The 4 Heavenly Snacks of Maxwell Food Centre - Part 2 - Balls??

Balls?? Based on what I know, balls are mainly used in sports most of the time. And the closest ball that you can get when it comes to food related terms would probably be ingredients like egg balls or ice balls, which is a dessert that you can only find in Singapore long long ago. So what is this ball that I'm talking about?

Introducing Sweet Potato Dumpling that comes in the shape of a ball. :P
Although, it's a dumpling, it doesn't have the shape of an oval.
I'm not sure why this was given a name 'dumpling' but it definitely taste good.
It's crispy on the outside and soft in the inside.
It was so good that you can even taste the sweet potato
once you take a bit off these balls.
On top of that, even if you set these 'balls' aside for a few hours,
it still remains to be pretty delicious. Isn't it nice. :D

Besides for the flavour of sweet potato, there's also flavours like
peanuts, red beans, vegetables and pandan coconut. Even though I still
go ahead with the flavour of sweet potato most of the time, it doesn't
mean that I didn't try the other flavours at all. It's just that I
still prefer the taste of the sweet potato much much more. :)

So where can you find these balls?

The stall is located inside Maxwell Food Centre. Although the name of the stall is in Mandarin, it's actually pretty easy to identify the stall in Maxwell Food Centre.

* Click here for some other delicacy that can be found in Maxwell Food Centre.

Biggest Chain of Curry House in Japan - 'Coco Curry House'

I had a sudden urge for Curry last week. However, squeezing through a overcrowded Little India was not a very pleasant task to do on the weekends, especially on a Sunday. Hence, after giving some thought, I decided to go to '313 Somaerset' for Dinner. Reason behind my action would be the fact that there was a Japanese Curry House that have just recently opened for business in basement 3 of the building of '313 Somerset'. And the Japanese Curry House was a branch of the infamous 'Coco Curry House' in Japan.

The following are photos that were taken in the shop itself.

	At 'CoCo Curry House', you will be given the freedom to create your own type of Curry set. You just need to choose a type of curry and the toppings that you wanted to add. That's it, doesn't it sounds easy? The above would be 'Nekyouto Curry'. It is merely a Fried Chicken Curry set with additional toppings like mushrooms, hard-boiled egg and also cream croquette with salmon filling.

After finishing up all the food, this store had once again
proven the fact that Japanese Curry were not spicy at all.
And I think that the taste of the Curry have more of a
sweet taste than a spicy taste.

Photos taken in the store

* Click here to find out more about 'CoCo Curry House'.
^ Click here for the menu of 'CoCo Curry House'.
~ Click here here to find out more about '313 Somerset'.

The 4 Heavenly Snacks of Maxwell Food Centre - Part 1 - Banana??

Look at the photos of bunches of bananas in the above. Doesn't it look gorgeous and indulging? ... The End? Huh? Wait there's something wrong here... This is a food blog not fruit blog... What interest me most would be the food that was produced from Bananas not Banana...

Introducing the 1st Heavenly snacks of Maxwell Food Centre - Banana Fritter.
If you have a passion for fried food, this is a must try for you.

Trust me, a bite from this was unbelievably fantastic.
The Banana was actually crunchy...? On top of that the taste was great.
I must admit that I don't really like to eat normal Bananas but
this, this was very different and indulging.

This would be the stall behind this inexpensive delicacy.
You can find it at Maxwell Food Centre. :D

Note:

• What amaze me the most was the popularity of this stall. I was sitting next to the stall and I saw a lady sweeping at least 12 Banana Fritter in one go :O
• Best to eat it once you bought it. If you set it aside for too long, the crunchy feeling will be lost and it just doesn't taste right anymore.

* Click here for some other delicacy that can be found in Maxwell Food Centre.

A plate of Spicy Fried Rice?

I must clarify that I don't like to eat rice. My favourite type of food in this world would be dishes that have noodles and lots of noodles in it. Although I don't like to eat rice dishes, there are some exception case where there are rice dishes that I simply can't resist.

Introducing...

Balachan Fried Rice.

The following are some of the reasons why I was a regular of the stall

• Most importantly, irresistible spicy taste
• Ingredients like crab meat, shrimps, egg, vegetables have been added to it
• Not so sinful, especially when pork meat were not included and vegetables were included in a plate of Balachan Fried Rice
• Cheap (With the price of S$3.20 you are getting a unbeatable tasty plate of Balachan Fried Rice :P

Before moving on telling you guys the location of the store, I would like to clarify something first. Spicy isn't a sense of taste. It is more of a sense of touch. I was google-ing around the web and it seems that by eating lots of spicy food, it can also increase the Metabolism of your body...
(Turning my head to my stomach for a while... hmmm I wonder....)

So where is this stall located?

This stall is located at Maxwell Food Centre. The name of the store would be 'Somerset'. Besides for the infamous Balachan Fried Rice, they also have some other typical Cze Char dishes. For example: Yang Chou Fried Rice, Seafood Hor Fan, Seafood Crispy Noodles, etc.

* Click here for the location of Maxwell Food Centre.
^ Click here for some extra information on the link between Metabolism and Spicy food.
~ Click here to find out how does the sense of spiciness works.

The Flavour of Life

If life can be interpreted into different flavours, how would it taste like?

As for myself, that would be the same question that I would probably be spending my entire life searching for a perfect answer to it, but till today, I think that life would be similar to a cup of tea. It can be either sweet or bitter or even tasteless. On top of the taste, the smell coming out of a cup of tea can either be a strong aroma or a strong refreshing fragrance or even odourless. With the number of types of Tea Leaves in this world, tea tasting can be a never ending journey that one can take.

Today I am going to introduce a Chinese Tea House that I am a regular. Introducing ...

Tea Chapter I was working at this place a few years back. When I was working at Tea Chapter, everyday was a completely different experience. You get to meet different groups of people everyday. On top of that, the atmosphere of the place was both quiet and relaxing. It wasn't an easy task looking for places like this in the busy part of Singapore.

	Have a break, Let's have some Tea... :P
Besides for the huge variety of Chinese Tea that you can try, you can also go for the snacks like fragrance cookies, Tea Eggs, simple Dim Sum... etc.

The following would be the type of seats that you can get in Tea Chapter.

Japanese Style You will be crossing your legs for a very period of time. But no extra charges if you decided to choose this kind of seats.

Korean Style
Very limited seats, but you can put your legs into the hole underneath
the table. There are additional charges for these seats, but this isn't
something that you can experience everyday.

	Chinese Style Something that you can get in at traditional Chinese restaurant. Oh by the way, Queen Elizabeth II had paid a visit to Tea Chapter in 1989. The picture on the left was taken during her visit to Tea Chapter.

	Some photos taken in Tea Chapter

	Besides for the Chinese Tea House that was located on the 2nd and 3rd floor, they also have a retail shop selling all sorts of Chinese Tea Accessories and Chinese Tea Leaves.

Do pop by Tea Chapter if you want to get away from the busy Singaporean lifestyle.

* Click here for the website of Tea Chapter.