Double Happiness 双喜 - Happy Graduation and Happy Birthday

Its the time of the year when parents feel proud of their ah boy and ah girl. Even after 4 years, I cannot even type a proper english sentence, so ashame to go up the stage la.

NTU calls it convocation, NUS calls it commencement. So who is the EXTRAordinary one?

The whole 1.5 hours was reduced to 1hr, cos I left immediately after getting my transcript! No hugs and drop-from-the-sky balloons for me!

That's Uncle FDGM approaching the food!

Wahseh, what to eat?!?!?!

Dumpling is nice! I want more and dump the rest!

4 years has passed, from Mr FDGM to Uncle FDGM, an uncle of 2 lovely nieces.


First happiness was for my mum and dad, 2nd Happiness was solely for Dad, because it's his birthday as well! Thou I have yet to get my first paycheck, I decided to treat my family for tea at BOSSES aka 黑社会！

My gf ordered this tea, its some flower petals tea... very fragrant and flowery! haha.

XLB - Xiao Long Bao - Decent enough, but Din Tai Fung still has the upper hand on this.

Beancurd skin wrapped with Cheong fun, with prawns inside! My sis love this.

Har Gow - now they use minced prawn instead of whole prawns! The last time i went wasn't like this! angry!!!

The famous "sand bun" or 沙包- This bun got its name from the sandy texture custard in the bean. My gf loves this, but i find it too sweet. But it is a very interesting experience to eat this, the custard is hot and fluid, it burns! so be careful.

Spring roll with duck meat - the duck meat is quite a big slab, but wierd thing if you eat it as a whole, you cannot really taste the meat.

Siew Mai or 烧卖？I hope i got the chinese character right. The prawns used is fresh and big, for someone like me who usually detest Siew Mai, like this too!

Carrot Cake - its texture is evsoft and eating with century egg is really a fantastic idea.

Mango dessert - it does not have tt kind of synthetic mango taste. nice.


a few hours later was dinner. having a 1 + yr and mth old nieces can be quite a burden, meaning when it comes to dining, we are kind of restricted. With the H1N1 in the loom, my sis is kinda paranoid (i will too if im the parent). So we stayed at home for dinner.



Everything was ordered from 933

Salted Chicken - My Fav. with herbs buried within the white salt crystals.

The salted chicken unfold!

Fried Tofu - untouchables.

Fried Chicken Wings - Untouchables 2

This is the famous 933 Golden Pillow -It is actually curry buried within the bread. The shape looks like a pillow, the colour of curry resembles gold, and hence the name "golden pillow"

Chicken Curry Pillow

Mutton Curry Pillow

Fried Rice

Fried Noodles

New York Cheesecake from Bakerzin for my dad

Brotzeit @ Vivocity - Es ist Würstezeit! Nicht Brotzeit!

Es ist Würstezeit! Nicht Brotzeit!

this translates to... it is sausages time! not Bread time! because we did not have any bread... we just eat sausages! many many of them!

Before looking at my hotdog pictures... Let me give you a short german lesson. lol.

Call me Deutschlehrer Foodiegymmie! hahaha =P


In Deutsch, every noun has a gender, Maskulinum, Femininum or Neutrum (Male, Female or Neutral). There s no reason why, it just is! For example, chair is male and door is female, and bed is neutral. So when we refer to Chair, we say: der Tisch; die Tür for the door, and das Bett for the bed. der/die/das are the articles for the different genders, male, female and neutral respectively.

Brot means bread in german, So we say das Brot (n)
Zeit means time in german; die Zeit (f)

Combine together, it means: Brotzeit or Breadtime!

Wurst means sausage; die Wurst(f)



Würstezeit!!!

Würstelplatte @ $32.50 - I shared the platter with my friend. The platter has spicy chicken sausage, lamb sausage, mini pork cheese sausages, weisswurst sausage and garlic sausage with sauerkraut and mustard. The lamb sausage is the bestest!!!

Nürnberger @ $17.50 - Consist of five pieces of original Nürnberger pork bratwurst with sauerkraut and mashed potatoes. Can be a bit sickening if you eat all these by yourself... no variety... good thing he got good friend like us who share our sausages! hehe

Currywurst @ $17.50 -German pork and curry sausage with chili-curry sauce and potato wedges. I heard from my german course mates that this is a veryyyy popular dish in Germany... knowing this...

2 person ordered this... and I tried a bit, and I must say this is really good! The sausage is sooo BIG and JUICY, with ketchup on it, sprinkled with very aromatic curry powder!

Weisswurst @ $18.50 - 3 pieces of traditional Munich veal and pork sausage served with a brezn. I did not try this, but i heard that it is not bad la. when i saw the bretzel i was quite gian (feel like trying a bit), bcos I like bretzels and pretzels!

Weissbier und Mangobier

*keep the post short, I am soooo busy, FYP presentations, thesis , german test and test, mid term paper to be complete before I leave for korea! cos now my korea trip is extended to almost a week, means I am very bz now... will blog less*

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Hogs Breath Cafe - Vivocity

Dinner at Hogs breath with my army kakis... A place for pretty affordable but not fantastic food!

Yes... its our feeding time...

Grilled Chiken with Portobello shrooms - this is my order! Shrooms so juicy and shroomy, chicken tender and juicy... if only they have a upsize option so that i can upsize the puny chicken la... corn is very normal... astons have the best corn!


