Tanjong Rhu Wanton Mee

The 3rd Consective days we are having Wanton Noodle but this time round we went all the way into Jalan Batu Hawker and check out another highly raved stall. There are two stalls selling Wanton Mee and we decided to join the queues of the stall nearer to the carpark.

Tanjong Rhu Wanton Noodle

Big and small versions differ in the amount of ingredients with the big bowl having more noodles, Char Siew and 1 more fried Wanton. Noodle was springy with lean Char Siew Meat, fried wantons, vegetables and also a bowl of wantons in soup.

Wanton Mee - $3.00 (Small)

Personally, I would prefer their fried wantons to the ones in the soup. It was not too oily but it had gave a good crispy bite with a soft marinated tasty filling which complement the smoky fried flavours of its skin.

Wanton Mee - $4 (Big)

Shrimp dumplings were already sold out during the time of visit, thus we had this additional bowl of 10 Wanton despite that our portion of Wanton Mee already come with a Wantons.

Wanton Soup - $3 (10 Pcs)

Wanton filling was generous with the wanton skin wrapping it well, forming a shape of the ball of minced meat. Taste was pretty usual, nothing out of the ordinary.

Wanton 

Overall, I felt quite disappointed to travel all the way there to have a bowl of ordinary wanton Mee. Hmmm...Where do you think its worth a try?

Rating: 3 / 5

Tanjong Rhu Wanton Mee
Location: Jalan Batu Market and Cooked Food Centre, Blk 4A Jalan Batu #01-35 Singapore 432004

Omurice.Onigiri.Oden

If you are looking for a quick meal in Bukit Panjang Plaza, head down to their basement and get swept away by the food heaven. Though it may be nothing unusual from the other malls in Singapore, sometihing that caught my attention was the shop that sells Omurice. It did really stand out from the rest as most of the shops were part of the restaurants chains which I find rather boring.

Omu.Onigiri.Oden

Onigiri and Chawanushi is also available at separate pricing if you want to top them up on top of your main courses.

Menu

A top up at $1.80 entitles you an onigiri and a canned drink. I had chosen a can of green tea and an Onigiri out of the 9 choices given. I had Tako Chigiri also known of Octopus Fishcake. It was served in a cup of warm water with the them dipped in. Tasted not bad and felt like having street snacks in Japan.

Tako Chigiri - $1.00

Having chosen the chicken katsu Omu Rice, there are also 2 choices of sauces to choose from. You can have the brown sauce or the teriyaki sauce. Short grains rice were soft and fluffy with hints of tomato taste and coated in light brown color.  Egg on the other hand was fluffy whereby zigzag patterns by tomato ketchup were used. Katsu was alright and decent. Overall, for a quite meal, I won't ask for further.

Chicken Katsu Omu Rice - $5.10

Since they are operating as a kiosk, there are limited seating available in the shop. Thus you can sit there for too long. Nevertheless, take away is available too.

Rating: 3 / 5

Omurice.Onigi.Oden
Location: Bukit Panjang Plaza, 1 Jelebu Road #01-36 s677743

Mooks Thai Bistro [Closed]

Home Team NS is one of the place I would visit in the neighbourhood for its supermarket. With eateries housed in the building, it gives another reason to visit them once awhile. Mooks Thai Bistro was what we had chanced upon during our last visit. It was relatively "new" to us as we never knew its presence there. Torn between Saizeriya and Mooks, I decided to go ahead with Mooks as I'm kind of craving for some Thai Cuisine.

Mooks Thai Bistro

Interior

Serviettes Holder

Grilled Chicken in Pandan Leaves (Gai Hor Bai Toey) was marinated as well as caramelized. Tender but still lacking from depth from its marinated taste as taste can only be found on the exterior layer and lacking of accentuation.

Grilled Chicken in Pandan Leaves - $8.90

There was nothing interesting about their fried rice (Khao Pad Talay) even though it was mentioned as authentic stirred fried with a mixture of fresh seafood. The dull and faint colours of rice has a resemblance of an ordinary plate of fried rice without any hints that it was from a Thai Cuisine.

Mooks Seafood Fried Rice - $9.50

Traditionally Stir-fried noodles with their special homemade sauce. Sweet with peanuts and garnishing, lessing out the chilli flakes. However, I was offered cut chilli padi to compliment it. Kway Teow Pad Thai has follow the usual Thai Recipe, sweet and addictive with the use of fish sauce.

Pad Thai - Kway Teow Pad Thai - $9.90

Washing down the dinner with the staples beverages in a Thai Cuisine will be their Lemon Grass. It can be ordered in cold or hot, up to one preference. Lemon Grass drink fits me as it has its fragrance and was not too overpowering. It was served with one lemon grass stalk too.

Lemon Grass - $3.50

Thai Iced Milk Tea was good but can be better with a better concentration of tea taste.

Thai Iced Milk Tea - $3.90

Overall, food pricing and taste is decent and average. However, the car park charges of the Home Team Clubhouse may be a deterrence of my visit if I'm just only there for a meal.


Rating: 3 / 5

Mooks Thai Bistro
Location: Home Team NS Clubhouse, 2 Bukit Batok West Ave 7 #01-09A&B Singapore 659003

Tom's Palette

For Ice Cream Lovers, Tom's Palette needs no further introduction. They serve homemade ice cream since September 2005 and they are celebrating their 10 anniversary for the entire month of September. Making ice cream traditionally from the scratch by using egg, milk, cream and sugar, Tom's Palette has created their unique flavour every month which I felt very creative. The consistency of the ice cream as well as sweetness are simply perfect.

Like most Ice Cream Palours, you are invited to have a taste of the ice cream first before deciding what to order.

