25 Dec 07- Christmas Day Lunch

Merry Christmas!!

We had our Christmas lunch at Marine Parade---> Waroeng Penyet

They serve ayam penyet which is actually flatten fried chicken with sambal chilli.

The service was not up to par. The service staff took their time to clear the tables and arrange the tables.

3 tables were joined together and a couple was sitting at the last table and the service staff had to look "frantically" for other empty tables for their customers to sit?!
The food came slow too.

BUT... once we started on the food, all was forgiven!
The batter on the chicken was good, not too greasy however it was the super duper delicious sambal chilli that was the star! It was fiery hot!(for someone that is accustomed to eating hot stuff)
Think recently we went to the changi village outlet as well but xin commented that the chilli was not as tongue numbing as the one we had at marine parade although i though it was quite hot too...
Had to eat wall's ice cream to cool things down :)

Early X'mas Dinner at Jack's Place

Early Merry Xmas~!

Went to Eatzi(as known as Jack's Place). Wondered why there changed to Eatzi..

Anyway hehe met up with my darling for lunch at Eastpoint. Running places to makan so we settled for here. Been quite some time since we went to Jack's Place. I still prefer to call it Jack's Place. Here is what we had

Cream of mushroom(hehe chose a mushroomy color)

It came with my set lunch. It tasted abit bland but the garlic bread made up for it. Next was my ribeye. I must comment that the standard went down. The black pepper sauce was very bland and watery. Very disappointing tsk tsk. And the veggies was yucky. The only good part was the pototao with the bacon bits. I missed my steak at Mariner's corner~! Hehe wanted to bring my dear dear to Lawry's Prime rib but not sure whether she can eat with her braces. Never mind next time k darling ~!whhahaha.

Lobster Bisque

Dear ordered this as she just fitted her braces. Not sure whether it was nice but from the looks of it, it should be alright.

Overall rating for this meal: 6/10

24th Dec 07-TomTon@Central

This is what we had on Christmas'Eve!!

Venue: TomTon@Central

My pork(special black pig in japan) Katsu Don!! yUmmy!meat abit tought but you can taste the sweetness not bad sia! Oh ya manage to dig out some info about the meat: Descendents of the black berkshire pigs presented to Japan by English royalty
Darling's soup udon..CAnt remember what is it called.. cos so long then write the post hahah

19th Dec 07- 2 meals in a day!

Our lunch@ 18 chefs (Eastpoint)

My soup(with tons of pepper)
My spagetti with Baby lobster!!
& my garlic bread!! dear dear did not eat haha!!
Dried chilli frog legs' porridge @ tampines

Breakfast @ Tampines Round Market again

Meet up with xin in the morning for bfast again after his night shift--- have become a ritual but guess its coming to an end liao cos school is going to reopen liao! :(

White Carrot Cake with chilli

I personally like the white version but xin prefers the black one----like him!:)
so since i am eating as well, he doesn have a choice but to order the white one.. (i think i was the one who went to order..hmmm..)

His yong tou foo
Looks as though it is not cooked and just having the sauces on top of the food- but i guess xin is real hungry cos he swallowed everything in one BIG gulp...no lah, just that he stopped talking to me and concentrated on his food..another bad habit of his!

And finally ta-thaa..my pork porridge again...since i put on braces, the following dish has been my staple..managed to lose a tiny weeny weight but think put on all of it in Malacca liao :)

15th Dec 07-Phin's Steakhouse

We were at Phin's Steakhouse level 4 of tampines mall!suprisingly, we didn't had any steak that day too much red meat overload i guess!

We both had fish!quite reasonably cooked i guess, since i was there almost 5 months ago!haha and nothing significant that made me wanted to complain.

His Fish and Chips

My Herb Dory Fish (Ah, I remembered!A very small portion was served)

13th Dec- Joaquim Buffet Restaurant

Got to update lots of post after sitting on it for soooooooooooo long!

We were at Joaquim Steamboat Buffet located at suntec city lobby, near the escalator towards marina square.

For 2, we had to pay approximately $28..somewhere near there. As we were there on a weekday, there wasnt much crowd but because of that some of the cooked food stations were not available like the roti prata.

Lets see what we had...we were hungry and it was taking such a long time for the soup to boil...


Each of us had a small pot to cook our food instead of the usual big steamboat whereby everyone placed their food in.
So in our individual soup pot! (We were given a number of choices but in the end we choose chicken stock and tom yam!)

Boiling!!Ready to eat!


Only prawns shells left!

Our Malacca Trip (6th Dec-8th Dec)

On our way to Malacca(6th Dec)

Pitstop at Yong Peng

My Strawberry Milk and Crispy Pan cake

Bought strawberry milk and crispy pan cake-cant eat much cos of braces but guess need some fuel to stop the growling. Find the food here quite overpriced and not nice.

Xin's Black Wan Tan Mee

It is just so him to eat black black stuffs hehz!anyway he finds the food platable..hmm..

