Yong Tau Foo @ Tiong Bahru, Singapore.

Back in my favourite neighbourhood, I wanted to try another place to eat, but as I was walking past this stall, the aroma and the look of the yong tau foo at this stall make me salivate. Hearty broth ytf with dry bee hoon and kick ass chilli.

Doesn't that look just lovely, simple dry bee hoon with a dollop of chilli.

The main star, the ytf with soup. Luckily my nose was not wrong, the aroma was good, but the taste of the broth was even excellent. Something light but with an intense taste, can't describe it, pure goodness (good hangover cure). Generous portions of items, quality and taste on par with my other favourites. Good stuff.


Yong Tau Foo,
Corner Coffee Shop,
Block 56 Eng Hoon St,
Singapore,

Manbok Chinatown @ Chinatown, Singapore.

A bunch of us was meeting for a weekend lunch, and one of them had some craving for korean food. Read a few good reviews and decided to give it a go. The best part? It's buffet style and the lunch only cost 18sgd nett!

Ingredients for the army stew.

Basic starters/sides some salads, kimchi (which is good!) and deserts some fresh cut fruits.

Yes this is the meat part, basically you get marinated chicken, some pork cuts, beef, squid and octopus. There's also the other section which they serve cooked stuff, rice rolls, steam rice, japchae (honestly the japchae is good, but I try to refrain myself from eating a lot, and focus more on the grilled meats) and soup.

From another section, concoct your own dipping sauce and grab some lettuce leaves to go with the grilled meats. You get one grilling plate and the one on the left, is like a mini steamboat for you to cook the army stew.

The meat selection is pretty decent for the price you pay. I like the ambience, good conversation with friends over good food.

I find the army stew enjoyable actually, more like cooking your own instant noodle with loads of good stuff. Just put in the chilli paste up to your preference, add some noodles, eggs, greens, tofu and some other items  Quite soothing to end the meal. For the price we paid per pax, I can't find any fault with this place. The food is replenished fast, servers are friendly and the quality of food is decent.

Manbok Chinatown,
277 New Bridge Road,
Singapore.

Blanco Court Sliced Fish Soup @ Beach Road, Singapore.

This is another all time favourite for me to when my colleagues tapau for lunch in the office. I actually haven't been to the place yet.

Yes it looks messy, the sliced fish is at the bottom of the bowl, the stuff you see on top is the diced/shredded fried egg, and yes the one on the right is further fried egg. The soup is delicious, coupled with the fried egg, absolutely sinful but yet each broth scoop I take my mind is telling me its healthy,

Normally I'll have it with plain rice or with noodles, but today was an extra special one and I feel like splurging. So I skipped the white rice, and instead ordered a claypot chicken rice from the stall next door. This is the ultimate combo meal where one can have for lunch, I had to skipped dinner by the way. The claypot rice was ok on its own, but once you paired it with the fish soup, it's just a combination bursting with flavours. Good stuff.

Blanco Court Sliced Fish Soup,
Luk Lu Eating House,
341 Beach Road,
Singapore.

Shang Hai Chee Cheong Fun @ Smith Street Food Centre, Chinatown, Singapore.

For a decent ccf quick fix I'll normally go to Smith St Food Centre. The food is good and there's hardly any queue or it moves fast.

Had the chicken ccf, 2 rolls for sgd 2.80. The black sauce with a dollop of sambal, generous sprinkling of sesame seeds on smooth ccf, simple pleasures in life.


Shang Hai Chee Cheong Fun,
Smith St Food Centre,
Block 355, Smith St,
#02-174,
Singapore.

12 Stones Noodle House @ Golden Shoe Carpark Food Centre, Singapore.

After reading a few food blogs recommending this place for mixed beef brisket noodles (I'm just a sucker when it comes to beef and noodles, this two combination is my kryptonite), I was happy when it shifted to Golden Shoe, another stall to tapau/take away for lunch!

