The best tau sar piah that i tried in Singapore. If you are thinking of getting some new year goodies, or local delights to give your friends from overseas, do check out the pastries here. I personally liked the salty tau sar piah, the sweet one is not bad and has sesame on top. the tau sar piah is round and flat, the skin is soft, not too thick...the filling is soft and yummy... you can't stop at one...

Be prepared to queue for a while though, but you will be guaranteed the pastries are definitely fresh and only just minutes out of the oven... while waiting, check out the working crew in the kitchen and observe the making of the tau sar piah...keke...

And do not go too late too as they sold out pretty early...could be as early as 4pm...

Read abt this place on the "I" magazine, did some googling, and found out that Charco is like kenny roger in a neighbourhood kopitiam, the same style but at a cheaper price... and its location used to be where botak jones was!

So we went to check it out. Indeed, it does resembles Kenny Roger with its range of side dishes which can be served with 1/4,1/2 or whole chicken. Get to choose up to 3 side dishes, no muffins though. It happend to be Monday and there was this promotion where you can get 2 sets of 1/4 chickens+3 sides at $15.90 instead of the usual $17, so we ordered that.

I ordered the egg salad, greek salad (tomatoes, chilli peppers and cucumbers) and potato salad, whereas bf ordered chicken avocado (sliced chicken in avocado sauce), potato salad and cole slaw. Out of all the sides, I liked the egg salad and potato salad. Generous serving too, too much for me though. As for the chicken, eventhough the meat is tender and not dry, it doesn't feel tasty...it was like the sauce is just at the skin and did not penetrate to the meat. Still prefer kenny roger's chicken. But at the price we are paying for this, guess it is still pretty worth it. I guess the next time we will just order 1 set and then order another burger or that kebah-whatever...6 sides are too much for us :P

Lunch for that day was at this seafood market. The restaurant was at the 2nd floor, seem like a common place for tours as we saw rows of long tables with groups of tourists. The first floor sold the local delights, souvenirs, and *drool* fresh seafood!

Our lunch did not include the crab so we went downstairs to choose a crab. Not sure what kind are the crabs actually...alaska crab? Since it is huge and has long legs... nonetheless we started to walk ard the seafood area to check out the crabs.

Finally, we managed to find a small one which cost ard SGD200... we were told then half the legs would be made as sashimi and the remaining parts would be for the steam boat....

So while waiting for the crab to be served, we ate the other dishes which were not bad, mainly fishes... Crab came, and I tried the crab sashimi, but it felt weird...soft and raw...so bf happily ate all the 4 legs since none of us fancied crab sashimi (what a shame :S).... enjoyed the cooked crab more, fresh and tasty... we (4 pax) almost could not finish the crab...

Somehow after this meal, we felt the crab legs we had in later meals did not taste as good as this one...glad we did not give this a miss...

This stall is one of the popular stalls at East Coast Parkway. We were lucky to get the last bowl of beef kway teow soup that night.

I like the soup which is not bad, meat is tender... Portion a bit small... nonetheless is enough for me :)

Pardon the dark pics...using hp without the flash...photo of the store was taken after uncle closed for the day..ops!

If you ask me where to eat good satay bee hoon in Singapore, I will strongly recommend this! And that is coming from someone who doesn't like to eat satay bee hoon at all... who always thought that beehoon and satay gravy is a totally wrong combination...

So when we were at East Coast Parkway last friday, and bf was saying this satay bee hoon is a die-die-must-try dish...i decided to give satay bee hoon a 2nd chance... queued for at least 15 min...actually the queue wasn't verrrry long, it was because the 2 uncles took quite some time to pick the ingredients, arrange on the plate, pour the gravy... it was like they were doing it with a lot of concentration...what went through my mind was this better be worth my time and 3 bucks...

And indeed, the wait was worth it....the effort and concentration put in by the uncles to prepare this small plate was worth it... never know that satay gravy and bee hoon can taste so good togethe. the gravy was more wet than thick and you do not get sick of it at all... all thumbs up! Oh, we requested not to have the humps and pig livers...just the cuttlefish etc...

