Yhingthai Palace

Ms Sit had craving for Thai food, it was either First Thai or Yhingthai along Purvis St, consulted hungrygowhere, and the vote was cast, we decided to opt for Yhingthai as it has higher rating. Actually we ate this a long long time ago, but i was too lazy to blog hence it is only after 3 months that this is here! So anyhow, i kinda have forgotten how the dishes taste. All i can conclude is that this outlet has got to be one of the best Thai restaurants I have been in Singapore!

The Padthai here is of course much better than Thai Express.

Green Curry Chicken, never liked green curry cos of the heavy coconut taste. And the pieces of chicken in the curry is kinda pathetic. Still prefer the indian version of curry chicken where you get solid parts of the chicken and not small pathetic pieces. ($15 for small)

The Olive Rice was very very good, very fragrant, not too salty, one of the best I have eaten. ($20 for medium)

The stuffed chicken wing was really good, filled with lots of stuffing like mushrooms and asparagus. Served really hot. But of course this doesnt come cheap at $3 per piece.

Tom Yum Soup with coconut and Clear Tom Yum Soup ($6 per bowl). I very much preferred the clear tom yum soup. Hot and Fiery, wonderful taste of lemongrass. I think i could just go there especially for the clear tom yum soup. Mama would truly love this.

Fish maw soup ($8), another recommended dish, but as i am not a fan of fish maw, so this soup is kind of forgettable. Okay but i am sure my mama would love it too.


Mango salad. Quite a unique dish.

This is a strange dish recommended by the waitress. Erm strange weird name too. This dish is called Condiments. It is some ikan bilis, small shrimps, mango, chili padi and onion on top of a leaf. U roll the leaf up together with the condiments and dip it into the bowl of chili. Unique and refreshing taste.


Overall experience, I love this place, would definitely come again. In fact after the dinner the first thing that came to my mind was that I need to give my mama a treat here soon! So fat boy, if u are reading this, lets treat fat mama to this place soon!

Yhingthai
36 Purvis St
63371161
11:30-200, 600-1000

First Thai Food

Had a quick dinner with the Owl at First Thai, a corner coffee shop along Purvis Street.
This is our first dish, Olive rice. Not bad, love the taste of olive.

Next up was the Tom Yum Soup. i love the spiciness of this mean bowl of soup and the sourness is just nice for me.

Basil Pork: I always love basil pork or basil anything. Love the fragrance of the basil leaves. Too bad it was way too salty and we had to order a bowl of white rice just to go with the dish.

This Seafood Otah was my favourite dish of the night! Dont know why, but i just love it. Maybe I just love otah in general. =)


First Thai Food
23 Purvis Street
63393123

Bali

Our breakfast in Bali @ some hotel in Ahmed


Our dinner at Jimbaran
Kang Kong

Grilled Fish

Grilled Prawns

Sweet Sour Sotongs

Satay

This had got to be our favourite meal, Babi Guling at Ubud

Finally on our last day, we had these at the airport
grilled sambal chicken rice and satay chicken rice

Thai Express @ esplanade mall

Had Thai express before running off to catch CATS. Think i told myself and another friend before that i would never ever eat at Thai Express again, but as always, when i have to catch something at Esplanade, there is not much choices so ... yet again Thai Express. Anyway I was also craving for Thai food, so uh well, no harm breaking my promise. SO here is what we had:
Tom Yum Soup to share, it looks deceptively innocent, but it is one mean fiery bowl of soup. I kinda like the fact that it is so overpoweringly spicy!

Next up my main: Tom Yum Hor Fun. I love this simply because it is spicy. I think i just love the taste of tom yum with the fragrant taste of lemon grass and kaffir leaves. Hmm but i really cant quite comprehend why cooks are always frying cuttlefish in such a way that it is too chewy and unfriendly to the jaws.


These are my friends' mains:
Pad Thai

Green Curry with Rice


We also had the Banana fritters with ice cream of which i couldnt take a photo cos we were running out of time. Anyway there was a funny, or rather smelly, stale oil taste to the fritters. Maybe they fry n refry it with oil which were stale?? hmm

Esplanade Mall 01-13D
Sun - Thurs: 1100 - 2300
Fri - Sat: 1130 - 2400

Anyway it opens till late, so well... one of the places you can visit after a performance in the Esplanade

Came here for this thick broth of crab bee hoon soup. Owl and I are not crab people, to us, the effort that goes into digging the flesh is not worth the taste. But well as both of us are uninspired as to where to head to for dinner, here we are at Uncle Leong.

We had the 3 eggs spinach

and the crispy fried toufu. Not bad, but too many for just the 2 of us


Uncle Leong
Blk 233 Ang Mo Kio Ave 3
01-1194
6554 3453

*this place was given rather poor ratings in Hungry Go Where, but it is really not that bad =)

Taste Paradise revisited

Once again, here we are at Taste Paradise. Thanks to M, we got a delicious treat! 

Here are the 2 sauces that company the entire meal. Her bee hiam (spicy prawn paste) and green ginger.

The usual appetizer - Prawns with Mangoes

Next up the Famous XO carrot cake. It is available for $1 if you spend more than $100 on the total bill. I love the soft and mushy carrot cake, it is of course unlike what you get in hawker centres where you can hardly taste the white carrot. The carrot cake here has a distinctive carrot taste and it is nicely fried with XO sauce. 

Next up the Peking Duck. Also another lunch time promotion. $28 for the duck. Guess most would consider $28 as rather worth it, but I'm not a fan of duck  nor duck skin, so well... and with just the 3 of us, it can get quite boring eating slabs and slabs of duck skin. 

Next up is what we came for, yes yes as with previous post, this is certainly the highlight of the meal. I admit that theoretically I have sworn off shark's fin, but once in a while, i break my 'vow' by indulging in a superb bowl of soup. Hmmm if only someone could replicate the taste without using shark's fin. I am sure it is possible, shark's fin itself is probably tasteless. 

okay this may seem really offensive to people who ban shark's fin in their tummy. Sorry guys! I am really trying to stay clear of those fins!

Next up a toufu dish, toufu with mushroom and scallop. Nothing fantastic, although the scallop sauce was pleasant, but the toufu was rather disappointing. Worse than many zi char stall i would say.

The final meal before desserts was a bee hoon dish, fried with the meat of the Peiking duck. Also another disappointing dish. Then again maybe because we were too full to find pleasure in it.

Finally desserts: We had the almond cream in papaya and avocado cream with walnut ice-cream. Take my advice, just stick to the avocado cream next time. The almond cream and previously the mango cream that I had is nothing to rave about. The avocado cream on the other hand is very unique, the walnut ice-cream and avocado cream is indeed a perfect match.

Total bill for 3

Taste Paradise
48-49 Mosque Street
6226 2959
1200-1430, 1730-2230

Por Kee

Had a good meal with wonderful company at Porkee - Tiong Bharu. 

This is my favourite dish! Taste very much like well marinated piece of char siew! Really love it! =) In fact I am craving for it now this very moment! SHIOK!

This is the steam fish in thai sauce. Very obliging staff who changed the fire 2 times cos we were slow in devouring the fish and we wanted to keep the fish warm. In addition, we asked for 3 more helping of the thai fish 'soup'. Love the taste of the lemon grass and the wolfberries in the sauce. 
Very yummy toufu fish!
Yam basket
My favourite vegetable, sweet potato leaves!
69 Seng Poh Lane

11:30-14:30

5:30 - 12:30

Tel: 6221 0582