Changi Village Beef noodles and Carrot Cake

We needed some sustenance before beating the crowd at Sitex, so we headed off to one of my favourite food centre - Changi Village. Love the carrot cake, beef noodles, chicken chop noodles, wanton mee, peanut pancake, bittergourd fishhead, tze char stall (at the other building - the more deserted one).

Anyway there were only 2 of us, so i could only order the carrot cake to share and the beef noodles for myself while Pig had the Nasi Lemak.

I like this very fragrant carrot cake, with its crunchy chai po and just the right amount of sweet sauce. 

One of my favourite beef noodles stall, the gravy are unlike the ones that you get at some food court, starchy and msg-laden. This seems more 'real', more beefy. The only pity is that it doesnt have the thick bee hoon version, only kway teow, bee hoon and yellow mee. Since there is no thick bee hoon, my only option is kway teow... felt that the kway teow tends to be sticky, mushy n glooey with the dry version of the beef noodles. And especially for me, I tend to take some time removing the parsley and taking photos, by the time i decided to sink my teeth into my food, it is even stickier, mushier and 'glooeier'. Nevertheless, I love this bowl of beef noodles. Ahh for the record, i love beef noodles!

Beef Kway Teow

Changi Village Food Centre

01-19

12noon-11pm

*correction* i think they do sell the thick bee hoon version, maybe it was just sold out! hmm

China Whampoa Home Made Noodle

My all time favourite home made noodle aka 'ban mian, yu mian' stall! Both dry and soup version is fantastic, not the kind which leaves you thirsty n consume with msg taste!

Had the Fish slice Yu Mian, dry version, very powerful chili! Ikan Bilis is crispy n not as salty as what you get at some stalls. The noodles is springy, not like some places where it is a little too mushy. Fish slices are thick and fresh!
Different angles of my noodles! 
Usually I would have the dry version and friend would take the soup version, but today both of us had the dry version, so well... no photos of the soup version, was kind of tempted to go to the lady beside us and ask if i could capture a photo of her noodles! 
The noodles when it is well-mixed!
China Whampoa Home Made Noodles

Whampoa Market (the less crowded, morning market, not the one with the famous hoover rojak)

01-24

Tues-Sunday: 700-1400

Ristorante Da Valentino

Nice and cosy little place, in the corner of Rifle Range Road. This places feels like the kitchen of some Italian household. Food may not be the best, but i like the ambience. It would have been better if they didnt have the 2 seating policy where you have to dine between 600 to 830, 830 - 1030. So if i arrive at 730, i need to leave by 830? hmmm

Being a carbo-addict, i love the bun. 

Calamari was juicy n springy, love it!
This is my main, i should heed my friend's advice and stop trying to order weird food. K this is not exactly weird, but i really didnt like the mushy hand-made linguine. When the server came around to ask how was the food, i gave a weak smile n an 'ok' which of course wasnt very convincing so he asked what was wrong and i just had to tell him that the linguine was too mushy. Anyway he explained that all hand-made noodles cannot be done al dente. So well... what have i learnt? Never to order hand-made pasta anymore. Yes! i love hand-made ban mian, but no more hand-made pasta!
My friend ordered the stew pork linguine. Hmm eh friend! what is the exact name of your dish huh? anyway how was it? I think the stew pork was yummy, but after a while it is just too 'jerlat'
Pictures were shot in low lighting, so ISO was adjusted to its maximum, hence the noisy photo. Sighhh sitex tomorrow, craving for a Nikon D90! Strangle Me! I need to save money!

Tues - Sunday: 1200 - 1430, 1800 - 2230

11 Jln Binka

Mayfair Park

Please call at least 3 days in advance for reservation

64620555

Crystal Jade

In the mood for Chinese food, so Crystal Jade here we come:

This is what we had amongst the 3 of us.

The kidney, liver and pork ball porridge

Prawn with egg and crabmeat, i think
The spinach with 3 eggs. I wish they had added in more century eggs. Still prefer the Pu Tien version. 
The black pepper Udon with chicken, was kinda disappointed in this... used to be much better.

Hopped to Maxwell market for our favourite Tian Tian Chicken and Zhen Zhen porridge. Both stalls had long queue on a Saturday afternoon, had to queue up for about 20minutes for the half-chicken that we wanted and about 45minutes for the fish belly porridge.

