Pekin Restaurant 北京海鲜楼（圣淘沙）

Had a family dinner here over the Christmas holiday. This restaurant is quite well known in Johor area and this particular one we went to is next to a Ah Koong Noodle Restaurant. I guess driving here will be a little difficult if you don't know JB road well.

I didn't manage to take a look at their menu because all dishes are ordered by my brother. He came here often so I guess he knows what's nice here. He ordered Peking Duck, Herbal Chicken, Fried Rice, Fried Dong Fen (cellophane noodles), Hongkong Noodle, Cereal Prawn, Braised Pork Trotters and Red Bean Pancake.

Total bill come up to $315RM for 13 pax which is very worth it, food is nice and is definitely worth the return.

Both the Fried noodle is nice, is not oily and not too dry but kinda of too soft for my liking lox

Bottom left: Peking Duck - It don't look like Peking Duck to me because there is no wraps for us to go with it, anyway this whole duck is very tender and best of all is not dry and it is really cheap. I think the whole duck cost less than 50 RM and my sister husband almost wanted to pack one back to SG lolx

Bottom right: Herbal Chicken in foil - The sauce contains a little alcohol so I can't take much of this and is a little too salty but the chicken is very soft and tender and is a little too small to serve 13 pax lolx

Top left: Cereal Prawn - Cereal is fragrant and nice but prawn is dry and hard, what a pity

Bottom: Mixed vegetable - I think is french bean with brinjal, the vegetable is very fresh and the fried garlic make the whole dish very fragrant and nice

Top right: Braised Pork Trotters - Juicy, soft and the fats is so smooth and tender. If you don't mind the extra calories you got to try this dish

Bottom: Red Bean Pancake - I ate 4 pieces of this, is not so sweet is soft with slight crispness, so yummy lolx



You can find them at:

Address：NO. 38, JALAN BALDU LIMA, TAMAN SENTOSA, 80150 JOHOR BAHRU, JOHOR.

Telephone：607-333 2928, 607-332 0902

Opening Hours:

11.00am - 11.00pm

Bao Gong XO Fish Head Bee Hoon

My brother recommend us to this place to tried out their famous XO Fish Head Bee Hoon but too bad for me as I am allergy to alcohol so I just took a tiny sip. The milky soup is  overwhelmed by the strong XO taste but it doesn't taste bitter but sweet. I took the sliced fish meat bee hoon without the XO, loved the milky soup which has nice fragrant smell of sesame oil and a touch of hua tiao jiu (chinese cooking wine). Instead of thinly sliced fish meat in the bee hoon they served chunk of fried fish meat. The fish is very fresh with no stinky fishy smell at all. But somehow I feel quite thirsty after drinking the soup.

We also ordered some side dish to go along, ngoh hiang (prawn roll), prawn paste chicken and cereal brinjal. Ngoh Hiang skin is slight crispy and goes well with the sweet sauce, Prawn paste chicken has always been my favourite but for this I find the prawn paste is not strong and fragrant enough. Cereal Brinjal? This is my first time tasting it and I am a person who don't fancy brinjal, I find it yucky

But this dish really suprise me, it taste like cereal prawn just that it was replace by brinjal and best of all the taste of brinjal is very light and crispy

Total bill comes up to $52, worth to come back again.

You can find them at:

Address: Bk 713 Clementi West St 2, #01-115

Tel: +65 6778 9301

Opening Hours

11.30am – 2.00pm 5.00pm – 11.00pm

Shun Fa Bak Kut Teh @ Permas Jaya JB

Had my favourite herbal bak kut teh over the weekend at Permas Jaya JB. I miss their bak kut teh and when I wanted to blog on this, I realise they have another outlet at Taman Sentosa as well. Heard from one of my collegue their ba kut teh are quite famous in JB.

Their menu is written very big on a board mount on the wall. When the guy came and take our order we asked for his suggestion and he also asked if we wanted additional ingredients like pig intestine, golden mushroom etc... We also ordered their sesame chicken which is served in a claypot to tried out. One thing to take note, remember to ordered their ginseng drink which is their specialist here. I get to know after seeing alot of people ordering it and it taste very freshing and sweet.

