Not just Honey...

I still can remember the length of the queue when they have opened the first outlet in Singapore. The queue outside the first outlet just doesn't seems to go away...

'Pandan Gula Melaka' This reminds me of the Mr. Softee that one can get from a 7-Eleven in the early days. However, this has a far more creamier and smooth taste.

For a start, the soft serve is in pale green, which reminds me more of the lime-green color more than the shades of 'Pandan', though the taste do comes with the taste of 'Pandan'. Besides for the tube of 'Melaka' syrup that is sticking out of the soft serve, there's interesting ingredients like 'Crunchy Puffed Rice', 'Attap Chee Seeds'(Palm Tree Seeds) and 'Coconut Shavings' that goes around it. As I mixed all the ingredients together, there's a nice mix of milky and crunchy sensation. On top of that, despite of the amount of 'Melaka' syrup that goes around it, the amount of sweetness that I'm getting is still pretty acceptable. :P

'Cereal Milk' The name of this has pretty much given one a rough idea of the ingredients that might be used in this soft server. And that would be 'Cereal'. Almost every single bite comes with the nice crunchy bits of cornflakes, which kinda reminds me of the nice 'Parfait' that I have tasted in Japan. :D

So where can you give these 'Soft Serve' a good try?

The name of this place would be 'Honey Creme'. They currently have a few outlets in Singapore and this is their first outlet in Singapore, which is located on level 1 of '313 Somerset'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  Daily: 11:00 - 22:00

* Click here to find out more about 'Honey Creme'(Singapore).
^ Click here for the 'Facebook' page of 'Honey Creme'(Singapore).
^ Click here to find out more about 'Honey Creme'.

Better than the normal Chicken Nuggets...

Hmmm.... sometimes it might get pretty boring if you are sitting in a corner reading a book only. Therefore, things will get far more interesting if you can get yourself a beverage and some...

'Crispy Chicken Nugget'(香香炸雞) The helpers just scoop out a tray of nuggets, therefore I'm getting all these mist around the lens of my camera. Well, let me wipe my lens first...

As a snack, these golden brown bite size nuggets are pretty good. They are pretty chewy and tender. Although, it's pretty juicy, but I personally find it not juicy enough. Besides for the taste, 1 good thing that I like about the texture of these Nuggets. They are not very oily and at the same time they are not covered in a thick layer of flour. Anyway, taste wise, it's pretty tasty and I'm also getting the spicy and fiery sensation too. In fact, I don't feel thirsty at all, despite of the fact that I have eaten a big packet of 'Nuggets'.

So where can you give the 'Nuggets' a good try?

The name of this shop would be 'J&G Fried Chicken'(继光香香鸡). It's located on level 1 of 'Tiong Bahru Plaza' and at the same time located near 'Bread Talk' too.

Opening Hours:

• 11:00 - 22:00 Daily

* Click here for the 'Facebook' page of 'J&G Fried Chicken'(继光香香鸡).

When you can keep both...

'鱼与熊掌', this is a Chinese Idiom. It means that you can't have both fish and bear's paw. You will have to choose one of them. However, this doesn't apply to the foodie world. You can actually have both of them at the same time. Introducing...

'Fish Fillet Burger' Basically, this ended up looking like a toy more than a fast food to me. Anyway, you get to D.I.Y the burger that you want. First of all, you have the choose the main ingredient, either Fish or Chicken. After that, you have to choose a 'Paw' out of 6 different flavours, which is 'Milk', 'Yam', 'Whole Grain','Brown Sugar','Japanese Curry' or 'Squid Ink'. I ended up choosing 'Japanese Curry'. Well, most of the burgers out there are topped with a sauce. Same goes over here, you have to choose a sauce out of 6 different sauces. There's 'Black Pepper', 'Tar Tar', 'Golden Cheese', 'Mushroom', 'Thai Chilli' and 'Honey Mustard'. Well, that's 'Black Pepper' for me. Taste wise, I think that this is pretty normal. Even though the taste of the 'Paw' has added an additional taste to the burger, but the additional taste just isn't strong/nice enough. Or probably I have to go with the funky selections to spice up the taste a bit. (Ex: 'Squid Ink Paw' + 'Honey Mustard'.) By the way, I do admit that the burger looks kinda cute but taste wise it's pretty normal and the potion is kinda small for me. :|

'D-I-Y Fries' By topping up a bit more, you can get the 'D-I-Y Fries' rather than the usual natural cut fries. Basically the difference between the 'D-I-Y Fries' and the normal natural cut fries would be the extra sauce that comes with it. Basically, you just choose a sauce out of the 6 listed in the above. I don't remember what's the sauce I ended up choosing but I do remember that the texture and the original taste of the fries were pretty good. But there are more and more fast food restaurants nowadays that are offering 'natural cut fries'. Therefore if you continue to offer the normal fries, you will lose out to the competitors in the competitive market of fries.

