Barracks Cafe (31st Dec 2008)

Decided to venture into the ex army camp area for some food... I been looking thru their site for a while... and was quite impressed with their menu. When the menu came... it was like a newspaper ... I thought it was quite interesting.

I always like simple deco.... but with simple deco, I definitely need a corner seat. I do not like the sound effects of sitting in the middle of the hall with noise coming from all around me. So out came my ipod!! :)

Shaved pear salad
Shavings of fresh pear served with gogonzola cheese and walnuts
I was told it was just shavings of fresh pear :P and there is very little vegetables involved in this dish.... I end up having a dish with more vegetables than I would eat in a month!!! :P The Cheese was so little... and accompanied with as little amount of walnuts. I think more cheese would be GOOD!

Spicy sweet potato mash
For a few weeks ago... I was very much into mashed potato... unfortunately... this wasn't as impressive as I thought it was. I hate the fact that I kept biting into pieces of the chilli or capsicum seeds. It's as much as having pepper in my food. Maybe they can use a sauce than mashing the "spicy" part.

Squid ink paella
(Seafood paella with clams, prawns, squid, black olives, semi dried tomatoes and sauteed capsicum. Comes out with a crusty top and a garnish of parmesan cheese and fresh coriander)
I like rice... and this came out quite well.... only if u like the rice that's has a slightly crusty stick to the ricepot side thingie... which I like.

Note to self : remember to check what's in the description of the dish... so i can eliminate the stuffs i do not like... :p

Check out the place mat!!!
If u think u can get by with 20 dollars decent meal.... forget it. I think it's a rather pricey place... they might have lower their prices... but as it's my frist time there... I didn't actually tot i got my money worth for that lunch.



hehe I like their napkin... I am an rather old fashioned person who prefers older versions of things. :)
My favorite combo... checked with jeans :)


I checked out the other table's orders... i think I would give it another chance.... is it to take photography (which I love) or is it to try the food there again (which is also possible....)?

Bukang Tuna (28th Dec 2008)

This is one of my favorite korean food place.
Here are some of the food I was offered...

Pork porridge (돼지 죽 )


it's a small portion... I should had asked for more... surprisingly this was better than their bigger portion of abalone porridge.

Broccoli with chilli sauce
I don't like this :p Actually I just don't like chilli sauce anymore. It's quite surprising... cause I am a Singaporean... and I grew up on Chilli sauce... :P

Raw Octopus kimchi (해산물 김치)
wooooo this is one of my favorite!!! other than the raw crabs version... *yummy*

Luncheon meat aka spam
no one can screw up spam... other than China...
gosh!!! they screwed up my favorite FAVORITE FAVORITE food...

Kimchi (김치)
it's an okay version.

Spicy Cod Fish soup
I sooooooooooo like... but I prefer more soup with less stuffs in it... :p

Just a Bowl of rice...

PERFECT with the spicy cod fish soup!!!

Spicy Cod Fish soup

Sujunggwa
A sweet ending to my perfect meal...

When one person is alone... I think we should eat a good and comforting meal.
And this is a nice place... but you will have to put up with the "chinese" service... :p

Casa Verde (28th Dec 2008)

Decided to meet up with some friends to do some shooting at the Botanic gardens...
of course, food had to be the final destination of this whole thing... if not part of it. So we slowly shoot and walked towards Casa Verde.



I could not pronounce the set i actually ordered... and of course i didn't know that what I had ordered was an omelette. I totally blamed my stupid brains for not knowing the difference between a Frittata and a fajita (which is a mexican food meat served on flour or corn tortilla.) Okie.. i didn't know what i was thinking... :P maybe it's just too early in the morning... or i am just plain "gong" aka stupid.




Anyway ... my Frittata came... gosh, if I had known that I am getting an italian omelette, i would had ordered something else!!!! I really wanted to have some hard chips/cracker at that moment.... :(

so back to the food... it was NOT nice! it was overcooked... and I did a search on Wikipedia... and there was no cheese in there!!!! I want cheese!! maybe it would made it slightly better. :(



Maybe i should come back later for lunch or dinner. I like the garden feel to this place... and though there were alot of people there, I felt rather comfy cause it was an open concept and of course, with the several dogs there... absolutely add to the charm of this place.

Mini Nepal @ Upper Dickson Road - (26th Dec 2008)

I was told that this place is very goood... not just it was featured in the newspaper, it was also mentioned by some of my frens who are into indian food... And felt it would be interesting for me. So... my dining partner and me were the only ones at the place...
so here goes it...


Papadum with mint dip

Papadum

Mix Pakoda

this has a very strange taste to it... some indian spices... but as unique it might be... it's also a taste hard to accept, for me.

Veg Mo:Mo

okie... this is not my cup of momo :p

Masala Kulchha Naan

*yummy* this was quite good... I like... it's better than the usual plain naan i had before.

