Wee Nam Kee Chicken Rice

Met up with some friends for Wee Nam Kee (#04-102B, The Gallerie, Marina Square, 6 Raffles Boulevard). I just love the ambience of this place at Marina Square because it feels like you are entering some old school coffee shop. And compared to the Novena Square branch, this one is much, much quieter and you won't have to endure insanely long queues and rush through your food. Here, you really have the luxury of time to savour your meals. 

Entrace of Wee Nam Kee at Marina Square

 I am a big fan of roast chicken.. especially Wee Nam Kee's roast chicken. Some places the chicken is too salty for my liking. Here, the marination is perfect. Juicy and tender. With Wee Nam Kee's chili sauce, my lips just swelled up cause it's quite spicy to me.

Half Roast Chicken $16

 The vegetables were fresh, crunchy and juicy. Usually I avoid vegetables like the plague but at Wee Nam Kee, I made an exception.

Vegetables $8

 Their chicken rice is so addictive. I like the colour and texture of it. The taste is marvelous. I know some people will beg to differ and say that other chicken rice stores may be better than Wee Nam Kee. But to each his own and everyone has different preferences and tastebuds.. so I'll say Wee Nam Kee to me it's the best chicken rice place in Singapore.

Chicken Rice $0.80

Leong Yeow Chicken Rice at Waterloo Center

Every time I walk past this place, I'll always see a long queue.. so that must mean that it's either very good or very cheap. One fine day, I saw a relatively short queue, I decided to give it a try. 

$3.80

 It costs me $3.80 for the set above which is fairly standard price.. so does this mean that it's very good?

I requested for the breast meat and well, you can see it's quite juicy and succulent. Bit into it and felt that it's quite tender, juicy and not at all dry. 

The rice though, I felt it was a disappointment. I felt it wasn't fragrant enough.. in fact I felt it was pretty bland. The chili though it's amazing! Quite spicy. I'm not quite sure what's the hype about though..probably the chicken meat and the chili? But I'll probably not be so eager to come back and try this again unless I have nothing else to eat around here....

Nutella Crepe Cake... IT ACTUALLY EXISTS!?

Went to meet my boyfriend, his brother and his god sister for a late lunch. Decided to go to Everything With Fries (EWF) at Orchard Central. I was so hungry that I actually forgot to take a photo of The Slider meal ($11.90) I had at EWF. I had the burger with sour cream and onion fries. To be honest, I am quite disappointed with the Slider. It is basically minced... like really MINCED beef with cheese, mushroom and puny bits of bacon. That is it. It wasn't even a proper beef patty. It's a pity I forgot to take a photo of it so you guys can see just how sad it is.. it really can't be considered a burger if it is not in meat patty form.. it's like a sandwich. The sour cream and onion fries are basically shoe string fries drenched in sour cream and onion powder ala McDonald's Shaker Fries style. Overall, the set meal I had was nothing to shout about.... until we topped up $5 for the legend.............................wait for it......................dary Nutella Crepe Cake!

YES. IT ACTUALLY EXISTS! (EWF also serves Nutella Tart but seriously the crepe cake looks way more epic.)

JUST LOOK AT IT. Lay upon layer of crepe with hazelnut cream and nutella drizzled all over it. I tell you, it's a culinary work of art. If I know I will not be hailed off to IMH for evaluation over my mental health, I will definitely go on my knees to worship this dessert. It tastes as good as it looks. Imagine slicing the cake, layer upon layer of hazelnut cream (I reckon from the taste) oozing along with the fork and when it's in your mouth, the cream, crepe layer and the nutella (inside and outside the cake) melts together in an unholy matrimony of sweetness. If this is a prize for winning the Hunger Games, I will definitely volunteer as tribute.    

Nutella Mille Crepe

 After that, I went window shopping around Orchard Road to purge my body of the sin of eating the Nutella Crepe cake. I like to tell myself that to make myself feel better after having such an orgasmic dessert. About 6pm, my dad called and asked me if I'm around town and whether I wanna join him for lunch. Being the glutton that I am... I agreed.

I met him at Gyoza no Ohsho (5 Koek Road #01-10, Cuppage Plaza S228796).

It's a little ramen place that looks like one of those zhi-char stores.. except.. it serves ramen. Not zhi-char. Ok that came off as pretty OBVIOUS... but moving on.

The prices as you can see on the menu is pretty much the same as any ramen franchise in Singapore. The only difference is the environment. The waitress does not give a shit about something called personal space. This is understandable because it IS a small store. Basically, she will march up to you, ask how many people and cram you guys into whatever space she can find to maximize the use of the space the store has to offer.

It's weird if you are not used to it. But being Singapore where we are targeting to hit 6.9 million human beings, you jolly well get used to it.... and since I can't help but pack myself into the MRT every morning at 8 am to get my ass to work so I can have income to continue my gluttony ways... I am fine with the way she seats people. Just pointing this out to people who cannot stand eating at crowded places.
 

