Hotel Gallery's Miharu Japanese restaurent

Been having this ramen craving for the longest time. It's all my friend's fault for tempting me with her stories of the many delicious ramen she had during her holiday trip to Japan. My friend recommended me to try out Miharu Japanese restaurent for really good ramen! Been dying to try this place out!

So happen after our trip to the zoo today, Gary had this craving for ramen! He was toking about some place near Robertson Quay and I suggested Hotel Gallery which we soon realise we were toking abt the same placE! THjie mentioned its too salty for her liking but nevertheless, she was sporting to go to the place because of us.

I was excited! Finally got to go try the place out! So 4 adults and little nat set out for Ramen!

The restaurent was pretty crowded during lunchtime so I was reading on the newspaper articles they had at the front of the shop. Seems like the place is quite well-known. Its like 1 of the top 50 restaurents in Singapore(SUnday Times Newspaper).

The restaurent is pretty small. You can choose to sit outside or inside. We decided to wait for our seat inside. Glad we did cause we had the platform seat! Fun! Me like small kiddo! haha!!

BC and Gary ordered the miso soupbase ramen while Th and I ordered the shoyu soupbase ramen. Apparently, Gary's and BC's order were different. Both their ramen honestly looks the same to me.




If you can see from the menu, there's Miso Tonikotsu and Tokusen Miso. Cant tell the difference from the pics and the english description. From the pic, it looks the same to me! BC and Gary ordered these two. WHo had what exactly, I cant remember. I wanted the special blended sho-yu at first but Gary advised me it might be too salty for first-timers. I decided to settle for the normal sho-yu.


BC's ramen with extra char siew! The smell was heavenly!!! I love his soup!! Rich and Garlicky!!!!! Really salty though! BC gave me all his bamboo shoots! I feel its a bit "smelly". I never like bamboo shoot in the first place!


Gary's ramen! He was ready to attack but rearranged back so as to allow me to take a pic! Haha!! DIn get to taste this so dunno wats the difference.



My SHo-yu ramen!! Salty!!! But the soup base not as nice as that of the miso! :(! So sad! So I ended up kept stealing BC's soup to drink. I put laods of their specially blended pepper and chilli powder. However, i think the pepper made it even saltier! haha!! I love the way they cook their egg though! Love the soft yolk!

Anyway, we were drowning ourselves with loads of water after our meal! There is a kind of feeling on your lips when your food gets too salty. But the noodles were nice and springy! Gary commented he still comes back because he loves to relive the saltiness feeling once he forgets about it after a period of time. When he ask us if we were come back again, I was thinking, maybe not. Too Salty!!! Haha!!

I think perhaps the saltiness is due to the Ramen style from a specific region. I heard from THjie she went to some other part of japan ( i forgot!) where the ramen soup she had was sweet.

At least i tried the place out and satisfied my craving! Happy!!

Some zoo pics to share!


Elephant show!


Elephant feeding! Look how brave nat is! Old lady me decided to join in with the kids!! Fun!!! But $5 jus to feed elephants! Kao! Oh well. For conservation!


Look at the endless prams! *faint*
Lesson Learnt: Never ever go Zoo on a public holiday!!!

China Teahouse

China Teahouse (under 'Tung luk') is a place where my family frequents often whenever we have cravings for dim sum or during one of those special Sunday where we wanna eat at somewhere more comfy.

Actually its like the only dim sum place we keep going to. We attempted red star but guess mum and I are too fussy for that place. Really like to try out Wah Lok and Hua Ting for I heard their dim sum is really good! Oh well, somehow we either feel abit broke or by the time comes, we dun feel like going there. haha! Must definitely aim to try it out!

Anyway, went there recently, snapped a few pics and decided to blog it. Its really quite a comfy restaurent for dim sum. Its not rowdy like those old restaurent but yet, you still get those ladies to pushcart the different dim sums to your seats like those old times. I like the fact that you can order for a fresh hot dish if you dun wan it from the cart. I guess we love it much for the comfort.

