If you have a passion for spicy food, it's a must for you to try...

Ma La Kong Jian '麻辣空間' located at Geylang Lorong 13. Being a crazy eater of spicy food, this was probably the most craziest Ma La steamboat pot that I had tasted. Best of all, I only place an order for the 2nd most spiciest 'Ma La' steamboat pot of the restaurant and I can already sense the superb spicy taste of the 'Ma La' soup. On top of the spicy taste, just having a few bites on the ingredients from the 'Ma La' steamboat pot and I can already feel my tongue turning numb.

As usual my style, here are the photos taken from the restaurant.

This is the steamboat pot that we had tried that day. On the left its the 2nd most spiciest 'Ma La' soup that the restaurant is serving and on the right, it's the not so important Chicken Herbal soup.

This is how the pot looks like after eating for close to 2 hours.
Basically, this restaurant had provided a large variety of raw meat.
For example, Fish, Chicken, Chicken Sausage that will change into the
of a octopus after cooking, beef, mutton, prawns... etc.
They have also provided a large spread of vegetables and cooked food.
Too bad they didn't provide noodles otherwise eating noodles using
the 'Ma La' steamboat pot would be a heavenly delicacy.

This how the restaurant looks side from the outside.

This is how the steamboat pot looks like, doesn't the amount of red color in the 'Ma La' soup looks challenging?

Take my advice, try the 2nd most spiciest 'Ma La' soup before trying the highest grade.
Otherwise you will regret for not talking my advice seriously.
(Unless you are a native from Si Chuan, China otherwise don't do something crazy.)
Whahahahahahahahahaha.

Click here for the location of the restaurant.

粿汁 - Another spelling mistake for fruit juice?

Nope, there isn't a spelling mistake. In Singapore, there's really a Chinese dish known as Kway Chap（粿汁）. Ever since I was young, I had been eating Kway Chap from numerous locations. Ranging from the market behind my Primary School, the coffee shop along River Valley Road, Tiong Bahru Market, etc. A few years ago, my colleagues had brought me to this Kway Chap store located near Macpherson Road. Although the location of this store used to be pretty inconvenient back then, it had become more and more convenient ever since the Circle line had started operating.

This is how the restaurant looks like. Not only it server Kway Chap,
it also provides Duck Rice too.

Although this was a plate of duck meat that was delivered to the wrong table,
I still took a photo of it. :P You were given a choice to choose between
Yam rice or a bowl of Kway to go with the Kway Chap ingredients. Since I
have a big stomach, I decided to get a bowl of Yam rice and a bowl of Kway.

Let's take a close look at the plate of Duck Meat.
It pretty interesting that they are serving duck meat with a few slices of pineapple.

Here are the ingredients that we had ordered. On the left, it's the store's speciality, which is fried intestines. And on the right, it's the ingredients for the Kway Chap. Usually for a plate of Kway Chap, it will include ingredients like pig intestines, pig organs, boiled egg, etc... Besides for the fried intestines, another special move of the store would be the step of serving sliced pineapples with each and every plate of ingredients that have been ordered. Actually, I like the idea of serving sliced pineapples with Kway Chap. Especially after eating a few slices of pineapples, it had definitely help me to feel much better after having such a sinful meal. :D

Click here for the location of the store.

A healthy dessert that taste heavenly - Guilinggao（龟苓膏）also known as Tortoise Jelly/Turtle Jelly

After having dinner at the Spicy Shanghai restaurant, we decided to try the dessert store nearby.

Here are the photos taken at the store.

This is the name of the store. It's known as Gongheguan (恭和馆).

Here are some of the photo frames that were hanging on the wall.
On the left, we have the menu of the store and their speciality was Guilinggao.
If you had taken a close look at the menu, they had a few different variants of Guilinggao. They had the original Guilinggao（龟苓膏）, Peppermint Guilinggao（薄荷龟苓膏） and Pearl Guilinggao（珍珠龟苓膏）.

Dispite having so many items on the menu, I decided to give the original
Guilinggao a try. The taste of the Guilinggao was very thick and it taste
much much better than any other Guilinggao that I had tasted so far.
(Although, I wasn't a fan of Guilinggao but the Guilinggao of this store
were fantastic. I'm loving it. :P)

This was one of the photo frame hanging on the wall. Although everything was written in Mandarin, the description in the photo had written about the benefits of eating Guilinggao. In fact, they had also framed up a photo with the benefits of having Guilinggao written in English but I had completely forgotten to take a camera shot of the photo frame. :P

So where is this store located?
It's located between Lorong 11 and Lorong 13 of Geylang.
And it's located pretty near the Chinese temple near Lorong 11 of Geylang.
Click here to find out the location of the store.

A Spicy Shanghai Cuisine Restaurant: '上海宋记香辣蟹'

The type of Chinese food cuisine that this restaurant is currently serving is much more closer to a 'Sze Chuan' style as compared to a 'Shanghai' style. What means me think that the cuisine style is much closer to a 'Sze Chuan' style? This is because why we thought of the word 'Sze Chuan', it's pretty common that an individual will related the word to various kinds of spicy food. (I like spicy food.:D) And some of the highly recommended dishes of the restaurant were pretty Spicy. Yummy Yummy.

Enough talking... let's move on to the pictures. :D

Name of the dishes in this picture:
Top Left: 凉拌黄瓜
Top Right: 干煸四季豆
Bottom Left: ??
Bottom Right: 口水鸡
The starters were very delicious and just a plate of 干煸四季豆,
I can finish numerous bowls of rice already.

