So we went to Maxwell Food Centre or whatever the name is recently and tried out the food there. It’s quite a famous food centre, notorious for the various famous dishes there. So do try going there to try some of the dishes if your free.

Our chosen ‘victim’ for that night, to dissect the food stuff there, was none other than..

Marina South something something. We were attracted to it because there were like newspaper articles about their supposedly extremely delicious kway teow and oyster omelette. So we naturally expected it to be pretty damn good, better than the store we tried previously.

First dish.

Hokkien Mee

Bleh. Don’t even bother trying the Hokkien Mee, think its like S$4 and it wasn’t great at all. I mean the proportion of food they gave was quite value for money but the taste would torture your tastebuds more than please it. It was too dry for my liking. And though they gave 4 rather nicely sized prawns, it just didn’t make the dish any better.

Because they used yellow noodles and the white transparant ones (粗米粉), you have to catch the proportion really well so that the dryness of the yellow noodles wouldn’t overwhelm you. I personally hate yellow noodles, not only cause I think they taste horrible but also because they give you a migraine. This shop didn’t handle that really well, so when you bite the noodles, its like hard and dry?

And the importance of Hokkien Mee is also the chilli. The chilli for this one was yucky. Nothing to compliment it on at all. If your going to spend money on a plate of Hokkien Mee, I have 3 suggestions.

1) If your already at Maxwell, try the store at Maxwell, beside Zhen Zhen porridge. They don’t have a name, its just Hokkien Mee, Carrot Cake and something as their signboard. That one is definitely better than this store.
2) If your in the mood to shop in air conditioned places and want to be cool while eating, try the AMK hub’s food court. The Hokkien Mee there is the more traditional kind, with great chilli and great wet Hokkien Mee.
3) If your shopping in Northpoint, head to the coffeeshop near the bus interchange. Not the first one, the one further down a little way up from the POSB bank.

Hokkien Mee from Yishun

This is the one from Yishun and its not bad. It is very wet and they use fine strands of bee hoon in it as well the normal yellow mee and the white transparant one. Its wet, which is how I like my Hokkien mee and the chilli is quite ok.

The one that I really really liked, with the best chilli in the world, has moved from Yishun and I don’t know where it is anymore.

It was near the old Yishun library, in the coffee shop beside Macdonalds. Best hokkien mee. No more. HAHA

Carrot Cake from Maxwell

This one is also from the same store. It wasn’t a consolation at all from the Hokkien mee. Not nice. Not worth trying. I don’t even remember why it was a hundred different kinds of horrible. It was just dry? Weird? Cooked to a point where you can taste the burnt taste?

I just remembered pushing most of it to daddy and mommy to eat finish because it was hmm… Simply horrible?

Oyster Omelette

The newspaper ad that they placed in front of their store claims that the oysters were imported from Korea and that the chilli was hand made. So it made the dish out to be pretty dang good no?

First bite of it with the chilli and I was disappointed. The chilli wasn’t the really nice kind. I don’t know how you tell if a chilli is hand made but I do know how to tell if the chilli is good. And this chilli was not good.

It didn’t give you the shiok feeling as you ate it. It didn’t have enough of the limey taste I think and well, wasn’t nice.

The korean oysters were small and pretty much like oysters everywhere. I do suspect that they aren’t very fresh, cause they had that weird oystery un-fresh taste. But maybe, I just got a rotten plate of oyster omelette out of the billions they churn out.

Nothing to rave about, wouldn’t try it.

Kway Teow

So we bought back the Kway Teow from the exact same store for my brother. And when asked how was it, he said it was ok. But you know guys, you probe them more and they are like “YOU WANT TO TRY YOURSELF?”

Unfortunately I’m an anti-kwayteow person so I didn’t try that shops signature dish of kway teow.

My parents did say that the Kway Teow from Yishun however (same stall as the Hokkien mee from above) was worth trying.

Kway Teow from Yishun

I did not intentionally make the kway teow in the package look ugly and this one look better. It just turned out this way. HAHA. So try the kway teow if you trust my brothers conclusion of ‘ok’ or my parents with their ‘its quite good no?’

