Curry fish head @Pot Luck Halal Zi Char

Tuesday 5/11/13, my hubby got off in lieu due to Deepavali.

Yeah!! We can have our couple time again...

The day before , we were still wondering what is the programme, where to go...

On that day , in the morning, we decided to have cup of fresh veggie juice to start our day ..and after breakfast , we will use our morning to do quiet time( spend time with God)

The song 'you are ' really sing in my heart.. N I am quite ministering while we akabela sing 'let the rain of your presence fall on me '..before we depart home.. ( such a great moment minister by God thru his song) 

After our breakfast , we spend time reading Word God, revise Sunday sermon, sharing n praying .It was such a refresh moment immerse in the presence of God!!

After our quiet time.. Its already 1pm (noon time),we decided go to one of the nearby mall (IMM)for Some shopping ..

 

We shopped at DAISO for some winter accessories...

Who know we have spent two hours there!!

 

Tummy already make noise! Leg start aching.. 

Suddently think of this "Pot Luck Halal Zi Char" ...

That time when we passed by, had a long queue and we gave it a miss..

 

This time round...is time to give it a try!!

 

According to their menu, Curry Fish head is their signature dish...I hardly order this dish for my stomach will not tolerate to it..however, dont know why , I suggest to give it a try!!

 

We only ordered two dishes! First dish is curry fish head and another dish is spinch with mushroom.

 

Wow!! What a big Pot of Curry Fish Head!! Nice to eat it in cold water!!

 

Review from Hubby :

Curry Fish Head  (S$17.90) - Not bad, Fish is Fresh, a bit spicy.

( He said he had taste somewhere Curry fish head, nicer than this stall)..

 

Review from me:

Curry Fish Head : Not bad, Fish is Fresh, Spicy still can tolerate, I like the Lady finger Soup in Curry, Binjal not all well done...

 

Spinach with mushroom (S$7.90) : At least got this dish neutralize our taste bud...:P

the spinach a bit old and rough...but still can eat...

 

 

After our late lunch..we really full!! my stomach start feeling warm...Praying hard that it won't hurt my stomach...Thanks God for answering my prayer!! ''

 

Before we took shuttle bus home , we have our comfort drink at Ya Kun  - Coffee and tea C!!

 

Thank GOD for this Day!! Thanks darling for his accompany!! :)

 

 

 

 

 

Red Glutinous Mee Sua @ Hong zao mian xian @红糟鸡面线.

Again, today I am meeting hubby for lunch at redhill.

Yup, same stall again..their food really not bad!! In fact , Yummy!! :D




This time round I tried 红糟鸡面线.

 

The soup is rich, the "mee sua @ 面线" not sloggy but smooth and nice swallow from mouth.

For the chicken is super tender. I can say the chicken totally absorb the soup yet not dry ...but juicy!!

There are two chicken wings in one bowl of soup..

 

Long time I did not eat this dish ..in the past I tried at some stall,...the soup really can not make it..

so slowly not dare to order this dish ...till mu hubby recommend...

 

Really a good and worth to give it a try.!!

 

 

Bitter cord fish soup - Redhill Food Center

I am having lunch with hubby @ Redhill food Center 

There are few stalls I would like to highly recommended you! One of the stall is famous of their fish soup

Bitter cord fish slice soup 

This is the best stall u can find fresh fish , nice soup n fresh bitter cord ..

Did u see I repeat the word 'fresh' how many time...???

Is really fresh .. No frozen taste , no awkward taste .. Just really fresh!!

Not salty n not oily...

Furthermore they add In one fish skin for our food comfort !! N that become the signature to this dish !  Crispy yet not oily at all... ( Now a day really hard to find one simple yet nice fish soup though everywhere is selling ...)

Thank God we manage find one n my hubby almost become regular customer to this stall ..:p 

2 Day 1 N - Itinearay to Hello Kitty Land and The Little Big Club by private car (270413)

After taking a long break, is time to start my writing journey again..^_^

 

 

 

 

Recently, I have visited Hello Kitty Land at Johor Bahru, Malaysia. It was the last min Decision.
Thank God, we able to make it!!

We have group of 5 adults, 1 children and 1baby..
In order to cut down the logistic, I decided to take a private car that drive us in and out from Malaysia and Singapore.

Here are my short Itinerary plan.

Note:
-We are only visiting HKL (Hello Kitty Land) and The Little Big Club (for my girl still young )
-Other than visiting HKL & TLBC , another goal is shopping and searching for good food!!

(Since we are staying near Tuas, we asked the favor from the driver to take the second link to HKL(Hello Kitty Land), Thanks God the driver Do us favour)

Day 1
8:45am - Driver come and pick us at our doorstep ..so we all in one 7 seater car..

9:45 am- Reaching Hello Kitty Land.
                ( To avoid long queue,we have bought the ticket online * Malaysian has a better discount)

We spent 6 hours + there


515pm  - The driver pick us up to hotel KSL, reached hotel about 540pm..arrange check in...end up reached hotel room at 6pm+

Take an hour short break at hotel..to unload the stuff and bathing...

