ED bought these cute Loony Tunes Tissue packs when he went into JB recently. They looked too cute to be used. I decided to take a picture of them before they are used and the cute empty pack thrown down the chute.
My personal fav is Tweety Bird and Bugs Bunny. If only they have the baby loony tunes series tissue packs too. It would be even cuter.
Was walking through the Red Dot Traffic building on my way to my lunch when the interesting art motifs on the columns and pillars caught my attention. What a nice and artistic way to decorate a mundane plain pillar. The paintings on the pillars turned the entire corridor into a walk-in art gallery.
This is ED’s fav fried wanton noodles stall. He had been frequenting this stall since his secondary school days. He told me that at that time this stall was located in a coffeeshop at Parklane shopping centre. Due to increasing stall rentals, the stall owner moved to its current location at Sunshine Plaza. The vacant stall at the coffeeshop was taken over by the coffeeshop owner and he started selling similar wanton noodles. Some people who do not know that the authentic Parklane Fried Wanton Noodles stall had moved, continued to patronise the stall operated by the coffeeshop owner.
From one outlet at Sunshine Plaza, it expanded to a few outlets around Singapore. Another one is located at Boon Tat Street.
Quite alot of celebrities patronise this wanton noodles stall. You can see that from the pictures of the various celebrities posing with the owner being displayed on the shop glass window.
Fried Wanton Noodles. I only like the fried wanton but not the noodles as I find that it had too strong an alkaline taste for my liking.
Fried Wanton. $2 per plate. Very thin wanton skin with so little meat inside that you can hardly taste it. But i like the crispyness of this fried wanton. Some people might complain that there is too little filling in the wanton but to me, I find that it’s just nice.
The stall not only sells fried wanton noodles but also char siew rice, pork cutlet rice, chicken cutlet rice and fish cutlet rice. The Sunshine Plaza outlet also sells assorted double boiled soup.
Chicken cutlet rice
Overall I would say the food is ok. Prefer the rice than the noodles. And the double boiled soup is favourful too.
Parklane Zha Yun Tun Mee House
91 Bencoolen Street,
Sunshine Plaza #01-53/85
Tel: 68359212
Hours
11am – 8pm
21 Boon Tat Street
Singapore 069620
Hours
10am – 4pm (Mon – Fri)
Closed on Sat and Sun
Today is the 15th of the Lunar 8th Month and is also the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is an occasion to celebrate family togetherness by having dinner together followed by eating mooncakes and admiring the huge round moon. You will see kids walk around with the lit paper lanterns at the parks on this day.
Saw that in recent years, the paper lanterns made a come back with increased popularity as compared to the electronic type. My personal fav is those made from cellophone paper and stick onto the wired frame to be fashioned into some animal shape. When lit, the paper ‘animal’ lantern glows.
So do be home early today to enjoy a nice dinner with your family to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Fest.
And Happy Mid-Autumn Fest everyone!! 
Remember when I was very young, my late grandmother would bring me to watch Chinese Wayang (or Chinese Opera) at the streets. She would dragged a chair and placed it just in front of the stage with me seated on her lap watching the Wayang together. I would on and off asked her what are the actors and actressess singing about and she would patiently explain them to me.
Chinese Street Opera was very popular in the 1960s – 1970s. It is usually staged to celebrate some God’s or Goddess birthday or to celebrate major chinese festivals like the Lunar 7th Month. Nowadays, it is quite rare to see Chinese Street Opera in Singapore as youngsters do not really appreciate or understand such Art.
I happen to chanced upon this Chinese Street Opera which was put up by Kampong Glam Community Club to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. Watching it bring back many memories of yester-years. Esp memories of listening to my grandmother translating the Chinese Opera to me. Very heart-warming feeling.
Saw this cute Vespa while out shopping around Dhoby Ghaut area. Was thinking that the size of this vehicle looks nice and dainty enough for a lady to ride on. I mean it looked simple enough to ride and just the right size for a lady to use. You get from point A to B easily and road tax and insurance shouldn’t be that exp. Even during traffic jams, this little vehicle could still allow the rider to ’squeeze’ through the big cars and continue with one’s journey.
Saw quite a number of ladies riding this in Taiwan. Just wonder how much does this little Vespa cost.
Had dinner with my family at Akashi Japanese Restaurant at Vivo City. We were totally famished and decided to order some side dishes to eat first.
We ordered pan-fried gyoza (8 pcs/ plate), a plate of spider-crab maki and grilled king prawns with miso sauce.
The gyoza had quite a thin skin with lots of fillings inside. It is nicely pan-fried till brown on its bottom and tasted great when you dipped it in a plate of vinegar.
Want some soya sauce and chilli powder for your food?
The Spider-crab maki was very delicious too. The inside was crispy and full of bite. Simply yummy.
We also ordered 2 grilled King prawns with miso paste. When grilled, the miso melted and turned golden brown giving it a sort of a bbq with tangy miso taste. This used to be my personal fav until I developed allergies to seafood. Each plate of Grilled King Prawn comes in 2 halves. The restaurant is very nice to place each half of a prawn on a plate so that the 4 of us would have half a prawn each. I gave mine to my SO.
The 4 of us ordered 4 set dinners each. I had the grilled gindara with miso paste set dinner. It is actually cod fish grilled with miso sauce. Each set dinner comes with rice, miso soup, pickles and fruits.
Grilled Gindara Miso Sauce Set Dinner $20
Grilled Gindara with Miso Paste
Tori Karage Dinner Set $18
Gyu Teriyaki Dinner Set $18
This dish is not on the menu. We asked for it separately. It’s stired fried pork with onions on hotplate. It’s also a set dinner and the price is $25 per set.
Soft Fluffy Jap Rice
Miso Soup
Also order a bowl of chawanmushi too. It’s very smooth and really glide down your throat.
Total Bill came up to approx $147 (include 7% GST and service charge) for 4 persons.
Akashi Japanese Restaurant have 3 outlets. Do call to make reservations as it can get pretty crowded in the evenings and during weekends.
Tanglin
19 Tanglin Road, #B1-09,
Tanglin Shopping Centre, Singapore 247909
Tel: 6732 4438
Orchard
290 Orchard Road, #B1-01,
Paragon Shopping Centre, Singapore 238859
Tel: 6735 8887
Vivo City
1 HarbourFront Walk, #B2-07,
Vivo City, Singapore 098585
Tel: 6376 9972
Does these red mailboxes reminds you of olden days where the mailboxes are fashioned as such? I remembered there is one such mailbox at the gate of my grandmother’s zinc roof house at Old Nee Soon. Everyday, the mailman (with this round shaped hat) would cycle round the neighbourhood to deliver letters. The letters would be stuffed into the top opening of the mailboxes.
Chancing upon these red mailboxes at Red Dot Traffic brings back fond childhood memories.
Was having a bad bout of flu today. Decided to have something light and soupy today. Bought fish soup from Han Kee Fish Soup Stall at Amoy Food Centre. The fish slices do not have a fishy taste when you bite into it and the soup have a nice ’sweet’ fresh fish taste. Felt so much better after finishing it.
If you decided to have fish soup for lunch from this stall, do go earlier as queue start to form as early as 11.30 am.
Han Kee Fish Soup
Amoy Food Centre
7 Maxwell Road #02-129
Opening Hours: Mon – Sat, 10 am – 3 pm
My parents used to tell me that during their courting days, they would catch shows at the Old Cathay building at Handy Road. The Cathay Cinema was opened in October 1939 and is Singapore’s first air-conditioned cinema. The cinema was housed in Singapore’s first skyscraper, the Cathay Building and I remembered my mom telling me it was it was the tallest building (at 16-Storey) in Singapore for 23 years, until the Asia Insurance Building was completed in 1954.
The Cathay building was designed by architect Frank Brewer and cost S$1 million to built. Cathay Building is not only known for its popular cinema, but the building also housed the well-known Cathay Hotel and Cathay Restaurant.
I chanced upon a plaque providing the historic information of the building in front of The Cathay while shopping in that area last week. The Cathay Building used to house the British Malaya Broadcasting Corporation before the Japanese invaded Singapore.
In Dec 1998, the Cathay Building undergo major renovations. Only the original facade of the Old Cathay Building was retained. It was refurbished and integrated as part of the modern The Cathay.
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