Taste of Thailand (Previously located at Sembawang Shopping)

Hi, I am back, after my holiday after my computer crash. Suddenly craving for Taste of Thailand the cheapest 'Zhi Char' that I had eaten. Not just because of the price of the food, the taste was quite nice too. For the price you pay is definitely worth it. The dinner crowd on weekend is quite pack but not to worry they will take your order first and once you are seated the food will be serve within 10 minutes.

They are previously located at Sembawang Shopping Centre after the shopping centre was renovated they shifted to Yishun Industrial Park and another outlet is located at Blk 710A Yishun Ring Road. The variety of food here is not much and is mainly a mixed of Thai and Chinese food. Their specialist dish is their Pineapple Rice and the Fried Fish that goes with their sauce. And not forgetting their friendly and good services they provided.  Here the food I usually order...

Tom Yum Seafood Soup ($3) which don't really taste that spicy at all

Pineapple Fried Rice ($5) they have 3 different serving

The Fried Fish ($12 and $15) fresh and fragrant, don't forget to dip with their sauce

Garlic Chicken ($6) sweet and tender

French Bean ($6) crunchy and nice

You can find them at:

1001 Yishun Industrial Park A #01-1001
Blk 710A Yishun Ring Road

Tel: +65 6758 9121

Mon to Sun: 11am - 2:30pm, 5pm - 9:30pm

Dim Do Restaurant

Head to JB to do some groceries shopping and dinner. We decided on Dim Do restaurant, this restaurant can be easily spot as they have a big crab on their sign board. It is directly opposite 'The Store' at sentosa, try to reach slightly earlier if you are coming here for dinner as to get a parking lot if you are driving in. They open till 4.30am so for those craving for seafood for late night supper may consider driving in.

We order some of their grill food to try. Their chicken wing, cheese hotdog and squid. They have a few other variety for you to choose from. The rest will be 3 Cereal Crayfish, 2 Chilli Crab, Fried Milky Bun to go with the Chilli Crab sauce, Cheesy Prawn, Pork Rib King and Dou Miao. Their signature dish is their Salted Egg Crab but after trying this dish a few times at other places I kinda of give up on this dish so we decided to try their Chill Crab instead.

Dim Do Restaurant

Their menu

The grill chicken wing is quite nice, try to go with their sauce is really spicy and nice too

Pork Rib King - Is a pity that they did not marinate the meat to make it tender if not this dish would be nice

Cereal Crayfish - This can consider one of my favorite dishes among the rest. The cereal is well coated to the crayfish is crispy and taste really buttery and fragrant, thumbs up for this dish
















Chill Crab - Not too spicy just nice for my liking. Crab meat is very fresh and you can really expect a lot of meat not like those pathetic tiny crab
















Fried Milky Mantou - To go with the Chill Crab sauce














Cheesy Prawn - I can't taste any cheese but the prawn is also very fresh and succulent the shell can be easily peel off too














Dou Miao

Total bill $175RM for the above we order. I will let you all judge if this price is reasonable or expensive.

You can find them at:
23 & 25 Jalan Sutera Taman Sentosa
80150 Johor Bahru

Contact: 07-333 2209

Opening hour: 4pm - 4.30am

Ji De Chi (记得吃)

Meet up with a group of friends and head for dessert at 记得吃. My boy order their most popular Durian with Pomelo and sago. I had a nibble of it, it was very nice, the durian paste was smooth and fragrant especially that scoop of durian flesh in it. My friends also order the Mango Pomelo Sago and Mango Sago with Black Pearl. Mango Pomelo don't taste as sweet as the Mango with Black Pearl but both are quite nice too. For me I order the Ice Red Bean with rice ball. The rice ball was very chewy and soft and it was serve in coconut syrup. We also order the Durian Roll and this is like a must for my girlfriend who is a big fan of their Durian Roll. The roll was filled with generous durian flesh so durian lover do order this for a try.

Do expect a lot of crowd especially on weekend and a small reminder not to expect a good services here.

Durian Roll

Durian with Pomelo and sago

Mango Pomelo Sago

Mango Sago with Black Pearl

Ice Red Bean with rice ball

You can find them at
8 Liang Seah Street
#01-03 Liang Seah Court S189029

Operating Hours: Daily: 11am - 11pm
Tel: 6339 9928

Cheng Mun Chee Kee Pig's Organ Soup King

My favorite place for Pig Organ's Soup and their Vinegar Pig Trotters. They serve really tasty Pig Organ's Soup and the best part is their soup can be refill if you crave for more. Not forgetting their Vinegar Pig Trotters is one of my favorite too but not all people will like this dish as it has a very strong taste and smell of Vinegar. We also order the Salted Fish Meat Patties, it contain a little chestnut inside which make it quite special but than again I find this dish too salty for my liking. Oh... this place opens till 5am daily, so this is something worth checking out for late night supper.

