Balloon wrestling!!!Oh I've also been meaning to post this kickass birthday cake pic for the longest time, but never gto around to it:
"Uh auntie, give me 20 coconut, 20 peanut..."
I'd read about the whole coastal park connector thingy but never thought I would actually reach one "end" of ECP hurhur.
So. We turned the corner a short ride past the beginning of Changi Beach and saw...
Damn nice la!
"Uh auntie, give me 20 coconut, 20 peanut..."We are the tutu kueh aunty's biggest customer.
But on to serious stuff. S and I went to ECP yesterday to cycle - I've got to prepare for the event so boh pian, these few weeks must have sun/sand/sea. So we went in the direction away from town and eventually ended up near Changi beach.
But on to serious stuff. S and I went to ECP yesterday to cycle - I've got to prepare for the event so boh pian, these few weeks must have sun/sand/sea. So we went in the direction away from town and eventually ended up near Changi beach.
I'd read about the whole coastal park connector thingy but never thought I would actually reach one "end" of ECP hurhur.
So. We turned the corner a short ride past the beginning of Changi Beach and saw...
Damn nice la!Ok to be fair, it was but a short stretch (about 500m or so?) which was lined with nice shrubs and stuff, but it was peaceful and deserted - the perfect antidote to Singapore, if you think about it. I realise that I do like cycling quite a bit. Wishlist for 2009: Bike, Camera, PS3.
Earlier that day, we had our fix of prawn noodles:
Realised the dry version if much nicer, plus this place uses the thicker bee hoon, which is just blah with prawn mee. Still, this is a fixture in my prawn mee list - die die must try! I think they have a branch in Kallang (Jln Sultan Prawn Mee). Oh oh they also have a ngoh hiang stall under the same roof which is pretty good together. And lime juice too!
The best part about this stall is that the service is damn tok kong. It's freaking crowded, but you always get your food like, max max 10mins. They've got three cash registers (now, how many coffeeshops you know have more than one?) which squashes the queue-time to about 2-3 people per queue.
That's how famous hawker stalls should operate. Efficiency - chop chop. Make more money, make everyone happy. Rather than behave like the HV XO Fish bee hoon towkay. Hawker stalls need ISO1900 I tell you.
Beach Road Prawn Mee Eating House
370 East Coast Road
Taste: 4/5
Value: 4/5
Ambience: 4/5
And a few weeks ago, on payday-weekend, I brought S for the first Payday Surprise! Yes, this will probably be a fixture every month :) So if you've got any suggestions about where to go (only criteria is that the food is damn tok kong) pls drop your comments!
This month's surpise:
Earlier that day, we had our fix of prawn noodles:
Realised the dry version if much nicer, plus this place uses the thicker bee hoon, which is just blah with prawn mee. Still, this is a fixture in my prawn mee list - die die must try! I think they have a branch in Kallang (Jln Sultan Prawn Mee). Oh oh they also have a ngoh hiang stall under the same roof which is pretty good together. And lime juice too!
The best part about this stall is that the service is damn tok kong. It's freaking crowded, but you always get your food like, max max 10mins. They've got three cash registers (now, how many coffeeshops you know have more than one?) which squashes the queue-time to about 2-3 people per queue.
That's how famous hawker stalls should operate. Efficiency - chop chop. Make more money, make everyone happy. Rather than behave like the HV XO Fish bee hoon towkay. Hawker stalls need ISO1900 I tell you.
Beach Road Prawn Mee Eating House
370 East Coast Road
Taste: 4/5
Value: 4/5
Ambience: 4/5
And a few weeks ago, on payday-weekend, I brought S for the first Payday Surprise! Yes, this will probably be a fixture every month :) So if you've got any suggestions about where to go (only criteria is that the food is damn tok kong) pls drop your comments!
This month's surpise:
Nice and homely
Coxinha - Tasted like chicken meatballs with potato
Aged Grain Fed NZ Ribeye - $27Awesomeness on a plate. So Espirito Santo sells meat. It's a gourmet butchery, so of course their meat's fresh. Duh. The question was really if the meat would be done right. The fact is that good quality meat needs so little work to make it work. It's all about keeping it simple and pairing it with the right sauce.
The good: The meat on its own was undeniably one of the tastiest ribeyes I've had (and I didn't even eat the whole thing. I ordered the filet mignon, haha) I also liked the fried veg that garnished the plate - surprisingly tasty. Fries were also fresh and well salted.
The bad: Zee sauce was too salty! Aiyo, the brown sauce was simply not up to the task of matching the beautiful steak in question. To make things worse, it just about drowned the poor piece of meat.
Still, on the whole, the experience brought me back to that first prime cut of beef I had in Argentina. Awesome.
Steak is like durian. No need to eat a lot, but make sure you eat the good quality one, pay a bit more never mind.
So the total bill (including drinks) came up just short of a hundred (ouch!) but was good and would go back again when the meat bug strikes.
One more thing about the place is that it's right next to their butchery, so if you're squeamish about displays of raw meat... you decide. I mean, if you can sit in dark alleyways eating durian...
Espirito Santo Cafe Bistro
Taste: 4/5
Value: 3/5
Ambience: 4/5 (I actually kinda like this whole see-what-you-eat concept)
And finally, the recent office lunch companion:
The good: The meat on its own was undeniably one of the tastiest ribeyes I've had (and I didn't even eat the whole thing. I ordered the filet mignon, haha) I also liked the fried veg that garnished the plate - surprisingly tasty. Fries were also fresh and well salted.
The bad: Zee sauce was too salty! Aiyo, the brown sauce was simply not up to the task of matching the beautiful steak in question. To make things worse, it just about drowned the poor piece of meat.
Still, on the whole, the experience brought me back to that first prime cut of beef I had in Argentina. Awesome.
Steak is like durian. No need to eat a lot, but make sure you eat the good quality one, pay a bit more never mind.
So the total bill (including drinks) came up just short of a hundred (ouch!) but was good and would go back again when the meat bug strikes.
One more thing about the place is that it's right next to their butchery, so if you're squeamish about displays of raw meat... you decide. I mean, if you can sit in dark alleyways eating durian...
Espirito Santo Cafe Bistro
Taste: 4/5
Value: 3/5
Ambience: 4/5 (I actually kinda like this whole see-what-you-eat concept)
And finally, the recent office lunch companion:
Popiah with chilli! ($1.80 per roll)
