Haig Road Market

Lunch was at Haig Road Market.. and hee hee hee.... i had the san dan porridge again!





i think the aunty can recognise me already. haha!

Donut Factory

Bought a box of donuts for seafoodies' jan gathering....



the flavours which i didnt try the previous time was the spicy cheese and double chocolate.

not sure if its coz this is pre-packed, the spicy cheese flavour didnt have a strong flavour.

The double chocolate was pretty good though. Comes with chocolate filling!

Papi

Seafoodies jan gathering was at Papi.

We were first served a basket of bread....



the girls seemed to love it especially crabby and squiddy.

as most of us were pretty full, we ordered a pasta and a pizza to share.

the seafood linguine in basil sauce...



pretty nice in terms of freshness and fragrance.

pizza wise, i highly recommended the pamma ham which squiddy seconded....



today's pizza tasted a bit different. Not lousy but different.

Helio Cafe

Headed over to Helio to look for lea and was very lucky to see Chef Clement around....



And clement was showing us the size of the portobello mushrooms he brought in...



HUGE!

and he was very nice to let us try a bit of the mushroom soup he cooked....



a closer up view...



Its without cream.. made up of portobello, shitake, white buttons, brown buttons. We were pretty impressed! and best thing is, its w/o cream.. means its healthy and low fat!

Also, tried the green tea mochi cheesecake that Lea had raved to me about....



a closer up view of it....



its thumbs up! Its the texture thats wooo! imagine the chewy mochi and the cheesecake texture... mmmm mmm!!

Azabu Sabo

Lunch with Ailian. We went to try out Azabu Sabo (Marina Square level 1).

The interior of the place..



their menu..



the green tea they serve was pretty good!



kinda reminds me of the Guan Yin Wang tea that mum has at home. Fragrant in smell and a very sweet after taste.

For mains, i had a cheese burger steak set...



The starter was some sourish carrots and lotus roots (which Ailian liked)...



Options were given for the rice.. if i recall correctly there was some plum rice, some pork rice and something else i cant recall and this salmon sushi rice roll...



a closer up view...



but its didnt taste extraordinary. I mean, u probably can more or less imagine how it tastes.

the soup was light but not bad.. its got thread like egg in the soup...



and of coz the mains which was pretty good i'd say!



the sauce was called demiglace which was quite yummy.

a closer view of the burger steak.....



beef patties nowadays dun seem to impress me but this was is good! Ailian agrees as well.

Ailian had a chicken and crab in soya bean milk item...



its actually some thin kway teow like noodle. The soup for this dish is WOW! I'm serious! Its VERY GOOD! Ailian and myself were both.. WOW-ed by it! Yummy!

What i didnt like was that their crab meat was those frozen artifical crab meat. But the chicken was pretty tender. Definitely will order this dish again when i return. However, this dish is not on their regular menu. Hope they don't remove this item from the menu.

ailian has this thing for sweet potates. We shared a caramelised sweet potato and japanese rice cakes with sesame ice cream (the caramelised won me over and the ice cream wise, choice of green tea flavour was also available)...



Kinda abit too sweet for my liking especially the rice cake.

Haig Road Market

Lunch at Haig Road market.

I had the san dan zhou again!



i think im gonna be having quite a bit of this for my lunch. its good! Realised that Keith is actually quite a corriander fan. he looked so disappointed when he saw me remove the corriandor on my porridge on the table. haha..

lil bee had wanton hor fun...



not sure if its nice but since he didnt wow to me and didnt complain, it should be just alright.

Chocolat N' Spice

Got home and i saw a Chocolat N' Spice bag. Its from ah yee! She had called me earlier today saying she'll bring it to my place. I had previously told her that Jianhe kinda said this place's muffin is very good but apparently theres long queues for it. Not quite sure where it is located exactly.. only vaguely koe its around tanjong pagar and ah yee went to get it for me! yay! so nice right?



She got me 2 muffins!

One is a banana flavoured one.. one has some almond or something...



the inside of the muffin...



didnt wow me like i thot it would. Ah yee said she tried the blueberry one and it didnt work for her either. But den again, maybe coz when i tried it, i was very full already.

Swissbake - Brownie Cheesecake

brownie cheese cake....



for dar dar, with love from nuasters...



the cake tastes so so good! Its very light, doesnt make u feel gerlard. Also, the brownie cubes on top has got nuts inside. Mmm mmm..... Even loh gong zai who doesnt really goes for cake stuff was impressed and had 2 slices!

The Caffe Bar

Dinner at The Caffe Bar celebrating Dar's birthday.

mushroom soup...



the yummyilicious mushroom soup is probably the best soup on their menu.

Jo-ann's order of the set meal came with soup of the day which is probably cream of chicken....



the chicken soup was forgettable. Nothing impressive. Pretty average.

The seafood soup.....



its not nice at all. I won't order it.. and its ridiculous for a $7 plus soup to be not nice.

the ham, cheese and egg sandwich...



the egg was like a poached egg....



Mmmm! But the bread was kinda hard and didnt go for me.

the caesar salad...



pretty average except that the egg was really soft!

Kendi ordered the salmon for her mains....



its pretty unique. Its a ring of salmon on top of a layer of black .. hmm.. u koe the kinda rice we have as a chinese dessert? Orr chok bee? But its not sweetened. On the top is some cabbage like vege.

Dar had a seafood spaghetti aglio olio style...



Jiamiao ordered a roast chicken leg with mushroom linguine dish...



also tastes pretty good. Its in cream based. The funny thing was when we tried to psycho her into ordering something, her reply was.. " im not dean hor " hahaha.. which cracked us all up coz its true.. we usually 'bully' deanie into ordering things that we wana eat. hahahaha

and under my recommendation, andy zai and loh gong zai also had the duck confit... today's duck confit looked like its a bit over burnt...



The inside of it...



Still good. Loh gong zai said that Bakerz Inn has a similiar dish that tastes better. I've never tried it thou.

Jo-ann's dish was a chicken dish. some chicken wrap like dish. Its that same orr chok bee rice wraped around in chicken thigh meat...



a closer up view..



The sauce was cream sauce and again, i thot this is a pretty interesting variety. Taste wise was not too bad in my view as well. But Jo-ann didnt quite like it.

Raymond had the crayfish pasta...



didnt manage to try it.

Dar dar paid for the meal.

Sakae Sushi

Lunch with Dar, Andy zai and Jo. They chose Sakae Sushi for lunch.

Soft shell crab handroll...



some salmon sushi...



Chawanmushi....



some fried silver fish i ordered thinking it was like the crispy fried shrimps from the fish market but this one is not nice..



some chicken with cheese on top thingy...



fried tofu....



Fried salmon head...



while the dishes didnt exactly taste bad.. it wasnt exactly nice either. I felt its quite a waste of money. Not sure if its because my standards have raised or sakae's standards has dropped. I used to think sakae was pretty good but now i think its probably average or even below average. I really wun wana head back again if i can help it.