Vert. The macha/green tea cake. Haha. The aroma of the macha is so super strong and nice. It was so heavenly! But the thing is that I felt that the cake was a little rough for my liking. But I do realized that macha cakes tend to be this rough. Just like the one I love from the super market. And really, eating it chilled is way much nicer than eating it after a while. =D My man likes it!

Look look look! It's the pastry/biscuit/crispy thing/whatever you call it again! This time round, it's with strawberries! The cake is the same to me. The same good spongy cake. But the topping is different. Well, more refreshed I would say. Love it too. Anything with that pastry/biscuit/crispy thing/whatever you call it is great! Yum yum Napoleon.

You must have heard me saying that chocolates and bananas are destined to be together forever and ever right? Hahaha. Well, at least in human. I think this is the first time I'm saying it on my blog. Lol. Yes, they have to be together. LOL! This Earl Grey Choclat made them merge again. Haha.  A very interesting texture I have to say. Not something that I had tried before. Yum. They went really well together. The cake and the cream and the banana and the chocolate sprinkles. Haha. But according to TXY, the cake itself has no taste. I didn't try it, for I ate the entire layer together. Hehs.

Last but not least, the Classic Chocolate. It has a chocolate sponge with a moist inside and the blob of cream on top of it. The chocolate taste is really good. Yum yum. But I think the cake is a little hard. Did they purposely do it this way? Haha. I'm still not complaining because we have to stimulate our taste buds in many different way. No just the way we love it. I kinda like it because of the well blend between the sponge and the cream. And definitely the chocolate.

They served us hibiscus tea. It was refreshingly nice! Apparently, it helps in digestion so it was a great thing to go with after eating so many yummy yummy cakes. Hehs.

 

Chef Yamashita!

Our fellow food tasters.

 
Thank you inSing.com. Haha. Please invite us more often for the future events! I love it!

Final verdict. Please visit the place. Oh, bring your friends/families along too. With the wide selection of cakes that does not really cost as much as a lot of places, I'm so sure you can find your love! I'm dead serious. Haha. Other than the yummy cakes that pushed me to heaven, I seriously love this place because I feel the presence of the chef in all the cakes. I like this kinda small shops. As in, there's passion and love for the things he baked. And that's what important to me. And, doesn't the cakes look like a piece of art? Just go, stop thinking of your dieting plans. Hahahaha.

By the way, their cakes are selling fast at around 4. So, if you don't want to miss the cakes, go slightly earlier eh? Afternoon tea. Wooo. Nice. Haha.

Address: 2 Duxton Hill

Nearest MRT: Tanjong Pagar. (It's within walking distance. No worries about it!)

Aston @ Sembawang Shopping Center

I do not understand the hype over Aston across Singapore. Seriously, there's always a long queue! I began to wonder if the food is that nice? But heys, I think it's more because of the price. Lol.

But to test out the hypothesis, we have to try it (we are getting pretty poor anyway). And of course, I picked the branch that's in the most perfect location to us! Sembawang Shopping Center! Haha. We can go home easily from there and the queue will not be as long as the town area. Lol! So, we traveled from Suntec back to Sembawang again. =D

I would say, I would not want to go back there again.

The deco of the place was not too bad. It does gives a better environment that the warm warm hawker center. But heys, the air-con does not seem to be working well on the day we went though. Haha.


Since sometime back, I've joined my dear in ordering steaks when we go to places that offer that. Haha. So, he ordered a sirloin steak and I ordered a ribeye steak. And keep in mind, we requested for it to be done to medium.

Dear's sirloin. Like many of the places who don't do their steaks well, this one has only the middle part done to medium. The rest are all 100% cooked! As a result, the meat is so tough. I don't like it.


Every set comes with 2 side dishes of your choice. I have to say, the side dishes are so much better than the main dish itself. But the onion rings were too soggy for our liking. No, onion rings should not taste like this. The mash potato was pretty good though.

And I have a lot a lot of complains for my ribeye steak. Remember I said, I want it medium done? Look at the blood on the surface of the steak! (Ok, it was not that obvious here. Haha. I also did not take the photo of the cut steak before we ask for a new one. Lol!) But it was medium rare and below ba. It's like only the surface is cooked! Gosh.


So, we asked for a new one. Can you see a little color difference? Anyway, this new piece was so much better. And it was really medium. If they had recooked the old piece, I swear, I'll do something to them. Luckily, they did not. But I half suspect that they reuse the side dishes though. Because the fries at the bottom had blood stains. Lol.


Come to think of it, why didn't someone came and apologize to us? Lol. Even when they represent us the plate, they did not actually said sorry. It's not that difficult and it doesn't take so long right?

But heys, the corn is really very very nice! And I love the fries too! That made me forgot about any bad things I wanted to think about Aston. Lol. Please order the corn even though it gets super messy and unglamorous to eat them. LOL! You know that it's so juicy that the juice will squirt out?! Haha.

Something I don't like is, they charge us for ice water. Ok fine, it's not a lot of money but I don't like restaurants to charge for ice water. Because they are just tap water with a few pieces of ice. Haha. But wells, since they are not charging us a lot and that no service charge was paid, ok fine. Lol. I cannot complain much anyway.


At the end, we only spend $27. Haha.


But no, I will not return to a place just because it is cheap. I would seriously go to the hawker center for their western food instead. There are really some places that sells really very nice ones. Ang Mo Kio for example (their queue is horrendous can?). Ok, that's it, I'm going there soon! =D