Tai's order... Steak with crinkled fries...

Batan's Order - Lamb Shank. Oh, 3/4 was left untouch bcos he finds it... hmm.. not too nice. i koped a bit from him, and what i can say is that... benny's lamb shank win this hands down in terms of flavor and taste, but benny's lamb shank is a tat too small, and therefore they can afford to be cheaper.

Ah Singh ordered this - bcos he had turned to a vegetarian for the love of animals for he is a animal activist now la... -_-

I wonder where he gets his protein from... carbs for dinner?!?!

Ah Singh's carbs part 2!!! so unhealthy... Corn chips with condiments

I always thought we humans live to eat meat since we are born with teeth that are designed to eat both meat ad veggies. if not our teeth will be designed to look perhaps like cow or horses. There is a reason for everything imo.

Another grilled chicken with mashed potatoes

Fish and chips - boring... lol.

My Favourite Hongkong Cafe - Kim Gary

My Blog Title says is all! Kim Gary is my favourite Hongkong Cafe in Singapore! Second will be Hongkong Cafe at Novena. Sad thing is its location is quite inconvenient for me to get there. I happen to be at Vivocity yesterday, and the queue for Kim Gary was disgustingly longggg... Probably one have to wait for 45min just to get in... this is crazy and I will never do that!

These were eaten during my Internship period at HP, which means these photos are about 1 month plus old... -_-

Beef Egg Sandwiches - I have a very heavy breakfast - 2 breakfast in fact, so i ordered sandwich for my lunch. I like the way the beef is cooked, still chewy and tender. This is so simply yet so good. But the best Beef Egg sandwich I had was in Jusco, Johor.

E ordered this, I think its Nissin Noodles... veryyyy big and verryy cheap... I tried the soup, and its actually not as spicy as it looks, and its pretty good.

There was some promotion going on during that period, so there was a special menu! The menu namely consist of French Fries or Mushrooms served in different styles. French fries is a no-go for me, so poor E has to eat muchroom with me. lol.

This Mushroom dish consist of (other than mushrooms), silken tofu ( 2 big slabs) with lots of cheeseeeee... yum. This dish turn out as a surprise as we did not expect it to be so nice, after all the ingredients used are normal.

E ordered Yuan-Yang ( a beverage of coffee and milk tea), I don't want consume any calories from drinks, but the server gave us a one more extra... *evil grinz*, which means i got it for free! I had a sip, and the rest was for E!

Häagen Dazs @ Vivocity

Nice angle shot...

and the 2 scoops of Ice Cream

Strawberry cheesecake is still my all-time favourite, infused with bite-size cheesecake in the ice cream.. and the strawberry taste is not too heavy. Rum and Raisin has a strong taste of rum, and some tiny bits of raisins... more of that will be good!

Thats all for my Dinner for this Leap Year!

Sushi Tei @ Vivocity

The Grand Entrance to Sushi Tei

- so many bamboos, majiam like crouching tiger hidden dragon.

View from where im sitting
- Specially requested to have a sea-view, more lo-man-tic ma... hehe

Camp Fire?!?

nono not campfire... its Nabe!

or in full, its called Kaisen Kaminabe! Nabe means Hot Pot in Jap, and Kaisen Kaminabe means Mix Seafood Paper Hot Pot. This is the special Hokkaido promotion which Sushi Tei is having now until Jan, which is tomorrow! After which, this dish will dissappear entirely from Sushi Tei. In my previous entry, I went to Waraku for Nabe too, but the 2 Nabes are one heaven one land ( Yi Tian Yi Di), with of cos Sushi Tei being the heaven. They are sure damn generous with the seafood - 4 slices of thick raw salmon, 2 prawns, 2 Crab Legs which are quite big, 2 fresh scallops and other misc seafood... The Soup can be chosen from either miso or spicy, once again, i chose miso!
4.6 Nabe / 5.0 Nabe

Umaki

Its Eel wrapped in Jap omelet, with radish as toppings are the side. The Egg is very rich in flavor, and its soft...smooth... eat together with the eel is a good combi.

4.4 Umaki / 5.0 Umaki

Unagi Tofu Ankake

On the menu, this dish looks so small, but in reality, its BIG! one big bowl of tofu! my pic looks abit disgusting cos it has been played around already b4 taking this picture..lol. Its actually Stir-fried Tofu, with eel... and is supposed to look like this -------------->>

4.0 Tofu / 5.0 Tofu

Nato Sushi

Nato is Jap fermented soy beans, not those saltish fermented beans yo find in chinese dishes, looks similar but taste different. These beans are high in protein... anw the server forgot to charge us for this plate... =)

3.3 Nato / 5.0 Nato

Unknown Sushi

I forgot what is the name of this dish, but i do remember that it is Sushi (duh!), with prawn tempura, wrapped with melted cheese and some other stuffs inside. Its crunchy on the outside, soft inside due to the rice, and crunchy again due to the tempura, and juicy again due to the fresh prawn... Gotta be the best sushi i ever had...

4.6 Unknown Sushi / 5.0 Unknown Sushi

overall... Sushi Tei might be more expensive than other sushi outlets, but its definitely worth every penny you spend here... why eat sushi for the sake of eating?

anymore nice recommedation for sushis? intro pls! :)