Had the most insane craving for great desserts recently so we visited the dessert shop at AMK hub!

This is the shop that we visited, its at the 2nd floor near the escalator going up and down to the third floor.

Strawberry Snow Ice

Mango and Strawberry Snow Ice

Tried the 2 different snow ices. They also have mango snow ice and green tea snow ice as well.

The serving is definitely too much for 1! More like for 2 to 3 people to share! The snow ice is really pretty, different from a typical ice kachang!

Because of how the ice is shredded, you feel like the ice melts in your mouth when you eat it. The strawberry is very sweet and the mango is also very thick. So you get very a mouthful of flavours when you eat this! Worth paying SG$4.50 for it!

Mango Sago

Mango Sago

The mango sago wasn’t nice! The mango wasn’t smooth enough, so you tasted the fibres of the mango when eating it. That isn’t a sign of a very good mango sago!

And if you eat the snow ice first, you find that the mango sago isn’t sweet enough! So if you want to order this, you really have to eat it alone or you’ll find it extremely not sweet!

But I wouldn’t recommend you to order this. I’d rather you order the snow ice! (:

Now for the hot dessert!

Was very tempted to order the beancurd cause it was served in a very cute container and everyone around us was ordering it! So we did!

The VERY KAWAII (CUTEEEE) beancurd container and the sweet syrup that comes with it!

Beancurd

The beancurd was EXCELLENT to say the least. It was very smooth, signs of a good beancurd. And yea, what else can I say. Smooth beancurd is very hard to acheive!

Plus it comes in this really extremely cute container and antique bowls that reminds you of eating beancurd in the past!

This is by far the best beancurd I have had and I recommend you all to buy it! Its abit pricey though. I forgot the price… HAHA.

Siew Mai

Lastly had their siew mai which was quite good! You can very obviously see the prawn protruding from the siew mai! And this is the really authentic siew mai not the pork one. So yea, its really nice to eat!

Very delish, and i’m super tempted to eat it again now! HAHA.

So yea, check out this place if you have the time!

Visited two hawker centres today! Hougang hawker centre and Joo Chiat!

First stop was Hougang Hawker Centre!

We had the following three dishes from the same store. Its the store close to a dessert store, its not the front row of shops, but the ones behind.

Yes, I know I sound really confusing but I don’t know how else to describe the stall! haha.

I swear I have to start taking photos of the shopfront!

Carrot Cake

The carrot cake was according to my mummy really nice! To me it tasted ok, pretty average. The chilli wasn’t nice enough.

But the carrot cake was fried pretty well! Worth a try if you don’t really know what you want to eat.

Oyster omelette

The oyster omelette was nice! Nicer then the amk hawker centre one.

They gave more oyster here, bigger, fresher. And the chilli wasn’t as limey so it was nicer to eat. It was fried pretty well and tasted nice!

I swear we’re oyster omelette freaks!

Hokkien Mee

The hokkien mee wasn’t to my mummy’s liking but I actually liked it. It was soupy enough, such that it wasn’t so dry or starchy that I would choke on it.

Similarly, the chilli was passe and not really nice.

Had desserts after this! I really don’t know how to describe the location of the stall but few stores down is the carrot cake store and this dessert store is the cornermost shop!

Tao suan

Tao suan was pretty nice. Because its been cooking since the morning, the beans were nice and soft but still maintained its crunchiness.

Not overtly sweet and the taste was great.

Ah Bo Leng

Ah bo leng! We had the mix one, meaning 2 peanut filling and 2 sesame filling balls! Both of them were really nice. The filling was great. You bite into it and the filling just oozes out.

The peanut soup that goes with it also tasted wonderful.

Wouldn’t advise you to eat it if you have a sorethroat because it would definitely make it worse!

Conclusion: EAT HERE ONLY IF YOUR PASSING BY!

I would rather you go to the nearby hawker centre to eat the famous beef noodle! Cause the food is nice! Or try out the famous duck kway chap from this very hawker store! (:

Now we headed off to Joo Chiat only to realise there wasn’t much to eat!

Briyani

Briyani

So we decided to be lame and ate briyani from 2 different stores! It was really cheap!

SG$3.50 per plate! Which is really cheap for briyani and I guess the serving is just nice for one.

I would say the second store we ate at was better. When you climb up the stairs to the hawker centre, you see a very long queue for the briyani, this is not the one that I feel is better.

Head to the back where there is another briyani store with a slightly shorter queue! This one is better!

