Travel Food Tripping at: Singapore

Part 2 of Singapore Food Tripping! Keep in mind that this post is LOADED with photos!

Before I flew to Singapore, I asked Sophie to help me out on the "must eat" dishes and she gave me quite a list! It was unfortunate that I wasn't able to try most of her suggestions as we have this thing of eating at the nearest restaurant once we're hungry and most of the time, when that happens, we're not even close to the area of her suggestions! Oh well, I'm sure they'll be next time!

I'm quite proud of ourselves as we tried quite a number of food and most of them did not disappoint us!

First Stop --- Chinatown

It was a long stretch of street selling different merchandise! It was hot, humid and we were starting to get hungry after our last stop at a Camera Store! Quite funny how we ended up going to a camera store, of all places --- Chinatown!

There was a strip of restaurants on the right hand side and we've decided just to go on and choose whichever restaurant that shows photos of food we fancy! *laughs* Not a good idea as photos can be deceiving!

We stopped by Wan Tang Eating House Tai Pei Seafood because we checked out the menu and food seems to be interesting!

Of course, we must order our drinks first! I went for Sugarcane Juice while Mr. AMW (obviously) went for his trustee Coca-Cola.

Coca-Cola SGD1.5

Sugarcane juice SGD2.00

Fried Rice

SGD5.00

Oh my! This fried rice is THE BOMB! I can eat this on its own and it has a good serving of shrimps!

Mixed Satay with Peanut Sauce
SGD10.00

10 small sticks of Satay and we requested for combination of chicken, pork, beef and mutton. The sticky rice that you see on photo is actually nice! The peanut sauce is perfect for both the Satay and my "spring rolls". Out of all the kinds of meat I've tried, my favorite would be the chicken meat! I've always been a chicken meat lover! :) One small complaint, the meat are just too tiny (to be seen by naked eye) *just joking*!

Springrolls

SGD8.00

Nice for a couple of pieces but it gets to be boring once you eat more than 2! (personal opinion) For local readers, imagine Lumpiang Ubod with just the "ubod" inside. I was hoping for mixed vegetables. But yeah, no complaints.. I'm not in the Philippines! :P

I like the fact that its super crunchy when served!

Second Stop: Little India

Who would've thought that after a filling lunch, we would go and sit inside another restaurant for another food trip? Well, Mr. AMW is a fan of Kebabs or Kababs or whatever meat on sticks! As we passed by an Indian restaurant, he saw a guy making his red hot chicken kabab and he wanted to give it a try!

He makes a wish, I grant his wish! We actually went in Blue Diamond Restaurant (Indian Muslim Food) and sat inside for 1 order of Chicken Kabab and Naan. We didn't ask for spoons and forks as we want the ultimate experience. Ultimate because it was literally smokin' hot! But we managed to help feed each other! *sweet* LOL!

The order came and we were both staring at the "neon green" sauce!

We washed our hands and we're GAME!

Naan Bread

SGD1.75

Chicken Kabab

SGD6.00

The chicken, as you can see on photo is orange-y red in color and in taste, its super spicy! Thank God for the lemon as the lemon helped ease the spiciness and it was really good! Together with Naan bread and the green neon sauce? It's even better than what we had back home!

Third Stop: ION Orchard Mall's Food Court

Just take a look how classy the food court looks at the ION Orchard Mall! This turned out to be our favorite stopover for dinners as we had our dinner here twice for the trip. It's always busy with friends meeting up after work to enjoy relaxation and a bit of chit chat!

Laksa

SGD6.80

Here goes the famous Laksa from Singapore! I've seen a lot of people ordering this so I gave it a go too! The bowl is huge and it looks like this....

What I like about ordering noodles in Singapore is the fact that you can choose the "type" of noodles you want! I asked the lady which one's the best for her and she gave me these. Good amount of noodles + huge shrimps + tofu = super full Nikki!

I may not be a coconut lover but Laksa was okay for me. It's an acquired taste. The soup is actually good and tasty but I can only enjoy half of the bowl as the noodles absorbed the soup and I was ended up with super fat noodles!