So where can you give the cute burgers a try?

The name of this fast food restaurant would be 'Bear Bites'(熊の食). The above shows the second outlet that is located on basement 1 of Bugis Junction.

Notes:

• Operating Hours:
  Weekdays, Saturdays: 10:30 - 22:30
  Sundays: 12:00 - 22:30

* Click here to find out more about 'Bear Bites'(熊の食).
^ Click here for the 'Facebook' page of 'Bear Bites'(熊の食).

A Company of Beer

Frankly speaking, I'm not so much into alcoholic drinks like beer, wine, etc... However, once in a while, I would still drink a bit, especially when I'm travelling and the weather is freezing cold. By drinking a bit, it really helps to keep you warm and out-stand the crazily cold weather co-temporarily.

'Taiwan Lychee Beer'(臺灣荔枝啤酒) Ever since I know about the existence of this beer in Singapore last year (or is it 2 years ago?), I have been keeping a lookout for it. And I managed to find it recently. As you drink the beer, rather than getting the bitter taste, you are getting the sweet taste of 'Lychee'. However the taste will slowly turn from sweet to bitter as you gulp down the beer, which isn't that important. Most importantly, it is something special and nice that even non-beer lovers like me could easily gulp down 3/4 of the bottle of beer without any difficulties. :)

So where can you give the 'Taiwan Lychee Beer' a good try?

Who says that you can only get a wide variety of beers in a brewery or restaurant? Basically, the name of this stall is 'The Good Beer Company' and it is located in one of the hidden corners on level 2 of 'Chinatown Complex Food Centre'.

Notes:

• Operating hours:
  Mondays - Saturdays: 18:00 - 22:00

* Click here for the Facebook page of 'The Good Beer Company'.
^ Click here for the location of 'Chinatown Complex Food Centre' on Google Maps.
~ Click here for the list of delicacies that can be found in 'Chinatown Complex Food
  Centre'.

Eating black colour balls?

We were looking for a good place to sit down and do a bit of catching up. Well, after spending a bit of time walking around, we ended up sitting inside a dessert place.

Left: "'Jiu Fen' Taro Ball Crushed Ice"(九份芋圓冰) Right: "Honey Yam Crushed Ice with Milk"(蜜芋頭牛奶冰) As for the dessert "'Jiu Fen' Taro Ball Crushed Ice", a lot of ingredients were included inside it. However, the ice that they were using isn't the fine type of ice, or more commonly known as snow ice. I think that it will taste much better if they are using snow ice rather than the smaller chips of ice. With the ice that they are using, I think the excitement has already dropped 50%. As for the ingredients, they are pretty ordinary. As for the dessert "Honey Yam Crushed Ice with Milk", is a little bit too plain as compared to the previous dessert. It's mainly a mountain of ice + a few cubes of Honey Yam. Even though the Yam comes with a nice fragrance and it's pretty sweet and delicious, but this dessert is slightly a bit too plain. I think that it would taste better if they have added a few more types of ingredients into this dessert. I would highly recommend this if you are a big fan of good tasty 'Yam'.

So where can you give all these desserts a try?

The name of this place would be Black Ball(黑丸嫩仙草). It's originated from Taiwan and it currently have a few outlets island-wide. Anyway, the photo shows the '112 Katong Shopping Mall' outlet.

* Click here to find out more about 'Black Ball'(黑丸嫩仙草) in Singapore.
^ Click here for the Facebook Page of 'Black Ball'(黑丸嫩仙草).
# Click here to find out more about 'Black Ball'(黑丸嫩仙草) in Taiwan.

The Largest Fried Chicken strikes back...

I had written about this place some time back. And I was passing by the place today and...

Besides for the 'Original' flavour, the 'Spicy' flavour and the 'BBQ Lemon Chicken', it seems that the owner of this stall have roll out a few more new flavours. The new flavours are 'Onion Chicken', 'Garlic Chicken', 'Curry Chicken', 'Seaweed Chicken' and 'Sour Plum Chicken'.

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Since I haven't been eating this for a very long time, I decided to give one of the new flavours a try. Therefore... 'Curry Chicken' flavour has been selected. :P The size of the 'Fried Chicken' still remains to be pretty big and the crispy touch still remains to be pretty good. Taste wise, basically it is using the original 'Fried Chicken' as the base and they are sprinkling the Curry powder all over it. Though it ended up to be a bit too powder-ish but the aroma of the Curry powder is pretty nice. Although the taste of the Curry powder happen to be pretty strong , but I still prefer the taste of the original or the spicy flavour, which is also not too powder-ish.

