Dinner at The Manhattan Fish Market

Visited Central Mall with my wife for the first time. We originally wanted to partonise the japanese restaurants but most of them had long queues so we decided to try this Fish Market instead.

The menu is very similar to that of Fish & Co. We tried the Grilled Gala Platter for two ($29.90). The platter comprises a big slab of grilled dory, four grilled mussels and prawns, grilled calamari with a generous helping of fries and garlic rice. My wife commented that the food was tastier compared to Fish & Co. For me, I would come back to this restaurant again because the ambience and food is good.

Service charge and GST are applicable.

Shunfu Hawker Centre

This hawker centre is worth the visit. Besides the normal hawker variety, it has become popular for its bakeries. When I visited this afternoon, there was a long queue forming at a chocolate based bakery. This is no wonder when whiffs of chocolate from the shop filled the air.

We bought a durian cake roll at Home Made Specialities ($7.50). You could request to have the cake sliced to accompany your coffee and tea. The shop will help to pack the rest.


My dad's secondary school classmate is operating a chicken rice stall. Will feature more on this in a subsequent post.

Korean HwaSeong Grapes

Tastes just like BubbleGum (grape flavour). $5.35 at NTUC Fairprice for a 400g punnet. The price is a little on the expensive side but the taste and the texture of the grapes makes it worth the cost. Within the grape itself, there is a core of rubbery flesh surrounded by a layer of juice. Pop one in your mouth, slowly squeeze the fruit and savour the sweetness.

Tea Break - Malaysian Style

Was in KL recently for a sports meet. During the tea break, I was surprised to see hawkers frying penang char kway teow and grilling satays on the spot and serving them pipping hot to the gathering crowd. Although the concept can be seen in Singapore, the Singapore version is mild, clean and you can bet the people standing behind the hawker stalls are not hawkers but probably temp staff.

In KL, the fire is real so is the oil, and lots of it. The char kway teow was wonderfully sinful with lots of cockles and chilli. The satay was deliciously succulent, oil dripping away and bits of the tasty marinated meat burnt. Sedap!

Cold Crab at Ah Hoi

A dinner to celebrate my mum-in-law's birthday took place on the 5th October. at the venue mentioned below

Lee Kui (Ah Hoi) Restaurant
08/09/10 Mosque St Singapore 059488Tel : 6222-3654

I forgot to take some shots as I was fairly late and was rushing all the way there. One should know the consequences from the the wife when you are late for her mother's dinner ... when I sat down, the food was served and I just ate and chatted with everyone happily.

We had the cold crab, the all time favourite and chef's recommendation. This dish is rather interesting, the crab's meat can be seen to have detached itself from the shell, so you dont require much effort to eat the soft meat and its roe. We had 3 crabs of med size, costing $39, not expensive.

The rest of the dishes were as good, the deep fried prawn balls, noodles and all. The only dish I find too expensive was the desert, yam paste with ginko nuts, costs $20 for a small size that filled only half of 6 small bowls.

Teochew Porridge - Favourite

This was one of the two favourite breakfast hanuts for WY and me during ICT. Its a short 5 mins drive away from our camp so we normally arrive at the shop an hour (7am) before book-in time to have a leisure and nutritious meal. And 7am is a good time to come. The air is fresh and still cool. The dishes are aplenty. This morning, I arrived at 8am with my family. The sun was shining in and it was getting warm. Most of the dishes are still available but going fast. The damage? For a party of five, we had around 7 dishes (including two slices of fish), the cost came to around $25. Not bad indeed!
The location is off Sembawang Ave and directly opposite where Sembawang Shopping Centre used to be sited. As for the Shopping Centre, it has been completely torn down. I understand a new shopping centre will be rebuilt in its place.

Farewell dinner for S

Three of us (A, J and me) gave S a farewell treat at Borders Bistro. All of us had the very good Aglio Olio ($14.50) which came with bits of prawn topped with a tiger prawn. As usual, I drizzle lots of olive oil over the pasta. We also shared a pretty good fried calamari ($9.50). For dessert lovers, after 8pm, all desserts are at a discount price of $4.00. I first met S when I was appointed as a liaision officer for the Singapore2006 IMF Meetings. I was from the stat board and S from the ministry. That was when I got to know this fun-loving, chatty and friendly person. As for the dinner, we had a lot of fun talking about matters and work and of course, people!

Greenwood Fish Market and Bistro

The Greenwood Fish Market & Bistro is located at Greenwood Avenue, you can access it by driving into Hillcrest which is were NJC is located. This is definately a nice place to bring a few of your good friends to dine and wine. I said a few because the place is not very big and each table can comfortably take 4 to 6 persons, combining tables would be discouraged as you will be blocking someone's route in and out of the kitchen.

Like what its sign said, it is a Fish Market as you can purchase fresh seafood over the counter, which is the first area you stepped into when you enter. Lobsters are swimming in a big tank behind the counter too, if you are wondering how fresh their seafood can get.

Beyond 15m into the Fish Market will be the dining area. As you can see, it is 2 different worlds housed under 1 roof. I find the place small and cosy with friendly waiters.

They have daily specials and today being Monday, the specials are the Lobster, Clams and Mussels. We had Clams and Mussels as sides with Fish & Chips and Pasta as mains, a bottle of fine wine to go along with some fresh oysters as well. The food is great, the clams are really sweet and juicy, freshness is given here. If you dine here, do ask them for the bread which is free flow, it is nicely baked with a little crispy top, great to go with the sauce from the clams and mussels. The whole meal cost us (4 persons) a total of $160, the bottle of wine is already $60. If you dont drink, $30 per person will get you something very decent with sides to share.

Coffee-shop at Jln Malu Malu

For cheap and good zi-char, this is the place to go. Enter Jln Sedudok from Sembawang Ave and go back in time by 20 years. My dad used to bring us to patronise this coffee shop quite frequently in the past in our small Mazda 323 (manual gear and no power steering) and nothing much have changed here. The roads are now paved though where they were mud tracks then. We had five dishes including a whole fried fish and fried prawns for only $50. Where to get nowadays? There also used to be an old Chongpang wet market and hawker centre across the road as well but that has sadly gone with development. That site is now occupied by HDB flats.

Sorry. Forgot to take photo when the dishes arrived. Remembered only after the meal.