January Babies Birthday Party in the office

2nd blackforest birthday cake I had yesterday. Tastes not bad actually.

5 January babies in the office!! 2 of them were missing. And the cake still barely made a piece each. Cake cutter Roslinda now has more cake cutting experience for next month's feast. ;)

P.S. I randomly took a beer from a colleague. >< And got a scolding from 祥祥... ah he was scary. :s That was the first time he ever really yelled at me for something I did. sobs.

Pasta Cafe @ Takashimaya

Rating: ★★★★

Finally had the chance on Thursday to try the Pasta Cafe that my sister strongly recommended. Quite yummy~

For two of us:


Fried Chicken (S$5.90)
~$1 per ball is just too expensive for my grade. (3 had been eaten in this photo, there were 6 to begin with.) But taste and texture is comparable to McSpicy chicken, meaning good. But I might as well eat McSpicy for the extra spiciness. :\


Soup of the Day: Clam Chowder (S$3.00)
Tastes okay. Not enough of the Clam Chowder flavor though.


Metaiko Spaghetti (S$12.90)
祥祥's entree. "Mentaiko" is marinated cod fish roe. It says on the menu, "Spiced with mild chilli." Don't be misled. It doesn't taste any tinge of spiciness at all. :p An interesting pick from the menu, claimed to be one of the most popular from Japan.


Boscaiola (S$14.90)
my entree. 祥祥 was eyeing on my pasta throughout! Topped with sauteed mushroom, tuna, and chicken sausage "with garlic and chilli." Again, don't be misled by the word "chilli" haha. "Boscaiola" means "woodman".. not sure where that came from.. the color?? (Personally, I like to turn all my food into the Chinese style.. so a little soy sauce would perfect this dish imo. :D)

Introducing MEGA McSpicy!!!

Rating: ★★★★

Aiyayaiii!! I've been so busy at work these days that I have no time to blog! Five drafts and a pending one waiting for me to dwell on. meh.

Start of the year, many things we are going to push forward. So it's deadlines deadlines and deadlines. Helping with this and that, and so on... But now, I am going to dwell on my foooood instead.........

MEGA MCSPICY!!!!! :D

Yesss, really fat, juicy, spicy, and yummy!!!

Dining at Dian Xiao Er

Rating: ★★★★

Went for dinner with my family at Dian Xiao Er @AMK Hub yesterday, and it was packed with people. A rather ineffective queue system though. We started queuing for a table for 5+1, not knowing exactly how long it would take. "Not too long," was what I heard them tell everyone. There was no number, so we had to stand in the line at the exact same location throughout the wait. That's how they differentiate who came first. Finally, we got our seats after standing for 45 mins. We could however order first, so food actually arrived shortly after we'd taken our seats.

Overall, queuing up for seats was the bottleneck for me. I guess we were unlucky too because we had a large group right before us. 15 of them. Two groups of 3 who came after us were seated first. It appeared that they would give seats according to the party size whenever a table had cleared up, reasonably. It was very strange then, because when we saw traffic OUT, there was no guarantee of traffic IN. When we were finally seated after another 10-15 mins, the 15 sat down at a large rectangular table in the corner. We took a separate smaller rectangular table towards the middle of the space. The party of 7 behind us took a separate round table. ie. For the past 10-15 mins, at least, we can be sure that the smaller rectangular table and the round table were already empty, since we did not see any more traffic coming out of the restaurant during this period, and tables were separate so we need not depend on the 15 to get our seats, vice versa. Furthermore, we stood for 10-15 mins more, at least, because the waitresses were just trying to settle seats for the larger party, or so it seemed.

I'm not sure of the situation at other Dian Xiao Er branches. This was also my first time to one of them. But I did think that the food wasn't bad, ratings as follow.
Favorites: the wintermelon soup, which had a light and natural sweetness from scallops; Poached Spinach with Century and Salted Egg, quite a unique taste.
Quite good: Prawn Ball with Mayo Sauce; Duck Roasted with Ten Wonder Herb.
Not recommended: Mongolian Spare Ribs, I personally thought it had a weird taste.
Some pictures available on their web.

I might go there again for lunch. :) HUNNGRRRRYYY!

Jackson Square's Kopitiam

updated tasty ratings (Apr 15):
ECONOMY RICE STALL Rating: ★★
NOODLE SOUP STALL Rating: ★
(yes, I started to eat at this stall again. so far no other bad incidences)
CHICKEN RICE STALL Rating: ★★
(closed down!?)
ROTI PRATA STALL Rating:
(still haven't try yet)
FRUIT & DRINKS STALL Rating: ★★
(their pineapples usually quite juicy and sweet. despite watermelon juice being too plain, the starfruit juice is good)
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EEEK!! MY GAWD! I was happily eating my fish beehoon soup today @lunch until I realized some weird looking thing in my spoon.. WOORRRRRRRRM!!! Eeeeeeeeeee~ And I thought it tasted not bad the first time, so I ordered it again today. So gross that I lost my appetite. Here is the evidence:


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This kopitiam (cafe) was opened just recently, downstairs of my office complex. Convenient location for people working @Jackson Square, Toa Payoh. There are 5 stalls: 1) 菜饭 economy rice stall 2) noodle soup stall (the one that sells $4 fish beehoon soup) 3) chicken rice stall 4) roti prata stall 5) fruit & drinks stall. So I guess I'm never eating the noodle soup there again. Have a slight noodle soup phobia now.

GG, just look at the color!! Plus, the first time I bought this, it was like 2/3 of this size. Same price. Kaya + butter toast was $1.20 for 2 slices. A mini cup of ginger tea (those instant packets) is $1. I have yet tried the other 2 stalls, but I heard the Indian stall charges insanely as well.

THE ONLY GOOD VALUE: the chicken rice stall is good! GREAT service/attitude and cheap!! Only $2.50 for a plate of chicken rice and a small bowl of soup (refillable)!! The first time I ate there (off peak hour ard 3pm), the towkay even came to refill my bowl with HOT soup!!