Sometimes the food dun seem to be consistently nice but overall, its worth going back. My favourite is the mango prawn!! Mmm!! I love the water chestnut cake (ma ti gao!) and egg tarts! The normal dim sum are generally nice. The fried stuffs are really good too like the silver fish, baby squids but fried stuffs make u feel full fast and u feel sick after too much.

Nice place for family gatherings. Big-eaters should try out the hightea buffet they have. (never tried it yet).




Redbean pancake! I like! :)

Don Pie!

Passed by Don's pie shop recently. Mum decided to finally try out a couple of his pies! We bought a quarter of his chicken pie and a small sheperd's pie.


Chicken pie! Those who have tried DOn's pie already know that his chicken pie is yummy! Its like mashed potatos and carrots with pieces of chicken and egghalfs in them. The pastry is nice and flakey and not so oily. However, my mum finds it too peppery for her taste.


Sheperd's pie! This was a disappointment to me! Cause for me when I think of sheperd's pie I will think of comparing to that of my mums. Nice minced beef in thick gravy with smooth mashed potato. It turned out to be chicken inside! Haiz! :(! Such sadness for beef lover. N also, its too too peppery that i could not taste much.

It makes me crave for my mum's sheperd's pie! Boo hoo hoo!!

East Coast Lagoon - what's your favourite?

It has been a while since I went out with parents to have dinner at Lagoon Hawker Centre.

Because its a place i frequent since young, I never thot of blogging pics of it. Haha! I mean to me, its not somewhere new and exciting. So no point. Felt a bit boliao today and decided to snap a few pics of my favourite food there and blog it. Ha!

I know of a friend who absolutely loves the same kind of food from there like me! except the satay bee hoon though. I never had a thing for that. *wink to yx*


Beef Kway Teow! My absolute favourite and must-have when I m there. Of course, when the queue is darn long, i wun bother. The uncle takes too long to cook.
But he is a very clean man. He got 'A' for cleanliness wor. He really takes pride in his food. You can see from the way he arrange the beef so nicely before he put the soup and then carefully put in the spoon! haha!


Raw fish from the porridge stall! the porridge is good too but sorry, on diet! haha! Freaking expensive now too! 8 bucks for a few slices of fish and loads of veggie!

Suddenly recalled of the past when my grp of friends and I went East Coast in the morning to have porridge plus raw fish! its something we all like. Forgot why we were at East Coast in the first place though.. *oppz*


The duck rice!! Yummy yummy! this one is really good whether you eat it with rice or the porridge! I love the chilli! you must mix the watery sour chilli with the dry dark red chilli for the best combination to go with the duck! yumz!

I also adore the curry puff but uncle never open today. Sad ah! Marine parade hawker curry puff oso very nice! All my favourites since young!

Think the braised pig trotter's there oso very famous. My fwens used to adore them. I am not a 'pig trotter kind of person' so never tried it. Sold in the day.

The bad thing about being able to enjoy these food is that you got to queue for them. So its always better go early ard 6 plus 7. After that, I think you just spend time to queue for one ba. I always rush to queue my kway teow first, leaving my parents to stroll at the back. Scared the queue gets too long.

Haagen Daaz Macademia Ice cream cake!

Yummy Yummy Yummy~ Pretty cake too!
Nope. Not my birthday! Haha!
Wun mind it as birthday cake next time though... *hint*
But that jus means I gotta wait till next year.

Wun mind having this cake to eat for no particular reason... or a tub of haagen daaz macadamia nut ice cream will do jus as well.. :p.

Black Angus!!

It is our special day today! So we decided to go somewhere special to celebrate! We chose Black Angus because one of my colleague told me the steak there was good! BC wanted Hog's breath at first. I heard the steak there was good too but since I've went there before(had sandwich last time round), we decided to go give Black Angus ago.

My fwen told me must try the fillet mignon as it is the most tender part of the cow. Haha! I then told BC that that is a must order. So he had the fillet mignon while I decided to try out the Prime Rib. We decided to be a little greedy and order the Prime Rib Combo with prawns since we are sharing.