The bak ku teh soup is served in a claypot has well, the taste of the herbal is neither too strong or too light just nice, perfect! Just a little dissapointment that the meat is not tender enough if not it will be great. The guy miss out our yu tiao . As for the sesame chicken, it is sweet, tender and has a strong hua tiao chiew (chinese cooking wine) taste. Love the sauce from the chicken, thick and sweet goes well with the white rice.

Total bill come up to $46.50RM which I felt is reasonable enough for the mixed soup, sesame chicken, 3 rice and 3 drinks. I will tried their another oulet when I come into JB again

Sorry, I am not able to provide their full adress but their located is next to Okid hotel at Permas Jaya

No. 41, Jalan Permas 10/7,
Bandar Bahru Permas Jaya,
81750 Johor Bahru

 They will be closed on 2 Monday in a month and they operate from 9am - 9pm.

Taman Sentosa - Jalan Sutera Satu

Closed on Wednesday

Fisherman's Market Buffet @ Clarke Quay (CLOSED, Chiso Zanmai took over)

Hi guys I am back again

Went to Fisherman's Market Buffet @ Clarke Quay for my sister birthday. First thing I need to highlight is their location, you can get lost because their located right at a corner and if you don't notice their signage you won't be able to find the restaurant. They are located on the 2nd floor and not on the first floor and not even outdoor so don't get lost lolz

The food there, I would said is average, some are good and some are not. The sashimi and prawn is not very fresh but the oyster here was good, very fresh and juicy. They served teppanyaki which you can ordered and they will served it to you but the portion can be quite pathetic. The best thing here is they served free flow of drinks.

I like the ambiance of the restaurant, is a nice place for gathering and quite affordable as well. Oyster and crab lover may consider coming here to tried out 

Like:
Oyster
Appetizer
Teppanyaki (fried squid)
Dessert (chocolate founde)

You can find them at:

Address: 6 Eu Tong Sen Street, #01-15 & 02-17

The Central @ Clarke Quay

Tel: +65 6221 3177

Opening Hours

Daily: 11am–11pm (1st Floor, Ala–carte) Daily: 5pm–11pm (2nd Floor, Buffet)

178 Tiong Bahru Lor Mee

Was here for lunch and heard that the Lor Mee was good so I give a tried. I ordered the $3 Lor Mee for the extra Shark Nuggets. I heard chicken and fish nugget but is my first time hearing Shark Nuggets? Lolz... Luckily I am a little early for my lunch and there isn't much crowd yet but the auntie preparing is kinda of slow lolz...

The gravy is thick and tasty and you can add the sauce as much as you like so I added lots of garlic, chilli and vinegar in it :P  As the portion I find it just nice for me, the shark nugget was slightly crispy and soft but I can't differentiate the taste of the shark meat vs the normal fish meat... opps :P There is some crunchy bits in the sauce I don't know what is that called but it was nice when goes with the noodle and the sauce. I will be back for their Lor Mee again :)

178 Tiong Bahru Lor Mee

You can find them at:

Address: 30 Seng Poh Road, #02-58 Tiong Bahru Market & Food Centre

Opening Hours

6am – 9.30pm (Closed on Wed)

Chen Ji Steamed Fish Head

Getting too lazy to update my blog already.....

Had this steamed fish head with hot sauce at Chen Ji when I was in Chinatown that day. Had wanted to eat the claypot rice but after hearing that we need to wait for more than an hour for the rice we change our mind and tried the steamed fish head.

This steamed fish head seem quite popular they even had the advertisement saying that it was recommended by mediacorp but I cant seem to find any review on the net. Anyway the fish head portion was huge, it was very fresh, no fishy smell. It was so smooth and tender as for the sauce it taste a little spicy, a little sweet and a little saltish because of the salted bean. I think the portion is right for 3-4 person it was too much for the 2 of us and we also ordered their Prawn Paste Chicken Wings, my favourite. The prawn paste taste was strong and fragrant, the chicken wing cooked just right! It was so juicy and tender, I love to have chicken wings because my deary will always debone it for me :P

Overall the bill for the fish head and chicken wings with 2 rice cost about $28, as given that portion I would say it was worth it.

