Jin Wei (Kimly) Zi Char Stall @ Yishun

I think I first posted a review about this stall way back in Aug 07 (http://belyl.wordpress.com/2007/08/25/my-dinner-at-a-zi-char-stall/). It had been 2 years and I am still patronising this stall cos the food is simply delicious and the service of their serving staff are quite good (for a coffeeshop zi char stall).

They had another branch in Serangoon and I blogged about it in my previous posting (http://belyl.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/kimly-steamboat-seafood-serangoon/)

Ordered this crispy chicken that had been deboned 90%. The chicken skin had been roasted so crisp that you can hardly find any fat in it. The usual price is $14 but there is currently a promotion going on and it’s selling for $9.

This handmade beancurd dish was recommended by the aunty taking our orders. She suggested this to us after we told we want something different from the usual beancurd dish that they usually served. This one comes with clams, prawns, scallops and other veg. Very delicious. ($12 for this serving)

Stir Fried Di Wang Miao ($8)

This is another dish that the aunty recommended. Pork Ribs with fried banana slices ($12). This is delicious.

Dessert is complimentry. Sweet Corn Pudding… yum yum

Jin Wei Seafood
Blk 418 Yishun Ave 11
#01-385
Tel: 6757 0127

Kimly Steamboat Seafood @ Serangoon

 

Had a delicious delicious dinner with my family at Jin Wei Seafood at Serangoon. This is a Zi Chai stall located in a coffeeshop but the food served are very delicious.

Longevity Noodles (Medium size serving – $15). This serves approx 8 pax.

 

This noodle is very delicious. The noodles tasted quite q.

 

Spinach with black fungus, beancurd sticks and wolfberries. A very light dish. Quite nice. ($10)

 

 

This is the handmade speciality tofu. Very soft and tender and it’s simply delicious. We would always order this dish whenever we ate at this place. There’s a promo going on now. It cost $8 instead of the usual $10.

 

 

Pork Ribs (Pai Gu Wang) $8 for this small serving. The meat is very very tender and it’s well flavoured.

 

 

Ngor Hiang ($8).

 

  

Fish Maw with Seacumber in a pot. The fishmaw and sea cucumber is so soft. The sauce was delicious too. Goes well with rice. Yummy. ($15 per pot)

 

 

Steamed Red Groupa in Teochew Style ($38)

 

FOC Agar Agar dessert. Whenever we ate at this zi char stall, they would always serve their customers complimentary agar agar dessert

 

 

 Total cost for all the food and 4 plates of rice and wet towels cost $123.60. I did not post the pics of the orange sauce pork ribs cos it was very blur.

 

Address: Blk 147 SERANGOON NORTH AVENUE 1 #01-419

My KL Trip (Part 2)

Our room @ Dorsett Regency. The hotel is located just behind Westin, beside Ritz Carlton and Marriott. 3-5 mins walk to Pavillion.

The room was cosy and nice. Bed was comfy too.

View taken from the hotel room

Had dinner @ Pavillion’s Crystal Jade Restaurant.

Sweet Corn with Crab Meat soup (RM8 per serving)

Spinach cooked with 3 types of eggs in broth. Quite a healthy dish as it’s not salty nor oily.

The roast duck on hot plate was very very delicious.

As we took the promo set, these 2 dishes cost RM29.80

Roasted meat (Char Siew). The meat were very tender and succelent.

Loved these Ngor Hiang. They don’t taste very salty. It’s very very diff in terms of taste as compared to the Ngor Hiang we had in Singapore.

Loved this Sliced Fish fried with spring onion and ginger dish. They used threadfin (Ngor Hee) for this dish instead of the usual Sang Yu we get in Singapore. Cost RM25.60.

Five Grains Rice with Pine Seeds in Hot Stone Pot. Really really loved this dish alot. Wonder if the Crystal Jade in Singapore serve this dish

Total bill comes up to approx RM156 (including all the taxes and surcharges and drinks).

My KL Trip (Part 1)

View of KL from the plane window

Took the KILA Ekspress & Limo service from the KLIA to my hotel (Dorsett Regency) @ Bukit Bintang.

Total cost = RM130 (for 2 adults) + RM15 (for 1 kid) = RM145. It’s not cheap but we took it for the experience.

it’s only 28 mins from the KLIA to KL Kentral. Quite fast. And the ride is so comfy that I fell asleep.

