R u ready for the Mid Autumn festival?

R u ready for the Mid Autumn festival (also known as moon cake festival) that is coming in 2 weeks time? Have you bought yourself a delicious box of moon cake? If you haven't, you probably want to get some help in getting a box of moon cake. And I just happen to know a place where you can try moon cakes made by more than 40 over moon cakes makers. And at the same time buy yourself a delicious box of moon cake and prepare yourself for the Mid Autumn festival. :)

This would be my recommendation.
You probably might want to visit the Mid Autumn festival fair that was
organised by Takashimaya shopping centre annually and give it a try. :)

Whao look at the crowd.
You probably want to go there earlier to avoid the crowd.
And if you are lucky or early enough, you might probably get to try and
buy all the yummy moon cakes before they were sold out for the day.

Besides selling moon cakes, some of the stores are selling tea leaves,
snacks, lanterns... etc. As long as it is something that can remind you
of Mid Autumn festival, you probably can get them here at the fair. :D

This is the floor plan for the Moon cake festival fair located at Takashimaya Basement 2.
Look, you probably can find all the famous brands of moon cakes under one roof, isn't it convenient? :D

* Click here to find out more about Takashimaya and the Mid Autumn festival.

A Sambal Stingray that isn't that spicy

Besides having the Carrot Cake and Minced Meat Noodles, we had also ordered and tried the Sambal Stingray of the Fengshan Market located in Bedok.

Probably because I'm pretty used to a Spicy Sambal Stringray dish, I don't like
this dish at all as it wasn't very spicy. But I would recommend the dish to anyone
that would like to try a Sambal Stringray dish and doesn't like spicy stuff.
This store has manage to combine both factors together in one single dish alone.

This is the store behind this unique dish of Sambal Stringray, CHAN B.B.Q.

But where is this store located?
The store is located inside the Fengshan Market & Food Centre located at Blk 85 Bedok North Street 4. The queue for this store was much much shorter than the queue at the Carrot Cake store and the Minced Meat Noodles store, which was both a delicacy also. :D

* Click here for the map of the Fengshan Market & Food Centre located at Blk 85 Bedok North Street 4.

Sometimes it's black and sometimes it's white, and for me I love eating the white ones :D

Question: What sort of food can appear in black sometimes and sometimes it can turn out to be white? My answer: Carrot cake. :D I love carrot cake especially the white ones. Yes, I admit that I used to like the black carrot cake when I was young, but after I had eaten the first white carrot cake that was super tasty, I tried not to eat the black ones at all.

This was probably the 2nd store in my entire life that had prepared such a tasty plate of White Carrot Cake. Besides being a healthy dish, a plate of White Carrot Cake can be very tasty too. And mark my words you people out there, when I am referring to the term 'tasty', it doesn't mean that there is only the taste of the chilli only, there's really something very special about this plate of White Carrot Cake, which makes it very tasty. And a another good point that I would like to raise here would be the fact that the portion of food given by the stall owner was pretty generous.

As for the Oyster Omelette, I find it pretty normal and it wasn't as great as the plate of White Carrot Cake.

This is the store behind the White Carrot Cake and Oyster Omelette. And please take note that there might be a high possibility that you need to wait for around 30 minutes before the food will be delivered to your table.

But where is this store located?
The store is located inside the Fengshan Market & Food Centre located at Blk 85 Bedok North Street 4. The queue for this store was much much shorter than the queue at the Minced Meat Noodles, which was a delicacy also. :D

* Click here for the map of the Fengshan Market & Food Centre located at Blk 85 Bedok North Street 4.

A Genuine Minced Meat Noodles?

Been a crazy fan of noodles and probably I cannot survive without eating Noodles once in a week, this is probably the first store that change my impression of how a Minced Meat Noodles should look and taste like.

My jaws almost dropped after waiting for a few bowls of noodles after 30 minutes.
Where are all the ingredients??? The mushrooms, pork liver, minced meat ...etc
Don't tell me that there is only a bowl of soup with Meatballs and a bowl of noodles only???

The only bowl of ingredients with meatballs.
Hmmm.... after eating, actually this isn't so bad.
The meatballs were pretty tasty and the taste of the soup is pretty good.
Unlike some other Fishball Noodles and Minced Meat Noodles out there, the taste of the soup is actually pretty good. At least I didn't waste my trip down to this market tasting these delicacies. Well and this bowl of Minced Meat Noodles was rather similar to my motto in life, where 'Simplicity can be the best'.

This is the store behind this interesting bowl of Minced Meat Noodles.

