Cute and Delicious - Marcial Kobe Donuts [Closed]

Marcial Kobe located at The Central @ Clarke Quay basement 1. This is the level where you find snacks - from local, Japanese to Taiwan snacks.

This is the shop, found at a corner around the Taiwan snack shop - Taiwan Laozhaopai.

The donuts are really cute, measuring about 4 to 5 cm in diameter and comes it fancy flavours such as maple syrup, cinnamon, chocolate, chocolate peanut, peanut, candies etc. The donuts aren't too sweet and it simply tastes delicious, 'al dente' crispiness when still hot.

12 pieces at $4. Well if you think 12 pieces are a little too many, just imagine it only takes 12 pops to finish them off :P

黄埔(庆）街边美食鱼头炉 Whampoa Food Street (Keng) Fish Head Steamboat Eating House

Went to 黄埔(庆）街边美食鱼头炉 (556 Balestier Rd Singapore 329872, Tel : 9769-4451 ), located at the junction of Ah Hood Road and Balestier Road. On the walls in the shop, there are many 8R photos of the boss 阿庆 (in golden hair) with mediacorp celebrities including Chen Hanwei, Lee Nanxing, Zhou Chongqing etc etc.

On my 1st visit there, I bumped into Zhou Chongqing actually. He looks ok and seemed to have recovered well from the recent accident he had.

The fish head steamboat is very similar to 天外天鱼头炉。The thing about such steamboat is that the steamboat continues to be cooking when you are eating it. The charcoal in the boat keeping the soup boiling. What makes 天外天鱼头炉 and 黄埔(庆）街边美食鱼头炉 one of the 鱼头炉四大天王　is that there isn't a fishy taste and the soup is very tasty. However, I am also doubting if they had used MSG to make the soup taste good.

Standard items in the steamboat - a choice of the type of fish, cabbage, green veg, fried yam and a sour plum :)

Noticed that most of the bigger tables are reserved most of the time. So better be kiasu than to be disappointed.

Price of steamboat starts from $20 for 2 pax.

The Bad Waffle - Waffle Depot

The bubble tea outlet at Punggol Plaza starting selling waffles lately. There are many flavours such as Cheese, Raisin, Chocolate, Candies, Peanut etc.

They look like those at Sweet Stone BUT taste nothing like them at all. It is neither crispy nor tasty. Swear never to buy it again.

The Good Waffle - The Sweet Stone Parad'Ice [Closed]

The Sweet Stone Parad'Ice, a high class dessert hidden in a HDB estate hawker centre (Goldern Mile Food Centre @ Beach Road aka Army Market). Like the header of its website reads, it is an Ang Moh dessert. First, I supposed this is a Belgian specialty and secondly, it is co-owned by a Belgian.

It is located at Level 1 and it will hardly to miss the stall due to its European facet.

(Can you see the Ang Moh boss standing behind the class showcase?)

The delicious part of these waffles is that they are really crispy, and goes well with gelato and thick chocolate dip. However, I find the price a little steep.

For a single set of waffle + choco dip, it costs $2.50.

For a set of 8 waffles + 4 sets of gelato and a pot of choco dip, it costs abt $25....好像很好赚喔！ But again, it is 一分钱一分货。久久吃一次，it is ok :)

The 5 of us shared the set with 8 waffles and had green tea, coffee, chocolate and banana flavoured gelato. For a non-coffee fan, I actually quite like the coffee flavoured gelato.

The business-minded boss even had a reward system of accumulating points in exchange of free waffles. I shall be back to claim the freebies :)

Hog's Breath

At Hog's Breath Cafe, this is one of the best value of money set lunch, I would say. For something like $12.90, you get a soup, main course (such as fish & chips) and a relatively huge mud cake + ice cream in chocolate fudge & whip cream. If only I 'ingest without inflat'.... how nice that would be :P

My colleagues look at me with surprise when I ordered a Chicken Ranch Salad but it was a good choice, otherwise I would either be feeling sinful (of overeating) or wasting food. The salad was so-so.... chicken pieces were slightly tough but I like the potatoes in the salad.

Since we were there to celebrate of our of colleagues' birthday, the cafe had also generously prepared 2 slices of baked apple crumble with candles on it. It was really nice of them to do so.

