Living Room Bistro & Wine

This is the first stop to Dessert and I was quite surprised that we are having pastries desserts over tea time in Thailand. It's definitely no longer the Thailand that I used to know. Passing through the garden, you will find Living Room Bistro & Wine which is just located next to the beach / sea.

Living Room Bistro & Wine

It was a little bit drizzling during that time and we took the outdoor seating under the big beach umbrella to shelter ourselves away from the rain. However, we could not stay any longer not because of the rain but the flies that came disturbing us.

Facing the beach

We requested for an indoor seat and was ushered into a sheltered area. We felt so exclusive as it gave us a feeling that we were in the private event room while the server switched on the air conditioned unit solely for us.

Private Area

While waiting for the rain to goes off, we got ourselves some beverages and cakes to pass the time. Very Coconut Cake was served on a wooden board topped with coconut flesh on the cake. There were alternate layers between the sponge cake and fresh cream. Light and fluffy, bet you will eat them without any guilt!

Very Coconut Cake - 140 Baht

What a special way to pass a wonderful afternoon in Hua Hin, pushing back all your worries and issues that we had in Singapore. Smoothie was chocolaty and was not dilute, it was thick till the point that I thought having more sips of that will kill my throat.

Smoothie Chocolate - 100 Baht

An absolute beverage not to be skipped if you are in the Land of Smiles. Thai Milk Tea smoothie was authentic, on the sweeter side, just like what most Thai preferred. However, if you were to drink the chocolate earlier on, it aids abit in reducing the sugar rush on your tongue.

Smoothie Milk Tea - 100 Baht

Rating: 3 / 5

Living Room Bistro & Wine
Location: Hua Hin, Hua Hin District, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand

Kim Keat Hokkien Mee 金吉炒福建面

My long overdue "To Eat List" has been revived and YES I managed to visit this Claypot Hokkien Mee in Toa Payoh that went abit viral on the social media last year due to its inspiring stories behind.

Kim Keat Hokkien Mee

After ordering your desired portion (you can order with or without claypot), you can have your buffet of lime and chilli at the table right in front of the stall. The chilli is not overly spicy but it goes well with the noodles.

Chilli

Luckily, the wait was not that long and our pot of food came within 10 minutes of ordering. The hit of aroma and sizzling sound from the claypot draw our full attention as soon as it was on the table. That was the first time I ever had Hokkien Mee from an earthen claypot.

We had the $10 portion which I think was good for 2-3 pax. Besides being served in a claypot, they gave a different feel from the mainstream hokkien mee as you can see significance differences in the ingredients.

Claypot Hokkien Mee - $10

A good few pieces of tasty "Sio Bak" (Roasted Pork Belly) had been given and apparently, you get to see "La La" in it, which is not common other than the usual prawns, squid, pork belly, pork lards and eggs.

Ingredients Lay out for individual portion

Crispy dark brown pork belly was delicious! It might be a little salty but it taste good alone with its crackling skin.

Pork Belly

As a whole in terms of Hokkien Mee, it does have its consistency but still lacking of a good strong stock punch that will actually lift the dish up. Noodles was wet enough, wasn't the dry version that I have read. Personally, I was kind of disappointed about taste but still its a good to know about such dish with tasty pork belly exists.

Rating: 3 / 5

Kim Keat Hokkien Mee
Location: Blk 92 Lorong 4 Toa Payoh #01-264, Singapore 310092

Fishball.Minced Meat Noodle

Undeniably my No.1 Bah Chor Mee (BCM) during my school days and till now, even though the facade of the stall has been changed after going through renovation and revamp in the food court, I'm glad that the stall has been around.

Stall 

They are still situated along the first few stalls from the entrance of Sim Lim Square carpark and apparently, more things had surfaced in its menu with a specialty must try stated on its signed board.

Taking its recommendation, the Abalone Minced Meat Noodle, we bought ourselves the smallest and biggest portion.

Small portion is actually good enough for normal eater. Amount of ingredients are still as fantastic in my opinion with lean meat, minced meat, fishcake, fishball, braised mushrooms, fried Wanton and of course a slice of abalone.

Abalone Minced Meat Noodle - $4 (Small)

The biggest portion's ingredient is significantly more. Besides having an addition of prawn, there are another portion of fried wanton and fishball. Noodles wise, amount is of about the same.

Abalone Minced Meat Noodle - $6 (Big)

They have offered something like "purchase with purchase" and with additional of a dollar, customers can enjoy a bowl of upgraded soup with 3 delicious dumplings in it. Though the taste might not be the best of the BCM in the market, it is still of a good fight to the rest.

