Space @ My Humble House

Space @ My Humble House

8 Raffles Avenue #02-25 Esplanade Mall

Telephone: 6423-1881

Space @ My Humble House is a restaurant under the Tung Lok Group. Atas restaurant @ atas location with atas price. But I should also qualify that the food quality is also atas.

I ordered the Rice Noodle with Fish Fillet when I was there for dinner one evening ($12). This is one of the house specialities alonside Mama Leong Chicken Rice, Claypot Rice in Consomme, Rack of Lamb 'Bak Kut Teh', Fried Raddish Cake, Seafood Laksa and Wok-fried Wagyu Beef Hor Fun.

The rice noodle are those thick noodles commonly used in laksa dishes. The fish soup is especially tasty while the fish slices were a little tough.

The other house specialities from Space @ My Humble House.

A cosy restaurant for a quiet dinner and if you'd like to pamper yourself with yummy food.

Din Tai Feng @ Junction 8

Din Tai Feng is one of my favourite dining place for family. Not only that their food quality has been consistent, their service quality is also prompt and efficient.

Here's what we have shortlisted and included in our frequently-ordered list.....

Vegetarian appetizer comprising seaweed, vegetables, bean curd and glass noodles.

Hot and Sour Soup - small portion which is good for 3 to 4 pax.

Pork Dumplings in red chilli oil.

Garlic Dou-miao...

Fried Rice with prawn - this is our all-time favourite. Their prawns are usually big, fresh and crunchy. And love it cos there is also lots of eggs in the fried rice. The rice grains aren't like the normal rice imported from Thailand... suspect they might be using Japanese rice.

Another all-time favourite - Din Tai Feng's signature Xiao Long Bao.

And a close-up of the xiao long bao, with minced pork filling + gravy. We normally dip in vinegar and eat it with some ginger strips.

Will be back for many many more times...

Awon Korean Restaurant (BBQ & Steamboat Buffet) [Closed]

Awon Korean Restaurant (BBQ & Steamboat Buffet)

#04-01, 5 Coleman Street, Excelsior Hotel

Singapore 179805

(Update on Jul 2010 : The restaurant has moved out from Excelsior Hotel.  New location is not known yet)

This is my 4th visit to Awon over 8 years. First was in 2001 with a big group of Korean, 2nd was with my Korean Language class, 3rd was with an ex-colleague and 4th with my present colleagues. Back in 2001, it is not uncommon to find Korean restaurants in Singapore. There were a couple of them along Tanjong Pagar Road, one near Miramar Hotel, Korean stalls at Suntec and food court in the current OG Orchard before it was taken over by OG.

So actually, Awon is quite a old Korean Restaurant.... don't be surprise to see furnitures that are a little run-down and deco that isn't zen-ish like what we see in the newer Korean Restaurants. In fact, we are spoilt for choices when it comes to Korean Restaurant.

Back in 2001, I remembered there was no BBQ & Steamboat buffet, there were just ala carte and set meals (very reasonably priced ones). Not sure when they started serving buffets.

We had 2 steamboat pots, one for beef eaters and one for non-beef eaters. This one is topped with marinated chicken. The steamboat pot is actually 2-in-1. The top section is actually for the BBQ and the lower section is for the steamboat.

We were supposed to use the soup stock to BBQ the meat by constantly drenching it, no oil required. After drenching the meat, the soup stock will flow back into the steamboat section. You can imagine, at the end of it, the soup is actually quite 'sweet'.

The chicken BBQ is actually quite tasty, at least better than the BBQ pork which I find that the slices were too thick.

And this one is topped with marinated beef. My colleagues commented that the beef tasted quite good as well.

We added glass noodles, prawns, fish cakes, vegetables etc into the steamboat pot. As the pot is quite shallow, only limited food quantity can be cooked at 1 time.

Vegetable section....

 

UOB Cardholders are entitled to a 30% discount. So for a Friday dinner, we spent about $20.60 per pax. Heard it used to be 50% discount for UOB cardholders.... Hmmm....

The meat section - beef, chicken, pork and prawns...Noodles and steamboat ingredients section...The buffet spread also lacks variety. This is the pickle and sauce section.Side dishes - actually I was quite disappointed with the variety and the quality of food. There were no potato salad, lotus roots slice and eggs! It was just kimchi, anchovy, sausage, bean sprouts, spinach and tofu. Very pathetic!

Fried Anchovy - Korean Sidedish (Myulchi Bokkeum)

Julia made this last night for dinner... and I like it very much. It looks simple enough to make. Hope I will be motivated enough to try making it one of these days.

She got the recipe from this website - Maangchi's Korean Cooking Recipes.


Myulchi bokkeum from Maangchi on Vimeo.

New Location : Dong Shen Frog Porridge

Linking back to my earlier post on Dong Shen Frog Porridge, their new location is actually in coffeeshop, at the junction of Macpherson Road and Upper Serangoon Road, next to the old Jackson Market.

Not sure of the name of the coffeeshop but there is a big signage that says "Bayshore Delicious". Apparently Bayshore's specialty is in crabs and the owner is Tang Hu. Don't be surprise to see photos of him taken with other celebrities plastered all over the walls.

Dong Shen's signage...

The stall... which is not very prominent... and you might just mistook it for selling Brands chicken essence instead of frog porridge...

The price list....

Spring onion & ginger frog legs for 2 persons. Yummy.

Not sure why... actually it costs less now.. for a meal for 2 pax. Did auntie miscalculated?? I am not sure...

Manna Korean Cuisian @ Lau Pa Sat

I chanced upon Manna @ Lau Pa Sat and discovered that they serve buckwheat cold noodles, which it not commonly found at hawker stalls. Of course, they serve other regular dishes including bulgogi, bibimbap, ramyeon etc.

The stall is located somewhere near Cross Street, furthest corner from Boon Tat Street.

The main deciding factor for delicious cold noodle is really the sauce and the texture of the noodle. Sounds simple but i am sure it requires to make sure that the noodles do not clamp together after cooking in hot water and running through ice water...

The sauce is the main ingredient that spices up the plain, cold noodle. The other ingredients including the meat, egg and vegatables are garnishes (at least to me).
 

For $6, this is really worthwhile. The standard is quite there and the serving portion is quite huge. I would think that this portion can easily fill up 2 persons...

Bakerzin

Even if you're not a fan of cakes, sweet stuff or desserts. This is something that one must try at least once in your entire life.

Bakerzin Classic - The Warm Chocolate Cake.

Obviously, the cake is warm but it is the dark chocolate that oozes from within that will warm your heart... the vanilla ice-cream adds to the perfection.

$9.80 per cake.

Haato - Ridgewood Close

Was at Haato again, this time for a farewell lunch. Actually I was in the mood for snacks and ice-cream... er... gelato.

That's my milk-flavour gelato. Everyone gave me that usual unusual stare..."What? Milk?" Frankly, it is really quite yummy. And it is the 1st time I come across Milk-flavour gelato. It went well with the waffle.

And here's "snacks" - yasai croquette (vegetable croquette). The dip for the croquette is quite food and it looked like it is made up of spicy mayo. In fact, I probably would not be able to finish up all 4 pieces of croquette if not for the dip.

Will be back to try out more gelato flavours from Haato... or when I wanna chill out with a few frens during lunch.

Curry Favour Japanese Reataurant

CURRY FAVOUR

39 Stamford Road

#01-09 Stamford House

Singapore 178885

Tel: 68831087

Can't remember when Curry Favour was setup... As far as I can remember, I have been wanting to try the curry @ Curry Favour for the longest time but no kakis to go with.... what's more when it is Japanese curry.

My group of very wonderful colleagues decided to celebrate my birthday in a small way ie. just the few of us, though there will be another one 2 days later, where it is normally done in a big way, like 20 of us.

When they asked me where I'd like to go, somehow I could only think of Curry Favour... it must have lingered in my mind for too long that the name just got stuck there.

The restaurant is located at Stamford House... the building where the signature MPH store used to be located. The curry restaurant was just a few doors away. It is not a big restaurant. Probably can only house like 50 customers at 1 go. The entire ambience was cosy.

All 5 of us ordered curry and there was nothing else but compliments on how tasty the curries were. Well, I was both heartily satisfied with the food and also that my colleagues like the curries. Phew!

This is the Half-size Chicken Stew Curry. Besides the tender chicken chunks, there were also potatoes and carrot pieces. It came with Japanese rice and a scoop of potatoe salad. With an additional $1.50 top-up, we get a miso soup + a drink (either green tea or soft drinks).

We ordered a side dish - potatoe to share... it was well mashed yet there are potatoe chunks in between. The taste is pretty unique and delicious.

My colleagues bought a slice of "birthday cake" from a connecting cafe, for me. It is chocolate chip brownie with ice cream. Surprise!

It was a really enjoyable meal... with good food and what's more, excellent companion.

Pow Sing Restaurant

Was supposed to have dinner @ Sushi Tei (Serangoon Garden) but we were told to wait for 30mins for a table. So we decided to find alternatives... preferably with no waiting time...

Decide to try our luck at Pow Sing Restaurant, whose specialty is hainanese chicken rice. We were lucky enough to be offered a seat with zero waiting time... cos the restaurant seemed quite packed. Boy, it was noisy, noisy, noisy! We were seated next to the "chopping counter" and there was continuous chop, chop, chop sound. Why can't they just move the counter to the kitchen? Sigh...

65 Serangoon Garden Way Singapore 555961
Tel : 6286 4813 Fax : 6282 5016
Daily Opening Hours : 11am - 3pm (Lunch) 5pm - 10pm (Dinner)

Though they specialise in hainanese chicken rice, they do serve a variety of dishes including fish, seafood, prawn, vegetables, tauhu etc.

We ordered this nonya chap chye.. which to me, it is quite disappointing. The gravy is not flavourful and the entire dish was rather bland.

Mapo Tauhu was better... at least the minced meat well marinated and the chilli padi brings out the spiciness of this dish. The tauhu was also quite silky smooth.

The chicken dish was the best of all... although we had asked for chicken breast meat, it was quite tender and smooth.

Due to the popularity of the chicken meat, be prepared that this main dish was be the last item to be served on your dining table... so do eat slowly while the dishes are being served. Else, you'd run into risk of asking for a 2nd rice serving to go with the chicken meat.