Photo not very clear since it was taken at night using my hp...tsk tsk...

Was in JB last weekend...instead of our usual bak kut teh, we had claypot rice instead at this kopitiam...

Judging by the crowd at the kopitiam, the claypot rice seemed to be a popular choice...almost every tables had a claypot!

We made our orders and sat to wait. Waited for ard 15 minutes, not very long compared to the one at Toa Payoh Lorong 5... The style was different from Singapore's as well. The black sauce and oil was already stirred into the rice, and the salted fish was served separately in a small plate which we can mix into our rice later on...cooolll... pretty generous serving of salted fish indeed...

Took one mouth and mann..... this is definitely better than Toa Payoh Lorong 5....the chicken was not too dry and tasted good, rice was neither too hard nor too soggy... and the fact that I could have enough salted fish to mix into my rice... nothing can beat that...

As for the xi yang cai soup, was good too... the lettuce was ok....

Bill comes up to RM20, with the clay pot for 2 costing RM12 bucks, the soup at RM3 and lettuce RM5... pretty worth it...

Ended the meal with a small cup of kopi from the drink stall... not bad too... bf commented it tasted similarly to our fav kopi at YY Cafe...

3rd Hokkaido Review!

We went to Otaru Music Box Museum that day, and while walking to there, we passed by this seafood shop where a lady was bbqing seafood such as scallops and..huge escargots? man..it really smelled good, and we decided to give it a try...ordered one scallop (huge!) and one escargot (huge!huge!)... and we waited at one side... seemed like the shop was having good business, many pple were crowding ard it...

The scallop was pretty good, juicy and all... as for the escargot (assuming it is :P), well i have never been a fan of escargot as it is just weird to be eating snail? but this one, changed my perception totally... it was chewy and tasted heavenly... no unpleasant taste at all. the lady had cut up the flesh into smaller pieces... enough for 4 of us to try it out... at 500 yen(SGD $7.50) for it, i will say it is pretty worth it :) oh..and the scallop is only 100 yen(SGD $1.50)...

Oh, after that we were chewing on steamed corn, bought from the same shop... not bad too...kekke...

For now Im tagging 1 photo, have more photos on this which I will tag on later...

Ding Dong Ding Dong...oishi!!

Our guide brought us here, saying that it was a bbq restaurant owned by the Sapporo Beer factory. Lunch was to be bbq pork and veges *drool*

Each of us was given a plastic apron, interesting! And while bbqing the slices of pork and veges, the smoke was effectively sucked away even before it could escape, coooolll.....

As for the food, the pork was omg...very fresh. The sauce used to dip the pork made the taste even more yummy... Ate a lot of veges as well including lettuces, potatoes, bean sprouts and onions....

Not sure how much was this course, so I took a pic of the menu...wahha...Ding Dong Ding Dong! Oishi!

First meal in Hokkaido was at the japanese restaurant at Chitose Airport, where we were staying for a night at the airport hotel. Due to language problem, I named it as the restaurant at the Chitose Airport. I suspect the titles of my remaining Hokkaido reviews will be descriptive instead of being the actual name *argh*...nonetheless, the real name can be seen in one of the photos uploaded.

Airport restaurants have always struck me as being places serving lousy and over-priced food, thus I did not have high expectation from this place. But I was proven wrong, dinner turned out to be pretty good! We ordered the sashimi set and the fish set, and each set comes with the rice, miso soup and some small dishes including fish eggs and raw shrimps. The sashimi was very fresh, and the fish did not have a fishy taste, something which i cannot stand.

Ding dong ding dong! More Hokkaido meals to come!

Was rushing abt today and bought my favourite takeaway from Chippy at PS...cheesy sausage with mashed potato! Definitely not food for health conscious pple...

The sausage oozes juices (or oil? lol) when you bite into it...very tasty...and sinful! And not forgetting the mashed potato which is pretty good as well

$4 bucks for a huge juicy sausage dipped in yummy mash potato, a match made in heaven...

a nice treat once a while... can't take too much of such greasy food...