Dessert at Saizeriya + dinner at home

Afternoon dessert at Saizeriya. The topmost picture is the iced tiramisu ($4.90) and the second picture is the oreo cheese cake ($3.90). The latter tasted better than the tiramisu.
I noticed the ex-IFS is no longer working at Saizeriya. Perhaps, he could not cope with the robust work due to his age (67) and was asked to leave. Poor chap.

A simple home dinner

Had a simple home prepared dinner of sambal goreng and broccoli with rice.

Oyakodon for today's dinner

Oyakodon , literally "parent-and-child donburi", is a donburi, or Japanese rice bowl dish, in which chicken, egg, sliced scallion (or sometimes regular onions), and other ingredients are all simmered together in a sauce and then served on top of a large bowl of rice. This was our dinner on Friday evening. There was also a bowl of miso soup, beni shoga or sliced pickled ginger. We also included a plateful of broccoli with mayonnaise as dressing

Lontong for lunch

Lontong is one of my favourite Malay dishes. I had this plate of lontong ($3) at the Kovan hawker center for lunch. It wasn't fantastic but quite nice except that the rice dumplings were a little hard. The boiled egg wasn't as fresh, I thought. Overall, many won't mind eating this lontong because it is quite cheap.

Last night home cooked dinner

Since we ate hawker food for lunch (noodles), we decided to have home cooked dinner. The assam fish was a delightful dish and the fried chicken was even more tastier. We also have lots of boiled Australian broccoli with home made dressing.

Pomegranate juice

We extracted juice from the pomegranate fruits. For 2 fruits we were able to obtain about 400 ml of juice. The juice was sweet and refreshing. 

Lunch@ Serangoon Central

We drove to Serangoon Central and had pork ribs/prawn noodles for lunch. The meals are satisfying and this particular stall that sells noodles are usually not too crowded. Each bowl costs $3.50 and the prawn soup noodles is $3.
We were surprised to find that a nearby Giant supermarket prices of goods are cheaper than the one that we visited at Tampines yesterday. For example, the pomegranates are going for $2.95 each instead of $4.50 at Giant Hypermart, the Australian broccoli is 39c per 100 gram instead of 49c (NTUC Fair Price is selling at 69c per 100 grams).

Grocery shopping at Tampines "Giant" Hypermart

Visited "Giant" Hypermart at Tampinese and tried the nasi padang at its foodcourt. Not bad for the price of $6.50. It included rice with beef rendang, sambal kangkong and sambal goreng.
We also shopped for our groceries plus the 2 pomegranates ( $4.45 each). A pack of 8 slices of fruit cake cost only $2.20.
It isn't often that we shop at "Giant" because it is quite a distant away. Normally, we do grocery shopping at Fair Price near our place. Off course, things are much cheaper at "Giant" as compared to Fair Price e.g. 100 gms of Australian broccoli cost 49c whereas at Fair Price it is 69c.

Saizeriya lunch again

The above plus free flow of soft drinks and hot beverages cost $15.80c which is very reasonable. The food is not really outstanding but for the prices, one can't complain. Service is as usual very good.
I noticed that an ex-IFS is now working as a service/kitchen crew. We didn't speak as he was very busy. However, the pay is atrocious ($1,650 per month). When he was an IFS he was probably paid $7,000 a month.

Green mussels spaghetti

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Lunch@ home