I know it doesn't look much and plain jane, but the flavour is right there, perfect. Noodles was done al dente, the beef was tender with some nice cuts of fats, comes with radish. It was so good the following week I ordered the same thing again for lunch but with koew teow instead, which I reckon is the better noodles to pair with.


12 Stones Noodle House,
50 Market St,
Golden Shoe Carpark Food Centre,
#02-21,
Singapore.

Mee Rebus Stulang Laut @ JB, Malaysia.

Yeah, back in JB for a quick errand run, and managed to check the famous mee rebus at stulang laut. The place has changed name but luckily the mee rebus stall is the original one. There's actually a few stalls selling different stuff which I'll make it a point to try next time. I kinda like the atmosphere here, a bit laid back, no frills and overlooking the Tebrau Straits.

The infamous mee rebus, portion a bit small (but hey more of other nibbles I can try), the gravy is not thick, I normally get jelak easily. Love the crunchy bits on top. Not bad at all.

Some otah and pepes to share. My first time actually trying pepes, it's actually like an otah, but instead of seafood, they used chicken. Good stuff, I kinda loved the pepes more actually.

Bright red otah anyone? And if i'm not mistaken they have satar as well, definitely would be back to try those! A good place to chill out, local food, and have a decent conversation with friends, while watching the world passes by.


Kafe Sajian Mawarni, (Old name was Kafe Enampuluhan)
69 Jln Ibrahim Sultan,
Johor Bahru,
Malaysia.

Soup Stock Tokyo @ 100AM, Singapore.

Was hunting for brunch around Tanjong Pagar, and I remembered been wanting to try this soup  place. Ordered a double soup set, was wondering to choose for bread or rice, but the server recommended the rice instead based on the soup I've ordered. Good choice!

The bottom soup was the Hokkaido Crab Bisque, just lovely. Creamy, not to thick, and have the subtle hints of crabs. Now on the other hand, the Tokyo Borsch was my favourite, thick with chunky meats, it paired very well with the rice. Very good.


Soup Stock Tokyo,
100 Tras St,
#02-27(b),
100AM,
Singapore.

Nasi Lemak CT Garden @ Kampung Baru, Kl , Malaysia.

No matter what people say, whether the standard has dropped or not, this nasi lemak is wicked in my textbook. Yes, there's been a few times the rice was not at par but the dishes is still there. This place has sort of became an institution for me for late supper. I was first introduced to this nasi lemak where they have a branch at Chow Kit road, somewhere near there ages ago, it's still there if my memory recalls, I like to come to this main branch as the parking was easier. At that time, the dishes didn't mean much, we normally wack the nasi lemak packet which costs at 60 cents rgt. My record was 6 packs, and at that time, it was a bit of punting, if your lucky, your packet would consists of the sambal and jackpot petai/smelly beans. Enough of the memory lane, the petai jackpot is no longer there. 

Not sure why it's called Kedai Makan CT Roses now.

Must order dishes, sambal kerang/see ham/cockles, sambal sotong/cuttlefish and paru/beef lungs. The dishes here is abundant, have your pick, The packets on the left is the nasi lemak which is wrapped in banana leaf to infuse the flavour.

And a standard pack consists of rice, sambal and a bit of hard boiled egg. It now costs 80 cents rgt, you need a couple packets to enjoy your meal, as the servings is small, but it's addictive. The sambal is spicy, just the way I like it. One of my favourite nasi lemak joints, especially for supper.

Nasi Lemak CT Garden,

Jalan Dewan Sultan Sulaiman,

Kampung Bahru,

50300 KL,

Malaysia. 

Open 6pm - 4am. 

Kuriya @ BSC, KL, Malaysia.

It's been awhile since I had a bad hangover, and this was one of it. Luckily I scheduled meeting with my friends in late afternoon in BSC (bangsar shopping centre) for coffee/drinks heh. Anyway this is the KL branch of Kuriya from Singapore. Been here couple of times and the food is on par with the Singapore side. Was craving for some chirashi bowl.

