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carinechua
This is carinechua . I like to hang out in Jurong East. Taiwanese, Chinese, Japanese , Korean, Hongkong are my favorite cuisines. I also love Bars/Lounges, Café, Restaurant, Bakery, Specialised Food Shop and Desserts and Cakes, Dim Sum, Western Food, bubble tea, BBQ.
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Dinner : Symmetry Cafe  Smile Nov 26, 2014   
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Categories : Australian / New Zealand | Bars/Lounges | Brunch

Intending to have a dinner at Running Man, chinatown and who know it was fully seated and booked. So, turning the car around and switch to Arab Street. While upon reaching Arab Street area, suddenly remind of Symmetry Cafe which located around that area too.

 
The location is not hard to reach out but it is not convenient when you drive to there because it was so difficult to find a parking slot. We kept turning around till around an hour just to find the parking slot.

Full blog review : http://cennds.blogspot.com/2013/11/symmetry-cafe.html

Pork Cheeks Pasta

It was my virgin trying spaghetti serving with a pork.
The spaghetti was soft, not too dry and tasted well with the parmesan cheese dressing. However, it was a bit too creamy but i didnt feel irk at all because it really taste good

 
I didn't remember what it is called but there is a picture of the whole chicken in the menu
the description has something called as chicken jus ..

 
I was shocked when this big chicken being served. Didn't expect at all that it is a whole chicken and very big. Suggestion : It is good for sharing if you have limit consumption on your stomach ..

Berries Yogurt

 
The Menu :

Pardon me ,the picture is not clear as i took it in a dark moment

 

 
 
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BlackBall Signature Dessert Smile Nov 24, 2014   
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Categories : Taiwanese | Chinese Desserts | Bubble Tea/ Tea

The famous dessert of black ball in Taiwan has attracted a number of residents.
It is a nice cooling dessert . The signature of Black ball Signature 黑丸嫩仙草 could be enjoyed in 4 ways either. hot, cold, warm or icy.

More review on blog : http://cennds.blogspot.com

The lovely pearl is so invited and soft well made. It is not thick at all  and all riched ingredients served in Black ball Signature i really like it. The finger-licking of taro yam added the whole dessert become more flavorous especially the soft sweet jelly bean

 
 
Spending per head: Approximately $7

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Spruce Fire Station Brunch Smile Nov 24, 2014   
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Categories : American | Steaks and Grills | Brunch

When passing by bukit batok area, always thought of want to have an experience on this
modern casual american dining but couldn't catch a good to enjoy. Finally the day was come and it was weekends. So, thanks godness i had gotten a chance hop on into their Popular Brunch Weekends Menu.  

The brunch menu is only available on Saturday, Sunday, and Public Holidays from 9am - 3.45pm. This post is baselly based on Fire Station.

Full blog review : http://cennds.blogspot.sg/2014/05/food-on-weekends.html

 
Big Brekkie with Sunny Side Up Egg

Simple brunch with a toasted thick bread and overall is satisfied
But, the some of the mushroom was bitter which i think was due to over cooked

 

Crab Cake Benny

The mouth - watering and tasty crab cake is highly recommended to try although the bacon is quite salty but the crab cake made me to enjoy more on the brunch

 
 
Spending per head: Approximately $20

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DINNER with Indoor Attraction Smile Feb 24, 2016   
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Categories : American | Burgers and Sandwiches | Kids-Friendly

Eat and Play ! Play and Eat . Mommy daddy bring me go to Amazonia please ~ 
Isn't it what we used to do during our childhood ?
Most of you have a mindset to think of bistro that looks like a fun center or have a playground inside usually is only designed for children. But to be true, this is wrong.

 
PS : More info about Jungle Play Gym ( http://cennds.blogspot.com/2016/02/amazonia-bistro-bistro-entertainment.html)

Amazonia Singapore, indoor family fun center with own themed bistro, they do provide attrations that also cater for adult like us. nd good to know that Amazonia do offer the corporate rate for team building session. On this coming july, it marks as their 5th years anniversarry. The expanding business has allowed them to have a sister outlet in Jakarta

 


Caesar Salad With Avocado ( $13.80 )

Served with number of dishes such as grilled juicy chicken breast, olives, bacon bits and fresh vegetable of romaince lettuce with a decoration of cherry tomato and hard boiled egg at the side. On top of that the spreading of grated cheese, crunchy garlic crouton and sliced avocado with a mix of casear dressing make the salad enjoyable as the starter.