The first dish we had was the pan-fried gyoza. For crying out loud, the place is called Gyoza no Ohsho. So if we don't order Gyoza, which is their trademark dish.. I might as well just go elsewhere to eat. Anyway, the gyoza was served pipping hot, they do not serve the traditional dark vinegar and ginger that we Chinese are used to dipping our dumpling (chinese version of Gyoza) in. What they have is white vinegar. So there was this moment of awkwardness where we poured the bottle with the dark sauce which turned out to be soy sauce not vinegar, then pour another bottle which looked like red vinegar but it turned out to be chili oil only to succeed when we poured the bottle with the transparent liquid which turned out to be white vinegar. We finally got down to tasting the gyoza. First thing I noticed.. it's oily. The positive thing about this was the skin of the gyoza, springy and crispy. The fillings were pretty disappointing.

Pan-fried Gyoza

 The salad came next. I'm very anal about the way ramen stores serve their eggs. If the egg is completely hardboiled, I'll say they fail at making the perfect ramen egg. The egg on this salad passed. Hard on the outside but soft yet not too runny on the inside. Great job. The salad is fresh, but the sauce overpowered the vegetables. The potato salad was ok. They didn't put in mayonnaise or anything funky into it. Salad overall is ok.

Salad

 Next came the Kanitamago, crab meat with eggs. I expected it to be like the oyakodon style of cooking but it ended up in omelette form. I was quite disappointed. The crab meat was actually shredded crab sticks.. lots and lots of it. Which is fine considering the price of this dish. The only complaint I have of this is that the sauce is wayyyy too sweet. Overpowering the omelette completely.

Kanitama

 My dad had the Tamago Ramen. He always comes here for their ramen so I guess it's pretty good? I'll make a mental note to try it the next time.

Tamago Ramen

 The only dish I really liked was the tori karaage. Can't go wrong with this dish. We also ordered a bottle of green tea each.

Tori Karaage

Total damage for my dad and I was SGD$43. I guess this place is pretty ok to come by if you want something quick and fuss-free. The service is brisk and people come and go fairly quickly. Quality of food wise, I guess it's ok? Just keep your expectations to a minimum because what you pay for is what you will get. Personally for me, I will only pop by here if I have a craving for their Tori Karaage.   

April Fool's Day Catch Up

Someone should just give Google a medal for the best ever April Fool's Day prank. 

Basically Google released a video saying whoever catches all 150 Pokemon on the Google Maps App may stand a chance be a Pokemon Master and join the Google team as one of their designated Pokemon Master. Of course, it's a joke on their part, but what I didn't expect was that you can really 'capture' Pokemon on the Google Maps App. I ended up getting so hooked, 'travelling' from Tokyo to Tarzania obsessively hunting for Pokemon. 

I bet you are wondering, if you know it's a joke, why are you still obsessed with trying to catch them all? 

BECAUSE I AM LIVING MY CHILDHOOD DREAM OF BECOMING A POKEMON MASTER. DUH. 

My work day that day was bloody unproductive. And I love how Google placed Pikachu on the Tokyo Tower (Channeling electricity for the whole of Tokyo, well played) or Tyranitar in Pompei / Tokyo (Godzilla reference, get it?) and even included the legendary Mew as the 151 Pokemon. It's just awesome. Who cares if it's a bloody joke? I was given a day to live out my childhood dream from my office desk, I'm bloody taking it. So thank you Google, for giving me this opportunity to live my childhood dream. 

Caught all 150.. couldn't find Mew though.. T__T

Ok now back to the main point of this post. My April Fool's Day catch up. I met up with my pole mates to celebrate my belated birthday and another person's birthday. We headed down after work to November 8 Coffee and Company at 11, Sin Ming Road #01-30 Thomson V Two S(575629). 

It's actually a pretty well hidden place. I have been going to Thomson for Scoopz, Fatboys, Ne Li's Ice Cream and Rochor Beancurd like forever and always thought that Thomson V was like just a residential area. So imagine my surprise when I realised there were a few eateries and stuff in there!

The ambiance is pretty hip, I love the decors and all that.. it feels like I can just kick off my shoes, unhook my bra and just lie down on the couch and read a book. But of course, I can't do that unless I want to be arrested for indecency. They do take reservations by the way.. so when we were seated at our table, I was quite amused with their decor.

I mean look at it.. an origami flower in a pot filled with coffee beans? How cute is that?

I ordered their Chicken Breast Steak $16 which comes with bacon and cheese on top served with vegetables with passion fruit sauce at the side. I like chicken breast meat but some places cook it way too dry? Over at November 8, it's not too dry and the marriage between the cheese and bacon just makes it taste swell. The passion fruit sauce is unique but I feel it goes better with the carrots than with the chicken. Maybe I'm just not used to it? It's definitely a dish I will order again though because it has all my favorite things in it. (I always avoid most of the vegetables when I order dishes like this but they have carrots and mushroom which is my favorite!)

We ordered the Strawberry Waffles $10 to share and we picked the rainbow ice cream to go with it. Basically the rainbow ice cream tasted like the Paddlepop one. Nothing particularly special. But the waffles were well done! Very crispy on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside. The strawberries were fresh! The total damage for me was $18.50 (since we shared the waffle, the four of us split it.. it was $2.50 per person) no GST. The price is pretty fair.

The service was also good. My friend wanted a skinny latte which they didn't have skim milk for.. and the waiting staff specially ran out to buy a bottle of skim milk back just to make it for her. Good service I must say! The food was also cooked fresh so expect an adequate amount of time waiting because they only have one person cooking from what I see. So be patient when you are there ordering! Music is also not too loud and we had quite a good catching up session there. Definitely a good place to go and chill out with your friends if you are in the Thomson area!