NunSongYee [Closed]

So NunSongYee is the recent Bing Su hype in Bukit Timah that opens 24 hours taking over Lobby at 9. It was kind of mix feeling as there is 1 less option for food in Bukit Timah but 1 more alternative for dessert. It's kind of mix feeling over here.

For Korean Dessert Lovers, NunSongYee should be of no stranger to you as there are quite a number of outlets available in Singapore.

NunSongYee

We had the choco banana bingsu topped with vanilla ice cream, almond nuts and caramel. It was so beautifully done with two sticks of chocolate sticks and having said that, you have to be careful when digging your spoon into the icy Bing Su as the chocolate powder is rather loose.

Choco Banana Bingsu - $13.90

Banana slices were of generous servings. The ice shavings were very fine and literally dissolve instantly as soon as you put them into your mouth.

Banana

For additional taste, you may want to add in evaporated milk.

Adding Milk

A refreshing taste that gave us more than enough hints that they were blended with real fruits and a mixture of yoghurt. To sum up, it was actually a cup of healthy drink worth the money.

Blueberry Yoghurt - $6.90

With the Beauty World MRT station a stone's throw away, this is a perfect place for people who want their late night dessert fix.

Rating: 3 / 5

NunSongYee
Location: 9 Yuk Tong Ave, Singapore 596314

Hotel Ibis Brussels Centre Sainte Catherine

Having been to Brussels twice, Ibis Hotel has never disappoint me as the geographical location on the map is great for tourists like me who wish to stay near within walking distance to the amenities. Hotel Ibis Brussels Centre Sainte Catherine is located in the city center of Brussels, about 550m from the Grand' Place and the popular "Manneken Pis" that changes clothing throughout the season. Not only that, the location is within distance to museums, popular shopping areas and super mart. Though it may be a 3 star hotel, cleanliness and services are generally well maintained across the board.

Our Room

Furnishings are modern which we felt comfortable at and all rooms come with air condition. With technology being so advance and necessary, you do not need to worry about paying for that as the hotel is equipped with free Wifi throughout the levels.

Big Bed

I would not say that the room that we stayed in was spacious but I must agree that they have applied a clever use of space with the TV Console. Just the back of the TV Console, you get to see hangers to hang your clothing as well as towels.

TV Area

We did not worry much as long as our bed were comfortable and big enough. Space in the room is still acceptable with a writing desk.Toilet might be a little cramp but still its bearable for someone who is spending more time outside as a tourist than staying in the hotel most of the time.

Toilet

Hotel Ibis Brussels Centre Sainte Catherine
Location: Rue Joseph Plateau 2, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

B.K. Forture Seafood

B.K Fortune Seafood is located along Bukit Timah Road just opposite the entrance of the road into Turf City. They are housed under the big coffee shop chain by Kim San Leng for open air dining and have a separate old school aircon dining environment right beside the coffee shop, selling similar Tze Char Items.

B.K. Forture Seafood

Upon serving the bowl of soup to our table, we almost rejected the bowl of soup and told the server that we did not order any seafood soup as no seaweed could be found until we stirred them up from the bottom. In fact, there is more seafood but only a spoonful of seaweed. Soup was rather decent with slice fish, tomato, carrot, prawns, egg and little corn.

Seaweed Soup - $5

The guy being a Hokkien has never failed to order this Hokkien Noodles whenever it comes to Cze Char Meal. The standard dishes of this is of an average fare and nothing out of ordinary. Ingredients include slice fishes, prawns and vegetables as the ingredients.

Hokkien Noodle - $7

With slice fishes present in the seaweed soup and hokkien noodles, this dish may seemed to be overwhelming for the dinner. Fortunately, both of us love this dish with its sweet sauce. Fish was fresh and yummy. If you are having white rice, it will be ideal.

Spring Onion Slice Fish - $12

The plate of fried chicken was below par in my opinion as the chicken marinate did not make the taste any better, in fact the prawn paste chicken was having some bitter taste even though it may seemed to be yummy in its golden brown color perfection. Yay or nay? I will say nay.

Prawn Paste Chicken - $8

With so many light flies approaching our food, it was kind of disturbance during dining. I hope it was just a one time off event. Anyway food had their hits and misses, we don't see ourselves coming back any soon in the near future.

Rating: 3 / 5

B.K Forture Seafood
Location: 887 Bukit Timah Road Singapore 279896

East Coast Ngoh Hiang 東海岸五香

If you are visiting Blanco Court Prawn Mee stall, it is unlikely that you will miss out this Ngoh Hiang Stall that is right beside the famous Prawn Noodle in Beach Road. It seems to be a common practise for patrons having East Coast Ngoh Hiang while waiting for their bowls of Prawn Noodles to be served.