Steamed Fish Head with Hot Sauce

You can find them at:

Address: Blk 335 Smith St, #02-190 Chinatown Complex Food 

Opening Hours

11.30am – 2.30pm, 5.00m – 10.30pm 

Ivin's (Jalan Leban)

Nowadays is not that cheap to do home cooking anymore thou I agree is it much healthier. And on the another side it can be quite a headache also to think what to have for your lunch, dinner or supper. That what happen to me on that day, luckily we are somewhere close to Thomson and since it has been a long time I last visit to Ivin's so I decided to drop by again for dinner.

It was 6pm the restaurant is not packed yet, there is no one at the entrance to assign you a seat even thou there is a signage stating 'please wait to be seated'. I guess I need not said much about their service already because I believe over a thousand or even a million people has already commented how bad their service has been. Worse, when our food has been served they forgot to give us utensils lolz... Despite the lousy service the place are still crowded during dinner time.

Just 2 adults and 1 kid we order Bakwan Kepeting Soup, Ayam Buah Keluak, Ikan Assam, Nonya Chap Chye and a piece of Otah. I think we over ordered already lolz thank god my little girl could take spiciness and enjoy the food with us.



Bakwan Kepeting Soup - We love this soup, is light, it taste rather fragrant and sweet and the meatball is huge!!!

Ayam Buah Keluak - You see the black shell thing? Usually people who love this will dig out the stuffing inside and go with the white rice which make the rice taste more fragrant and very nice and that what I love to do also

Ikan Assam - I don't really like the fish they used to cook for this dish, too stinky I can't really stand the fishy smell. But the sauce was good, I keep taking the sauce to go with my rice.

Nonya Chap Chy - Nothing much to comment on this, pretty common I would only said.

Otah - I ordered for my daughter who love it with her rice.

Overall the total bill come up to $37.50 even thou they have increase their price a little but still pretty affordable . My stomach almost burst after this meal Peramakan at Keppel is still the best and

good peranakan food I ever had.

You can find them at:

Address: 2/4 Jalan Leban

Tel: +65 6451 4622

Opening Hours

11am – 3pm, 5pm – 9pm Closed Thursdays

Ivin's

Orchard Cafe @ Orchard Hotel

Is durian season and since we are going somewhere for buffet to celebrate my girlfriend birthday we decided on Orchard hotel since they having this dinner and durian buffet together.

Upon reaching the place we were surprised that they actually closed up the smoking area for durian session. I guess is due to the heavy durian smell that why they do it outdoor and restrict us from eating it indoor as well. As for the outdoor area they actually set up an area where they will be a chef opening up the whole durian for you and beside this they also have fried durian and durian waffle. We requested for glove to eat the durian lolz The durian is really good!!! Lots of flesh and baby seed, bitter meat which is my favorite best of all is free 'flow' you can have as many as you want so long your stomach can fill it lolz... Not forgetting the durian puff and waffle, the waffle is hot, crispy and had the strong aromatic smell of the durian, so nice :P

As for the indoor dinner area, for me the variety is okay. They have sashimi area, appetizer, seafood, chinese, indian, dessert and area where there is chef making the laksa and mee rebus for you.

What I like
- Durian corner, durian creme, puff and almost everything: P
- Some variety of cheese and biscuits
- Fresh sashimi
- Fresh oyster
- Fresh prawn
- Laksa
- Pork belly bun

What I dislike
- Curry was cold on top so you have to stir it before you take
- Salted vegetable soup, too sour and salty

You can find them at:

Address: 442 Orchard Road, 1F Orchard Hotel

Tel: +65 6739 6554

Opening Hours

Daily: 12pm–2.30pm, 6pm–10.30pm

Ye Lai Xiang Hot & Cold Cheng Teng @ Bedok Food Centre

One of my girlfriend wanted to try the Cheng Teng after watch a show on channel  introducing this stall. It is located in a hawker centre at Bedok camp area close to Singapore Expo. You may think that is just another common dessert stall in a hawker centre but not for this one. They only sell cheng teng for their dessert thou they have a food stall which sell satay beehoon beside them. Their cheng teng is not cheap as well, each bowl start from $2 - $3 and you will expect a long queue during lunch time.

