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. (:

My uncle recently brought my parents to check out the Wii set at one of the stores in AMK and he recommended some food stores there. So we went to check it out!

This hawker centre is located directly opposite the Kbox Plaza. Kbox Plaza is at 4190 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6. Its this big black building with Suki Sushi (Which rocks!) and long john silvers on the first floor.

Anyway, opposite it is this hawker centre that is said to be hiding great food!

Oyster Omelette

The oyster omelette tasted like the one from Maxwell Centre. Its not bad, the oysters are big. But the chilli was too limey! So it turned out pretty sour!

But its not bad. Worth a try if you like oyster omelettes!

Curry Beehoon

Curry Beehoon

The curry beehoon had quite a long queue so we expected it to be quite nice.

But our verdict was that it was average!

The curry was ok, in fact I can’t really remember the taste now. But they are quite generous with their ingredients I guess. So yea, quite ok. But I don’t think it would really tempt me to eat it again.

We also ate the famous carrot cake there! But I can’t find the picture anywhere!!

Anyway, so famous this carrot cake was that it SOLD OUT 5 minutes after we ordered at night.

And the carrot cake was good!! Nice but then not the best I’ve eaten definitely!

So once again to conclude…

EAT HERE ONLY IF YOUR PASSING BY!

No need to go down specially to have a meal here cause the food is pretty ordinary. And you can get these dishes pretty much everywhere. Maybe just give the carrot cake and omelette a try. The beehoon is … just average i guess. (:

Oh ya, if your inside AMK Hub, you might want to consider buying this..

Its really cute looking! The taste is ordinary but then it looks really cute right! You can buy one for your girlfriend or parents or something!

Its from the Bread for life store, its a pushcart store I think found in the basement level or something. Just look out for it!

Ever since my classmates raved about how great manhattan fish market was, I’ve been dying to try it!

So my parents and I went to dine at the branch in Bishan Junction 8 (Northpoint is opening one soon!)

Now the branch at bishan is quite small and the design rather odd because my parents and I couldn’t differentiate the front of the store and the back of the store. We ended up waiting at the back of the store but was redirected, walking directly through the store, to the front of the store. Sounds complicated?

Trust me, I was half lost in the process!

Because there weren’t seats available, unless we sat outside, my parents and I decided to wait.

Here is where I have to commend them on their SERVICE! While we stood there waiting, they served us free drinks in these mini plastic cups to ensure that we could sort of quench our thirst while waiting.

And this was greatly appreciated by us.

Anyway, we decided on our orders before entering!

We ordered the set meals which would come with a soup of the day and a drink (either peach tea, lemon tea or blah blah blah can’t remember)

Soup of the day!

I can’t remember the name of the soup but I expected it was one those mushroom soups that taste pretty much like Campbell. So I got a shock when I stirred the soup and found SOTONG!!

Though I’m not a big fan of sotong, I have to say that the soup already impressed me because it shows that they aren’t stingy with their ingredients. The sotong was not fresh enough though, kind of like those frozen seafood.

Another proof that they aren’t stingy in the slightest…

GIANT CUPS OF LEMON TEA!

Or peach tea or whatever drink you order! The cup is seriously huge, I mean just drinking that whole cup of drink and you would be full.

So anyway, our main courses arrived soon after!

Seafood Gumbo

Garlic Rice and Bread

For the seafood gumbo, you can choose either garlic rice or chips and we went for the garlic rice.

BEST DISH OF THE DAY! The only right decision we made that day actually!

It costs I think SG$11.90. And the sauce is really cheesy to me and tastes really good with the rice. It comes with prawn, squid, fish, carrots and brocolli!

The ingredients given are alot and I think the sauce really wins anyone over. Coupled with the really extremely fragrant rice, its really the best dish!

Manhattan Fish and Chips

Garlic, mayonaise and chilli sauce

The fish and chips were simple a disappointment! It tasted pretty much like the fish and chips from fish and co.

Which sucks.

I mean the batter is pretty average and the fish has this fishy taste which I hate. I know they use dory fish but then they can’t get rid of that really strong fishy taste.

Though the serving is really huge, in this case it worked against it. Being really huge, it was one big pain in the butt trying to finish the fish and chips.

But its quite cheap at SG$9.90. But it sucks.

Seafood linguine

Can’t really remember the name but I know it costs SG$14.90.

It was pretty average?

Its personally my first time eating linguine and so I have rather high expectations for it, expecting it to be really flavourful and all that.

But for this one, the taste was kind of flat. All of the ingredients were just lightly seasoned with pepper and sort of grilled. I only enjoyed the prawns which were really fresh. But then I enjoyed it because I love its natural flavour.

The portion of the food was good, very filling. But the taste of the food fell pretty flat. Eating the linguine after awhile was like eating plain porridge or something. The taste simply wasn’t exciting enough!

So in conclusion…

THE SEAFOOD GUMBO ROCKS!

Though it doesn’t come with soup of the day but its really the best! And the rice is overthetop nice!

So yea, I would recommend going to the fish mart but please don’t eat the fish and chips! It sucked! and don’t go to fish and co to eat the fish either!

Eat the seafood gumbo or the flaming prawns! It will rock your world! (:

Naive little me was excited as I thought I will be experiencing the longest solar eclipse of the Twenty-First Century. This one will last six minutes and 39 seconds at its maximum point over the Pacific Ocean. I set my trusty alarm clock to go off at 8am, as the eclipse was to happen at 8.45am and 9.45am according to the local news.

I woke up to grey skies and a light drizzle. I waited and the skies were getting darker by the minute (ohhh…I was getting excited) and by 8.45am, it started pouring, then it got brighter and brighter. What no total darkness? Hey I thought, there is always the 9.45am one to catch. So I went about with my daily routine and when 9.45am came, still nothing, just rain and cloudy skies. I can’t imagine having dark cloudy skies ruin my experience of a lifetime. Neither did I get to see it or experience the “total Darkness’. Sigh…so much for the anticipated Solar Eclipse of the Twenty-First Century. I’m really bumped out, cause I definitely won’t be around for the next lengthy solar eclipse in 2132.

There are of cause lots of concern about the solar eclipse arising from superstitions.

In Thailand astrologers predicted the eclipse will bring misfortune to the country in the form of natural disasters and another coup.

This prompted a sudden surge of people flocking to amulet shops in doves to purchase charms that ward off bad luck and negative effects that the solar eclipse might have on them.

In India, astrologers predict a rise in volience and chaos particularly in India, China and other Southeast Asian Countries. Most prophecies are filled with bad luck and dread of one kind or another.

Pregnant women were advised to stay indoors to prevent their babies from developing birth defects caused by the sun’s invisible rays.

Obviously there is no need to get too alarmed, as the solar eclipse is a natural phenomenon.