Mutton Rogan Josh

I like this, cause they had used mutton pieces with a bit of tendons in them :)

Butter Naan

Palak Panner
This is was goood... but then I prefer the version found elsewhere.

Mouth freshner

Okie... this restaurant might be great for everyone else but me. Maybe it's a different for everyone... but i just don't like.

Han Kook Gwan @ Amara Food court (22nd Dec 2008)

This is one of the places I would go if I want some cheap Korean food.
I love it just because it's simple and unassuming. I think it's not easy to get good and reasonable well korean food in Singapore. I can go into a Korean restaurant and pay more than 20 dollars for something which I really want fast and most important of all ... SIMPLE!



They only offer 2 side dishes... one is beansprout and of course, the other one would be the traditional kimchi.


Sukju Namul Muchim 숙주나물

Kimchi 김치

Bibimbap 비빔밥

After seeing a picture on my fren's flickr account, I finally got my hands on my frist bibimbap.... it was too much a disappointment. I don't like it. I don't like the fried egg when it's supposed to be raw... there are too much vegetables... yeah yeah i know there is supposed to be some form of vegetables in it... but I still prefer mine with less veggies... (as u would know... I am not much a veggie person)

Bibimbap 비빔밥 (after mixing)

Okie... I had decided that, if I ever want something real Korean, I would go to the good places... and of course, but this would satisfy my basic craving. :p

Ah Yat Seafood Restaurant (19th Dec 2008)

A flickr fren from Chicago came back to Singapore.... yippeee more new frens to meet :)

so after going for a rather horrible buffet... we tot crabs would be next on the menu... so we went searching for crabs at YCK but was told they would only served at 5 pm....so we ended up having it at Ah yat instead.... :)

we started with some dim sum

Scallop with yam paste
the scallop bits were small to the extent I did not detect its existence... taste more like a meat fillings than anything.

Har Gow (Steamed prawn dumpling)

Cereal Prawns
This was slightly salty. Maybe less salt would make this dish perfect, cause the prawns were quite fresh.

Matrimony Vine with Assorted Egg
one of my favorite vegetable dish... along with some good stock... and several types of eggs *yummy*

Stir-Fried crabs with salted egg yolk
I definitely like this alot :) pity we don't have some buns to wipe the plate clean :D

This is definitely a good place to come for fresh seafood. But fresh seafood, without good cooking skills can be a quite a difficult choice to make. That's one reason why this is only the backup when i do want to have seafoood.

Dinner @ Tanglin Halt (11th Dec 2008)

In a little corner of a food centre somewhere in Singapore..... There is a stall that sells rather good fried hokkien noodles and Fried Kway Teow. I was informed that this place will be closed for renovation soon... Gosh!! another place losing something precious... which words cannot be used to describe.

I just need to get my fix of them frist...

Fried Kway Teow :) this was yummy when it's hot... :D

And of course, I must get Fried Prawn mee aka Hokkien mee as well. :D This went very well with the chilli I was given.

And followed by a nice cold Bo Bo Cha Cha from a neighbouring stall *bliss*

And this stall is doing it's part in support of the yellow ribbon program :)

I am a greedy glutton who loves to have good food. Sometimes food don't have to be on wonderful china... or even a few tens of dollars... a meal that can bring along the happy memories of the past, along with passable skills, would make a simple hot meal a feast fit for this greedy glutton.

Fish Mart SAKURAYA (15th Dec 2008)

Crab flavoured Croquette

I had the Kani Creamy Croquette, which was still hot, despite travelling longer distance than usual. I enjoyed it. :)

Uni Handroll

The Uni was pathetically little. I should have just get sashimi uni, instead of the uni handroll. The Uni is fresh, though I wish they had put a bit more into it.

I had an extremely horrible experience with the service here. The service staff kept bring my order to the table besides me.Hey I am not stupid okay! I saw the dish moving from his table to the waiter station before coming to my table.

As for the grill saba... they had served it to the table besides me. And when i asked them if they ready to serve it yet. When they went err ahh, I know immediately the fish I was eye'ing at the other table WAS MINE! I told the person I would like to cancel it in english but softly, cause I didn't want the person to feel bad about eating MY order. Off she went... then I got another female service staff telling them that I would like to cancel my grilled saba. Thinking that I will be getting my bill soon... and seeing the person finishing my fish... did put my blood to boil! 10 mins later... another female service staff came with an order of grilled saba... by then I was already angry, I looked at her and spoke sharply in Chinese about how i know my fish was served to the person besides me and that I had cancelled the order. I told her, even if she put the fish down, I will not pay for it. Annoying!!

The food ain't that bad... but can be better. I don't think I will not come here that often... esp if this is the type of service I would get. No matter how fresh they are.... the service is still important.