Talking about Soup! I am a Soup craze especially Asian type of double-boiled soup. I am sure most of you have heard or even try those delicious western soups from “The Soup Spoon”. And for your information, Chef Anna Lim have concocted 12 different types of Asian Hearty Soup such as “Herbal Chicken”, “Chicken Daikon Leek”, “Hainanese Beef”, “Seafood Tom Yam” and etc for soup lover to enjoy a pot of tasty comfortable soup at a affordable price.

I have ordered the “Herbal Chicken Soup” with Yam Rice. But actually each pot of soup comes with a bowl of complimentary steam white rice or for your preference you can also add extra S$1.00 to exchange it with either fried rice or yam rice. And since we are sharing, I took up the S$4.80 top-up for set meal that includes a drink (either hot green tea or ice-lemon tea) and 3 side dishes (select one from category of Appetizer, Meat and Vegetable)

Their Herbal chicken soup is very usual compared to those that we have tried from local Chinese restaurant. Imagine spotting some deep-fried dumplings and fresh watercress in your herbal chicken soup? Does this sound interesting! I am sure there are a lot more interesting combination or taste waiting for you to explore at their outlet. Do give Asian soup a try if you love their western soup at “The Soup Spoon”.

Last week I was captured by a poster outside one of the KFC outlet near my area and while sharing with my twitter friends they also recommend me this new burger from KFC. And since I cannot resists the temptation on what they have shared, I decided to drop by one of their outlet and grab a set too. The Roasta Burger comes in two different value meal set at:-

Roasta Promo Meal: S$5.90 (comes with Burger, regular pepsi and whipped potato)
Roasta Meal: S$6.80 (comes with Burger, regular pepsi, whipped potato and coleslaw)


After unwrapping the wrapper you find this juicy grilled chicken fillet being sandwich in between the soft oat bran dusted bun together with lots of fresh crunchy lettuce strips and tomato slices. And if you want to have a healthier choice, order it without any sauce. Although this Roasta Burger is not something fantastic in taste but at least it can be another alternative choice for KFC lover to have more choices when ordering.

Recently there is this “Late Lunch” promotion on Chatterbox, Mandarin Hotel which is a quite a good bargain for patrons to enjoy their signature Mandarin Chicken Rice and other local delights at S$15++ from 3pm to 6pm on weekdays only (excluding eve and day of public holidays).

From my opinion, the “rice” could have been better as it is not as fragrant or fantastic as I thought it would be. But rather the chicken was tender and juicy, and it goes very well with their chilli and ginger sauce.

Surprisingly the broth of the Seafood Laksa taste great with a hint of heat that isn’t too spicy and it will leave you to crave for more scooping of it. A bowl of this also cost S$15.00 as main course in the promotion menu.

With an additional top up of S$3.00 you can enjoy a jar of either one of these homemade Soya Bean Milk, Barley Water or Grass Jelly drink to along with your meal too.

Late Lunch Promotion:
~ Monday - Friday: 3.00pm - 6.00pm (excluding eve and day of public holidays)

Ochado is located in the North area, which sometime might be considered as an inconvenient area for most people. Despite the location, this store actual provides quite a number of decent flavour tea that are in line with the two popular bubble tea stores which is KOI and Gong Cha. For your information, the shop is just about 2 bus stops away from Yishun Mrt station, and you can easily spot it with its outstanding green and black furnishing outlook too.

Out the all the drinks that they have in the store, I would like to recommend these few which I personally find them special and worth trying:-

1. OchaDo's Lemonade - 招牌鲜桔茶 which is also known as “Ladies tea” is a mixture of green tea with freshly squeeze lime juice and top with preserved sour plum (话梅). Great cooling drinks to quench thirst on hot afternoon or after a heavy meal to wash down all the greasy food.

2. Roasted Tea with Azuki Beans and Pearls - 珍珠红豆烤奶 use roasted tea leaves to brew into roasted milk tea that served together with two different toppings such as azuki beans and pearls. I love the combination of azuki bean and pearls where the sweetness of the beans blends well with the mild taste of the pearls.

3. Pop Eggs Milk Tea - 魔力爆蛋奶茶 which from a glance you might mistaken the topping as pearls because they are quite similar on appearance and size. But when you get to try them, you will be surprised! These little “eggs” are actually from Japan and they will burst out with some coffee liquid when bites so it a good choice for coffee and tea lovers.

For more review on their products, you can refer to this blog here @
http://cuisineparadise-eatout.blogspot.com/

If there is a chance, we will always drop by to the nearest outlet at Upper Thomson to satisfy our craving on their smooth and silky Beancurd. You can easily spot this outlet with it huge blue signboard hanging on top of their shophouse along Upper Thomson road.

You can either choose from original taste that is served with sugar syrup or add on to some of your desire toppings such as pearls, lotus seeds, glass jelly and etc. Their beancurd is so smooth and delicate that it melts in your mouth when you put in. But if you find it too sweet, you can always ask for less sugar or no sugar then add a bit of soy milk to have both soy milk and beancurd in a bowl.

Other than their famous beancurd and soy milk, you might want to try some of their local snacks and kueh such as You Tiao, Portuguese egg tarts, Crystal bun and etc too.

Operating hours: 12pm – 3am daily.