So what is the name of this stall again?

The name of this stall would be 'Hot Star Large Fried Chicken'. It seems to be expanding rapidly over the past year. It currently have 4 outlets in Singapore and they are located at Basement 1 of 'City Square Mall', Level 3 of 'Nex Mall Serangoon', Basement 1 of 'Tampines 1' and Basement 4 of 'ION Orchard'. So why don't you quickly make your way to the outlet closest to you and comment about the new flavours that they are offering over here, in this blog. :P

Note:

• They wouldn't cut the Fried Chicken into pieces so WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get)...

* Click here for the website of 'Hot Star Large Fried Chicken'.
^ Click here for my previous post about 'Hot Star Large Fried Chicken'.

Bento from Taiwan

After having a hearty meal at Chinatown area, we decided to make our way to the next MRT station nearby. Since it's located beneath a shopping mall, we decided to go ahead with a bit of window shopping. :P (Though it's pretty late already and most of the shops are closed, but we still can catch a glimpse of the interior of some of the shops in the building.) In fact, my friend had recommended us to a shop that he thinks that the taste is pretty much similar to the stuff that he's getting in Taiwan, therefore...

I decided to give it a try the following day. Left: 'Taiwanese Style Fried Chicken'(台灣香酥雞) Right: 'Taiwanese Style Bubble Tea' For the fried chicken, though it looks like a pretty small packet of chicken, but looks can be deceiving. Though this is my first attempt with the food at this stall, but the overall experience is pretty good. Firstly, the chicken meat is pretty tender and juicy. Secondly, unlike some of the Taiwanese stalls out there selling Taiwanese delicacy, that amount of salt that was added to the chicken over here is pretty acceptable. Most importantly, it isn't crazily salty. Last but not least, the taste of the chicken meat is delicious. Though the packet of chicken is pretty small, but probably the taste of the Chicken is so good that I finish the whole packet within a minute or so. :P Drinks wise, it's pretty normal, but if you are going to give it a try, you probably can try requesting for a cup of Bubble Tea with much lesser ice. (So that you wouldn't be having a hard time sucking all the jellies...)

So where can you give the delicious Taiwanese Chicken a try?

The name of the stall would be 'Taiwan Bento'(臺灣便當).
It's located in basement 1 of 'Central Shopping Mall'.

Notes:

• Operating Hours: 11am - 11pm

* Click here to find out more about 'Central Shopping Mall'.
^ Click here for the list of delicacies that can be found in 'Central Shopping Mall'.

Biggest... no.... it should be the largest Fried Chicken in Singapore

One of the infamous finger food of Taiwan would most probably be one piece of humongous Fried Chicken. According to some TV shows that I have seen back then, Taiwanese teenagers can queue up and buy a humongous piece of Fried Chicken that will last them for a whole day... Simply unbelievable...

Time to move on ....

Here comes the biggest Fried Chicken in Singapore...
So how big is big?
I was comparing it with the size of my palm and in terms of the length it's
roughly around 1.75 times of my palm and the width is roughly around 1.25 times
of my palm... (By the way I'm around 1.75 cm in height... and I was stretching
out my hands to the maximum before I can successfully take a full photo of it.)

I know its big but so what... how bout the taste?
This piece of Fried Chicken isn't very salty at all, which I find it good.
I recalled myself having my first bite off a Taiwanese-style Fried Chicken
before and my first impression of it was... 'TOO SALTY'. I couldn't believe
that I would give this a try... and luckily I did else I would never believe
that Fried Chicken can taste so good. The Fried Chicken itself is pretty hot,
crispy and not too dry. I was standing at a corner eating this Fried Chicken
and this is the first time in my entire whole life hoping that this Fried
Chicken can continue to grow on and on... I just can resist it... Yummy :D.

I guess that the owner is pretty proud about his Fried Chicken too...

The name of this stall would be 'Hot Star Large Fried Chicken' and it is
located on basement 1 of City Square Mall, which is also 5 - 10 minutes
walking distance from Mustafa and Farrer Park MRT.

Note:

• They wouldn't cut the Fried Chicken into pieces so WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get)...
• The original Fried Chicken comes in a spicy taste too. (The one that I had shown here would be the spicy Fried Chicken.
• Opening Hours: 10.30am - 9.45pm

* Click here for the website of City Square Mall in Singapore.
^ Click here for the website of 'Hot Star Large Fried Chicken'.