Last post for this year - Greetings

Today is 'Christmas Eve'. Therefore...

Thanks for all your help and support.
And I wish you a Merry Christmas.

and a Happy New Year.

Actually, from tomorrow onwards, I will be travelling overseas.
Therefore, I wouldn't be updating the blog(s) for a very long time.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Well then, I would see you next year.

Simplicity...

After spending some time trying a few types of dishes, I decided to take a rest by giving some of the simple stuff a try. For example...

A bowl of 'Sliced Fish Century Egg Congee'
Well, if you are not feeling well and yet you know that you need to have
some food to gain back some energy to move on forward, the congee over
here would be the thing for you. The congee over here are pretty smooth
and the fragrance of the congee are pretty nice. In fact, the grains
were so fine that it makes it pretty easy to digest the food over here.
The taste of the ingredients are pretty normal though. On top of that,
the 'Youtiao', also known as crispy fried fritter, is a big disappointment
too. Though the ends of the 'Youtiao' are pretty crispy, but the body of
the 'Youtiao' isn't crispy enough.

So where can you give the congee a try?

The name of this stall would be 'Xin Mei Congee'(欣美粥品).
It's located inside 'Old Airport Road Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  7am - 11:30pm Daily
• By the way, besides for the common type of congee, they also serve a few types of special congee. For example: 'Sliced Fish & Cuttlefish Congee', 'Prawn Ball Congee', etc...

* Click here for the list of delicacies that you can get in 'Old Airport Road Food Centre'.
^ Click here for the location of "Old Airport Road Food Centre" on Google Maps.

Nostalgic Digital Queue Meter

Numerous posts earlier, I have mentioned about the method of using/installing a Digital Queue Meter at a stall to reduce the amount of time needed to queue up for the food. Therefore...

'Wanton Noodles'
After placing your order, you will be getting a queue number. And as
far as I could remember, this was one of the earliest stall that have
implement the idea of installing a Digital Queue Meter System.

After spending 15 minutes of waiting time, I finally got my food.

Let's just set aside the boring bowl of soup and focus more on the bowl
of noodles. The taste of the few slices of 'Char Siew'(Roasted Pork) are
simply too marvellous. The texture are pretty good and it's delicious.
As for the noodles, it's pretty chewy, springy and it's pretty easy to
break them into smaller pieces. However, the 'Wanton' over here are
pretty normal. I can't decide whether it's the skin of the 'Wanton' that's
a little bit too thick or it's the proportion of ingredients used in the
'Wanton' that doesn't seems right. Either ways, judging based on the
noodles and the 'Char Siew' alone, the food over here are pretty good,
but once you add the 'Wanton' in, the food have ended up to be good only.

So where can you give the noodles a try?

The name of this stall would be 'Cho Kee Noodles'(曹记云吞面).
It's located inside 'Old Airport Road Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  11:30am - 11:30pm Daily

* Click here for the list of delicacies that you can get in 'Old Airport Road Food Centre'.
^ Click here for the location of "Old Airport Road Food Centre" on Google Maps.

Not so comical Old Master Q (老夫子)

If you are into comics or to be more precise, Hong Kong comics, you must be pretty familiar with the term 'Old Master Q'(老夫子). And the main topic of this post have something to do with it...

'Char Kway Teow'(炒粿条)
While queueing up for a plate of 'Char Kway Teow', I realised that if you
are not dining at the food centre, you can get a packet of 'Char Kway Teow'
that is wrap up using the 'Opeh Leaf'. Pretty much similar to the 'Banana
Leaf', it was believed that by using 'Opeh Leaf' to wrap up the food, the
leaf will help to keep the food warmer for a longer period of time and it
could increase the aroma of the food too. :D Seriously, I prefer this
method of wrapping all the food as compared to all the plastic containers
or styrofoam box that are't Eco-friendly at all.

Anyway food wise, quite a few different ingredients were added in order to
perfect the taste of this dish. Besides for the small portion of Noodles
and 'Kway Teow', there's ingredients like cockles, scrambled egg, a bit of
'Chinese Sausages'(腊肠), bean sprouts, a bit of green vegetables and most
importantly, a bit of chilli. Taste wise, I think that the 'Char Kway Teow'
here is pretty acceptable. Firstly, the cockles were fried properly and
it's pretty fresh. Secondly, the dark sauce and the chilli were evenly
spread. On top of that, you will be getting a nice aroma as you started
putting the food into your mouth. Best of all, the 'Char Kway Teow' didn't
ended up to be too wet or too dry, which makes it a pleasant eating
experience for everyone. :D

So where's the link between the food and 'Old Master Q'(老夫子)?

The name of this stall would be 'Lao Fu Zi Fried Kway Teow'(老夫子炒粿條).
It's located inside 'Old Airport Road Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  Weekdays: 11am - 11:30pm
  Weekends: 10am - 11:30pm
• Though the queue isn't crazily long, but if you are dining there in a big group, I would highly suggest that one of you would go and queue up for the food at this stall first.

* Click here for the list of delicacies that you can get in 'Old Airport Road Food Centre'.
^ Click here for the location of "Old Airport Road Food Centre" on Google Maps.

