Category: Food Porn

The final post of day 2… After Sentosa, we went back to Vivo City to have some food before heading back to Bugis. Had early dinner at Food Republic.

Tutu Kueh, SGD2 for 4 pieces. First time had it, I thought the outer layer texture was some sort like pao but it’s more like huat kueh texture but drier. Bought 2 with peanuts filling and 2 with coconut filling. This stall is the one similar to Chinatown Tan’s Tutu Coconut Cake.

Left: Rojak, it tasted different from Kuching’s. The taste of a spice was pretty strong. I don’t remember how much was this.

Right: The black one was braised intestine and the other one was bak kut teh. At least that’s what my dad said he had ordered. Hmm… Was suprised that their bak kut teh was different from ours. The soup was peppery unlike what we have in Malaysia which consist of herbs.

Left: For supper, after shopping around Bugis, we went to a noodle shop, QQ Noodle House, somewhere in Bugis, no idea of the exact location, we simply walking around and saw it. On the wall, “Sarawak, known as Bumi Kenyalang (Land of the Hornbills)”. We laughed ourselves silly. Sarawakian came all the way to Singapore to eat Sarawak food?!?!?

We just settled our supper here, lazy to hunt for other place and it was 10pm already, was tired and many places were closing.

Left: At first we thought must be kolomee but after we saw the poster and newspapers article, they’re serving kampua!

Right: We ordered Fried Tang Hun (SGD5.50). Tasted like there’s a lot of MSG used.

Left: QQ Specialty (SGD5), the kampua. Wasn’t that bad.

Right: After eating, we went back to the hotel for another round of supper. Guess what we bought earlier at Bugis? Durian! Went all the way to Singapore for the durian LOL! Bought this one box for SGD10(I think… Or is it SGD20? Don’t remember), it’s the famous Mountain Cat Durian if not mistaken. I was against it at first because you know how heaty durian is and the smell can be unbearable! Oh well… Dad still bought it anyway and we smuggled it into the hotel room. Good thing, no smell at all unlike the Durian from Sarawak.

Thick flesh, tiny seeds. Not bad. Taste wise, it’s not that overwhelming compared to what we had back home. The smell didn’t last, could easily wash off and the room didn’t smell also. Even when I burped, no durian after taste. If you have durian from Sarawak, it’s another story, the smell could last for very long and the whole place would smell of durian! Could even smell it from far away no matter how you try to conceal the smell. So it’s a good thing it didn’t smell ;p I couldn’t smell much of the smell at the stall too. Not very satisfying though. Better go back home to eat own durian but till now I don’t see any local durian in town. Hmm…

That’s the end of day 2.

It’s Sentosa again, there’ll be several posts for day 2.

The smell of the popcorn was so strong, it came from Garrett Popcorn. Automatically we went for it. Just for the sake of trying out since the smell was so inviting.

I bought The Chicago Mix(SGD8, small). It’s actually a mix of CheeseCorn(yellow) and CaramelCrisp(brown). I almost wanted to buy cheese popcorn but luckily my brother saw The Mix this so we bought this. I don’t like the cheese popcorn, kind of yucky and the colour kind of stained our fingers. Not sure how to describe the texture, it’s just weeeeeeeeird. On the other hand, I love the caramel popcorn even though it’s quite sweet.

Guess what?!? Gone in 60 seconds? It took us 3 days to finish this popcorn ;p That’s when the fridge in the hotel came in handy. Was our breakfast starter for 3 mornings hahaha… Munching it while watching the TV and waiting for the rest to get ready since I’m the one who would be the first to use the bathroom and all to prepare. It’s hard for us to finish the popcorn even though it’s small but I don’t think it’s small for us. Caramel was quite sweet and cheese was weird, couldn’t eat too much in one go. However, I’ll buy it again(gonna try other type) if got the chance. It’s the most expensive popcorn I ever had in my life.

We had our popcorn under the candy tree to rest the tired legs. I really love the tree.

Camwhore time… These were outside Candylicious. Spent quite a long time in the shop and bought some chocolates. Camera wasn’t allowed in there though.

