Kei Kaisendon

The friend decided to have Kei Kaisendon for our lunch and I agreed. Known for serving delicious rice bowls topped with fresh sashimi from the seas of Japan. Every dish is specially designed with the right blend of fish, toppings and seasonings. 

Menu

Before even having our food served, the complementary bowl of salmon miso soup and garden salad were served to us.

Complementary Starters

The soup was tasty alone with white radish and seaweed as well as salmon meat even without our main order.

Miso Soup

Love munching the big piece of seaweed and pairing them with the bowl of Chirashi. This is the top recommended dish on the menu and there are a mixture of scallop, prawn, ungai, tuna, salmon etc. The combination of sauces and dice of small cucumber cubes excites my tastebuds. It's very addictive bowl of Chirashi and in no time, I find the entire bowl of food.

Chirashi Kaisendon - $28.90

The Kei Signature is rated as their Top 2 in the menu and comes in 3 sizes, Small, Regular or Large.

The ingredients is similar to the Chirashi Kaisendon blessing out the Unagi 

Kei Signature Kaisendon 

Topping up the meal with 3 pieces of Sesame Tofu and a glass of green tea to make the meal a set.

Sesame Tofu - $4.90

We also make another set meal by adding Chicken Drumlets & green tea. The Chicken Drumlets were savoury 

Chicken Drumlets - $3.90

Their service was friendly and speedy. I will be definitely back at Kaisendon again for their food.

Rating: 4 / 5

Kei Kaisendon
Location: TripleOne Somerset, 111 Somerset Road, #01-45, Singapore 238164
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iSteaks (JEM)

 We were back here at iSteaks JEM once again for affordable Steak. Making a repeat order on their Nitro Nanyang Brew & House Lemon Tea suits us most.

Kopi O & House Lemon Tea - $4 Each

We had the 350g Ribeye Steak in Medium Doneness with mashed potato and Onion rings as sides. No question about the quality and that's why they are always packed with patrons during the peak hours. The cut was thick and beautifully done with charred crispy parts as well as its juiciness flesh.

New Zealand Ribeye 350g Steakhouse Char -$43.50

Yes, it is a little weird entering the steakhouse ordering Tilapia Fillet with 2 dies, Country Baked Beans and Coleslaw Salad. 

Meuniere Tilapia Fillet - $18.50

On a separate occasion, Its Christmas time and we were recommended with their Communal Feast. The Communal Feast is good for sharing among a group, party-sized or family. We opted for the oven-prepared (OP) Rib. requested for Medium Doneness, pasture fed and served with choices of 3 sides. 

Steakhouse Char 1000g - $98

While waiting for the oven to prepare our order, we were served with our selected sides, Onion Rings, Sauteed Brussels & Garlic Buttered eggplant.

Onion Rings

We munched on these sides and chatted throughout. We even finished our sides before the Main Course Came. The Sauteed Brussels were nicely done up with some bacon pairing up the dish.

Sauteed Brussels

The Garlic Buttered Eggplant was spongy and addictive among us.

Garlic Buttered Eggplant

The Cut was impressively thick but tender oven-prepared (OP) New Zealand Silver Fern Ribeye grilled with its fatty cap that gently melts and flavours the steak. Look at the charred and succulent Steak!

Elevate the taste by dipping them into black pepper or mushroom sauce. Yummy!

Dipping Sauce

Washing down our food with the tall glasses of beverages. The colleagues seemed very contented with the amount of Fresh Brew and sang with praises that money was well paid for this.

Iced Kopi Fresh Brew & Iced Teh Fresh Brew - $4 Each

The Lemonade Soda with Lychee was cool and refreshing. 

Lemonade Soda with Lychee - $6

Rating: 3.25 / 5

iSteaks
Location: JEM, 50 Jurong Gateway Rd, #01-08/09, Singapore 608549

Johor Road Boon Kee Pork Porridge

After all these years of having pork porridge around, I'm still swearing that Johor Road Boon Kee Pork Porridge has the best Pork Porridge in Singapore. 

Stall of Johor Road Boon Kee Pork Porridge 

I like the consistency of the porridge texture with a mixture of pork in the porridge. The pieces of fried fritter, use of spring onions, Dong Cai and fried shallots add on aroma to the bowl. 

Pork Porridge with Egg - $4.50

Topping up my bowl of Porridge for another $0.50.

Add On Egg 

Time passes but the bowl of stomach-comforting porridge still tastes as good as before. The minced meat ball still pack with unique flavours that you will not find in another porridge stall. 

Ingredients

While we were early but was not the earliest, we waited about 15 minutes for the order. I will be back again for my favourite again!