Kway Teow Soup

SGD7.00

Because Mr. AMW is not a fan of coconut based dishes, he ordered a chicken stock soup called Kway Teow Soup. For this soup, you can choose small, medium or large orders and he got the medium size and it filled his tummy!

The soup is very tasty and the fish balls are actually good, quite smooth to bite and not the "rubbery" kind.

Same as my Laksa, he got to choose his favorite type of noodles and he went for the flat rice noodles (his favorite).

Fourth Stop: Universal Studios Singapore

I strongly suggest anyone visiting Sentosa Island to have a quick stopover at any bread shop and stock on breads just in case you get hungry while you're lining up for rides! It really helps and we survived to have lunch at 4:00pm!

Because of our hunger, I didn't get the breakdown of the meal but the total would be SGD18.30 for the lasagna and pizza.

Beef Lasagna

Quite good and can fill in any hungry stomach but I missed Sbarro back home!

Pepperoni Pizza

Huge thin crust pizza that's soft on the outside and chewy on the inside.

So-so pizza to fill in an empty stomach too!

The place is really nice and the positive thing of eating late is we have the restaurant "almost" to ourselves!

Commercial Break - SNACKS

In between subway stations, we do stop over at various malls (which we can't seem to keep track on their names anymore). On every mall's food court, we seem to have seen similar names of food stalls and one of them is DDM (Dong Dae Mum). Because of my love for Korean snacks, we went on to give their street food a try!

Korean food in Singapore! I like that! :P

Bulgogi Assorted Sticks

SGD3.80

We ordered Bulgogi Pork, Bulgogi Chicken and Bulgogi Beef

All of them tastes yummy!!! The man beside me (photo below) actually ordered a couple of sticks with rice and he's solved for dinner!

Fifth Stop - Plaza Singapura

Plaza Singapura is just a few minutes walk from Innotel Hotel. When I saw MOS Burger, I actually asked Mr. AMW to give it a try as I've had MOS Burger years ago in Taipei Taiwan and its quite famous there! To local readers, MOS Burger is like the equivalent of Jollibee in Taiwan!

Yakiniku Rice Burger

SGD3.80

Similar to Sango's Yakiniku Burger but I like Sango's version better. I do like this when I was on the middle portion as that's were most of the sauce are!

MOS Cheese Burger

SGD3.70

Ahh, never fails! I can still remember the first bite of MOS Cheeseburger more than 8 years ago in Taiwan and it brought back memories! *sentimental mode* :P

The burger is just regular burger but what makes MOS burger unique is the "chili meaty sauce" that comes between the burger, cheese and bread!

Commercial Break - McDonald's Singapore

We never missed McDonald's when we travel. It's probably because Mr. AMW likes seeing what McDonald's of different countries has to offer!

In Singapore, it's the Chicken McGrill Burger. Macau or Hong Kong I think offers this? We used to have this way back in Manila but I don't know why it's gone! McDonald's Philippines, if you're reading, please bring this back! This is a healthier choice to all health-conscious out there!

Chicken McGrill Burger

SGD4.85 A La Carte

Really, really...mouth-watering good!

Meiji Milk and Coffee Flavoured Milk

2 for SGD4.15

Can be bought at convenient stores. Really good quality milk!

Sixth Stop - Lau Pa Sat

Finally, we tried a hawker place in Singapore! Lau Pa Sat is one of the many famous hawker places and I'm super happy to have found one! This one you can visit by going out of the Raffles Place Station.

We took a quick walk to all the stalls to see which ones caught our interest. Mr. AMW just can't get enough of the Fishball Noodle so we stopped by Fishball Noodle Stall!

The guy makes it in front of you and again, you get the choose your favorite type of noodles!

Fishball Noodles

SGD4.00

I like this better than the first one we tried at ION Orchard Mall's food court. The fish balls tastes really good!

Hainanese Chicken Rice

SGD4.50

What's the point of going to Singapore and not give their Hainanese Chicken a try? I finally did and it was really good! From the sauce, to the tasty chicken, to the green veggies and egg? It was a perfect meal!

No, I wasn't THAT hungry! hahaha

After a good meal, we walked around to enjoy looking at what Lau Pa Sat Hawker place has to offer and I randomly saw Pig's Organ Soup. Whoever wants to give it a try....you know where it is! Street 1 at the Lau Pa Sat! :)

Then right at the center of the food place, there's Shanghai Xiao Long Bao stall! Old time reader of my blog would know that I'm with the Xiao Long Bao Master --- Mr. AMW! He has to give this a try no matter how full we are!

I watched how the man carefully makes his Xiao Long Bao! It was perfectly done and very hygienic!

Pork Xiao Long Bao

SGD4.00

The pork meat tastes just right, not too salty nor bland. The soup was still inside and it tastes just like the ones we had in Shanghai!

Seventh Stop: Back to ION Orchard Mall

There are so many stalls needed to be discovered at the mall's food court so we had to go back! We saw a nice Hong Kong Roast place called Guan Chee.

Roasted Pork with Rice

SGD8.00

They also give you a choice of Small, Medium and Large order and we chose the medium one! It was the best Roasted Pork I've tried to date! Really tasty and the meat is juicy! The sauce was also drizzled over the rice!

A closer look...I'm in love!

Char Kway Teow

SGD4.50

I won't forgive myself if I never tried Char Kway Teow in Singapore. The fried, flat rice noodle dish is prepared right in front of me using dark soy sauce, egg, Chinese sausages and a whole lot more! This was a "small" order but its good to share for me!

Commercial Break - Good Luck BBQ Chicken Wings

Did some take out for BBQ Chicken Wings and more Satay sticks!

Because we're pigs that way! :P

Another quick commercial

Found myself a banner for Ask Me Whats!
*lol* Ben & Jerry's, Please do not sue me!

Eighth Stop - Kopitiam at Plaza Singaura

The number 8 is lucky for Chinese and our 8th stop is a meet-up with fellow Filipina blogger based in Singapore, Mhean! Mhean is a blogger friend whom I got to chat online but never get to meet! It was fun to finally meet her AND in Singapore! I really appreciate this as she took a half day leave just to be able to meet up with me as the place she works is really far from where we were!

I really appreciate the effort and the lunch! Oh my, we had one of the best meals before we left Singapore!

Indonesian BBQ Fish

Indonesian Chicken BBQ

Rice drizzled with Curry

Keith and I enjoyed the Indonesian BBQ dishes and I'm glad we have someone to guide us to a good place to fill our tummy before we left for airport! It was a short, yet, super memorable meet-up as I remembered yakking away with Mhean like we were friends for life!

As if the meal wasn't enough, Mhean went ahead and introduced us to....

Chendol

Chendol is like their local version of our halo-halo. For Chendol, the dessert's ingredients consists of Coconut Milk, a worm-like jelly made from rice flour, shaved ice, palm sugar, red beans, etc...The dessert is perfect for the sweet tooth but I felt bad I wasn't able to finish this as I'm super full!

Mhean, thank you so much for lunch! I am hoping to meet you again when you visit Manila! :)

Now, my Singapore food tripping post is finally over! Thank you so much for reaching the bottom part! I hope you enjoy looking at the photos as much as I enjoyed eating them! *laughs* I know, life is unfair! :P

I wish to go back to Singapore someday for more food tripping!
What's your favorite Singaporean dish?

Keep smilin'
Stay happy!

Travel Food Tripping at: Watami Singapore + Meetup with the #evurl Girls

This weekend food tripping post is dedicated not only for my Singapore travel but also for my dearest friends online --- PB, Xin, Connie, Bee and Rinnah.

Most of the girls have been my online friends since the year I started blogging, we email each other or chat with each other not only about beauty but we do check how each of us were on random days!  The girls are so sweet to include me in the monthly Beauty Roundup !  Though adopted, I felt I belong.

The day has finally arrived, we've been talking about the meetup for quite some time and mind you, some of these girls have to fly all the way from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for the weekend just to make this "dinner" happen!  *super touched*

The place was easy to find, the girls gave me a very clear instructions!  I actually got there late not because the place was hard to find, I got there a bit late because of the funny MRT story!  

We were greeted with a huge menu!  *stomach grumbles* 
By the way, thanks girls for ordering in advance and the food came in right when I was getting hungry! :P

Kari Kari Pasta

Crispy Capellini

Very unique appetizer.  Deep-fried pasta sticks with flavoring and I found myself munching this a lot!  If only I can make this at home? 

