Weekend Penang Buffet Lunch

SG50 - National Day!

Lunch at Crystal Jade

Crystal Jade Yu Sheng 鱼生.
Their Yu Sheng has no green! Totally no speck of green can be found in this dish. I thought there were suppose to have some cucumber shreds and green pickled thingy yah?
But at Crystal Jade it's totally being replaced by fried taro strips and carrot.

The taste was ok.
But I still miss the crunchiness of a cucumber.

Daddy's 63th Birthday

Happy BIG birthday to you!!!

our 4 legged friends are eagerly waiting for you to feed them with your ice cream mango cake...see their "yao gui" look!!!!

Labour Day at Suan Thai Restaurant

It's Labour Day (1st May) and Happy Holidays to everyone!!!
Today we are celebrating my dad's birthday in advance because his birthday falls on a working day. And I've book for a table for 4 at Suan Thai where they serve Thai cuisine buffet style but in ala carte.
And there are 6 dishes on the Buffet menu where you can only ask for one time only.

the desserts and salads you have get it yourself by the side of the restaurant. No problem at all.
I was late in the booking so had to settle for outside doors, when i arrived, they gave me an outdoor seat which was situated way back at the restaurant where it was like a greenhouse effect!!! Very hot and stuffy!

And being so pregnant, i really couldn't take the heat, so hubs asked whether could we sit along the 5 foot way outside where there were a table left. And they obliged and quickly set up the dining wares for us.

the food standard has dropped i must say since my last visit which was quite some time ago...probably due to many people are using some coupons to have a good deal meal here.

there's really nothing nice or worthy to compliment on their thai cuisine. The fish cake took really long to arrive and i had to remind the waiter 3 times before i got it really fried and dry. The Tom Yum Soup seafood was so-so. The pandan wrapped chicken was not aromatic, the chicken satay was edible, the oyster stir fried vegetables was ok, stir fried baby kai lan with salted fish wasn't great either because the small kailan was old and stringy...
The beef with cashew nut was horrible, it tasted like sweet sour pork and not anything like beef!
The boneless stuff chicken wing reminded me of siew mai...just alot of flour and minced meat.
Chicken with basil leaves was also passable...
The only dish i found palatable was the sweet sour fried fish! Which is not very Thai right?

So don't bother coming here for their buffet unless no choice.

The Handburger at Raffles city basement B1-65

"THE WORKS" -MINE! complete with mushroom soup
Grilled 150g of 100% NZ grass-fed prime beef, topped with battered onion rings, cripsy bacon which i gave to hubs, sunny side up egg which i told the waitress to have it fully cooked, sauteed basil pesto mushroom, sweet onion jam, cheddar cheese, handmade barbeque and aioli sauce on a bed of coral lettuce and a tomato on a toasted caramelized onion bun!
$17.80

wj is also have the works with fries on the side


cus is trying the veggie burger ala " Stuffed Portobello" with salad.
she thinks the salad is good but the veg burger was a disappointment...or rather she wasn't very used to the taste of her veggie patty...
Stuffed Portobello: Oven-baked portobello mushroom stuffed with spinach, walnuts, Parmesan cheese and beancurd topped with breadcrumbs served with handmade tomato herb sauce on a bed o coral lettuce and a tomato on a toasted spinach with Parmesan cheese bun
$14.80

It's an early Christmas Family Gathering this year

 I made a Waldorf salad!

Don's chicken pie from my parents and the turkey is roasting in the oven now....

 Merry Christmas!!!

 my Yuzu fuzzy drink in champagne flute with a star print blue ribbon

 we bought her a Gordon Ramsy Christmas edition cook book!

sis got us tickets to watch The Wizard of Oz!