Rating: 4 / 5

Johor Road Boon Kee Pork Porridge

Location: 638 Veerasamy Rd, Singapore 200638

Toto Seafood

Thanks to the December Baby who was craving for Crabs and we ended up at this popular seafood place that had recently gone viral for their Pet-Friendly environment. If you are thinking of having some Malaysian-style Cze Char and bringing your fur kids out, you may want to consider this place.

TOTO Seafood

What a quirky description on their menu. "It's very FUN, HOR". The Hor Fun had subtle "Wok Hei" fragrant with the standard ingredients like squid, pork, prawns and vegetables, soaked in the umami flavours of the luscious gooey seafood broth. 

Seafood Hor Fun 海鲜河粉 - $12

Just take a look at the gooey broth with eggs. We enjoy the sweet and savoury broth with the big pieces of rice noodles aka Hor Fun. 

Do you like Hor Fun?

A light and simple dish with stirred fried Dragon Chives with Shimeiji Mushrooms sprinkled with some chilli powder. It helped to balance out the heavy taste of the crab dishes that we ordered.

Dragon Chives with Shimeiji Mushrooms 白玉菇青龙菜 - $12

Recently, this style of cooking Lala has become popular on the menu. They tasted like chilli with curry powder with the sight of curry leaves.

Kam Heong Lala 甘香啦啦 - $15

These packet of disposable gloves come in handy for those who do not want to dirty their hands during feasting. They look so cute in their packaging.

Gloves Packet

They have a promotion of 2 crabs for $88, attracting the Crab lovers. However, the 2 crabs' flavours must be of the same, else $10 has to be added for a different flavour. Since we were having Chilli Crabs, the ordering of Fried Mantou was essential in dipping the leftover savoury Sauce of the crab.

Fried Mantou 炸馒头 - $4

We ordered 2 Chilli Crabs and Chilli Crab was cooked in Malaysian Style, delicious and popular among us. However, if you are a fan of Sri Lankan Crabs, this might disappoint you. Nonetheless, the flesh was still plump and succulent.

Chilli Crab 辣椒螃蟹 - $88

Let's grab the claw and tug in!

Chilli Crab

The Black Pepper Crab gets the nods from most of us. The Crab was nicely coated in the savoury and peppery taste of the sauce adequately, without being too overpowering. 

Black Pepper Crab 黑胡椒螃蟹 - $98

I'm not a fan of spicy crabs so out of the 3 flavours, I preferred the Cream & Salted Egg Crab. Sweet and savoury sauce coating the crab. Yummy!

Cream & Salted Egg Crab 奶油咸蛋螃蟹 

We used to travel all the way to Johor Bahru for the San Low Fried Bee Hoon but such a dish seems to be popular and common in most places of Singapore now. San Low Fried Bee Hoon is known for its charred edges and flattened pancake shape bee hoon. 

San Low Fried Bee Hoon 三楼炒米粉 - $10

A special Tofu dish that I had, soaked in Thai Style Sweet and Spicy Sauce while the Tofu has a thin crispy fried layer at the top with deep-fried baby shrimp while maintaining the natural wobbly and smooth silky texture of the nutritional Tofu.

Princess Tofu 怡保香妃虾米豆腐 - $12

Quite a misleading dish if you are looking to have more Tofu in the dish. The dish was recommended by one of the servers. It was crispy fried to golden with fillings of minced meat and century egg. drizzled with a sweet sauce that reminds me of having "Ngoh Hiong' instead.

Deep Fried Ipoh Seafood Tofu 招牌怡保黄金炸豆腐 - $14

Service was lacking and it's something that they can improve on, we have been waving frantically multiple of times before the servers attended to us. Nonetheless, there are no 10% GST charges from them too.

Rating: 3.25 / 5

TOTO Seafood
Location: 46 Lor 23 Geylang, Ground Floor Fansida Building, Singapore 388375

Tracy Juice Culture

While I heard something about the dish "Mushroom Udon" via the social media, we head down to Fortune Center and want to give it a try. I was pretty shock as I arrived the shop navigating myself with the unit number on the given address and found out that it was a Fruit Juice place. I was initially puzzled for Udon to be sold there, nonetheless, we continued our ordering thereupon looking at the wall's big menu.

It's a small outlet with limited seats.

Inside Tracy Juice Culture

Here comes their famous mushroom soup udon. While having the Udon halfway, I realised that I was actually having vegan food with vegetables and mock meat in the bowl of savoury thick luscious mushroom gravy mixing up the thick strands of Udon. Ingredients are none other than visible slices of mushroom with cherry tomato, broccoli as well as mocked meat. We were satisfied by this tasty bowl of Udon.

Tracy's Special Mushroom Udon 健施特制乌冬面 - $14 (Set)

The set of Tracy's Special Mushroom Udon comes with a bowl of nutritional white fungus with peach gum dessert. If you do not prefer to have a set meal, you can order it on an Ala Carte basis. Love the not too sweet dessert with the soft and velvety texture of the peach gum, white fungus coupled by red dates and longan. 