Picking out the favourite items from the display rack, we had the usual few with century egg, meat, prawn cracker as well as fish cake.

Ngoh Hiang - $8.20

Having Ngoh Hiang was a good way to fill the empty stomach with some food. Surprisingly the plate of fried Ngoh hiang Items was good. These items were warmly served and prawn crackers were crispy.

Century Eggs

Chinese with sesame seeds were given and if you ordered the "chinese sausage" the starchy sweet sauce will be provided too.

Rolls

Rating: 3 / 5

East Coast Ngoh Hiang 東海岸五香
Location: 245 Beach Road Singapore 189755

K.Cook Korean BBQ Buffet

Despite having the negative thought of smelling like a walking korean BBQ after every BBQ meal, I manage to get myself seated down at the Korean BBQ Buffet, K Cook in Westgate. Ever since its opening in Orchard 2014, K Cook has been regarded as one of the top 10 Korean BBQ place.

K Cook Korean BBQ & Steamboat

Living in the West for a few decades, there isn't much Korean BBQ options that we can choose from. In fact this opening is something that Westies can rejoice in since it is opened at the heart of Jurong East. Like the usual Korean BBQ places, they are installed with hanging vacuums to withdraw the smoke into the exhaust.

Tables with Vaccums

K Cook on the other hand had introduced a new concept of marrying Korean BBQ with Steamboat in the Westgate outlet, thus diners can enjoy the best of both worlds, having barbecued meat as well as steamboat session. Wouldn't it be nice?

On the Table

Though limited, K Cook Buffet spread are considerably decent, dividing into sections, raw meats,vegetables, garnishing, soup, drinks and cook food.

Cook food was constantly kept warm in the skillet with electric stove below.  Japchae, their glass noodles alone was rather salty in my opinion and was not to my liking.

Pork / Beef Balls

Selection of Food

As for the meat balls which contains both pork and beef with gravy drenched all over, they were soft in bites and not too bad. Pretty good stuff to fill your hungry stomach first while waiting for the raw to be cooked.

Pork / Beef Balls

Here comes the Korean Staples, drumlets and wings. With honey coated, they are rather stickily dressed in their golden brown fried wings. This kind of reminds me of 4 Fingers, NeNe Chicken, the kind of Korean Fast Food up in the malls nowadays.

Honey Chicken Wings

With another common item from the korean cuisine, they have the candied korean sweet potatoes with sesame seeds.

Sweet Potatoes

Another thing korean from their cook food section is perhaps none other than the Kimchi and Green onions pancake that was cut into bite sizes for the patron. Grab some and try!

Korean Pancake

Moving into the meat section, you get beef, chicken and pork in marinated as well as non marinated form. Seafood such as prawns and sotongs were part of the chilled meat too. They are regularly top up by the staff on duty and fresh.

Chilled Meat Session

With Steamboat and BBQ, sometimes the preparation can be a little confused here, why not put some into the BBQ hotplate and some into the steamboat soup for boiling? And if you like Bossam as much as I do, try wrapping the BBQ meat with lettuce added with some dakoritang, spicy bean sauce, garlic, onion as well as kimchi.

Marinated and non-marinated meat

While some may want to make their own Budae Jigae (Army Stew), they provide hotdogs, instant noodles, luncheon meat too. 

Vegetables & Hotdogs

Too bad for the big eaters, there are time limitation of 2 hours, you have to finish your feast within this period. 

Salad Bar

Other than that, as an overall, staff are prompt in clearing emptied and dirty plates with a smile. Ambience was clean and neat with korean songs playing in the background from the TVs.

Free Flow of Drinks

Rating: 3 / 5

K.COOK BBQ & Steamboat Buffet
Location: Westgate, 3 Gateway Drive #B1-02, Singapore 608532 

My Cosy Corner

My last visit here was in 2014 when I was hoping to grab their so called best in Singapore Popiah but learnt that they are not making any popiah on Sundays. In fact, I had called a few times on Saturdays before heading down to check if Popiah is still available but it was always the case that they were sold out.

We took additional effort to head down in the morning and joined the crowd fighting for popiahs. Just Kidding. In fact, with limited number of seats in its premise, many of us were standing up waiting for their take-aways.

So what's the verdict of the Famous Popiah? I wonder if I had went there with a higher expectation as it still makes me wonder what was it for their quick clearance / sold out daily. No doubt that popiah skin had secured and tightly hold the ingredients, it is still not the best I ever had though I enjoyed the additional texture from the cripsy bits that made up part of their ingredients.

