Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt

I was in Berjaya Times Square, KL when I saw this self-service yogurt store. I've always wanted to make my own ice-cream/yogurt so imagine my happiness when I saw this. It's my fault because I didn't find out the price but I thought... how much could a yogurt cost? As it turned out, they charge by weight (RM5.30 per 100gms) and my yogurt weighed 343gms so I paid a total of RM18.20 for my yogurt. Ouch! My boyfriend thinks it's fair to charge by weight but I disagree. How the hell is one supposed to know how much yogurt weighs and the smallest cup that they have is huge!

3 Khor's Pineapple & Ham

My aunt enjoys cooking and sometimes when I go over for dinner, she serves her "Pineapple & Ham" dish because she knows that I love it. It is such a simple to prepare (no cooking needed!) recipe, convenient, tasty and good for the whole family. The picture might not look very appetizing but if you like pineapples and meat then do try this recipe sometime...



Ingredients: 1 can of circle shaped pineapple & ham (size and weight up to how much you want to serve for the family)

Instructions: Slice the ham to your preferred thickness. Place 1 piece of pineapple on top of each ham and bake in the conventional oven for 15 minutes and you're done! Enjoy!

Bak Kee Tng

This is my favourite food and it's Hokkien too, like me! If you visit Malacca - you simply have to try this. It's one-of-a-kind and so good.

The soup tastes herbal but I can't put a finger to what ingredients (mixture of garlic, star anise, cinnamon sticks and dunno what else) they use. As you can see, there's generous servings of pork and tauhu.	The rice is cooked with yam, fried shallots and it tastes so good - even on its own. It goes perfectly well with the soup. I tried white rice when I was younger - yucks!
The rice is stored in this clay jar. Wonder if it has any effect in making it tastes or smell better...	This place is definitely NOT halal. They serve various parts of the pig - there's liver, intestines, fatty meat, lean meat etc.

Bak Kee Tng
11 Jalan Kampung Pantai,
Malacca, Malaysia.

Business Hours: 7:00am - 2:00pm, 6:00pm - 10:00pm (Closed on Wednesday)

Bread

I'm sure everyone has heard of Gardenia, right? It's like the most popular bread, I think. So imagine my surprise when I saw this the other day:

When I saw the name "Hawaii", it gave me such a strong sense of nostalgia. I remember when I was in primary & secondary school, I used to buy this particular brand of loaf of bread every week. The bread wasn't packaged in plastic, like now. It used to be wrapped in oiled paper (like the kind used for wrapping chicken rice) and the shape came in a rectangular shape. I remember they used to give stickers with the bread too and I would immediately open the wrapper after I buy each loaf. Oh, those good old days.

Now, everything is plastic!

Yakinikutei Ao-Chan

My boyfriend, sister and I went out to celebrate my aunt's belated birthday today. My boyfriend had earlier recommended this Japanese barbeque restaurant in Meridien Shopping Centre. He said that it was really good and so I suggested the place to my aunt and made reservations. After I did that, he tells me that the place isn't cheap. Dang! He told me to be prepared to spend about S$150 - 200 for 2-3 people.

The tables come fitted with a grill. See below pictures; one of them showing my boyfriend drooling at the delectable spread:

You have the option of ordering a la carte or set but I think that the a la carte is probably more worth it. Plus you can choose exactly what you want to eat. They serve mainly beef with choices of chicken and pork too but it seems that their specialty is beef. I tried and it's good. The plate that we ordered (see below, half eaten) costs S$55 before GST.

Don't worry if you can't cook because all you need to do is just turn the meats every once in awhile. Other times, you leave it on the grill. See it curl and cook and smell the sweet aroma of burnt meat - smells even better than your outdoor barbeque. It's all good and tender too. And even if you cook it just right, the meat comes out delicious with that slight burnt taste yet still retains its juiciness.

My boyfriend also ordered some side dishes. He got a bowl of Plum rice for himself and salad (tastes a little spicy and sour, like kimchi - which I didn't like) to share. Unfortunately, he had to finish it himself as none of us liked it. Boyfriend also ordered a bowl of edamame (green beans) for me. We shared but I ate most of it! *grin*



There were 4 of us for dinner that night. We ordered 1 mixed beef platter, 2 plates of chicken, a small plate of mixed pork, 3 bowls of rice, a salad, an edamame, a plate of corn, 2 glasses of soft drink and 2 green teas. The bill came up to S$139. (My sister insisted on paying half the bill as she wanted to treat my aunt too. Thanks sister, you're such a darling!) As I had mentioned, it wasn't cheap but I guess it's pretty worth it. I totally enjoyed myself. And here's a picture of my HAPPY sister to prove it:

Yakinikutei Ao-Chan
100 Orchard Road
#02-22/26 Hotel Meridien
Singapore 238840
Tel: 67356457

Opening Hours:

Monday to Friday: 12.15pm to 14.30pm & 6.00pm to 11.00pm
Saturday to Sunday: 3.00pm to 10.30pm
Public Holidays: 3.00pm to 10.30pm

Ka Soh Restaurant

Another entry about food! *big grin* My friend Andrew's good friend Jeffrey is leaving Singapore for the up and coming China for work! So Shin and I met up with them for dinner at this place called "daughter-in-law". That's what it's called if it was literally translated from Cantonese.

