Food Fair (19/9/09)

When to the "World Food Fair 2009" in Suntec. After walking one round the stalls, it was found that most of the stalls are same as other Food Fairs which were held in the same premise or Expo. Only 2 foods that really draw my attention:-

怡保猪肠粉

It was different from the plain 猪肠粉 or 上海猪肠粉. It merely put the ingredients into the 猪肠粉 during steaming process. It tasted a bit like 水糕.

Hungary Chimney Bread

Learnt about this bread is from the Travelling and Living Channel where one of the travelling programme introduced this bread. It just rolled the dough on a roller form of holder and then send to an oven. Once the bread is ready and was removed from the baking roller..... a Chimney Bread is done. It comes with few different flavours. I tried the Oreo flavour. Just very average.....

True version of 阿给

For those who really like to know how is the real 阿给 looks like, visit the following blog:-

http://vagabond-man.blogspot.com/2008/07/blog-post_2337.html

http://vagabond-man.blogspot.com/2008/07/blog-post_4858.html

新版阿给

Sometime back, saw that this restaurant in Citilink is serve ring Taiwanese food. Took a look at the menu, there are typical Taiwanese food, however I found some interesting dishes in the menu……. '棺材板' and '阿给'. I had tried '阿给' long time ago when I traveled in Taiwan and I missed the food. As there was a long queue outside the restaurant, thus I did not queue to go in during that moment.

Finally, I went there to have dinner tonight. I ordered the '阿给' and Taiwanese Fried Chicken Chop rice. The Fried Chicken Chop rice is a normal type where the chicken meat is coated with Sweet Potato flour and deep fried. However, when '阿给' was served to my table….. I asked:” what is this?”….. the server said “It’s '阿给'!”.

我当场傻眼了!!! This is NOT '阿给'!!!! It is just a '酿豆干'!!!!

I think if my Taiwanese friends see this….. fainted men!!!

The actual version of '阿给' is using '油豆腐' (or so called '豆卜') stuffed with '冬粉' and use '鱼浆' to seal the opening.

Makan in City Square, JB

Went to JB to fix up my glasses ...... same time to try out this restaurant in City Square as recommended by a friend. The restaurant name is 《客人来》and it is located in a corner at the second floor. The restaurant mainly served Hakka dishes...... I ordered 卤肉面 and 洋参菊花茶.

The noodle and the drink not bad........ the chilli sauce is very nice..... a bit like 虾米辣.....

My friends ordered some cooked dishes..... stewed soup, steamed mince meat with salted fish (咸鱼蒸猪肉), fried pork and mince meat roll (五香卷).... Suddenly realized so much meat dishes....... hahaha

The cooked dishes were quite OK except the steamed mince meat with salted fish ......

cannot taste much of the salted fish....

On our way back to Custom, we took a different route (usually we use the bridge which connect City Square and JB Central). While crossing the road to the JB central... something smell nice....... found this Malay uncle selling pancake slightly away from the entrance to the JB central building. As the smell was so nice and cannot resist it, bought a few pieces home to try and it's only RM0.50 per piece. When reached home about 1 hour later, the pancake still has it's crispiness and taste is good.... Only have one flavour .... peanut with butter.

Vegetarian Food... Nice but.....

Went to have dinner at this relocated restaurant that served vegetarian dishes. Simple and cosy place. Food was great. However when the bill came, we were a bit shock...... the total is exceeded what we had expected...... Anyway, I will not mention the place in this blog... as others may find the place nice and reasonable...... I will only tell my friends in private.....

Dempsey Hill

This place used to be the Central Manpower Base (CMPB) of MINDEF, where all Singapore male citizens reported here for army enlistment.

This building used to be the SAF Career Centre, promoted to those people who would like to take up army as their career.

This formerly was the enlistment center where every quarterly (called as major intake, mainly during Mar, Jun, Sep & Dec), thousand of young men will come here to report and surrender their civilian IC. After they had reported, the recruits will then be sent to respective training camps to start their 2 to 2 1/2 years of army life.

But now, most of the buildings here had transformed into restaurants and furniture shops.

This building, where I spent my army days, had turned into a restaurant (current owner is serving Thai food). The green field in front the building had changed a tar coated road.

Singapore Botanic Garden (28 Jun 09)

It’s been a looooong time not going to the Singapore Botanic Garden. No specific impression that I had visited there in the few years, the only memory I had it was during my childhood days.

Many changes had been made to the place.

Immediately, after the entrance, we were walking on the Main Gate Road. However, I’m vaguely still remembered there was a pond after you entered the garden…. I still can recalled that I fell into the pond while trying to catch the tadpole during my first visit there with Mom…… But the pond no way to be seen.

Walked along the Main Gate Road, the weather was quite breezing cool….. Many Filipinos are having picnic or gathering on the green…..…

Reached the Swam Lake…… only few swan was observed.

(gazebo next the swan lake)

Ohhhhhh….. why I can’t take any more photos with my camera…… camera indicated memory storage full….. how can it be…… .. Alamak…. SD card not in the camera…. Then I realized I had left the SD card in my notebook after working with it…….

So just walked without taking any photos…… After the Swan Lake, it is the Ginger Garden….. there was a man-made water fall…. Saw a couple taking wedding photos there… Next to the Ginger Garden was the Orchids Garden…. Needed to pay for the entrance…. Since unable to take photos, decided not to go in….. just taken another walking path back to the main gate….

I think I’ll go again to visit the Orchids Garden.