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Nestled at the heart of Orchard is the commonly heard ToastBox, which serves a variety of bread toasts that goes along well with a hot cuppa! Toastbox has many branches around the island and it is so common to see one of these nowadays. Located at Scape, the hangout of many youngsters, it's a great stopover for a tea break!

The otah toast is uniquely different. The order took a while to arrive with a piece of leaf atop the bread. The otah is rather spicy and it taste somewhat different from the conventional otah u buy to eat. It did not go very well with my taste buds though!

Tried the milo thick toast but sadly it fell below my expectations. Guess the bread was too thick and the milo powder was too little. The condensed milk was insufficient too. But I have to mention that their floss thick toast is superb!

Wash that all down with a cold cup of milk tea or yuan yang with pearls! However, their yuan yang is not as good compared to other places which serve yuan yang. Nevertheless, it is still a good place for a tea break after some heavy duty shopping around town!

SGD 4

Nowadays, there are so many bakeries vying for a share of the market and everything is becoming increasingly commercialised. However, there are always those small old school bakeries which have been around for decades that serve pretty decent breads and cakes!

One such bakery is the Ng Kim Lee bakery located at Chun Tin Road. Don't discount it for its humble facade, they have been featured in the Sunday Times! They muffins are one of their signature items. Priced at 50 cents each, they have a variety of flavours such as walnut, chocolate, pandan and strawberry! Their muffins taste rather average for some flavours like strawberry and it tastes more of just fruit essence flavouring the muffin. But for the walnut one, you can taste bits of nuts in it!

They serve cakes too priced at $2-3 on average. Try their durian cake, it's rather decent and have their cheesecakes too which come in a variety of flavours such as blueberry and oreo!

Their simple breads are priced at less than a dollar and its also pretty good!

SGD 2

Imagine a sudden craving for a good bowl of fishball mincemeat noodles in the wee hours of the morning! When all the shops are asleep and there you have it, EAT., the classic fishball and minced meat noodle shop that opens for 24 hours and serves pretty decent noodles!

EAT. have branches all over the island and I believe they are opening more around! When the shopping mall is all cool and quiet in the night at Jurong point, EAT. is alive with steamy soups and fresh noodles. Their minced meat noodles is slightly above average but I wish they would give more minced meat and ingredients. Do try out their fried items such as chicken wings and fishcake, they are really good too! Sinful to have such fried stuff in the night, but your tastebuds will love it!

So, head down to any EAT. to satisfy your craving today!

SGD 4

A good drink stall is important in every canteen, coffee shop, food court, hawker centre!

And in Technoedge, this one stop drinks and snack stall has a great variety of snacks and beverages!

They serve their special house made hainanese coffee, tea and serve even Japanese green tea dispensed from a large dispenser. Besides that, they do have ribena, milo and a soft drink dispenser as well. If you are looking for some canned or bottled soft drinks, their fridge is brimming with all sorts of cold drinks and they even have yoghurt and yoghurt drinks. Feeling hot and heaty? Have some herbal tea or barley too!

Their range of snacks will satisfy anyone. From fresh egg tarts to banana cake to sandwiches and curry puffs to doughnuts and the list goes on. They serve breads and biscuits and sometimes even fried beehoon! There, a one stop stall that gives you great variety at a great price!

Awesome Stall! The stall will also have special festive decorations for every occasion!

2011-03-21

SGD 1

Fish soup, the always healthier alternative for mealtimes.

Jin Hua Fish soup has been around for quite a long time. a little humble stall in Ghim Moh Hawker Centre, it serves rather good fish soup!

The fish is fresh and springy. And the soup is not overly salty. Some fish soups are overladen with salt and fried tau kee which make it unhealthy. However, this fish soup is easy on the taste buds and simple.

The elderly auntie is very pleasant and kind as well. You can opt for an additional serving of vegetables for 50 cents.

2011-03-20

SGD 4

Soups are amazing.magical.wonderfully warm on the tummy.

On a gloomy rainy day, have a bowl of hot soup to warm the senses and feel snug.

On a hot day, have a good bowl of soup to keep you cool!

At any time, have a bowl of tonic soup for nutrition! Have it on its own, have it to accompany your meal, have it for breakfast, have it for lunch or dinner. Have it with rice, bread, together with noodles. Ahh, isn't that just a perfect accompaniment!

