I had the opportunity to explore to this hidden gem located at Science Park II to start off on week. BlooiE’s Roadhouse Bar & Grill has already been for 12 years and counting! The owner, Sarge Sargeant, a Harley Davidson aficionado married a pretty Taiwanese wife. They had their first love pet named Blooie which has passed on. They named their restaurant by their previous dog.

The casual bistro which has a spacious indoor dinning area and Al Fresco dinning located at Science Park II was a nice choice for those who loves to have cosy and comfortable dinning session with companion. If you are going by public transport, alight at Haw Par Villa MRT Station and cross the road to take Bus 143, 200 and stop at the second stop. Walk about 5 minutes along the Science Park Road and you will see the restaurant. The North American roadhouse has a homey feeling and it is a good place to chill out with a bunch of friends and families.Cobb Salad @S$15.80. Garden fresh iceberg lettuce surrounded with diced avocado, bacon bits, grilled cajun chickens, blue cheese and tomato served with lemon vinegaratte dressing. You can control the amount dressing output you need as it is served seperately. I personally love the lemon taste and it gives me a good start off of the dinner.BlooiE’s Roadhouse Quesadillas @S$16.90. Quesadillas are panned fried till lightly burnt on the sides and served hot with a trio of drips.There are salsa sour cream and guacomole, align with Mozzarella cheese & Cheddar Cheese mixed in the folds. Not too much of cheesy taste and it was just perfect for my tastebud.BBQ Chicken Wings @S$13.90. Chicken wings are marinated with home-made Cajun spices and grilled with zesty BBQ sauce tasted like a homely cooked wings. The sauce was just sufficient and not too much of overflowing which is good to pair with beer for happy hours.

Here are some highlights for the Main Course which you might want to consider when you are dropping by :-BlooiE’s Bacon Mushroom Cheese Burger @S$16.90. Grilled 180g all beef patty smothered in cheese with bacon and mushrooms served on a fresh hot bun. Bun was soft and the beef patty was decent filling with the bacon and the homemade mushroom sauce definitely added flavour to the burger.Blackened Dory @S$18.90 served with homemade mashed potatoes truly taste differently from the normal ones we had at other restaurant. Dory is marinated in cajun spices then pan-fried in a skillet with a creamy garlic sauce. Homemade mashed potatoes served tasted quite bland for those who prefer stronger flavor but for me, I am loving it especially when it goes with the portobello mushroom sauce.Pepperoni Pizza @S$22.90. Thin-crusted layer of pizza with pepperoni spread over tomato sauce topped with mozzarella cheese. The pepperoni portion was quite generous and spread evenly over the pizza. It is best to have it while it is served pipping hot as the cheeser will melt into your mouth.N.Z. Striploin Steak @S$29.80. Served with 250g of N.Z Striploin steak char-grilled to your preferred doneness and served with your choice of sauce (Black Pepper Sauce or Shitake Mushroom Sauce). The presentation of the dish was quite appealing and you can see the nicely grilled mark on the steak. Meat texture is a bit hard when we are slicing it and the chewiness is not so smooth. Overall taste was not bad though.Highlight of the night is the BBQ Beer Butt Chicken @S$38.80. You will need to pre-order at least 1 day in advance and confirm your arrival date as the preparation will based on your arrival timing. Understand from the lady boss, the whole fresh chicken marinated with their own special spices and seasonings. They will chill the chicken over night to allow the spices and seasonings flow into the meat. Before they start to cook the chicken, they will open a can of beer, add a little of the spice and seasonings and insert the can to the chicken butt. The chicken was set as the photo shown on the BBQ and grilled to delicious and juicy dish. The seasoning and the special way of making the grilled chicken makes the meat infused with light beer flavour tasted softer and tender. I seldom take breast meat as it taste hard and dry but the breast meat here was surprisingly juicy and tender.

The staff will present the whole original chicken with the butt stuffed with the spices and seasoning beer can for your visual satisfaction before cutting it into smaller pieces. Not to mention that it comes with the generous portion of fries.Molten Chocolate Cake @S$6.80 was a perfect ending for the dinner session. Molten chocolate is super rich and flavourful and goes perfectly well with a scoop of ice-cream. 75% cocoa was used and that's explains why.

It was a great night with friendly host & companions of the night. The atmosphere was cosy and comfortable and also the smoothing music made us feel relaxed after a long day of work.

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Located at level 1 of 313 somerset shopping mall the restaurant is always crowded with customers especially during dinner time.I finally have the chance to try it today.

I had Grilled fillet salmon with sun dried tomato and pine nut sauce $21.80.Fresh grilled salmon with caponata vegetable salad and sun dried pine nut sauce.totally awesome.The salmon was nicely done as we requested it to be done in medium we'll.i personally love the taste of the freshness and the vegetable salad wasn't too sweet.

The staff recommended Profiteroles $8.20 which is an awesome choice.Choux pastry puff filled with chantilly cream and topped with melted chocolate sauce.Served in 3servings and totally delicious.The chocolate sauce was rich and the puff is very soft and yummy.

