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Cuppa Kopi Roti

2009-02-21T01:35:00.005+08:00

Traditional toast-and-egg again! yippee!

Look at the yummy, thick egg with sweet sauce! hooray to foodoishii..

Look at the thick serving of butter... yummy!

Hoe Kee Chicken Rice - Malaysian chickenriceballs!

2009-02-21T01:03:00.005+08:00

Woohoo! Last year, it was Melaka again for foodoishii and well, we popped by Hoe Kee Chicken Rice along a famous street in the Melaka tourist centre, our favourite place for chicken rice!

Well, I must say their chicken rice balls is quite tasty, they can be eaten on its own and it looks visually appealing. I remember the first time I went there, I actually thought they were fish balls and told the waiter that I wanted like 7 fishballs like the other guy on the other table! haha! How dumb can I be. But these 'fishballs' turned out to be rice balls and they were awesome..

Here's some photos of the place, quite memorable to me. I think everyone who visits Melaka should check out Hoe Kee, especially if you're a chicken rice fan!

Pretty gold signboards! I like the traditional chinese words.

All drinks come served in this paper cup. As you can see, they are learning to 'campaign' too... Sounds too distinctly familiar!

Saving the best for the last! 10 rice balls! It's kneaded neatly into a not-too-oily ball which oozes fragrance when you bite into it. Check it out!

Lerk Thai @ Changi Airport Terminal 3

2009-02-21T00:35:00.004+08:00

Foodoishii is back!

After a long hiatus, our appetites have returned (heck about the recession!) and recently, we popped by Changi Airport's awesome Terminal 3 for some food. Despite the high carpark charges, we still enjoyed the great food at Lerk Thai, after some hunting around (surprisingly little food shops around that were 'suitable' for an airport...)

So, you're looking at some photos of the super value meal (for two) at around $18..

Excuse me, what's Thai food without the staple, tom yam soup? Excellent soup you gotta check it out there yourself!

Thai fishcake..

Prawn Cake?

Fried Kang Kong with Belachan

Minced chicken! my favourite, actually :)

Green papaya salad.

Amoy Street Food Centre (Maxwell Road) - Hong's Oyster Pancake Shoppe

2008-06-29T22:24:00.006+08:00

Visited Amoy Street Food Centre some weeks back, and well, it was quite a nice foodie experience. The Food Centre was not exactly upgraded, with dirty tiles and everything, but I guess that's where all the best food in Singapore come from... The upgraded hawker centres don't offer much yummy food as the old-style anymore. A case in point - glutton's bay! It was recently renovated, and I don't really like the or-lua stall anymore - will fill you in in a later post.

Anyway, back to the oyster pancake! It's actually served in a recycle folded box, like those that we used to fold when we were 10 years old using blank A4 pieces of paper... There were huge stacks of folded boxes inside the stall, and it's probably doing a roaring business indeed. Looking at these pictures, I can't wait to go there again!

This box is environmentally friendly, using old brochures (probably from the IT fair kekeke) with just a small piece of brown paper below to absorb the oil... Seriously, I would rather carry this to my table than a plasticky disposable plate!

A close up look! Pretty appetizing, huh?

Here's the signboard - You definitely want to visit this place for one of the nicest oyster pancakes in Singapore!
Hong's Oyster Pancake Shoppe
7 Maxwell Road
#02-102 Amoy Street Food Centre

And of course, which meal would e complete without popiah! Rich red fillings on a bright orange plate!

Have I got you hungry now?

Omusoba Recipe

2008-06-26T23:50:00.006+08:00

Omusoba recipe: here's how foodoishii has tried to create one version too, hope you like it! :D
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Foodoishii has done it again! This time it's omusoba, found in many japanese restaurants as well as street hawker fare. Basically, it's yaki soba wrapped in egg omelette with tonkatsu sauce on top. There are also variations like omurice, which is a blend of omelette and rice.

