Punggol Seafood @ Punggol Settlement

Chance upon this restaurant after we cycle at Punggol settlement and we had returned again for their super nice Roasted Chicken! This time round I called and made a reservation because they are usually packed on weekends.

Punggol seafood used to be located at Marina Country Club before they moved over. Each time I was there I saw the boss who is helping to arrange and making sure the dishes is neat and clean before it is been serve. It also seems to me that this restaurant are their own family business. As usual, I will ordered their Roasted Chicken, a Red Grouper fish soup in claypot, Vegetable with Bai Ling Gu, Sambal Lala & Fuyong Egg. Before I start to recommend their dishes, allow me to rant!

On my 2nd visit, I met this super rude auntie! I asked her to take our ordered so I checked with her if there is any smaller sized of the steamed fish? As I planned to get the small one for my toddler so I could ordered more of other dishes. Guess what? This rude auntie start to raise her voice when I only asked her the 2nd time!! She is not wearing the staff uniform which I guess she must be one of the family member who runs this place. And she replied saying that since I kept asking this and that than she go checked with the kitchen 'lor'! What attitude is that? So I ignored her and ask their staff to take my order instead. Things don't end here, that rude auntie came back to us but she told that staff to pass the message to me of what smallest fish they had today! AM I TRANSPARENT? Probably she had a very bad day, I am just unlucky to provoke her!

Roasted Chicken - $15 for half and is good enough for 3 adults and my elder daughter. This dishes evoked nostalgic memories of the olden days where they served this dish on Chinese Weddings. It is served with Prawn Crackers and the chicken was so tender, not dry at all! The best part is the skin, so thin and crispy! 

Fuyong Egg - Nothing to shout about

Sambal Lala ($12) - The gravy was not that spicy and it is quite similar to the chilli crabs sauce. But when I had my 1st bite, I go "OUCH"! The clams was so sandy and it stinks! So disappointed! 

Red Grouper soup in claypot ($36) - After been annoyed by that rude auntie, I decided to order this. So happy that I made the right choices! The milky soup is so rich, fragrant & tasty! I drank 3 bowls of it!

Lastly is the vegetable, I ordered this because of the mushroom. Sorry, too busy eating and forgot to snap a picture The spinach is cooked in gravy with thick slices of the mock abalone (Bai Ling Gu), is quite nice too!

Total damage, we paid around $80+ for all the dishes which include drinks and the white rice. I find their price is pretty affordable and I will definitely be back for their Roasted Chicken again! 

You can find them at: 

Address: 3 Punggol Point Road

#01-08/09

Tel: 64488 511

Punggol Seafood

Sunway lagoon & Malacca 2015

Sunway Lagoon & Malacca 2015

Sunway Lagoon Part 1

Sunway Lagoon Part 2

Malacca

Sunway Lagoon & Malacca - 7th - 9th August

Breakfast area was a long queue when we were there at 0830am! We had to paid for our elder girl as she was not covered in the package we booked. Breakfast was crowded but I guess is was due to the super long weekends in Singapore and that why alot of people came here for holiday. But at least the food was much nicer that the one we had in Sunway.

After we checked out, yep I did many many checks before we leave. We went to Baba Charlie to get the fresh homemade Oneh Oneh. If you wonder what is that? It is a traditional Nonya pastry, a glutinous rice ball that is boiled and rolled with fresh shredded coconuts with a oozing sweet sugary liquid that will burst in your mouth! But this time round their Oneh was a disappointment, it doesn't taste as good as before. I even queue an hour for this! 

The kueh kueh that I going to pack home!

Traditional ways and no machine!

We went to JB, Premium Outlet for a short shopping plus lunch before we finally head home! A very rush, short holiday! I am planning to come Malacca again to visit the Husky Dog cafe and try out more nice food!

Sunway Lagoon & Malacca - 7th - 9th August

The 2nd day we had our breakfast at the newly foodcourt which I mention eariler. Very crowded, quite a spread but the worse about it was the food was not hot at all! Can you imagine having porridge that is not hot but luke warm? Food ran out fast but they don't replenish on time? We head back to our room to pack up after having a bad breakfast! 

After we checked out, our nightmare started! This is the ever 1st time such things happen on me! I actually forgotten about my baby boy 'smelly' blanket! Is was a white swaddle and I could have left it on the bed! And we are already on the road to Malacca so I called up the hotel to try my luck! Some of the staff are just super unfriendly. They returned my call and said they couldn't find it. And later on I received another call saying our PASSPORT was left in the SAFE!!! Can you imagine you have drove an hour and now you got to make a u-turn back? My hub was so mad, it was my careless mistake  He has been driving since yesterday and did not get any proper rest yet, my poor hub, I'm deeply sorry. So we went back to the hotel, picked up our passport and had lunch there. Hub was looking forward to have lunch in Malacca but was ruin by me! We tried our luck again, hoping to get the baby blanket. Thankfully we met a nicer staff who helped us to get back my boy smelly! I double and triple checked and don't missed out anything again before we go off.

