keropok man writes: You might have seen the advertisement on TV. The KFC Egg Tart. Advertising does influence and subliminally tell you, you want to have it, doesn't it? We succumbed when 2 friends asked if we would want to have dinner at KFC. *** This was the 2 egg tarts that we had last week night. How does it taste? Not bad, not bad at all! It was warm, eggy, and the slightly burnt top makes it smell really good. Can't believe it is KFC doesn't it? Just yesterday, I saw my colleague eating egg tarts for breakfast, and I jokingly ...
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keropok man writes: This was lunch last Sunday afternoon. We have always wanted to try the food in this place. With the open concept kitchen in front of the shop, showing off their Naan and Tandooris, it does tempt you. We have been tempted for almost a year! We usually only walk past here after lunch. *** When we got seated, we were assumed we wanted to try out the buffet. I guess that's the best way to try out the food here. The buffet display was right at the entrance. What a way to ...
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keropok man writes: As YOG Volunteers we get free food when we are working. You would probably have read about the food that one volunteer ate. Hmm dog food? I personally don't think so. Depending on where you are based, you get your food differently.  I was based in some tent that did not have many volunteers, so there was no catered food. We were just given food vouchers. (Koufu or Kopitiam). That's the easiest logistic wise. When two other volunteers and I had a day out to one of the venues, we wanted to try the 'famous meal'. On our way to the 'workforce lunch tent', we saw the food being pushed in. The smell was very good! ...
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keropok man writes: This was lunch today with a fellow YOG Volunteer. I am one of the 20,000 volunteers for the inaugural Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games. I can't tell you what we do. Shh..  Our team consists of mainly working adults and a few tertiary students.  Some are seconded from the 'govt ministries', a few tertiary students and the rest of us, working adults who took our annual leave to serve. I guess we are all get along very well, as we are the 'real' (not forced) volunteers, we don't have much complaints too because we knew what we were going into. We actually enjoy it! We got to know many new friends too! They are actually very nice people!...
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keropok man writes: This was dinner at Crystal Jade Kitchen. We had wanted to eat the spicy cold chicken at Crystal Jade La Mian, but there was a wait for around 45 minutes. We were too hungry to wait so we decided to have dinner at Crystal Jade Kitchen instead. When we got seated, we saw that there are some Set Meals available in the menu. It looked like a rather good deal, so we took set B. ($45.80++) Set B consisted of: *** The Simmered Chinese Spinach with Silver Fish & Golden Mushroom in superior stock. We all thought it was lovely. The vegetable are young so it was really tender and nice. The stock was ...
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keropok man writes: This was dinner at 7th Storey Hainan Cafe. If you are wondering, it's related to the 7th Storey Restaurant at Marina Barage, it is. The branch at IMM is the 'Hainan Cafe' of the group. The following were what we ordered from the "Hainan Specialties" in their menu. *** Soy Chicken Rice. ($4.90)  Our aunt and uncle had one serving each. They seemed to enjoy it. It does look tasty eh? We requested that we did not want the breast portion of the meat, they told us it will be $1 extra, so we paid $5.90 for each serving....
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keropok man writes: It's been a long long time since I sat down and ate breakfast slowly! On weekday mornings, I am always rushing out to work. I am one of those who will waste precious time pressing the snooze button a few times. Before you know it, you are late and you got to rush to work! On Saturdays, if there's nothing on, I usually sleep in till 12 noon! It's the only day in the week I can sleep in! On Sundays, it's church and we try to be there at around 8:45am. ;-) This is one of my rare breakfast posts! Of all places, I had breakfast right in the middle of the financial district. I had ...
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keropok man writes: Momo and I had dinner last Friday at Tomi Sushi. I had some volunteer duties around the Marina Bay area and met up with Momo for dinner. Wondering where to eat, we walked around and ended up at Parco Marina Bay. Somehow we ended up at Tomi Sushi. It's another of the Japanese chains that has invaded Singapore. From Niigata prefecture and has been around since 1954. No specials meals for dinner though. If you want more 'economical set meals', come during lunch. *** We ordered from the usual menu. I had the Gindara Set. ($28) I was tempted by the sashimi and grilled cod fish. The sashimi was good. A bit too ...
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keropok man writes: I don't usually post the 'little bits of things' I eat. But this is fun and it's just nice for Singapore 45th National Day. I snacked at the highest bar in the world at the tallest building in Singapore. You can have a 360 degree view of Singapore. Here's the view of the huge flags on Singapore's tallest public housing. *** 1 Altitude is quite a nice place. They even have trees on the roof top! It was really windy and yet sunny. The temperature at around 9:30am was good. It rained earlier and it ...
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keropok man writes: When one of her niece says she wants to eat crabs, our aunt will always say OK!  You should see the face of her 11 year old niece. Smiling ear to ear! Last Sunday evening, our aunt bought crabs from the local wet market and cooked it for us. She fed the 10 of us with 2 different kinds of crabs dishes with fried bee hoon. *** Steamed Crabs with Tang Hoon. A different recipe this time and it's nice! Tang Hoon really soaks up all the juices and essence of the crabs. Oh ...
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