Dumplings Soup

Dumpling

Rating: 3.5 / 5

Fishball.Minced Meat Noodle
Location: Sim Lim Square, 1 Rochor Canal Road #25 (Basement 1), Singapore 188504

Three Little Pigs [Closed]

The restaurant name is named after Three Little Pigs, a popular childhood story among us. After the recent renovation of the mall, there are many new shops and eateries around and Three Little Pigs is of them. They are specialized in mainly pork of course.

Three Little Pigs

Menu

Ordering Slip

Quencher

Environment was rather causal and I like about its spacious environment with simple decors in the surrounding. In fact, I was attracted by the whiff of the pork chop as i passed by its corridor.

Table

Being the recommended item on the menu, the forest mushroom soup was light and filled with chunky bits of mushroom. It might contained the taste of mushroom but the soup contain was light and watery but not till the extend of having bland taste. Perhaps cream had been used sparingly here.

Forest Mushroom Soup - $5.80

Let's us take the role of big bad wolf but of course we are not going to huff and puff and blow the house down to eat them.

Cheesy Pork Fries was served in a aluminium round tin with grease paper. Simply love the thin slices of pan fried pork that topped the golden fries and with a bit of sour cream on them makes this appetizer went addictive.

Cheesy Pork Fries - $7.80

Signature dish came with the used of pearl rice, Goma Japanese leek and the combination of sunny side up egg with the aromatic sliced of pork chop. You will be surprised that Pork Chop was done by so well that its marinate permeates, such that they are tasty enough to be eaten without any other additional sauce.

Signature Pork Chop Rice - $10.80

Pork Chop is good alone enough without sauce!

Pork Chop of the dish is the cream of the crop, tender slab that gave surprises to the taste buds. Every pork chops are hand pounded with home spice marinated. If you like the famous Pork Chop Burger in Macau, most probably you will get hook onto their pork chop. Interestingly. The dish is served with house greens dressed in roasted sesame sauce and if you are not really into the rice dishes, this is good alternative as you get Macaroni Soup here.

Signature Pork Chop Macaroni Soup - $11.80

Close up of the pork chop

Macaroni Soup

Over experience was present and price was relatively within the average fare. This will be a recommendation to my friend who love pork chops!

Rating: 3.25 / 5

Three Little Pigs
Location: Tiong Bahru Plaza, #01-106 Singapore 168732

Gui Lin Food Stall

If you are in Bukit Batok in the evening, you may want to check out this delicious plate of Fried Kway Teow with cockles at one of the coffeeshops.

Gui Lin Food Stall

Gui Lin Food Stall mainly sells the standard economical rice food items with bee hoon, kway teow, noodle and Nasi Lemak. However, Char Kway Teow will only be available in the evening.

A good mixture of noodles and kway teow whipped among the use of sweet black sauce. The plate of Kway Teow had a consistent sweet taste with generous use of eggs. I like that fact that it's not dry but was kind of on a greasy side that one may felt "gelat" after sometime. Nevertheless, the plate of Kway Teow is still have it shining charms that attract people to return after consuming them. My friend is one of such example!

Fried Kway Teow - $3

Rating: 3.5 / 5

Gui Lin Food Stall
Location: Yong Xing Mian Jia Can Shi, Blk 154 Bukit Batok St 11 Singapore 650154

Pete's Western Food

Pete's Western Food is one of the senior stalls amount the rest in the food centre. With not many stalls opening during the weekends, I would say the demand for Pete's Western Food is definitely there and visible with consistent stream of customer walking up to make their orders.

Pete's Western Food

I have never had Western food on the usual "Nasi Lemak" plate and this had caught my attention. Chicken chop is fairly good and if you were to go back into the 90s, such spread of food is a common sight of how hawkers prepared the western food.

Chicken Chop - $5.50

Chicken is tender married well with the peppery mushroom sauce.

Chicken Chop

While the mixed grill is an upgraded version of chicken chop. It consists of lamb, chicken and beef with sides like a toast, sunny side up egg, baked beans, fries and coleslaw.

Mixed Grill - $8.50

Sauce that was covering the meat was generic, sharing the same taste as chicken chop, mushroom and with a peppery kick.

On the meat

Comparing to most western food stall today, Pete's Western Food may not have the trendy "Wow-factors" instead, they still humble keeping to the old school taste that many of us might be missing sooner or later for such comfortable and home-style hawker food may not be there in future as the newer generations might not be taking over.