Isn't that just lovely, I'm a sucker for ikura/salmon roe, the standard bowl doesn't come with it, so for RM10 I've topped up the ikura. Portions are decent, I would say it's decently priced, and for the quality of freshness that you get, it's good. The restaurant is huge, they even have outdoor sitting as well for a few tables for those who want to smoke and the best part, the servers, absolutely good service and friendly as hell. Top notch! The menu is extensive, either for a business lunch or family dinner, I reckon you should check it out.


Kuriya,
T2, 3rd Floor,
Bangsar Shopping Centre,
509600 KL, WP,
Malaysia.

Dry Curry Mee @ Ipoh Garden, Perak, Malaysia.

It's been awhile since I had dry curry mee, and what better place to have it in Ipoh, famous for their noodles or koew teow. There's a lot of famous curry noodles in Ipoh (based on google searches and numerous food blogs), but so happened I was in Ipoh Garden doing my stuff, and decided to check it out.

The curry mee is sold by a stall in this local coffee shop, This bowl costs me rm 7 with extra cockles. Not cheap for Ipoh standards, but I can seriously say, the portions are generous.

This bowl is good, it packs a punch. The curry paste mixed well with the noodles(I totally forgot to have it with koew teow instead, next time!). Sinfully good with loads of cockles, chicken strips and prawns.

Restoran Yat Yat Seng,
83, Jalan Dato Lau Pak Khuan,
Ipoh Garden,
31400 Ipoh, Perak,
Malaysia.

Nasi Kandar Ayam Merah Ipoh aka Nasi Vanggey aka Nasi Ganja @ Kedai Kopi Yong Suan, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

First time ever I wrote a long title for a post. Honestly I've always known it as nasi vanggey or nasi ganja, didn't know the actual name was nasi kandar ayam merah Ipoh. Ask anyone in Ipoh for a nasi kandar fix, this is one of them, the other being behind the state mosque.

The queue is perpetually long, all the time sigh, but it's well worth it.

There's a lot of dishes to choose from. Seafood items tend to be expensive. I guess inflation is everywhere.

I'm more than happy just ordering the standard plate, which consists of the ayam merah(red chicken), some achar(fermented vege), telur masin(salted egg) and of course a dollop of the famous sambal. I don't know what is inside of it, but it's awesome. The chicken was executed excellent coupled with the mixed gravy on top of hot steam white rice, abundance of flavours. It really is one of my comfort foods.


Nasi Kandar Ayam Merah Ipoh aka Nasi Vanggey aka Nasi Ganja,
Kedai Kopi Yong Suan,
2, Jln Yang Kalsom,
30250 Ipoh,
Perak,
Malaysia.

Restoran Thean Chun @ Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

Wanted to have my Ipoh koew teow fix from this particular stall in this coffee shop, but it was closed, oh well there's still ample of other stalls with good food. Last round I was here I was alone, thankfully I had some friends and more food to order!

Some satays for breakfast? A good appetiser to start with. Love the peanut sauce, and comes with chunky meats. Poppiah was excellent as always, and the Chee Cheong Fun, another star gem here. Char koew teow was good. Basically, it's hard to find bad food in Ipoh, unless those commercialised ones, be very very wary.

The Ipoh koew teow soup, from another stall from the coffee shop next door, my friends told me it was good. I reckon it was, as the beansprouts was from the same stall, and I ended up eating nearly half of it.

A perfect breakfast place with loads of food to choose from with perfect company!

Restoran Thean Chun,
73 Jalan Bandar Timah,
30000 Ipoh, Perak,
Malaysia

Kedai Kopi Sin Yoon Loong @ Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

Next stop, a must try in Ipoh is the white coffee. There's a few restaurants here all serves good white coffee, but I was brought here last time by a friend of mine, and hence I'm bringing some other friends here this trip. I shall make it a point next time to try the other shops:)

Love the old school decor, huge windows bright and airy, a lot of tables. Avoid coming peak time, as you might need to queue for tables.

