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Monday, November 15, 2010

Our lunch and muffins

Our homemade lunch:

Potatoes with egg mayo with various side dishes. Pan-fried thyme chicken breast, sautéed mushroom, boiled broccoli and cherry tomatoes.

Baking session after lunch:

Blueberry muffins

Blueberry muffins, mini version

Thursday, November 04, 2010

This is our 2nd visit to this place and i must say we were disappointed... Located at quite a remote area in telok kurau's bright centre, it was quite a search the first time round. The staffs were friendlier the first time. I'm not sure, perhaps the not-up-to-expectations food spoils it all.

Carrot pumpkin ginger soup with almonds bits and peppermint leafs. The ginger taste was omg so strong.

Dory Fillet. I wouldn't say its horrible, but it really left a bad impression. The fish itself wasn't the problem. The freshness and texture was decent, just that the whole fish had this burnt smell and taste. The fish wasn't burnt though, it's just that it taste burnt, probably the grills they used are so burnt such that the food taste of them. Jeez.

The mash potato is worth mentioning as it's pretty tasty with a nice combination of butter. I would say it's one of the best I've tried.

Portobello vegetarian burger. Ok, first off, the potatoes patty was burnt at the side, pretty gross out. 2ndly, the portobello mushroom was undercooked; the flavors of the mushroom wasn't brought out as a result. We had to ask the cook to grill it more.

There is celery and carrots as sides, both raw.

Spent around $20 per person. Their main attractions are most likely their mixed grills, which from what I heard and read was not too bad. Our first visit we had lamb chop and it left quite a good impression. Perhaps, healthier choices here are not that much recommended then. Their slogan is "eat drink don't think", sorry lor i think too much and don't really agree with you on that.

The garden slug
Address: 55 Lorong L Telok Kurau #01-59/61 Bright Centre Singapore
Tel: +65 6346 0504

Sunday, October 17, 2010

New lens: The Nikon 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Paradise Dynasty @ ION Orchard

Paradise Dynasty's specialty is in the xiao long bao and the la mein with their signature pork bone soup. I was attracted by their 8-flavors xiao long bao sampler to try them out with my gal. The 8 different flavors can be seen from the photos above.

Clockwise from Black Truffle: The black truffle's taste was weird, bad combination i supposed.

Foei Gras: Actually we didn't really wana get the foei gras, but the waitress decline our request for a replace. But in any case, I failed to appreciate this delicacy; not really my kind of thing.

Ginseng: There is a bit of the ginseng taste but the pork taste was too strong and it covers the ginseng flavors. Other than that it's really not that special.

Garlic: The garlic augmented the original taste pretty well and I thought it was next best to the original. But of course if you are the kind who can't stand garlic taste, that's a different story.

Szechuan: Szechuan was a bit too spicy to my liking. It's the kind of numbing ma la szechuan kinda spicy, I only had a bit of it and I already felt the numbness. Hahaa..

Cheese: It wasn't significant, just some cheesy taste to the pork.

Crab roe: Taste was too fishy. Sorry to say this but we prefer the one from ding tai fung...

White in the middle is the original: We are of the opinion that the original one still works the best for us, although it was slightly too sweet to our liking. The skin is thinner than that of their competitors and that we appreciate.

Other than the sampler, we had 6 more original xiao long bao to satisfy my cravings. We also got the la mien and it was pretty tasty. I had it with the vegetable pork dumplings and she had it with pan-fried chicken.

The price is also reasonable. Sampler costs $13.80 and the la mien is typically around 10 bucks. Total damage was around $25 per person.

Paradise Dynasty
Address: 2 Orchard Turn #04-12A ION Orchard Singapore
Tel: +65 6509 9118