The serving time is fast and within 15minutes.The staff was friendly too.i would drop by some other day to try other courses.

We settled at Saboten for dinner after we touched down the flight. Initially we wanted to have Astons for dinner but there was a queue and we decided not to wait anymore as our stomach is growling. The restaurant is not filled up and the seats are available.The staff leads us to our seats with the menu served to us immediately. This is my second visit to the restaurant and the first visit was last year for breakfast brunch.
Here are the orders that we made on that day:-

As usual practice, we had japanese hot green tea to pair with japanese cuisine. It is a well combination. There is no charges for japanese green tea.
All set meals come with free side dish and the cabbage are unlimited.Slices of fresh cabbage was served and it tasted really good with the sauce. Cabbages were shredded to such a delicate thinness is perfect to soak with ponzu vinaigrette.Every place setting includes a mortar and pestle filled with black and white sesame seeds. Grinding the sesame into a fine powder with self-added serving portion of tonkatsu sauce gives the customers to be interactive with their foods.

Salmon Katsu set @S$20.00. Salmon katsu taste crunchier and smooth in the inside. The set is quite filling with the portion served. Surprisingly the salmon texture isn't dry at all.Ebi Katsu Tenderloin @ S$26.00. Deep-fried breaded prawn taste like usual tempura. The difference is the outer is more crunchier to bite. The overall set is quite filling with the combination of the tenderloin meat is served in the set.Tenderloin Katsu set @S$22.00. The pork cutlet is served with golden fried crisp. It's crispy on the outside and moist on the inside. It was fried with minimal grease oil and I don't really feel guilty to have it. I also enjoyed the crunchy panko breading on the outside. The tenderloin meat wasn't too dry at all. Dip it with the tonkatsu sauce gives me the sweetness taste of the meat.All sets comes with a scoop of green tea ice-cream to end the dinner.Total bill S$109.45 inclusive of 10% service charge and 7% GST. Dinning experience was pleasant. The set comes with unlimited Japanese rice. Justin and YL had second round for it. I personally think it is quite a bargain though. The staffs are quite attentive to the customers' needs. They refill our green tea promptly and the serving timing is within 20 minutes. I would say the overall standard of the food quality is good. If I craved for tonkatsu foods, I will consider to pay a visit here.

Ubi area is an industrial area where many coffee shops are located either within the industrial building or in between the shop houses. Since I am working at Ubi area, my colleagues and I will patronize different coffee shops everyday and have the cycle go around the following week. I will always have at least once a week is the roasted duck with roasted pork meat rice S$4.00 per serving located at Excalibur Centre.
The stall is always in queue during lunch hour. I joined the queue for their roasted duck and roasted meat. The stall is operated by 3 persons where the main hand is doing his chopping sequence and 2 assistants to handle the ordering and preparing of ingredients. 1 hour lunch is in need of speed if we are joining the queue. But normally the queue will last approximately 15 minutes time to get your order in.
The roasted duck meat was served without bone except for some unexpected blind spots when he is chopping away. The duck was smooth and tender to chew. Roasted pork was good and the skin was crispy. They served plain rice to compliments the dish and also their in-house sauce. You might need to tell the assistant if you wants to have more sauce on your serving.

I had a farewell dinner with my ex-colleagues. Since she is leaving Singapore for good, we decided to treat her Chinese seafoods at Uncle Leong Seafood branch located at Toa Payoh. It’s 7-8 stops away from Toa Payoh Interchange MRT station. You can take bus 238 to reach the building from the interchange.

It was almost full house when we reached around 7.30pm and luckily we had made a reservation. So, no worries on the seating place.

Here are the foods that we ordered that night:-We ordered two method of cooking crabs. First is the Chili Crabs ($40 per kg) .Crabs is sweet and the gravy was rich and thick to go with the fried bun (mantou). Not too spicy for me and absolutely not to miss when you are having zi char at Uncle Leong.Next is the Salted egg crab.I personally felt it is a bit dry and I am unable to taste the strong salted egg taste coated on the crab shell. The crab meat flesh fresh and sweet though. Chinese Spinach with eggs (S$10/12/15). I love the combination of the spinach with eggs and the superior stock. Marmite Chicken (S$12/15/20) . We ordered small size and the portion is quite generous. The marmite coated with the chicken and makes the chicken taste sweet and tasty.Cod Fish with the choice of method cooking is available in the menu. We chose “chye poh” style. The fish taste fresh and it goes well with the pre-fried chype poh that was spread over the fish. Claypot Beancurd (S$10/15/20) which comes with the decent proportion of bean curds and vegetables.
Overall waiting time is around 20 minutes but the crab order was delayed slightly. Neverthless, we had a great night catching up with great company and also good foods. We even got few dollars discount from the total bill as I was trying my luck with the staff. The staff said if we are paying by cash, they can round up the total bill. So, quite lucky for us that night. Some of the photos we took that night before we ended the session.

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