It started to jam and we reach Malacca at 5pm! I ruin this trip, feeling very horrible! We checked into Equatorial Hotel and this time round I booked directly from their website instead of going thru the 3rd party. I got a small gift (hotel slipper ) as a returned guest for the 3rd time but actually it was more. But I guess it was not capture if I don't booked directly with them. And there is a welcome note on their TV screen when I entered the room. Best of all, after I submit the survey after my stay mentioning about the thin pillow, they reply and said that they have take note and will give me a firmer pillow for my next stay. How nice! I feel their room are much more comfortable and at ease comparing to Sunway resort. Not because they given me some nice stuff la and I have to review it nicely.

Malacca is a 'hot spot' for most Singaporean since they are just 2 hour drive. Nice locally food, few shopping to go too and historical places to visit. 2d 1n will be good for here, usually the people will come over the weekends.

Our lunch at Sunway, Canton-I

Cute & expensive Piggy bun!

Our room at Equatorial!

The 'extra' bed, that the reason why I booked this hotel

The welcome note!

For dinner we went to Cottage Spice again since Restaurant Makko is fully booked. Cottage Spice is walked in they don't take in reservation, please try to go before 6pm! 

Chap Chye - Kids friendly!

Steamed lady finger - My favorite dishes 

Steamed fish - For the kids

I think this is babi pongteh? lol

This seems like Curry Chicken, I also forgotten lol

Total bill came up to $190RM with drinks and rice. Compare to the BBQ at Sunway I suddenly feel it is kinda of expensive. You can find them at: Jalan Merdeka Taman Melaka Raya 75000 Melaka, Tel: +606 283 5040. 

Next we went to Jonker street, seriously starting to loathe coming to this place. Super crowded and people can still happily pushing their stroller here? And we spotted a couple taking their wedding photoshoot in the middle of the crowded and their poor photographer is sweating like mad!  My friend wanted to get some local pastries and hub wanted to get the Aik Cheong coffee which sell cheaper than Singapore if not I will tried avoid squeezing with the mad crowd! FYI, Jonker night market only open on the weekends. Resource from lonely planet: Jonker Street Night Market. And on our way back it started pouring! So everyone at Jonker start running! Malacca was so jam that took us an hour journey back to our hotel which only require 10mins if there is no jam.

Home sweet home the next day!

Sunway Lagoon & Malacca - 7th - 9th August

It was a super super long weekend so I believe majority of the Singaporean will 'escape' for a short holiday! And I planned this trip with my friend as a family trip together. After the whole trip, I realise it was too rush to just stay at Sunway resort for just a night if you are going to their theme park. Bad planning! 

Sunway resort was about 4 hours drive from Singapore. And one hour away from Kuala Lumpur. Sunway is complete with Play, Food and Stay. We choose Pyramid for our stay since it is the cheapest! Shopping area was pretty huge, they also had ice skating if you have some time.

So we set off at 5.45am to Woodland custom. I heard from my hub who said that his colleague actually set off at 3.30am! The horrified jam started from Marsiling station! People getting down from the bus and decided to walked to the custom! OMG!!! We are stuck for 3.5hours to reach JB custom. My poor hub colleague, cleared his at 8.30am. We didn't even have time for breakfast, as I told you, bad planning done! So we head straight to Sunway and reach there at 1pm. Next time, I rather fly than driving again. And our stupid GPS was not updated and went a detour to reach our hotel.

There is a new foodcourt next to Sunway Pyramid. To me it was new as I have not been here for years. Check in was smooth, our package comes with extra bed, breakfast and theme park ticket. After a quick lunch, we changed and head off to the theme park.

Our room at Sunway Pyramid! The room, the building looks old. I don't even feel the 'comfort' of staying here. The bathroom door has to use some force to close it tight! Pillow was miserably thin!

The front desk gave me the wrong info when I asked for direction to the theme park. After which I realise from the hotel main lobby, turn right you will see this entrance. And take the flight of escalator down you will reach the theme park. For us, we have to exchange for our tickets using the confirmation since we booked it online. And do take note that they will checked your bags before you entered. 

The view of the water theme park! Please spend at least 3d 2n if you plan to visit their theme park. I realise the queue for some rides are mad crowded! The tornado (look like a big cone from this picture) was an hour plus queue!

After the water park, we went to their mini zoo. Thou small but I am impressed they have white lions here!

Hello Tiger!

We went back to the room to let the kids have some rest while I unpacked. And we went to this Korean BBQ restaurant which is right beside our hotel. Disappointed that they do not have any baby high chair here! It was not crowded, the food was quite good, they helped us to cooked and plenty of small side dishes. The total bill was $180RM! Dirt cheap! We had a free steamed egg which I mixed with the white rice and served to my little boy. Thankfully it wasn't that salty 

Yummy pancakes!

The nice lady who is BBQ'ing for us!

So we went shopping after a happy dinner and ended our day! Tomorrow we will be heading off to Malacca!