Address: Raffles Hotel

Cocktails
Daily – 11:30 am to 12:30 am
Lunch
Monday to Saturday – 11:30 am to 2:00 pm
Brunch
Sunday – 11:30 am to 2:30 pm
Afternoon Tea
Monday to Saturday – 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Sunday – 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Dinner
Monday to Saturday – 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

A colonial yet stylish restaurant that serves an international buffet lunchat S$58++.

There is a great spread of international dishes. Many people went straight for the boiled prawns, sashimi & raw oysters.I only had 1 oyster though cos I was with my clients. It will be kind of weird for me to load my plate with raw oysters. -_-"

I like this particular appetiser section. There are bite-sized Foie Gras & Duck Confit Opera cake, Duck Liver 'Au Torchon' on pistachio biscotti & asparagus mousse & etc. I love the Duck-and-don't-know-what-in-jug till I had 3 big spoonful of it. It likes home-made tuna and obviously, taste so much better!

There is a whole counter of cheese. The choice is not too bad. Too bad I dislike cheese. I saw the "smelly" goat cheese too. But I had none. YUCKS!

There is a big spread and choice of cooked food. From scallops, salmon, veal, pork, beef to prawns. Fabulous, indeed.

I personally love the desserts. Lots of chocolate! My favourite!

Recommendation: 4/5. Price is kind of steep. Luckily, it's paid by company. Hee… 

I LOVE MACARONS, especially those from Bakerzin. 

A little history about macarons: "Dating back to the 18th century, the macaron is a traditional French pastry, made of egg whites, almond powder, icing sugar and sugar. This sweet pastry came out of the French courts' baker's oven as round meringue-like domes with a flat base."

They are so yummilicious!

S$1 for 1 macaron. Too bad, the promotion is over. S$1.60 per piece, if you are keen to try. By the way, the chocolate macarons ROCKS!

LE CAFE CONFECTIONERY & PASTRY
264 Middle Road
Tel: 6337-2417
Website: http://www.lecafe.com.sg/

Ratings: 8.5/10 Must-Try!

I love the bean curd tarts, pineapple tarts, coffee cookies, moonpies & of cos, my favourite, rum balls!!!!!!! 

BUT they will stop selling the rum balls after December 2008. So sad! No more rum balls once again!?!?!? *sigh*

Anyway, I am kind of lazy to blog more about the pastry cos I feel so tempting to eat up my bean curd tarts now. So you can refer to the following sites for more information. After all, I concur with what they had written minus the comments given by the readers about the auntie. She is very friendly, not air and confirm not attitude. I was even offered free samples. Yum Yum!

Time Facade 

Hungry Go Where

Asia One – They were featured in asiaone.com too.

Food Paradise 

16 Raffles Quay #B1-16 Hong Leong Building Singapore 048581
Singapore 048581

Telephone: 62217781,62217782

My boss, TYP & I were at Nanten for dinner just now. In fact, the RC members were planning to have a farewell dinner for our Texas boy there in the next few weeks. But who knows, the email I sent out to my boss, tempted her. Instead of our dinner appointment this coming Friday, it was changed to tonight instead.

It was my first time there, in fact, though I had walked past the restaurant since last year when I was still with this particular insurance company upstairs. Never had a chance to dine there cos it was way too expensive for my colleagues to handle.  

Anyway, talking about the food. Sashima is not too bad. What I like about them is the portion of food is huge. They are not stingy at all. 

Overall, worth checking it out especially when I am super duper full now and brain isn't working at all. 

FINALLY, I made my way to Disney Naturally.

Kind of disappointed. The size of the restaurant – small. In fact, it took up the ex A&W space.

Buddy Sim & I took up Table 1 (Snow White table). Sadly, the menu has limited varieties of food. Pasta of the day were Spag with beef sauce or Marcaroni with cheese. We chose the latter cos Buddy Sim does not take beef. Soup of the day was Cream of Mushroom which we did not order. There was some weird lamb stew, which we decided to give it a miss. We then ordered a Pizza (Minnie's xxxxxxx – name, unable to recall) which tasted like Hawaiian Pizza. 

Dessert of ours. Jason had an ice cream cake. 3 different flavours with Minnie's picture "printed" on the cake. Actually, to be frank, the cake seemed like Swenson-lookalike cake. Mine was an ice-cream named Ryan's xxxxxx (I don't really like the name, Ryan though). Duh……….. It's actually 2 scopes of ice-cream of your choice with 2 cookies & chocolate sauce. If I am not wrong, the ice-cream is either from Magnolia or Kings.

Our drinks were fruit punch. Please take note that they do not serve Iced Lemon Tea. Drinks are also pretty limited.

There is also a merchandise corner. I got myself a pack of expensive Winnie the Pooh gummy candy which cost me S$3.20 & a Mickey Mouse tee.

The attraction of the place will be the decorations. Cute and colourful. As for the food wise, we find it rather steep especially the food is seriously catered for kids. Quality? Hmmmmm.. Please don't expect that much. Just normal food which a slightly more steeper price tag, as compared to fast food restaurant.

Oh well, enjoy the slide show.

3 Temasek Boulevard
Suntec City Convention Centre Mall Level 3
Singapore
Telephone: 63329733

Credit goes to http://timelessfacade.blogspot.com.

Pearl River is a Cantonese based restaurant and they served Chinese food buffet in Ala-carte manner.. You have to order from the buffet menu and they served you by the number of people in your table.