Being complete food junkies, we were unsatisfied with our meal so we went to the other section of the food centre and ate popiah and desert. HAHA.

Popiah from Maxwell

Popiah from Maxwell

This popiah shop is beside Ri Xin snack delight and likewise, it has no name, just popiah or something as their signboard. Its I think $2 for 2 so its quite cheap so we decided to try it out.

But it was disappointing! Not because it tasted horrible. Simply because there was NO TASTE. Apart from the little mini egg they squeezed in there and you can taste the egg yolk, theres no other taste. Oh and you can also taste the chilli that was very kiam (salty). So yuck.

Try the one at Funan instead! The one on the ground floor near Ya Kun. Wonder how many times I’ve promoted this. HAHA.

So we couldn’t end our day with horror food right? So we went for something safe. Something that can’t suck that badly.

Mango Ice Kachang

We bought it from the store a few stores down from the popiah store. The uncle there was quite nice. Anyway, the mango ice kachang was not bad. I mean ice kachang can’t really go wrong. It was nice and sweet, and you could actually bite the mango chunks so it was really not bad.

On a complete side note, I’ve been looking for Bo Bo Cha Cha where they have those ‘chewy chewy’ thats like big and chewy. They are like Nata De Coco but not like those, its the old traditional kind that you have to cook very long and they are like multicoloured. Like simply the best! But can’t find those now. If you know where, let me know yea? (:

Hum Jin Pang from Maxwell

This is like probably the most famous store there. Its this old uncle who makes Hum Jin Pang and throughout the years he has maintained his pricing at 50 cents or $1 or something.

You can buy the plain ones or the one with red bean paste inside and choose if you want to roll them in sugar. I like the ones that are with red bean paste and roll them in sugar!

They are a really cute snack. I mean, normal Hum Jin Pang are those really huge like the size of your face kind. And they aren’t rolled in sugar.

So you can bite these and they taste reallyyyyyy great. No kidding. Not lying. Really good. Non red bean paste lovers would also love this! MUST TRY MUST TRY!!!

I tried to take pictures of the uncle, but my phone, who has been cooperative most of the night, decides to just take blurry shots when I was trying to catch pictures of the uncle. If you don’t believe me, take a look.

Like omg, I then realised that the flour from the Hum Jin Pang got onto my camera lens. ._.

But by the time I realised, I was at home. Anyway, you can help the old man to fry the Hum Jin Pang which was fun! (If you know how to use chopsticks correctly).

Min Jiang Kueh (Peanut Pancake)

On a sidenote, we also bought the Min Jiang Kueh from Jollybean. I’m not sure if its called peanut pancake. It was nice as usual. Jollybean is quite good at their peanut pancakes, I don’t know about the red bean or others. Anyway, peanut pancake rocks!

Look at the filling oozing out, thats how much they put into it!

And that ends my Maxwell adventure! Want to know where I want to eat next?
Hint: Look at the pictures below!

SEAFOOD!!! This is from the restuarant newly opened at the newly renovated Jurong Point. i forgot the name. Anyway, doesn’t the seafood just scream at you to eat them? EAT ME EAT ME I’M SOOOO WILLING!!

or maybe their screaming DON’T EAT ME. ah well, we have to complete the cycle of life or it wouldn’t be fair huh?

So hopefully, I’ll get to eat those pretty darn good looking seafood soon! (:

I haven’t blogged in like a million years!! But I’m happy to say that my EXAMINATIONS ARE OVER!!!

Somehow I’m busier after my examinations than I was during. I know, totally weird. Anyway, quite a few funny stuff happened in the past few weeks.

Funny Stuff #1: The girl and the toilet bowl

We were in the toilet in Ikea and I was in the cubicle while my mummy was waiting for me at the sink, trying to be vain looking into the mirror and all. But anyway, there was this little girl that came out and she wanted to wash her hands. You know toilets nowadays they a little ehhh.. toilet bowl thing for baby boys, those where they stand up and pee. Not the toilet bowl, I totally don’t even know the name.

Anyway, they had one in Ikea. And the girl wanted to wash her hands. So guess what she did?

Yep, she pressed the button to flush the male standing up thing and washed her hands with that water!

Ok, I know your pretty grossed out by it and think I’m totally insane for finding the whole thing funny.

But the funny part was that after she washed her hands, she ran up to my mummy and she said, “那个是不是马桶?” (Is that a toilet bowl?) And my mummy didn’t answer her because she can’t understand a single word of Chinese. So she kept repeating her question.

Then when her mummy came out, she asked her mummy. “那个是不是马桶? 那个是不是马桶?!?!” And she kept futilely pointing towards that little loo loo bin thing.

Her mother finally said yes and without saying a word, she ran to the sink (correct one this time) and scrubbed her hands with soap and water repeatedly. HAHA.

I know the washing hands with the latrine water is completely insanely disgusting, but her expression when she said “那个是不是马桶?” was epic. Seriously, extremely funny. HAHAHA.

Funny Stuff #2: Bird shit anyone?

So my whole family was going out and we went downstairs and when my father saw the car, he kept saying, “Aiya, I parked the car in the wrong spot again. So much birdshit on my car. So much birdshit!! Never mind, it might rain then the birdshit will go away.” blah blah blah.

So he was continually going on and on about parking his car in the worst location ever because birds generally shat on any car that parks there. Then suddenly, AHHHHHH!

My mummy gave one of those yelp kind of screams. So we all turned to look at her, thinking she probably fell again or something which is what she normally does. But her hand was like contorted away from her and she kept looking at her arm.

It totally didn’t dawn upon us what had happened until she said, “Bird shit.”

HAHAHA. A bird flew past and shat on my mum’s hand just as my dad was talking about birdshit. Boy oh boy, those birds must be extremely unhappy. HAHAHA.

So if you ever know of a birdshitting spot, better not talk about the birds, otherwise you’ll get birdshit on yourself or someone near you. (:

Funny Stuff #3: Itchy Itchy Scratchy Scratchy

My uncle and I brought us out to Jurong Point because its newly opened and everything. So we went there and my brother and I were lagging behind the parents, just looking around.

We suddenly saw a small girl who purposefully placed the 2 NTUC bags she had in her hands on the floor and stopped walking.

So we thought you know, whats up, did she find something on the floor or anything.

Then you know what she did?

SHE BEGAN TO SCRATCH HER BUTT BUTT!!

HAHAHA. She paused in the middle of a large crowd and did that. And I was looking at my brother and he was looking at me and we were bursting out in laughter after that. Seriously, that scene was funny.

You have to close your eyes and imagine it. Someone walking with bags then putting it down and blocking traffic and then doing the most unimaginable thing, scratching her ass in front of your eyes. HAHHA.

Kids these days are seriously funny. From washing hands in toilet bowls to scratching their butts. Seriously. hahaha.

Thats actually the end of the funny stuff, I wonder if you all even found it funny because reading it isn’t funny, but seeing and imagining it is seriously funny.

Oh ya, PLEASE TAKE CAUTION WHEN OPENING WOODEN CHOPSTICKS!

Seriously take caution! I was so excited to eat my dumplings that I ripped open the packaging for those wooden chopsticks and then a splinter just pierced through my thumb. Its extremelyyyyyy painful now.

And I don’t even know if I managed to get all of the splinter parts out. So don’t don’t don’t don’t don’t be so excited when opening the packaging of chopsticks, even if your dead hungry.

On a side side note, NEVER EAT THE DUMPLINGS FROM FUNAN THE IT MALL’S FOODCOURT UPSTAIRS!

It was horrible, the skin was so thick, not to mention the service was incredibly horrible. I absolutely abhor the service there. Probably they were sooooo lazy to roll out the skin, which is why you taste a bunch of flour in your mouth instead of beautiful dumplings.

Total insult to dumplings. Horrible horrible.

Not to mention they ignore you if you don’t speak Chinese to them if your a Chinese. Mummy tried to order in English because she can’t speak Chinese and she just got a total rude response. So yea, don’t eat from that store!! It sells fish soup, but the fish soup is not bad, but not that fantastic!! I rather spend my money elsewhere!