Dessert for the Set

What a weird combination I thought with Fruits in Curry and Udon. Spiciness level is acceptable and if you were to ask me it has more of a tangy and sour taste that makes the healthy bowl of curry so wholesome. Fruits like pineapples are essential to make up the sour taste. I feel weird having grapes, cherry tomatoes and dragonfruits in my bowl of curry noodles. Well! That's what makes it so special.

Fruit Juice Curry 水果咖喱 - $9.90

If you feel adventurous enough, you may want to try out their special Udon. They also have another outlet in International Plaza.

Rating: 3.25 / 5

Tracy Juice Culture
Location: Fortune Centre, 190 Middle Rd, #01-34 Fortune Centre, Singapore 188979

6 Letter Coffee

 A cafe that opens at 7am in the morning? Well, that suits my time table for that day as I want to have a quick breakfast and continue with my tasks for that day. 6 Letter Coffee started their operation in 2019 in Tanjong Katong Road and believe in creating happiness through their collective spaces and dining selections for customers of all ages. They provide all-day menu for breakfast to dinner and of course Coffee.

6 Letter Coffee

The early bird catches the worm! We had the whole cafe to ourselves since we were their first customers. The theme of the cafe gives a garden feel and you can see that staff are busy taking care of the plant early in the morning.

Interior

Cafe Space

Matcha can be served sweetened or unsweetened. Love the smooth texture of the drink with Matcha powder topping up the top layer. We had something special too, the Charcoal Cafe Latte, a combination of charcoal taste with the usual latte

Matcha and Charcoal Cafe Latte - $7.80 & $7.30

With Rosti in their menu, I looked no further. We had their Signature 6 Letter Brunch with their housemade rosti cooked with healthy olive oil and served with housemade avocado mash instead. This gives a healthier and tastier choice to enjoy their rosti in every bite.

The Brunch consist of housemade rosti, Norwegian smoked salmon, sunny side up egg, shitake mushrooms, fresh fruits (dragon fruits and grapes), mashed avocado and mixed salad.

6 Letter Brunch - $21

The Rosti was crispy and charred at some parts, giving some crispiness to the texture. Totally yummy and it might be quite filling for one pax too.

Rosti

We ordered their Chef Recommendation, the Good Day Breakfast. It comprises of crispy bacon, scramble eggs, arabiki pork sausages, shitake mushrooms, sourdough butter toast and mixed salad. Love this hearty breakfast meal with the combination of the items. The scrambled egg caught our attention for it looked so unique in its creamy and luscious appearance. 

Good Day Breakfast - $19

If you enjoy bacon, you will enjoy this too.

Crispy Bacon

It was a good experience visiting 6 Letter Cofee for the ambiance was nice with friendly service. I will like to be back for other selections on their menu.

Rating: 3.25 / 5

6 Letter Coffee
Location: 259 Tanjong Katong Rd, Beng Tong Mansion, Singapore 437047

Crazy Scoops

 After dinner, we decided to go to Circuit Road for Ice Cream by Siao Ah! for she has yet to try other flavours of ice cream in Crazy Scoops. If you have been on social media especially TikTok, you would probably come across the guy, Mr Vincent Lim, who is behind this Ice Cream Shop. He is known for being pranks by his daughters online which has gained him lot of fans base. Can you spot him in the picture? 

Crazy Scoops

Based on the video by his daughter, it has been always Vincent childhood dream to run an ice cream cafe and now that the dream has come through in this December 2023. 

Pick your selection

They have both outdoor and indoor seating, allowing you to park your bikes and enjoy the ice-cream. Service are friendly for sure. The White Chrysanthemum Ice Cream had a good strong hint of chrysanthemum fragrant with sweetness while the Oolong maybe a little bit on the bitter tea side but these 2 flavours complemented each other well.

White Chrysanthemum & Osmanthus Oolong

We went for something out of the ordinary, Coriander Ice Cream. Those who love Coriander will love it. As a coriander fan, I find that the taste was pretty acceptable complemented with a vanilla base. The White Christmas is similar to the raspberry vanilla flavours we had with added Lotus Biscoff Biscuit (or similar) for texture.

White Christmas & Coriander

The last flavour we had was Bluepea Vanilla. Take a closer look into the cup and you will find the vanilla beans within. While Bluepea itself does not have much flavour in nature, this flavour is mostly vanilla taste in its natural blue colour. 

Bluepea Vanilla

They aim to keep their prices reasonable to serve local people with great affordability and cater to the masses. Overall quite decent with their ice cream Service will need improvement as they had oversight of one of our orders and we waited for quite some time. 

Rating: 3 / 5

Crazy Scoops
Location: 77 Circuit Rd, #01-460, Singapore 370077
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