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Foodie Times: Yong Tau Foo (Food to try in Singapore)

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One of the food to recommend and commonly found in almost every food court/hawker centre would be Yong Tau Foo. Have it for a heavy breakfast or lunch or dinner, it's a "any time can eat" choice. There is a wide variety of ingredients from fried to non fried, vegetables, beancurd stuffed with fish/seafood fillings, ngoh hiang, fishball, tofu, hotdog, etc etc Basically the stall will have the food laid nicely at their front counter/rack. With a bowl and a tong, just grab the ingredients (usually I stopped at their minimum number of pieces needed to ordered). I always ordered it with yellow noodle without any soup or gravy and add on a lot of sweet sauce. But at times when I craved for hot and spicy, I will go for curry/laksa base.  Previously, the stalls I visited would scald the ingredients in hot water. The fried items turned soggy after that. But nowadays, the fried items are separated from the non-fried ones. And some stalls actually re-fried those fried ite...

Foodie Times @ TOBY'S The Dessert Asylum

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spicy hot wings   chicken cordon bleu   German  bratwurst and cheese sausage   Seek asylum D'Lover Taste: 5 out of 5 -> Spicy hot wings  (served with garden salad) : 6 pcs in total, served with salad. Can choose to have the sauce on the side for your own dipping and we opted for it. Don't worry if you are not a spicy stuff lover because it ain't that spicy. The sauce felt like assam + tomato (Pardon me if it's not assam). But have it plain without any sauce, the freshly cooked/fried wings is good enough as the wings were served hot and crispy but not too oily. With the sauce, it is a new kind of taste which doesn't burnt the tongue or stomach and still give you plenty of space for your mains. -> German  bratwurst and cheese sausage (served with garden salad and choice of fries/rice or potato salad) : It's hard to go wrong with this dish and their accompanying sauce brings the  German  bratwurst to a better level of t...

Foodie Times: Sushi Tei @ JEM Jurong East

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Sushi Tei Tamagoyaki (Can't remember the exact name to it) Taste : 5 out of 5. Tamagoyaki - This is one of the basic Japanese dish that SHOULD NEVER go wrong AND it didn't go wrong so yeah. This is nice! Potato Coquette - This is one of the basic Japanese snacks which can hardly go wrong (unless served cold). Chicken Don: The sweet sauce quantity was proportional to the rice and ingredients. Meat is soft and quantity is enough to cover the bowl.. (but the bowl is not very big). Tasted even better with Shichimi (7 flavor chili pepper) Tempura Don: This was during the period where I was SOOOoo into tempura don. The portion is decent but not recommended for the big eater unless with side dishes. The sweet sauce quantity was proportional to the rice and tempura. The tempura items was enough to go with the rice. The tempura was crispy on the outside, and the thickness/meat still retain it's fragrance and of the right texture. Service: 5 out of 5. So far, S...

Foodie Times: Korean Dessert Bingsu Bingsu Bingsu

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Location : Refer to the description below the pictures   Mango Bingu -  Chicken Up  @ Jurong East MRT Taste: 5 out of 5. Served with whipped cream, it doesn't look like what is shown in their picture. BUT, the finely shaved ice is great. Melts in the mouth and no lumpy ice. A pity it was mango with whipped cream, mango chunks and mango syrup. But for the price, what's more can I ask for. Service: 4.5 out of 5.   For this Bingsu, it was fast unlike my subsequent visit at Chicken Up.  Location : Located at the 1st floor of Jurong East MRT station. Cost : $3.50 @ Qoo10 discount   Mango Bingu -  JIJIM @ Westgate Basement Taste: 4 out of 5. Wanted to impress someone with the fine shaved ice. Had my expectation up since I tried the bingsu @ Chicken Up. However, it wasn't as good. There were still small lumps of ice and it was a bit too sweet. Apart from the shaved ice, there were a scoop of mango ice cream and a lot of m...