With that, I end my post!! (:

I have like a collection of completely random stuff that I want to talk about from like decades ago. So this post will be about these stuff!

Firstly, I want to say that the large drink for Macdonalds is really large!! There is proof!!

large drink!

Ok, can’t tell how large it is right? I’ll show you how large it is!

large drink! (with coin for comparison)

SEE!! I wanted to put my face there for comparison but it was crowded in Mac, so I didn’t want to look overtly retarded. HAHA. But yea! Its sooooo much bigger than a 50 cents coin. So my conclusion is, the large drink for mac is large!

The newly opened shop in Funan the IT mall, that took over Pariss Miki, I think its called 奇ji or something like that sells great popiah! Its on the ground floor, next to Sembawang, near Macdonalds and Ya Kun Kaya Toast, right next to the toilet!

Popiah

Inside of Popiah

The pictures were taken with my handphone so it doesn’t do the popiah justice. But the popiah was great! There was generous serving of egg inside, peanut, lettuce, mixed vegetable and I don’t really know what else. Unlike popiah at other places, this one has a crunch feeling to it. I don’t think its the peanut that gives it the crunch, like some hidden ingredient! Haha.

The popiah is reallyyyy great, I love that they wrap the egg with it because some places don’t do that. If you like chilli, you can ask them to put more chilli, but I think the standard version of it is great enough. So try it!

$4.00 Carrot cake ($2.50 to $4.00)

This carrot cake is from the hawker centre near Tanjong Pagar MRT. That particular hawker centre houses the famous Nasi Lemak among other stuff. The carrot cake was awesome. Though it isn’t like a famous carrot cake store but the carrot cake is those piece by piece kind. Nowadays people like to fry their carrot cake such that the carrot cake becomes like one rectangle by one rectangle because all the pieces are linked together by the egg. I actually prefer it when you get it one small white piece by one small white piece. (I sound totally senseless, don’t I)

But anyhow, the carrot cake was not oily like some stalls. The plate was relatively oil free after we finished it. It wasn’t fried till you could taste like the overcooked taste (chao ta taste). So if your in the area, do give it a try. Don’t need to specially travel there to eat though because great carrot cake can be found nearly everywhere nowadays.

My mummy and I are avid fans of donuts! We got hooked ever since we ate the donuts from Donut Factory but the queue for Donut Factory is always veryyyy long and there aren’t many outlets. So we swopped to eating donuts from Donut Empire! Which is so convieniently located at Northpoint!

Donut!

These are some of our favoured donuts. Donut empire doesn’t have a wide selection of donuts so these are the few that we like. The one on the top left hand corner is the Oreo one. Compared to Donut Factory, it loses out slightly because Donut Factory’s cookie and cream donut has the cream filling in the centre. And the chunks of oreo cookie is also more. So taste wise, Donut Factory is better because when you bite into the cookie and cream donut, you just go mmmmmm.

But the Oreo one from Donut Empire is not such a poor replacement.

The top centre one and the bottom left hand donuts are the more crunchy types. I would recommend buying the one at the bottom left hand, which is a mixture of oreo, nuts and the crunchy pop thing if you don’t like it to be too crunchy. The taste of this one is not all that bad.

The bee donut and the chocolate one at the top right were both not bad. I didn’t eat them so I don’t really know. But eh, the bee donut is personally my moms favourite because it has bees on it!! And my mom’s name happens to have a bee in it too! HAHA.

But I do not like the coffee one at the bottom right hand corner, and I recommend you don’t buy it too. I just didn’t like the taste of it. But to each his own. I generally don’t go for coffee tasting delights because I think it just tastes really odd.

Donuts

Most of the donuts are the same here. Only changes is the top right and bottom right. The top right one is the mango flavoured one, which according to my dad, is not bad. It has quite a tangy mango taste so if you like mango, you’ll like this donut.

The other one was the chocolate one, which was eaten by my brother so I don’t know how its like but I think its not bad because it has a chocolate filling, if i’m not wrong.