There you go… More posts coming soon…

I guess if I managed to go into Universal Studio, it’s going to be a long long long time for me to complete my day 2 posts ;p

After Orchard Road, we made our move to Sembawang to hand over something to my cousin.

Before that, we went to Sun Plaza just next to Sembawang MRT for a quick munch. Had it at the food court. Need to use the lift to go up, didn’t know such place exist. Had a bao and strawberry milk ice dessert. In fact, we shared a plate of rice but I forgot to take photo of it hehehe…

After sending the thing over to my cousin. We headed straight to Sembawang Shopping Centre using the free shuttle.

Went straight for dinner at Astons Specialities because my dad told us that the queue could be quite long. Indeed, the place was packed! We had to wait. I notice that this trip I forgot to take photos of all the long queues I encountered. Every place we went, sure long queue.

We ordered 2 types of food only to share since we had some food earlier on at Sun Plaza.

Left: The steak is a must try. Prime Sirloin (SGD11.50) with two sides. We had Mashed Potato and House Salad.

Right: Medium rare. If only we get such good steak with RM11.50 here, it would be great but with such price, I don’t think you can get any decent steak or even steak this thick.

Left: Another photo slightly up-close. Actually I placed the wrong photo, lazy to change.

Right: Onion Ring, one of the sides for Grilled Fish with Herbs.

Left: Grilled Fish with Herbs with two sides, Pasta Salad and Onion Ring (SGD7.50). This one wasn’t bad also.

Right: Mug Rootbeer(SGD1.50).

Overall, this place was not bad. The prices were very AFFORDABLE if you are earning SGD. No wonder so many people dined here. We waited for our food for almost half hour! You can imagine that… Even if convert the prices back to Ringgit, these prices couldn’t get you such quality of western food in Kuching, it’ll still be very far from this.

After dinner, we thought of going to Yishun but the free shuttle that was parked there waiting for passengers was to Sembawang. Since it’s late already, almost 9pm, we just got on that bus and went back to where we came from to go back to Bugis.

When we’re back to Sembawang, we went to Sun Plaza again to see see look look and buy some breads(there’s discount when they are closing to clear stock) for the next day’s trip. My bro bought some sushi for supper also but I forgot to take the photo ;p

That’s day 1 for you. Reached hotel at almost 10.30pm. Only first day and I felt so exhausted and legs were so painful. It’s really no fun to travel when your Aunty Flo is just around the corner.

After checking into the hotel, we went out for lunch before going to Orchard Road.

We wanted to eat at the food court at Bugis Junction but the place was packed! So dad suggested Nando’s. Off we went because my bro and I never had it. Did not expect that we had to queue, so many people.

The sauces on the table (tomato, garlic, extra hot peri-peri, and hot peri-peri). Tried all 3 sauces except extra hot. Hmmm… Nothing special. I’ve been hearing people raving about Nando’s but really nothing excite me.

Left: Soft drink, Coke(SGD2.90).

Right: 1/2 Chicken with Mediterranean Rice (SGD18.90), I did not expect such rice -.-” For the chicken, we had lemon and herbs instead of the spicy ones because afraid that it might upset our stomach and ruin the whole trip. The meat was tender and juicy. Other than that, nothing wowed me. I guess the special thing should be the sauces. Without them, it’s just your normal chicken that it’s cooked to perfection. However, I don’t think I like the sauces. Just not my taste.

Left: Christmas tree outside ION.
Second left: Inside the Christmas tree of ION. Very hot in there but it’s nice in there. There’s 30 mirror balls, 31 stairs, 32 strobe lights, 850 baubles, 3720 LED lights and 132000 tips in there.
Third left: One part of the street at Orchard Road.
Right: The Christmas tree at Takashimaya.

After lunch, we went to Orchard Road. Only walked inside ION and Lucky Plaza. Stepped in Ngee Ann City for awhile and walked out. Didn’t stay long at Orchard. Nothing to buy there, was not in the mood to shop and the things were not cheap. I’m not the kind that buy branded stuffs so those shops like Chanel, LV, Coach and so on didn’t have any impact on me.

Next, we went to Sembawang.