7 pm- Dinner time..(Time for good foods!)

8pm - shopping...(Tesco, many little store outside, ..)
          (most of the shop closed at 10/1030pm)

11pm-ZZZ

Day 2

8am - Having breakfast buffet @ Hotel KSL( Their breakfast timing is - 630 to 1030am)

930 am - Have a walk a hotel level 7 ( indoor swimming pool)

1030 am - Start shopping and eating around...

1pm - having lunch @ 汤师父

4pm - Driver come and pick us, take first link back to Singapore..

445pm - 5 pm - Reached Home ( Singapore)


Advice & Thing to Take Note:

Transport Vice
1. From Singapore to Malaysia and vice versa
Is advice to have transport directly go to Hello Kitty Land & The Little Big Club if you want directly go there before check in hotel..Else you can check in hotel and ask hotel for further arrangement to visit HKL & TLBC in another day.

Few Ways to get there :
a. You may consider self driving
b. Follow travel agent (by bus) - you can search Groupon, plusbigdeal..for best deal.
c. Engage Private car ( also called Private Taxi) , which provide door to door service.
    ( You can get the quotation by providing no of ppl, date and time,location pick up and point)
         i. Mr. Chuan - hp 012-7123931
         ii. Porter Xpress Asia Pte Ltd
             Tel: 65 62420002 (Email: customer.service@porterxpress.com)


2. From HKL & TLBC to KSL Hotel

1. Is hard to get public taxi outside HKL, however if there is, only few and in early timing about 1/2pm).. Price range is about RM45 per trip ( 4 pax) - this is consider reasonable!! However a bit risky..if there dont have public taxi.

 2. Limousine Taxi (malaysia) - 607 5991622 ( per trip (four pax) RM 68)
    - Call on that day needed service (Early in the morning for booking)
   -  ( Note: Early booking to avoid for extra charges - if you last min called, some time the customer
     service will charge you two way charges though you take one way trip, the reason is they got
     come all the way from town to pick up and bring you to other location - the price will
     extreme expensive - not worth!  )

3. One day in advance, call hotel for arrangement..shuttle bus / cab

4. Called taxi center for arrangement : 607-3559922 ( I have not tried yet! But is good to have all this back up call on hands! :))

For us : We choose Ah Chuan ( we have been their customer a period of time already!)
overall our transport $ is reasonable ( especially 7 seven of us)

New way of eating Nian Gao

'Nian Gao' is 'Chinese type of rice cake' You can see it selling in any groceries shop during Chinese New Year.

Reason eating Nian Gao during Chinese New Year is believe that it is a good sign of getting success each year .. And it become Chinese culture .

There are many ways of eating Nian Gao, some fried with yam and sweet potatoes , some fried with egg.

But I miss the traditional way of eating Nian Gao, which my Grandma and Aunty used to do it during / post cny.

Is 'STEAMED NIAN GAO', coating with fresh grated coconut. Personally I found this is the best and easy way to cook Nian Gao and you can even used it to serve guests during Chinese New Year.

I am sure your guests will LOVE it and they will continue eating non stop without feeling
Oily, Heaty!!

Let's give it a try!!:)


Recipe Source: Jacqueline

Ingredients : 
- 200g of Year Cake or Sticky cake or Nian Gao ( you can use more as desired)
- 1 packet (250g) of Fresh Grated Coconut. ( You can buy from wet market or super market like NTUC Fair price)

Steps :

1. Cut the Nian Gao into small pieceS (see the attach picture)
2. Put on the plate and steam it for about 10/15 mins till the Nian Gao soft.( see the attach picture)
3. Pour half the packet of Fresh Grated Coconut on another Bowl/ plate.( see  the attach picture).
4. Use the chopstick to take small pieces of steamed Nian Gao, coated with fresh grated coconut.
5. Do it one by one till all Steamed Nian Gao coated with fresh grated coconut.You may add on the balanced fresh grated coconut if is not enough.

Hui Lau shan 许留山 @ City Square, JB

After some shopping, we went to Hui Lau Shan 许留山 for dessert.

I was quite happy to see this famous dessert shop in Hong kong have opening branch here. Its time to give it a try!!




























They were famous with variety of mango desserts, however, personally I found their 龟苓膏  is special. It have hot and cold, not that bitter but still has the slight herb taste. Texture smooth. but not too hard or too soft. Just nice!! when eat with honey..is perfect match!!! Love it!!
I orderd Hot instead of cold!!

( For your info, Do you know 龟苓膏 can reduce heatiness in your body..also is good for skin..!!)

Other than 龟苓膏, I have order bird nest and 雪蛤 to pamper myself.

They use coconut to boil bird nest and 雪蛤. Wow! I love it! Will it make my skin smoother? hee...
It full of coconut fragrance and you find refresh after a try! It is not sweet, the sweetness is from coconut (nature) sweetness itself.  Is perfect match!! It has hot and cold. I chose Cold!