I’ll recommend the oreo one for people with a sweet tooth like me, and the crunchy pop one. I personally favour these ‘flavours’ but like I said, to each his own, so try it!

All the donuts from Donut Empire are not bad, so if you want, you can just buy like half a dozen home for your family, or just a donut to munch on your way home! So share the joy of donuts today! (:

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I mean, placing your precious bag on the floor may very well dirty it, it might even block peoples way.

Placing it on your chair behind you means you literally share a seat with your bag, leaving you unable to fully lean back against the chair and relax.

So you say, put your bag on your lap! But then your afraid that when you get all excited eating, food may fall on top of your bag and leave stains that simply cannot be erased. Plus its superbly inconvienient when you leave the table to visit the loo and you have to take your bag off your leg, put it on the chair blah blah blah.

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The ‘device’ looks something like this..

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And if you see your enemies fussing over where to put their bags/ dropped food on their bags, you can hang your bag with this huge smirk on your face!

Even though I wouldn’t say the design isn’t like awesomely fantastic, I mean it doesn’t look like woah. But compared to its predecessors, I have to say that this is a big up! Its not exactly a new product in the market but its a GOOD product.

Its durable, I assure you, the amount of times I fiddled with it is uncountable. And it can definitely take the strength of your bag. Of course if you run a car over it or pull on it with your super strength, it will break. But its dependable!

It comes in a little black box and in 3 different colours, theres white/transparant, pink or purple!

It comes in a box like this…

This is purple though the colours really dark and I can’t seem to capture the purple-ness of it.
Its S$10* a piece. (I know I know, I hear all this “omg its so expensive” noises in the background) BUT its a good buy right? I’ll let the product speak for itself. (:

Just leave a comment if you wish to enquire more or purchase the product. (:

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P/S: I saw facebook advertising for the same product! I think. But I totally didn’t even see the price. HAHA. so random.

BWAHAHAHA. This weekend was the best day of my life. Ok, make that the best day of the century! MUAHAHA. I got A BRAND NEW CAMERA! WOOHOOOOO. talk about awesome.

And to make all of you soooooo insanely jealous, I shall show you pictures of my new awesome camera! HAHA

Olympus µ1040 front

Olympus µ1040 back

Obviously my photos doesn’t do it justice!! I mean my sony ericcson K530i with its 2.0 megapixels has served me well when my old camera was out and dying. BUT! MOVE AWAY PHONE FOR I NOW HAVE MY OLUMPUS µ1040!! WOOHOOO.

For the specifications and a much better picture, you can go here.

I have to recommend this camera because its really a good buy. I bought it at Harvey Norman for $298 because it was on offer. Its 10 Megapixels and comes in black, silver , yellow/golden and red . Frankly speaking the red colour was the best, I would choose the yellow as my second choice. The black looks abit, pardon me, cheapy. And the silver just… yuck.

The camera comes with the ‘latest’ technology of Auto Intelligence which adjusts your camera mode according to where you’re shooting the camera. So it auto adjusts your flash, the brightness etc etc. It also has a face detection feature which makes it great when you take pictures of humans. I’m not sure if it has multiple face detection. Oh, and its also antishake. So for people with shaky hands, its good. (:

It was a good buy, so hop down to Harvey Norman to purchase this wonderful Olympus camera. Not sure how long the offer lasts but great buy great buy! To show you the quality of the pictures, I’ll just talk about my foody adventures this weekend! All pictures were taken by the awesome Olympus camera! Rock on!

Today, my mummy went to Happy restaurant at Lion City Hotel for a wedding. So daddy and I were left to our own devices. Its really close to my favourite food!!! SMELLY TOFU!!

Storefront

Close up of storefront (notice how clear it is though I used zoom. HAHA)

Signboard

I cut off my face from this picture because the camera is sooooo sharp that it made all my pores stand up. HAHAHA. JOKING. Its just because my eyes were semi closed.

