Showing posts with label Dimsum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dimsum. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

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



Thursday, May 21, 2009

We yum cha @ Yum Cha

Post-Exam (a very much delayed post) DimSum Buffet at Yumcha

Yum Cha which means 飲茶
which is not literally = lim teh (drink tea)
it just refers to the dining experience of eating small servings of different foods

Guess how I know?
Cos I use Wikipedia ma! I where got so smart... =\



Dimsum Porn!

Mango Prawn Dumpling - I like how the mango and prawn goes together... Too bad it fried... so everybody were like sharing... *health conscious friends i have, hehe.

The Hargow is surprisingly better than what I expected.... fresh prawns and thin skin... BUT the skin tears apart too easily... and This is the STAR of dim sum for me, and it took them soooo long to start serving this... maybe like an hour into the buffet?

Glutinous Rice (Lor Mai Gai)

Phoenix Feet - It just is CHICKEN FEET!

Siew mai took them quite a while to start serving too... and it is again above what I expected... perhaps I came down with a very low expectation after my previous experience.

Fried HarGow

Custard Roll

Fish Fritters

Dumpling with scallop - The scallop is quite big as you can see... but same as the har gow, the skin always tears apart easily

Chilled Chicken
Woots!~ I ate like... hmmmmmmmmmm.... 6 or 7 portions of this? haha. Cos I just came back from the gym, and just nice, free flow of protein for me, so why not? hehe. This chicken is chilled and tender, love it.


Soft Shell crab - more like eating flour rather than crab

Beancurd dumpling

Xiao Long Bao - I like this too. I thought it was pretty good.

Chee Chong Fun - comes in 3 different variety, and we had all 3. Charsiew, Prawn and fish slice (now that's something new)

Yam Puff - The only fried dim sum that im willing to die for, but too bad it wasn't fantastic, and it does taste... hmm.. healthy? Cos it was too dry inside, kind of like eating yam....lol. Peach Garden has nicer ones... will blog about it at a later time!

Guo Tie (Fried Dunpling)

Century Egg Porridge

Dumpling with sharksfin - I don't really rally like to eat sharksfin, because of the cruelty nature of getting the fins. Anyway, this dumpling where got sharksfin lor! that is a good thing actually...

Bamboo shoot + Crab Stick + Chicken - Like this, crunchiness of the bamboo shoot, along with the tenderness of the chicken, and slight tinge of crabby taste

Unknown dumpling

Scallop dumpling

Chicken stuff

Pork Ribs

Dumpling again....





OVERALL -
Each person paid $20 after all the ++
The food is pretty decent
If I take into account the price, and considering that this is a BUFFET, I must say that the food is pretty good for its price
A very wide variety of dishes

Location: http://www.yumcha.com.sg/Contact.html