Updating my food blog...

A month has passed and my last food entry was still in February. Yes, I know. I haven't been updating my blog for that long. I'm guilty now. However, having said that, I have actually done my homework but it's just that I didn't have the time to put it up on the blog. So here it goes...

1/03/09, Sunday - I attended my niece's Sarah's full-month birthday celebration at my second uncle, Uncle Tong's clubhouse at Faber Garden after my church service in the morning. When I arrived, people started digging into their plates of scrumptious food. My cousin actually ordered lunch buffet as part of the birthday celebrations for the guests. It was quite a spread. Unfortunately, when I went to queue to get my food, there was a snake of people queuing behind me and it was totally impossible to hog up the line with my camera-taking session of the food.

So in the end, I took picture of what I choose from the buffet spread. :)

(L-R) Sweet and Sour fried fish, Sotong Ball, Fried Chicken Wing and Kai Lan on top of a small heap of fried rice.

The fried fish and the fried chicken wing were not too bad. Sadly, the fried chicken wings were almost half-empty when I went to get my lunch.

My Birthday

10/12/08, Wed - On my birthday, I headed down to Liang's Court to get my birthday cake. Despite the fact that I wasn't in the best of mood, I still insisted on going out to take a breather rather than cooping myself at home. There wasn't any crowd when I went to the shopping mall to shop for my birthday cake.

I wanted to get something nice and light for my parents especially my mother as she doesn't like sweet and rich stuff. Even though there were only two bakery shops, I bought a Mango Cheesecake (S$17.80) from a Japanese Cheesecake Shop (sorry, forgot to ask for the namecard!)

My mother tried and she agreed that the cake was light and wasn't too rich for her liking, compared to other cheesecakes.

My birthday was a pretty much hush and low-key affair as I felt that it is unnecessary to celebrate my birthday in a lavish way.

An Advance Birthday Treat at Fish and Co.

I am not kidding. I have not been to Fish and Co. - one of the hot favourites eateries with the yuppies and young people - until last Wednesday. You see, on Wednesday, Zoe and Ellie celebrated my birthday in advance at Fish and Co.@The Glass House as I have requested. Sadly, Gin and Cheryl wasn't around for the dinner if not, it would be so much fun! Thinking of that, I miss them!

Anyway, my other friends told me that the common food which people would ordered whenever they dined at Fish and Co. is Seafood Platter for Two (S$37.90). Nevertheless, I still studied the menu carefully before I start ordering the food. As Ellie and I were famished (we actually skipped our lunch just for this meal!), we almost wanted to eat everything that is on the menu. Hah!

Zoe told us that the Seafood Platter for Two can be shared among three people or more because the portion is really big. True enough, when the platter finally arrived, it was huge. But prior to that, I order Soup of the Day - Fish Chowder (S$3.90).

The Fish Chowder surprised me as there were chunks of dory fillets, carrots, onions and etc. in the creamy soup. Yummy!

The Seafood Platter for Two consists of an assortments of seafood, together with French Fries, sprinkled with Cajun Powder and Butter and Raisin Rice. They even drizzled a little of their signature sauce, Garlic Butter Cream Sauce.

I quite like the big chunky fries which has the Cajun Powder on it. The Pan-fried Fish Dory Fillet wasn't too bad; the texture of the meat was soft and tender. I didn't really like the Grilled Prawns as it wasn't really fantastic at all. But I like the way how the Squids (Sotong) were cooked. It was soft and it didn't take very long before the squid slid through my throat, unlike some places where the Squids are as hard as a stone. Ellie and I gave all the mussels to Zoe as the both of us don't take mussels at all.

The Pan-Fried Fish Dory Fillet

The Grilled Prawns

The Squids (Sotong)

The Mussels

Ellie was afraid that we didn't have enough to eat so she ordered New York Fish and Chips (S$15.90) for us to share.

The batter for Fish and Chips was pretty heavy; it was more salty than the usual fish and chips and moreover, the Lemon Butter Sauce which was on top of the fish made it even heavier and rich. But I must say that the fish was cooked it its perfection.

As for dessert, Zoe and Ellie made me choose a cake for which I chose Dulce De Leche Colossal - a cheesecake toppled with Caramel Sauce (S$6.95).

It was sweet of them to put a candle on top of the cake slice and sang a birthday song for me. Thanks gals! As a result of all the heavy and rich main course we had, we had a hard time finishing the cake. In fact, we took a long time to polish off the cake from the plate.

In order to ease our heavy stomach, we took a long walk along the streets of Orchard Road under the night breeze and colourful Christmas glittering lights.

My Dad's Birthday

8/11/08, Saturday - That particular day was my dad's birthday and strange enough, it was also the day where I almost couldn't wake up from my bed due to exhaustion. My cousin, Yi, her mum and my two other aunts came over in the evening to share this special day with my dad and without me knowing, they were chatting happily in the dinning room. I was actually awoke by their chattering.

We went over to Five Star Hainanese Chicken Rice Restaurant to have my dad's birthday dinner. We ordered the usual plate of Roast and Steamed chicken as my dad prefer the latter while I prefer the former.

Apart from ordering my favourite spicy Kangkong dish, we tried out this Scallop Dish (S$8, medium) and Hometown Tofu dish (S$8, medium).


The Scallop dish wasn't too bad although I still prefer Kangkong. As for the Hometown Tofu, it was still good, just like how we tried during our previous visit.

Throughout the dinner, I was staring into space as I was really tired and I felt like I could sleep on the table as well. Tsk tsk.

Chloe's 1st Birthday

Over the last weekend, I attended my niece, Chloe's 1st birthday party at her place. It was a happy occasion for all of us who have seen her through over the past one year growing from a baby to a one-year old toddler. And she is so cute! Her elder brother (who is my nephew) is still adorable. I wonder what he eats these days.

But in this kind of occasion where there are throngs of people queuing and packing in the house, I find it hard to take pictures of the food. For Chloe's birthday celebration, it was a buffet which means there will be many sumptuous food and that would usually whets my appetite. I was queuing up to get my food and there were people queuing behind me. It suddenly occurred to me that it would be awkward for me and the other people to see me capturing pictures of the food. Eventually, I just gave it a pass. But that was not all.

I went back to my seat, thinking that perhaps, I could take pictures of the my plate filled with food. But then there wasn't any table for me to put my table down and I was stuck in a place with many people as well. So in the end, I didn't take any of the food pictures.

Fortunately, I took a picture of the red eggs and Ang Ku Kueh with the help of my ever-helpful auntie, Auntie Roselyn.

It is a customary practice for all 1st and one month birthday celebration. The Ang Ku Kueh tasted really nice. I like the mung beans filling the most.

Finally, it was time for the cutting of the birthday cake! This was Chloe's birthday cake - a chocolate cake topped with a variety of fruits.

Here is the slice of the cake. It was chocolately and sweet! Yum. I believe that there was a layer of Tim Tam or chocolate biscuits at the bottom of the cake which made it triple yummy!

I really had fun binging, playing and 'carrying' my cute niece although I did a pretty bad job in carrying her.