Well you don't have to, but I always find it's a must to pair local coffee with their toasted bread served with butter and kaya(local jam). I simply adore this, doesn't taste like those commercialised ones.

The main reason was for this, a good old fashioned white coffee hot. Thick, not too sweet, just hits the right spot.  I normally order two of this, but being a hot day it was, I ordered a second one with ice, and it still taste good.

Kedai Kopi Sin Yoon Long,
15A Jalan Bandar Timah,
30000 Ipoh,
Perak,
Malaysia.

Restoran Lou Wong Tauge Ayam Kuetiau @ Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

I think this is the fastest meal I had here, short on time and my first being here for lunch. Thank god lesser queues and the food is still fantastic. Basically translated it means chicken rice beansprout plus koew teow or in cantonese nga choy kai. You can search on wiki why Ipoh is famous for their beansprouts and koew teow limestone water etc etc. You get the picture. The must order is, well as I mentioned above, sadly I totally forgot to order the koew teow, as I normally go to another shop for my ipoh koew teow soup. 

Taugeh or beansprouts, I can't get enough of this stuff. Crunchy and fresh dazzled with light soya sauce, chopped chillies, and I think a hint of sesame oil, correct me if I'm wrong, I just know how to eat. Yeap Ipoh taugeh is top notch.

The chicken? I don't have to say anything, just do your google search, hands down one of the best I've tasted and I still come back to. Pair it with the chilli dipping sauce, absolute heaven. My only gripe about this place, they don't serve beer! grrrr. I guess the food speaks for itself.

Restoran Lou Wong Tauge Ayam Kuetiau,

49, Jalan Yau Tet Shin, 

30300, Ipoh , Perak,

Malaysia. 

No Menu Bar @ Boon Tat St, Singapore.

Good Italian food coupled with a casual dining, we headed to No Menu Bar for our dinner.  I kinda like the outdoor setting, remind me of the mamak coffee shop setup.

Complimentary starters, mini pizza.

A pepperoni pizza to share. I love it, the dough was just nice, ingredients top notch.

For greens, we opted for tomato salad. I'm on a tomato binge lately, can't get enough of it. Again, the portions here are huge, good stuff.

A carbonara to share, nicely executed. Only thing not pictured is the few carafes of house red, heh. The food here is good, it feels like a home cooked meal and the staff here is friendly, very very good service. I'll be back here as the food is wallet friendly and I like the setup, outdoor sitting chatting with friends watching the world passes by.

No Menu Bar,
7 Boon Tat St,
Singapore.

Tel +65 6224 0091

Kraze Burgers @ MBS, Singapore.

In a burger frenzy again, was actually craving for DB burger, but decided to check this one out instead. More casual and laidback.

 Some fries to go with the beer. Beer plus burgers plus fries, talk about comfort food.

Ordered a Maximum Hot Burger, with pasta salad on the side. I kinda liked the burger, nicely done medium rare patty, loads of onions, slice of chunky tomato and lettuce. The bun was a bit big though, and as usual it can get very messy.

Kraze Burgers,
Marina Bay Sands,
10 Bayfront Ave,
#B2-54,
Singapore.

Sisaket Thai Food @ Maxwell Food Centre, Chinatown, Singapore.

Back in one of my favourite hawker centres, been eyeing this thai food stall for quite some time, and decided to give it a try this round.

Seafood tom yam plus white rice. For 5 sgd, very generous portions.

This tom yam packs a spicy kick, just the way I like it. You know it's good after a few mouthfuls you start to sweat. Another stall I've found for a quick tom yam fix.

Sisaket Thai Food,
Maxwell Food Centre,
Stall #01-85.
1 Kadayanallur St,
Singapore.