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Al Musafir Restaurant: Place for a quick Naan fix

2012-05-31T10:40:00.000+08:00

Plain Naan $1, Garlic Naan $1.50 You know, sometimes I think that there are pockets of Singapore which are like the Bermuda Triangle where we locals hardly ever venture and not much appears on the radar. Little India is one of them. Sure, every time I ask around for recommendations on Indian food, several names would pop up but when you walk through little India, you can't help but feel that

2012-05-30T10:16:00.000+08:00

The Ieat Hawker App was reviewed on Bridge Mar - Apr 2012 issue! Thanks to Soundman for obtaining the publication!

Teochew Porridge (Macpherson Road): No Sweet and Sour Pork here!

2012-05-28T09:54:00.000+08:00

I was just searching for a good Teochew Muay place to eat at and it just dawned on me that I hardly know of any good Air-Conditioned places to eat Teochew Muay ever since my friend SCS Butter decided to close Teochew Muay! Don't you think it would be great to have Teochew Porridge in a nicer air con environment? Granted there are some hotels that are doing this, but what I would really love

La Pizzaiola: Affordable Pizza for the whole Family!

2012-05-24T11:20:00.000+08:00

Parma and Rucola pizza 12 inch $16.90 Have you ever adopted a restaurant before? You know, that's when you are so happy with everything at a particular restaurant that you tell yourself "Ahh!! From today onwards I am going to come here whenever I feel like having......!" Well, our family just adopted La Pizzaiola as our Pizza restaurant! The kids are always hankering for pizza and so I am

VITAGEN: Prebiotics and Probiotics!

2012-05-21T10:29:00.000+08:00

Advertorial The WHO defines Probiotics as "Live microorganisms which when administered in adequate amounts confer a health benefit on the host". Unless you have been living on a mountain and hiding under a shell (ie Sua Gu - Mountain Tortoise), you would not doubt have heard about Probiotics by now. Essentially, Probiotics are strains of "Good" bacteria which, when ingested, sort of make

Qiu Rong Ban Mian: Honest to Goodness Handmade Noodles

2012-05-18T08:54:00.000+08:00

Ban Mian $3 One of our readers wrote in recently asking me why I haven't blogged about Mee Hoon Kueh? Well, I'll have to admit that Mee Hoon Kueh is not one of my favourite foods. In fact, it is probably at the bottom of the list of 10 ten things I ever think of eating. One of the reason is because I never did come across this dish as a kid. In fact, I think it only appeared on our hawker

Ozaki Wagyu Farm: The Quest to produce the World's Best Beef!

2012-05-15T12:06:00.000+08:00

Tajima-gyu at the Ozaki Ranch Do you remember the first time you tasted Wagyu Beef? I certainly did and I am sure most of you would too because Wagyu is just one of those paradigm shattering experiences that you are not likely to forget. Wagyu has since lost some of its mystique, now that it is readily available in Singapore. However, I remember the amazement I felt when I first laid eyes on

Whampoa Keng Fish Head Steamboat Rangoon Road: 2nd wife, 2nd restaurant

2012-05-11T09:49:00.000+08:00

Steamboat $50 You all remember my last story about Whampoa Keng Fish Head Steamboat? Well, after the story was posted, we followed up with a very memorable Makan Session where Sharon (2nd wife) entertained us with her singing. Since then I had promised Sharon that I would visit her restaurant at Rangoon road soon, and as with the lyrics of the familiar chinese song 你怎么说 goes "你说过两天来看我,

Copon Norp Restaurant: Ozaki Beef Odessey and beyond

2012-05-08T11:35:00.001+08:00

Roast Ozaki Sirloin Beef I have been asked on several occasions about what I would choose as my final meal and the answer would invariably be a slice of grilled Wagyu Beef on top of of a mouthful of sweet short grain Japanese rice. Beef has always been my favourite meat. It has been since I was a kid, which is unlike a lot of other foods which I only learnt to eat as I grew older. It might

Blanco Prawn Noodle House: Final Story of the Prawn Mee Dynasty

2012-05-04T09:16:00.000+08:00

Jumbo Prawn and Pork Ribs Noodle Soup $8 The ancient texts tell us: "Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity" Psalm 133:1. How true! As I pen this next story, I can't help but contrast the success of the Blanco Court Prawn Mee empire with some of the other hawker stalls which are currently undergoing family squabbles over rights to the family brand name. It seems

Maeda: Unpretentious, Casual Kaiseki style cuisine

2012-05-02T12:17:00.000+08:00

Starter: Canadian Oyster, Hokkigai salad and Kazunoko Situated along Joo Chiat Road, you might just mistake this small little Japanese restaurant as a massage parlor if you didn't know any better. Maeda has been around for almost two years and occupies the shophouse where Aston Prime used to be. So it is a location I am most familiar with, having organized a Charity Makan session there in

Shiromi dane: Tai, Kinmedai and Hirame

2012-04-25T18:14:00.000+08:00

Tai Tai (Sea Bream) Tai is considered one of the most exquisite of the Shiromi dane. Among the more than 200 species of Tai but there is only one which is considered special and that is the Madai. The Japanese use the prefix "Ma" 真 which means "true" to mean the proper fish to use for sushi. Madai is very expensive in Japan because, like sharks fins, it is the one fish that should always

Lai Kee Dim Sum: Novel bits and bites

2012-04-23T21:09:00.000+08:00

Dim Sum $1.80 to $2 per basket There are several hawker genres that should do well in Singapore and Dim Sum is one of them. The reason is very simple. Every customer will spend more than $3-4 per pax. If you survey the current hawker scene, you will see Bak Kut Teh stalls springing up all over the place. That is because people expect to pay $5-6 at least when they eat Bak Kut Teh. So that

Tom's Citizoom Mee Pok Tar: Passionate, Young Hawkers

2012-04-20T09:01:00.000+08:00

Mee Pok with extra Fish Cake $2.50 + $1.20 There has been much talk lately about how we are going to be able to find enough hawkers to run the stalls in the new hawker centres that the NEA are planning to build. There is a lot of concern, in particular, about how the younger generation of Singaporeans are not keen on being Hawker professionals. This is such a shame. Just last month, I met

Garden of Eden: Sauteed Fillet of Snake in Apple Sauce!

