Sashimi

Pick your sashimi from the fish market area fronting the restaurant and have it sliced up and served to you at your table. SO GOOOOD!

Ichiban Boshi
1 Kim Seng Promenade
#B1-07 Great World City
t:6734 3433

Tai Hwa

The lunch which takes an hour of braving the queue to attain:-

Hill Steet Tai Hua Pork Noodle
Blk 466 Crawford Lane
#01-12

Eggs Benedict

The Cellar Door
619 Bukit Timah Road
Singapore
Tel: 6463 5296

A presentable poached egg requires skill to prepare as does a palatable Hollandaise Sauce* which is usually served up with the poached eggs on half a muffin bun with ham/bacon/smoked salmon as Eggs Benedict or with spinach as Eggs Florentine.

I love Eggs Florentine. For brunch. When the craving arises.

The usual brunch menus around offer 2 eggs (sunny side-up or scrambled) with stuff etc.

At the Cellar Door, they offer Mr Benedict or Miss Florentine So cute. I don’t know many places in Singapore that do Eggs Ben, in the first place.

I love this place. It’s been totally overhauled since I last went. The bar in the middle of the space has been removed to make room for more seats and the menu has also been modified slightly. It’s now cosier than before.

Miss Florentine

Mr Benedict

Spanish Omelette

Caffe Latte

* I never knew this before but Hollandaise sauce is an emulsion of butter and lemon juice using egg yolks as the emulsifying agent, usually seasoned with salt and a little black pepper or cayenne pepper. It is a French sauce, so named because it was believed to have mimicked a Dutch sauce. Hollandaise sauce is well known as a key ingredient in Eggs Benedict.

Bar Bar Black Sheep

Bar Bar Black Sheep
879 Cherry Avenue
Singapore

Back when I was slaving away in shirtsleeves and pencil skirts before a computer for an average of 12 hours a day, money came and went easily. Our usual haunts for ‘one drink’ included the pubs along the river, Post Bar @ the Fullerton, Martini Bar @ the Hyatt (if someone had a car that day), Wine Company on Evans et cetera. We never minded too much about the $2 premium we paid for each drink, trading off for convenience.

These days, I’ve been finding myself at Bar Bar Black Sheep a fair bit. Close to school, close to home. Hogaarden at $10 a pint. Asahi bottles $6. Though I have had bad experiences with the draught beer here, I still go and will be sticking to the bottled beer selection going forward.

The other day, we decided to dine there as well. They’ve got an Indian place, a Thai place and a burger/pasta place. Each a stall in this comfy corner coffeeshop. The Indian food was YUMMY. Proper naan and dahl and butter chicken! We go about 4 dishes for $37. I was very happy to have found good Indian food in my own backyard!

The Thai food looked fantastic as well on other tables around. Will try that next time.

Ming Kee Live Seafood

Ming Kee Live Seafood
556 MacPherson Road
Singapore 368231
t: 67474075

Ambience: Family style with a heartland vibe. Comfortable carpeted, air-conditioned restaurant with generous outdoor dining area and kind no-frills service. Unpretentious and cozy.

Food: Yummy yummy yummy! Signature dishes include the crab bee hoon, steamed clams, herbal prawns.

Price: Very reasonable – $350 for 10 people. 2 bottles of Heinekken. We didn’t order a whole fish though.

Super sized crab bee hoon

Seafood fried bee hoon

Pork ribs

Steamed Clams

Steamed Fish

Kha at HortPark

Kha
HortPark
33 Hyderabad Road
Singapore 119578
+65 6476 9000
http://www.kha.sg/

Yenn Wong strikes again, this time its a Thai restaurant smack in the middle of a horticultural park in the Alexander area.

Food: Thai food, thai ingredients prepared and served with western influence. Eg, the traditionally hot and sour Tom Yam Goong is more sweet than sour here, and each serving has a singular king prawn in it.

Crowd: I thought it would have been extremely coupley but turned out it was more family, highly expat and also very chilled.

Ambiance: Nice! Our table was by the water feature: a large, shallow infinity pool. The al fresco dining area blends into the horticultural park and there were still visitors and tourists milling around till late.

Cocktails: weak.

Service: I’m sure they would have gotten better by the next time.

Price: $$$.5

PS Cafe at Dempsey

PS Cafe
28b Harding Road
Dempsey Hill
Tanglin Village

On Saturday after class, we decided to stop for some food on the way home and went to Dempsey for brunch

Food: I’ve never been impressed by the food at PS Cafe. It’s always been ambiance over food. Go without expectant taste buds.

Crowd: Lovely place. Remarkable decor. Pretty people, generally young, expat, yuppies in casual clothes.

Price: $$$ We had a PS Cafe special Wagyu burger, poached eggs +++ and a drink each (coffee & tea) – about $35 each.

Re-visit: Its kinda hard NOT to revisit the PS Cafes as everyone else seems to love it. I’ve been 4 times, and counting.

I think PS Cafe is overpriced and overhyped and I find the food generally forgettable.

Simple Pleasures

One of life’s simple pleasures is a leisurely weekend brunch at the market where coffee is 60c and a meal is $2.50 and where I’m spoilt for choice of what I could have.

Truffle Oil

The other day, I tagged along to the supermarket and saw this rack of White Truffle Oil on the deli counter above the hams and cheeses. $59 a pop. Wah. Observe how they have a custom rack.

Peace Hotel

Wo Peng
476 MacPherson Road
Singapore 368191
Tel: 6747 9892

This restaurant takes on a lofty name, that of the famed hotel sitting on Shanghai’s Bund – Peace Hotel.

Wo Peng, cantonese for ‘Peace’, sits snugly in a row of shophouses in the MacPherson Aljunied area and is fitted out in the comfortable, old-school Chinese restaurant style. A style where not much thought is given to style. What’s put on the table and who sits around it matter more at a meal here.

I’ve been twice already. They have plans in mind for the shophouse unit next door, currently still being worked on. Till completion, the restaurant won’t be officially opened – its sign board is still wrapped in red paper. Yes, when I say old-school Chinese, I mean old-school Chinese.

We had the claypot rice (advanced order required), pork ribs, jellyfish and bright eyed fish herbal soup

Chinese table setting – a select frame

A peep into the kitchen

The spicy condiment is always awaiting on a meal table in Singapore