Bean Curd Tart @ Le Cafe Confectionary

I was introduced to bean curd tart by TH jie. After I tried that first tart (i only got one.. :( ), I cannnot stop thinking of it! I absolutely love the smoothness and lightness of the filling! The crust was flavourful and "crispy" despite it being refrigerated.

I keep bugging BC since to drive me there and get them. :). When I have a craving, i must satisy it else I will be a very grouchy lady. Hehe! Yes, he brought me there eventually. When i reached the shop, there was stickers pasted all over their tarts picture, saying they will be producing them until after the CNY period. I guess they are busying making chinese new year cookie. I tried my luck and ask for a box of bean curd tart! ANd they had it!! Woo hoo! My first box of bean curd tarT!!! :)




8 tarts for $8. Reasonably priced!


it was as heavenly as the first time I had it! Yum!

Coincidentally, the next day, Sunday Times introduced the tarts as 1 of the best food below $10 in Singapore! Making me crave for them again (No, i did not finish the 8 tarts by myself!. Only had 2!). So the following Friday I bugged BC to drive me there again, BUT this time round.. they really stopped the production!! Boo Hoo! Now i have to wait till the after CNY to get to eat them again!!! Sad!

You can check out their website at http://www.lecafe.com.sg/

They seem to have many other yummy goodies sold in their shop! THe pineapple tarts are supposed to be good too. Wonder if I should buy one bottle and try.... HMmm....

Himawari

Happy new year! Had a pre new year gathering with my colleagues at Himawari. http://www.sbestfood.com/himawari.htm I had only tried this place once for its set lunch which I thot it was not bad. Was really interested in the buffet offered by this place since. Many times tried to organise it with my friend, Wendy to check out the buffet together but some way or another 1 of us cant make it. Anyway, did not get to it with her again this time either but doesnt really matter since she already had it like 3-4 times without me! hees!

We went to the alexandra branch which was a short walk from our office. Being an ala-carte buffet, we naturally ordered as much as we can once we reached. The teppanyaki was not available although its stated in the website.

Generally the food was quite ok. There was a few items which i do like but most of the items were complained by majority to be too salty! To finish the jellyfish became like a challenge to most of them as they felt it was too salty. But it turns out that the miso soup was the ultimate winner of the saltiest item of the list! No effect on me since i did not take both of the items.

What i like was its chawanmushi, chicken wing, shabu shabu and its sashimi was fresh and good.
Other than that, fried items were just normal. I know the cod fish was well liked by most. But the same sauce used for the cod fish seems to be the same for some of its other items too. So i guess the taste gets kinda too familiar and too much after a while.

Service was ok considering they were majorly understaffed.

From the comments i get, I dun think I will hear most of my colleagues going back there for another time. Me? well... i will not crave for it but wun reject if anyone ask me to go back there.

Picture time!


Squid, Jelly fish, scallop sides


Shabu Shabu


Chicken wing & squid


sashimi


Chawanmushi


Yakitori

Merry Christmas Everyone!

It's a wet wet christmas eve! It has been raining since this morning! Non-Stop! Hope it will not dampen everyone's christmas spirit!

Did not buy any christmas presents for anybody this year. Off work, during work, there is so much things on my mind that time jus pass so fast that before I know it, its already christmas eve! Received quite a few in office. Feel kinda bad though. No wonder I feel kinda empty and lack christmas mood this year! But its ok! I am going to Midnight Mass tonight! It has been a while! Hope the rain will stop in time!

The annual christmas party with my friends this year is at my house once again. I guess from next year on, there will be less chances of gathering in my place.

I made sheperd's pie again. I wonder how many years already! haha! To my friends, they say they only get to eat it once a year. I also heated some frozen mushroom soup which my mum bought. it was surprisingly quite nice except watery.

Meiling bought ham and turkey again! haha! What to do? She is the one with the discount! She was the earliest this time round as we needed to heat up the big bird! Anyway, we had a big screwed up with the turkey sauce. It was quite a drama with the Cold Storage helpline. Thanks Mei to going down all the way again to get a new sauce.

Mel made clams and mussels! She cleaned the shells so well.. they were practically shining! haha!
She did this quite easily. She first fried the onions till translucent and add chopped garlic. Then she added the shells, added chicken stock, added white wine, abit of lemon juice and butter. With some chilli flakes and salt, the dish is done!!



YX made mentaiko pasta! She always cook everything with the simplest and no mess way! So amazed. This is what she did. Remove the mentaiko from the sacs. Mixed it with butter, mayo and seaweed and keep aside. Cooked the pasta. And mix it in with the mix while the pasta is done. So EASY!! But she forgot to add soy sauce that day! haha! no wonder so bland!



Audrey brought brownies and ice cream! Sherrie bought roast potatoes and chocolate fondue! Her roast potatoes is actually very nice! It is potatoes drowned in olive oil with loads of garlic, spice(not sure wat) and then baked till it has a nice crispy top. However, she came so late THAT we were all full by then. Good for me though. Got to eat it the next day! haha! Ju brought the drinks and wine and ice!


Our table of food.

We had no entertainment though. watched 2 whole episodes of Harry potter! That is like 6 hours of Harry Potter! hahaa! I think we need to start playing charades or something or some drinking game! haha!


The whole group enjoying their chocolate fondue.


Our free log cake that came with the turkey!

And to end the night, we had our pressie exchange! I got a dark blue handbag from edc from Mel. We all thought it was black! haha!

Song of India

http://www.thesongofindia.com/ <-- was november's gathering chosen place.

Its located along scotts road, next to the SK2 spa. Beautiful colonial building we always past by but never thot we try. Heard the food here is really pricey but exquisite.


we wanted to order ala carte items but was recommended to order the set. This was because the set was 'refillable' and at the rate we were ordering, the waiter told us it was more worth it to order the set. There were 2 type of sets; Tandoori salmon and tandoori prawn. Half of us took salmon, the other took prawn. This way, we could interchange our items.


The food comes in a nice plate which looks like a paint palette. There was spinach and goat cheese, mutton curry, some chicken thing, yellow rice and youghurt. This is the salmon set.


My prawn set. We love the spinach and the mutton curry! and reordered it immediatly! The youghurt had mixed reviews. Some of us said the more u drink it.. the more u like it. It was suppose to aid in digestion of all the rich food. I skipped it.


This is my favourite! all sorts of bread! rumani bread and naan!!! LOVE IT! Order and reordered! yummy yummy! The bowl is dahl i think. haha.

Sugi cookie -- a surprise went failure.. ha!

Took leave sometime back to handle some stuffs. Was free in the morning and had a brainwave to bake some sugi coookies which BC had always wanted to make for him again.

I checked my blog and realise I dun have the recipe. Checked for those recipe printsouts i have. Also missing.. Cant rem the webbie so jus randomly chose a simple recipe on the internet. Turn out to be a failure. I cant seem to knead a dough from the allocated amt of oil suggested. I think i added like 25% more and manage to knead something like a dough.

ANyway.. spend my leisure time taking bobo pictures...