Seoul Garden Hot Pot @ HarbourFront Centre

Had a team lunch here, and it was really not bad. Quite affordable, lunch sets were around $10 or perhaps slightly more if you add in dessert and a drink.


Here is my kimchi seafood pot. It comes with korean tang hoon (glass noodles) inside so its really filling. I didnt eat much of my rice. Top up about $3 for korean banchan (side dishes) like pickles.


This really refreshing korean ginseng drink with red dates costs only $3.90 and it tastes good. Healthy too.


Spent the weekend with batman and princess aurora.


we also went to Ryan's 6th party. Cutie totally had fun.


Sweetie too.



Check out the Angry Birds cake! So cute!

Still Eating Packed Lunches

This is duck noodles $3.50 from that new food court at the first floor of HarbourFront Centre. It used to be a halal food court, and now they split into 2, one halal and one not. This duck noodle stall also serves kway chap.

It was ok.. at least I got to eat it while it was hot.

Typical Lunches these days...

... are tarpowed food from the hawker centre or food court, hastily gobbled up in between meetings. Sometimes, I dont even get to eat it when it is still warm.

It has been a string of busy busy weeks... months even. No break in sight.

Various Random Meals at Different Places

Porridge Breakfast

My friend from the office usually eats at Maxwell food market before coming to the office... and today he kindly bought chicken porridge for me... from the famous stall with long queues - Zhen Zhen porridge!

The porridge was smooth and slurpy and the preserved veg on top made this very tasty.

Lunch at Banquet Food Court, Harbourfront Centre

When I eat at Banquet, I almost always eat the nasi padang, which is the best stall there because of its wide selection, tasty and freshly cooked dishes and reasonable prices.

The above costs just SGD4.50. I usually eat the exact same thing: beef lung, chili eggplant and chili cuttlefish. It's spicy, but not overwhelmingly so and the gravy is different for each dish, so there is a variety.

Paktor Dinner at Old Airport Road Food Centre

DH and I went for a paktor dinner, but I cannot remember why. Maybe we just decided to go for an impromptu one. Anyway this was some time back, before the Tasmania trip, so I think it's high time we had another one.

Maybe this friday, but I am a little stretched at work right now, so I am rather grumpy and not very good company.
I couldn't decide what to eat because all the good / famous food stalls seem to have closed. I guess it's because their business is so good they are sold out by lunchtime.

This is Lao Fu Zi Char Kway Teow. Also rather famous I believe. I liked it but I really don't enjoy eating one plate of char kway teow to myself. I prefer to share it with a few others and eat something less heavy and oily but no choice. DH doesn't really care much for this.

DH queued up for wanton mee from Hougang.

I thought it was ok only. The sauce was sweetish and the noodles were not that springy.

He bought extra fried wontons (SGD2) which we couldnt finish. I don't like deep fried things much. These were very crispy, because there was little filling, and so the wonton skins were crunchy.

I bought ngor hiang (SGD2) gto share also. We both like the white cracker best, but didn't care for the sausage thing.

RamenTen @ HarbourFront Centre

I stumbled upon this place after running errands, and was hoping to find a quick, yet interesting, meal.

RamenTen (HarbourFront Centre, 2nd floor, next to Pasta Mania) appears to have just opened. It had all these congratulatory flower arrangements at its entrance, and everything looked clean and spanking new.

Well, then this might just be the first review of this place! :) Although, I have ascertained that it also has outlets at Far East Plaza and Ang Mo Kio.

Halal ramen. Hmmm. So no tonkatsu (pork cutlets) and no tonkotsu (pork bone soup). How will it fare?


salmon hana sushi (SGD3.90). This was not very good. The rice was hard, and the fish was thin. Interestingly, instead of a blob of mayonnaise topped with tobikko (flying fish roe), they put tuna mayo instead. That is creative. However, as you can tell from the photo, the sushi was, on the whole, rather poorly made, so I think I would skip this next time.

Dry teriyaki chicken ramen (SGD9.80) - this was a recommended dish. In the menu, it had a thumbs up sign, and the waitress specifically recommended this too. It was interesting. Dry ramen is definitely a localised invention. Ramen was fat, but springy. Thumbs up there. The sauce was a thickened up teriyaki sauce - slightly sweet, slightly salty. Went quite well with the ramen. The chicken was unfortunately dry and slightly powdery. So it didn't actually tempt my tastebuds all that much.

Overall verdict - I'd give this a miss, unless you are on a budget or you really have no choice.

sliced fish ban mian @ Food Junction Harbourfront Centre

After a grueling gym session (no it wasn't that grueling really, it just sounds better when I say that, rather than admit that I went to the gym because I got a free pass for 1 week and didn't want to waste it), I wanted to have a healthy meal.

So sliced fish ban mian sounded very healthy to me. Interestingly it came in a steamboat pot, with a burning white piece of wax placed in the centre to keep this thing hot. Not bad. It wasn't too salty, and it was not too MSG-laden (I didn't have a terrible thirst after, but I figure all food court stalls add a little bit of MSG to their food). It was really quite tasty and comforting, all for SGD4.50.