Hibiki @ Singapore Flyer

Hungrygowhere has been my best friend these few days. It's the time of the year where there are birthdays and loads of gatherings to organise! Best opportunity to try out new places.

Came across a reasonably priced ala carte buffet with GREAT reviews from hungrygowhere. Got all excited and informed a group of my friends that we were be heading there to celebrate their bdae. To my disappointment, the hibiki at cuppage was under renovation! No wonder no1 answers my call when I called up to make reservations.. :(. Its other branch at Singapore Flyer had rather bad reviews but we stuck to it and decided to head to the one at singapore flyer.

SingaporeFlyer has mixed reviews:
http://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/hibiki_singapore_flyer/

Cuppage Terrace got good reviews:
http://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/hibiki_cuppage_terrace/

http://www.hibiki.com.sg/promo.html
This was the ala carte buffet that we tried out. Not much variety but if the food is really good, variety is not a big issue. Unfortunately, like the reviews, the food was generally disappointing, at least to me and my husband.


The buffet doesnt comes with drink. But you can order free flow of brown rice green tea at $5 per pax. Pricey!




The sashimi was generally fresh and thick slices. Nothing much to complain. I did enjoyed the raw ebi. So sweet!!


Prawn tempura.. one word.. BAD! It was not crispy..the prawns has no taste.


Teppanyaki beef. Tender beef fried with loads of garlic. Not bad.


Tempura mushroom. Din try. Believe it was quite decent.


The teppanyaki prawns was really good.


No complains of its teppanyaki items.


Din had this. Cant comment. :p

According to the reviews, the cuppage terrace branch is known for its great sumiyaki which i think is charcoal grilled stick items. I wonder what is the difference from the name of kushiyaki which is known as japanese satay. Anyway, to me.. they are known as 串烧. Being lovers of kushingin and kazu at cuppage plaza, the sumiyaki served here was a HUGE disaappointment for 2 of us. We tried Shin Kushiya once at vivo and did not love it that much as many pple do. After what we had here, i think what we had at shin kushiya was pretty good. Its branch at cuppage plaza could be much much better since it is highly raved in the reviews.






The meatballs was not well-received from the group.




Look how unevenly sized the asparagus are! Presentation fail!


half boiled egg in some cold sweet soup. interestingly it was pretty good.






sushis were decent. No complains either! :)


so were the temakis!




Agedashi tofu. Normal too. No complains either.



Pomelo Jelly! The only dessert! Pretty cheapsake! But i love it! Refreshing!


Edamame. Steamed instead of the usual cold one. :)


The birthday cake from swissbake! Chocolate Fudge! Pretty good!


Went to Fish Spa for the first time that night too! Buffet time for the fishes! Bet they had a better meal than me. :p

Peony Jade Dim Sum @ Keppel Club

I have to say my experience at Peony Jade Dim Sum @ Keppel Club was less than satisfactory.

I chanced upon the place when I was googling for good "Nai Huang Bao". I had a strong craving for it back then. (Still have not satisfied my craving for that yet). The reviews I read for its dim sum were generally good and they seem to have some interesting new dim sum selection.

To my dismay, there was no "nai huang bao" that day. Cant rem much except I prob wun go back there again. :p.

Tau Huay Tarts, Tanjong Rhu Pau and the 3 Greedy Pigs!

My husband, my sister and I are like partners in crimes for FOOD! We have been doing little sinful trips (within sg.. :P) these past 2 weeks. yikes!

It all started from my craving for Tanjong Rhu pau. My husband's brother-in-law bought it back one day and got me hooked to its mini cha siew pau. I was craving for it 1 day over at my parent's hse and mentioned it to my dad. My dad was so surprised that I forgot I used to eat it all the time when I was young. He said there are so many branches around these days. He say he will bring me to the original stall to buy it. So off we go, after church to the place near old aiport road.. forgot the exact name. Turns out! It doesnt open on sunday!! Dammit! Wat a disappointment! My husband then mentioned they have 1 at geylang.. we went to geylang and found it has moved!! arghz!! wat a day that was. Due to us having other plans after that, we forgo with our pau hunting.. this leaves behind a very unsatisfied me.

Then the next week, i started to have a new craving... my good old tau huay tart. We were all lazying at my parents hse on a saturday afternoon.. then I turned to my husband and begged him to bring me to selegie to buy me my fav tau huay tart!! He agreed. My sister tagged along and told me something about mixed tau huay tart her colleague buy for her. I insisted they only come plain.. she insisted otherwise. Turns out.. they really sell mixed flavours tau huay tarts! So I bought a box of original and a box of mixed tau huay tart. My sis on the other hand went selegie beancurd stall and bought tau huay drink, tau huay, you tiao and on my request the salty crystal bun. Mind you! We jus had lunch like an hour before we left hse. Oh my! sinful!!


Here are the mixed tarts I never knew existed! suaku me! haha! Auntie there said its very popular! I took 1 of the last 2 boxes.



However, I dun fancy the mixed flavour tarts that much. The combi is wierd I still love my plain original tarts!

