Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Curry at the Lavender Food Centre


Lavender Food Centre always comes to mind when 'Lavender' is mentioned. Lavender Food Centre is definitely a food paradise with many food variety, from Wanton Mee to Thai Food to Korean Food, you can find just about anything & everything in there.

With so much variety, we had a hard time deciding what we should review on. Until a stall with wide variety of curry caught my eyes as curry has always been one of my favorite. We ordered lots of food from other stall too but I decided that this was my favorite out of the bunch.

They have lots of different types of curry like mutton, beef, fish and so on. We ordered the Curry Chicken($4.50), Curry Pork Rib($4.50) and Curry Prawn($5.00). You can choose either bread($0.60) or rice($0.60) to go with the curry. I will say that the prices are a little steep cause the portion is quite small but on second thought ain't all food in Lavender Food Centre expensive.

I love the fact that their Curry Chicken's chicken doesn't have skin and are not all gooey which I don't like (I know alot of people prefer their meat to be all gooey and disgusting but I don't).


Although slightly costly the Curry Prawn come with rice vermicelli and some yong tau fu like tau gua & ladyfinger which the other curries doesn't have. The curry also taste slightly sweeter than the other. The prawns are fresh and can be easily peeled but I will prefer it to be shell free because I hate getting my hand dirty.

Do you love curry? If you do, tell me where do you think serve the best curry!!

(P.S. Next week we'll be going to Sengkang for some foodie time =D Any recommendation?)


Eva Recommend: Curry Prawn
Jackie Recommend: Curry Chicken

Starlit Homemade Curry
195 Lavender Street
Lavender Food Centre

Food 3/5 'Tasty curry but not the best I've had'
Price 2.5/5 'Slightly costly consider the small portion'
Presentation 3/5 'Nice colour but could throw in more meat or prawn to make it look better'

*Update* Apparently prawns that are easily peeled are not fresh? I tot prawns are fresh when they are easily peeled. Anyone wanna clear the air?

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Birthday tze char


My mother's concept on birthday dinners are tze char and it had never change since I'm young. So since today is my birthday we had tze char at a coffee shop near my place.

We had quite a feast, ordered 5 dishes. However I'm very disappointed with my birthday dinner, none of the dishes are impressive! The sweet and sour fish($10) is the best out of the bunch simply because sweet and sour fish has always been my favorite dish.



The cuttlefish kang kong($10) taste fine although the look suggest otherwise but i prefer it without the cuttlefish just the sambal kang kong will be prefect. The broccoli with scallops($20) taste very blend and the scallops are very hard. Not to mention it fucking expensive!


Usually hot plate tofu's tofu are round but in this case their are rectangular and it taste like tau gau. Hot plate tofu is Evangeline's favorite so she is very piss about the odd tofu taste.


My favorite part of the dinner is the SAMBAL!! I find that it goes very well with the odd tasting tofu and since all the food is not that nice i had to add it with sambal to make it better.

(P.S. Guys please tell us if you know any delicious tze char stall)


Jackie Recommend: Sambal
Eva Recommend: Cuttlefish Kang Kong

Jia Wei Seafood
339 Restaurant
Blk 339
Ang Mo Kio St 31

Food 2/5 "Nothing impressive"
Price 1/5 "As i already said fucking expensive"
Presentation 2/5 "The presentation is as good as the food goes"

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Cheap & Good Western Food


How does a $2.80 fish fillet rice(above) or a $2.50 1pc chicken with rice(below) sound? In any kopitiam, you can hardly find a western main dish which cost below $3 so I bet that sound good!

Neatly tucked in Ang Mo Kio, Golden Rooster is a western food stall in a coffee shop. Golden Rooster recently introduced this small little selection of menu going at attractive prices, naming the fish fillet rice($2.80), chicken with rice($2.50) and spaghetti($4.00).


The fish fillet rice is my favorite not only is it cheap but it taste even better than their other pricey dishes. The rice is very fragrant not just plain white rice, it taste similar to chicken rice with lesser aroma punch. We didn't ordered the spaghetti as we ordered so much that we could hardly finish anything.


We also ordered the fried fish fried rice($6.00), cheese fries($2.50) and chicken cheeseburger($2.30). The fried fish fried rice is fish & chips replacing the chips with their fried rice, overall I will say this is the worst dish (and the most expensive one). The fish is too oily (so oily that when u slice the fish the oil just come flowing out), the fried rice is too peppery (you can change it to the white rice of fish fillet rice also).


I personally think the burger is good but the cheese fries is pretty normal, pretty much the standard you expect in every western food stall but Jackie heart both of the dishes.


Eva Recommend: Fish Fillet Rice
Jackie Recommend: Cheese Fries

Golden Rooster
Hao Di Fang Kopitiam
Block 347
Ang Mo Kio Ave 3

Food 3/5 "other than the fish & chips with fried rice, others are tasty"
Price 4/5 "the fish fillet rice is definitely a bargain"
Presentation 4/5 "overall presentation is very well done for coffee shop stall"