Max Brenner Chocolate Bar @ Esplanade Mall

It is such a random decision that we headed off for a quick dinner after work and headed to our actual aim to have chocolates! We are chocolate lovers and it is a great start of the week and of course to kill Monday Blues.

We headed to Max Brenner Chocolate Bar located at Esplanade Mall to satisfy our cravings. It is purely base on recommendation from the website. We are basically greedy at the spur moment and end up too full at night.

My choice is the best recommendation desserts-

Melting Chocolate Truffles Heart Cake & Shake S$16.00.

 It is served with vanilla bourbon ice-cream. Strawberry and iced milk chocolate shot. The description was too fascinating that you couldn’t tell from the menu that it is actually a chocolate lava cake. Sinful I would say and it is very VERY rich chocolate. The smell was simply alluring. The combination of the vanilla ice-cream with the chocolate soufflé melted in the mouth with rich dark chocolate.

Pamela’s choice – The S’mores Connection S$13.90.

It is served with marshmallow fluff, milk chocolate mousse,graham crackers and caramelized bananas. She finished all of them within minutes. She is a dessert lovers and she enjoyed the taste of the milk chocolate mousse. The presentation of the dessert caught our attention immediately when it is served. The milk chocolate mousse to go with the marshmallow fluff makes you feel like drinking a milk chocolate but in cold version

Yunita’s choice – Banana Split Waffles S$18.90.

It is served with vanilla bourbon ice-cream, milk chocolate truffle and caramelized rice krispies. It is superb rich plate of dessert. We are awfully shocked with the presentation. It was ‘huge’ for us but we managed to finish it. I love the crispy sound when I bite the rice krispies accompany with the hot waffles and vanilla ice-cream. The chocolate syrup was all over the waffles and sweetness was surrounded us.

I think we are overdose as we ordered 3 different desserts and managed to finish them off after our main course. We had rice and noodles for dinner. It was a perfect ending with wonderful desserts on the table.

 Location Address:

Esplanade Mall #01-06/08
8 Raffles Avenue, Singapore 039802
Tel: +65 6235 9556
Website: http://www.maxbrenner.com/home.aspx

Dessert First @ Liang Seah Street

This is recommended by Yap after our dinner.

It is located along the Liang Seah Street which is famous with Ah Chew's Desserts. Guess more and more competitors coming their way along the streets. Neverthless the desserts shops are always full house.

Durian Snow Ice @ S$6.00 per serving.

It is extremely heaven!The durian is super rich and they are generous with the servings. But beware if after serving because your mouth is full of durian smell.

November birthday guy in the picture..

Green Tea Snow Ice with red bean S$5.00 per serving.

Green Tea is always to go with red bean and it makes a perfect combination. The snow ice is smooth and it just melt into your mouth.

Mango Snow Ice S$5.50 per serving

Pure generous mango colour is beautiful on the serving.

The taste is sweet as it looks.

The place is a bit squeezy though.

 It's a self-order counter available and the staffs will serve the desserts once it is ordered. Our seats are so close with the next table and our movement cannot be extreme otherwise we will occupied next table.

 That's how dessert shop design is for nowadays.

We ended our day with instax wide photos.

Love all the photos taken!

Nanxiang Steamed Bun Restaurant @ Bugis Junction

It was a dinner date with Mr Yap & Mrs Yap last week. So sorry for making them to wait for us like 2 hours time for dinner. Yap decided to try this restaurant called Nanxiang Steamed Bun Restaurant located at 2nd Floor of Bugis Junction.

We decided to go for their Set D which costs S$138++ for 4 pax. It is just nice for 4 of us.

Foods that we had on that day:-

Shanghai spicy soup which looks spicy from the picture but in actual fact it is not as spicy as I thought. I love the taste of the soup especially when you drink them while they are hot.

As usual, a must for dinner dish- Vegetables.

Special sauce chicken which i forget the actual name of this dish. It has the unique taste which smooth layer on the meat itself and sweetness flavored when you taste them.

The Duck meat that is cooked after the skin is served with the crepe.

We choose noodles instead of rice. Although the noodles looks normal and not that appealing but trust me. The taste proves that we can never judge the appearance of the presentation. Although first impression may widen your appertizer.