Foodoishii's Omy-Soba Recipe (1 serving)
Well actually, here's the egg-wrapped omusoba recipe.

Ingredients:

Yakisoba Noodles (1 packet, comes with seasoning at most supermarkets; else, get yakisoba sauce)
2 eggs (Added with soy sauce, salt/pepper)
Sliced ginger
Chinese cabbage
Carrots
Sliced chicken/pork, seasoned (with soy sauce, sesame oil and pepper)
Tonkatsu Sauce
Seaweed Flakes
Bonito flakes
Mayonnaise

Add about 1 tablespoon of oil to the wok, and heat it with medium heat. Next, add in ginger and fry, followed by the carrots and cabbage. After frying vegetables, add in meat followed by yaki soba.

On a frying pan, add in the egg, turn to slow-medium heat. When the egg is still a little runny, add in the yakisoba close to one side and use a pair of chopsticks/spoon to fold the omelette (don't worry too much about it if it gets broken or anything). Now that you're almost done, get a plate, and flip the frying pan over it, and there you go, the holes are covered and you get a pretty decent-looking omusoba! If there's still some noodles leftover, you can add it at the side.

Now the fun part! You can decorate the omelette with tonkatsu sauce, sprinkling some bonito flakes or seaweed flakes over it and what-not. And well, (attempt) to make it in a heart-shape, like what I've (destructed) below. You can also add some mayonnaise.

Well it's supposed to look like a heart shape but it turned out like this.

Sincerely,
Foodoishii Team

Delicacies from Taiwan

2008-03-25T11:46:00.006+08:00

Visited Taiwan not long ago, and here are some photos of my food-tasting in Taiwan. I must say I'm extremely satisfied, and I probably can't fit into my clothes now!

The fish 'shua shua guo' set. Unbelievable great value, perfect for the chilly weather there and new travellers from the tropics.

An egg for everyone's steamboat meal

The "kimchi" flavoured steamboat right here in Taiwan - a melting pot of cultures and delicacies indeed! Spicy enough for the weather, but not sour enough for me.

Here's how they make the delicious "yu yuans":

Now this one's the famous dessert stall - at Chiufen

Okay, although this glutinous rice take-away seems like fish food but really is really unique, and the sauce has an especially sweet flavour!

Clanking up the seasoning over the smelly beancurd!

Taking an order from the smelly beancurd stall - not to my taste though.

Taiwan "Popcorn Chicken" - very affordable and tasty!

The neighbourhood dessert stall - open till midnight :)

Looks really yummy!

Peanut wrapped ice cream - really loved it, except for the coriander inside, eewl.

Umm, what's the name of this fruit again?

A taiwan drink staple - bubble tea. Slurped it all up even though it was cold. Wonder what's the magical recipe.

The shop front of a betel nut seed shop in Taiwan - somewhere along the highway I think. They sell nuts, beverages, and cigarettes too. I think the government has laws on 'minimum clothing' that these girls must have on, but these out-of-the-way shops do not follow them as strictly.

The famous betel nut seeds in Taiwan, sold by "bing lang" girls, affectionately called "bing lang mei" in mandarin, who dress attractively to sell these seeds.

How about fresh food from the market at Danshui - cheap food and clothes abound!

Fresh Salmon!

Mushrooms sold locally. Very yummy taste steamed from the pot. :)
(As you can see below...)

Really, the best shopping and food getaway would be Taiwan, in my opinion, as the economy's not booming as yet, and things there are rather inexpensive, and you get variety, variety, and more variety!

Teochew Foodstall at Bukit Merah Food Centre

2007-03-03T15:58:00.002+08:00

Nothing warms up your day like good old plain teochew porridge at the BM Food Centre. You can often spot a middle aged man whipping up the dishes and serving them, together with his son sometimes during the holidays.

Here are some of my favourite dishes.

Front of Teochew Food Stall, Bukit Merah Food Centre (5 minutes walk from Bukit Merah Interchange)

As promised, the plain, warm porridge goes great with the dishes (below)!

