Traditional Pastries & Cakes @ Gin Thye

This old confectionery shop had been around for years. Think the shop started in the 1960s or 70s and is well known for their traditional peanut cookies, kuehs and cakes. They cater wedding cakes & pastries, birthday cakes, baby full month celebration cakes etc. You know it they have it.

This shop is called Gin Thye, located at 423 Sembawang Road.

All sorts of traditional pastries were displayed for sale in their glass cabinets

Trays and trays of freshly baked sweet/ savoury bean paste pastries (Tau Sar Piah), Wife Biscuits, Husband Biscuits, Sun Biscuits and Moon Biscuits.

The shop also bake simple cakes and muffins. The whole shop smelt nicely of freshly baked butter cakes and muffins. Looking at these cakes makes my mouth watered.

Sweet or Savoury Tau Sar Piah for you?

These are the vegetarian version of the tau sar piah and other pastries. Vegetable oil is used instead of lard to make pastries.

Saw these mock fish, chicken and crab made of peanut and mai ya tang. They are used as offerings to ancestors or dieties during festive occasion

Mock Chicken

Mock Fish
Mock Duck (Made of Sesame Seeds and Mai Ya Tang)
 

Mini chocolate tarts for weddings or birthdays or baby full month celebration. A tray of 12 pcs cost $10.80. You need to make reservations in advance as the shop only bake the tarts upon requests. You can see some mini cakes beside the tarts. They are also sold for $10.80 for 12 pcs.

If you order wedding cakes/ pastries from them, you are entitled to use their wedding baskets for free. They have so many wedding baskets.
You can also get other wedding items here as well. One stop service

Wedding Tea Set for the Traditional Tea Ceremony

Bought some soft chewy traditional sweets ($2/ pack)
Shop Speciality 1 – Red Bean Paste Kueh. Freshly made and it is soft and melts in your mouth. $1.80 per pack

Sweet & Savoury Tau Sar Piah (Sweet ones cost $0.70/pc and Savoury ones cost $0.60/pc)

Shop Specialty 2 – Gin Thye Peanut Biscuits ($4/box)
Very nice and unique. One bite and the peanut biscuits melt in your mouth.Freshly made Gin Thye Peanut Biscuits.

I did not buy these but these here freshly made and out of the steamer. Looks nice and soft to eat.
Gin Thye Cake Maker
423 Sembawang Road
Singapore 758392
Tel: 6257 1566
Mon-Sat: 8 am – 8 pm
Sun & PH: 8 am – 1 pm

Blk 152 Bukit Batok Street 11
#01-264 S650152
Tel: 6899 6929
Mon-Sat: 8 am – 10 pm
 

Bak Chor Mee

Not really a great fan of Bak Chor Mee (Minced Meat Noodles) but ED was raving about how nice the noodles were from this stall in Ang Mo Kio. So we decided to have our lunch there.

When we reached there, a long queue was seen forming from the stall. ED told me to sit down while he queued for our food. Took him 35 mins later to place his orders and get the food. I was starving by the time he came back with the noodles on the serving tray.

A standard serving cost $2.50. If you want a bigger serving, it’s $3.

The noodles comes drenched in this dark soya braised mushroom sauce and very spicy chilli paste. I can’t take spicy stuff so I had the soupy version while ED ordered the dry version that comes with the sauce and chilli. I like the soup. It’s full of favour and a strong taste of the pork bones. Each bowl of noodles comes with minced meat, sliced meat, braised mushrooms slices and pork liver slices. ED hates pork liver so he asked the stall owner to exclude that for his order.

Joo Heng Mushroom Minced Pork Mee
Yio Chu Kang Market and Hawker Centre
Blk 628 Ang Mo Kio Ave 4 #01-04

Parklane Fried Wanton Noodles House

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

Pulau Ubin Trip

The last rustic surroundings left in Spore – Pulau Ubin. Saw these cute little furry rabbits being kept by an uncle on the island.

Saw this interesting ‘advert’ put up by the uncle to ‘entice’ island visitors to buy drinks from him

Had dinner at this ‘restaurant’ near the jetty before taking the boat back to mainland. Though I don’t really take seafood, my friends who had them said they tasted fresh and really delicious.

Huge steamed prawns

Deep fried chicken with lemon sauce

Stir-fried spicy mussels

Chilli Crabs

Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee

Used to love eating fried hokkien prawn noodles till I developed severe allergies to prawns that I had no choice but to give it up. There is this stall at Tanglin Halt Hawker Centre which sells very very very nice and delicious fried hokkien prawn noodles.

The pic of this plate of noodles was taken at Suntec’s Food Republic. Verdict is… the Tanglin Halt one is much better than this one.

Fried Tofu @ Redhill Hawker Centre

Simply love the fried tofu sold from this stall at Redhill Hawker Centre. It taste heavenly when u eat it pipping hot. It’s basically just tofu that is lightly pan-fried till golden brown and you eat this by dipping it into some chilli sauce with mince garlic.

Most of the tofu are sold out in the late afternoon and the stall is closed on Mondays.

Laksa – Spore Local Delicacy

Laksa is a Singapore delicacy. It is noodles in spicy gravy with slices of fish cake, tau pok (fried beancurd skin), hard-boiled eggs peppered with grounded laksa leaves. Normally either thick bee hoon (thick rice noodles) or yellow noodles are used in this dish.

As it was raining during lunchtime, I wanted to eat something hot and spicy to warm myself up.

Laksa

Also had this fish meat with cabbage wrapped in beancurd skin and deep fried to golden brown. Taste a bit sweet and savoury. Not bad though