Interior of the KLIA Ekspress. Seats were comfy and there were spaces for you to put your luggage.

you can put ur drink on the little table top near ur seat.. and dump ur sweet wrappers or used tissue papers into the little bin just below the tabletop

There are even power sockets on the train… haha … comes in handy when ur hp is going flat and u can charge it on board the train.

Saw this advert on the train. Kids travel for free on board the train during this sch hols.

Toilet on board the train. Everything is sensor based. Door opened and closed automatically. So does the water and soap dispenser

I fell asleep during the entire train ride … haha.. too tired…

hubby took the following pics

These are condominiums. But somehow, they reminded me of the flats at Sengkang and Punggol

this one looks more like our HDB flats

approx 2 hrs (flight is 45 mins + clearance + train & cab ride). Faster than taking cab all the way cos we took a cab from hotel to KLIA on our return… took almost an hour

Imperial Treasures La Mian Xiao Long Bao @ Marina Square

Had dinner with my family at Imperial Treasures La Mian Xiao Long Bao restaurant last Sat. Queue for approx 20 mins before we got a table. It was super crowded that day as alot of people were in that area to catch the Fireworks for that night.

Our personal Fav – Fried Rice with Fresh Prawns. I only try a bit of the fried rice without the prawns and I loved it so much. There’s this ‘wok mei’ in the fried rice. Hubby and my kid said the prawns were very ‘crunchy’

Stir Fried Fish Slices with Black Fungus. Initially when we looked at the picture in the menu, we thought they used ‘sheng yu’ to cook. But it’s actually cod fish. Oh my, it’s so delicious. The fish slices simply melted in my mouth. Very nice dish. $14 per plate.

La Mian with Wanton Soup. The La Mian were very nice and Q. I love the wanton too. The wanton skin was paper thin.

Steam Chives Dumpling. The dumpling skin was thin and the filling was alot. But hubby don’t really like chives dumplings so he gave this a miss.

We also ordered Pan Fried Gyozas but I forgot to take a picture of that. Hubby love this alot cos the filling is mosting minced pork and very very little chives. As usual, the dumpling skin was very very thin.

We ordered these Golden Balls to try. It has red bean paste and banana filling wrapped with egg white scouffle and the deep fried to golden brown and dusted with icing sugar.

Not too sweet but a tad too oily for my liking

Total Cost for the meal comes up to approx $60 (including taxes and other misc charges).

We also ordered 3 glasses of Soy Milk $1.80 each

Imperial Treasures La Mian Xiao Long Bao

6 Raffles Boulevard,

#02-138J Marina Square,

Singapore 039594

Tel: 6338 2212

Mayim Chinese Cuisine @ West Mall

Had family dinner at this very very popular chinese restaurant @ West Mall. The food is great and the prices are reasonable. Serving size per dish is quite small so we decided to order more dishes since there are at least 6 of us.

Ordered 3 pots of tea to share.

Superior Chrysanthemum Tea

Shou Mei with Wolberries Tea. I like this tea the best among the 3 pots of tea ordered. Very light and refreshing taste.

Blend of Jasmine Tea with Rose Bud. We found this a tad too bitter for our liking. Maybe too much Jasmine Tea instead of Rose buds.

Stir-fried egg plant with minced meat.

This dish is very well prepared. The egg plant wasn’t overcooked and not too soggy and at the same time it absorbed the sauces very well. I love this dish. Complement plain rice very well.

Sliced fish cooked with black fungus and straw mushrooms. The fish soup was delicious and there’s no fishy taste at all. Fish slices were very soft and nice.

Stir-fried spinach with chinese sausage slices (ie lup cheong), roasted pork slices and bacon bits. This dish is very nice too. Din know that spinach can taste so delicious when cooked with lup cheong. Yummy.

Ordered dumplings that comes with soup and the other boiled and served with braised sauce and chilli oil. Frankly speaking I prefer the latter as it’s more favourful. The dumpling skin are really thin and the meat filling is generous.

Scallops fried with spring onions and fried flat fish. The scallops are very nice.

So how big and juicy the scallops are.

This has to be the best calamari I had eaten so far. The calamari rings are thick but they dun taste chewy at all. Instead it’s so easy to bite. Soft on the insides and crispy on the outside. Dip this with the accompanying chilli sauce… simply heavenly.

