Keng Eng Kee Seafood

This is a typical Singapore Style eating place - zichar type of coffeeshop
 

Kee Eng Kee

If you want to eat inside the air-conditioner room, do make your reservation early. Here's the website http://www.kek.com.sg/#!/home.

The famous food is salted egg crab. However, we did not order that as our family favorite is Chilli Crab.

 

 

Chilli Crab

I personally find that they used too much starch in the chilli crab sauce, making it too thick and starchy to consume. Next time, I will try the salted egg version.
Here's the rest of the food we ordered.

Claypot Pork Liver

Stir-fry Vegetables

Butter Cereal Prawns

Steam buns usually to go with the crab but some prefer to eat them alone

Spring Onion fry Venison

Prawn paste Fried Chicken

The liver was the first dish to be served, it was piping hot in claypot and tasted yummy. Do order if you eat liver. It is rich in iron. :)
The butter cereal prawns was up to standard. Typical you can find at most zichar places.

Steam buns usually eaten dipping into the chilli crab sauce, thou some prefer to eat them without any dipping.

The prawn paste chicken did not look delicious when served. Surprisingly, the prawn paste chicken tasted very well despite it's look. It was crispy and delicious.

One plus point of this place is that they accept CREDIT CARD payment. Thumb up! Good food reasonable price. Overall we spent about $140.

Togi @ TripeOne Somerset

Do note that this outlet is located at TripleOne Somerset and not 313 Somerset.
My friend wanted to try out Togi and initially we planned for the one at Chinatown. After some reviewing, we decided on this outlet which seems more convenient for us. Initially we also almost mistaken it located at 313. Luckily one of my friends pointed out before we went.

The entrance - very nice deco

The spread of side dishes - btw they are refillable

The army stew - which is very simple ingredients for $40 - a bit expensive. The instant noodles can only feed 2 pax

Seafood pancake, nice and filling - a bit oily

Seasoning of the meat was great. We had beef and pork

A plan view of food

 Note: outdoor sheltered dining is available.

Monster Curry @ Nex Serangoon

Passed by a few times and finally decided to try it out today. Only at the entrance that I realized they do not serve normal portion. No wonder it is called Monster, not for nothing! All the servings are in the super large size portion meant for 2-3 pax!
Remember do come in a bigger group, then you can order a few different type to share it out.

You need to place your order and make payment first before they show you to your seat. They do not serve FOC water. So be prepared if you are ordering super spicy. I ordered level 1 spicy. Level zero is no chilli at all.
Not sure is it coincidental, but I started having sore throat right after the meal.

Red deco

Fiery dragon deco

My order - Monster Egg cost $24 before service charge & GST

Vava @ MacRitchie

This buffet breakfast is from 9am to 1pm on weekend.
$19.90++/adult

Salad

Indoor dining - air-condition with sunlight

Omelet cooked on the spot

Porridge

Brew Coffee

The buffet table

 

Penang Street @ Funan

Not much choice for food in Funan.
So we settled for Penang Street, the menu looked good.

Menu cover

Menu item

Looked yummy on menu

The decoration is quite interesting.

Wall Decoration

Quite nice

 But when the food arrived, they looked very pathetic. Really think they are overpriced.

Look more like food court fare

This Penang Fried Kway Teow looked really pathetic

** No FOC water

First outlet outside of Korea - Mad for Garlic

We decided to try this place out for birthday celebration. My friend saw this groupon voucher and wanted to test out if it works. So she bought the voucher to use.

It is located at the obscure end of eateries, in an indirect human traffic location. Basically it is not a must-pass by route.
You will need to pass by Starbucks & Ding Tai feng to get to the restaurant.

I must say the location is not so good, so it is difficult to get walk-in crowd.

I personally been to the Starbucks beside it & never recall seeing Mad for Garlic :)

Anyway, we decided to eat at this place and surprisingly first impression was quite good. The ambience looks classy. I kind of like it because of the display of wine on one side.

We had our seat in a comfortable booth and started checking out the menu.

The waitress came and gave us a lot of recommendation.

We ordered a nacho pizza, a lobster cream pasta and garlic fried rice.

A while later, a higher position looking waitress (maybe manager) came and told us nacho pizza ran out of beef. We were quite surprised given that it is only 1pm on Friday. How are they going to cope with business with such planning? We replaced with snowy pizza but couldn't help wonder if it is due to the voucher that we were 'not-allowed' to order the nacho pizza :)

However, we didn't let that spoil our happy mood.

Cobb Salad - a lot of olive oil

Lobster Garlic Pasta - recommend

Garlic Fried Rice

snowing pizza - yummy *disclaimer I like sweet stuff

2 scoops is not = double scoop @ Swensen's

I must say we had a interesting event at Swensen's over the weekend.
We frequent Swensen's almost on a weekly basis. We usually ordered 2 ice-cream to share among 3 persons. (The evil wanna eat but still afraid of putting on weight)
Our typical order is always plain scoops of ice cream for the one who does not like any topping at all and an other type like cookie summit, coit tower, mighty nutty etc.
This time, we asked for 2 scoops, one vanilla & one macadamia flavour. The other order is a might nutty. The waitress took it that we wanted 2 separate single scoop ice cream and proceed to send us in separate cups. Unknowingly, my boy ate up the 2 cups of ice-cream  and I did not give much thoughts to it except commenting that 'so funny, why she must separate the ice-cream.

After settling the bill, I then realised that we were charged 2 single scoops ice cream of $4.50 each (total $9) instead of the double scoops which cost $6.50.
What I wanted to put across is the poor service then took place. I feedback that I wanted 2 scoops and not 2 single scoops, however because I have made payment, the cashier refused to reverse the bill. She asked if they were served in 2 single cups and i replied yes. So she insisted that I ordered wrongly and hence it was my fault and there was nothing much she can do. She even had the cheek to said I must order using the word DOUBLE and not 2 scoops.
What kind of service is? I am utterly speechless.

It gave me a feeling that double scoop order will be lesser than a single scoop!!!
Is that why they won't reverse the mistake?

I wondered if I have ordered a double and separate them, what would they charge me?

It is a buyer's beware market !!! Caveat emptor!