Tampop0 again!!!

Once i fancy the place, i will tend to go there super often..... went to tampop0 recently for JC meeting with mich and daffi.

Mich and daff shared ramen, tonkotsu and some sides while i have the 'selfish' sushi set for $43.

There is this conveyor belt in the restaurant which i think is interesting but super silly. It is not like the usual sushi shop where there are diff selection food on it for consumers to pick, it is for sushi platter to be delivered to your desk by the conveyor belt instead.

I saw my platter and was super excited but it somehow got stuck and then miss the exit and my platter went one round again... Feels a little sian as it will lose 10 mins worth of freshness but when the food arrives near my table again, it got me excited as it has all my favourites...

There is tamago, uni, roe, unagi, otoro, chutoro, scallops and others which i dont know what they are. I LOVE the uni and tuna!!!!

Home-cooked grilled fish set

I love to cook but BE always dont want me to cook as he thinks it is too troublesome to buy, prepare, cook and most imptly wash the dishes after cooking...

One fine day, we wanted to go to the supermarket to buy some veggies to cook porridge for the little one so we decided to buy food and cook our own dinner.

Grilled fish set
Ingredients:
For the baked potato - potato, butter, sour cream, bacon bits
For the veges - broccoli, carrot, salt, oil
For the side dish - bacon, asparagus
For the fish - fish, italian seasoning, lemon juice, pepper, salt

For the baked potato - poke the potato with fork so that it can be cooked faster, wrap it with aluminium foil before baking in oven. Once done, cut a cross, add butter, sour cream and bacon bits.

For the veges - blanch broccoli and carrot in hot water with salt and oil

For the side dish - blanch the asparagus and roll it with bacon. Bake it till cook.

For the fish - marinate the fish by adding salt, lemon juice, italian seasoning and pepper. Wrap it with aluminium foil and bake it.

T@mpopo

Wanted to go out for a meal but hate crowd so decided to head to Liang Court as i loved shopping at the jap supermarket even though the stuffs there are expensive. Decided to check out the jap restaurant which Hei once mentioned to me...

We had Black pig shabu shabu ramen, Black pig tonkotsu ramen... the pork is super tender....

And also the highlight for the day........... Otoro sashimi!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wanted to try that after watching a HK serial which focus on japanese cuisine.

It costs $55 for 5 pcs of otoro and $45 for chutoro...

Whats the difference?

Otoro is the premium part of tuna belly that usually does not get a price on any sushi house menu. Otoro is they best part of the tuna. Because otoro is from the belly of the tuna it is fatty. Otoro is light pink in color, sometimes almost white, and creamy looking. Otoro will leave behind a swirl of oil on the surface, and when it hits your pallet, it will melt. The fattiest portion of the tuna, found on the underside of the fish.

chutoro is the belly area of the tuna along the side of the fish between the Akami and the Otoro. Often preferred because it is fatty but not as fatty as Otoro.

Yummy! It tastes like meat instead of fish but i am glad i tried that but dont think i will eat it again unless i am in Japan. =)

Home-cooked Valentine's Day Meal

BE likes Abalone rice so i decided to cook Heart-shaped Abalone Rice for our V-day.



Ingredients required: Abalone, broccoli, carrots, parsley, pepper, corn starch, salt, oil, rice



Cut Abalone into heart shape

Cut carrots into heart shape and blanch the carrot and broccoli with hot water, a little salt and oil

Place the rice,broccoli, carrot and abalone into a claypot. Heat up the abalone gravy together with cornstarch mixed with water to the desired mixture. Pour the gravy over and add some pepper to taste.....

Here's the yummy Thai village lookalike heart shaped abalone rice.... Yummy!!!!!!!!1

7yrs2mths anniversary

Took time off to spend the day together, this 14th we had dinner at Blue L0bster along Franke1 ave, it doesnt look nice from the outside but its interior deco is definitely much better. There are small little cubicles for ppl to have their private corner. We are the only customer throughout the dinner, it is so quiet till BE saw Ratatouille =)

I ordered New Zealand oysters... it was not too bad... Come to think of it, the irritants or MCQ suggested to go NZ in 2 yrs time to visit Ah Gu then we can eat tonnes of oysters there but just wonder if we will ever go??

I had today's special as my main course, it is lobster thermidor as recommended by the waiter. Not really sure whats thermidor and if the method of cooking is really nice but decided to go for it instead of having it steamed or fried or grilled. Then when my food arrived and after consuming, i think it is a wise choice - cooking lobster meat with a cream sauce, put into a lobster shell, sprinkled with cheese, and browned. I love it! It costs only $39.95 on a Tuesday but $59 on other days so i feel that it is rather worthwhile. I might want to go back again on Wed to try their today's special Foie Gras at $14.95.