Total we spend < (RM 32)

DONTAKU Japanese Restaurant@City Square, JB

We were running marathon food at City Square, Johor

First meal that we chose. Japanese food!
The outer of the shop look special and authentic ...therefore we gave it a try. Hopefully can source for some 
good foods.

The first dish we had were salad.
Glass noodle salad and cabbage salad.
Amazingly the salad is refreshing. Grass noodle salad is thumb up .. For it not too hard, not too soft.. QQ yet absorb the sauce ..nice !

After first dishes, Hm.. Expectation increase... Next dish might be better..

Ramen !!
Sadly, not as expected!! I can't even put nice word on it....

Chawanmushi!!
Hm...still Iciban@jurong point the best.
I cant taste the fragrance of egg and soup combination. Texture still not as smooth as i used to eat...

ChaSoba!!
Noodle QQ - but when dipped with source, a bit salty...

Sushi!
We ordered two type of special sushi (see the picture), which we did not see it in Singapore.
So give it a try!

Salmon Nama Harumaki (RM9.00)
Salmon is fresh! but when wrapped with vietname roll pastry, that make the texture a bit different.
Salmon melt in the mouth..after you swallow all ingredients, left the roll still in the mouth and need to chewy.
overall are acceptable.

Dontaku Special Sashimi (RM12.00)
The cucumber sanwich with Tuna - Quite refreshing.
Just wonder tuna isn't red. How come is light brown color?

Total of our brunch <RM40

Couple time @ Sizzling StoneGrill @City Square-Johor

I have  passed by this restaurant few time . Often captured me is the picture - 'Food Grill on the Rock!' Though I was tempted many time ,but I still resisted to go into this restaurant and give it a try..reason..Heaty.. and not right timing ( Having sore throat / ulcer)

This time round .. I decided to give it a try to kill or should say compromise my temptation ...:p

What unique is Grill the food on Rock!! This is what i want to try!! Will it taste better? ...hm..
Due to very hungry, we have ordered 1 set lunch - grill chicken, Tom Yum Mee Hoon on the rack, Grill New Zealand Lamb to comfort our stomach.

Overall, what really impressed me was the New Zealand Lamb! The Lamb was fresh !! We grilled the lamb on the rock. The rock was very hot therefore the moment we put the lamb on it..it already half cooked.

My hubby love medium rare , but I prefer well done...we can grill base on our preference. 

Even the lamb was well done, the meat was still juicy ,tender without smell..It really Deserve you to give it a try!!!

Other than that, the set lunch and Tom Yum Mee Hoon were average.

Total Price < RM70 ( inclusive drink and soup)

Lunch @ Chicken Hot Pot

Yesterday was my brother off day and We planned to meet @ bedok interchange to collect Chinese New Year goodies.

Other than that he was my lunch partner ...I have asked him recommend me delicious and unique food around. And he brought me to Bedok Point. In the Bedok Point, there were many big and small restaurants located in different floor..

What really attracted me was this restaurant named ' Chicken Hot Pot'??

Ha ha...I was attracted by the hot pot which can eat in "different kind of version."
You can try the dry version of hot pot first and half way convert it to steamboat version.

I have ordered couple set.

this is the dry version - Hot Pot ( spicy shrimp and non spicy chicken)

Half way we ate hot pot, we asked waiter to add in soup become steamboat.
when the pot become steamboat, we added in the shrimp paste into the soup.
( which you can see it in the last picture)

Overall , my personal comment was:

For the Hot Pot Spicy Shrimp : The shrimp was fresh but was a bit spicy to me. ( But for those who liked to eat spicy and sour, this will suit your appetite. ) Other than shrimp, it came with fries, cucumber and celery..which was an unique match that really can open your appetite..and it suitable to eat with rice...SIOK ~~

Remark: Before you converted it into soup/steamboat version : my advise is finish the prawn and fries first..else the fries become lumpy , same to cucumber..the crunchy will become soft. In the soup version, add in shrimp paste..texture _> QQ, Nice. Yummy..~~

Personally, I preferred eating this dish in dry version. Soup version is when i finished everything left celery then add in soup and prawn shrimp..

For the Non-spicy Chicken Hot Pot   - The chicken was fresh and texture was just right( not too hard /too soft) but quite a small piece that I felt not enough to satisfy my stomach...hee hee ..the gravy was rich, nice and tasty and perfect to eat with rice(This really satisfy your stomach but don't drink the gravy , for it too rich and you will felt a bit salty.)


Remark: Before you converted it into soup/steamboat version : my advise was finished the veggie first  before it become lumpy and soft. In the soup version, add in shrimp paste..texture QQ.

If you feel like eating What is in the Pot not enough, you can order the side dishes to add in to  your hot pot/ steamboat...they have many side dishes like, mushroon, beef, veggie, tofu, fish...e.g.


Little info : 
Available at 3 locations:

Bedok Point 02-35/36
nex Shopping Mall 02-17
Novena Square 2 Unit 04-02A/B/C

Next time if happen you shopping somewhere near, you may consider this as lunch or dinner. :P