Earle Swensons @ Vivocity

It was my first time having a meal at Earle Swensons.  My usual hangout with my family is usually at Swensons Changi Airport Terminal 2 as we have a big extended family coming and leaving the country from time to time.

The salad bar's spread of dishes is quite varied - ranges from the usual carrot & lettuce to Waldorf salad (lots of apples), marinated tau-kwah, wanton skin, potato chips with cheese or bbq sauce, chendol jelly, etc.  Pretty interesting.

The salad buffet (free flow) costs SGD13.90 per adult.  But if you order a main course (min SGD17.90 onwards to SGD30.00), the salad buffet is free.

SGD17.90 for Fish & Chips

SGD18.90 for Cajun Chicken

My half-eaten salad dish.  I added a bit of almost everything.  Hahaha ..

This plate consists of Chendol Jelly, watermelon, waldorf salad (hidden below) and chips with wanton skin, topped with Cheese sauce.  Yummy. :)

The restaurant is located at #02-117 Vivocity, 1 Harbourfront Walk, Singapore.  Tel: +65 62723306.  You get a nice view of the Sentosa Boardwalk.  The restaurant faces Sentosa Island.  It is open for business from 10.30am to 10.30pm.

Puay Heng Capitol Noodles

My colleague and I decided to have dinner at Puay Heng Capitol Noodles after our gym workout on Friday evening.  It has been many months since I last visited the shop for a bowl of noodles.

The place is always crowded during lunch hour.  You can queue for 45 minutes  before you are served.  Yes, it's self-service.  Having dinner there in the evening is simply, a better choice - less crowded and you don't have to wait for your food.

A set dinner for SGD6.50, I get a bowl of dried minced pork noodles (bak chor mee), a plate of fried wanton, a watermelon and a glass of iced lemon tea (or glass jelly).  It's value for money.  A bowl of noodles without the extras will set you back $4.00 to $5.50 depending on your order.

The shop is located at 23/24 China Street, #01-01 Far East Square, Singapore. Tel: (+65) 6536-6707.  It is open daily 9.30am to 9.00pm.  It is closed on alternate Sundays.

Gurney Drive

We were treated to a late dinner by a gym-mate after our Spin class on Wednesday 18Jul12.  The restaurant is located on Level 3 of Century Square and it serves authentic Penang hawker food. 

The restaurant's last order is at 9.30pm, so we only had 20 minutes to order our food.  Decisions were made rather quickly and the Penang Char Kway Teow is simply high on our order list ! :)

Drinks - Yellow Jackfruit, Pink Bandung with Grass Jelly, Green Ampla (buah-long-long fruit).

Chicken Wuxiang.

Penang Laksa.  Nice nice nice !!

Penang Char Kway Teow -- definitely a thumbs up !! Superb !

Fried Chicken Wings

Lemony prawn ?  Very sweet.

Durian Ice Kachang!  Big big scoop of durian on top.

Overall, it's worth going again !! :)

Lunch at Old Hong Kong Cafe

Last Thursday, we treated my colleague to a farewell lunch at Old Hong Kong Cafe at Raffles City Shopping Centre.  Here are the dishes that we ordered:

Appetiser

Rose Tea - rather fragrant.

Xiao long Bao.

Har-kow (prawn dumpling)

Chee Cheong Fun with Char-Siew.

Spinach.

Fried Carrot cake - pretty good & yummy!! :)

Boiled Beancurd Skin with wolfberries.

Glutinous Rice wrapped in lotus leaf.  It's really soft and delicious. One of my favourites.

Finally .. it's dessert time.  Check out the smoky effect from the dry ice !

Dessert - mango sago with ice cream.

It was a delicious and enjoyable lunch session.

The restaurant is located on Level 2 of Raffles City Shopping Centre.

BBQ chicken

Tried it for the second time, and noted that the menu has changed. They have since rolled out more dishes.

Salzburg

Salzburg the sound of music ... Lots to explore! The flowers in Mirabelle Gardens are beautiful !

Good life ..

A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, need less, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realize how blessed you are.

Dinner at bQ Korea

Recently, we tried Korean food at bQ Korea, located at Far East Square.  It is always crowded at lunch hours but it is easy to get a seat in the evening hours.  It is not an authentic Korean restaurant as the side dishes is a mixture of Chinese, Malay and Western.

For appetisers, we were served 8 small side dishes before our main course arrived.

Ikan Bilis, Steamed Pumpkin with carrots, Kimchi, Steamed & Marinated Zucchini (cucumbers).

Fried toufu with bean paste, Sliced sausages (hotdog) with bean paste, baked potatoes in bean paste, hard boiled egg.

There are lots of main courses to choose from.   Tonkatsu or Pork Cutlet Rice Set (below) is one of the dishes.

The Bean Paste Soup comes with a bowl of rice.  For SGD10, you get a portion of a crab, 2 pieces of prawns, squid, mushrooms, toufu.

The Spicy Rice Cake dish is very very spicy.  Sauce is rather thick.

We had seafood pancake as they have run-out of Kimchi pancake.  It is not crispy enough though.

The shop is located at 70 Telok Ayer Street #01-01 Far East Square, Singapore.  It is located near the famous Tan Hock Seng shop, and facing China Square Central.

It's opening hours are as follows:
Mon–Fri: 11.30am–2.30pm, 5.30pm–9.30pm
Sat: 11.30am–9.30pm
(Closed on Sundays)

Celebrating our Move to a New Level

We moved into our new office on 17 February 2012 evening.  We had a small celebration party in our new office a few days ago, co-ordinated by the Admin department. A mini buffet was organised for the staff and guests from other departments.

The main dish of the party was this big roasted suckling pig.  When the tray (containing the pig) arrived at the office, the smell was so fragrant that staff sitting at extreme corners of the office could even smell it.  It even causes some of the stomachs to growl ! :)
 

Roast Suckling Pig - Head was chopped into 2 by our MD

Close-up of the Piggy

Cupcakes

Cupcakes

Cupcakes

There was a variety of food served at the mini-buffet --- samosas, makis, fruit salad, deep fried spring rolls, dry mee siam, fried carrot cake, steamed buns, soon-kuehs, etc.  Everyone voted the fried carrot cake as the best dish !!  I simply love it.  It's soft and tasty - fried and served with lots of garlic.

I love the fruit salad.  It's refreshing and delicious.

Samosas, makis, fruit salad & spring rolls.

The number tag on the Roast Pig.

 

Cookholic

On Friday, I went to lunch with 3 colleagues.  After contemplating for 10 minutes, we decided to have roast pork for lunch.  As before, both JY and I decided to share the set lunch which costs SGD16 for 2 people.

The others wanted to have ala carte dish instead, so one of them ordered Wonton Noodles and the other ordered Roast Duck with Roast Pork Rice.

Lunch was lovely and we had a great time catching up with each other.

Soup, roast duck, roast pork with char-siew, vegetables & fried wonton.

Honeymoon Dessert

After doing some window shopping in Bugis Junction, trying to digest our heavy dinner, we decide to have some dessert at Honeymoon Dessert Cafe, located on the ground floor of Bugis Junction.

After pouring through the menu, I decided to have Durian with vanilla ice cream for my dessert.  J decided to have Beancurd whilst H decided on Sweet Potato with Ginger Soup.

I enjoyed my dish, it's been two months since I last had durian. :)