Foodie Times Tim Ho Wan @ Westgate

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Location : Tim Ho Wan @ Westgate What I ordered Signature Char Siew Pork Bun Braised Beancurd Every month special: Salt and Pepper Dory Fish Fillet  Osmanthus with Wolfberries Jelly  Taste:  5 out of 5  (Excellent). Everything served are hot (except the dessert which is supposed to be cold). Taste just right. Serving is good for me since my dining partner is a small eater. Service:  4.5 out of 5. The staffs are fast and their dish serving is quick.  Location:  Alight at Jurong East Mrt and proceed to the 1st level of Westgate. Cost:  Around SGD $30+ for the above. Must know :  There are many outlets apart from Westgate. Find them here . They have a special menu which featured seasonal dishes which changes every month.  When it first open in Singapore, the queue is terribly long. So.. Order takeaways! But the price is different from the dine in menu and not all items at the dine in menu are availabl...

Foodie Times Tonkatsu Ma Maison

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Went to try Tonkatsu Ma Maison @ Westgate by chance and after that, I just can't stopped craving for more. After my visit to the outlet at Westgate, I went on to try the outlets @ Chijmes and Mandarin Gallery. What I ordered Tonakatsu - Ma Maison @ Westgate - Jurong East (Highly recommended) Taste: 5 out of 5  (Excellent). Soup served is hot and taste great. Multigrain rice or white rice to choose from (I recommend to opt for multigrain rice). Tonkatsu served is crispy on the outside with not too thick or thin meat. Service: 5 out of 5  (Excellent). The number of staffs seemed limited but they maintained their efficiency in providing service. When my rice/soup/cabbage/tea is almost finished, they quickly came to ask if refill is needed. Location: Alight at Jurong East Mrt and proceed to the 5th level of Westgate, it is just next to the Kids playground. Cost: Around SGD $27 for a tonkatsu (pork loin) 160grams. Must know :  The set comes with ...

Foodie Times Morgan's Field @ Star Vista (Bouna Vista) - Hickory BBQ Spare Ribs

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It's my 4th trip to Morgan's Field and their service never fails to impress me. I ordered a full slab Hickory BBQ Spare Ribs and requested to change the coleslaw to Mash Potato. When it came... They forgot to change to my Mash Potato.... So...after informing them about it. The waiter brought me a bowl of Mash Potato and coleslaw is on the house. Nice! Thanks!

Foodie Times Gelato Gelateria Italia from qoo10

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Another hobby of mine~ Buying stuffs online..! Bought this e-ticket via qoo10 and it's a good offer if you are into gelato. The one shortcoming is the need to print out the hardcopy voucher. What: Gelato from Gelateria Italia. Choice: Except for the Durian flavor, free to choose any flavor (free flow toppings of chocolate chips, mini marshmallows and rainbow rice but it's difficult to take cos the gelato is quite a lot and not much room for the topping) Size: The smallest is Piccolo Cup - Choose only 1 flavor (Just nice for 1 person) The biggest cup is 255g Cup - Choose 3 flavors (Good for sharing, too big portion for 1 to finish as I tried it and really it's a LOT! Where to buy: Qoo10.sg When to buy: Time sale! Lowest price I bought is $1.99 for Piccolo Cup and $3.95 for 255g cup What to note: 1. The expiry date (Previously was 2 months whereas the last one I bought is till end of 31st Aug 2013) 2. Location. Although there are 7 stores in Singapore, thi...

Foodie Times Ootoya @ Clementi Mall

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Went there with my mom and sis and wanted to have Japanese food. After much consideration, we went to Ootoya @ Clementi. And indeed, " This is one Japanese restaurant with no ramen, sushi, sashimi, nabe or yakitori. " Source Despite that, we still go ahead with our plan. Queuing is expected but if you are looking for someone to be waiting at the counter to guide you to where the queue is, don't! Ask the people where the queue is. There were two things that surprised me though.  Call me a "mountain tortoise" but I was amazed by the pen ordering menu BUT I didn't get to use it because I didn't even know about its  existence  nor did the staffs tell us about it. The pen was at the door entrance slotted nicely and even though the menu had instructions at the bottom of the menu but... Well, maybe it is still in testing phase and not available for use yet, I don't know. So, we had to call for them to take our orders and they memorized our ...