Path to become Ironman

I went to one of the local Blood Bank to donate my blood yesterday. However to my dismay, I think I haven't been taking a lot of food that are rich in Iron, therefore I cannot make a blood donation due to the lack of iron in my blood. Therefore...

Here's a list of Iron Rich Food, that I have taken from the local Blood Bank. I hope that you would find this useful. :D

Foods	Serving	Weight (g)	Iron Content (mg)
Rice and Altematives
Rice, brown	1 bowl	200	1.0
Pasta, wholemeal	1 portion	100	1.8
Bread, wholemeal	1 slice	30	1.0
Wheatgerm	1 teaspoon	15	1.1
Wheatbran	1 tablespoon	15	1.8
Branflakes	3/4 cup	30	5.0
Cornflakes	1 cup	30	3.6
Fruits
Apricot, semi-dried	10 halves	35	1.2
Dates, black, dried	10	90	3.3
Dates, red, dried	10	90	3.0
Raisins	1 packet	42	1.5
Longan, dried	1/2 cup	65	3.5
Fig, dried	10	85	3.6
Prunes, semi-dried	10	85	2.2
Peach, fresh	one	155	1.6
Vegetables
Kale, chinese (Kai Lan)	1 cup	65	1.3
Spinach (Bayam Pasir)	1 cup	30	1.5
Kang Kong	1 cup	30	1.6
Chinese Cabbage (Bok Choy)	1/2 cup	85	0.8
Mustard Leaves, Chye Sim	1 cup	55	0.7
Seaweed, dried (Hai Tai)	1 sheet	15	3.3
Sea Moss (Fa Chai)	1 pinch	10	9.9
Meat and Alternatives
Beef, lean	1 palm sized piece	90	2.8
Pork, lean	1 palm sized piece	90	1.2
Mutton, lean	1 palm sized piece	90	2.1
Chicken, skinless	1 palm sized piece	90	0.8
Fish	1 fillet	90	1.2
Pork Liver	2 slice	30	3.1
Chicken Liver	one	50	5.1
Pig Kidney	one	230	13.8
Egg Yolk, hard boiled	one	17	0.8
Egg, whole, hard boiled	one	50	0.9
Ikan Bilis	2 toblespoon	15	0.6
Prawns, dried	1 teaspoon	5	0.7
Oyster, fresh	12	60	3.7
Sardine, canned in tomato	one fish	40	1.8
Soya beancurd, Tauhu	1 small square	85	1.9
Cashew Nut	1/2 cup	65	5.0
Pistachio	1/2 cup	65	2.5
Walnut	1/2 cup	50	1.5
Lotus Seed	1/2 cup	15	0.6
Almond	2 tablespoon	30	1.2
Sunflower Seed	1/2 cup	70	3.2
Watermelon Seed	1/2 cup	50	3.1
Soya bean, White	1/2 cup	50	3.0
Lentil	1 cup	180	14.4
Gram, Green	1 cup	250	13.8
Gram, Red	1 cup	250	10.5

The King of Osaka

Recently, there seems to be a great increase in the number of Japanese restaurants. There are new Japanese cafeteria's, all sorts of Japanese restaurants, etc... and some of them looks pretty interesting.

'Gyoza set meal'
The rice is too sticky. ==""
And unlike the normal Japanese set meal that comes with a bowl of
'Miso' soup, the set meal that they are serving over here, comes
with something different. It comes with a bowl of soup that is
pretty much similar to the Chinese soup, 'Egg drop soup'(蛋花湯).
Though this isn't 'miso soup', but it's still pretty delicious.

This would be our main focus of this post, which is the delicious
'Pan-Fried Dumplings'(Japanese Gyoza). One thing to note, would be
the fact that the 'Pan-Fried Dumplings' over here aren't too greasy.
However, probably due to the amount of ingredients that they have
stuffed into the dumplings, some of the dumplings have break open
automatically, which make the appearance of the dumplings to become
slightly much more uglier. :(

According to varies resources on the Internet, this dish was founded
in Japan. Basically the 'Ten-Shin Han' are made up of the following
steps. Taking a bowl of rice and cover it with a fluffy egg and pour
a special sauce over it. The appearance of this dish reminds me of a
omelette rice, which reminds me of the sun, which is beautiful. And
as you started mixing all the ingredients together and pop a mouthful
of ingredients into your mouth, the taste is pretty nice and the egg
is big enough to accompany you to the very last bite. :P
(Ever since I'm a kid, I have the habit of pouring a bowl of soup into
a bowl of rice before finishing everything. Therefore, I don't see a
reason why I shouldn't be giving this dish a try.)

The name of the restaurant would be 'Osaka Ohsho' and it's located on basement 1 of 'Raffles City Shopping Mall'. Besides for the 'Pan-Fried Dumplings', they also serve a large variety of Japanese food/set meals.

Operating Hours:

• 11:30am - 10:00pm

* Click here to find out more about 'Osaka Ohsho'.
^ Click here to find out more about 'Osaka Ohsho' in Japan. (Japanese website)
~ Click here to find out more about 'Raffles City Shopping Mall'.

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).