Showing posts with label Supper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Supper. Show all posts

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Beach Road Scissors Cut Curry Rice

There are so many cute cafes and stylish restaurants here in Singapore that it is often easy to forget we also have some of the best hawker fares in the world! And its been awhile since we last blogged about places aside from restaurants , so here's one - Beach Road Scissor-Cut Curry Rice.

If you have hunger pangs during the wee hours of the night, this is the place to go. As you can see from the picture below, it operates from 11am to 3.30 am which should be late enough for most supper goers. Beach road scissor-cut curry rice is located among the shop houses at Jalan Besar near Mustafa shopping centre. The place is rather old and has this 'old school' feel about it which I think my parents can relate to.
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What they sell are some fried ingredients, braised meat and vegetables. Their more well-known dishes are the braised pork and pork/chicken chop. After adding your selected dishes to the rice they will then douse loads of curry and braised sauce over the rice to make it look like the picture below.

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Some might find it hard to like the food if you love your rice untainted or if you hate your food to look like a giant mess. But the taste of the entire mixture might change what you think. The curry they use is Hainanese style which is a bit sticky gooey but not very spicy. As all curry does, it goes well with the rice. The rest of the dishes are really just supplementing the taste.  

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We spent about SGD $7 for the both plates so it is value for money I would say. K and I went there one late night and it was raining heavily. And with each mouthful I took, the heat from the curry provided much needed warmth for the tummy. Perfect comfort food to have on a cold day.

229 Jalan Besar

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Love, X

X's rating of Beach Road Scissor-Cut Curry Rice : 7/10
*Ratings given based solely on food*

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Ippudo Tao

Ippudo Tao is the result of a collaboration between Ippudo and Tao, a Japanese drum group. Having been to Ippudo at Mandarin Gallery a couple of times, I was pretty excited to see what Ippudo Tao has to offer. 

X and I went there for dinner around 10 pm on a Friday night and we parked at UE Square. Parking charges were pretty killer I'd suggest that you park along the road if you can!
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With basic colours of red and black covering the entire shop space and front, this outlet looks significantly different from the one at Mandarin Gallery. Pretty unique but it was a little too dark for me.

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Ippudo Pork bun! $3
I love it! The braised pork is so soft it melts in your mouth!

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This is quite a bad picture I don't know why I didn't take a picture of the meat but of the veg instead haha

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Tao Kuro Tamago

This dish is part of the Ippudo Tao original ramen menu and it's unique to this outlet.
The noodles are thick and chewy and are supposed to symbolise the dynamism of Tao.
I didn't like the noodles that much though. They were a little too tough but the soup was pretty tasty!

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Ippudo Shiro Tamago
This is the original ramen which Ippudo is famous for!
However, X felt that the broth wasn't as tasty as the Tao Kuro's

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Ooooohhh look at that
I was a little disappointed though, as the egg yolk wasn't as runny as I'd expected it to be.

X and I love ajitamago, we each have 2 whenever we eat ramen! Haha greedy pigs.

It was a pretty good meal. The ramen took about 15 minutes to be served while the pork bun came shortly after we placed our orders. Service was quite good and they don't charge for their wet towels. Even though they're famous for their ramen, I felt that the pork bun was the highlight. We spent about $55 in total. A little steep but not too bad.

Check out Ippudo Tao if you're looking for ramen in an outdoor or more chill-out setting!

207 River Valley Road
#01-55/56
UE Square

Mondays to Thursdays
11.30am-3pm
(Last order at 2.30pm)
5.30pm to midnight
(Last order at 11pm)
Fridays to Saturdays
11.30am-3pm
(Last order at 2.30pm)
5.30pm to 2am
(Last order at 1am)
Sundays
11.30am to 11pm
(Last order 10pm)

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Love, K

K's rating of Ippudo Tao : 6.5/10

Monday, December 26, 2011

Old School Delights

Looking for a place where you can dine and relive your childhood memories? Look no further. Here it is!

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Located along the busy Thomson stretch, it was no mean feat locating this gem. Parking lots are available just outside the shop.

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Look at the vintage metal biscuit tins and all the cute toys and accessories!!
Oh and those Enid Blyton books, I still have like 60 of them now haha.
Memories.

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I absolutely adore the whole chalkboard idea, cement floor, and how they put in so much effort to decorate every single part of the shop.

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Array of cakes

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Look at the fudgeeeee. It's calling out to you, isn't it?

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The menu!

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Every table has one of this box which contains kuti kuti, country erasers and a pack of old maid/snap/etc cards. X was quite excited and wanted to challenge me to an eraser fight. HAHAHA.

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That's a list of things that act like a checklist so you can see if you're really old school! Haha.

