I attended a workshop and refreshment was served. The refreshment was provided by Smiling Orchid. The table setting arrangement was neat and well decorated with flowers. Even the fruit bar comes in 3-tier tray just like attending Hatia Restaurant high tea.

I had dried mee siam. The mee siam was not spicy. There were slices of boiled egg decorated at the side for those who want to have egg. There were curry puff. The curry puff was puffy and the filling was not thick. The carrot cake was soft and could taste of carrot. The siew mai was wrapped with soft wanton skin and chicken meat.

The steam layer was soft and easily eat layer by layer. The Mango Pudding was not sweet. There was not strong colouring added. It looked natural.

The fruit tray was attractive with guava, grapes, papaya and white honey melon. The fruits were fresh.

One unusual thing was there hot beverage was served with condened milk.
I enjoyed the meal.

I had dinner catered by International Catering Pte Ltd. The table decoration was very plain. I had pineapple rice. I did not find any dice pineapple. All that I saw was yellow cliffon and some raisin spread over the rice. The rice was soft but a little wet. Perhaps the pineapple could have moist the rice.

The next item on the roll was bean curd. The bean curd was cut into square shape. It was hard outside but soft on the inside. It was not sour as some bean curd could taste sour. I had western chicken chop with black pepper sauce. Woh! This was my best dish. The size of the chicken was of the right size, neither too big or small. The best was the black sauce overflew the chicken which made the chicken tasted perfect.

I did not have flesh fish instead I had sweet and sour fish fillet. The fish fillet was coated too thick with flour. The fish fillet looked big but once bite, it was flour. Somehow shorthand! I did not understand why there was a repeat dish on fish. Next to it was the fish finger with tartar sauce. I have the habit of eating plain and missed the tartar sauce. The fish finger was not oily but it was not too thick. I would not grade highly on fish finger.

The vegetable that served with the meal was broccoli with mushroom. The broccoli looked overcrowded as there was lack of greenery on the vegetable.

The dessert that I had was cheese tart. The tart was dark and pre-moulded. What the caterer did was pulled cheese onto the tart. I did not enjoy the cheese tart as the cheese portion was not sufficient to get taste the blueberry cheese taste.

I tried the Sakae Sushi Yusheng on the 7th day of the lunar 1st month as it was everyone’s
birthday. The Yusheng comes with thick slice of salmon, red and white carrot. The sauce was sufficient to moist the ingredient. After tossing the Yusheng, there was something chewy and it was jelly fish. The jelly fish was thick. The YuSheng was great as it was moist and good cash flow for the year.

This is my first Yu Sheng in the Year of Horse. I had Yu Sheng celebration with my colleague. The colleague ordered from First Culinary as the restaurant was just a stone throw from the office. We ordered Yu Sheng for 10 pax.

The Yu Sheng was prepared in a bento box with shredded red and white carrot. Of course, the Yu Sheng goes with other sauce such as the plum sauce, honey and oil. There was a small container of salmon fish. Together with the cracker, fine peanut and sesame seeds, sauces, salmon, these are rolled and tossed over the bento set.

Given a scale from 1 to 10 with 10 as the best, I would grade 4. The sauce was not sufficient. Somehow, some of the ingredient did not receive the moisture of the sauce and not easy to find the salmon as the serving was limited. Luckily, I was able to find a slice of treasure salmon. The cost of Yu Sheng costs $38.

I tried the Bakery Cuisine Cookie while at Choa Chu Kang.

The store which I stopped by was Bakery Cuisine. Like most of the stores, cookies are usually on the display table. I have enough of pineapple tarts, cashew nut cookies, peanut cookies etc. I tried something different which was the mini cake. There were 2 types. One comes in the form of disposable container selling at $7 for about 20 cakes. The cakes can last for 7 days.
There is also other type which is put in plastic container. As it is a big container, the price will be different. It costs $10.50 for about 50 mini cakes. The cakes are flesh and soft. It is not dry. As such mini cakes does not contain butter, it is light weight and are suitable for children to eat. The problem is that it is perishable and cannot last for more than 1 week.

As I wanted to show my sincerity to buy their products, I picked for the next item. I saw a 90% emptied container and it contained shrimp roll. Giving the impression that it is selling well, I decided to try the shrimp roll. The shrimp roll is crispy and soft.

I enjoyed the mini cakes as it is light weight.