And ydae! We finally got to buy our tanjong rhu pau. This time round, after my husband had his lunch, my sis and I bugged him to bring us go buy tanjong rhu pau! haha! the poor guy! This time I finally got my pau and ate it! We had to buy a couple more boxes as my relatives are coming to visit my dad who recently had a mini op. Anyway.. the pau is really expensive! 60 cents for 1 mini pau! oh my! 3 of us were cash-strapped (why they dun take nets or credit? keke) and pooled our cash together to buy 4 boxes (1box has 10 paus) of cha siew bao and 1 mixed dao sa and leng yong bao. haha! so kelian. We still had a few dollars left and went to kallang macs drive-through to treat ourselves with milk-shakes. ANother sinful saturday.. oh my!




The mini 60cents addictive cha siew pau!


3 mini paus! (leng youg pau and dao sa pao are 50 cents each)


I m missing it already~ it was finished.... (i only had 4!!!! so small!!)

I wonder wat sinful acts will 3 of us get into again next week... haiz.. FATTY ME!

Chicken Rice cum Traditional Steamboat @ Golden Mile Tower

August's makan place was simple. Guess they are still nursing their pocket from their June's expensive meal. Perhaps its also showing signs that times are bad.

I nearly gave up joining the rest this time round as I finished work rather late. They were so nice to wait for me to start dinner. They must have been famished! (It was 8.45pm by the time I reached) Turns out there were 2 others later than me! But we started dinner without them as we were unsure of the time they will arrive.


When I arrived at Golden Mile Tower, I went straight to the basement level as I told it was at B1. I scanned around.. most of the shops are closed and the place seem dead. I thot I was at the wrong place. I turned into a corner to find it entirely different. There it was.. the restaurant... bursting with tables and tables of pple digging into chix rice and steamboat. I was welcomed with a strong fragrant smell of chicken rice as I went to look for my friends admist the crowded restaurant.




The moment I sat down.. food was served. Very prompt service! (think they waited very long to start serving our table.. :P) Chicken soup was poured into steamboat pot and the heat turned up.. 4 plates of veggies, 2 plates of raw mixed seafood, 1 plate of raw beef, 2 plates of chicken (1 and a half chix in all), 12 bowls of chix rice and 1 bowl of 3 raw eggs filled the table. The table was overfilled with food. Very good for hungry pple like us.
















We also had 2 plates of hainanese pork chop which I loved!!! So crispy and tasty!! However, for the rest of the food, it wasnt that fantastic.. the rice smells good.. tastewise.. normal.. the same goes for the chicken. Steamboat? still ok.. simple.. cant go wrong.. food quite fresh. We quite love the beef which was very tasty and tender. Price wise, it was reasonable. Less than $20 per person, considering all the food that we had.

The concept is very similar to Yet Con at purvis street, a place I went with my gal friends a couple of years back. (see post here). I think chicken and chicken rice wise, I think Yet Con will be better. I cant wait to go back Yet Con to try again to compare. Trying hard to convince my husband now... or maybe I should get my friends to organise a date to go back there again!

The wantan mee .. worth waiting...

My family (or rather my dad) has this thing for wantan mee or as he calls it "kolo mee". In fact, all his brothers and sisters and my granpa can eat it at least once every 2 weeks. There are 3 places of wantan mees stalls which the Tan Family are die-hard fans of(and we have our own names for them).. first is "Joo Chiat kolo mee" (known famously as fei fei wan tan mee), second "eng ko kolo mee" (named as such because the cook's name is Eng) and the last "Lor Mydin kolo mee" (its a wan tan mee stall along Lorong Mydin).

We used to patronise fei fei wan tan mee alot until after the old stall owner passed away then we frequent it slower and then hardly ever. Standard has dropped alot and it has become overly commercialised. I can still rem when I was a young gal.. where we had a long tables of 20 pple (family outing) waiting just for feifei wantan mee. We always had it with the rojak there. Nice!

Its only within these 2 years which I start to fall in love with eng ko wan tan mee. I dun rem eating it when I was young but I always hear my dad and uncle toking abt it. Apparently this wantan mee has killer chilli. So anyway, dad started tao-baoing it for me. U might think tao bao(packet) noodles will not be nice and be soggy. For his wan tan mee, u r wrong. The packed noodles of cos become "pong" (expanded) means i have a bigger pack to it. But the noodles is still al-dente and has soaked up all the flavours. ANd his chilli sauce! 1 teaspoon can kill! but yet, the excitement of the spiciness, i cant resist not to add it. Only thing.. his cha siews and wan tan are not much of a rave. Who cares? the noodles itself is making me crave for it again.

It was only until last month I managed to go down dunman food centre to eat it there. The place seems empty YET we had to waited for at least half hour. Waiting is no issue for my family when it comes to food we love. We used to wait for an hour for 85 ba chor mee.. and nearly every weekend an hour for simpang bedok ah lim mee pok! Even my husband (who comes from a family who hates waiting) also waits patiently with us for his meepok. keke! Greedy husband!


Ok back to noodles, the noodles came abit wet and messy. Guess good food matters over presentation for old stalls like his. It still taste good but i really prefer it packet. I thot I was being wierd until i brought my husband down to eat it himself and he agrees with me. So I should jus wait for dad to tao bao for me next time for i can minus the waiting time, get a "bigger packet" for the same price and taste nicer! MMmmm... sounds evil! keke!




The stall at dunman food centre.