MrUpUpUp's Blog

Mrupupup won the privilege to dine at the very best dining place in Singapore - Restaurant Andre. This very high end dining place is located at 41 Bukit Pasoh (a single shophouse next to New Majestic Hotel - in Chinatown area). Mrupupup won the 'most liked' photograph contest at the DBS Marina Regatta 2013 and would like to thank the sponsor of the prize (DBS) for allowing Mrupupup to have a dinner meal for two at $298 ++ per person (ultra high end!). Restaurant Andre is one of the premier restaurant in the world and ranked among the top 50 dining places (ranked #38 in 2013 http://restaurantandre.com/accolades/  ). Art and philosophy play important roles in Chef Andre Chang's dinner dishes. For the dinner meal, the dishes came in eight 'octaphilosophy': pure, salt, artisan, south, texture, unique, memory and terrior. Besides excellent food dishes coming in an art form, Restaurant Andre has one of the best service staff in Singapore. The service staff welcomed Mrup

Mrupupup attended Laksania's talk by their boss. Laksania serves very nice Laksa which is a spicy noodle dish. Laksania located at the Nex Mall (#B1-08) serves Kelantan laksa, Singapore Laksa, Penang Laksa and Sarawak Laksa. Laksania is a social entreprise store and it is a sister company of the famous Secret Receipe. Their Boss of Laksania shared the difficulties of setting up this store to help the less fortunate people in society via gainful employment in Laksania. Social Entreprise in Singapore is not easy and only business people with the toughest minds chart out their paths and are determine to help the less fortunate in society. The food in Laksania was good and Mrupupup tried their Sarawak Laksa which was spicy, yummy and comes with chicken meat. Laksania also serves Laksa Goreng (fried noodles with laksa sauce), laksa satay, various desserts and many laksa types of food. All the food items are nice and served by very friendly staff, some of whom do face challenges in life.

Ivins serves very nice Peranakan dishes. Ivins at Heartland Mall (second level near to New York New York) served many dishes like honey pork, chicken, pork meatball soup, fish maw soup, vegetables in a pot, squid and also you can buy their special Peranakan sauces/nonya cakes. Just to take note Ivins no longer at Seletar/ Thomson area and moved to Heartland Mall. Check out the photos below.

Bali Thai Restaurant at Suntec City (basement 1) serves Thai and Indonesian food combinations (fusion food). Had Bali Thai for my 11th Loh Hei Session - wishing for good luck - a Chinese New Year tradition. The food is nice and very spicy. Thankful that Bali Thai served us lime juice and water to reduce the chilli padi taste. Green Curry Chicken Spicy Kang Kong Vegetables Chips as appetisers & Tahu Telur (Bean Curd) Thanks for the lime juice & Loh Hei Session with fresh salmon Love the BBQ prawns and squid, Wrap up chicken Pineapple rice