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Posted on ieatishootipost Blogs Singapore Best Food on Mar 12, 2010 12:01AM

Crab Bee Hoon $28 per plate

The Ah Chek at Seng Kee Bak Chor Mee has been busy experimenting with Cze Char dishes ever since Seng Kee Bak Chor Mee decided to open for the evenings. In many ways, he is doing what our friend Jason at Ya Kwang was doing before he migrated to Perth. For those who have been reading since the Ya Kwang days, you would know how our kakis went to Ya Kwang almost every week to try out his new dishes. These two men are simply passionate about cooking and are sticklers about the quality of the dishes that they serve.

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Posted on thenomadGourmand on Mar 11, 2010 1:50AM

Elaine left a comment on my previous post on Betty’s. (Post HERE still under my old blog) Had a bad dining experience there.
Went there last night with 3 friends to have a try on the food since everyone gave them thumbs up. When I reached there around 6.30pm, only 1 table was occupied. Guess I was early for dinner. I was impressed by the shop deco and the menu they offer. While waiting for the food, more people came and finally every table was filled up. While we are trying to push all the food inside our terribly full tummy, the daughter kept asking us “Any further order?” She asked that every 5 minutes. So annoying! She even cleared the empty plate without asking. Then it started to run heavily outside. My friend ordered a basket of fries, cheese rounds and 4 bottles of Budweiser while waiting for rain to stop. The girl kept staring at us as the signal to leave the table as there are people waiting to be seated. We ignored as we believe customers always have the right and we still haven’t finish our food. Finally the girl came over our table and asked, “can I clear your table?” and we are shocked as we still have half basket of fries and we haven’t finish our beer. Can you imagine that? She was trying to shoo us away. We was so angry! How can she do that to customer? So we just pay the bill and swear will never go back there again. Never ever! Disappointed with her PR skill. I have been to Betty’s many many times.. and this place IS very popular. It is unfortunate that the above incident happened, and while I can’t say much for the service, the food there is GOOD. Some dishes even awesome, with reasonable prices to boot. We always start with their freshly squeezed Lemonade. Tangy, refreshing and cooling, it’s a good prelude to the onslaught of porcine infused dishes to come.

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Posted on KampungboyCitygal - Malaysian Food Blog on Mar 10, 2010 10:54PM

Lotus Root with Fish Paste Grand Imperial is one of my favourite dim sum place in KL; you’ll see us stuffing ourselves silly with dim sum when the pay cheque’s out. During days when moolah runs low, we’ll resort to our favourite neighbourhood dim sum restaurant Jin Xuan. My colleagues have raved about the food, [...]

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Posted on Indulgence After Workout on Mar 10, 2010 8:58PM

Unlike our first impression, these fail to stand out when served with the Chocolate Mousse in Verrine and Hazelnut Slush. Although the macarons have its crisp and meaty shells and that they are nicely flavoured with rose or green tea (respectively), we felt that the main flaw lies in the slight watery and salty (subtle) buttercream.

If we were to compare strictly macarons with other places, this is definitely good, if not one of the best in Singapore but with outstanding chocolate desserts served back to back, we can't deny the fact that the other desserts are more addicitve.

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Posted on ieatishootipost Blogs Singapore Best Food on Mar 10, 2010 7:00PM

Good news for all aspiring bloggers. For the very first time in Singapore, Nuffnang are organizing a blogger's symposium where bloggers of different genres can get tips on how to write better blog!

The event, which is sponsored by Canon, will take place in April and there are three Canon Powershot S90 cameras to be won! The symposium will consist of 5 breakout sessions where participants can choose to attend the genre of their choice. The five categories are:

1. Lifestyle: Xiaxue.

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Posted on ieatishootipost Blogs Singapore Best Food on Mar 10, 2010 6:49PM

Calling all fathers!

If you have been wanting to learn to take better photos of your kids, do sign up for the free workshop during the school holidays from 19 to 21 March organized by Dadsforlife.sg with the support from Canon, Singapore.

Fathers can bring the children down to one of the three locations during the holidays where you can attend the seminar and then put your new skills to work taking photos of your kids! At the same time, there will be professional photographers around where you can have a free portrait taken of you with your children!

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Posted on ieatishootipost Blogs Singapore Best Food on Mar 10, 2010 9:20AM

Kim Chee - "baechu"

I guess like many people, my interest in Korean food started as a result of watching K drama. It didn't really take off after "Stairway to Heaven" which I felt was a series to test your endurance for "Chee Kekness" (frustration). But interest begin to brew after "Sik Gek" and blossomed in "Da Chang Jing". So now I am on my Korean food hunt to find the best that the culture has to offer.

Before this, the only thing I really liked about Korean food was the table BBQ. That's not because the other stuff was bad, it's just that I don't really know what else to order. In fact, I still don't really know what to eat, but as a result of K Drama, I am more interested in exploring. And it helps when my friend Cactuskit just happens to be a K Drama addict and eats Korean food almost every week. In fact, Cactuskit is like a drug trafficker who goes around getting people addicted to K Drama.

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Posted on Timeless Facade - Everything is a facade, only good food is a reality on Mar 09, 2010 11:11PM

It was meant to be a Chinese New Year dim sum gathering with a couple of my makan kakis at Taste Paradise Ion. Unfortunately, only the ala carte menu was available because it was still within the CNY period. Which was fine with me, considering that I had a great meal at Taste Paradise Mosque Street 2 years back.

The Place & Menu

It must be posh interior fatigue that I was suffering from because the dim lighted luxurious interior with huge paintings of past Chinese emperors certainly didn't impress me much. But I must say it's definitely nicer than alot of the Chinese restaurants out there.

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Posted on For the Love of Food - Overseas on Mar 09, 2010 9:00PM

It is nice to have a friend in foreign land, in Hong Kong, even though Hong Kong has not been entirely foreign to us. HY and I had followed a strict annual pilgrimage to this gastronomic and shopping haven, since 1998. Even so, the locals still beat us at sleuthing for the best food places. After all, they eat and breathe the air here everyday. It's always good to have this 'local' guide without having to fuss over where's the good food. Trust the 'picky foodie' Singaporean who live in Hong Kong. Ade's friend, SE, is a Singaporean living in Hong Kong. I don't mean that SE is a picky foodie. I was just generalising the typical Singaporean as being one that's acute at the taste buds, whether consciously or subconsciously, and with varying extent of acuteness of course.

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Posted on Indulgence After Workout on Mar 09, 2010 8:58PM

Yuan is someone that is very sensitive to the type of milk used in beverages, hence his first impression of Jewels' chocolate beverages weren't postive. However, having tried the Chocolate Hazelnut Slush, he had a second opinion. With hazelnut incorporated into the drink, the milk becomes less distinctive, hence leaving an overall impression of the drink being rich and smooth.

When it comes to ice-blended drinks, it is important to have it smooth, the icy texture can be a put-off as it makes drinking unpleasant and diluted when the ice starts to melt. This was experienced when we had the Godiva's chocolixir (Dark Chocolate Decadence) and we compared it with Iced Milo blended with dark chocolate bits.

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