Uncle Soup serves up great healthy soups for just about anyone! Want a spicy kick, try the seafood tom yum soup! Going for something simple? Try the fish or seafood soup. Want something flavourful? The Bak Kut Teh is awesome. the pig stomach soup is peppery and aromatic. Or go for the ultimate chicken herbal soup, a big chicken drumstick swimming in ginseng soup.

I love uncle soup for its original soups. They are nutritious and cheap without use of MSG. The seafood soup is good with prawns, fish, crabmeat, fishcake and comes with rice. The fish soup is really good as they use fresh fish slices. Have that served in a mini hot pot and it completes your day.

The soups that they offer generally taste good and at 2.50 a pot, it is extremely affordable? add 30 cents for a bowl of rice or top up 50 cents for an extra serving of vegetables!!

So, get soupy today!

SGD 2.80

It is always great for a canteen to offer a wide variety of cuisines and to know that the canteen offers choices at super affordable prices. The NUS engineering canteen is the perfect answer for a good cheap meal!

The Japanese Stall is a rather new stall compared to the rest of the stalls being around for over a year or 2. However, it is really disappointing that despite the excitement that Japanese cuisine is offered in the canteen, I think I would have been better off having another chinese or muslim stall.

The Japanese food here is completely not worth mentioning. The curry rice i ordered looks rather easy on the eyes but once you got to eat it, you will start believing the other side of the story. The miso soup is weirdly sour the day I drank it and yes, once is enough and I will never buy it again. The curry weird as well and if you are looking for some serious japanese cuisine, do look some place else.

The opening promotion seems eternally there.

SGD 3

The canteen is always so filled when it is lunch time!! So decided to head over at 11.15 today to grab some lunch and avoid the long queues!

Yong tau foo is really cheap with each piece costing only 25 cents! That is so much cheaper compared to outside and you can also enjoy the relatively wide selections! You can choose from rice or noodles. It is also possible to opt for additional laksa soup for your yong tau foo in place of the normal soup if you are in for some spicy kick for only an extra 30 cents!

Generally, the soup is very average and I feel it could have been better. The laksa is a tastier alternative! I believe the soup is the important star in YTF. However, the healthy note is that it doesnt taste like it contains any msg. Hooray! But nevertheless the low price for each individual item is the greatest draw! Do patronise the stall before or during lunch as usually after lunch hours the food item selection is vastly reduced and there usually isn't more refills. Even though the stall is opened till dinner, sometimes there isn't even any vegetables left.

2011-03-16

SGD 2.50

Chwee kueh, the little steamed rice cakes topped with preserved radish and chilli sauce, a perfect dish for breakfast or tea!

Chwee kueh stalls are common in many hawker centres these days but some of them taste so typical as I see many branches of a chwee kueh franchise around the island.

This Ghim Moh Chwee Kueh is different, I have eaten it for over ten years and it still tastes as perfect as ever. The rice cake is not the kind which you would find extremely soft but it is of the right texture.

The star of the show is the radish. I haven't been quite able to point out the star ingredient in this pot of pickled radish i see at the stall. It is so fragrant and it complements the kueh perfectly. This radish is on the salty side, I have eaten most which are slightly sweeter but this scores with that savoury kick.

I see the stall owners painfally stacking the little metal cup shaped containers and steaming them everyday.

Definitely a must eat if you drop by Ghim Moh Market! Always ask more more radish!!

SGD 1

Everyone loves a lazy Sunday! So it is always time for late breakfast and early lunch and what we call brunch!

While all the surrounding shops have their shutters down, Breko is already bursting with live and energy. Think bacon, sausages, pancakes drizzled with maple syrup, a hot cuppa and there, the perfect meal!

Breko serves western breakfast and has big breakfast set to sandwiches like cheese and ham to pancakes. Each breakfast course comes with refillable coffee or tea and you can top up to make your drink into hot lattes or ice chocolate/vanilla latte.

Ordered pancakes with sausages and a fried egg. The pancakes were pretty alright and went well with the maple syrup. There were very big though and one plate is like 1.5 times a normal portion. Dunk those pancakes in syrup and spread it with jam or butter and there you go!

