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.

Secret Receipt

Strongly recommend this cake from secret receipt, I fall in love with this banana cake just only first bite. It gives very rich and robust chocolate taste, non processed coco taste with chunk of bananas. Not to worry, it is not so sweet like most of the chocolate , but , it is still sinful to have chocolate with banana cake. Fat ! Fat !

Imperial Treasure @ Ion

I enjoy having Hi - Tea at Imperial Treasure which usually they serve hi - tea menu between 2.30 - 5.30 pm, set tea menu priced ranging from $5 - $13.50 depending on no of items and type of food. I offen order $7.00 set that come with noodles serve with deep fried spare ribs, 2 pcs of Dim-Sum and a cup of HK milk tea. The noodles infact is the common instant noodle that we could get it from supermarket, however, the soup base is tasty and without any msg, the cook knows the tactic to cook the noodle very well, not soggy but springy.

Finally, I had a chance to taste the world famous pork chop bun at Macau. When we arrived at the eatery, there was a very long queue queuing for the pork chop bun, although the queue was very long almost 50 people ahead of me, less than 20 mins was my turn to order, in fact I find is their system and staff efficiency that cut down my queuing times.

Lets talk about the famous bun, the meat is humongous, the bun is soft (i believe is home made by themself), the pork chop is well marinated , tender & juicy. Thumb up !