Ramen Shiba

Ramen Shiba is a new Japanese Ramen joint which is just opened in West Coast Plaza on September 2022. They have been praised for their rich ramen broth and the cute little doggy as its logo.

Ramen Shiba at West Coast Plaza

Ramen Shiba allows diners to have their bowl of Ramen tailored to their preferences with the level of saltiness and oiliness of the broth. The texture of ramen can be chosen too.

Shiba

The broth of Original Tonkotsu Ramen is carefully brewed with an abundance of ingredients over a couple of days, resulting in the creamy umami taste. It was topped with flavoured egg & seaweed.

Original Tonkotsu Ramen with all toppings - $15.90

If you prefer thin slices of stir-fried pork belly, you may want to go for their Signature Butabara Ramen. In this case, we had this signature bowl topped with seaweed.

Signature Butabara Ramen with Seaweed - $16.90

Rating: 3 / 5

Ramen Shiba
Location: 154 West Coast Rd, West Coast Plaza, B1-09, Singapore 127371

Mariners' Corner Restaurant

I have never heard of Mariners' Corner Restaurant until they shared that it was previously from Maritime house, serving Hainanese Style Western Food. Since 1984 they have been in the business. The Interior of the dining place was laid back and give an old-school charm feel. However, these indoor dining place was complemented by the outdoor garden seatings on the deck.

These glistering chicken wings were simply good for the starters. They are very addictive and well-marinated. Just alone without the lemon juice and BBQ, these Mexican Wings will do fine.

Mexican Wings with BBQ Sauce - $8.50

The 2 slabs of Grilled Pork Chops were well seasoned with LP Sauce and served with slices of roast potatoes, summer salad and Pineapple Relish. The thickness of was meat was quite uniform and well-flavoured without being too greasy. 

Grilled Pork Chop - $20.50

Steak is served in a cast iron hot plate with baked potato and buttered veggies. Such presentation and combination of food are so familiar that they reminded me of Jack's place. There are 4 types of sauces for the steak, namely Black Pepper, Mushroom, Garlic Shallot and BBQ.

N.Z Ribeye Steak - $28

The mushroom sauce goes well with the Ribeye and it was even adorned with a piece of mushroom and English parsley. 

Ribeye

The baked potato was soft. The toppings are optional. Like what happens in Jack's Place, Mariners' Corner Restaurant does have servers topping up the condiments like sour cream, spring onions and garlic bits for the potato. For those who prefer to have bacon bits, it may be a little disappointing here instead. 

Toppings for the Potato

Nonetheless, the doneness of the beef was perfect. 

Medium Doneness

One can top up $5.80 to any main coursed to enjoy a bowl of salad, soup of the day, garlic toasts as well as coffee/tea with dessert. What a classic old-school starter!

Completing a set at $5.80

Ending the meal, we have a cup of coffee with a piece of almond butter cake. 

Piece of Almond Cake

Looking at their menu, they have attractive lunch sets set differently for each day of the week as well as weekends. There is also one lady server whom I thought that the service was friendly and impeccable. I will be back again for them.

Rating: 3.25 / 5

Mariners' Corner Restaurant
Location: 106 Clementi St 12, #01-40 Singapore 120106

Shi Wei Hong Kong Soy Sauce Chicken

The Hong Kong Soy Sauce Chicken stall is one of the stalls that was lined up with a snakey queue during the peak hours. Their menu is rather simple, Soy Sauce Chicken Noodles / Rice, Shredded Chicken and Prawn Wanton Noodles.

Stall of Shi Wei Hong Kong Soy Sauce Chicken

The plate of Soy Sauce Chicken Noodle is flavourful with a generous amount of soy chicken slathered with the slightly thick sweet soy sauce.

Soy Sauce Chicken Noodle 鼓油鸡面 - $3.50 / $4.50

The chicken was tender and juicy. The noodle was springy and well-tossed with adequate sauce.

Generous amount of sauce and chicken

Besides having noodles, you can opt to have Soy Sauce on Hor Fun or rice. 

Soy Sauce Chicken Hor Fun 鼓油鸡河粉 - $3.50 / $4.50

Simply love the brown layer of Soy Sauce accentuated chicken skin that is filled with taste.

Yummy Soy Chicken

Rating: 3.5 / 5

Shi Wei Hong Kong Soy Sauce Chicken
Location:  Telok Blangah Food Centre, 79 Telok Blangah Dr, #01-22, Singapore 100079

Nummun Thai Kitchen

 We have cravings for Thai Cuisine from time to time and recently we came across some posting on Nummun Thai Kitchen and did a google on it. To our surprise, the rating is on the high side and we find no reason not to give it a try. 