Yummy yum yum. Actually it looks much better than it tastes, the magic of this chicken rice stall lies not really in the chicken but in the chilli sauce. As for the chicken i thought the margaret drive one is comparable to this. And yesh! i dont like my chicken deboned, unfortunately this plate of half-chicken we had was deboned. 

We ordered the chicken without the rice cause we were planning to eat zhen zhen porridge, maybe it would do greater justice to Tian Tian if we were to eat the chicken with the rice. 
The super long queue, zhen zhen porridge. 
One plate of Yu Sheng ($3)

My plate of Fish Belly porridge without its yucky spring onion. 

The Whole Earth

It's been a while since i last update my blog. Well... busy and lazy.. anyway still struck by the lazy bug, so here are some photos, with minimum number of words.

This is the wolfberries vegetable soup

This is the monkey head mushroom.. not bad, but pretty costly.

Our vegetarian curry fish.
This is my favourite dish! the vegetarian version of the oh-so-yummy toufu cereal prawn with curry leaves

Our plate of Olive Rice

The Whole Earth 

593 Geylang Road

Between Lor 29 and 31

68413319

11-3pm

www.thewholearth.com

Sin Kee Famous Chicken Rice

It has been a long long loooong time since i last had my chicken rice fix. I used to love chicken rice, and of course I still do. But with all the bad publicity about how unhealthy, how fattening chicken rice is, I have stopped eating chicken rice for many years. The only chicken rice stall that I go to, if i ever have an intense craving for chicken rice is Tian Tian Chicken rice@maxwell market. 

One fine Sunday... with mum, aunty, cousins and grandpa we decided to pay a visit to Sin Kee Famous Chicken rice at margaret drive, which is a stone throw away from where grandpa lives. 

This is the tender chicken that went into our tummy...

Too lazy to remove the garnish, so ended up with a photo that focuses on the parsley instead of the chicken =/

Our generous portion of condiments!
Very flavourful rice! hmmm yummmmy!!
Sin Kee Famous Chicken Rice

40A Commonwealth Ave / Margaret Drive Food Centre

02-548

S(140044)

10:30-21:00 (closed on Monday)

Tel: 64710355

Marutama Ramen

The first time we had ramen here was when the restaurant just opened. Really didn't like the previous try. The soup & egg  were way too salty. Noodles I thought tasted more like wanton noodles, mee kia. 

We decided that since this tiny restaurant in Central has received much raves and reviews from people, today shall be the day for second chance. 

I asked for no spring onions, no coriander and in case they add any weird greens into my ramen i quickly added no 'anything green' probably i said it too fast, the waitress didnt hear me and here came my bowl of ramen with all the greens. Eeeks! i hate the overwhelming smell/taste of parsley, spring onions and coriander... i know it is mean, but i just had to send it back for a new bowl of 'no anything green' ramen. 

Here... here is my new bowl of ramen. K that green thing that is peeking out from the soup is the seaweed. Yup they bothered to ask... so do you want seaweed? Yes! i love seaweed, no adverse reactions toward this 'green stuff'.Both of us ordered the house special, some 7 nut flavour soup, at $15 each bowl. I love the soup, especially with a tinge of the tangy lemon that comes with it. It is lighter, more refreshing and seems healthier than the usual pork-based soup that we are used to. Friend on the other hand prefers the Kyushu pork-based, milky collagen soup. Texture of noodles, i prefer the Kyushu region kind of ramen. I still maintain the stand that this type of ramen tastes too much like mee kia. This bowl of ramen comes with chicken balls, which we felt were too dry and tasteless. Give us back our usual fatty char siew anything!
This is the egg... a bit of a disappointment. Still prefer the one at Tampopo. Egg yolk too cooked, and the egg on the whole is too salty. I wonder why do they have to make it sooooo salty! 
The side dish of char siew that we ordered. Also too dry... uh well.
Will i be back? Certainly... Is it value for money? Definitely not. So why would i be back? I love ramen!

There are days I wonder why do i love ramen so much... a bowl of dry mee pok is much cheaper, more flavourful but....

Marutama@Central

11:30 - 22:00

Zi Yean Restaurant

We have decided that this would be our first and last time at Zi Yean. Simply overrated.