Peking Duck Skin Wrapped with egg crepe.

As usual, taste is cunchy because of the crispy skin and also the slices of spring onion to go with it. A little bit of special sweet sauce does the trick to make the taste perfect :)

The dinner ended with mango pudding as the dessert.

The whole set is quite filling as 3 out of 4 are ladies and our appertize is not as big as guys.

So, yap finish mostly of the foods.

After our dinner, we headed for the dessert shop located at Liang Seah Street.

To be continue in the next post..

香港街珍達記 @ Joo Chiat Place

 

A short update as I simply can't resist to share my findings during my lunch yesterday. My colleague recommended this nice place little hawker centre located at the junction of Joo Chiat Place and Still Road. I will never found this hidden gem if not my colleague who drove us over for lunch. The stall is famous with it's XO Crab Bee Hoon but we do not have time to have it. So, we ordered their second speciality, XO Fish Bee Hoon Soup @ S$6.00 per serving. We waited for 20minutes just to get a bowl of it. I ordered the fried fish and the sliced fish is thick and the meat is tasty when it goes with the XO sauce.

 

I was impressed with the taste of the XO soup base. It's worth trying it but i will not wait for so long unless i have extra time. We had a rush lunch as the waiting time is way too long. There are many people ordered this when we had our lunch there. Definitely a good place to recommend though.

 

Location:

 

香港街珍達記 @ Joo Chiat Place
258 Joo Chiat Place (Still Road)
Singapore, 427940

 

Operating Hours
11:00 to 14:00hrs & 17:00 to 23:30hrs

Arnold's Fried Chicken for Lunch

Ever since we have a new colleague joined us, he always think of driving out to look for nice and affordable food. We went to Arnold's Fried Chicken located at City Plaza for lunch. I only came to know about the existence of the fastfood restaurant from the mouth of colleague. Surprisingly Arnold's has a long history back then.

It was long queue when we reach around 1plus. Never did i expect the queue was so long. We waited for about 15 minutes to get a seat. So, while we are waiting for our seat, we ordered our choice while waiting for the seats.

Finally we got our seats and waiting for our foods to be served. 

Photos taken using iPhone 4s for your viewing pleasure:-

The foods are served pipping hot! The spring chicken skin is very crispy and the meat is tender and soft as well. The taste is different from KFC and McDonalds. It is also the preferences for Malays. My Malay colleagues are in love with Arnold's. I can see that there have many Malay customers patronizing the outlet when we were there.

The plain bread is slightly oily a bit but it's still taste good when we have it with the coleslaw and mashed potatoes. I personally think the bread is softer than KFC bread though.

The mashed potatoes tasted like Popeye's version and similar to 7-eleven quick bite mashed potato. Coleslaw taste similar to KFC and not much big differences.

Overall the taste is acceptable like any other fastfoods but the size of the chicken is quite small compared to KFC. As for the price wise, it's slightly pricey for me if we order individually. The price range per pax is around S$7 and above for the foods & drinks.

Location:-

Arnold's Fried Chicken

810 Geylang Road

 #02-99/101 City Plaza

+65 6746 2372

Birthday Celebration @ Ootoya Japanese Restaurant

 We had Fei's birthday celebration few weeks back. Luckily for me as this time round I am not the last person who reached. It's such a rare case as i always the last one or second last person to reach for the gathering. So, there is improvement though!hehe! Initially we wanted to have our dinner at a korean restaurant at Orchard Central recommended by YL but in the end we sat for like 15-30 minutes, we decided to go for other options. 

In the end, we choose Ootoya Japanese restaurant for celebration. It's my all time favourite choice for homely made feel japanese cuisine. We managed to get a place for 8 pax and the servings are quite promptly. 

Photos of the foods that we ordered that night:-

Sumibutadon set meal @ S$23.50 

Rice bowl with charcoal grilled pork and sweet sauce. Love the charcoal grilled style which makes the whole meal more appertizing!

Shogayaki Set meal @ S$23.50

It's sauteed ginger pork with a set of refillable rice, miso soup and side dishes. 

My friend commented too much of ginger slices but overall was nice.

My Torisalad set! 

You can read my post here and here for Ootoya post.

Yap's order from Shio Koji Menu.