Kim Jiam, or mustard salted vegetables. Sweet!

One of my favourite dishes, sliced potato with minced meat!

Beancurd...

The meatball here is soft and tender, with a nice herbs and spices in it.

Fast food time - Carl's Jr.

2006-12-19T01:09:00.000+08:00

I've been craving for fast food recently, so I dragged kireihana along to Carl's Jr., one of my favourite fast food burger chains.

We were given tag number 75 - and waited around 5 minutes for our food. Didn't seem long, for we were chatting away :)

The tag no. 75 - LUCKY!

Fries - Not fantastic at all.

Burger - good enough for the non-beef eater.

Serviettes - two thumbs up! Convenient and thoughtful, all food outlets in Singapore should learn from this! (I don't want to reach for my bag when my hand is dripping full of tomato juice or chicken wing oil.)

Yes, definitely, please help us to serve you better (:

Foodoishii's homemade recipe - Instant Mashed Potatoes (with KFC-like gravy sauce) in 3 simple steps!

2006-12-04T23:07:00.002+08:00

Foodoishii's 5-step guide to making delicious instant homemade mashed potatoes, without the need to mash them!

How?

We shall show you below. Ingredients are stated at the bottom.

Get Mr. Mash potato flakes (or an equivalent like Betty Crocker's or Goldhill flavoured mashed potatoes) from your local supermarket / NTUC outlet. We need less than 1/3 of this packet to make half a bowl of mashed potato.

White pepper powder.

Bovril Chicken Savoury drink - available from most local supermarkets or NTUC.

Full list of ingredients:
Bovril Chicken Savoury Drink
White pepper powder
Mr. Mash potato flakes
Hot water

Step 1: Add 1 teaspoonful of Bovril chicken savoury drink to 2 tablespoons of hot water. Stir vigorously till all the bovril mixes fully with the hot water. Add pepper to taste.

Step 2: Slowly add powder into half a bowl of hot water.

Step 3: Add more hot water if required. (as seen in this picture, with too many flakes) and then stir. Ready to serve.

Stir till it looks saturated like the mashed potato you see at KFC =)

Ingredients you'll need:
Mr. Mash potato flakes (alternatively you could mash real potatoes yourself)
Bovril Chicken Savoury Drink
Hot water
White pepper powder

3 step procedure again:
1. A a teaspoonful of bovril to 2 tablespoons of hot water in a small metal container for the mashed potato gravy/sauce. Add pepper to taste.
2. Pour about less than 1/3 of Mr. Mash potato flakes into half a bowl of hot water.
3. Stir and it is ready to serve.

Lor Mee @ Tanjong Pagar Food Centre - Soon Heng Food Delights

2006-12-04T15:36:00.000+08:00

Lunch was at Tanjong Pagar Food Centre today. kireihana wanted lor mee from the famous Soon Heng delights. Lor mee hoon to be exact. Some photos of the famous stall recommended by City Beat a few years back.

Eating the yummy lor mee hoon from Soon Heng Food Delights. Looks just like the real picture. Surely did not disappoint!

Lor Mee / Lor Meehoon, $2/$3

Final photo shot. Definitely worth trying. The Tanjong Pagar Food Centre also has other pretty tasty stalls available, be sure to try them when you visit!

IKEA Cafe Singapore - pleasant dining for all

2006-12-04T01:00:00.000+08:00

Visited IKEA @ Alexandra today to avoid the crowds possibly at Vivocity, IKEA Tampines, Sitex 2006 and Velocity. Wasn't disappointed as usual, because there's the great IKEA Cafe, which always provides good service and excellent food.

An automatic counter which I believe generates the number of people that enters IKEA worldwide, per second. The numbers just rise... astronomically!

The store layout and attractive menus at the IKEA Cafe. There's always something special everyday, and it always tastes good! The menu is never stagnant and is always changing to suit the need of Singaporean's changing appetites.

