Instant mee goreng, cakes from Japan and pasta dinner

Since today is a public holiday (Good Friday), many eateries will be packed. To avoid the crowd, we decided to cook the instant mee goreng or fried noodles for lunch. We added some shredded cabbages and a sunny side up fried egg and voila the above. Yummy is the word to describe the mee goreng. Instant noodles usually taste good but doubt they are a healthy choice. It's fine if one eats it once in a while. Eating too often may cause health problem.

Cakes from Japan

This photo was sent to us yesterday by a friend in Japan. It's about the cakes sold in a confectionery.
We were told that these cakes were super yummy. The confectionery uses honey instead of sugar in their cakes and because of this they not only taste better but healthier. Each piece cost about $4.

Pasta for dinner

My wife cooked spaghetti with mussels in minced beef sauce. We topped it up with grated cheese and garnished with broccoli. Each of us had 120 grams of the spaghetti. It was a simple but delicious home prepared meal.
We try and eat mussels at least once a week. It helps in lubricating the joints especially around the knee area.

Pepper lunch for dinner

The Pepper Lunch is quite good in term of taste and pricing. The food is cooked on the spot and you are able to watch the cooking through a glass partition. The one above is rice (base) with thinly sliced beef, corn, shredded cheese and a sunny side-up egg. It comes with a bowl of miso soup.The bottom picture is that of the rib-eyed beef, mashed potato,corn,bean sprout, miso soup and a bowl of rice. They cost $7.90 and $11.90 respectively.

Buddy Hoagies in Ang Mo Kio

We were craving for western food and Buddy Hoagies in AMK was the ideal place for us (so we thought). We used to frequent the one at Waterway Point but today we decided to try out their new outlet at Djitsun Mall, AMK.
The food here is not as good as at Waterway and so was the service. On top of that, we were slapped with a 10% service charge. Before this, it wasn't the practice to impose the service charge.
The thing is when you start imposing extra charges which you did not do from the beginning, it will be hard for the customers to swallow (unless your food is so good people don't mind paying more).

Japanese restaurant in Ang Mo Kio

This is the charasi don (2 sets) we had at Jubilee Square, AMK Ave8 (near AMK Hub) for lunch. Each set cost $14.80 ++. For 2 sets we ordered, we were given another lunch set free of charge. The free set is the saba set (below pic) but without the rice. In other words, if you order 2 sets, you will get one for free. However, for the free set, it must not be more in value than the original set you ordered...example the charasi don set we ordered was $14.80 and the free saba set was $12.80.

The restaurant is called Haru Haru. The ambience was nice and pleasant. There was no queue even during lunch time although it was 90% full. Service was good and food was as good as Sushiro at Thomson Plaza (Sushiro's queue is perpetually very long and the place is small).
Strongly recommended if you love Japanese food.

Noodles and fried rice for the day

At first, we thought of driving to AMK Jubilee SQ for Japanese food but at the last minute, I became too lazy to go that far for lunch. So we ended up at the coffee shop near our place and had ba chor mee instead. It was really nice. The chilli sauce was just right with more of the pork lard (requested).
In the evening, we cooked the bar kuah fried rice. Again, credit goes to my wife for that wonderful dish. 

Porridge for breakfast and Home cooked lunch

Had the Teochew porridge for our breakfast from a coffee shop nearby our place. It consists of 2 pieces of sambal sting ray, veggies, fried spicy cuttlefish and a piece of tofu. All this cost $13.
We had home cooked food for lunch. It was char siew, lots of veggies, rice and miso soup.
Only 2 good meals are enough for us.

Our favourite kway chup

After our kopi and papaya at home ( 2 hours later) we drove to Tampines St 11 for our favourite kway chup and pig's trotter ($16). This stall selling the kway chup is not doing as well as say 10 years ago. Business is down but the quality of the food is still as good. The lady hawker told me the rental she is paying for the stall is $6,000 per month and this is the third increase since a few years ago.
She would relinquish her business if the rental should go up again,she told me.
However, my guess is, she makes a net profit of around $15,000 a month. She does not employ any worker except the dish washer guy. Her husband is also helping out in the business.

After yesterday's junk food, today's meals are healthier

After that 6 slices of bak kuah and kueh kueh, today's meals are more meaningful and healthier. First, it was papaya for breakfast followed by a home-cooked lunch comprising of sweet sour pork, bitter gourd fried with pork and a bowl of miso soup.
We were at a wet market in AMK and wanted to buy some fishes. It turned out that just 2 small pomfret weighing about 300 gram each cost a total of $25. It was daylight robbery and so instead, we bought a chunk of pork (shoulder 650 gram) which cost only $6.

Today's unhealthy but shiok meals

Besides, the mee rebus and the satay bak kuah, I ate 2 pieces of Bengawan Solo kueh lapis and marble cake. Today, I really went all out to have these junk food. The bak kuah was the tastier of all. I bought 600 grams and ate about 4 slices in one go and kept the rest in the fridge. This was the first time I've ever heard or tasted the satay bak kuah. It's on promotion and for the 600 grams it cost only $18 which is rather inexpensive. 

Thai food@ Food Scholar

Tried the Thai food at Food Scholar. Queue was quite long and the staff was slow especially the cooks. I had to wait 25 minutes for my Tom Yam seafood fried rice ($6). My wife ordered the Pad Thai ($5) (bottom picture)and she waited 15 minutes. Overall the food was quite tasty but rather expensive. The portion were small especially the Tom Yam seafood fried rice ( 2 shrimps and 2 slices of cuttle fish).