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We loved the paper table mat. May I emphasize again the amount of effort that was placed into the whole design and concept?

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Barley Lime - $3.50
X LOVED it. Hahaha it was really thick and pretty good!

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Chocolate teh-cino -$4.50
There was more tea than chocolate. And I was hoping for the opposite. I still liked it though! Interesting twist to your usual teh tarik.

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Laksa that X said was gooood.

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I was too full from a birthday party earlier and so I only ordered this.

Basket of Wings! They came with this homemade sauce that was creamy and spicy at the same time. We couldn't stop talking about how good the sauce was. So unique and what an impression it left! Thinking about it now brings me back to that moment when I was savouring the wings, with the sauce of course. I can literally taste the remarkable sauce in my mouth right now.

And there my tummy goes.. Rumbling again.

We enjoyed our late dinner at Old School Delights and would definitely go back for more! Will love to try their fudge cakes and other old school items on their menu! I know X really liked the place. He has this thing for chalkboards and cement floors. And he likes cute places that are elaborately designed. (: How do I know that he really liked OSD? He actually said "I wanna blog about OSD!" Hahaha now, that's rare.


215M Upper Thomson Road
Tue - Fri:11:30-23:00
Sat - Sun:11:00-23:00
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Love, K
K's rating of OSD : 7.5/10

Boon Lay Power Nasi Lemak

K and I have always been envious of how the east has so much good food and the west has none. Well, that is not exactly true as we found out. Here is a rare place in the far west that is so good , the queue never ends.
Boon lay power nasi lemak. While all the other stalls in the hawker centre are closed for the day, Boon lay power nasi lemak operates into the wee hours of the night. Sounds like a superb idea for supper.

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The queue that never ends. It has nothing to do with the speed of their service, in fact they are pretty quick. The crowd just keeps coming.

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Stall frontage, displayed with numerous awards and newspaper cutting , true singaporean style.

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And after that patient wait , you will be rewarded with a plate of delicious nasi lemak. Crispy chicken wings, fragrant rice,  tasty burgerdale ( Fried potato patty) and the most important of all, the sambal chilli. Really makes a sinful but very satisfying meal. Worth a try.

Boon lay place food centre
#01-106
Daily: 5pm - 2am



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X's rating of the food : 7.5/10
Love, X

Friday, July 15, 2011

1 2 6

I have always loved the Dimsum here. But being not very well-versed in the art of chinese, I never knew how to pronounce the name of the shop. I always called it THE LORONG 17 DIMSUM place. Till The Star brought me there for breakfast at 7am one morning and taught me that the name of the shop is actually pronounced as "One Two Six" although its actually in Canto. Pretty cool huh. Okay, don't laugh at me thanks.

Anyway my favourite has gotta be the crabmeat chee cheong fun! I love the sauce, though some may find it salty, but it's special and I really like it. Although I have to say that the crabmeat is so little that you can hardly taste it. Haha I always eat the same few things when I'm there. The crab chee cheong fun, the fu pi juan (beancurd skin roll- I LOVE FU PI JUAN!), hargao and scallop porridge. Somehow you just can't get sick of dimsum, right? Or am I the only one that feels this way? Haha. Anyway, we ate damn alot that morning. Like The Star had century egg porridge and we shared all the above plus siewmai! It's no wonder how we put on weight like it's free.

We went to Geylang another night cause The Star wanted to eat beef hor fun. And I randomly just said that I felt like eating dimsum and he immediately drove over to 126 and we had a hearty meal <: What a sweetie right hahaha

















Although the food's pretty good, I will like to comment that the service staff aren't very friendly and some are pretty rude. But thankfully now that there's The Star to do the ordering, I won't have to communicate ineffectively with the service staff anymore. Haha. Anyway before I left that morning, I saw doughnuts on a tray for sale. I contemplated but didn't get one in the end. They looked good.. I've gotta go back soon, have got a dimsum craving right this moment!


Love, The Sun

Sun's rating of 126 : 7.5/10

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

G7 Frog Porridge

















We were hungry one night and wanted supper pretty badly. So, we went to Chun Tin road (opposite Beauty World) which I think is a pretty good place for supper. We couldn't decide if we wanted chicken rice or frog leg porridge and had to play a few rounds of rock, paper and scissors to decide(yes, I'm not kidding)haha. As you probably would have already known(from the picture) that we had frog porridge in the end. 5 frogs, a whole pot of porridge and prawn salad you tiao for the two fatties. Full and satisfied we definitely were! I wouldn't say its fantastic but it's VERY filling for two empty tummies. We spent around $30 which might be a bit pricey for supper but well, we don't eat frog leg porridge often!


Love, The Sun

Sun's rating of the frog leg porridge : 6.5/10