Though the one with the longer queue has a much fragrant smelling rice but the curry pales in comparasion to the 2nd store!

All in all though, both stores briyani wasn’t that great!

If you are there, however, near the store at the back, there is a store selling alot of kuehs! And the kuehs there are not bad. So its worth a try and you find more of the uncommon kuehs there as well because its a malay village!

So check out the kueh stores if you are in the area k! (:

All along, my mummy and I have been extremely tempted to buy the cakes from Ikea!

And we finally got around to buying them!

Princess Cake

Princess Cake

Princess Cake

OMG, this cake SUCKED BIG TIME!

NEVER BUY THIS FROM IKEA!! LIKE SERIOUSLY!

We had such high hopes for this cake because it looks seriously extremely pretty and nice. And this is like a traditional dessert from Sweden supposedly served at Swedish celebrations. So obviously, we thought we were in for a sweet treat!

Its description was also very attractive. I can’t remember the description but I rememberd tha it was attractive. Plus its topping of lime green marzipan is really attractive!

But the taste is YUCKS!

Absolutely horrible. The marzipan was too sweet for me and the whole cake just didn’t work out for me.

Ewwww, I couldn’t even finish one slice of the cake.

If you really want to eat a cake from ikea, this is worth a try…

Almond Cake

The almond cake from ikea is pretty nice!

Though the appearance isn’t as attractive as the princess cake, it makes up for it in terms of taste!

It is pretty nutty but there isn’t enough creamy topping for me.The topping is very milky and it just blends very well for the cake.

I loved every bit about it! It was crunchy enough, flavourfu enough and a gabillion times better than the princess cake!!

So if you really must have cake from ikea, try this one out instead!

If you visit Taiwan, you might want to consider picking up this snack:

Its called TAI YANG BING! And the taste is as attractive as the packaging!

When you open the packaging, you can smell the really milky flavour wafting through the air. And taking a bite into it, you can taste the milky flavours and upon tasting the honey filling in the centre, you practically melt!

Thats how delish it is! I really love taiwan snacks cause the packaging is always awesome and the taste is also extremely good!

If you’re looking for a quick lunch fix , I would recommend…

Kraft Mac and Cheese

This is how is looks like after its done:

Its very simple to prepare, you just need butter, milk and the macaroni and cheese mix is given in the packaging!

I cooked the macaroni about 10 minutes, though the packaging said 6-8 but it wasn’t soft enough for me. And I just mixed in the ingredients!

The mac and cheese is cheesy enough. Kraft cheese is always extremely nice and you can taste how great their cheese is in this concoction!

Of coure, I would prefer the cheese to be more cheesy, so I’ll be trying their four cheese next time which should be more cheesy!

But its a really great food to cook if you’re in the rush and you love macaroni like me! (:

Decided to take away Carl’s Junior because we were feeling really hungry one day and the size of the burger is really huge compared to the burger from Macdonalds or burger king!

Double Western Bacon Cheeseburger

Double Western Bacon Cheeseburger

According to the website,this is how they described the burger: “Two Charbroiled All-Beef Patties, Two Strips of Bacon, Two Slices of Melted American Cheese, Crispy Onion Rings and Tangy BBQ Sauce on a Toasted Sesame Seed Bun.”

And though the burger we bought was rather cold when we reached home and kind of soggy, I have to admit that the onion rings still maintained its crunchiness!

And this is probably the best burger from their range!

When you bite into the burger, you don’t just taste the beef patties, but also the bacon’s crisp in your mouth. Coupled with the crispy onion rings and the cheese melting in your mouth, I have to say this is the best burger hands down.

You just keep taking one bite after another with this burger!

It has the most ingredients and all of their ingredients combined together really makes for an awesome burger. Eating there would be even more enjoyable with their free flow of drinks. (:

I really can’t remember the name of this burger! But judging from the looks I’ll say it comes with one beef patty, bacon, onion rings, cheese and sesame seed bun. (:

Comparing just the ingredients of this burger with the double western, the double western wins hands down with two patties.

And comparing taste, I would say that the taste is similar but when you hold the double western burger in your hands, you feel like your getting your money’s worth I guess.

So yea, taste may be siimilar but the double western gives you a more your-indulging-in-sinful-food feeling in comparasion.

Superstar with Cheese

Superstar with Cheese

Described in the website as “Two Charbroiled All-Beef Patties, Two Slices of American Cheese, Lettuce, Two Slices of Tomato, Sliced Onions, Dill Pickles, Special Sauce, and Mayonnaise on a Toasted Sesame Seed Bun.”

