Time for Honeymoon~~~

After getting married, the newly-wed couple will go for a honeymoon trip and that's that exact same moment where things are at their sweetest. However, the term 'Honeymoon' can also be used to point out...

A Chinese Dessert restaurant known as 'Honeymoon Dessert'(满记甜品).
But what's so special about their dessert?

'Sesame Soup'(生磨芝麻糊)
Though it looks kinda ugly and dull, but the taste of it is pretty
impressive. The strong aroma of sesame are circulating around me
as soon as this bowl of warm 'Sesame Soup' landed on the table in
front of me. The texture of the 'Sesame Soup' are pretty thick and
it's so thick that it makes me ponder what's the proportion of the
amount of water used in the preparation of this dessert. Either ways
the strong aroma and the deliciously good taste of 'Sesame Soup'
have given me sufficient reasons to return again. :)

By the way, if I'm not mistaken, they have listed up to a 100 items
on their menu, which makes it kinda difficult to try all the items
within a year. However, since the serving portion over here are
stomach friendly, hence a glutton like me can easily finish 4 or 5
bowls of desserts for dinner. (I think. :P) But, you can always
gather a group of friends at this place and place an order for a
few types of desserts and share them among yourself. :)

Anyway, they current have a few outlets island-wide/worldwide. Do visit their website for more details. (By the way, the photos shown in this post are taken at the outlet located at '100AM'.)

* Click here to find more about 'Honeymoon Dessert'(满记甜品).

Wrapping all the ingredients like a Present

I was walking around this new shopping mall, hoping that I could find something new and interesting. I happen to walk past this shop and I decided to give it a try. :)

Here's a 10" Big Ocean Wrap With Special Burnt.
It looks like a Candy Bar and the skin of the
wrap reminds me of a 'Naan', in fact it is a 'Naan'.

The concept behind the wrap reminds me of a 'Shawarma'. However,
the vegetables used in the wrap are pretty much similar to a bowl
of cold salad and the the meaty stuff are served warm. If I'm not
mistaken, by default most of the wraps come with vegetables like
lettuce, shredded white and red carrot and cucumber. On top of the
nice vegetables that you are getting, depending on the type of wrap
that you have selected, the ingredients can varies. As for the 'Big
Ocean Wrap', it comes with 'Juicy Fish Tikka' and 'Healthy Fresh
Greens with Mint Yoghurt'. Once you started taking a bite from the
wrap, the mixture of warm and cold fresh and crunchy ingredients
are pretty neat. Since this is much more smaller than a 'Shawarma',
it makes it much more convenient for the busy people working around
that area to have a healthy and delicious meal on the go. :P

So where can you give the interesting wraps a try?

The name of this place would be 'Simply Wrapps'.
It's located on level 3 of '100AM', or previously known as
'Amara Hotel Shopping Mall'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  10am - 10pm Daily

* Click here to find out more about 'Simply Wrapps'.
^ Click here for the Facebook Page of 'Simply Wrapps'.
~ Click here to find out more about '100AM'.
! Click here for the Facebook Page of '100AM'.
# Click here for the location of '100AM' on 'Google Maps'.

A whole year of surprises...

Which can give you a whole year of surprises? And my take to the question would be 'Food' and I'm not referring to the topic 'Food', but a type of 'Happy Food' and that would be...

'Large Scoop', which is a combination of 2 scoops of 4oz ice cream

Choice of flavours would be:

'Banana Yoghurt' (Top)
Except for the interesting taste of Banana, I have absolutely no idea
why they have given this ice cream flavour a 'Yoghurt' name.

'Pistachio Almonds' (Bottom)
As for this it's pretty interesting. Besides for the nice 'Pistachio'
taste that reminds me of 'Chinese New Year', the ice cream also comes
with roasted Almonds, which kinda acts like a topping to me. While
one is busy licking the ice cream away, the idea of biting on the
roasted almonds and getting attacked by the nice aroma of almonds
just simple turns my appetite on.

By the way, the texture of the ice cream over here seems to be pretty
sticky/hard. I have a hard time trying to scrub off a small bit of the
ice cream using the plastic spoon. I wonder how will it ended up if I
have gone with the ice cream cone idea...

So where can you try the nice ice cream?

The name of this ice cream place would be 'Baskin Robbins'.
They have a few outlets island-wide and what I have shown in this
post would be the outlet located on level 1 of 'Tiong Bahru Plaza'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  10am - 10pm
• They seems to have numerous ongoing promotions happening every single day. Do visit their website to find out more. :D

* Click here to find out more about 'Baskin Robbins Singapore'.
^ Click here for the Facebook Page of 'Baskin Robbins Singapore.'

The milky way of Laksa

Usually when I think of a bowl of 'Laksa', it should be a bowl of noodles and a strong orange colour bowl of soup. However, it seems that there are exceptions...

'Laksa'
Pretty much the same as how a Singaporean would describe a bowl of
'Laksa', you will be using a spoon to finish up the whole bowl of
'Laksa' over here. All the ingredients used in the preparing this
small little bowl of 'Laksa' are in bite size. After taking a few
bites from this bowl of 'Laksa', I come to recognise the fact that
the 'Laksa' soup was very milky. Though it's still a 'Laksa' soup,
however the sweet taste is much more stronger than the spicy taste.
And as and when you put a spoonful of ingredients and 'Laksa' soup
into your mouth, the taste of the 'Laksa' is remarkably good~~~

So where can you give this milky 'Laksa' a try?

The name of this stall would be 'Marine Parade Laksa - The Original
Katong Laksa'(正宗加东叻沙). It's located on level 1 of 'Roxy Square'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  9am - 9pm

* Click here for the location of 'Roxy Square' on Google Maps.

Time for some Xlb...?