Buta Shio Koji jyu @S$23.50 for set meal. The combination of grilled pork loin marinated with shio koji sauce and served with potatoes and vegetables. Absolutely lovely combination. The pork loin is tender and the meat is juicy as well. Totally worth value for a homely set meal.

It's birthday celebration so a birthday cake is a must. Fei's healthy conscious guy so we got him non-sugar green tea cheesecake. The cake is ordered online from a website. It was yummy and sweet though without any sugar except the green tea powder from the top topping a bit bitter. 

The cake is a bit pricey though around S$60 plus.

Definitely a good choice and try for the cake.

Most of the photos are at Fei's camera so not uploaded here. 

So here I have the instax photos taken that night which round up the post for the day :)

It has been a yearly event in our list for every single pax birthday celebration. 

It's the effort to be together and gather together for a purpose. It is really rare as everyone starts to have their own family and partners. Glad that my friends still are in to such bonding sessions.

Eminent Frog Porridge @ Geylang Lorong 19

Photo uploaded to instagram on the frog leg porridge that i had with Yunita & her husband. This is the first time ever Yunita recommended a place to have dinner. It is an impromptu dinner as well because i went to be Yunita & her husband 'light bulb' for the night. Newly weds want to have private time together but I just tagged along!Haha!

This is the famous Eminent Frog Leg Porridge recommended at the website as well. It is located at Lorong 19 Geylang which is surprising full of people. Geylang is always known as red district lanes with legal prostitution but it is also known for the famous frog leg porridge. We saw the reviews for this restaurant at Lorong 19.

 They are having "buy 2 get 1 free " for $16 promotion. 1 frog leg costs $8 so we opt for the promotion. So we ordered plain porridge with kung pao and spring onions style. We also add on dishes to complete the dinner. Kang Kong as our vegetable choice for the day. 

Plain and tastless porridge to go with the frog leg dishes. The combination is great as the sauce of the kung pao and spring onion blend well with the tasteless porridge. It lighten up the plain look of the porridge.

We also ordered Salted Egg with crab which is Yunita's husband favourite. It's his first time trying this dish and he is loving it. He thanks me for the recommendation. The crab meat is fresh and juicy in the inner shell crab and the crab shell covered with salted eggs which thumbs up!He is licking his fingers over it.

The salted egg is liquid type here in Singapore compared to the ones i tried in Malaysia. Nevertheless the taste is still sweet and salty combination that licks your fingers away. But the price for the crab is quite pricey though.

Dinner was around S$70 plus for 3 persons. It is quite affordable except for the crab. The crab price is go by the weight of the crab. It was a pleasant dinner and Yunita's husband had a satisfied dinner during his visit in singapore.

Location address:-

明煇活田雞粥 

EMINENT FROG PORRIDGE
323 Geylang Road (Lorong 19)
Singapore 389359
Open from 4pm to 4am

Ichiban Boshi @ NEX, Serangoon

Impromptu dinner happened once in a while. It just happened two weeks ago and colleagues and I decided to go for dinner after work for bonding sessions. Bonding sessions with new colleagues from design & sales department. So we ended up at Ichiban Boshi @ NEX, Serangoon. It has been quite sometime since my last visit to Ichiban outlets. I miss having Japanese foods for food tasting.

We ordered sashimi which consists of fresh salmon, scallop, yellowtail, maguro, mekajiki, ebi and also tako. Simply enlarge my appertizer for the night and the freshness of the dishes. The scallop taste sweet and i love the colours of the sashimi!!

We also ordered ala carte and also the chef recommendation to share. The portion for chef recommendation was generous as usual and luckily we all shared the foods and managed to finish everything.

Ended the dinner with matcha ice-cream with red bean and dumpling. It is the usual choice when i visit Ichiban outlets as this is the yummy dessert for me. Simple but filling! I miss having foods at Ichiban outlets as it taught me from zero knowledge on japanese foods to basic knowledge on japanese foods. 

Just a random post on dinning experience with colleagues @ Ichiban outlets. The staffs are friendly but slow to respond though. Perhaps we are seated far behind corner of the restaurant and we have difficulties being seen by the staffs. Overall dinning experience was nice though.Looking forward for dinning with colleagues for bonding sessions as we able to share our different views and thoughts other than work stuffs :)