Bei Shang Chun

Is a terrible restaurant that not worth for try. Dun be deceived by the signboard $13.90 per pax, in fact it is a student price . although the price per adult at $16.90 , considering the variety of the food which definately not worth to pay for . Moreover, there are other hidden costs that not explicitly show at the menu or any sign . The price limited to 2 hrs dining, extra charge incurred for any stay longer, a glass water cost $1 which none of the servers hightlighted when we requested. Food took quite a while to replenish , seem using unscrupulb tactics to make patronisers to pay more.

Wild Rocket

Thanks to Ngee Poly of the course that I took gave me chance to dine at Wild Rocket at a great value price , $25 nett for 3 course meals . Wild Rocket is a well-know restaurant situated at secluded area that you will never wanted to be there, not easily accessible unless you have a car. The founder , Willie is a ex-lawyer turned into chef due to his passion in food .

The ambience is quite, nice ,cosy and relaxing. Our menu ; mushroom soup, sambal fillet and pandan pudding .

Mushroom Soup - give a very robust taste of mushroom, not the usual creamy mushroom.

Sambal Fillet - Couldnt remember the fish that they used for the dishes, the winning formula for this dish definitely must be the condiment mixed local flavour , sambal chilli to it . U will never imagined that sambal chilli could be internationalised too.

Panda Pudding - Light flavour of pandan leaf, but the taste escalated to next level with the mixture of the brown sauce (I think is made from Gula Melaka ) , somewhat peranakan meet west, but tasted magically .

I have heard about how good this Hokkaido ramen was, till, I have the opportunity to taste it today.

Soup base is full of essence from meats, bones ...... is tasty but a bit salty for my taste bud, nonetheless, the menu did indicate that we may find the soup salty and we may request to add soup that suit out taste.

I believed the chef had brew it four severals hours,



The ramen is springy , OMG, the egg is the master piece that the egg yolk remain watery better than the half boiled egg that we have for breakfast.

Crystal Jade Palace @ Paragon

I confuse that I decided to have our lunch was indeed lure by one of porridge at Crystal Jade Palace @ Paragon. Previously, I had this dish, thus it made me remember the seafood freshness and the juicy oyster without the smell (I do not eat oyster at all) . The soup was tasty , light, clear and healthy. However, the standard hasdropped today, the oysters are raw and I could taste the slippery texture of the Oyster that I hated the most.

As for the dim sum that supplement the porridge , in short, passable but not that fantastic, well looking at service aspect, service staff are very attentive, thoughful and speedy. For price, should catergorise as up market restaurant.

MoonCake

Its another once a year affair - mooncakes gathering, this year was an unusual year for us that we had too many mooncakes, eventually, we had to give away boxes of mooncakes. Hananese mooncakes - salty taste allow me to reminisce days with my dad, my long time favourite is snowskin mooncake, I have to confess that I am rather on the texture and filling of snowskill mooncake, Fairmont Hotel snowskin standard remain the same, Raffles hotel gave me surprise, and intercon snowskin gave the surreal texture of japanese sweet potatoes .

I cant wait till next year for my champaign mooncake from Fairmont !!!!

Bali Thai @ Ion

There are many new food outets set up presence at Ion Ochard, one of them is Bali Thai, reason being for me to choose this restaurant because there wasnt any queue compared to others. Frankly, I did not place high expectation, it is a fusion restaurant that provide Thai & Bali cuisine.

To test the skill of a so call Thai restaurant, simply order Tom Yum Soup, it will not go wrong.

It is clear soup base Tom Yum Soup VS milky base that we ususally had in Thailand, nevertheless the soup tast wonderful with plenty of vegetable , generous portion of seafood at friendly price.

Worth a try !

Hong Kong Trolley Noodle

This is an eatery situated inside Marina Square Food Court, intitially I was quite skeptical to enter the eatery despite the poor presentation of the food, still, I gave it a try as I couldn't over come my crave for Hong Kong trolley noodle...

Scoreboard for this attempt: 2
- 2 points was given for the radish that took quite a while to stew it till soft
- soup is oily, with msg seasoning
- overcooked soak cuttle fish
- fishballs were hard
- chicken wings were tasteless

So this has managed to secure a place in my ban lists.