And by the way 'Xlb' isn't a facial expression. 'Xlb' means...

'Xiao Long Bao'(小笼包)
The skin is neither too thick nor too thin, but one think that I'm
pretty certain would be the taste of it. It's amazingly delicious.
Once you started popping one of them into your mouth and as you
started biting the 'Xiao Long Bao', the juicy soup and the ingredients
will burst inside your mouth and beware, these small little things
can be pretty hot. Besides for the taste, the other thing that I like
about the 'Xiao Long Bao' over here would be the skin. With the skin
that they have used in the 'Xiao Long Bao', the skin wrapping up all
the ingredients together doesn't break so easily. On top of that,
the skin, the soup and the ingredients has formed a beautiful triangle
of great taste. And if any one of them have been changed, I think that
the 'Xiao Long Bao' would not taste as great as what they have now.

Before I jump to the name and the location of this restaurant, let me start off by explaining a bit on how I knew about this place. I was working near that area close to 10 years ago and I'm getting a lot of positive feedbacks about the food of the restaurant from my ex-colleagues back then. But, the drawback would be the crowd that appear during lunch and dinner hours, which increases the amount of waiting time. In fact, this restaurant was so famous that the Japanese are common customers of this place. (:P)

The name of this restaurant would be 'Jing Hua Eating House'(京华小吃),
which is previously known as 'Qun Zhong'(群众). It's located along
'Neil Road', which is pretty near 'Maxwell Food Centre' too.

Notes:

• Opening Hours:
  Lunch: 11:30am - 3:00pm
  Dinner: 5:30pm - 9:30pm
  (Closed on Wednesdays)

* Click here for the location of 'Jing Hua Eating House'(京华小吃) on Google Maps.
^ Click here for the list of delicacies along 'Neil Road'.

Eating a Dinosaur...

Not referring to the drink 'Milo Dinosaur' over here. What I'm going to write about today would be a kind of food that I love pretty much and that would be...

'Dinosaur Prawn Noodles'(Dry)(恐龙大虾面)
Just by taking a look at this, my jaws are dropping already. I haven't
seen prawns that are so big since the early 90s. Anyway let's set the
humongous prawns aside first. Besides for the prawns, what makes this
bowl of noodles interesting are the special paste and the other
ingredients(Pork Ribs, Vegetables, Fried Onions, Noodles) that they have
added into the bowl of noodles. Once you started stirring all the
ingredients thoroughly and started savouring the noodles, the taste is
pretty interesting. The overall taste are pretty sweet and the noodles
are pretty chewy and springy, which is pretty nice. :D On top of that,
the vegetables and the meaty stuff blend in together pretty good too.
Next, let's move forward to the bowl of soup.

Just by looking at the bowl of soup alone, simply explains a lot of stuff.
Though the colour of the soup looks pretty dull, but just by looking at
the small little bits floating on the soup means that they have added
quite a variety of ingredients in the preparation of the soup. And the
taste of it is pretty sweet and fantastic nice. The mixture of pork ribs
and prawns give the soup the wonderful great taste. Yummy. (Come to think
of it, why didn't I tried asking for another round of soup?)

Time to move back to the main attraction of the dish, which is the 'prawns'.
Though all the prawns are pretty fresh and even the prawn head are given,
but I decided to have a little bit of fun, therefore I have set aside one
of the prawns into the bowl of soup before digging into the noodles. When
I was comparing the prawns from both bowls, it seems that the 'dry' version
of the prawn seems to be much more boring while the taste of the 'soup'
version seems to be much more richer in taste. Probably I should try the
soupy version of the 'Dinosaur Prawn Noodles' the next time round. (... But
wait, which means I wouldn't be getting the nice noodles... ==""")

So where can you give the 'Dinosaur' a try?

The name of this restaurant would be 'Old House'(老屋).
It's located along 'Neil Road', which is pretty near
'Maxwell Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  10am - 4am Daily
• By the way, some of the specialities over there includes stuff like 'Heng Hua Lor Mee'(兴化卤面), 'Home Made Ngoh Hiong'(自制五香), etc... (Just by taking a look at all the food photos make me hungry again. :P)

* Click here to find out more about 'Old House'(老屋).
^ Click here for the location of 'Old House'(老屋) on Google Maps.

Is this the real Katong Laksa...?

'Katong Laksa', one of the infamous local delights in Singapore. However, as time passes and things tend to change, you dont't really get to see so many 'Laksa' stalls located near 'Katong' area. Therefore, here's the main question, is this the real thing?

'Laksa'
This particular variant of 'Laksa' is pretty simple. The ingredients
used are bean sprouts, prawns, slices of fish cakes, the thicker type
of rice noodles and most importantly the 'Laksa' soup. Setting the
delicious ingredients aside, the 'Laksa' soup is pretty interesting.
The 'Laksa' soup have a pretty strong coconut taste and at the same
time it's pretty spicy. This can be pretty rare since most of the
'Laksa' soup out there are either too milky or too spicy and it's
pretty rare to come across such a good blend of sweet and spicy taste. :D

So where can you try this interesting bowl of 'Laksa'?

The name of this stall would be 'Roxy Laksa & Prawn Noodles'.
It's located inside 'East Coast Lagoon Food Village'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  10:30am - 9pm(Weekdays)
  8:30am - 9pm(Weekends)
  Closed on Wednesday
• By the way, the stall owner seems to be "The only 3rd generation from the original 'Roxy Theatre'" Laksa stall back in the 60s. Well, basically I'm not that old, therefore it's impossible for me to tell you how good or how bad it tasted as compared to back then. However, based on what I have tasted a few days ago, I think that the 'Laksa' over here is pretty worth trying. :P

* Click here for the location of 'East Coast Lagoon Food Village' on Google Maps.