Nummun Thai Kitchen

We went at the right hour just slightly before the peak hour when there are still ample of seats around and after settling down in no moment, the place was already full house. Phew! What a relief! The interior is spacious and the furnishings are rather simple with some Thai dishes poster up on one side of the wall.

Dining Area

While I'm expecting some sweet-tasting syrup drinks here, I was quite surprised that the drinks were in fact not sweet and on the contrary, Lemongrass is a tad on the bitter side.

Red Soda (Num Daeng Soda) & Lemongrass (Num Tak Krai) - $3 each

Their Phad Thai was flavourful and had a significant egg taste in it. Mixing it with the peanuts, chilli flakes and lime juice elevates the dish. Unlike other places, the sweetness was well-controlled here and not too greasy.

Stir-Fried Thai Rice Noodle (Phad Thai) - $8

The Steel Pot Vermicelli Prawn is flavourful with a distinctive peppery taste and mushroom fragrance. Vermicellis is springy and as a whole, the dish was better than our expectations. 

Steel pot Vermicelli Prawn (Goong Ob Woon Sen) - $20 

We came here for this! This Thai Crab Meat Omelette dish was made famous in the name after Jay Fai Bangkok got a Michelin Star on this. This dish was made up of a generous amount of fluffy egg and chunks of plump crab meat. 

Crab Meat Omelette (Kai Jiao Pu) - $28

Love this pillowy soft and smooth texture that cradles the sweet juicy and succulent meat. Once you pop them into your mouth, it disintegrates.

Chunky Crab Meat

Pandan chicken come in a plate of 4 and the tender chickens were wrapped under the leaves. The dish is pretty normal to me as the taste was kind of bland to me.

Pandan Chicken 4 pcs (Gai Hor Bai Dtoi) - $8

Moo Ping is well-marinated and the meat was tender with a slightly charred taste. 

Grilled Pork Skewers  4 pcs (Moo Ping) - $8

Dipping the savoury Grilled Pork Skewer into the sauce enhances the dish's taste.

Dipping Moo Ping

Simply love the authentic and homely Thai Food here. The pricing of the dishes was not at the high side too, in fact the pricing is pretty reasonable.  I will be back soon for other dishes. 

Rating: 4 / 5

Nummun
Location: Thomson Imperial Court, 200 Upper Thomson Rd #01-03, Singapore 574424
Nearest Station: Upper Thomson (TE8)

Ajumma's

Passing by Ajumma's unkempt times, we finally step our food into the eating place and check out what is the hype about. The eating place was usually full and with many patrons joining the snaky queues every time when I pass by. We were lucky to have the last table even out of their peak hours.

Ajumma's

Ajumma's is a casual Korean restaurant established in 2014 that sells hearty food from the markets and streets of Korea. The seats in Funan are rather limited and we were given a 45 minutes dining session.

Menu

Ajumma's Jjajangmyeon comes with chunks of braised pork fried with fermented black bean paste slathered over the handmade noodles. 

Jjajangmyeon - $12.90

The sauce was adequate for the portion of noodles in the bowl topped with shredded cucumber as well as green peas. The braised pork was soft and tender, and went well with the chewy noodles. This bowl of noodles come with 4 side dishes.

Mixing the noodles with fermented black bean paste

The 4 side dishes were refillable just like any other Korean Restaurant. We were served with Kimchi, seaweed, pickles and cream corn kernels. 

4 Side Dishes

These tender slices of Ajumma's homemade Beef Bulgogi, Nongshim Sari Gomtang Ramyeon make 

a hearty and delicious bowl of beef Ramyeon. It is served with 2 small bundles of enoki mushrooms and 4 side dishes too.

Beef Ramyeon - $10.50

The traditional style seafood pancake made with a blend of Korean pastes with ingredients such as prawns and squid. Its quite savoury alone and has an earthy flavour. Dipped them into the soya sauce to enjoy it.

Traditional Jangtteok Seafood Pancake - $15.90

The hot stone pot was filled with luscious eggs topped with roasted sesame oil and sprinkled with some spring onions, an all-time favourite on the menu. 

Fluffy Steamed Eggs - $6.90

Service was friendly and the food was pretty decent. A point to note for those who are sitting near the stone wall is to be careful in case there is abrasion as the surface was uneven. 