Handmade seafood tofu fried till golden brown and top with avocado mayo. Tofu was very soft on the inside and crispy on the outside. Ate it with the avocado mayo provides a very unique taste.

Fried Udon with pork slices, chives, black fungus shreds and mushrooms. Very delicious too.

Fried Cod Fish with Ginger Shreds. Cod fish cooked in this manner rid it of any fishy taste and beneath the crispy surface are very soft cod fish meat tat still retains its meat juice. Eat it with the ginger shreds while it’s still hot.

Honeyed pork ribs with fried garlic bits. Pork is soft and tasted sweet.

Total Cost for all the food and drinks we had ordered is $139.95 (inclusive of service charge and GST). Pretty reasonable.

Mayim Chinese Cuisine
1 Bukit Batok Central Link
#02-04 West Mall
Singapore 658713
Tel: 6794 1590

Reservations are highly recommended as the restaurant is always full of people and you can see long queues forming outside it during dining hours.

Delicious Dumplings @ Fong Kee

It’s one of our colleague’s last day and we decided to have lunch @ Fong Kee before they moved to their new location at North Bridge Road. They used to be located at Murray Terrace and are not in the midst of moving over to their new location in Jun 2008.

Decor in the old restaurant @ Murray Terrace

We ordered quite a lot of food and we had a hard time finishing them.

Pan-fried gyozas. You dip the gyoza in the vinegar to enhance its taste. Take a bit of ginger shred to complement it. Tasted really great.

See how thin the skin is and the gyozas have so much meat filling in them.

We also ordered Boiled Dumplings and Xiao Long Bao (Steamed Meat Dumplings) too.

Also ordered their honey pork chops. Very very nice and tender. Really love the pork chops.

We also ordered Braised Bean Sauce Noodles. The noodles were very springy and delicious. Just that we were too full to finish it. Really should had ordered so much food.

We round up the meal with these delicious pan-fried red bean paste pancake topped with roasted sesame. Simply yummy.

Fong Kee also has a delivery service. Details taken from the website, no number given at the website though, you’ll have to refer to the namecard below I think; the delivery tel no is 62203318

They have a few outlets and one of them is at People’s Park.

Blk 32 New Market Road #01-1148
People’s Park Centre Singapore 050032
Tel: 6532 3318

@ Murray Terrace is closed and would be moving to 787 North Bridge Road in Jun 2008.

冰馆 Ice Monster @ Plaza Singapura

After movies, I was feeling really famished. Din know where to eat and ED suggested just finding a place to have dinner at Plaza Singapura. In the end I decided to have Zha Jiang Mian (Braised Minced Pork Noodles) at Ice Monster (located at the basement)

We ordered 2 bowls of Zha Jiang Mian, a plate of Gyozas (6 pcs) and a bowl of fresh fruits with shaved ice.

We waited for quite some time before the noodles came. The food totally disappoint us. Noodles were cold and the sauce was really diluted. It wasn’t nice at all.

The gyozas hadn’t arrived even after we had finished our noodles. When it finally came, it doesn’t taste nice either. Filling is really little and it was too oily.

Finally our shaved ice was here. We ordered the mixed fruit shaved ice that comprised of strawberries, kiwis and mangoes cubes on top of the ice. Only the mangoes tasted sweet. The other 2 fruits are simply too sourish.

Overall, the food wasn’t nice at all. Don’t think we would go back there again.

Lunch @ Kia Hiang

Had lunch with my colleagues at Kia Hiang located at International Plaza. We ordered their signature Claypot Chicken, Pork Chop, Stir-fried Kai Lan with Garlic and Hot plate tofu omelette.

The claypot chicken was wrapped in cabbage and stewed for hours. The meat was so soft and tender that it simply melted in your mouth.

The pork chop was also very tender and it was easy to eat it. However, I find that it was too marinated with plum sauce that it overpowered the original taste of the pork chop.

The stir-fried kailan was pretty well done. It wasn’t too oily or salty.

The hotplate tofu with chopped prawns were wrapped in an egg omelette. Quite nice but I find it a bit oily though.

We also ordered homemade barley water and rice to go with the ordered dishes. Total bill for 3 of us is $47.08. Quite reasonable.