Poached Salmon, $6.50

This is one of my favourites, the poached salmon, which costs $6.50. IKEA Friends members are entitlted to discounts though, I think. The boiled potatoes have been replaced with fries for today. Love the sauce there. It's delicious. The broccolis' crunchy on the outside, extremely soft on the inside, the salmon is tender and french, and the fries are soft (not crispy) to my liking. Add the sauce on top and you get a heavenly meal!

Another angle of this.

Nasi Goreng, $4.90

Then, this is Sunday's menu for the day, Nasi Goreng. It was not bad, though we expected chicken wings/drumsticks.

Fries with yellow sauce on top, $2.30
(add 30c for sauce)
Apparently, I was so much in love with the sauce that I decided to order another plate of fries with this sauce. The sauce was 30cents per scoop though, but it's worth it. Fries cost $2.00. The staff filled it up full onto this plate, and I ate it up before anyone could take a photo of it...

Our food on the nice IKEA Restaurant & Cafe tray.

6-piece Chicken Wings, $5.90

Yum, tasty 6-piece chicken wings!! kireihana's favourite, though gourmetooth doesn't like it so much.

There you see greedy kireihana finishing everything! Yum!

Experience:
Food:
Ambience:

Toastbox - creative toast concepts

2006-11-28T00:05:00.000+08:00

Decided to go to toastbox at the basement of vivocity. Was a really impressive new concept, if I'm not wrong by the fashionable breadtalk. They seem to be coming up with all the new ideas!

There's 2 choices at the main menu placed outside the shop: thick toast or traditional toast. Besides toast, there 's also other foodstuffs like mee siam and nasi lemak, though I didn't try them. Tried the thick toast instead and here's some pictures:

Peanut butter thick toast
The best of them all. The fragrant, strong smell of sticky peanut butte melts instantly in your mouth when you bite into the fresh thick toast. The peanut butter was just enough to go with the thick toast, surely the best of them all.

Pork floss thick toast
Breadtalk's speciality, tastes OK on thick toast though. Floss tends to fall apart when the toast is picked up.

Butter kaya thick toast
Prefer the traditional butter kaya toast as this bread was, obviously, a little too thick for me. There was too little of the butter and kaya for this thick toast.

Everything we ordered. Plus my messy egg.

Daddy told me this was how the Indian uncles delivered bread in the old days.

The grandma times.

Food republic signboard.

Experience:
Food:
Ambience:

(a pity it was too cold)

They should consider readjusting vivo's airconditioning temperature. A cold shopping mall doesn't promote shopping at all. Worsens global warming too. I had to go outdoors a couple of times just to escape from the cold. Luckily vivo had lots of refreshing outdoor places that were facing the harbour. It allowed us to escape from the freezing cold shopping mall.

Toast Box
1 Harbourfront Walk
#B2-34 VivoCity Singapore 098585
(65) 6278 4434

subway

2006-11-22T13:48:00.000+08:00

On leave today, feeling the scorching hot sun, can't wait to wash and put the clothings up for dry...upon finished some housework, we went to subway for breakfast as I promised my daughter. We reached there slightly before 11.00 am, there were only two tables occupied. We sat ourselves at one cosy corner, tuck ourselves in with cheese burger with egg and bacon with egg, carefully prepared by the service staff.

The burger was served in nice white subway paper bag, the cheese was melted and fused into the burger, while the fresh egg provided a nutritious start to the day. All these was sandwiched between the soft, appetizing tender golden bread, it was light, but tasty and fulfilling. We paid about S$4.70 for 2 burgers and 2 drinks as we used the promotion coupon and it was a good bargain, the drinks were ok but not many choices.
I would like to try the other burger instead of the breakfast set as I could see the Subway can customised for the customers' choices.

Location: Amara Shopping Mall

The picture above shows the promotion coupon we used for breakfast.

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2006-11-22T13:27:00.000+08:00

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