Popiah

Ordering one of the popular dishes, Mee Siam without prawns. I find that the sourish and spiciness had complemented each other well in terms of its gravy. It was really inviting, packing with the sourish flavours and additional texture was given by the toasted crispy Tau Pok which perhaps spell out the difference as compared to other Mee Siam.

Mee Siam - $5 (Without Prawn)

The taste of Mee Rebus has nothing changed ever since my last visit. The taste of gravy was sweet and with hints of prawn stock, bringing differences from the usual ones we had from the Muslim stalls.

Mee Rebus

Overall, food is still worth waiting for and the price is relatively reasonable with the portion given. I will be back especially for their Kueh Pie Tee!

Rating: 3.5 / 5

My Cosy Corner
Location: Coronation Shopping Plaza, 587 Bukit Timah Road #02-02 Singapore 269707

Thai'Ny Town [Invited Tasting]

Located at the humble corner of Junction 10 (Previously known as Ten Mile Junction), you will find this causal family corner name Thai'Ny Town. If you have heard of D's Kitchen Mookata in the premises of Woodlands Industrial Park E2, Thai'Ny Town is actually one of the stalls branching out from its Traditional Thai Barbecue business. In fact, Thai'NY is more specialized in serving ala carte dishes.

Walkway to Thai'Ny Town

With a group of supportive Thai Locals working in the kitchen, there is no doubt about its authenticity. Moreover, having said that, we have met the boss, Demise, who shared a fair bit about D's Kitchen. When asked why is it called D's Kitchen, he mentioned that "D" is actually the starting alphabet of his kid's name and his.

Counter from the kitchen to the dining area

Environment was simple with wallpapers sticking to the back of the wall.

Environment

Starting of the meal with the commonly ordered Thai Appetizer, Mango Salad. Although I'm not someone who can really take spiciness, this dish is perfect on spot for someone like me who cannot take high level of spice.

Mango Salad

Set your preference of the Tom Yum Soup! Red or clear? We had the red version and to be honest, the soup itself was indeed spicy even though it was said that they have altered their recipe with use of more onions.

Tom Yum Soup

Though I'm not a person with high tolerance in spicy food, I enjoyed the soup with its generous serving of seafood like prawns and sotong.

Tom Yum Soup

Fish and prawn cake will be something I will vote for. These cakes were made from scratch, with fish cake holding its uniqueness for its bouncy texture.

Prawn Cake & Fish Cake

Dip these golden fried cakes into the sweet and spicy sauce to elevate its taste!

Close up

Gearing away from the mainstream of Thai Spicy Minced chicken with basil, Thai'Ny Town had actually did a improvised version of this dish. Carrot cubes were added to give a sweeter taste of it with a lighter taste of basil.

Spicy Minced Chicken

The usual pineapple rice had the usual ingredients like meat floss, rasins, cashew nuts but still lacked the fresh, juicy and tangy pineapple that burst the flavour of the turmeric rice.

Pineapple Fried Rice

Moving into another common dish in Thai cuisine, the Green Curry. It's best to pair along with a bowl of plain rice covering the grains with the savoury curry. Curry gravy thickness was not too thick which is perfect, however I will prefer a stronger green curry flavour.

Green Curry

What I like about Thai'Ny town is their innovations, a little here and there, driving and getting us away from the usual Thai Food scene we all see in the restaurants. We had the tasting portion of  Pla Too (Short Mackerel) coated with a teaspoon amont of Belachan. The spice was great on the Mackerel without being overpowering but on a salty side. Perhaps one thing that diner has to be careful is its fish bone. Presentation on the other side was beautiful with the right use of colours.

Sambal Balachan Pla-Too & Vegetables

The stir fried rice noodle dish was simple and an average fare that will go well with other ala carte dishes.

Phad Thai

Larb Gai, a common dishes served in Thailand. "Larb" which means Salad and Gai as "Chicken" in Thai is often a easy and straight forward dish they make. However, it can be extremely spicy but the use of lime juice and mint leaves had given this dish a splendid combination.

Larb Gai

And of course, dont forget to have cups of milk beverages like this as it aids in washing down the spice through your digestive system.

Original Thai Milk Tea & Thai Green Milk Tea

Awesome! The sweet and smooth mango is the must try. With creamy coconut milk adding on to the fragrance of the steamed rice, they are definitely addictive and toothsome, just like those which I had from in the streets of Bangkok.

Mango Sticky Rice

Glancing through the menu, the prices of the dish is rather affordable keeping in mind we are dining in a air-conditioned environment and in the mall. If you are looking for simple and not overly commercialized Thai Food, Thai'Ny Town could fit the bill.

Rating: 3 / 5

Thai'Ny Town
Location: 1 Woodlands Road #01-32, Junction 10 Singapore 677899
Tel: 6765 8819