House of Steamboat

Coz Royston was going into the Army, he suggested to go for steamboat on 8 Sept 2009. We met at Bugis Junction and went over to House of Steamboat for dinner. It was a shop located opposite of Bugis Junction.

The steamboat buffet cost $17.90 per person with free drinks. They served 6 different types of soup based with no MSG. The dancers recommended the Pork Belly soup and Tom Yam soup. The pork belly one was quite nice but i didn't try the tom yam one coz i don't like spicy and sour stuff.

After we sat down, man tuo were immediately served to us. It was crispy and yummy. But when we ordered again, they gave us spicy one which was not as nice. They also served us the fried chicken wings which was so-so and a bit dry. Luckily i like all kinds of chicken wings.

The vegetables was at the general table for us to self-service. As for the meat, we had to order. The sliced meat was nice and thin. I think we almost eaten 10 plates of chicken. Also, I realised youngsters nowadays don't really like to eat pork. The fish was not as fresh though.

Cannot remember whether it was Andy or Royston who kept recommending the meatballs to me. But I really think the meatballs really very yummy. I like!

Conclusion, it was the best steamboat that i have eaten at that area. I tried a few there and almost wanted to give up trying coz all tasted a bit weird to me. Luckily the dancers brought me to this restaurant.

Goodwood Park - Durian Products

Coz TPSA organised a durian festival in TP, so all TP staff has this 20% discount for all the Goodwood Park Hotel's durian products. 

This made me bought the durian puff and hazelnuts durian tarts for my parents though i dun eat durian at all. 

Tried the famous puff and it was nice.  Tasted like real durian and the puff was full of durian.  

But I like the tarts especially since i am not a durian person, the crunchiness of the hazelnuts and tarts made the durian tasted even better.  A must try if you are not a durian fan and even a super must try if you are one.  :)

Orchard Central - Japanese Restaurants

Went Orchard Central a few weeks ago.  I realised there was nothing much there. Except for the highest indoor rockwall in the world that cost $30 for each person who intends to try.  

There were also a lot of resting areas in the complex.  Not sure what was the reason but pretty sofas were everywhere.  It was separated into 2 major blocks with a 12-storey height.

Ootoya

That day, I tried the japanese restaurant - Ootoya.  A lot of people were queuing outside so i took the queue number and waited for around 10 mins.  There were counter seats and table seats for you to choose.  The counter seats were those japanese type of seats where the table and your legs were actually in a hole.  U will know what i meant if you've been to a semi-traditional japanese restaurant before.  Anyway, Ivan preferred a normal table seat so we didn't choose that one.

I ordered the special set which included fried chicken, katsu, egg, meaty potato, cabbage, rice, miso soup and preserved vege.  It was the set recommended by the magazine.  The fried chicken was quite nice.  The rice and green tea were free flow but i really dunno why green tea always have a kind of fishy taste.  I rather pay money for other drinks.

I also ordered the tofu chicken soup which didn't taste as nice as what the magazine stated.   

Ivan tried the grilled fish set which he thinks was super bland but i think it was nice.  Japanese fish always taste like this.  I like!

OCBC card has discount in Ootoya so in the end, the whole meal cost us around $50 only.

Tonkichi

Last friday, to celebrate Angie's birthday, she suggested eating Japanese restaurant at Orchard Central.  As i tried Ootoya, i asked them to try the Tonkichi instead.  

We ordered most of their popular dishes marked in the menu.  All of us ordered the chawanmuchi which tasted very ordinary.  There were prawns, meat, mushroom inside.  We also ordered sashimi (i dunno how is the taste coz i dun eat raw stuff) and simmered pork (quite nice but the girls think that it was too fatty).

 

Besides those dishes, we also ordered our favourite fried squids (crispy and nice).  Angie ordered the cold ramen (seafood ingredients and it tasted ok) and i ordered the hot pork based ramen (i like the soup though Racheal thinks that there was too much MSG inside but both of us think that the ramen tasted quite nice).

As the restaurant is famous for katsu, we ordered the chicken and pork set.  I think the pork one tasted better but it still cannot match with the one that i ate in Ginza.  And i wonder why they want the costomers to grind the sesame seeds on our own.  Is it because it will be more fragrant?  Anyway sauce was added in after grinding and it has a strong sesame seed taste.

The whole meal cost us around $120.  So expensive.  Racheal warned us not to order so much carbo food in future.  I think that is so difficult coz i like carbo food.  Heehee..