Pick your Choice

Salted Egg Yolk has been on the top of my list during every visit and that's also the reason on my return to Shaw Towers. The taste of salted eggs yolk is never overpowering and I find them delighting with its light yet savoury flavour. Ice cream was smooth with its unique taste as well as texture, different from the creamy ones I had. The saltish tingue coupled with rich flavour is simply heavenly.


Sharing my big cup, I had another half of it filled with White Chocolate Nori, a new flavour in a mixture of white chocolate and seaweed. As a seaweed lover, I was amazed that such combination had a perfect marriage.

Salted Egg Yolk & White Chocolate Nori - $5.60 (Big)

Nuts N Such is a combination of Peanut Butter & Mocha Batter. Rich and thick layered with eggless mocha brownie batter.

Having Longan Red Dates reminds me of the packet drinks that can be found off the shelves. Flavour is rather strong and if you like the drink, you will like this oriental flavour too.

Nuts N Such & Longan Red Dates

In conjunction with their 10 years anniversary, Moscato Melon is one of the limited edition. It looked like sorbet in faint orange color. For those who are taking away Ice Cream, Moscato Melon is not available but only available for dining in house.

Moscato Melon & Honey Cinnamon 

Students can enjoy 10% off their ice cream if  they present their Student Identification upon purhcase.

Rating: 3 / 5

Tom's Palette
Location: Shaw Towers, 100 Beach Road #01-25 Singapore 189702
Operating Hours: Mon-Thurs 12-9.30pm
                                Fri-Sat 12-10pm 
                                Sunday 1-7pm (Closed on the last Sunday of the month)
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Guang Zhou Mian Shi

We all heard about the legendary Wanton Mee from Tanglin Halt Market that only opens in the evening and decided to give a try. The first visit to Tanglin Halt Market turned out to be a disappointment as no stalls were opened during then - I guess it fell on the Market Washing date on the calendar.

The stall is easily located as it is located at one corner, anyway, there are not many stalls there and it should be very obvious of where they are.

Wanton Noodle

Wanton Noodles was springy enough, coated with dark sauce and come with vegetables as well as slices of Char Siew Meat. I had quite some expectation before having Guang Zhou Mian Shi's Wanton Mee but later on was kind of disappointed as it was something run of the mill, no robust taste or giving any wow factor. Wantons on the other hand were separated and placed in a small bowl containing soup. Soup was not bad though and I felt that the taste of the wanton can be improved if the marinate were done better.

Wanton Mee - $3.50 (Big)

Wanton

 At least the Shrimp Dumplings were better than the average ones in the market. In a bowl of soup with blanched vegetables, the dumplings fillings were more generous. The presence of chestnuts crunch and marinate were hits more than misses.

Shrimp Dumplings Soup - $3.50

Individual Shrimp Dumpling

Overall, I felt that there was nothing to rave about on their Wanton Noodles and having said so, if you are going to Tanglin Half Market at night, please bear in mind that there aren't much stall open at that hours.


Rating: 3 / 5

Guang Zhou Mian Shi
Location: Tanglin Halt Market, 48A Tanglin Halt Road #01-04 Singapore 148813
Operating Hours: 1730 - 0300

Honey Creme

With a number of soft serve ice cream chains popping out in the malls these days, I find it hard to remember its name especially when their names were rather close with words like "honey", "milk" and cow.

Honey Creme

Honey Creme concept is originally from South Korea and they are popular for serving soft serve ice cream made from premium ingredients topped with organic honeycomb.


Besides the usual milk soft serve that they have in cups, they do have some local milk favour like Teh C, Teh "Gah Dai". Ice cream can be served in cone or cups.

I had ordered one of their special edition Ice Cream, Pandan Gula Melaka and was totally amazed by its taste. It was a reminiscent of "Mr Softee's Chendol" from 7-11 which was also my favourite.

Pandan Gula Melaka - $6

Gula Melaka is contained in a disposable pipette,allowing ourselves to squeeze the ideal amount of it onto our ice cream. Pandan Soft Serve was not too milky and has a faint green color. It tastsd heavenly with the hint of pandan.

With Gula Melaka

You will find some rice krispies at the bottom of the cup, coconut flakes at the top and in the middle of the cup, you will find palm seed (attap seed) that was cut into smaller bits.

As an overall, I was impressed by the taste however price wise, it might be on a higher side for a cup of soft serve like this. Nevertheless, I will still patronize them once in a while.

Rating: 3.25 / 5

Honey Creme
Location: Jem, 50 Jurong Gateway Road #B1-06 Singapore 608549 

328 Katong Laksa

I was quite happy when I saw 328 Katong Laksa in Westgate and had been eyeing for a meal there fore quite sometimes.

Stall at Westgate

There was no single customer dining in house during my visit which make me felt rather skeptical about this branch's standard and taste of laksa. Nevertheless, I still went ahead and order my small bowl of laksa at $5.

Menu

Laksa gravy was heated up over a portable electric stove on a big pot and then scoop onto a bowl of ready prepared ingredients. Since the shop space was rather small, the kitchen is kind of open-concept to the patrons.

Laksa - $5

Laksa was welcoming with noodles cut into reasonable length, allowing us to enjoy the dish by using spoon. Gravy was not spicy nor it was any too rich, thus it was rather addictive with the fine chopped laksa leaves bringing additional aroma to it. Ingredients on the other hand were of a good proportional ratio to the noodles with fresh cockles, prawns and fish cakes added.

Have a bowl!

Yummy!

Despite that I have mentioned earlier on that there was no "dining in" patrons, I do notice many were there for take away and its not just 1 bowl of laksa but a few at a go. Thus don't worry that you have to travel to the East for Katong Laksa, we have it in the West side of Singapore too.


Rating: 3.5 / 5

328 Katong Laksa
Location: Westgate, 3 Gateway Drive #B2-05 Singapore 608532