Hunt for food

I had a nice sleep for me since it was raining heavily in the morning. What a good day! After had my typical Chinese breakfast (porridge and “you cha kuai”), I went to hunt for food with my friends today. Basically was my friends brought me for some nice typical Singapore food. Our destination was a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown.

Before that, I went to Tiong Bharu alone to looks for some nice food as well. However, this was my first time been to Tiong Bharu, and I didn’t know where to go without map. So I just gave a try at a Chinese Ramen restaurant. I had a family recipe curry chicken LaMian, ShangHai pork dumpling, and Chinese tea (PuEr). The handmade noodles were not bad, but not al dente enough. I like the curry taste due to the absent of the coconut milk in curry. It was Indian style; the herbs taste was strong and hot enough. It’s taste odd when you eat LaMian with curry. The pork dumpling was a disaster, the outer layer was hard, the texture and flavor of the stuffing were lost, couldn’t get the tenderness of pork as well. No wonder the price was a big different if compare with Din Tai Feng restaurant. Overall was just so-so.

I was wandering around since I reached early. I bought a Germany hotdog, which was homemade and sold by a German. The meat taste strongly and the texture was good. Ate with mustard sauce, simply the best!

Actually I was stuffed, but I still wanna go for some food, I went to a dessert shop which was famous and historical in Chinatown. I had a recommended dessert, mango with pomelo and sago. Nobody knows that my favorite fruit is mango. So no matter where I go, the mango flavor dessert will be my first choice. Back to the topic, the mango was sweet enough, the sweetness of the mango and a slightly bitterness of pomelo, it’s just nice. Should give it a try!

It’s time to meet up with my friends in the MRT station. We went to the Chinese restaurant but it closed due to the holiday of the restaurant staffs. What a pity! We went for Thai food which was just beside the Chinese restaurant. We had mango salad, green curry chicken, Tom Yam seafood, omelette with minced pork, and a KaiLan with oyster sauce. The mango salad was an antipasto; it stimulated appetite due to the sourness and greaseless, the mango and papaya were crunchy also. The green curry chicken was too sweet, and the taste of baby eggplant was too strong, I don’t like it though. The Tom Yam seafood was just so-so. I still prefer the clear soup. The omelette with minced pork and the KaiLan with oyster sauce were just like normal homecook dish. Last but not least, we had a mango and sticky rice with coconut milk as dessert. An authentically Thai dessert, the sticky rice was good, but the quality of mango needs to be improved.

After that we went to my friend’s cousin’s pub had some beers and chew the fat. We were stuffed, especially me. It wasn’t a good makan-makan trip due to the unsatisfactory of food. Well, it was a good start though. I hope my next makan-makan trip will be more interesting and get the highlight of foods. See ya!