2012-04-18T21:01:00.000+08:00

Squid Ink Cous Cous: Uni, Sweet corn and squid ink quinoa risotto with pickled white radish I am just kidding about the Sauteed Snake in Apple Sauce. But that was the first dish that came to mind when I heard of the Garden of Eden. You know the story right? There was Adam, there was Eve, there was a snake and there was an apple. OK, strictly speaking it wasn't an apple, it was the "fruit of

The First ieat High Tea Session: We came and drank lots of Tea!

2012-04-18T11:03:00.000+08:00

Many thanks to everyone who came for our very first Tea Pairing session! We certainly went away with a greater appreciation of the black tea that we all take for granted! It was so good to have our tea expert around to answer questions like how to cold brew ice tea and share tea tasting tips! Not only did everyone have lots of tea to drink, but everyone went home with lots more tea to try as

How to Choose Good Meaty Crabs: A Tutorial

2012-04-16T12:03:00.002+08:00

This post is dedicated to my Papa Vietnamese Mud Crab One of my fondest childhood memories is when the crabs that my father bought escaped from the pail and we had to spend a good part of the day looking into every corner of the house to find them! My Pa is a big fan of crabs but I can always remember him complaining that the crabs he bought turned out to be useless "Water" crabs with very

Soulout: A Ulu Place to Chill out

2012-04-11T11:30:00.001+08:00

Sambal Prawn $18 Its hard to imagine Singapore having farms, but we do have small pockets of land in our tiny island that has been set aside for agriculture. They don't produce enough food to feed all of us, but its nice to know that there are places that we can go to that feel that we are a hundred miles away from the skyscrapers and HDB blocks, sit down under the stars and imagine that

No Name Cheng Teng: As good as it gets!

2012-04-09T09:07:00.004+08:00

Cheng Tng $1.50 Finding stalls like this is what this blog is all about. Yes, it is great to find all the most well known hawker stalls in Singapore and adding them to the blog, but it is even better to discover ones that are serving great food but are still relatively unknown! When you talk about Cheng Tng in the Bedok area, the one that most folks would point you to is Ye Lai Xiang at the

Good Friday: God's Human Sacrifice!

2012-04-06T18:54:00.002+08:00

Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac Just recently I watched "Hunger Games" at the movies and came away sicken by the fact that a society would resort to sacrificing their children in order save the peace. In case you have not seen the show, the story is set sometime in the future. There were 13 colonies of a country call Panem that rebelled against the powerful ruling Capitol which plunged the

Luke's Oyster Bar and Chophouse: Boston's right here in Singapore!

2012-04-04T09:42:00.003+08:00

One of my most memorable meals when I visited Boston last year was sitting at Neptune Oyster Bar with my friend to enjoy two dozen of freshly shucked oysters from waters across Northern USA. I must say that it was my moment of ostreal epiphany which forever changed the way I looked at oysters. I can't say that I am a full fledged ostreaphile yet and I certainly don't experience withdrawal

Salt Water Cafe: Ultimate Lor Mee Challenge!

2012-04-02T10:40:00.001+08:00

Can you imagine what the ultimate Lor Mee would look like? Every now and again, I would let my imagination run wild and fantasize about what the ultimate plate of Char Kway Teow, Carrot Cake and Beef Kway Teow would look like if I gave the hawker a $15 budget. Certainly, when it comes to Beef Kway Teow, you can easily imagine thin slices of Wagyu beef and generous chunks of beef cheek and

First ieat High Tea Session! Book your Seats now!

2012-03-31T09:50:00.004+08:00

I have been enjoying some really great black teas ever since my trip back from the Tea Gardens of Ceylon and have been showing off some of the gourmet teas to my friends when they come over to visit. There is so much more to that cup of Black Tea and I really want to share it with our community of readers. So, I have arranged for the Watte Series and Seasonal Flush specially shipped from

Tsukune Ichigo: No Beef, just Chik'in

2012-03-30T09:32:00.001+08:00

The Japanese make a bowl of noodle soup and they sell it for $15. They make satay and sell it for $3 a stick. We complain but we still eat it. Why? Because we all appreciate quality and we are willing to pay more for great food that is cooked with passion. I really do think that this is the direction that some of our best hawker stalls need to be heading if we hope to be able to eat

Old Tiong Bahru Bak Kut Teh: Quintessentially Teochew!

2012-03-28T09:35:00.001+08:00

Singaporeans do prefer the local pepper and garlic version of Bak Kut Teh! Our recent facebook poll showed that 60% of Singaporeans prefer our local Teochew style Bak Kut Teh to the Herbal style which is more popular in Malaysia. I guess that explains why so many of our Bak Kut Teh stalls have chosen to serve the pepper and garlic style soup. What is not so easy to explain is why there