Rating:  3 / 5

Pete's Western Food 
Location: Clementi Ave 2 Cooked Food Centre, Blk 353 Clementi Ave 2, #01-73, Singapore 120353

The RawR Kitchen [Invited Tasting]

The RawR Kitchen is somewhere I would have never imagine that I would have visited since its located in the Industrial area of Bukit Batok and in an obscure part of the building in The Splendour. However, once you have found this place, you will be glad that you have discovered it as it is a good place to meet or even chill up after a hard day's of work.

Furnishing are simple and I am amazed by the restricted area that contained huge tanks of beer. The area fenced up and only authorized personnel are able to access with the use of biometric security system.

Environment

I like the part where they did their local craft beer and with funny beer signages around.

Environment

This portion of the cafe was rather interesting as it has different kinds of taps stating kinds of beer available in The RawR Kitchen.

Kinds of Craft Beer

Let's explore the food dishes by the Kitchen...

It's not your usual kind of Bolognese with tomato sauce all over. The way they prepared was authentic and delicious! I was impressed by the way how minced meat was generously spread in the Al Dente pasta and topped with shredded cheese. And a little background from the kitchen:  the meat was stewed for 5 hours and if you step into a cafe in Italy, this will be the exact same taste.

Bolognese

While enjoying our dishes whipped up from the kitchen, some of the dish is good for pairing up with certain type of beer. I was totally stunned when I saw them filling up the chilled mug with beer from the taps. Aren't those tap for show only? 

Perhaps we should put our mouth there instead.

We had a first try on the Wheat Beer, it was light tasting. Our second try is the root beer, yes this is not your usual kind of A&W root beer, it is sweet with about 3% of alcohol content and tasted with hints of the softdrink. Well, this is the preferred drink by the lady.

Our 3rd drink will be apple cider that has a mixture of red and green apple. Taste is mixed too, a little bit of sour and sweetness with alcohol content at about 3.5%.

Ah! My comment as someone who did not touch beer so frequently. Brown Ale did taste like a cup of Hojicha to me! Bitter and containing 6-7% alcohol.

Pilsner, to me is "sugarless tea", kind of reminds me of "Pokka Ayataka" and somehow similar to the Wheat Beer.

Dunkel is rather common to me and its closer to stout and of course heavier than Pilsner. This is best to go with the molten wings if you are ordering some.

IPA which also known as the India Pale Ale is intense and spicy. It kinds of clear cut, either you like it or you hate it.

Stout containing about 8.8% is known for its "coffee flavour".

Beer Tasting

Not taking alcohol, you can choose to have some plain water.

Plain Water

However, if you prefer hot beverage, do not worry, as you still can enjoy a cup of cappuccino with latte art .

Cappuccino

While everyone was busying socializing, we had a look over into the kitchen and saw the butter corn kernels went through the raving flames. Guess what dish are they preparing for?

A peep into the kitchen

 The New Zealand Air-flown Sirloin steak was delicious! Rubbing with just simple salt and black pepper, it goes good in its grilled medium rare form. Dish is served with flamed corn kernels and sprinkled with herbs. However, the picture shown is not a complete version of the Striploin Steak at $16 as the actual one will be served with Flame Grilled corn cob, mash and mixed veggies.

Striploin Steak 

While the stomachs were still groaning after the dishes, we turned our heads around to check out the next dish in the kitchem... Guess what is this lady doing?

Frying Chicken Wings

While Salted Egg dishes are in the trend, its hard to leave such dish out in the menu. The hand-made creamy salted egg sauce brought a little bit spice to the wings.

Salted Egg Wings (3 Pics) - $8

Satiate your taste buds, ask for more!

Wings with Salted Egg Sauce

 Wondering what's the helper up to at the kitchen island? She preparing us for a challenge!

What's the Chef up to?

I gave up eating this after licking its sauce on my fingers! Can you imagine how spicy it is? WARNING! This dish is definitely not for the weak - like me.

Molten Wings (3Pcs) - $8

Tears immediately welled up a few seconds after I tasted the sauce. It was a terrible experience and in fact most of us could not take that level of spiciness.  Luckily we took some sugar as a remedy to let the spice subside.

Motlen Wing

Deep fried and originally dressed withing any sauce. Comparing to the 2 others wings, I preferred this special recipe of such golden fried wings.

Original Rawk Wings (3pcs) - $7

Beware of burning tongues. These are really good stuff!

Original Rawr Wing

If you want to quiet down after a day's of work and enjoy some local craft beer, look no more, visit The RawR Kitchen and you will be surprised by the amount of F&B outlets had increased among the industrial estates over the years.

Rating: 3 / 5

The RawR Kitchen
Location:  31 Bukit Batok Crescent #02-01, The Splendour Singapore 658070