 


Chef Nasi Gorengs ( $12.70)
It looks like an Indonesia / Malay Food. If you are spicy lover, the mild spicy Nasi Goreng
definitely would be your favorite ! The most favorite from this meal isn't the Nasi Goreng
' Fried Rice' but is the satay ! Oh No ! Can we have more satay ??
I would be happier to have to have more Acar instead of Chicken though it looks tempting !
Sad to say that the chicken wasn't that good - dry and not tender whereas the Acar taste nicer. Hope they can improve on it after the feedback
Note : Normal Serving Portion : 1 chicken & 1 satay

 


Spicy Garlic Tiger Prawn ( $15.20 )

Served with a Steam Rice and Fresh Vegetable of long beans and carrot aside to the tender and soft meat of marinated tiger prawn with garlic sweet & spicy sauce. The marinated sauce isn't spicy at all in fact it is quite delightful instead of the provided sambal.

 


Chocolate Fondant with Ice Cream

As what the dessert name describe of, Yes ! there is a Fondant inside the cake. Pop a small slice of its cake with a small spoon in the middle, take out the spoon, you will see the lava chocolate. The more that you cut, the more that the fondant will spreading down. 
The ice cream was sitting on top on the fondant, melting down quite fast.
Scoop the ice cream, eat it with the fondant, enjoy the dessert

 


We had a Apple Juice ($5) for the drink. 

Take the Cut apple slide for drink compliment


As you seen on above menu cover, Amazonia welcomes a Birthday Party.
There are 2 room special designed for boy and girl. Each room can accomodate up to 20 children. Which theme would you prefer ? Princess or 4D F1 Racing Car ?

 

 


PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE THE PLACE YET BEFORE PLAYING THE GAME


Space Ball
Glow in the Dark, hit your opponent, shoot to the electronic scoreboard to win the score. It holds up to 8 players at one time. Fire up the shots even you can also use it to book for party. 

 
The more ball that you can shoot to the yellow scoreboard, the higher chance you can win. Don't be afraid with the ball even you been hit. No hurt. No pain ~ Enjoy the game !

 


3D Glow Mini Golf

Try the completely new indoor game of 9 hole course with an amazing 3D Glow in the dark artwork. Get thru each section from Under the Sea, Dinasour, TNT, Pirates to the end with a pretty glow dark ligthing.

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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Categories : Cantonese/Hong Kong | Restaurant | Dim Sum | Seafood

Yum Cha Restaurant has brought us to a comfort and convenience way of the launching of Chinese New Year Goodies takeaway menu besides the Chinese New Year Menu. We don't need to beat for the long queue at the restaurant any more ! Yum Cha offers delivery services to our doorstep.

Don't worry if the food will be getting cold cause Yum Cha has a special "CookTek" which is an equipment to keep the food warm, moist and dry up inside a delivery bag.

 
I was invited to the Food Tasting for the CNY Takeaway Menu.
The moment i approaching the table and saw all the food & decoration :
Waow ! Awesome man ! feeling of CNY was there although it is not the timing yet.

 
With the takeaway menu and delivery services provided by Yum Cha. It would be great time for us to savour and enjoy reunion dinner at home. Easy, convenience, can talk as loud as we want and the home feeling is the best, isn't it ?

Yum Cha has offered bountiful Signature CNY dishes such as :
- Abalone Pen Cai. The Pen Cai is filled with goodness of fish maw, sea cucumbers, dry conpoy, dried oysters, Fatty Choy and roasted pork.
- * BBQ Suckling Pig which guarantee you should not miss out !

You can also try the new items in takeaway menu such as :
Braised Abalone with Dried Oysters and Fatt Choy
* Fried Rice with Chinese Sausage in Lotus Leaf
* Crispy Fried Chicken
Roasted Crispy Duck
Roasted Crispy Pork Belly
Sliced Abalone Yu Shen , etc

I will be reviewed it some of mentioned take away dishes (*) on the later part.

