Is this the same shop that...

used to be located in one of the coffee shops located along 'Beach Road'? One of my favorite herbal 'Bak Kut Teh' in Singapore? And there's only one way to find out...

I was comparing the photos that was taken at the place located along 'Beach Road' and this place and they look pretty similar. However, looks can be pretty deceiving, the most important part would be the overall taste of the dish. :P

'Bak Kut Teh'(肉骨茶) The magical touch of the indulging great taste of the herbal 'Bak Kut Teh' do exist in this pot of boiling soup. Topped with a bit of vegetables and loaded with lots of 'Pork Ribs', this interesting pot of 'Bak Kut Teh' still has it's magical touch. Not only the taste still remains to be pretty good, the fat and juicy 'Pork Ribs' are a big (+) too. The best part would be the point where you can still go for endless round of refills of the delicious herbal soup. However, pretty much similar to the stall along 'Beach Road', I only go for an extra round of soup and my whole body is actually burning up.

So where can you give the 'Herbal Soup' a good try again?

The name of this stall would be 'Leong Kee (Klang) Bak Kut Teh'(梁记（巴生）肉骨茶). It's located inside one of the coffee shops located along 'Geylang Road'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  Daily: 11:00 - 25:00

* Click here for the location of the coffee shop located along 'Geylang Road' on
  'Google Maps'.
^ Click here to find out more about the previous stall located along 'Beach Road'.

It's ice cream time again...

Rather than blaming on the weather in Singapore, I think that I'm at fault too. I think that I need to have a much more stranger willpower, otherwise my hunger for all these ice cold delicacies are getting wilder and wilder. Anyway here comes...

a tub of ice cream. Choice of flavours would be 'Yuzu' and 'Rosemary & Apple'.
Both flavours comes with a pretty strong taste. But, if I need to choose the
strongest flavour out of the two, I guess that would be 'Yuzu'. The taste of
the 'Yuzu' ice cream is so concentrated that the moment I took a few bites of
it, I feel like drinking some ice cold water already. The taste is pretty hard
to describe and it's pretty much similar to a sour lemon, the taste of the 'Yuzu'
ice cream would give your tongue a memorable sensation. =="""
(Probably my friend is correct, ice cream that are targeting the locals would
have a pretty strong taste, whereby ice cream that are targeting the foreigners
would have a better fragrance and the taste isn't as strong as the ice cream
that are targeting the local market.)

Here's a photo of the interior of 'Tom's Palette' ice cream.

let's take a look at their menu.

So where can you try this?

The name of this place would be 'Tom's Palette' ice cream.
It's located at level 1 of 'Shaw Leisure Gallery'.

And this would be their operating hours...

Notes:

• Though they have listed more than 70 different ice cream flavours on their website, but not all the flavours would be available every day. But flavours like Chrysanthemum, Tofu & Dates, Lavender, etc... looks pretty exciting.
• By the way, if you want to dilute the taste of the ice cream in your mouth, there's a water cooler in that in case of emergency?

* Click here to find out more about 'Tom's Palette' ice cream.

A Common White doesn't mean its better than a Rare Black (Closed)

A few weeks ago, I have written about carrot cakes in Singapore. When I was given a choice to choose between a black coloured or a white coloured of a same dish, I will usually choose the white one.

The reason behind my choice would probably be due to...

• the fact that I want to taste original taste of the dish, without adding pepper, soya sauce, etc
• health cautious... (I know this is kinda =="", but there are a lot more dishes I wanted to try before the end of the world :P)

But there are also times where the Common White can lose out to the Rare Black in terms of the taste and this would probably be one of the best example.

As usual, food comes first.

Nowadays in Singapore, when you step into a 'Bak Kut Teh(肉骨茶)' store, chances that you will be getting a bowl of 'Bak Kut Teh(肉骨茶)' with a White Coloured bowl of soup would probably be pretty high. But hey, take a look at the bowl of 'Bak Kut Teh(肉骨茶)' in the above, it's actually serving a bowl of 'Bak Kut Teh(肉骨茶)' with Black Coloured Soup. Isn't it a pretty rare sight to you?

Let us take a closer look at this bowl of 'Bak Kut Teh(肉骨茶)'. Besides for the 'Bak Kut(肉骨)' which is a must in a bowl of 'Bak Kut Teh(肉骨茶)', 'Tau Pok' and vegetables were also given in a bowl of 'Bak Kut Teh(肉骨茶)'. What I like most about this bowl of 'Bak Kut Teh(肉骨茶)' would be the herbal soup and generous pieces of 'Bak Kut(肉骨)' that was given in a bowl of 'Bak Kut Teh(肉骨茶)'. Although the soup was pretty tasty, I don't encourage you to go for too many rounds of the same soup as it might be too heaty for your body. As for the 'Bak Kut(肉骨)', the meat were fat and juicy. Unlike some of the 'Bak Kut Teh(肉骨茶)' stalls that I had tried, the stall owners were pretty generous with the amount of 'Bak Kut(肉骨)' that was included in each and every one bowl of 'Bak Kut Teh(肉骨茶)'. :D

In comparison between this place and many other places, I think that this place had a larger variety of dishes. Just for the 'Bak Kut Teh(肉骨茶)' alone, there's already an variety to choose from. There's the usual 'Bak Kut(肉骨)' or Pork Ribs, Pig tail, Pig intestine, etc. They also have side dishes like salted vegetables, stewed egg, stewed intestines, etc.

So what is the stall behind all these delicacies?

The name of the stall would be 'Leong Kee (Klang) Bak Kut Teh(梁记（巴生）肉骨茶)'.
If I'm not mistaken, they are closed in the afternoons and they are open for business from late afternoons onwards.

* Click here for the location of 'Leong Kee (Klang) Bak Kut Teh(梁记（巴生）肉骨茶)'.

Zhong Hua Steamboat (中华火锅,拉面) at the intersection of Liang Seah Street and Beach Road

I think my stomach is taking over my mind almost like everyday... And it just happen to have the urge of eating steamboat. When it comes to the topic of steamboat, one of the best place to search for steamboat restaurants would be Bugis, Liang Seah Street. And we decided to tried the one at the intersection of Liang Seah Street and Beach Road.

Here are the photos taken that day.

They have a large variety of ingredients.
For example, a large spread of vegetables, noodles, seafood, poultry, etc...
They also have cooked food like Fried Bee Hoon, chilli crab, fried chicken, fried buns, etc...

Here's a close up of one of the plates of ingredients.
It's a mixture of seafood and poultry ingredients. I love to eat seafood when eating steambooat, especially when it comes to fish slices and prawns.

One word to describe the Si Chuan Ma La soup base, Shiok.
This is probably the best 'Si Chuan Ma La' steamboat soup base that I have tasted for years.
You can actually feel the spicy taste using your tongue and eventually making it numb.
More Shiok.
And one thing that make the soup completely different from the other 'Si Chuan Ma La' soup base was, some of the soup base out there had a thick layer of chilli oil in the soup and they would named it as a 'Si Chuan Ma La' soup but this one doesn't. You could actually identify the ingredients that they were using to make the soup base so tasty.

One thing that I would always do when it comes to steamboat would be the step of throwing in noodles into the soup base. The 'Si Chuan Ma La' soup base could blend with the noodles very well giving it a very delicious taste but as for the 'Herbal Chicken' soup base, that noodles and the soup base doesn't blend together very nicely.

Here's their contact number: 63371655
Click here for the location of the steamboat restaurant

Note:

• Drinks are provided for free, but most of the drinks are soft drinks
• Try to make a reservation before going as the place was very crowded, especially during weekends