Mix-And-Match Your Own Fried Rice Paradise!

Waste not, want not… so if you have leftover rice, this is what you can do, fry it! Rule of thumb (who’s thumb?): One cup rice per person if that’s your main meal but allow for big eaters 🙂 One egg per person, or you can use lesser egg in the fried rice and give each … Continue reading

Yong Kee Seafood Restaurant 荣记海鲜火锅菜馆 @ 43 Jalan Besar

It is not very often that my children and I eat out together as their working commitments aren’t negotiable. I was happy as a lark the night before when they suggested dinner 😀 I have mentioned before that Tian Tian Seafood Restaurant’s a must-eat *Cze Char place for us whenever we come home (Singapore) during … Continue reading

Basic Rice Congee

I have been bitten by the mosquitoes so much so that finally I am down with fever, suspected of dengue. My head hurts and every inch of my body ached like crazy. I slept for almost 24 hours and did not feel like getting up at all but I had to due to bed sore. … Continue reading

Claypot Chicken Rice 砂煲鸡饭 (Recipe)

Claypot Chicken Rice Recipe (serves 2-4) Ingredients: 500g Chicken, cut to small pieces (bone-in preferred or boneless thigh/breast meat). 5 Dried Shitake Mushrooms, reconstituted and shredded (reserve soaking water). 1 Lap Cheong (Chinese waxed sausage/腊肠), soaked in hot water for 5 minutes before removing wax covering, sliced diagonally. 10g Salted Fish, diced (dried or bottled … Continue reading

Back to Basics: Rice

Every cook and housewife has their own way of measuring the water level to cook rice; such as “just up to the knuckles if spreading the palm out on the raw rice” or “the finger’s depth more water than the rice” and other kind of guesstimation. I hope to highlight a more measurable and accurate … Continue reading

Pu Dong V.I.P.

Pu Dong Kitchen has done so well in the recent years they opened a V.I.P. room across the Kitchen. A personal butler is assigned to this spacious room with karaoke entertainment so a minimum spending is required in order to reserve it. My friends like the food here and so I was able to blog … Continue reading

Kok Sen Restaurant 国成餐室 – Rustic Cantonese Cuisine

Keef and I did not get off our cab knowing that we couldn’t secure a table a few nights ago and ended up eating at 136 Hong Kong Street Fish Head Steamboat, so this is like killing two birds with one stone when finally I was able to eat Yusheng and Cze Char at Kok … Continue reading

Life is Short…Eat Dessert First!

Thanying is a conversational address to the title of Mom Chao Ying (Her Serene Highness Princess, the usual rank of granddaughter of a king). The Thanying Restaurant is named in honor of H.S.H. Princess Sulabh–Valleng Visuddhi who was once the head cook in the Sukhothai Palace kitchen for her half-sister, Queen Rambhai Barni of King … Continue reading

You Can Be My 슈퍼스타 !

The title of this post “You Can Be My 슈퍼스타 (Superstar) !” is aptly given because the restaurant’s name Super Star K has become our favourite place for Korean BBQ – the reason being value for money and it opens till late which fits our late night dinner (after work) schedule. The service is attentive … Continue reading

Kimbab 김밥

Kimbab or Gimbab? In Korean it is 김밥 (kim = seaweed, bab = rice) – written with consonnant “K” and pronounced as “G”. Confusing isn’t it? Many people mistook kimbab for maki at first sight. It is futile to argue the origin of this dish (Japanese or Korean?) so I shall not tread into this argument … Continue reading