MrUpUpUp's Blog

In the spirit of the up-coming Chinese new Year, Mrupupup visited the Le Café at Blk 42 Cambridge Road. Le Café also have outlets at Blk 637 Veerasamy Road and 264 Middle Road. Wow, the golf ball size pineapple tarts was simply big and very nice. Mrupupup tried one pineapple tart and it was so filling that mrupupup had no much appetite for other snacks. The pineapple tart was huge, flavourful, yummy and totally enjoyable. Mrupupup say go try the pineapple tarts and each box varies from $18 to $21 (for ten big tarts) depending on when you buy the tarts, as closer to Chinese New Year date would mean an increase in price. Slowly enjoying the golf ball pineapple tart while writing this blog post. So very good!     The shops also sells other traditional cookies      

Once in a while, Mrupupup would like to sit down in a Chinese restaurant and eat. Mrupupup tried out the Crystal Jade Kitchen at Parkway Parade shopping mall at Marine Parade. Mrupupup had the tender steamed chicken, special simmering soup noodles and pomelo drink.   The chicken dish was very good. The meat was tender and marinade with a special sauce. Mrupupup ordered the very last chicken for the day. Lucky Mrupupup. Price $14.50 per steamed chicken       Special simmering noodles soup with seafood, large prawns and char siew meat. The noodles was in a soup bowl of shark fin's soup (without shark fin). The soup got other ingredients like fish, squid, char siew and mushroom. Totally enjoyable and a special taste to Mrupupup. Noodles soup costs $12.80.         All the food was paired up with a good glass of refreshing pomelo drink. Take note the drink is sour and sweet. Pomelo drink was also a good detoxing agent. Very nice at $1.50 per glass.   Ok, M

Loong Fatt Tau Sar Piah 龍發豆沙饼  at 639 Balestier Road serves up one of the best Tau Sar Piah (Chinese biscuits) according to Mrupupup. As one would know, Balestier Road has so many stores selling Tau Sar Piah, Mrupupup figured it out today that the one at Loong Fatt Tau Sar Piah served up the best Tau Sar Piah. Tau Sar Piah is a bean paste biscuit. Mrupupup tried the Tau Sar Piah and found it delicious, especially with a good cup of coffee! The older generation of Singapore loved eating Tau Sar Piah with coffee. Tau Sar Piah came in sweet or salty version and costs 60 cents each. The crust of the Tau Sar Piah was buttery and with the bean paste the biscuit was yummy! Haha, Mrupupup felt happy eating Tau Sar Piah. Take note that Loong Fatt is also a old style coffee shop that sells lunch and all sorts of biscuits & cakes. One can just hang out at this place and feel the old style 70s of Singapore.     Tau Sar Piah !!!    

Mrupupup ordered a bowl of Pork Ribs Prawns Bee Hoon Mee dry version at Sims Place Prawn Noodle stall located at Bendemeer Hawker Centre (Blk 29 Bendmeer Road #01-39). The Pork Ribs Prawn Bee Hoon Mee dry was great and the pork ribs were cooked till nice and tender. However, the prawns were a bit small in size. The accompanying soup was rich and tasty and came with the natural taste from the prawns shells and pork ribs. The fried spring onions and lard was added into the noodles to make it even more fragrant. The prawn soup came with a generous portion of bean sprouts! Hope you like bean sprouts! The Price Reasonably priced at $4 for Mrupupup's portion - servings think could be bigger. Overall Mrupupup would like to try this stall again but there is a queue! Do prepare to wait at least 20mins in the queue.

