Farewell lunch

We had a farewell lunch for our Korean-born New Zealander colleague Su-Min on 15 Nov 2011.  She has joined our Team about 6 months ago and has recently been offered a job in an Australian legal firm.  She decides to move on .. back to the legal world.

She is quite adventurous - willing to try all the local Singapore food.  Her tolerence for chilli is quite high.  So for her farewell lunch, we decide to bring her to Lucky Cafe, one of our  regular lunchtime hangouts.   The coffeeshop sells zhi-char style fried noodles, economical rice dishes as well as ala-carte dishes. 

For 5 of us, we ordered the following dishes :

• Fried sambal beehoon
• Fried Hong Kong noodles
• Fried black seafood horfun
• Hot-plate Toufu
• Fried sambal kangkong
• Marmite chicken with basil leaves

The hotplate toufu is delicious.  It was fried wth bell peppers, garlic, carrots, corns etc and served with gravy.  My colleague said that there's too little eggs in it.

(top) Hot-plate toufu (bottom) fried kangkong

Marmite Chicken with basil leaves

The Marmite chicken was an interesting dish.  Everyone was fascinated with the dish.  I love it.  Marmite is a nutritious savoury spread that contains B vitamins, enjoyable in a sandwich, on toast, bread or even as a cooking ingredient.  As a kid, I used to eat it by spreading it on my bread or mixing a big spoonful into my bowl of porridge or rice.

For this dish, small pieces of chicken were coated with marmite and deep fried to a crispy texture and they were served with basil leaves on a big lettuce leave.  Yumz!

Whenever I visit Lucky Cafe, my usual order will be "sambal beehoon".  It's a hot favourite amongst my colleagues.  The sambal beehoon that we had that day was a bit too wet - not the usual standard.

We had expected the Hong Kong noodles to be more on the dark colour  (dark sauce) but the ones they served seemed to have a strong ketchup taste - resulting it to be too salty.  So most of us didn't really enjoy it.  It's our first time trying the HK noodles from this stall.

(Top) Fried Sambal beehoon (bottom) Fried HK mee

The fried black Horfun was delicious, it truly has the 'fried kway teow" taste.  One of my colleague enjoyed it so much that she finished them all.

(top) Fried black Hor-fun (bottom) hot-plate toufu

Lucky Cafe also does free delivery of food to nearby offices.   Prices are quite reasonable.  Usually a packet of noodles costs between SGD4.00 to SGD5.00.