Name of this dish: 辣子鸡
When I saw this dish, I was surprised to see a plate full of
red-colored chilli's and my eyes were so so close to be popping out.
I thought that this was a fear facter game or something.
But the taste of the chicken was fantastic... I like :D

Name of this dish: 宋记香辣蟹
THe taste of the crab was pretty normal and I think the
vegetables that comes with it taste much better than the crab.

Name of this dish: ??
I don't remember the name of this dish but this was
probably one of the dishes that we have ordered and
at the same time not so spicy at all.

Name of this dish: ??
The main ingredients of this dish were mainly corn.
It's like a big pancake-shaped sweetcorn tempura.
Pretty nice and crispy. (And non-spicy.)

Name of this dish: 芽饭
This is pretty similar to the normal Chinese fried rice, but
the taste were very different. (I'm not going to describe the
taste here as everyone's opinion can be very different.)

Name of this dish: 冷面
This is something similar to a plate of '阳春面' with an minimum
amount of ingredients, but the taste is very good.
If no one's there to stop me, I might be sitting in a corner
ordering and eating 3 or more plates of this noodles.

Name of this dish: ??
Although this dish is slightly a bit spicy, but the taste
of the vegetables reminds me of the jelly-like vegetables
that you will have during a Chinese wedding dinner.
(Anyone can help me out here?)

Name of this dish: 炒马铃薯丝
Probably after eating all the spicy food,
one would find this dish to be pretty tasteless. :P

This is the how the interior of the 2nd floor of the restaurant
looks like. It can be pretty during weekdays and weekends, hence
I would highly recommend you to make a reservation a few days in
advance before turning up at the restaurant.

This would be the address of the restaurant.
It's located at the corner of Geylang Lorong 13.

Click here if you prefer looking at the Google Maps website for a more detailed map.
Click here to find out more about '上海宋记香辣蟹' in Singapore.

Note:
Please help me to fill in the names of the dishes if you know them.
You can either leave your comments here or send me a message through E-Mail or Facebook.

A Ramen for a real man - Bario

A few weeks ago, a new restaurant 'Ramen Champion' was opened in Iluma. This restaurant was pretty special as it's made up of 6 infamous Ramen restaurant of Japan. The names of the 6 Ramen restaurants are 'Bario','Menya Iroha','Ikkousha','Taishoken','Gantetsu' and 'TETSU'. As I had already eaten 'Iroha','TETSU' and 'Ikkousha' in Kyoto before, I decided to try 'Bario' this time round.

The following were photos I had taken at 'Ramen Champion':

This is the shop 'Bario'. Look at the long queue...

The purchasing system that they are using at 'Ramen Champion' were pretty special. A waiter will pass you a card at the entrance of 'Ramen Champion' and upon making a purchase at any one of the stores in 'Ramen Champion', you will be handing them this card to scan your purchases and they will be returning the card back to you. Upon exiting 'Ramen Champion' you will be giving back the card at the counter next to the exit and at the same time, you will have to pay for your purchases in 'Ramen Champion' too. After placing your order for a bowl of Ramen, you will also be getting a circular black thing that looks like a dish. This thing will be blinking a red-colored light to inform you that you can go and collect your Ramen already.

This is the number 1 Ramen from Bario. There was a lot of beansprout in that 1 big bowl of Ramen. As for why did I take so many dishes of Garlic and Chilli, because...

this poster was posted on the wall of the 'Bario' Ramen shop. Because I wanted to become a 'Superman Bario' that is why I decided to take so many plates of Garlic and Chilli pepper.　Time to eat before the Ramen turns cold.

Don't you agree that this is a interesting bowl? You can actually see the Japanese Kanji character that use to represent 'man'.

This will be the piece of evidence to prove how 'man' I was.

Actually, after eating the Ramen at 'Ramen Champion', the number 1 Ramen that I had eaten still continues to be 'Marutama' Ramen. And I personally find that the Ramen of 'Bario' to be pretty normal. But if I have time in the future, I might come back to 'Ramen Champion' to try a few more bowls of Ramen.

* Click here to find out more about the 'Ramen Champion' located at Iluma.

Western Food at Tiong Bahru Market

I can still remember that I used to be a frequent customer of this Western food stall located at Tiong Bahru Market in the past. Being one of the stores that was opened until late night, this was one of the best alternatives for supper within a walking distance of 15 minutes. Beside for 'Astons', this was probably one of the best alternative for cheap and good Western food nowadays.

Here are the photos taken that day :D.

This is how the stall looks like at Tiong Bahru Market.

Lamb Chop Set

Mixed Grill Set

Look at the number of side dish that was given. There's half cooked egg, french fries and even coleslaw. This just give me another reason why I should continue spending some time dining at Tiong Bahru Market every now and then. Yummy Yummy.

Click here for the map of Tiong Bahru Market.

A Prawn away to Checkmate

This is one of my favourite at Tiong Bahru Market. I love it so much that I don't have any difficulty eating the same dish for every single meal. :) Similarly, I find the Prawn noodles pretty healthy. The soup of the Prawn Noodles were not very oily and besides for the usual bean sprouts, some other green vegetables were also included in the Prawn Noodles also.

This is the store that I have being talking about.
It is located on level 2 of Tiong Bahru Market.

This is the Prawn Noodles Soup.
I also love the Prawn Noodles when it's dry and it comes with a lots of chilli.
Regardless of the type of Prawn Noodles that U had ordered, I loved them both. <3 <3

Click here for the map of Tiong Bahru Market.