Again, it pales in comparasion to the double western!

Because of the lack of onion rings, this burger lacked in the crunchiness. Though there were pickles, but it still couldn’t attain the sort of crunchiness the double western had.

The combination of the ingredients were good but the double western was simply better!

All in all, EAT THE DOUBLE WESTERN BURGER FROM CARL’S JUNIOR!

And you should definitely eat the beef burgers from there and not the chicken ones cause the size really pales in comparasion. Trust me!

frappunccino

DON’T BUY THIS!

The frappuccino doesn’t taste like frappuccino but more like ordinary coffee even I could boil for you! And its really not a good representation of starbucks coffee!

For the price you’re paying for this, you might as well save the money and buy yourself a good cup of coffee from starbucks!

At least there you can smell the aroma of the coffee and you feel like you’re really getting good quality coffee.

Not this poopy frappuccino that sucked.

I got obsessed with Astons after I had it at a hawker centre near AMK hub, more like near Jubilee Complex.

Decided to visit the official branch under Astons because I thought the serving was pretty huge and the food was good.

We went to the one at Sembawang Shopping Centre!

Menu

The variety of food there is quite ok. Mainly chicken fish or steak I guess.

We went there twice and I’ll post all that we ate there in here.

Char Grilled Chicken with fries and mashed potatoes as side

For the sides, you have a variety of choices, fries, onion rings, mashed potatoes, baked potato, salads etc. I would say the best sides are mashed potatoes and fries definitely. (:

The char grilled chicken is nice! The chicken itself doesn’t have much flavour, its mainly the mushroom sauce, which is also the sauce used on te mashed potatoes.

The fries have these chilli flakes scattered over them, which makes them really tasty.

Hickory BBQ chicken with baked potato and onion rings as sides

The bbq sauce didn’t have enough flavour to catch my attention. It as pretty plain and like the char grilled chicken, the chicken itself didn’t have much flavour. Mostly its the sauces that makes the dish work.

And the bbq sauce didn’t work for me in this case.

Also, Don’t try the baked potato!! They didn’t give bacon bits! Which is what makes baked potato awesome. So the whole thing was dull and bleh. And the potato wasn’t baked long enough either.

Sirloin Steak Medium Rare with rice and onion rings

Medium rare is abit bloody but not completely. To me, its the best way to have your steak becaue that way its not very chewy and its just nice and tender. Of course, to each his own.

The sirloin steak was rocking good!!

It had flavour by itself even without the mushroom sauce so you can eat it plain or with the sauce. Either way, its really good!

Very flavourful and at the risk of sounding extremely cliche, it was cooked to perfection.

But the rice, omg the rice, was FREAKING HORRIBLE! Didn’t have any taste whatsoever and it really kind of sucked!

Never order the rice as your side!

This concludes the first time we visited the store. Now for the second time!

Sirloin steak with garden vegetable and onion rings

In order to test the consistency in the sirloin steak, we ordered it again!

And the conclusion is that the size of the sirloin steak is really the luck of the draw. The second time we went the steak is smaller and has more of the fats portion. The first time there was more meat definitely.

HOWEVER…

The steak was still cooked to perfection and it was still very pleasant to eat! (:

Prime Ribeye with mashed potatoes and fries

We tried the Prime Ribeye because we wanted to know the difference between this and the sirloin steak.

The tenderness of the ribeye is better!

Though both the sirloin and ribeye looks the same, the tenderness when you taste it is noticably different.

At first you thought the sirloin was tender, but when you had the ribeye, you realise, theres a whole new level of tenderness!

Teriyaki Chicken with fries and onion rings as sides

The teriyaki chicken was nothing to rave about after we had our sirloin steak and prime ribeye. The sauce didn’t taste like teriyaki sauce, in fact it tasted like the hickory bbq sauce only weaker.

So it wasn’t anything special.

And the bill.

Once again the CONCLUSION!

EAT THE PRIME RIBEYE OR THE STEAK SELECTION ONLY!

If you don’t mind paying abit more for more tender steak, then go for the prime ribeye which is really more tender.

And for the sides, if you’re not a veggie freak like me, I would strongly recommend you take the fries and mashed potatoes as the sides!! (:

All in all, Astons is a good place to hang when you wish to have some western food!

P.S: There is only a slight difference in pricing like $0.35 between the Astons branches and the one in the hawker centre at AMK. So I would recommend you to go to the actual Astons branch because there is aircon!

Portions and the taste is exactly the same. (: