Noodle House Ken @ Orchard Plaza

Craving for some ramen?

Come down to Noodle House Ken, specialist in authentic Japanese Ramen. The shop looks like those you see in "Japan Hour" which serves nothing much but ramen, with a counter surrounding the chef. Watch him skillfully toss the noodles while having your fill, making it even more appetising. i believe that a good ramen requires to fufil three criteria - good soupbase, good noodles and good ingredients that goes along.

Let's see how Ken's noodles fare.

Chef at work

Menu - There are in total 8 choices

Condiments on the table - Ice water is also served FOC.

Char Siew Ramen @ $12

I was so shocked when the ramen arrived, cos that bowl is really huge! Half of it is actually just nice for me.

Soup - 4.5/5.0 - The soup is actually prepared by double-boiling for 8 hours! Therefore, no MSG was used at all! The soup is indeed very tasty and full of flavour... it is quite salty but its not due to any added salt i guess, the saltiness could be from the results of 8 hours of double boiling, hence bringing out the flavour. Every single drop was slurped dry by me!

Noodle - 4.4/5.0 - If you like Ajisen noodles, you will dislike it after eating Ken's noodles! It is so Q,so chewy... and you can't help it but to slurp the noodles instead of the usual style of eating that bowl of mee pok you buy from the hawker center. I ate every single strand!

Ingredients - 4.8/5.0 - I simply loveee the char siew (Pork Slices), they are sliced quite thick, yet it is so soft! The added bamboo shoots adds some crunchiness to the occasion bites.

*Tip*: There's a bottle of white sesames, ground some into the broth while its hot and you are into some great broth!

Kimuchi Ramen @ $12

Almost similar to char siew ramen, just that the soup is a tat spicier, but fret not... it ain't as spicy as you think it is. The noodles and ingredients are almost the same as the charsiew ramen, just that there are additional kimchi.

Soup - 4.0/5.0 - The kimchi spoils the taste of the 8 hours double boiled broth. But it is still better than most kimchi soup which uses powder to make the soup base.


Verdict: I will defintely go back again for more!!! Anyway there is a 10% service charge... but do not expect great service.

Noodle House Ken is located @
150 Orchard Road
#01-17/18 Orchard Plaza

Operating hours:

Weekdays: 12 noon to 2 pm, 6 pm to 2 am
Sunday: 12 noon to 10 pm
Closed: 3rd Sunday every month

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Healthy Snack - Kichererbse Tonno with Bacon Bits

I am blogging from my office now... chinese call it "",eating snake which means "loafing", Internship is so darn boring... good thing is I get to try many yummy food during lunch time... ABC market, alexandra market, Seah Im, Harborfront, Vivocity, Telok Blangah Market, Ikea, Anchor Point, maybe someday NUS! Can you guess which company i am working at now??? :)

I came up with this simple dish one day when I was kind of bored....

Kichererbse is Chickpeas, and Tonno is Tuna in German. High in Protein and low in fats, yet it is quite delicious. The chickpeas and tuna is soft, but the bacon bits add some crunchiness to it and strong meaty taste to it.

Tuna (in brine) provides about 25or protein, 1g of fats (per 100g serving)

Bacon Bits - 3g of protein , 1.5g of fats (one tbsp serving)

Chickpeas - 12g Protein, 3g fats, 55g Carbs (One Cup)

just mix them up, and here, you have a nice healthy snack!

Home Made Durian Puffs

I was shopping in Suntec when suddenly the durian crave strikes me! I keep thinking of durians and its so damn distracting larh... so i went to carrefour to buy durians! loL. i just have to eat some real durians! I was contemplating hard whether or not i should waste my calories on them... after circling and thinking and circling and thinking around carrefour for some time... Bought 4 boxes, ate almost 2 boxes... and im totally satisfied! haha

The leftovers were made into durian puffs!

Fyi - I love durians! but durians is one of the few fruits that contains quite a significant amount of fats! but also protein.

Ma Maison @ Bugis Junction, Swiss Bake Cake, Provence Scones

This is super overdue la... I still have a lot of food photos stacking up, awaiting me to blog about them! I shall try and blog daily from today onwards, its kind of tedious, kind of like homework stacking up even thou its the holidayS!

Ma Maison - Japanese Western Food

This place was chosen by my girlfren for her birthday! Japanese and Western, both her favourites, fused into one! She will love it!

Very nice deco inside the restaurant... very Victorian style, very romantic too with all the nice lightings and pretty table cloth.

Anyway, see that sign on the table? Ladies get to enjoy 20% off on Monday night! argh... why this discrimination against my gender!

They have a pretty large array of dishes in their menu, but we settled for two voted as the best by bloggers!

While waiting for the food to arrive... fiddling with the stuffs on the table... they provide wet tissue!

and while waiting and waiting and waiting for the food to arrive... Ta da! A Bag of freshly baked scones from Provence for you!

Chocolate Chip scones and cranberries scones! No more lousy four leaves scones! Provence scones is the only scones that I will eat... the texture is what it is to be called scones! Where is Provence? Refer to my past entry here!

4.6 Scones / 5.0 Scones

The first dish arrives - Hamburger Steak @ $19.80

Initially I wanted to order the one with cheese, but i don't know why im so blur and point to the wrong picture when ordering! But its ok! cos this is still as good i supposed. The beef patty is rich in flavour, and I love that sunny side so much! The brown sauce that comes along with it has a very unique taste

4.2 Hamburger / 5.0 Hamburger

Beef Stragonov with Omu Rice

The Omu rice is so closeee to perfection. Thick yet soft layer of warm milky egg enveloping the butter rice, and just like the beef patty, the beef here is rich in taste and soft... its goooooddddd...

4.6 Beef / 5.0 Beef

Cake from Swiss bake

Swiss Bake has many interesting looking cakes, and their cakes size is lovely just for 2 person. Aesthetics wise, they already score for it, taste wise, they score pretty high too i must say. Prices are around $20 and is located at quite a few places actually - I got mine from holland village cold storage. they have a website if you are interested.

4.3 cocoa cake/ 5.0 cocoa cake

The key to?

The key to your wallet la... Take this key to the counter and pay your bills!!!
Prices inclusive of 10% Service charge and prevailing GST

All the food we had that day is above 4! =) Probably we are just lucky enough to order those that are nice...

Ma Maison is located @
200 Victoria street #02-51
PARCO Bugis Junction
Phone: 6338 4819