 
How to eat Food without a surviving of drink ?Yum Cha has also packed the drink the box for us as part of the Take Away Menu. It looks so interesting and creative. They have designed the special box to serve for 1 litre drink.

 

Take Away Salmon Yu Sheng.

All ingredients and sauces were packed nicely and tidy in an appropriate container. You can expect the same for the delivery and take away order. This is the large Size : $68+

 
Truthly speaking, i am quite concerned on the salmon whenever i have a Yu Sheng cause i ever had a salmon that not fresh and got a fishy smell. Imagine the fishy salmon mix with the Yu Sheng that you are waiting for after the excited Lao He . How you eat again.

 
PS : I can't remember each idioms to say for each sauces included the salmon before Lao He . Anyway, we had done the Lao He ! Time to eat !

Great that Yum Cha has provided a fresh and healthy salmon - a salt water fish from Norway and they got it from AVA certified license supplier. Mostly, Yu Sheng will have same ingredients on everywhere we get, the difference is on the sauces. But Yum Cha has added on Jelly Fish and they have a nice own home made sauces. The sour taste of the sour plum sauce makes the Yu Sheng taste better and savoury.

 


BBQ Suckling Pig

First impression was, Oh man !! the pig head, the nose ! The signature sucking pig was roasted to perfection, showing off the golden crispy and crackling skin. The meat was tender and soft enough. It was my favourite of the night ! It was very fast running out of the table as we literally devour with every single slice of sucking pig with a nice dark sweet sauce. The whole Pig costs of $220+

 

 


Roasted Crispy Chicken

Sprinkling the garlic on top of the chicken. $40+ for whole chicken. Some people may don't like garlic but i am okay with it. If i was not told by Melody whom representative from Yum Cha, i didn't know that it is a garlic.  There wasn't a garlic smell and it is made to like a bread crunch. The crunch was nice but not the chicken as it wasn't crispy and tender. It would be better if they can improve on the timing to roast the chicken and also probably the ingredients to be used.

 

 


Braised Pig's trotter with "Fatty Choy" ( Black Moss )

I don't really know how to enjoy Fatty Choy but If you are the one who like it, will you aim for the Fatty Choy first ? I would say that the Braised Pig Trotter was n't flavourful and fragrance enough. The sauce that they use is their own Yum Cha sauce. It was a bit plain when touching my tongue. The meat was soft but the sauce was not that mouth watering.

 


Fried Rice with Chinese Sausage in Lotus Leaf

In Chinese terms it called as He Ye Fan, a glutinous rice that wrapped with soaked lotus leaf.The rice was still warm and a little bit of dry probably they have steamed it too long. Ingredients were mixed well instead of hiding on a certain corner. At the price of $38+, it can be served up to 8 people or depends on how big your serving it is.

 
Yum Cha's in house dinning menu consists of delicious delicacies, offered at attractive prices. Yum Cha Garden's set menu featuring signature items such as :
- Salmon and Crispy Fish Skin Yu Sheng,
- Braised Shark's Fin w Crab Meat with Brown Sauce served in Mini Claypot,
- Braised Abalone w Dried Oysters and Fatty Choy,
- Stir-Fried Scallop and Prawns with Mushroom in Spicy Sauce,
- Fried Crispy Chicken, Braised Noodles w Mushroom and Dried Scallops .
The set menu will start from $288++ onwards.
Also, indulgence on Yum Cha's specialty desserts, made by their Chef just for CNY festive season.

 
Chinese New Year Menus and takeaway menu will be available from 15th Jan 2016 to 22nd Feb 2016.  Each outlet will be serving different menu, kindly check more details and
view the menu on www.yumcha.com.sg

PROMOTION :

Early Bird 20% off discount for Takeaway Yu Sheng before 7 Feb 2016. For in house dining promotions, receive limited edition of Yum Cha AngBao when you spend above $100. ( while stock last )

 

 
 
Date of Visit: Jan 08, 2016 

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