I ordered a bowl of cold cheng to try. Normally you will get alot of shaved ice but here they served with ice cubes. And one thing which make their cheng teng so special is because of the ingrediants inside. They have the additional of dired winter melon slice and dried persimmon which make the soup taste nicer and more fragrant, very special unlike those normal cheng teng we usually had. And my girlfriend said that most cheng teng was factory made as for this stall we believe the owner cooked it all by himself.

Is really nice to have a nice cooling cheng teng during a hot day, I will recommend it to everyone to give it a tried :)

You can find them at:

Ye Lai Xiang Cheng Tng 夜来香清汤
1 Bedok Road
Stall 31, Bedok Food Centre

Opening hour: 11.30am - 8.00pm

Closed on every Monday

The Prata Place @ Springlef Garden

Getting too lazy to update my blog lol....

Let me introduce you one of my most favourite place for supper, The Prata Place located at Upper Thomson road next to Hans close to Nee Soon Camp. One thing about this place is that they closed at 12midnight unlike other prata place which operate 24hours. If you always frequent here you will definitely know Mr Sarsi the most friendly staff over here. Weekend can be quite crowded and parking can be quite difficult as well but for the sake of the crispy prata I don't mind at all.

As a regular over here we always ordered the same thing, tea tarik, cheese prata and plain prata. At times we will also try others but will still stick to what we like most :)

Cheese prata - Is huge, crispy and yummy

Plain prata - I simply like this because is really crispy, fluffy and nice and most important is it not too small unlike the plain prata sold elsewhere :P

I  love their fish curry, is not very spicy and not very oily best with their prata :D

You can  find them at:

No.1, Thong Soon Avenue

Tel: 64595670

Opens daily from 7am - 12 Midnight

The Prata Place

Muthu's Curry @ Race Course Road

Purchase a voucher from deal.com.sg at $18 for their big portion fish head curry so I made a reservation with them and head down for dinner with my dear and my brother and my sister.

It was my first time here and regret to come on sunday, the restaurant was located near to little indian station. Restaurant was quite big, pretty crowded during the dinner time and they also serve buffet here. The food here was good but don't expect good services. My brother request for more 'ice' because they only give you 4 cubes in the glassbut the waiter heard my brother requesting for more 'rice' I almost fainted lols.

So we ordered their Fish Head Curry, Gosht Sheekh Kebab, Garlic Naan and Biryani Rice. Total bills come up to $49 excluding the Fish Head Curry for 4 person. The price here I would said is expected to be a little steep as Muthu's Curry are expected to be more commercialise.

The Menu

My favourite Pappadam



Curry Fish Head - Usually is serve 1/2 of the fish head but here it was the whole head. Lots of fresh and smooth fish meat, spicy and nice. Simply love the curry sauce especially having with the biryani :)

Biryani - Is stated in the menu free flow of biryani per person, my brother love rice he must be very happy when he see this lols

Garlic Nann - I was looking forward to this but it turns out to be a little disappointing, the naan taste a bit bland and can't taste any garlic too

Gosht Sheekh Kebab - Recommended by my sis, at first I thought the word was Ghost because it sound so close to it lols. It was too saltish for me and too spicy though there is a sauce for you to go with, it taste like indian hotdog to me lols...

You can find them at:

Address: 138 Race Course Road, #01-01

Tel: +65 6392 1722

Muthu's Curry



Bali Thai @ NEX Shopping Mall

Met up my girlfriend at NEX for dinner, had no idea what to eat and happen to pop by Bali Thai which is tucked at a corner at level 2 so we decided to try it out.

Not much crowd during dinner time, the restaurant are quite cozy but the food can be served quite slow. We ordered their Tom Yum Soup, Shrimp Paste Fried Rice and Phad Thai.