Thai Cooking Session at Dempsey

Tom Yum Soup

• Boil chicken stock in medium heat, add lemon grass, kalangal, shallot, kaffir lime leave, parsley and mushroon into the soup
• Add prawn and wait until it turns to red color
• Add fish Sauce, Lime Juice, Tamarind Paste and Sugar
• Add Chilli and Dried Chilli
• Wait until the soup boil again then ready to serve

Pad Thai
How to make Pad Thai Sauce

Add margarine, tomato sauce, chili sauce, sugar, palm sugar, tamarind paste, garlic pickle, fish sauce on the medium heat, stir until it mixed well

How to cook Pad Thai

Soak the noodle into water for 20 minute to clean the flour on the texture

Change the water and soak the noodle again for 10 minutes to make it softer and transparent, after that put in the strainer until a bit dry

· Heat up the oil in the pan

· Add egg and stir until it cooked

· Add noodle and prawn

· Add Pad Thai sauce

· Stir until the noodle become soft and yellow

· Add sweet radish, beansprout, chive, yellow tofu, and dried shrimp, fry until the vegetable become a bit soft

· Serve with ground peanut and chili powder

Sweet Tapioca

• Clean the tapioca and peel the skin out
• Boil into water with low heat, wait until it cooked (if the chopstick can pass through, it has already cooked)
• Put Tapioca into room temperature water
• Boil water and sugar together until mixed well, add tapioca, simmer with low heat around 30 minutes
• Wait until it cold and serve with coconut milk

How to make coconut milk

• Boil coconut milk, add sugar and salt, stir until the sugar and salt melt down
• Add flour to make it thick (optional)

Hongkong Day 04

HAPPY NATIONAL DAY TO ALL MY FELLOW SINGAPOREANS!!!
and i'm here in my third day in Hongkong having dim sum with my parents!

Daddy is very happy when all his food has arrived to the table....


Mum goes..."aiyah...Singapore also have very good bao....sup sup sway here lah...."
Dad goes with raised eyebrows..."huh....you think so..."

weijie goes..." sigh...MILS...just eat can already...but i better keep my mouth shut."

time for a shot for my parents!

and a shot of me and wj in my spanking new colourful rainbow top!!!! Plus new hairband too!


after loads of dim sum, it's time to walk off all the calories and we are off shopping for home living stuff! Okay peeps, you got to scroll all the way down to see the buys for today..cos when i shop, there's hardly time to take photo at the same time.



Love dropping by the outlet mall near disneyland cos there's always a good buy/steal somewhere! This time i bought a kate spade sling bag at a fraction of its original price!

After approx 2 hours of shopping at the outlet mall, it's time for some serious stomach filling noodles...and my fave place is Mak Mun Kee 麥文記麵家 quite famous in Hong Kong’s Jordan area for its wonton noodles. It’s located at Parkes Street, just next to Australian Diary Co where it's famous for their breakfast set where their scrambled eggs are soo fluffy, buttery and YELLOW!!!!

Mak Mun Kee Noodle House – Address: 51, Parkes Street, Jordan, Hong Kong.

WJ had the dried noodles while i tried their shrimp powder noodles which wasn't to my palette. So to those out there reading, please just eat their soup wanton noodles. Playing safe is a good choice.


such a small bowl of noodles...mum was pretty pleased....watching her weight but daddy was like "huh...where got full like that!!!" But it just means that we have more space in our tum tum to eat the street side food!!!


eat how old fashion it gets???? Retro wall tiles and wooden benches.
After eating my fave wanton noodles, we went down to La Foret and Island Beverly where i left my parents for some shopping on their own....and i quickly headed over to Xu Lui Shan for desserts!!!

WJ isn't too pleased here that i had left my parents just to eat my bowl of mango chunks with mango puree on top of pulut hitam...gosh someone should really start selling these in Singapore!


Time flies and after a few hours of shopping, we went back to Mongkok for some night street food fare!!! and here is our bowl of beef innards!!! hahahahah.....

see WJ's disgusted face! But i lurve it!!! so delicious!!!! YUMS!!!!
it's not stinky or fishy or anything...it's just stewed too perfection...soft and moist and taste just right!


here are the buys for today!!!!