Beijing Duck which is only limited to one serving each person. Same goes to the Buddha jump over the wall. One serving each person.  Also the fresh smart prawn, 100 grams per person. We even ordered Cereal Prawns. TYP and I shared. Boss had enough of prawns as she started to feel itchy. There came her rashes.  Credit goes to http://summer-95degrees.blogspot.com

We had sweet and sour pork, 2 vegetables (season vegetables with assorted eggs & I-forgot-what-is-it-already). A steamed fish as well. Roast pork, 2 plates. Yummy! Desserts of cos. But the desserts were no longer as good as before, as told by boss.

Oh well, we left with a full stomach! Great food. Worth considering! 

The entrance, I guess so. It's so kiddish. I simply just love it. A glimpse of the interior of Disney Naturally. The feeling is so much like "I-am-in-Disney-Land". Don't you agree with me?

Look at the Mickey Mouse seats! Though it seems a bit too small for my big butt. But don't you think it's just so cute? 

  The menu. Can't resist myself for not stealing. So cute right? Simply looks like a Mickey Mouse colouring book I had when I was young.

  Finally the food. Mickey Mouse head pizza and it seems to be that everyone likes to order this when they have their meals there. I am wondering if it is really that nice? But still, can't bear to eat it right? According to Veron, there are like 6 different types of pizza,

mickey’s classic
– daisy’s garden
– donald’s legend
– minnie’s secret
– pete’s pan
– pino’s fancy

Even the names of the pizza sound so cool! Innovative, no doubt! Not only that, while you are enjoying your disney-themed meal, you can also watch movies. The shows are actually screened during a certain timing of the day. No only this, kids can enjoy themselves at the games corner after their meals.  Still the Mickey Mouse theme. This can for sure entertain the kids well enough without much disturbance. 

  Don't forget to wash your hands before and after meal at the special looking washing bay.

Now, I so wanna go! Who want to accompany me to go? Anyway, who say it's for kids only?

Now I wonder, when will there be a Kitty fast food restaurant? Anywhere soon?

Or even better, a Jay Chou restaurant, similar to Mr J Italian & French Restaurant. I will welcome with my arms.  

Pictures Credits goes to Natsu and Milkfrost.

I am heading down to this place for lunch later.

Taste Paradise

here I come.

P/S: Refer to this posting for more details about Taste Paradise.  

Red Star Restaurant
Blk 54 Chin Swee Road
#07-23
Singapore 160054
Tel: 6532 5266 / 6532 5103

Ratings: 8.5/10 Must-Try!

I had been waiting to visit Red Star since September 30th and I fulfilled the cravings. Boss, Jac, TYP and I had them for lunch yesterday! Yum Yum….

Red Star Restaurant is located in an office building (I think) in the old HDB estate of Chinatown, with a HDB branch office downstairs. There is only one cranky lift that can break down anytime in the building. Another alternative to get to the restaurant will be the stairs.

Dim sum, a Cantonese term, is literally translated to mean “dotted heart”, meaning to order to one’s heart’s content. A variety of small food items made up a meal of dim sum. Dim sum is called dian xin (点心）in Mandarin. “Dian” in mandarin means “little” or “dotted”. “Xin” in mandarin means “heart”. Lots of hard work is devoted into the preparation of each of these dishes. It seems as if the chef has put his heart into preparing these savoury dishes for your tasting. Thus, the dainty works of art served in bamboo skewers that are finally presented to you on your table are actually “little hearts” presented to you by the chef.

The dim sums at Red Star are served in the traditional way where the waitresses will push mobile carts piled sky high with bamboo skewers filled with different dim sums around the restaurant. When one of these mobile carts are pushed to your table, you can then order the dim sum directly from the waitress who will never hesitate to visually whet your appetite by showing you the different items she has on her cart while giving her recommendations at the same time. The cluttering of trays and noisy chatter create a friendly and heart-warming dining ambience that is a characteristic of traditional Cantonese dining.

The dishes they serve – exquisite and scrumptious, never fails to surprise me! I had black sesame paste. It is not sweet and has a silky texture. It was simply delicious.

Hmmmm… Anyway, I will be back soon for more! Oh yes, did I mention it was cheap?

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I was at Golden Landmark Hotel for appointment when I asked my boss about the shop that sells great durian swiss rolls. Then I came to realise that it is known as Rich & Good Cake Shop. 

The durian swiss rolls were made from irresistable,  authentic D24 durians. You can actually see and taste the chunks of durian flesh within the rolls! YUM YUM….

I bought the kaya rolls too. The creamy kaya filling tastes rich and fragrant, without being too sweet at the same time. Ahhh…. That is pure joy!

Photo credit goes to Buttshaker.

See how the swiss rolls are made and place. The swiss rolls are sold in uncut form; the whole roll instead of piece by piece. It comes in the price of $10 to $12 (2 swiss rolls), which is considered so freaking cheap! 2 rolls of swiss rolls will be placed in a pink box.

These are some of the flavours they have:

- blueberry
– chocolate
– coffee
– durian
– kaya
– mango
– strawberry

Oh yes, they sells durian puffs too. Delicious as well! They have chocolate eclairs but I gave it a miss that day as I had bought too much food.  

I plan of ordering from them again but you will need about $70 purchase which is about 14 swiss rolls! OMG!