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.

Laksa at Tea Loft

Went for dinner at Suntec city for laksa which is one of my favourite dishes in Singapore. I brought the set which includes coffee at $7.80. It doesn't taste good so I don't recommend it. In residential area, a bowl of laksa costs $3.50 to $4.00. 

Coffee Almond Bread at Bread Society

When I tried the coffee almond buns at Bread Society yesterday, today I yearn for more so I went to buy two more coffee almond buns to indulge. Wow, I really love the generous crispy almond flakes with sweet white chocolate on top of the soft bun and coffee cream inside. Luckily Bread Society is located at Suntec City, which is far from my home. Else I buy and eat everyday. 

Bread Society at Suntec City is nearest to Esplanade MRT and 5 mins to 10 minutes walk from City Hall MRT.

Reunion Dinner at Home on Chinese New Year Eve

Although I live with my parents and brothers, we rarely eat together as we rarely have a meal together as my sibling and I are busy with work and we reach home at different time. Therefore, the only time when we can all have a meal together is during reunion dinner on Chinese New Year eve.

As usual, my mum prepared a sumptuous feast which always include a steamed fish, pengcai (盆菜), a hearty soup filled with abalones, prawns, scallops, duck meat, quail eggs, vegetables, meat ball like fish and pork ball. Mum also prepare tomato prawn, steamed chicken, fried wanton (dumpling), fried vegetable, ngoh hiang or Five Spice Meat Roll (five spice pork roll).

Sumptuous pencai filled with vegetables, prawns, abalones, scallop, quail eggs, pig skin, sea cucumber and braised duck meat.

 Fried prawns with tomato sauce.

  Fried wanton dumpling filled with minced pork and prawn.

  Fried sotong balls.

 Ngoh Hiang or Five Spice Meat Roll 

 Stirred fried vegetables

 Steamed fish with light soya sauce

 Sweet soup for a sweet year ahead.

Steamed shredded chicken topped with sesame oil and light soya sauce.

My father likes this dark soya sauce vegetable and braised beancurd.

 What a spread!

 My dinner

 After dinner, we watched Chinese New Year countdown show.

I brought some dessert to share.

New Dishes from Bakerzin

Bakerzin is a western casual restaurant that is known for their delicious cakes. However, their new menu serves really good pasta dishes too. I am delighted with their aglio olio which allows you to add side dish like prawns, bratwurst, ham and bacon or mushrooms at additional cost from $3.00 to $7.00. 

Besides warm chocolate cake with a molten chocolate lava, caesar salad is also another dish I like to order as it comes with half boiled egg and parmesan cheese. After blogging this, I feel like eating their aglio olio this weekend again. 

To look at their revamped menu, you can click here
                   I like the Smoked Salmon Penne but the smoked salmon is too salty.

 The caesar salad ($10.90) is a must order for me.

 A plate of aglio olio costs $9.90 but I add prawns which cost an additional $7.00. I guess I be visiting Bakerzin more often for their al dente aglio olio.

 Cookies and cream cheesecake is served with fresh berries and it taste quite good.

 This is definitely my favorite dessert but the warm chocolate cake costs $11.50

 You can also request for chocolate ice-cream

Molten chocolate lava oozing out

Breakfast at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

Coffee Bean & Tea leaf is well-known for their great coffee. However, I like their All Day Breakfast and I tried it once at Ngee Ann City. However I don't really like the bacon and mushroom. They are generous with the scrambled egg. I read great review of their breakfast. Maybe I should try other breakfast dishes. 

 Hearty breakfast at Coffee Bean 

Versatility of Durian

At Ngee Ann shopping basement 2, you can find Four Seasons Durians where there are a variety of durian desserts. My favourite dessert is the durian pancake. They will prepare the pancake on the spot and then fill the pancake with a generous dollop of frozen durian. Each pancake costs about $1.90. Normally I buy one or two durian pancakes to eat. 

How to go to Ngee Ann City Shopping mall?
Just alight at Orchard road MRT and walk for about 8 minutes via Wisma Atria shopping mall to Ngee Ann City shopping mall . 

You can see the price and menu at Four Seasons Durian website.http://www.fourseasonsdurians.com/

Durian pancake

They are quite generous with the durian filling

Durian cakes, durian puff, durian mochi, durian pudding. Everything made with durian

Ice-Cream Toast at Ya Kun Kaya Toast

Finally I had a taste of the ice-cream toast at Ya Kun Kaya Toast. The crispy fried toast is topped with sweet vanilla ice-cream and strawberry sauce.This was a good afternoon high-tea with my cousin. 

Singapore MacDonald's Kampung Burger

This is MacDonald's Kampung Burger. The pineapple doesn't look fresh and I don't like the sauce. Just tasting it once will do.

New MacDonald burger in Singapore that aims to share the kampung spirit. Kampung means village which don't really exist except for one or two left in Singapore.

Delicious Kaya Toast at Ya Kun

If you want to try one of the traditional Chinese breakfast, do try the Ya Kun Kaya Toast. I love their signature kaya toast which is spread with kaya ( or egg and coconut jam) that is made from 'coconut milk, sugar, eggs and pandan). I also love their soft boiled eggs and fragrant coffee with milk. You can buy the kaya toast value set which cost about $4.80 which includes two slices of kaya toast, 2 soft boiled eggs and a cup of coffee. 
When I was young, I like to pour the coffee on the cup plate and drank off the plate. Now, I'm more conscious and just drink off the cup. 

Normally people add pepper powder and soys sauce. For me, I just add soya sauce as I don't like pepper. I'm delighted they are innovative and added new items to their traditional kaya toast like toast stick and ice-blended coffee.

There are many branches in Singapore like at Singapore Changi airport, Raffles City shopping centre and their flagship store at Far East Square. I had my afternoon tea at the Raffles City shopping mall. 

At Changi airport terminal 3, it is opened for 24 hours.

Ya Kun Kaya Toast at http://yakun.com.sg/index.aspx

Kaya toast value set which comes with kaya toast, coffee and two soft boiled eggs. Yummy!

The kaya toast is filled with kaya spread and butter slice.

I love to add soya sauce to the eggs.

At the Shop

Simple but so delicious. They cooked the soft boiled eggs just right.

New items toast sticks that is deep fried with ham and cheese inside! You can dipped the kaya jam!

Cheese oozing out

From Ya Kun Kaya Toast website, to find out more, click here