 |
|||
|
For the Love of Food! I Love Chinese Under the Maple Tree
Chinese Cuisine and any other links for pages you frequent. Adventures With Chopsticks
*#*#* Another Week passed..... *#*#*One more week ... $#$#$ Work & Eat $#$#$I've been working till aroun... ^@^@^ This week.. ^@^@^1. Went back to school to c... %#%#% HAPPY BIRTHDAY RECCE!! %#%#%Recce's Bday is ... 我知道我变漂亮了詞/曲：石欣卉 製作：陳達偉"过去的批评嘲讽 (Let it go Let it g... ^%^%^ EY Training in Penang ^%^%^Start Work le!!EY... went out with my bro today and it was really fun!!... %#%#% (= TAIWAN!!!! =) %#%#%With Mom! =)Supposed t... *Taiwan continued..*More Food...first row is dedic... Fortunes Can Be Funny Fortune Cookies  Blogskins Soup-Faerie.com for Cursor Take Out Boxes October 2004 January 2005 February 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 November 2005 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 December 2006 January 2007 March 2007 May 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 |
Saturday, May 12, 2007 ~*~*~*~*~ Orchard Buffet with family ~*~*~*~*~ Mother's Day dinner @ Orchard Hotel =) Used to frequent there in the past.. but now it's abit expensive lah, and also found other places to hang out for our saturday dinners. Abit sad cos the menu has moved to cater to the European platter. Emphasis on variety has also compromised quality to a certain extent. But nonetheless, it's still GOOD. Today's spread was Seafood International! =)  Table mats have a picture of Singapore on it!! it's so tourist-sy.. but still, it's cool.. and i liked it! =) quite cute the way they thought of promoting themselves- they placed Orchard Hotel amongst the Singapore local attractions! Note that there's not Orchard Road.. cos theres' Orchard Hotel! =p lolz.. And it's sooo apporperiate. cos it's meal time... crudos to the person who came up with it!  They had a waiter specially to pry open the oysters on request!! so it's super super fresh!!! it's realli the BEST oysters i've ever eaten.. the flesh is sooo firm.. delicious!! and no, it's not THAT fresh that it's moving.. (my brother was teasing me when i was eating... i ate only 2 lorz.. cos tummy not well these days... =S)  Buffet comes with a serving of King Crab!! Option of pepper King Crab or Garlic and Scalions. Under the recommendation of the waiter, we tried the latter.. and it was absolutely.. yumz. The King Crab's legs are sooo fleshy!!! i loved loved loved the chunks of meat literally juz drenched with the delicious oriental sauce.. One bite into it and the juicy chunks juz ooze out crab-rich flavour to fill your mouth. Oooh yum yum. hahaha wad a treat!! =p  This picture is of 2 GIANT prawns which they have simply barbequed. Eh, well, actually, this pic was taken specially for someone who LOVES prawns. =p Jealous? lolz.. Anywayz, one was quite well done, the other wasn't- disappointing.. Meat was on the mushy side, and taste was bland... But the one that was well done was absolutely great. The flesh was firm with bounce as you munched on it, and there was a hint of the taste of the sea... No seasoning needed for such quality.. Seriously, when you want to express confidence in your quality of ingrediants, do CHECK your ingrediants first... cos when well executed, it makes such a great statement. But if not, it's juz falls flat. Luckily that i got a good piece.. =)  Deserts @ Orchard Buffet  Durian sth....~ lolz, forgot wad it's called le lah. This one's disappointing.. It's light and floating and cold, but it's tasteless... =( but i'm juz glad they have it. Cos i love this desert!! The BEST i've tasted is at some buffet at Raffles Shopping Centre there... dunno what restuarant.. hehhee.. sorriz, alot of things dunno... er, find out then can say mah.. if not give inaccurate info rite....  Peanut cream!! i love this peanut cream!!! they added walnut cream in too!! so it's not sweet at all, but yet it has alot of layers of flavour and is realli tasty. It's also very thick, but not lumpy, and beautifully textured.. it soothes down your throat. yumz.  I love icecream!! Loved the vanilla one.. classic with the vanilla dots.. deliciously smooth and luxurous.. but the strawberry one was disappointing.. it looked promising with it's bits of strawberry, but it was alittle sour and didn't match up in terms of taste and quality. Don't really like sour icecreams i guess... sour soberts are okie.. but dairy products that are sour- like cheese- ah, that's scary.  