Tom Yum Soup - Kinda of special when I saw this Tom Yum Soup serve in a claypot. I requested not so spicy because I can't really take spiciness but still a little too spicy for me lols. But overall it is still nice.

Shrimp Paste Fried Rice - I love this and seems like I will always ordered this whenever I ate at a Thai restaurant. The fried rice is too moist but it is very fragrant, remember to go with belacan chilli it will taste even nicer. The sliced chicken was sweet and tender but the fried shrimp was over fried and too hard to chew lols.

Phad Thai - My girlfriend ordered this but I never tried. Smell very frangrant and nice too and the portion are quite big too.

Iced Milk tea - Thai iced milk tea are very different from our local style they taste more milky and stronger taste of the tea.

You can find them at:

Address: 23 Serangoon Central, #02-13 NEX Mall

Bali Thai Location

Tel: +65 6634 4633

Opening Hours:
Daily 11.30am - 10.00pm

Oasis Taiwan Porridge @ Toa Payoh

Been here for supper once, is next to Toa Payoh Swimming Complex as for parking wise you may park in front of the complex and walk over. Heard they have another outlet at Kallang but it was closed down already.

They have indoor and outdoor seating but the outdoor are only open in the evening. The pricing of the dishes I will said is quite steep. The teochew porridge is serve in a small pot in regardless how many person you have, you can always ask for another pot if you want to. My friend who had been here a few times told me it depends on your luck on the porridge that you get. If you are lucky you will get a pot of porridge with nice and sweet porridge with soft sweet potatoe inside which they had boil for quite a while if not it will be like me, my luck isn't good I never get to tried the sweet porridge just the plain porridge with semi soft sweet potatoe lols.

And we ordered Sliced Fish with Spring Onion, Braised Pig Intestine with Salted Vegetable and Cold Beancurd with Century Egg to go with the porridge. Total bill comes up to $35 for 2 person with a few dishes which I feel that is kinda of expensive. I think by coming in a bigger group will be more worth it, it will be a nice place to return for supper.

The Menu

 Teochew Muay (Taiwan Porridge)

Sliced Fish with Spring Onion - To me when I heard Sliced Fish it should not have any bones but this does and not just one and also the fish are not fresh, it has a very smelly fishy smell in it.

Cold Beancurd with Century Egg - I like this, the beancurd is smooth silky and chill. The sweet and saltish sauce goes well with the egg and beancurd

Braised Pig Intestine with Salted Vegetable - The pig intestine is properly clean with no stinky smell, is soft and not rubbery, nice.

You can find them at:

Address: 303 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh

Tel: +65 6346 4418

Opening Hours

Daily: 7am – 3pm; 6pm – 4am

Linda Seafood @ Patong Phuket

My brother recommended this place for dinner during our trip in Phuket Patong. It is not too far from our hotel called The Nap and it was beside Club Andaman Beach Resort, along the roadside opposite a 7-11 store. The lady boss was very friendly and keep chit chatting with us in dialect (Hokkien).

We ordered their fresh Oyster. Oyster omelette, Asparagus, BBQ butter prawn, deep Fried Squid, steam Stingray with white rice. I also ordered their Mango fruit juice, it was pure, fresh, thick and sweet do consider giving this a try. The advantage of going in a big group is that you can order more good food :P

Fresh Oyster - Fresh and no stinky smell. Unlike the usual way of  having the oyster with tabasco sauce and lemon the lady boss has her way and it taste totally differently and it was very delicious. She personally prepare the oyster for us, she put some homemade thai sweet and spicy sauce with fresh garlic, fried shallots and a piece of the green leaf which I had no idea what is it called and put everything into your mouth, Wow it was great but it may not suit everyone taste bud but still worth a try :)

BBQ Butter Prawn - Prawn was huge, fresh and succulent The buttery sauce in the prawn was nice but somehow the prawn meat taste a little bland to me.

Steamed Stingray - Our local style of stingray is BBQ with sambal sauce and here they steamed the stingray with lots of garlic, coriander, chilli padi and maybe lime. It taste totally different to what I always ate, the sauce was very good it taste like clear tom yum soup. Thumbs up for this dish.