The Minced Meat Noodles store is located inside the Fengshan Market & Food Centre located at Blk 85 Bedok North Street 4. Look at the crowd, despite of the fact that it was a Saturday night and the time was around 9pm, this can still be considered as a very big crowd of people dining or hanging out at the market. =.="""

Note: one of the better ways to get to the market would probably includes the step of taking a MRT ride to Bedok Station and taking the bus No. 14 from the Bedok Interchange located near the Bedok MRT Station.

* Click here for the map of the Fengshan Market & Food Centre located at Blk 85 Bedok North Street 4.

Famous Chinese dessert store @ Liang Seah Street - Ah Qiu Dessert Store

As I used to hang out at the Library near Bugis. Once in a while after having my dinner in Bugis area, I will start looking for delicious dessert store located in the same area. This is probably one of the better find located in that area.

Here's the photo of the food taken in the shop itself.

Top Left: Red bean with Ice cream (Cold)
Top Right: Black Sesame Paste
Botton Left: Mango with Pomelo
Bottom Right: I'm sad to say that I don't remember the name of this dessert

My personal favourite would be the Red bean with Ice Cream dessert (Cold).
If you have been following my blog, you will know how much I love Red Beans :D

Too bad I am sitting in the extreme corner of the store.
Otherwise if I was sitting in the other side of the store,
I can take and upload more exciting photos of the interior of the store itself. :(

Basically here are some of my pointers if you want to try the desserts of this store:

• Turn up at around 6 ~ 7pm after your dinner for a shorter waiting / queueing time as the store is not big enough to accommodate the crazy crowd
• Try not to turn up at hours between 8 - 11pm, as this would be a test for your determination and patience
• Try not to turn up at hours after 10pm as most of the desserts might already have been sold out

* Click here for the location of the store :D

Only restaurant in Singapore that serve Japanese Vegetarian Food

There are all sorts of Japanese food restaurant in Singapore. For example: Izakaya, Ramen shops, Shabu Shabu restaurants... etc. However, there is only one restaurant in Singapore that serves 'Shojin Ryori'. But what is 'Shojin Ryori'? The ingredients for making 'Shojin Ryori' are vegetables only. The chef will only be using vegetables to create all sorts of food items. For example: vegetables meals that look and taste like Unagi Don or Tempura, various types of Tofu set meals... etc. Basically, there are all kinds of 'Shojin Ryori' available in Japan.

The following photos were taken at the restaurant 'Zen' that is also the only restaurant that serves 'Shojin Ryori' in Singapore.

Unagi Don Set Meal

Udon Set Meal

I'm so sorry that I had completely forgotten the name of this set meal.

	Paper Claypot and Soba Set Meal It seems that food in this place never fails to amaze me. This is probably my first encounter with a claypot full of vegetarian ingredients. Example: vegetarian prawn, fish cake, etc... :D

The above were photos of the interior of the restaurant.

Note:
This restaurant is

• slightly a bit costly
• the set meals were delicious
• it is highly recommended to eat a lot of vegetables for a meal or two
• Lunch: From 12noon ~ 3pm
• Dinner：From 6pm ~ 10pm

* Click here for the map of 'Zen' restaurant.
^ Click here to find out more about 'Shojin Ryori'.

Dining @ the rooftop of Mustafa: kebahs n Curries

Mustafa had been expanding over the past few years and despite of the number of restaurants located around Mustafa, Mustafa had also decided to build a restaurant on top of its building.

As compared to all the previous post that I had written, let's take a look at the restaurant before moving on the the photos of the food of the restaurant.

The restaurant is separated into 3 sections.

	After getting out of the lift, this section would be on your left. I was having my dinner inside this Dome-shaped section of the restaurant. Too bad the Dome wasn't covered with transparent glass panels, otherwise dining under the stars would be a magnificent sight. :D

These were normal seats in the Indoors.
Nothing special here.

You can also choose to sit in the outdoors. But there were very limited seats that make it difficult to get the chance to dine in the outdoors.

Left: Chapli kebab (Mutton) Right: Pakistan Set Meal When I was eating the 'Chapli kebab' (mutton), which was a speciality of the restaurant. The taste reminds me of 'Haggis'^ that I had eaten in UK more than 10 years ago. But as for 'Chapli kebab' it's much more harder than 'Haggis', but the taste were somehow similar. I like it. :D This was probably the first time I'm eating a Pakistan Set Meal but when I compare it with a Indian Biryani Set Meal, I will definitely choose the Biryani Set Meal as the taste is much more stronger. :P Note: the rice that they are using in this restaurant were very different. The rice grain were thinner and longer in size.

This is their menu. They provide a large variety of food from different parts of the world.
Besides for North and South Indian food, they also have Pakistan food, Chinese food, etc...
Wait... Did I mention that they also have both Vegetarian and Non-vegetarian food too,
which is a Plus+. :D

* Click here to find out more about Mustafa.
^ Click here to find out more about 'Haggis'.