The first dish was this fried pork that wasn't as crispy as roast pork but it still has a certain element of crisp in it which made it really unique. The taste wasn't too salty yet not bland. It was good. The waitress called it "Pai Kuat Wong" but it looks nothing like it. Second on the table was garlic-stir fried Kai Lan. I love garlic in every form except raw so I enjoyed this dish too. Third, it was this fried bean curd dish. It was ordinary so I'm not going to comment on it.

The last and signature dish of the restaurant is fish head beehoon soup. It was just... horrible! I don't like beehoon but I've tried many which are way better than this. Firstly, the beehoon was soggy. It was soft and yucky. Secondly, the soup tasted bland. It looked white but it tasted like soap water... not that I have tasted that before. Lastly, they were quite stingy with their servings of fish slices and vegetables in the beehoon soup.

Anyway... despite the lousy main course, the dinner was very good. Very yummy and very worth it. The place is known for its [cut-throat] prices but I think it was too good to be true. And I say this because Jeffrey treated us to dinner. Ha! Ha!

Swee Kee Fishhead Noodle House (Ka Soh)
96 Amoy Street, Singapore 069916.
Phone: 6224 9920

Anatolia Turkish Restaurant

Most of my blogs will be on food & restaurants as I enjoy eating. We went to another interesting place today. My cousin CC suggested a Turkish restaurant in Fast East Plaza. It's not the expensive restaurant kind of place so just a few bucks will suffice. It's damn difficult to locate the place though because the numbers of the shops in Far East Plaza are all over the place. They don't go in order. So my suggestion is you take the stairs which is right outside This Fashion. Then, you turn left and walk all the way. It's right at the end.

All I had was a Doner Chicken & and Orange juice. You can either have the Doner Chicken with bread or pancake. The pancake is those "wrap" thingies like Chinese Poh Piah except that the skin is a lot thicker. It's quite yummy. Very affordable too. It was S$5.50 for a Chicken Doner (they don't call it Kebab, I don't know why. I tried asking the Cashier and he just shot me a [blank] look) and it's rather big too. My boyfriend CS and I shared it. The filling is interesting. It consists of chicken meat (marinated in some tomato & a little of chilli) and French fries! I like French fries but McDonald's has never added it into their burgers before so it was a real treat for me.

The salad is S$3 and you can get as much as you want in a tiny salad bowl but... there's no second helping. So my advice is to try and stuff as much as you can into the bowl. However, I didn't like the salad. It was very sour because of the kind of yoghurt that they use. Let's move on to something more interesting.

Ice-Cream! Yummy... It wasn't as if the ice-cream is very good. Nothing as rich as Movénpick but I liked it because of the action that came with it. They have 3 flavours in 3 big drums. Using a long spatula... they scoop the ice-cream on the cone and perform a sort of dance before they hand it over to you and when they do, they pretend to drop the ice-dream and give you a shock. The whole ice-cream experience is just unique. Even if you don't like ice-creams, you gotta just try this for the fun of it. The ice-cream is pretty milky and quite sticky. I don't really like it but as I said... it's the value-added-services that come with it that I enjoy!

Here's the address of the restaurant if you wanna try it out. Do leave me your comments when you've visited the outlet:

Anatolia Turkish Restaurant
14 Scotts Road, #02-58/59 Far East Plaza, Singapore 228213
Tel: 68373480/ 68363352
Fax: 68363351

Family's Wok

A few of us cousins met up for dinner tonight and it was a more than a satisfactory experience! We went to this place (address below) along North Bridge Road which was adjacent to Jalan Sultan and just after Aliwal Street. It's a pretty new and clean place. I notice that there are not many patrons but I decided to give the place a try because the picture of the Pork Knuckle looks yummy!

We went in and were very nicely greeted by the waitresses. Most of them are from China but not the cute, teenage girls you get in KTVs so don't bother going if you're looking forward to those. You have got to order the Pork Knuckle! It is their signature dish. And it was beea-u-ti-ful! The dishes came in a few minutes. Probably due to the fact that it was low traffic.

However, the Pork Knuckle that they first served us was a little bit cold. Probably left at the counter for too long when the China girls went to the toilet to comb their hairs and powder their already white faces with more white chalk.

So I, being the daring and loud person that I always am... called upon the waitress and complained about it in a very polite way. Yeah... right! A complain never comes out sweet eh? So anyway... we were happily gorging in the rest of the dishes when the chef/owner of the restaurant came out with a new dish of Pork Knuckle and presented it to us... piping hot and crispy and totally complimentary!

Man... This is what I call service! The food was good but even if it wasn't, I'd drag my lazy ass back there just to support the old man. Oh, by the way... according to my cousin CC: I find him quite cute! which the rest of us totally disagree. Well you know what they say, To Each His (or her in this case) Own.

I was very pleased and amazed at the level of service I got from this little shop because you just don't find that anymore in Singapore. So to food-lovers and Pork Knuckle enthusiasts out there, I say give this place a try. And give me your comments if you do!

Family's Wok
774/776 North Bridge Road, Singapore 198742
Tel: 67449976
Fax: 68440602
Email: famlywok@singnet.com.sg
Business Hours: 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. (Closed on Monday)