BE as usual is not very adventurous as he is not a fan of seafood but dont mind fish and chips so he had his not as yummy main course.

They use papers as their table mat and provided crayons so we drew on it to commemorate this special day.


Then played tic-tac-toe and BE introduced me to 3D tic-tac-toe which requires more analytical thinking.

Guess what i have for breakfast today???

Yucks whats this ugly looking thingy??? my breakfast???

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It is foie gras with lettuce and toasted bread.

Looks good isnt it?? All thanks to bro who bot this piece of ugly looking thingy yesterday and make this for my breakfast today. It is really good to have a gourmet chef at home.. yum yum =)

My Reward

Took a day off from my obligation and went Ru5tic N1rvana for a trial massage...Tried out the Jamu massage and steam bath, it was good as it really reduces the water content in my body. Even though i told myself not to succumb to their persuasion as they will really push you to purchase their package, in the end i got one. hehe

Went shopping and watch Wall-E after that... The show is nice even though there is no dialogue for the first half of the movie but i nearly doze off towards the end as the story line is a little too long plus the fact that it is near my sleeping time.

Had Chin-Mei-Chin for breakfast the next day... This place looks like an old coffee shop located along East Coast Road and it serves nice kaya toast as they make the bread themselves. Yum yum!!! Simply love it and prefers this to other toast....

Next, we travelled all the way to Woodlands... BE got to know from his colleague that this place sells super fresh and cheap sashimi, so he specially brought me there to buy as he knew that i had cravings for months. For the amount which we are paying, we are getting about four folds more sashimi as compared to that bought in supermarket or restaurant. It is SUPER DUPER CHEAP AND FRESH!!!

Cravings.......

Have been restricted to consume alot of food for months, in particularly this month till i start to come out with a list of things which i will love to eat when the restricted period is over....

1. Sashimi
2. Oyster
3. Medium cooked beef
4. Coke
5. Crabs especially butter crabby from Seafood Paradise
6. Stingray
7. Shellfish such as lala, gonggong

Countdown.. 6 more days to go

Tanjobi Omedetou

There is only one day in a year other than xmas and new yr when you will get tonnes of messages over night... Woke up early in the morning even though i am on leave and saw 7 unread messages on my phone, followed up by those phone calls and msgs throughout the day. Thanks to all for remembering =)

Had my birthday celebration with cousins last week and here's that i have got from them.... Assorted birthday cakes from Goodwood park and capitaland vouchers coz they have no idea what to get for me.

Colleagues also celebrated my bdae for me and from the pic, you can know how old i am this year =) oh mine, three more years i will hit the 30s. I was given the choice to chose my own cake so i got myself a Passion Fruit Meringue from Pattisier which i simply love and all thanks to taya for making the way down to Ann Siang to collect it.

Last yr, i told them that it was my last birthday year being single and this year they were telling me that this is my last birthday before a new addition. Times really flies.

BE bot me this for my bdae present as i have always wanted a white watch to wear for my weekends and he also planned the itinery for this special day.

We went to Orchard in the afternoon to do some more shopping before i become too clumsy and had Pepper lunch for lunch - i simply love their beef steak (previously known as Shimofuri beef) as it is tender even after having it well-done as it has marble fats in the meat.

Then we went around shopping at DFS, Scotts Isetan, Taka for my diaper bag... When we were at Agnes B, Junie appeared and gave me a surprise shout, it was so loud that most of the ppl in the shop knew that it was my bdae. It was such a sweet touch as she managed to get BE's mobile and liaise with him to find out my whereabouts so that she can appear in front of me with Hokkaido eclairs. As it is still early for her appt, she joined us for shopping and tea at a cafe in Taka (Royal something...) Never really notice the existence of this place which is just besides Burberry level 2.

BE specially made dinner appt at Gr@ze located at Rochester Park as it is known to have nice ambience.

Outside
Inside

Love the outside but given the humid weather condition, we had a seat inside with aircon instead. Their service is recommendable as i was given a pillow to support my back which is so thoughtful of them. Before deciding on what to eat, we were asked if we will like to have sparkling or still water so we had still water instead still water which costs us $9 *ouch*. For dinner, I chose an entree of duck liver pate and wild mushroom risotto and BE had crispy hand-rolled pork hock. Both of us didnt find the food fantastic, not sure if this is bcoz we went there with a full stomach? or it is really not nice? We decided to give their dessert a try and chose Chocolate Creme Brulee which is not too bad but a little too sweet for his liking.

Our verdict - super nice ambience only and this is how I spend my special day..........

Junie's super belated birthday

Junie's birthday was early this month but didnt manage to catch up with her for celebration till today.... Was cracking my brains about what to get for her??? Since we will be meeting at Gallery hotel to have Miharu ramen, i suddenly recall tat there is this nice looking chocolate place at Central ---- Gobi so i check out their website. They have alot of mouth-watering pictures on their website and i decided to make a trip there before dinner.