On the way to Malacca, look how xin amuses himself.....
His prized possession(bought it purposely for this trip--self -denial)

Xin's brand-new PSP

Day 1(6th Dec) @ Malacca
When we got to Equitorial Hotel, i was sooooo faminshed. Had to rush out to find something to eat.
We chanced upon this Hongkong cha cheng teng. (Can't Remember the name again)

I ordered a plate of black pepper udon!(Tastes good!Probably cos i was sooo hungry-Reminds me of Changi Village one..)

Black Pepper Udon

Tats me wolfing the food!

Xin's Pork Chop Burger

Our Drinks-Her Hot Yin Yung and His Ice Milk Tea


Our 1st Tourist Attraction Spot- Melaka Fortress & Other places Around the Vicinity

The map of the Melaka fortess-quite easy to move around the place
Me clinging on the railings for my life hehz

Silly xin posing with some tombs

Me sulking infront of St. Paul statue

Me on the phone with mummy- telling her all abt Malacca
Malacca's Main Town- Nice view from the top

Malacca's Round-About (we walked this area quite a number of times during our stay there)

Our 2nd Tourist Attraction-Jonker Walk

This is Jonker Walk-Almost like an eating street to me (ate at every 5 steps)

This is a MUST-TRY at Jonker Walk.

Gula-Melaka-Good on a hot sunny day.

Our Dinner @ Matkota Shopping Centre
We had our dinner at "The Chicken Rice Shop" which is actually a fast food resturant serving chicken rice. They offer chicken rice in a set whereby it comes with a plate of chicken, and rice as well as the vegs and soup.

Bao~Bao liao. Yx said that there is one outlet at Vivocity but the taste quite so~so and you could get more outside with the same amt of money paid.

Our Buffet Breakfast @ Equitorial Hotel Malacca
(7th Dec)

The spread was quite good,(international buffet breakfast) I must comment that the curry rendang was FABULOUS.I had two slices of bread just to go with it.it is a MUST try!

Xin had to had his fill before he is ready to start the day. Heh.

After our breakfast, it was time to set off again! I wanted to go to this shop called "Tan Kim Hock" which sells their local products like cuttlefish, "hong pia" and gula melaka which my mummy had reminded me to buy. We were there and bought quite a number of stuffs.

We had wanted to head back cos there were too much things to lug to our next destination- A place which serves Peranakan food.However, unfortunately,we lost our way so we had to seek help from "Four Seasons" hotel for directions.


That's me posing infront of the X'mas tree at Four Seasons hotel.

Peranakan Food @ Nancy's Kitchen (Jonker's Walk)

We are at Nancy's Kitchen, if you are there you will notice it is quite cosy.

We are now at Nancy's Kitchen (Jonker's Walk) which serves Peranakan food, strongly recommended by the Four Seasons Hotel staff. I must say the food was very good and valued for money.

Nyonya Popian

Udang Pedas

We had this prawns cooked with some nuts- it gives off a very distinct taste,quite tasty. A little like sambal.

My Favourite-Ayam Keluak

Slurp~Slurp, the taste is really good. It is quite authentic peranakan food so if you are into peranakan food like me, do head there.

He Piao Soup

Coffee House @Jonkers Walk

Our next stop was a small coffee house which serves egg tarts, cheese tarts. We each had one cheese tart and an egg tart each.
Peppermint cheese tart

Portuguese Egg Tart
A cup of Coffee to pass our day while we people watching

His
Hers

Portuguese Settlement for Dinner


Beautiful sunset



Unfortunately when we went near to the stalls at Portuguese settlement, touting took place. The hawkers started to swamed around us, asking us to patronise their stalls. Me and xin got cold feet and decided to flee the place. hehz. wasted our cab fare of $40 to and fro.

Dinner back @ Markota Centre
Secret Recipe


Me thinking real hard what to eat...
Finally decided!
Seafood Macaroni

Xin's Lamb Chop

Our Dessert for the Day@ Uncle Keong's

We had Dao Hui- Mine was with white fungus supposedly good for complexion while xin had plain Dao Hui.

We had them at Uncle's Keong which also served bird nest. Wao Wao!

My 25th Birthday Cake from Secret Recipe



8th Dec-Last Day at Malacca

We had buffet breakfast at the hotel again...but seeing the same food for the second time makes me don't feel like eating much already.

Anway to ensure that no time was wasted, we headed to the famous chicken rice ball stall at Jonker's Walk. There are quite a number of chicken rice ball stalls over there. So we just tried our luck and went to this...





Wat cute little rice balls they had. But between the both of us, we only ordered 3cos we wanted to eat more stuffs as well.

Our Next Stop-Gula Melaka's Stall



The Assam Laska!
This is the first time i had something like tat, and i really love the sour taste. And of course we had to order this for the last time.


Slacking @ Starbucks




Back in Singapore, we headed to Bugis Junction-Shanghai Xiao Long Bao for dinner!






Yipes!!!Tat conclude our post to Malacca!