OKG Express - Old Kim Guan served 'home cooked' Chinese food at Nex Mall, #01-58 (near to UOB Bank). Indeed, Mrupupup felt that OKG Express lived up to their tag line of  "the good old taste of home cooking". Mrupupup tried their curry chicken, preserved vegetables with pork, lychee lemon tea drink and chin chow drink. Mrupupup got to say one thing - OKG served up very nice and fragrant rice. Without excellent 'fluffy' rice, chicken curry would not taste nice no matter how good it was. Well, with very good rice, the chicken curry ($5) was a good match with tender chicken wings and curry sauce that  was not too spicy. The 'Mei Cai Kou Rou' - preserved vegetables with tender pork slices ($3.80) went well with the chicken curry. Mrupupup felt like some person's mother cooked at home for the two dishes. Mrupupup preferred the chin chow drink ($1.80) over the more expensive lychee lemon tea ($2.80) for it was a bit too sweet (think OKG used canned lyc

Mrupupup went to far far away Chua Chu Kang to eat at Choon Seng Hng Restaurant. Ok, not very far lah, if one drives in tiny Singapore. Choon Seng Hng Restaurant is located at Chua Chu Kang IT College West school premises - 1 Choa Chua Kang Grove #02-02. The food served up were mainly Chinese dishes. Food was pretty good and Mrupupup had a big crab claw! Good thing was the place was quiet on a weekend, no crowd! Mrupupup would just introduce the dishes ate on that day at Choon Seng Hng restaurant. Loved the chilli crab! Yummy! Tofu served with minced meat - quite nice   Slices of abalone   Longevity noodles   Sea cucumber with mushroom - nice   Snapper fish   Herbal chicken   Prawn roll and meats   Beautiful buns for the chilli crab   Huge Crab Claw! Very nice   Look at the chilli!   Pudding for dessert   Liked the mango pudding          

Peony Jade at Keppel Club (Bukit Chermin Road) exudes an old style Chinese restaurant with lovely red lanterns adorning the restaurant. Peony Jade is an award winning restaurant with excellent food. Mrupupup went for the first time to Peony Jade for a wedding dinner. Very good food! The roast duck with white flower buns was their no. 1 dish, really excellent! Anyway, let Mrupupup give a breakdown of each dish served at the wedding dinner. While writing this blog post, Mrupupup's stomach was feeling HUNGRY!!!! Oh no, could Mrupupup turn back the clock? Yummmmy!   First dish - multi dishes: squid, chicken, melon salad, jellyfish, rolls, mushrooms     2nd dish: Wasabi prawns and Egg yolk prawns (wow!)   Prefer the wasabi prawns- limit to one prawn from each side     Love the red lanterns   4th dish: Shark fin soup (big chunks of shark fin). If you are an environmentalist, you would not eat! Yummy!   5th dish: Fish done very well with no bones

Mrupupup managed to grab one of Tim Ho Wan's famous char siew buns during their charity sale recently. One char siew bun was on sale for $2. Mrupupup wanted to try only one bun to taste. Wah! The char siew bun really lived up to its name as one of the five famous 'heavenly' food of Tim Ho Wan. Well, Tim Ho Wan is a one-Michelin star Hong Kong dim sum restaurant that recently opened in Singapore's Plaza Singapore (Atrium Wing) with very long queues everyday. The char siew bun made of pork fillings was very tasty and loved the crusty bun. Now, Mrupupup knows why Tim Ho Wan is so popular in Singapore. Mrupupup got to find one day when the queue is short to eat the other famous food items in Tim Ho Wan. Mrupupup felt very good to eat the nice char siew bun and do a bit for charity. Nice!

Mrupupup got to tell you - there in Blk 326 Serangoon Ave 3 is a coffee shop that has a very nice Zhi Cha store that sells good Chinese dishes. Zhi Cha means preparing food fried in a huge wok, very Singapore' style of eating. This coffee shop gets pretty crowded during meals times. Most of the people would be eating from the Zhi Cha store. Mrupupup tried out the Chinese dishes and had a great time with fellow friends. Dishes like mongolian pork ribs, seafood soup, fish in sauce, fried fish slices in a melon, fried rice, very tender chicken in cabbage leaves, yusheng dish and longan dessert. Totally very nice. Mrupupup liked the tender chicken in the cabbage and found it very interesting in taste. Yummysss! Fish in sauce Fried fish slices in a melon Fried rice Mongolian pork ribs - spicy Seafood soup Vegetables Chicken in cabbage leaves Longan dessert