Fried Clams (LaLa) - Quite common so nothing much to said about this dish. Just one thing, at least is was properly clean and no sandy taste.

Fried Squid - This is nice too my girlfriend was saying that this dish taste like cereal squid. It is crispy, easy to chew and not rubbery.

Asparagus - My brother and my dear said that the sauce in this asparagus was very good and goes well with white rice and my brother even finish up the sauce lolz...Aasparagus was crunchy and fresh, yummy :)

Oyster Omeltte - I wonder how they make the omelette so fragrant and fluffy, overall the omelette taste quite nice too.

Total  bills comes up to $2700 baht for 6 person including beer and drinks, very worth it and very reasonable and I will definitely recommend this restaurant to all my friends and family who intend to visit Patong for their holiday. Do note that there are many stalls next to one another along this street and you will be confused as which to pick, as for Linda Seafood is much further down directly opposite a 7-11 store. Last but not least sorry for the bad photo taken :)

You can find them at: Rat-U-Thid Road, Patong, Phuket

Tel: 085-0375570

Ampang Yong Tau Foo @ Upper Thomson Road

This stall at Upper Thomson Road is always crowded I wonder why. It is next to a Shell station and parking can be quite a hassle. We ordered their set for 2 and a bowl of dumpling soup. The sauce is flavorful, the fried tau kee is a little too salty for my liking and I feel that it doesn't taste as nice as before already. Not much varieties on the yong tau fau as for the soup it just taste very average. 

Total for 2 person is $9. Will keep a lookout for other nicer ampang yong tau fu, kinda of disappointed with the food here....

You can find them at:

Address: 928 Upper Thomson Road

Tel: +65 6452 1801

Opening Hours

9.30am – 7.30pm

Boon Tong Kee ( Whampoa)

Was here for lunch with my colleagues, I think it was about 5 years already since I last visit BTK. It was a long queue as usually during lunch time. This restaurant was located beside Boon Keng MRT station along those shop houses. Finally it was our turn and we decided to ordered 1/2 white steamed chicken, spinach with century and salted egg and their fried beancurd.

At first I still wonder if their fried beacurd are still the same as usual and it never disappoint me. I love the lightly salted and crispy beancurd skin and the beancurd is smooth, tender and piping hot. My colleague suggested the spinach with century and salted egg, the sauce of this vegetable was thick and sweet, it taste like mui fan sauce to me. The texture of the chicken rice was good it was not too dry or oily and it was very fragrant. Lastly it was the steamed chicken, the thick chunky meat was smooth and tender best to dip with the chilli and ginger sauce.

Overall the bill comes up to $45 for 5 person with a pot of tea and complimentary chocolate. The reason for coming back again I guess is for their fried beancurd.

Steam white chicken

Spinach with century and salted egg

Fried Beancurd

Complimentary Chocolate

You can find them at:

Address: Blk 34 Whampoa West, #01-93

Tel: +65 6299 9880

Opening Hours

Daily: 11am–3pm, 5pm–10pm

Boon Tong Kee

Empire State (Iluma @ Bugis)

Square pizza? Yes they serve square pizza here, don't blame me for been a 'sua gu' (geek) is really my first time eating square pizza lolz. I choose Hawaiian flavour for our square pizza, it was slice into 9 pieces just nice for 2 adult and a child. And we saw a few ordering their Roasted Chicken so we ordered a whole chicken to shared. This place somehow remind me of New York New York even their menu are quite similar.

The roasted chicken is huge I should have ordered 1/2 to shared instead. The chicken can be quite bland without going with the sauce and it was served with a generous amount of fries. We like the pizza at least the crust is not so thick that will make us feel so bloated and each slices are just nice and not served in big pieces.

Total bill comes up to $34 after the gst and the service tax. I will come back again to tried their mini burger it is also a nice place for a mini gathering with your friends :)

Square Hawalian Pizza $12.90

Roasted Whole Chicken $11.90

You can find them at:

Address: 201 Victoria Street, #04-03 Iluma At Bugis

Tel: +65 6238 7076

Opening Hours

Daily: 11am – 11pm