Rating: 3 / 5

Ajumma's
Location: Funan, 107 North Bridge Rd, #B1-31, Singapore 179105
Website

Lian Huat Seafood

During the Covid period, I get to know of Lian Huat Seafood for there are so many live streams on their quality and fresh seafood. They are founded in 1988, starting as a premium seafood wholesaler. 

While passing by the industrial coffeeshop the last round queuing up for Mirai-Ya, I have already decided that I should give their stall a try.

Its hard to miss out Lian Huat Seafood stall for the striking blue signage and the bright signage light caught everyone's attention upon looking into the coffeeshop. The queue, as usual, is always snaky.

Lian Huat Fish Soup Stall

Read on to check out what we ordered.

Our Orders

The double fish soup was cloudy and filled with generous ingredients like cabbages and tomato with some seaweed as well as spring onions. The broth is flavorful with hints of sole fish and for the sliced fish, Batang Fish was used. 

Double Fish Soup 双鱼汤 - $7 (Small)

The fried fish was separated from the soup bowl. If you will like to have additional order of their Special Fried Fish, it will cost another $3 per bowl. Unlike the usual fish soup I had, these golden brown fried fish surface were more textural.

Special Fried Fish 

There were only 3 pieces of Batang Fish found in my bowl of Double Fish Soup. I thought that amount is rather miserable for a $7 bowl. 

Batang Fish

The Red Grouper Sliced Fish Soup was chunky and fresh.

 Red Grouper Sliced Fish Soup 红石班鱼片汤 - $8 (Small)

If you will like to have additional fiery kick to these white meat, dipped into their sambal chilli with ikan bills. 

Red Grouper

The Deep Sea sliced grouper caught one of our attention and we decided to try it. The meat was slightly thicker and chunky.

Deep Sea Sliced Giant Grouper Soup 深海垄胆鱼片汤 - $10

We opted the Yam Rice to pair along with the bowls of fish soup. The Yam rice was sufficiently fragrant with mushrooms and cabbages but still lack a strong smell in it.

Yam Rice 芋头饭 - $1

Taking in consideration that Lian Huat is a wholesaler, the quality and freshness of fish is no doubt remarkable but if the amount of fish can be increased, consumers like us will be happier too. 

Rating: 3.25 / 5 

Lian Huat Seafood
Location: Proxima, 50 Gambas Crescent, Singapore 757 922

8 Degrees 8度空間

While the price of air tickets to Taiwan is soaring, it makes sense to enjoy some Taiwanese food here to satisfy the craving.

Oysters are plump and the chitterlings given were generous. Topped their bowl of Mee Sua with some vinegar and chilli to slurp everything up!

Oyster & Chitterling Mee Sua 综合面线 - $6.80

The Stewed Pork Belly Rice style comprises a mixture of lean and fatty meat accompanied by braised egg and pickles. As much as I love Stewed Pork Belly Rice, the braised taste was on the bland side.

Stewed Pork Belly Rice 八度卤肉饭 - $6

The Scallion Oil Chicken Rice was flavorful and yummy with a generous amount of scallion and tender chicken. Totally in love with its sweet and savoury sauce.

Scallion Oil Chicken Rice 葱油鸡肉饭 - $6

King Oyster Mushrooms were sliced and marinated, it gave a tad of spicy mala kick and made a good appetizer. We love the unique way of how this dish was prepared.

Marinated King Oyster Mushroom 香麻杏鲍菇 - $6

What's visiting Taiwanese café without ordering their Milk Tea? Sugar level can be chosen and grass jelly were smooth while the pearls were commendable with chewy texture. 

Grass Jelly Milk Tea, Milk Tea with Pearls, Jasmine Green Tea with Pearls - $6.90, $5.90, $5.10 (Big)

The egg roll had a soft wrapped cradling the generous amount of pork floss.

Eggroll with Pork Floss 肉松蛋饼 - $7

These Chitterlings were deep fried to their crispiness garnished by the shredded refreshing cucumbers. Dipping them into the roasted sesame sauce would enhance the taste of the bites.

Fried Chitterling 炸卤大肠 - $8.80

We had another side dish with pork floss too. The brinjals were battered and showered with pork floss and some cut spring onions. The pillowy soft texture was inviting.

Brinjal with pork floss 肉松茄子 - $6

Thank you Scale Micro Influence and 8 Degree for the invitation.

8 Degrees
Location: 37 Teck Chye Terrace Singapore 545734