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Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts

Thursday, May 2, 2019

Dinner at FrapasBar by Saveur





The Good

  • Wife and I enjoyed the variety!
  • If you'd like one appetizer, one mains and dessert, consider the set which will save you some cash. However, wife and I wanted more apps than mains.

The Gripes

  • The only gripe I have with this place is that the staff were quite inattentive. I had to leave my table and walk up to the wait staff in order to get things going (getting a knife, getting sauce, getting the bill).

Friday, March 15, 2019

The Clue-less Goat and Craftsmen Specialty Coffee (Novena, March 2019)

If you can spare to park at Goldhill Plaza, there are cafes in the vicinity of United Square that we found to be really good. First up, The Clue-less Goat:

Savory waffles with scrambled eggs and bacon.
Avocado toast with poached eggs and chorizo sausage



Brunch done right

I left my gear at home, so the phone will have to do. We have considered this the place with the 2nd best scrambled eggs, after Symmetry. Wife also really loved the avocado toast here. The only problem (as we found out the hard way) was that this place is not open for dinner!



Next up, Craftsmen Specialty Coffee. We hopped in here after discovering that Clue-less Goat doesn't open for dinner, and we were pleasantly surprised at the availability of brunch food for dinner.

Our evening caffeine: Jasmine green tea with rose for her and a cortado for me

Friday cortado

Avocado on toasted muffin with poached eggs with bratwurst

Savory waffles with scrambled eggs and bacon (view of eggs)

Aerial view of the waffles

Their savory waffles don't come with maple syrup, but instead, a heavy cream-based sauce which can be overpowering. We found that it masked the taste of  their scrambled eggs, which wasn't too bad. The point goes to Clue-less Goat for scrambled eggs.

However, their avocado muffin was really good, with the muffin toasted to perfection. Trust me, it's really hard to find a place that toasts muffins well!


Thursday, March 7, 2019

Lunch at Omoté, Thomson Plaza






Friday, February 22, 2019

Jew Kit Hainanese Chicken Rice








Tucked in a corner of Bukit Timah Shopping Centre, this place serves really good chicken rice, priced beneath the benchmark Boon Tong Kee. All our chicken meat was juicy, and nothing was dry.


Thursday, February 21, 2019

Dinner at Saveur (Purvis Street)







These were taken with my new Canon EFS 10-18mm STM on my 600D. Apparently, ISO on a digital camera is not a "real thing", in that the brightness setting on a photo is post-processed. Taking a picture at ISO100 is apparently the same as taking it at ISO1000, just that at the higher ISO setting, the camera bumps up the brightness for you.

The limitation of shooting at a low ISO should be fairly obvious--your unprocessed images on the camera will be really dark, and you won't be able to tell very clearly if you botched the shot. But seeing as to how my lowly 600D has terrible ISO tolerance (anything higher than 800 and the grain is intolerable), I took a gamble. All these shots were taken at ISO800, 1/50s, and at f stops f/4.5 to 5.6, and on my camera, they were really dark.

All I did was raise the exposure of the photos in post, some with 0.5 stops of light, to 2 stops of light. Not too bad looking. But this still cannot beat my 5D Mark II.

Friday, December 8, 2017

Monster Curry at Serangoon Nex




Monster Curry hasn't changed in price, but it has changed its practice of upfront payment. You no longer have to pay first!

We tried something different this time: their honey toast, which we think is a just-pass. According to wife, she says it passes the test to satisfy a sweet craving but it's not something to shout about.

In other news, we discovered that NEX has a Lego Store!



Thursday, May 11, 2017

Brunch and Lunch at Curious Palette

Nestled in a row of shophouses opposite Paradiz Centre, Curious Palette caught our attention for a variety of reasons: they had a Scotched Egg dish, their fries were truffled sweet potato, they had a soft-shell crab burger, and their hotcakes were so big that it has been purportedly substituted a main course for a food blogger. We just had to try them out!

Here's their menu as of 10 May 2017:



Corned beef scotched egg. The slaw had too much garlic, in my opinion.

Crab cake on English muffin

My piccolo late, which was nice and strong.

Wife's mocha, which had a nice balance of chocolate, milk and coffee.

Another view of the crab cake. That's a chorizo pate on the side.

The Croque Madam, which has a great cheese filling that goes well with the nice ham!

Soft-shell crab burger.

There's a nice selection of dessert cakes that you can order off the shelf.

Salted egg yolk chicken wings.

Their hotcake that takes 30 minutes to prepare. We thought it was ok.

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Dinner at Collin's (November 2016)

Affordable Western fare is quite a rarity here, so Christine and I were pleasantly surprised to come across Collin's, who recently opened a branch in AMK Jubilee.

Their serving of foie gras is quite generous!

Their steak and chicken combo.



The mushroom and grilled chicken pasta.


Their mushroom soup has a hint of truffle oil.

If there's one thing I don't like in pasta, it's too much garlic. That's my only beef with Collin's, who serve otherwise excellent Western fare.


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