Ok, nonsense aside, heres the food and the prices! (:

Chilli

This is the chilli for the smelly tofu (choutofu) and its quintessentially the most important aspect of the smelly tofu. Its not spicy though! So don’t worry all you non chilli lovers! Dip the smelly tofu into the chilli and eat with the preserved vegetables. Delectable. (:

Choutofu!! 臭豆腐 ($2.00 a piece)

This is what I really reallyyyyy love to eat. Fried smelly tofu!! But I have to be honest and say that the tofu I ate today wasn’t smelly. It tasted like ordinary tofu, not like the first time I laid my mouth on it. I don’t know if it wasn’t fermented enough, if people complained, or if they are getting lazy. All I know was that the smelly tofu isn’t smelly enough! It didn’t leave the smelly taste in my mouth. HAHA

Though I have to compliment the crispness of the tofu. Its still very crispy. Its crispy on the outside, and soft on the inside. So biting into it, the feeling is still quite nice (singlish: shiok). But eat it with the chilli and its still relatively good!

Deep fried Japanese sweetfish (Ayu?)!! 炸多春鱼 ($5.00 a plate/ 6 fishes per plate)

My mummy and I term this fish as the “pregnant” fish because there are like little yellow beady beady stuff inside that looks like fish roe. Till today, I don’t really know whats inside. And I’m guessing its the sweetfish, but I’m not really sure because they didn’t specify what fish. HAHA.

Ok, anywayyyy, the fish was good. It was fried till very crisp so when you bite into it its really crunch. Highly recommended to eat this when its hot otherwise it gets abit soggy. Lots of little yellow stuff inside so it was yummy! If you often eat sweetfish, this would be a nice treat.

On a veryyyy side note, I ate my first sweetfish during a buffet, it was at the hotel next to Mustafa Shopping Centre. The sweetfish there was good but this one was BETTER! (:

Banana leaf wrapped….香蕉叶 ($5.00 a plate)

MWAHAHA. Make a guess whats inside the banana leaf. Just for fun. Made a guess already? The answer will be revealed at the end. HAHA.

Fried Pig intestine 煎大肠 ($3.00 per plate)

BEST DISH OF THE DAY! If you don’t mind eating pig intestines, or maybe you’ve never tried it before and just want to be adventurous, THIS IS THE PLACE TO BE ADVENTUROUS! The pig intestines here are fried to perfection. If you’ve eaten Beijing duck before and you’ve bitten into that crisp skin and say whoopee! then you’ll do the same here.

If you eat it, I don’t really think you’ll think pig intestines, you’ll be like, whats this wonderful piece of heaven?!?!? Cause when my dad and I saw it, we didn’t even remember ordering it. HAHA. So we just tried and we were like 0.0!!! Cause its really great. Best dish by a decade.

Century Egg porridge 皮蛋粥 ($3.00 per bowl)

Not worth it. The bowl of porridge is quite big but its not the thick kind of porridge, not like the one I ate at Yishun, near the petrol station. I mean compare the above picture with this…

Century Egg porridge

Both are century egg porridge but you’ll obviously go for the latter one right? Unless you don’t like thick porridge but prefer the more watery kind one, then you can go for the porridge here. The only reason why I’ll recommend the porridge here is because most of the stuff sold here and fried. So when you eat a little bit of the porridge, it helps you like, “clear” the tastes in your mouth. Quite alot of century egg given. But nothing spectacular.

Ok, time for the “big” reveal. HAHA.

Banana leaf wrapped chicken wing! 香蕉叶炸鸡中翅 ($ for 5 pieces per plate)

Two words: Don’t buy Firstly, the chicken wing is small. They only give you the central portion of the wing. It tastes like something you can totally whip up at home. Like one of those honey flavoured black soy sauce chicken thing. So what for pay money for something you can whip up at home right? So don’t order this, be adventurous and order other dishes!

We also ordered their home-made barley which was too sweet and their soy bean which wasn’t sweet at all (talk about irony). hahaha. Overall it was a good experience because I tasted the best fried pig intestines ever but the smelly tofu was a serious disappointment.

One day when I finally travel to Taiwan, I’ll eat the authentic smelly tofu and I’ll be inanely satisfied!

Here are two random shots of the scenery so you can once again admire the sharpness of the camera. (:

So yea, two recommendations for you all. Buy the camera and try the pig intestines! (: