Local-licious Vegetarian at Elemen Restaurant

Next month, 9 August, Singapore will be celebrating  55 years of independence. Elemen, a vegetarian restaurant has just launched Singapore local dishes- Local-licious set meal for a limited time till 31 August this year. 

Yesterday after work, I went to Elemen for late lunch and ordered Local-licious 8-course set meal at Millenia Walk. I love most of the dishes especially the chicken rice sushi with fried crispy beancurd skin and golden fritter with porcini mushroom and spicy special sauce. Kaya creme brûlée is great too but it's in small portion. I hope the golden fritter and kaya creme brûlée can be added to the main menu. Really love the fried fritter. 

To me its not so filling as the three sushi are in small portion like three tablespoons. So I ordered another main dish, the wild mushroom with white truffle pizza and I had 3 slices of pizza.

To find out more, visit Elemen website here.

Elemen Singapore Appetiser- From left is yam cube, lion mane in curry sauce and lastly potato.

Local dish rojak salad with crispy you siao with fruits and vegetables in peanut sauce. 

Cream of mushroom Kut Teh. I like this fusion mushroom and herbal peppery flavours. Surprisingly the pepper is not overwhelming. I actually don't like pepper but this combination is good maybe because of mushroom cream flavour too. 

From left to right, there is Malay nasi lemak, Indian nasi briyani and Chinese Chicken rice inspired sushi. My favourite is the Chinese chicken rice sushi. I find the portion quite small. Its like three tablespoon of rice. 

I love this chicken rice sushi with the crispy beancurd skin. It will be best if they are served hot. 

I had the crispy thin wild mushroom and white truffle cheesy pizza too! 

Golden fritter with porcini was served piping hot. I love the tangy spicy special sauce.

Sng Muay sorbet is traditional sour plum.

Kaya creme brûlée is really good.

Fresh sugarcane juice with lemon and coconut jelly chunk with sea salt. You can find sugarcane in many hawker centre drink stall.

Free gift for Local-licious set

 Inside is old school biscuits that I used to eat when I was in primary school.

Love the Pasta at Miam Miam

Last week, I met up with my buddy at Tampines 1 for dinner. We had pasta at Miam Miam restaurant. I highly recommend modern yaki and most of the time I enjoy the dish. 

 The Mac and cheese is good too. This dish is free as our main courses added up to above $30.00.

 My buddy had chicken teriyaki pasta. Not so good she said.

 I had mocha.

Home-baked Cakes

Yesterday my mum baked pumpkin cake for us and the cake was so delicious that it was finished yesterday! She must be influenced by my youngest brother who had been baking cakes. Yesterday my youngest brother baked matcha cake and today we finished eating it. 

I think my mum baked the best pumpkin cake as she used fresh pumpkin. 

Pumpkin cake

Matcha cake

Jia Wei Chinese Restaurant at Hotel Grand Mercure Roxy

Last Saturday, my youngest brother treated my parents and me to a sumptuous dinner at Jia Wei Chinese restaurant at Grand Mercure Roxy hotel which is located in Katong. 

They are known for their Peking duck so my brother ordered one whole duck as there is 50% discount till August. In Beijing, I tried the famous Quanjide Peking duck so I was not so impressed especially after I ate some of the duck meat in another fried ginger duck dish. The waitress told us that we could choose to cook the other half of the duck in any style we want. I find the meat rather tough and not as tender. 

However I love their fried beancurd and soft shell crab with salted egg yolk and also their fried ee mee noodles. Service was good too. For all the dishes that we had, it only cost about $130plus.

 Salted egg yolk soft shell crabs

 Prawns and mushroom

 Fried beancurd is really good. Crispy outside and soft inside.

 Peking duck 

 Duck with ginger.

My brother ordered the whole Peking duck since there is 50% discount till August.

 Fried ee mee noodle with duck.

 This plate is beautiful.

Dim Sum at Imperial Treasure Restaurant Again!

I went to Imperial Treasure Yi Dian Xin dim sum restaurant at Raffles City shopping mall just last week and I'm surprised they changed their menu again! This time there is Bo Lou Bao with char siew pork bun which requires about 20 minutes to prepare and mango and prawn fried roll.

I lost the receipt, but total cost is less than $30.00

These bo Luo Bao char siew pork bun is very yummy. It is served piping hot and the crust is crispy!

Mango and shrimp fried roll!

I had wanton noodle again!

Luo Han drink.

Macdonald Buttermilk Crispy Chicken Burger is Delicious!

For lunch today, I had MacDonald new Signature burger. I chose the new burger Buttermilk Crispy Chicken which just tastes delicious! It comes with a chunky chicken thigh marinated with buttermilk and creamy Colby cheese with grilled pineapple and crispy purple cabbage inside! I think its the best MacDonald burger! I hope they still offer this delicious burger. 

I opted for corn instead of fries and changed carbonated drink to orange juice. Total cost for this meal is $10.05 as I paid extra $1.10 to change to orange juice. The original set meal for this burger costs $8.95. This burger is highly recommended!

I changed the fries to corn and carbonated drink to orange juice.

$8.95 set but change drink to orange juice which needs to pay additional  $1.10. Total cost is $10.05.

Image from MacDonald 

Birthday Noodles

From last Sunday to next week, I be celebrating my birthday with my relatives and friends. Few days ago, my mum cooked a bowl of instant noodles with egg. Last year, she cooked mian xian. I loved that the egg is not overcooked. I love the egg york to be soft and runny. Think on actual day then I have mian xian  or vermicelli. It is especially delicious with the fried shallot prepared by my mum. 

Fried Noodles for Lunch Today

Today my mum prepared a wok of delicious fried egg noodles with many dishes like fried egg, carrot, sliced pork ball and prawns! This home-cooked fried egg noodles is so delicious and better than outside hawker stall! Yummy yummy!🤗

My Lunch for Today at Imperial Treasure Restaurant Yi Dian Xin

I really love the cute dim sum, the porcupine bun so today I went back to Imperial Treasure restaurant at Raffles City shopping mall for my lunch today. I had prawn dumpling noodle dry, and some of my favourite dim sum like baked bbq pork pastry. I spent about $25 today as the restaurant also include 10% service charge and 7% GST. If you love dim sum, I highly recommend Imperial Treasure restaurant Yi Dian Xin. 

 At $9.30 its quite expensive but then this is a restaurant in downtown so no choice.

 Shrimp wanton noodle dry at $9.30.

 Deep fried porpupine with red bean paste $4.20

 Baked BBQ pork pastry. Really delicious. $3.40.

Stuffed prawn in crispy wrap with wasabi ($4.80)