Entertaining myself as usual. :)





Our steak soup and bread! Love the bread and the cream cheese! BC absolutely love the steak soup! I thot it was a bit salty. Its nice and chucky! reminds me of my mum's stew. Interestingly, there are barley in the soup!

Was trying to achieve artistic food shots at the same time! which is nicer? the first or the second?



BC's 8oz fillet mignon! BC claims he takes nice food artistic shot too! Let's comapre with mine later! His fillet mignon was really tender! yummy!!


My Prime rib + Prawns combo! Love the taste of my beef. tender too. However, it gets a bit tough when it got cold. I was too busy with the prawns and pinching BC's food that I neglected my steak. The prawns aint good! Bleahz! n the butter oil thing in the middle totally spoilt it for me! YUCKS!


A pic to remember our night! Wanted to take one in the restaurent but too paiseh. Haha! Quite funny memories when trying to take this pic!

Think I would have enjoyed my dinner more if I did not had such a tiring day at work. Plus my awful late lunch plus gastric in the day didnt make me at the best condition to pig out. Will wish to try out the potato skins if we do go back there again cause my colleague saes its nice!

Straits Kitchen @ Hyatt!

2 weeks back my sis gave a treat @ straits kitchen. It is mainly a buffet serving local cusines.

I love the concept that everything is freshly made instead of topping up the food in the containers (cant rem what they are called at the moment) every now and there. I think hthe food taste good cause its all piping hot and freshly cooked.

Well.. not all dishes were good. But I totally love the indian food!! I always love tandoori chicken and naan!! Their indian food was not bad. Saw quite a few indians and angmos piling their plates with indian food.

The only drawback of local cusine is that the flavours are so strong, you cant really stuff yourselves crazy.

I know the goreng pisang is really good. You noe its freshly made when you can see the guy peeling bananas from the bunch itself and then dip in the batter and fry it for you on the spot. Hot and crispy, of course it will be yummy.

In short, it is like a hawker centre in hotel, buffet style. Overall, i think it is worth the experience but I dun think it is a place I will go back often though.


While waiting for my turn to get food.... BC did the arrangement for me. Funny guy!


Food shot! :)! My first round! Then its was jus pigging out all the way... oppsie!

BBQ + Bdae celebration.

Finally had a bbq after so long! This bbq took nearly a month to organise. We are such busy people! :)! hehe!

We also took the advantage to celebrate a little gal's bdae on that day. This little gal is the dotter of a colleague. An adorable little princess. Knowing she loves yellow, we decide to decorate the place up a bit. We had yellow balloons tied with yellow ribbons and yellow table clothes! We even had two fellas dressed in yellow in honour of her! Such a yellow event!

The main highlight of the BBQ was still the pork belly. Should really try to add in pork belly as one of the bbq items next time. The fats bbqed to a nice crisp like roast meat you order from the duck/chicken rice stall. Absolutely heavenly. Yummz!!

Of cos we had the normal items like chicken wings, pork chop, pork ribs, portobello mushrooms, hot dogs, prawns, chinese cocktails sausages, crabsticks, corn and mashmallows. All prepared by BC himself! So impressive!! His chicken wings and pork chop were hot stuffs too!! Unfortunately, no beef this time round! :(! But the pork belly totally compensated for it! hehe!!


Look at the dark skys! It never fails to rain heavily each time we organise a BBQ. Thank goodness the weather always turn better after we get totally drenched. Geez!


Finding ways and means to be sheltered from the rain.


The professional! Ready to start work! Told him we should really consider doing a bbq catering business! He not only marinates, he does the bbq himself! keke! All we have to do is sit and wait for food to be serve! Interested, anyone?


Dinner is served!!


Tiramisu birthday cake from Crystal Jade Bakery. This cake was pretty good. Never really had cake from there before. Usually, jus buy the bread. Love the luncheon meat & egg bread from there though! Oh! & the cupcake like sponge cake! :)


Birthday gal. All dressed in yellow. Cute!