Mako's Humble Abode

8 February 2013

We were invited to Mako’s humble abode yesterday for steamboat and wine.  It was a pity that Louise couldn’t join us. 

We have a new colleague onboard called Jia Cherng.  He had the honour of being the only thorn among the roses. 

Preparing the steamboat

Jia Cherng & Mako

I love the displays

London bus & London phone (literally brought back from UK by Adeline)

Ornaments from Turkey

Interesting light that lights up with a touch on the metal plate.

Cookie & Karen

Toasting to the new home

Missing Louise Long

All food items were purchased from Isetan supermarket.  Beef, pork, fish ball, sotong ball, handmade crab balls plus snow crab legs which cost a whopping $48 and tasted absolutely heavenly.

Highclass crab balls and beef

Pork

Man & Wine

Soup base $6.80

Fruits from highclass supermarket $40

Doesn't wine in a decanter looks prettier?

Free flow of wine

Cleaning ladies doing their job well

We ended the Thursday night with strawberries, grapes and cherries and 8 empty wine bottles at 2am.  C’est si bon!

Girl Gang Chinese New Year Dinner 2013

08 February 2013

Every Chinese New Year, our girl gang will gather around to “LO HEI”.  And so the practice continues. We gathered last Saturday at Maggie Lim’s house for steamboat and LO HEI.

LO HEI prepared by my Papa with assorted condiments + vegetarian abalone

In the coming year, may each of us be blessed with happiness, abundance and good health.

Hope that the group will only gets bigger and bigger with the additions of spouses and the next generation.

The 3 of us were the last one standing for the yusheng so for the coming year the 3 of us will HUAT AR!!

KungFu Tom Yum

KungFu Tom Yum

 

Bored of your usual steamboat or thai food? You had to tried this thai style steamboat.

Located at circular road, KungFu Tom Yum is a thai bbq steamboat restaurant. The shop is decorated to look retro like the shops we seen in Bangkok.

 

The appetiser, deep fried prawn and scallop. I like the scallop. ($12)

 

 

We order a 2 person set, that comes with marinated pork, pork belly, prawn, scallop and fish cake. includes a vege platter as well. ($38 for the set)

Look at the funny looking steamboat. It is using charcoal...how traditional it is. At first, we do not know how to place our meat, the meat will dropped into the soup. After a while, we master how to balance the meat....rule no.1 , not to be greedy and place alot of meat on the ufo haha.

 

 

The juice and oil of the meat will flow into the soup below when you are bbq-ing which suppose to make the soup more flavour.  Not for the health concious! I love the pork belly when bbq till a bit char and dip into the chili sauce they provided...heavenly!! The chilli here is power.

 

 

If you want more thai flavour, you can order a packet of thai instant noodle "Mamee" and pour the tom yum seasoning to the soup to make your own tom yum soup. But we think the clear soup is nice so we did not make it to tom yum soup.

Overall: We had a nice but sinful dinner...life is short , we should have some sinful induglences as and when hee...

Verdict : 3.5/5

Tom Yum Kungfu

16 Circular Road

Tel: 65361646

Pizza Bar @ Chip Bee Garden

30 January 2013

Chip Bee Garden has always been a very favorite part of Holland that I really love.  It is located opposite the over-rated Holland Village and has an entrance that is directly linked to the Holland Village MRT entrance. The whole stretch of Chip Bee is filled with eateries offering different cuisines.  You can find vegetarian, Thai, French, Western, Italian and Japanese all at Chip Bee Garden.  And Pizza Bar by the Dao Paolo group just tops my list in Chip Bee Garden.

So for the meet-up session with Abigail and Sock Leng, I purposely dragged them all the way to Chip Bee Garden for  a good and peaceful night.

Menu for the night:

Meatballs in tomato sauce $12

Berry Merry salad $20

Chicken Lasagna $21

Americana which is their version of the Hawaiian pizza $23

Lemon tart $12

Tiramisu $13

A bottle of Syrah Aquilae Bottle $75

Photo taken from google map.

Abigail & I

I know you guys are probably expecting more pictures.  But I was so exhausted last night that I stopped picking up my camera as soon as the lasagna was served.  All I wanted after that was food and quality gossip time with my girlies.

Total damage for 3 - $207.15

Pizza Bar

Holland Village

44 Jalan Merah Saga #01-46

Singapore 278116

www.dapaolo.com.sg