Ordered a brekkie in a pan which is a medley of eggs, bacon sausages and tomatoes served with toasted bread. It was rather plain and I wished there was more flavour as the bread that was supposed to be dipped into the pan seemed to have egg as the base. Wished there was cheese and some herbs or cream! ordered ice vanilla latte which tasted like sweetened fresh milk. Nothing really spectacular. But overall, a pretty alright place to go for breakfast or brunch.

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2011-03-13

SGD 11

Cedele, a familiar name which has several branches across the island and it has restaurant, bakery and cafe concepts. Stopped by to satisfy the tummy's calling for cakes!

The Mixed Fruit Pavlova never fails to attract me whenever I walk past a cedele cafe. The sheer imagination of fresh fruits atop meringue got me going. Finally, I sat down and decided to give it a try. The Pavlova was slightly above average, the fruits were really fresh but the meringue was not too bad. Had the carrot cake which tasted really good. It is one of the great cakes recommended by many! The chocolate cake was not bad too except that the cocoa powder had me choking when I first put it into my mouth.

Cedele strives for its consumers to eat well and be well by having no trans fats in the foods which is really important as all of us seek a healthy llifestyle these days. They go organic too with their breads. Sinful Desserts but half the sin gone!

2010-11-14

SGD 6

Popped by Soup Restaurant to have dinner after a long day at work. This restaurant has several branches around the island and lives up to its name for good chinese fanfare.

The signature dish is Samsui Chicken which is a dish I would order without fail. The tender chicken dipped in the delicious ginger paste, double dip it in chilli and black sauce, have it on its own or wrap it in lettuce, have it your way! Ordered Tofu Prawn With Fried Mantou. The sauce is perfect for dipping, a lighter version of chilli crab sauce and the dish scores!

The soups are a must to try. If you are with someone, do order the medium soup as it is served in a clay soup pot and it is definitely more worth it than the small portion. Had the pork ribs and corn soup. Great Flavour! It does take really a lot of work to make a pot of good soup. Save the work and head down here to slurp up!

One thing good about the restaurant is that it does not use MSG. MSG is really bad for health and I am glad the food tastes all so great even without the use of it. Truly healthy. This is definitely one of the restaurants I would routinely visit!

SGD 28

Decided to give this restaurant a try since Asian Kitchen serves pretty decent food and this was another sub restaurant with a Taiwanese twist.

The plum sauce duck seemed to be a signature dish of the restaurant so had one order of that. It was just duck meat in normal plum sauce and it was nothing out of the ordinary given that it was even a signature dish. The bamboo rice was not too bad and was rather good.The fried tang hoon was only average but the chilli made it slightly better! Ordered beans fried in salted egg yolk. Once again an ordinary dish which was a rather small portion for the price.

The service was rather slow when we asked for water refill and extra utensils. The waitress kept forgetting to bring things to me. Only refilled the water towards the end of our meal Overall not really an authentic Taiwanese restaurant, the taste of it was really average and not really true taiwanese fanfare given the price as well.

SGD 17

Walked through the marina link and was craving for some icy cold dessert and stumbled across this shop. Had dinner already so just popped by for some dessert. The restaurant had only 2 groups of people and was rather unoccupied.

Ordered a mango shaved ice that costs about $6. Came with fresh mango and strips of coconut jelly. The taste was nothing out of the ordinary, the mango flavour in the ice was not strong enough and the coconut jelly wasn't an exact complement to the dessert. Definitely a lot to improve on the quality and flavour. The portion was extremely small for the price and it was barely enough to share.

They also do offer smoothies and cakes with tea and coffee and some daily specials but till a certain timing.

2010-12-26

SGD 3

If you are in need of some spice and kick for some briyani, this is the place to go!

Hailed as the restaurant with the best briyani in singapore, this place cannot be missed when you pass by the area although it is towards the secluded part of the shop houses.

The chicken briyani comes with a pig portion of rice, the rice is unlike normal rice, it is super long grain rice, like twice the length of the normal thai rice we eat at home. you will see a burst of colours, orange, yellow and white grains! You can request for any curry to go with it, doesn't have to be the dhal which they usually provide. mmmm, the chicken is a good source of protein and it goes so well with the rice. The lady finger pachady is also another good side order!

There is also the naan with rice and chicken served with dhal. This is not briyani but if you want some naan with chicken, order this!

Now, end it with an ice cold bandung and you are good to go!

2010-08-14

SGD 10(Lunch)