If you’re up to try something rather exotic then maybe you can try this turtle soup store that my parents and I went to recently. It sells… TURTLE SOUP! And turtle eggs and the likes of it.

Its called Food Odessey (Turtle Soup) which by no means makes any sense to me. Anyway, its located opposite Sembawang Shopping Centre, behind the hawker centre there. Its one of those shops in the row of shophouses.

This is the infamous turtle soup! I know you can’t see any meat or anything, but there are loads of turtle meat inside, and various parts of it.

If you’re curious how turtle meat actually tastes like, i’ll have to say that it tastes like chicken or the likes of it. Nothing exceptional.

But the soup is really think and I think really good for blood circulation and everything. So drink more more more of the soup!

They serve other dishes of which we picked a few. This is eh.. pig liver in black sauce or something to that extent. Its not bad, the pig liver is done well, not too overcooked which makes it chewy.

Deep fried tofu which was pretty well done but I think the taste got abit grotesque by the 2nd or 3rd piece because it isn’t crispy enough and the oil starts to seep out making it really like soggy tofu. But the inside of the tofu is mixed with like carrot strips and stuff so it makes for an interesting tofu-ish but not really exactly tofu taste.

If you catch my drift.

And lastly…

The ngoh hiong which was like insanely well done. Fried to crispy perfection and of course I love the sweet sauce that they give and you just dip in and enjoy every single bit of it.

I really think you should eat ngoh hiong with sweet sauce, otherwise the taste would be insanely incomplete. I’m a sucker for the sweet stuff, so that could be why.

But if you go, you have have to eat the TURTLE SOUP and the NGOH HIONG which are really good. Maybe if you’re feeling gutsy enough, you can even go for the turtle eggs.

Ending off with something my parents caught sight of at our lift landing..

A gigantic moth!! I once saw one as huge in my school. Moths are said to be extremely lucky creatures, so if a moth flies onto you, into your flat blah blah blah it means really good luck is coming your way. And because this is insanely huge, i’ll have to say INSANELY good luck is coming the way of the people living in my block.

I’m just going to go into abit of rant mode before I end off so you don’t really have to read it. HAHA.

Sometimes you make choices different from others, and you see people reveling in their choices and thinking if that person could’ve been you.

You see, the problem with human beings is we always think of the could’ve would’ve and all the ifs. When we could have made those ifs happen but for practical reasons (or so we like to tell ourselves), these ifs forever remain a distant dream.

So when I read about the alternate universe theory, which is this crazy wanked up theory that for every decision that you make, there lies an alternate universe where the decision that you didn’t make exists.

Like if I decided I want breakfast this morning, there lies this alternate universe where I didn’t have breakfast. Pretty bad analogy, but then its the easiest way for people to catch the idea of the theory.

I like to think to myself that for all the wrong decisions and for all the could’ve would’ve and ifs in my life, there is an alternate universe, where another me is living those ifs, those could’ve and would’ve.

And insane as it sounds, it makes me just that bit happier. Knowing that at least some of my dreams could be fufilled in an insane way.

Not that I don’t love my life. I do, but then its always the what ifs. ARGH, I’M RANTING TO NO END.

We went to Great World City today because daddy was craving for the famous prawn mee. We haven’t been there for years mind you.

This is the $4 prawn mee. Obviously the quantity of ingredients they give is much lesser than years before. They only give one piece of meat now! HAHA.

This is the $5 prawn mee! The meat given is also one piece but a bigger piece with lots of soft cartridge.

BUT!

The main ingredient of the prawn mee is the PRAWN and the SOUP. Those two are the main characters.

The prawn is still as fresh as yesteryears and the soup is abit more bland compared to the past and abit salty for my taste. But daddy was perspiring just from eating it so I guess its still almost as good as the past.

The soup stock having been boiled for hours with tons of prawn heads has the sweetness of the prawn and coupled with some seasoning, makes for a really good soup.

Its worth a try and if you’re really a crazy prawn mee fan, you can even try the $8 prawn mee. If you do, you MUST let me see the picture of it. I wonder how many pieces of meat do you get… HAHA.

I went for the trusty and old brand carrot cake that has been there for ages and passed down through the generations. They have an outlet at peoples park, but this store at great world is manned by the father whiles the other manned by the child.

So comparatively, its supposed to be better.

You see the old man frying each plate slowly and with concentration, as though just by using all that bit of concentration he could make the carrot cake taste that much better.

He never hurries, so if you’re an impatient soul you might want to eat other stores.

I have to say that the carrot cake was abit disappointing because the taste was quite like that of other carrot cake stores. It wasn’t fried so crispy and it was abit too oily for my liking.

HOWEVER, I have to add that the carrot cake is one of the softest I have ever tasted and it doesn’t taste like those machine made carrot cake where it gets really hard. And even though the carrot cake is so sinfully soft in your mouth, he doesn’t break them into a billion pieces though he seems to fry them haphazardly.

So I guess it is pretty worth to eat it. Its $3.50 for a plate which is relatively more expensive and the quantity is not as much as desired. But just paying for the skill of the old man and his years filled of experience, I guess its worth a try if you’re in the area.

Other dishes you can try is the kuay teow which has an insanely long queue during lunch time since donkey years ago and the queue is still as long. And also the fish soup. Basically the shops with the long queues have pretty good food. Typical singaporean mentality.

After that, we walked around great world city and I saw this gorgeous pair of boot like shoes in Zara and its about $89.90? But the cutting didn’t fit me and its mighty expensive for someone my age no?

Started trying on the caps at Espirit and I really LOVE this style of hats, its really chic and cool to me. Its $29.90. But I didn’t buy it because I NEVER wear caps. I should consider starting to wear them because they look realyl stylish. Ah well.

Ending off this post, with a picture of me!!

I really need to dye my hair again, it looks BLACK. hahaa. And I got my awesome shirt from bugis for $10! Long tees are my obsession recently!

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! (: