Things I Usually Crave For

Am usually afflicted with these powerful pangs of desire. Grabs me anytime, anywhere - while working, while dozing off to sleep, while running...while studying, bathing - you get the idea. I wonder what sort of a monster I would turn into if I ever become pregnant.

- Big Bird Chicken Rice with a lot, a lot, a lot of chilli!!!!!!!
- Wicked South Indian food - tahu sambal, with spicy, pepper chicken, chicken curry, fried potatoes
- Oriental Crispy Chicken Salad with Thai Sauce and Honey Mustard, Spageddies
- AMK Ave 10 Fried Hokkien Mee with extra lime and chilli
- Grandmother's Firni (Indian dessert made from custard and carrots and nuts)
- Mummy's ladies fingers sabzi
- Nano's shahi paneer
- Power mee goreng - increasingly, I find this so difficult to find :-(( I remember mee goreng tasting so much better when I was younger. Nowadays, there are all bland. Anyone know a good stall?
- Vegetarian Bee Hoon From Maxwell Market soaked in curry sauce and potatoes on the side
- Spizza
- Nachos from Cafe Iguana

Top 3 Places in Singapore For That Perfect Egg And Kaya Toast

Here's a contribution from Gracie - whose obsession with half-boiled eggs never fails to amuse me!! And puzzle, hehe!

1) Opposite Novena Church - there's a row of shops and one of them specialises in eggs and coffee and kaya toast. It was love at first bite. I have never seen egg an egg yolk's skin so firm, yet the white was half-boiled to perfection. And the egg yolk was biggg! A dream come true and an utter delight to slurp down!

2) Ya kun kaya toast (only the original branch at china square) - The others can't match up.

3) Ah Mei kaya toast (railway mail) - 24 HOURS! check out their prata also.. power!

Places NOT to go unless really desperate:

1) Killiney - They kill the eggs. Their coffee take forever and their toast.. i can make better.

2) Wisma Atria's big toast (4th floor, where food culture is) - their eggs don't seem cooked to me.

lovelies, grace

Thanks Grace!

Coffee Connection

Meet my new espresso maker, and coffee grinder.

Bought it from Tangs (Great Singapore Sale now on, hurryy!!!) after looking around a bit, and with enormous help from an excellent sales staff.

I wanted an espresso maker that would let me grind beans and froth milk together all at once - and there was only 1 I saw, that would have set me back by a $1000 bucks.

The sales staff recommended me Morphy Richards espresso maker (only 99 bucks, you guys!!) - and Braun's Coffee Grinder (38 bucks) and I was practically hopping around the store like a happy bunny.

The coffee grinder has measurement marks so you know up to where to put the beans to make 2 cups or more. Then, I headed down to buy coffee beans from Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf ($11.90).

Including the beans, I paid less than $150 for many great tasting cups of office-made Cappucinos, Lattes and Mochas.

Why am I so happy???

Because everything I saw before was more than $200 dollars. This was REALLY a good deal. Especially since I'm buying it for my own use in the office.

See, I'm going to be based in Choa Chu Kang where I will be surrounded by pig farms, and cemeteries and not prata shops where i can head out to in the middle of a work day for my kopi or teh tarik.

And my tastes have changed. I no longer enjoy Nescafe or other instant coffee brands. I like them pure. And real. And no more condensed milk in my tea or coffee anymore.

It's been like that for some time now. But the espresso machine is such a hit at home that I may have to reconsider placing it here.

By the way, there are cheaper alternatives :

You can get a normal coffee filter pot for $58, and buy a milk frother on it's own for $13. Get powder so you won't need to buy a bean grinder.

If it finally moves to my office, I am going to be so popular and sought after........and I do share my things :-)

Gorgeous Pics of Le P'tit Breton

Thanks Yazer, for letting me post these up. They are sooooo pretty. Can't wait to see the rest when your magazine is up!

Check out pictures of Le P'tit Breton from a professional photographer, courtesy of.........

Singapore's Little Brittany

Picture courtesy of

If you've been to Brittany before

And crave her food from Singapore

Then read about this creperie

That'll douse some of that misery

Le P'tit Breton, 200 Upper Thomson Road, #01-11A Thomson Imperial Court

Tel: 62594300

Thursday night, some quasi-members of a food-enthusiasts club of sorts headed down to Upper Thomson Rd to taste la Bretagne (Brittany). It's a region in the north-western part of France. In the picture above, you can see pictures of gorgeous Brittany hanging on the homey, orange walls of the crêperie.

Breton cuisine is traditionally crêpes (pancakes) - either savoury (when made with buckwheat flour) or sweet (usually for desserts), washed down with a bottle of apple cider.

Depending on the sort of crêpes you eat, you can choose to have a light / heavy meal. We tried a variety of different flavoured crêpes - because there were so many types to choose from! And numerous bottles of apple cider! Mais...c'est la Bretagne, n'est ce pas??

a) chicken sausage and eggs

b) smoked salmon and cheese (guy not included as a side dish)

c) bacon and eggs

d) goat cheese and apples

e) apple caramel and chocolate

f) banana caramel and rum

g) simple crêpe made with butter and eggs and lightly sprinkled with sugar
(you can definitely have more than 3 of these over and above your meal as we witnessed and heard about!)

h) crêpe suzette - orange juice, lemon juice and Grand Manier liquor (zesty and citric!)

I know many vegetarians. This is a place you could go to and find something to eat - aside from what we had above, there are other cheesy crêpes as well as with tomato toppings. Plus, their selection of dessert crêpes is amazing so you can even head down there just for some sweet crêpes and cider.

Cider, like beer and wine is vegetarian - so drink away! Else, opt for the coffees on the menus.Another thing I appreciate about this place is that it tries to stay as authentic a crêperie as possible. According to the lady boss, the menu is typical of what you would find in Brittany if you went there.

I wrote a more formal article for a friend who is coming up with his online magazine really soon - check it out!

Cider, Crepes and Conversation

Read about Breton cuisine (from About.com)

http://frenchfood.about.com/od/bretagne/a/brittanyproduct.htm

New York Times

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9B0DE2D91531F931A3575BC0A961948260

Simply Spizza

Frankly, once you've had it, pizza will always be Spizza.



Thin crusted, generously sprinkled ingredients over a soft bed of much cheese AND 26 different flavours to choose from make Spizza my favourite pizza in Singapore.



Unfortunately, they don't do home delivery :-((. But there are many outlets all over the place! Spizza has it's own rewards card - buy 10 spizzas and get the 11th regular sized - FREE! I am 3 spizzas away from my free one!



Tip : I don't know if it's a bad Singaporean habit, but I like to sprinkle chilli padi all over my Spizza, roll it up (yes, it's that thin) and have it like a pizza roll. Somehow, chilli padi in olive oil is just not so hot - but I still get a kick out of it!

An Exercise In Free Will

“The Guest Is God” and “All You Need Is Love”.

Believes Annalakshmi, sang the Beatles, and practised by the volunteers that run the Annalakshmi Indian Vegetarian Restaurant on the 2nd floor of Excelsior Shopping Centre at Coleman Street.

You choose what you like from the buffet spread (includes desserts, tea and coffee) and how much you pay at the end of it all.

The amount you choose to give is viewed as customer feedback and charity.

Even more amazing, is the fact that this restaurant is run by volunteers - right down to the waitstaff and cooks!

It’s an amazing concept and it is really something to see a restaurant as rich as this.

As you eat, intricate Indian artefacts and paintings, that add to the beauty of the experience, surround you.

The décor is a showcase of Indian crafts – right down to the table on which you eat.

There is a wide array of vegetarian North and South Indian dishes to choose from – your typical pooris, naans, vadais, spicy cauliflower, pepper soup, chick pea curry – and lots more.

And all at – $you decide.

For those who never see the light of day from the moment they step into the office till the time they leave, Annalakshmi also does lunch-box delivery at $4 per pack (only with a minimum order of 5 packets).

It comes with bread, rice, yoghurt, 2 dishes, and chips. Contact and menu details are available on their website.

www.annalakshmi.com.sg

Mozerella and Tomato salad

This is not strictly a restaurant rating, but one of my favourite recipies, which you can serve practically anyone - muslim, buddhist or hindu vegetarian etc...



Take the freshest possible tomatoes, cut them up with torn up shreds of fresh buffala mozerella, garnish with fresh basil, season with sea salt and just a touch of pepper, drizzle with olive oil and serve immediately.

Restaurant in Thessaloniki, Greece

This is a recommendation from Maria from Greece. Just in case you ever happen to be Thessaloniki, Greece, check out this restaurant :

"tiganies kai sxares"

"Ou on peut manger surtout de la viande. Avec mes amis on va souvent a ce restaurant parce que la cuisine est très très bonne et on ne paie jamais plus de 11 euros par personne. "

(specialty is meat. I often go there with my friends because the food is very good and we don't pay more than 11 euros per head).

Address :
97 rue Themistokli Sofouli, Thessaloniki, Greece (east of the city)

Merci Maria pour ton recommendation! Dites tes amis de mon blog, et leur encourager de laisser comments et bien sur, ses recommendations aussi!