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How to excel in Food-o-logy Visiting new eating places Re-visiting old and good eating places Willing to try almost anyting and everyting Try out various recipes on your own Fail? Try again! Share cooking experiences with people Lastly, spread the marvel of FOOD! Other Foodies Sg food blogs Credits  Blogskins Soup-Faerie.com for Cursor Archives July 2005 February 2006 March 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 November 2006 December 2006 March 2007 May 2007 June 2007 |
Monday, September 11, 2006       went Marmalade Pantry with 3 of my friends for our 4th monthly gathering. alot of pple blogged about it before, so shall keep this short and concise. before i reached, they had already ordered a salad consisting of 2 types of lettuce (romaine and iceberg i think), croutons, chicken bits and some others that i cant remember. i didnt really fancy it coz too many raw greens kinda put me off. we each den ordered a main course. i had the linguini with tomato sauce (1st pic), and my other friends had the cheese burger with fries (2nd pic), penne with butternut and pesto (3rd pic) and teriyaki salmon with chilled soba (4th pic). the linguini is cooked al dente, which is juz right for me, not too hard, not too soft. the tomato sauce is not bad too, but nothing to rave about. the cheese burger was quite a letdown. the beef patty is too hard and dry for my liking, but my friend said the burger bun was not bad. the fries tasted average to me too, like any other normal american cafe fries, but another friend said it was not bad. both the linguini and cheese burger were kids size, but the portions are big enough to feed a not too starving adult. the penne is also done al dente, and my friend said the sauce is pretty flavourful, prob due to the large number of herbs used. the chilled soba, my friend commented, wasn't DAT chilled. it was more of at room temperature. but the teriyaki salmon was not bad. it wasnt over done, as it still has a little bit of pink in the middle, but is also fresh. and as the soba sauce was pretty little, the teriyaki flavour of the salmon complemented the otherwise tasteless soba. the grand finale was of coz the desserts that Marmalade Pantry is famous for! as we were pretty full by den, we shared the apple and rhubarb crumble (5th pic) and the sticky toffee date pudding (6th pic), both were served with vanilla ice cream. we all swore by the awesome mixture of hot and cold in a plate! the crumble was piping hot when served, with the top layer crusty and nutty, and in it was the soft and sour pieces of apple and rhubarb. we poured the ice cream on top of it and ate both together, heavenly! the sticky date toffee pudding was even better. the pudding was also piping hot, and it was soft and sweet, but not cloyingly sweet dat it masks the taste of vanilla in the ice cream. hot + cold really makes a good combination! Marmalade Pantry B1, Palais Rennaissance Rating: 3.5/5 Friday, September 08, 2006   After the Hainanese curry rice, we went to Tiong Bahru Market and Hawker Centre (just renovated) just across the road to look for the famous Lor mee with Shark meat. And we finally found it! Its $2 for a small bowl, with Shark meat is $3. My friend likes the Lor mee too, commented that the gravy is just nice, not too watery and not too starchy. In it, theres also the usual stuff like fishcake, pork slices, bean sprouts, and something uncommon, fried flour bits! The fried shark meat fritters are not bad too, the meat is pretty solid, and doesnt crumble easily when bitten into. And the batter is such that although it is placed into the gravy for awhile, it doesnt turn all soft and mushy immediatly. Worth a try. 178 Lor mee Tiong Bahru Market and Hawker Centre Rating: 3.5/5    Brought my friend to try the famous hainan curry rice at the junction of eng hoon st and lim liak st. Knew about it through this food programme on tv and wanted to give it a try. We went there at around 1+, and it was quite crowded (prob due to lunch hr?), so i had to queue for abt 5-10mins while my friend scouted for a free table. As we were planning to eat other stuff after this, so i didnt order much. We just had 2 plates of curry rice, a plate of sambal sotong and a plate of cabbage to share (pictures above). The sotong was 1 of its famous dishes, nearly every table ordered it. It was pretty good, i must say, not too rubbery or hard, and the sambal is spicy but not overpowering. The cabbage is not bad too, not too soft and not undercooked, with a kinda sweet-salty sauce. The curry, my friend commented, was very good. Thick and spicy enough, and i can last thru half a plate of rice before taking a few sips of my drink, as compared to some others where i need to drink a few sips every few mouthfuls of rice. But prices are a little steep, we paid a total of $4.80, not including drinks. I guess u have to pay for quality though. Hainanese curry rice Blk 57 Eng Hoon St Rating: 4/5 |