You can find them at:

24 Foch Rd

Opening hours : 9am till 5am daily

Beach Road Prawn Noodle House

To make a delicious Prawn Noodle the soup must be good and with good succulent prawns. Went to this place to try out their Prawn Noodle as recommended by my colleague.

Their normal Prawn Noodle cost $4.50 if you want it with Pork Rib or other thing price range is from $5.50 onwards which is a little costly. I realize their rice vermicelli is not those fine type but serve in a thicker kind of rice vermicelli which is what I like. Their soup taste good but I find it a bit too oily for my liking. The prawn itself is fresh and the prawn shell can be easily peel off. We also order some fried Ngoh Hiang to go with which is selling beside the Prawn Noodle stall, worth giving a try.

You can find them at:
Address

370 East Coast Road
Tel: +65 6345 7196

Opening hours
Daily
8am – 4pm
(Closed on Tue)

Dumpling Festival, Duan Wu Jie

Today is the Dumpling Festival Duan Wu Jie in chinese. Duan Wu Jie is a widely celebrated festival amongst the Chinese, to pay respect to the patriotic poet, Qu Yuan (pronounced as Chue Yuan). The legend involves a really long and complicated throne-fighting war and political history. But to make a long story short: Qu Yuan was an important minister back in Chu Kingdom in ancient China. He had been known for his loyalty for the emperor of Chu, and loved his country greatly. However, His Majesty had not taken Qu Yuan's advice seriously, and he eventually got himself trapped and captured in a foreign land by his enemies, which then lead to his own death.

Sad and angry at the corrupted, dying Kingdom, Qu Yuan tied himself to a big rock and threw himself into the River of Puo Luo. The people then made rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves and threw them into the river. They believed this would stop the fish from eating Qu Yuan's body. Some would even row down stream in a boat, beating drums and shouting out loud in the hope to scare the fish away (it was believed that it is how the Dragon Boat event is related to the festival.

Since then, the 5th day of the 5th month in the Chinese calendar has been set as Duan Wu Festival to remember the incident. Although there were versions of legends and stories that indicate Duan Wu has existed way before Qu Yuan's death, the tradition still carries on.
The rice dumplings (ZongZi) are glutinous rice (wrapped in bamboo leaves, or other large leaves (lotus is one of the more commonly used leaves). You can find all sorts of different fillings in the rice: pork, roast pork, chestnut, egg, salted egg, mushroom, red bean, or just simply without filling. They could be just white rice dumpling (not pre-fried), or brown (pre-fried with soya sauce).

Last but not least this is also the day whereby my beloved granny will make us some delicious rice dumpling too but sad to say I am not able to have it anymore. This day will also make me remember her and her one and only granny rice dumpling that she use to make for us.

A1 Sin Hai San Seafood Batam - CLOSED, MOVED AND RENAME TO A2 FOODCOURT

Read up quite a lot of good review from this seafood place so we went to tried it when we were at Batam. Taxi driver know this place so there is no worry of getting lost. This place looks like our Newton Circle in Singapore as there is a few different stall selling seafood and BBQ stuff. What amazed me is they have live band singing here so you can also enjoy it while having your dinner. I will prefer to eat here than Delima seafood which is near Waterfront. It is so much cleaner than Delima and the food portion is definitely better and of course the price here is also more worth than Delima.

We choose Sin Hai San seafood and we ordered a Seafood Soup, Oyster Vegetable, Hotplate Deer Meat, Chilli LaLa and Butter Crayfish. We wanted to order Chilli Crab but I guess we had already ordered too much for 2 person so we give it a miss. Food wise is not bad, my favorite dishes is their Butter Crayfish and the juicy tender Deer Meat. Total bill is around $30SG for the above we ordered which is really worth it. After a heavy dinner we decided to walked back to our hotel instead of taking a cab. Do drop by to this place for a try if you happen to visit Batam.

You can find them at

Pujasera A1

Complex Bukit Mas, Batu Selicin, Nagoya, Batam (behind Lucky Plaza Mall)