Here's what i have gotten for her - a 12pcs box

From the left - Dark Angel, Smell the Rose, Sweet Something, Cupid, Love Boat, Opera

Even though this is for her bdae present, she is nice enough to share some with me, we had the dark angel (nice not-to-sweet chocolate cake), Sweet Nothing (i love this as the strawberry is fresh and it blends well with the macarons), Cupid (cannot really figure out what is this but guess it might be cheese cream with some flavouring?), Opera (not bad) and the mini macarons (nothing to wow about but nice).... In the end, she had only 7 left to bring home to enjoy hehe thanks Junie.

Actually meeting up with her is more of catching up as we have endless things to talk about so food for this time round is not the main focus. Anyway here's what we had...

Pork Belly which looks so oily and yucky but it doesnt taste like what it seems perhaps bcoz i am a fat lover.

Gyoza - nothing special but not bad as well.



Junie had cold ramen as recommended by her colleague as it has a more QQ feeling which i agree but she also tried to explain that it has a very "mee" taste which i am still trying to understand hehe


I had the Tonkotsu Ramen, something diff from the previous time but i cannot rem the differences between the two. Frankly speaking, didnt find it as nice as the first time i had their ramen maybe bcoz i have too little soup and too much mee and ingredients so in the end, my soupy mee becomes mee-gia dry (maybe becoz Junie took a couple of slurp as she prefers mine to hers hehe).

Then we waited at Gallery hotel till BE picks us up while we chat and chat again.....

Popeyes @ Sing@pore Flyer

Have been a fan of popeyes chicken since ah di introduced to me few years back when i had my first bite at airport terminal outlet.... but the place is a little out of the way unless we are going overseas or to fetch or send someone off.

One day, we realised that there is another outlet at Sing@pore Flyer... yuppie felt so happy so we decided to mark it down as one of our dinner venue. Dint really find the flyer spectacular especially after being on Londoneye as the cabin looks so insignificant and not really equivalent to the size of the wheeler however you will have a different feeling when you step onto the flyer building and have a full view of the flyer from the bottom, it looks not too bad after all.

The inside of the building is the Yakult forest, which is in lined to what our country is known for - clean and green... At the basement, there is another outlet for Seafood Paradise which is one of my fav seafood place with the creamy crabs.

But we chose this for dinner instead as this is what we are here for... We ordered the combo set of chicken and prawns and i prefer this place to the airport's as it is not so cramped and most imptly, it serves maple syrup as it goes well with the biscuit but the service was a little too slow.

Sapporo Ramen Miharu at Gallery Hotel

Had a busy week at work and feeling a little down recently so BE decided to bring me for something good after we knock off on Friday so i chose Sapporo Ramen Miharu as taya and Don have been telling me to check this place out given that i still miss Ramen which i had at Osaka.

We decided to take a stroll along the river from Liang Court to Gallery hotel, this place really brings back memories... Had a stay during our 5th yr anniversary, at that time, BE was still an undergrad hehe.

Miharu is situated at a little corner outside the hotel and there isnt any obvious signage showing that we got the correct place but it is really packed. It has a little resemblance of those authentic ramen shop in Japan and we chose the counter seats to add on to the feel. There were quite a couple of Japanese in the shop and we can hear the slurping sound from their consumption of ramen, this is to symbolise that the food tastes good!

The menu looks good and i had Miso Tonkotsu Special Blended Miso Pork Flavoured Ramen @ $13 while BE had Tokusen Tonshio Special Pork Flavoured blended with Salt @ @ $12.50.

Miso Tonkotsu Special Blended Miso Pork Flavoured Ramen

Tokusen Tonshio Special Pork Flavoured blended with Salt

My soup tastes SOOOOO yummy as the broth is thick, BE's one is not too bad either but it has a more salty look and taste given that it is blended with salt. I simply love it and this is definitely the next Ramen place till now to be comparable to those which we had in Japan. I am loving it and we finish all the ramen and soup and felt a little thirsty after that, most prob due to the MSG??? but it is still nice. I will want to go there again!!!

Myanmar Cuisine

Myanmar cuisine is never in my consideration but we had it when we were too hungry walking along peninsular...

Went thru the menu and find that the food is similar to thai's but the ingredients in it is different. I chose kuay teow with seafood (to be on the safe side) and BE had this potato with peas rice with fried chicken and this comes with the soup of the day. My food was pretty similar to phad thai but BE's one is like sticky rice with super dry chicken and the soup tastes like "long kou" water.....

Haha this is indeed an experience for us but we doubt we will go there again.....