The best desert at the buffet has to be this carrot cake!! =) it's NOT as good as my bday cake lorz... but it's still.. really good. love the bits of walnuts and the thin carrot slices among the cake mix. Fresh and not too sweet. The cherry on the top is juz a touch of decadance! =p I loved that they had 2 spreads of desert- an asian flavoured one with the peanut cream, the durian thingy, some fruits, and some coconut deserts and cookies.. and a more eurasian spread with the bread pudding (not as good as the last time i ate here), cakes, icecream and apple puffs. Loved the variety! =)  And after BlackBoard, we decided to try to bake.. but due to our limited diction of ingrediants, kitchen tools and pure laziness of gettin off candice's comfy bed, we ended up at Haagen Dazs instead... This time it's macadamia, tiramisu and green tea. Pure indulgence... =) *%*%*%*% Day out with Candice %*%*%*%* We decided to go swimming~! Luckily candice has some club thingy, so we swam at a private pool in seclusion. lolz. We purposely went to buy swim wear somemore lorz.. too bad for you guys out there, no pics of candice in her swimwear for you.. unless candice decides to permit of cos!! =p Anywayz, after the swim (which we are now suffering from sunburns from...), we went to find this place called the BlackBoard which candice has read about online!! As usual, we got lost (which only happens when i'm not driving) and took quite some time to find the place.. but i guess it was well worth it! The food was realli good... But Candice has fans wherever she goes lorz... we tried hard to eat in peace.. i tried bravely to fend off the offense kaz!!.. but........ Don't think any of us are going near there anymore.. So if anyone else decides to go there rite, can help us ta-pao?? =p    The carbonara pasta was really good.. Candice finished it! (that's how good!!) =p loved the smoky bacon taste in the creamy sauce.. reminded me of the pasta at NYNY.. i prefered NYNY's one thou.. cos that one was realli creamy.. but this one is seriously good too!! and for wad- $5!! realli good value for seriously good pasta... The other 2 dishes are -oven baked salmon - which was a healthy dish, i guess.. the slice of salmon was substantial, and the fries had a shower of cajun spice.. And the other dish is- famous cajun chicken with pineapple sauce. I liked the chicken too. Considering i had a servant (see pic below) to cut it into bite-sized pieces.... =p Okie, they only gave us one knife.. Candice kindly took the initiative to do the distributing and the slicing... thanks dear. =)  Sunday, May 06, 2007 %$%$%$%$ Krispy Kremes!! $%$%$%$%  Candice juz came back from hk and delivered Krispy Kremes!! for those who have taken AB112, flip thru the main text and you'll find Krispy Kremes as one of the introductory companies! hahaha.. to think we were studying for marketing at tcc and fantasizing about it and now it's a reality!! lolz.. i was so touched. She bought 12 back gave me 3!! Recce's juz as happy to see candice! hahaha.. now for the donuts.. =)  I love the sugar coated one.. so rich and aw-so-sweet!! it has strawberry (pink), chocolate (brown) and sugar (white) all in one donut! i shared it with my family, and i think most of us loved it best! The one with a crust on top is filled with creme cheese! and the other one with a simple sugar coating is filled with creme cheese and strawberry jam! yum yum! Thanks gal!!! Who needs to queue 1.5 hours when you can have a friend fly back from hk.. =p  Other than donuts, candice also bought this for me! after some discussion, we have decided that it's a jelly fish and not an octupus. lolz. jj has one too!! =) candice has the white one, i took the pink one (recce helped me choose... =p) and jj has the blue one! =)  Recce likes my new jellyfish! =) ~@~@~@~@~ New York New York! ~@~@~@~@~  That's the menu.. cool rite? =) If they had it in good quality newspaper that would be good.. but i guess practicality and lower cost is more impt in business. =p But still, i liked it enough to take a pic of it. We've passed this place so many times.. but never had the chance to try it. Situated at City Link, near HMV, opposite tcc.  Matt in his office wear!! Been so long since we last met. And he brought me presents!! =) mized my 21st cos he was in TW.. so nice to see him again! Now for the food.... NYNY!  Half chicken with mushroom cream pasta!! This was my dish and it was absolutely delicious!! Liked the portion- too much for us to finish.. but always better more than less. Generousity is always good. And taste-wise, it was wonderful. I love cream pasta and it's one of the best. The chicken was a handful thou.. but still, tender and juicy. Perfect for me.. abit guilty that there wasn't any veg thou, unless you count the mushrooms as veg.  Matt's dish- ribs He finished everything!! and i tried alittle. i prefer the ones at Cartel, he prefered this one. But it's still damn good!! love the slight hint of berries and the soft bones to crunch on. The soft flesh is easy to peel off the bones, great ribs =)  Hot chocolate! Matt had hot chocolate, i had white chocolate (pic refuse to be uploaded.. =S) both were smooth haven... love hot chocolate.. and they gave mushmellows!! love love love... =) Service is mostly foreign hired help.. if you don't mind that, they are quite pleasant, juz take paitence with their accents. Other than that, we had 2 guys staring at us at the table next to us.. that was freaking weird. Tables were too close for comfort ba... We were realli glad when those guys left. lolz... =p Tuesday, May 01, 2007 
|
||
