Took a bus to Changi Village today, walked past this shop and saw the gigantic pao in the glass steamer. According to the salesperson, this pao is called the “ye zi mei" pao. Just in case some of you do not understand how the name comes by, it is named after an actress. This actress has big......, erm ok......let your imagination run wild.

I bought one (cost S$3.20) for my son's lunch . My son did not like it and commented that it was too sweet, so he only ate half of it. I had a bite and found the filling too sweet too, there are also bits of fats in it which I didn't like, disappointing!

We have visited this restaurant at other branch many times but this was our first visit at downtown east. They serve beef noodles at this branch, so we ( my two children and myself) ordered a bowl of beef noodle to try, sambal kangkong, mee goreng, steam garlic prawns and seafood hor fun. The mee goreng, seafood hor fun and sambal kangkong have the same good taste as before， my children commented that their beef noodle was good. This was the first time we tried their steam galic prawns and i find that the prawns were not very fresh.

8 tarts and pastries is famous for their egg tarts. I usually buy egg tarts only but today I saw something new at their outlet, they are selling chicken curry puff! I love their curry puff , the curry filling is rich and moist with pieces of chicken and potatoes, the skin of the puff is flaky and crispy, it has the kind of texture that I like. I had eaten chicken curry puff many times and this is definitely one of the best.

My hubby prefers eating chinese food , so we went to Paradise Inn at Suntec City today to have our lunch there. We ordered four dishes: toufu, spicy beef slices, spicy beef stomach and spinach cook in three types of eggs.
The toufu was very soft, the sauce had some vegetables in it which added some crunch to this dish.
The spicy beef slices were topped with fried chopped garlic which gave this dish a special aroma .
We felt that the beef stomach was too spicy and salty.
The spinach was cooked in very thick stock with three types of eggs, tasted good but still cannot surpass the one that I had tasted at another restaurant.
This restaurant charges $0.30 for a cup of plain water. As both of us were very thirsty, we ordered a glass of mint lychee , a pot of mixed tea and two glasses of ice water.
This meal totalled up to $61. We were given a voucher to be used for the next visit to have their double boiled soup at $8.80 instead of the usual price of $14 ( with minimum spending of $45), well, don't feel like a good deal to me.
I have given this restaurant two stars for their cleanliness because I found my chair and the menu had small pieces of food when we were seated.

I bought a few container of honey from this shop last year and was told by the salesman that the honey could be kept for years without turning bad as they are wild honey, even ants would not eat them if left on the table. I opened up one bottle recently and to my horror, the whole container was invaded by the ants. Luckily, the other containers were fine as they were tightly closed. I find their honey takes a long time to dissove in water.