Satisfied customers are sure to return :)

Chellas Vegetarian Corner

Chellas Vegetarian Corner (70 Serangoon Road) is an cafe selling Indian food at Little India. It is located at the junction of Serangoon Road and Dunlop Street, just across Tekka Market.

The snacks at the display showcase caught my eyes initially. There were samosa, chips, muruku, curry puffs, 'sweet meat' etc etc.

These homemade potato chips ($1.80/100 grams) look really good and the counter 'man' asked if I would to sample it. That was it! It was so crispy and delicious. I think it tastes good cos of the spices used on it. Addictive is the word. So I bought 2 packets of 100 grams each. One for myself and one for my colleagues. My colleagues liked the chips so much that they were snapped up within 1/2 hr.

Since it was a hot afternoon, I thought long and hard which drink to get. Should I get a sinless drink like mineral water or just forget about the 'sins' and get a milk shake or lassi? Well, I gave in to temptation and went for the milk shake ($4.50).

Guess what - that was really sinful. The milk shake was made of 3 big scoops of ice cream + milk!!!

See... it was as 'sinful' as drinking ice cream! You can see how thick it looks from the pic.

2nd floor is an airconditioned dining area.

My fren, K, tried the Bombay set meal ($6.50), which is the 'chef's recommendation'. This set is value for money. It came with plain rice + spice rice, actually easily sufficient even if you were to share it with another person. Taste is good too. I like the yogurt side dish.

As for me, I ordered the 'Sizzler Kothu Parota' ($5). It is actually fried roti prata with some vegetarian. A little disappointed with this dish cos this dish lack taste uniqueness.

There are many more other dishes on the menu. I might just be back to try some others if I happen to be in Little India next time.

Ellenborough Market Cafe

Ellenborough Market Cafe is the place to go to if :
1. You'd like to indulge in a variety of food
2. You wanna treat yourself to good food (sharksfin, lobster, scallop, oyster etc)
3. You have sweet tooth and love durian pengat
4. You have time to spare
5. You have $ to splurge

See for yourself.... how many food servings I've got!

Saw the durian pengat on my 7th serving? I've had more than 1 serving for that wor...

See lah... now how to 减肥？

Modesto's

Went to Modesto's at Orchard Parade Hotel 2 times this week. Haha. I am not crazy. Nothing can stop me from feasting on good food.

The 1st time I went to Modesto's was maybe about 8 yrs ago. The spinach lagsane left a deep impression on me. I was a little disappointed when I could not find it on the menu anymore when I went back a few days ago.

Blessing in disguise, I found some other delicious food from this cosy Italian restaurant - Pizza Margherita! It is a traditional wood-fired thin crust pizza with simple ingredients such as tomato and cheese. The tasty juicy ingredients beneath the hot cheesey layer is what makes this pizza so delicious. (Mini pizza: $12.50).

The carbonara ($18) tastes alright for me but one of my colleagues thinks that it is on the creamy side.

I would definitely be back for more Pizza Margherita.

Dumpling Festival (aka Dragon Boat Festival)

To me, 端午节 = eat dumpling, more than watching any dragon boat race.

I miss the taste of dumplings that my mom used to make. But she has stopped making since last year. Greedy me decided to try out some gourmet dumplings from Orchard Hotel (Huating Restaurant). It costs $38+++ and includes 2 big meat HK style dumplings, 2 red bean dumplings & 2 5-grains dumplings!

It comes in a nice packaging box. Quite heavy also. 有分量。

These are the dumplings and its seasonings.

R and I decided to try the HK style meat dumpling (for our supper :P) So I tried steaming it using our microwave. It was not as easy as I thought. We spent about 10 mins trying to get the centre of the dumpling piping hot. It would have been better if we had done it with a proper steamer.

Here's how the dumpling looks, with some additional 料。haha.

Worth the money? It din quite suit our taste.

I still prefer my mom's dumplings lah.

Salmon Tofu Kimchi Nabe (Sushi Tei)

Sushi Tei is having an 'early summer' promotion. Basically, it is a promotion on salmon dishes. I tried the Salmon Tofu Kimchi Nabe, thinking that something soupy will be healthier :P

It turned out that the serving is actually for 2 persons. Quite unbelievable since it is only $16.

Besides salmon, there was also swordfish, enoki mushroom, mushroom, veg, tofu and udon. The soup base is kimchi soup and refillable.

Very good and healthy meal. Best of all, value for money (if 2 persons are sharing it).