Crispy Potato

In simple term, we just call this French Fries.  The Watami version of Crispy Potato has a bit of sour cream powder which gives a nice hint of flavoring on the very crispy fries.

Assorted Sashimi

The 2 shrimps were staring right at me so I got intimidated and did not even try this dish!  *lol*

Watami Salad

Special Watami Salad with Tuna Mayo

Really nice salad to start a meal!  I like the very fresh vegetables with nice tuna mayonnaise that's not overpowering.  All the ingredients mixed together gave a nice burst of flavors inside the mouth.

Kushi Moriawase

Assorted Skewer

I love skewers and this gave me a huge satisfaction.  'Nuff said!

Watami Tonkotsu Ramen

Marinated pork slices and noodles in special pork broth

I did not try much of this but Mr. AMW finished this up and told me the soup was super tasty and flavorful!  I agree!  I love soup and I was able to give this a try and it wasn't oily at all like other soups served in other restaurants.

Ika Maru Yaki

Grilled Squid

Reminded me of Gerry's Grilled Squid.  Soft and easy to chew and the flavor is just right.

Kimchee Nabe

Spicy kimchee pot with pork in pork broth

Cooked

Anything with kimchee gives me the excitement!  The soup may turn out quite red but its not as spicy as it looks!  I'm glad the girls also love soup so we always ask for "soup refills"! 

 

Atsuage Okaka Itame

Bite sized Tofu on Hot Pan

Tofu, tofu..how I love thee? 

I love the crispy thing on top of the tofu.  I don't know how to call them but it adds to the texture of the soft tofu.

Tori Karaage & Negi Pirikara Sauce-gake

Crispy fried chicken with spicy sauce

I'm glad I popped in an anti-histamine pill before this dinner!  I'm glad to have tasted this crispy chicken in a sauce so unique I haven't tried it back home! :)

On to the dessert!  These girls know how to enjoy food and I'm glad I'm with this bunch as food is as important as makeup!  *laughs* What a comparison!  Don't mind me, I'm just hungry as I'm typing this post!

Creme Brulee

Cream pudding

Reminded me of the various Panna Cotta I've tried back home.  This has got to be my favorite among the rest of the dessert!  What's important for me is the fact that the Creme Brulee is not that sweet!  I know desserts should be sweet but when the sweetness overcame the taste of creme, it's a huge no-no for me!

Maccha Tiramisu

Green tea flavored Tiramisu

The Tiramisu melts into the mouth with a hint of bitterness from the Maccha powder.  It's unique and flavorful!

Sumiyaki Coffee Jelly

Coffee flavored jelly

I'm a fan of coffee but this coffee jelly has a strong coffee taste!  Definitely not for the faint-hearted :)

Hot Choco Brownie

Chocolate brownie with ice cream and hot choco sauce

It wasn't that hot when we get to have a bite as we all took turns taking photo of this lovely creation!  The mix of vanilla ice cream + choco brownies + choco syrup melts perfectly into the mouth! 

Chocolate Fondant Cake

with Vanilla Ice cream

Quite similar to the Chocolate Brownie we had on photo above but the difference is the texture of the cake.  The fondant cake..obviously is softer on the inside and has a unique crunch on the outside.  Perfect with a blend of Vanilla ice cream!  You just can't go wrong combining anything chocolate with vanilla!

After dinner, we took crazy, fun shots with each other!  I had fun meeting the girls and I wish we could stay and bond longer!!!!

We vouched to each other that this won't be the last meetup!  Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines aren't that far and thanks to budget airlines, meetups can be possible! :)

We had a nice, quiet walk at Clark Quay area as Bee explained to me the "must visit" places and the "must try" food!  Thanks for the tips and thanks again girls for the wonderful time!

Mr. AMW took this shot of us posing on random human shaped rocks!  *lol*

I have another meet up with a lovely Filipina blogger based in Singapore --- Mhean!  I will post about it soon together with the food that drove me crazy! :P

Thanks to blogging for giving me the opportunity to meet more people who share the same passion as myself!  Thanks to YOU for always reading my posts and hearing what I have to say!

Love you guys!
Keep smilin'
Stay happy!