Cavana chicken rice, Geylang beef kway teow

Fried chicken wings and chicken rice

Ever since it was at Funan Centre, Cavana chicken rice (formerly known as Corona i think) has consistently produced their tasty take on a local favourite - Chicken rice. Nothing much has changed since those days, except maybe for the price, which is now almost double the original, at $4.50 a plate. Overall, this is one of the evergreens.

Geylang Beef kway teow

The beef tastes rather rubbery, almost synthetic, and the kway teow lumpy and undercooked. Suffice to say, this certainly isn't worth the hype. Unless, of course, it is 1130pm and you've just seen Singapore beat Malaysia on penalties. Then it tastes just fine...

Yeah baby, they like it too

As always, the princess's taste buds are hard to please, haha

Peranakan food, muthu's curry and donut factory

Satay was pretty good

Clockwise from left: Sambal prawns, Tauhu Goreng, Mee Goreng

Went to this quaint Peranakan eatery in this ulu part of Thomson. Not bad lah, reasonable prices, no crowd on weekends, I don't mind. And the satay is pretty good too...

I forgot the name of the place though...

Taste: 3/5
Value: 4.5/5
Ambience: 4/5

Mr Yeo looking through the menu at Muthu's curry thinking
"how am I going to avoid the calories??"

The much-vaunted fish head curry. Nope, no way to avoid the calories.

One and a half hour donuts from the donut factory

Sigh. Yes, they look nice. But seriously. One and a half hours for donuts?? Thats just...nuts...

Donut Factory (Raffles City basement)
Taste: 3/5 (Donut itself is not particularly tasty, toppings taste like they look, nothing special)
Value: 4/5 (Not counting the waiting time, $11 for a dozen flavoured and topped and glazed donuts is pretty decent)
Ambience: N.A.

World of Warcraft burning crusade launch at Suntec with crazy geeks queuing overnight

View from the office table.

Is it me or does something sound wrong with "Why not bring your spouse for a great bargain" coming right after "Buy/Sell/X-Change (New/Used)"?

Made Jole wear "Birthday girl" badge on her birthday last week

Bali Thai

Tauhu Telor, Tom Yum Goong

Ayam Pengang

The food at BaliThai is pretty decent, with some hits and misses. First, the good. Tauhu Telor is one of the restaurant's recommendations, and rightly so. The dish arrived slightly colder than I imagined deep-fried beancurd and egg to be, but boy did it taste good. Especially with the peanut sauce, heaven.

The Ayam Pengang also deserves a mention. So far the best version of this dish I've tried (though I've not really tried alot, about 4-5 stalls) is at Plaza Sing foodcourt. Balithai's version is really pretty good. The chicken is tender, the marinade is tasty and the bird is grilled to perfection. What's not to like?

Now the bad. Good Tom Yum soup surely is the hallmark of a decent Thai restaurant/eatery. Even if it's not authentic, so long as it tastes spicy/sour and has fresh ingredients, most people (including me) won't really mind. But their version is way too sour. Like...cringe-worthy-sour.

Didn't finish it. (I NEVER EVER NEVER FINISH FOOD)

Another thing to note: THE SERVICE SUCKS. How can any restaurant afford to have nobody jaga the main door during peak hour? Waited like 10 minutes before a waiter looked at us... then turned away like never see us... wth.

Then, when we were finally ushered in (actually herded is a more accurate word), we saw a whole bunch of tables...empty. *up yours*

Bali Thai West Mall

Taste: 3.5/5
Value: 3 (Total bill for 4 dishes - $47)
Ambience: 3/5
(Service: 1/5 the one point is for the waiter who served us.)

Goodbye Ann, hello Toysrus

Goodbye, Ann

Fellow intern Ann-Katrin left yesterday to climb her mountain. They threw her a little going away party! Poor girl sounded like she was going to cry while giving her going-away speech. Aww... we'll miss your chirpy-ness at the media monitoring table!

A toast to the singlish-speaking German lass!

Things you can do at Suntec during lunchbreak

• Walk aimlessly around carrefour
• Play arcade at the Star Factory
• Go shopping at G2000 for the shirt you need because you spilled laksa all over your old one
• Watch a movie...trailer
• Challenge your office mates to a hula hoop contest

J: Hey, I know how to hula hoop!

A: Really ah, challenge ah!

J: er...

A: Ready, one, two, eh where you all going?

New year, new food

This Cheng Tng stall is damn popular

I had to wait about 15 minutes for this...

A whopping 22 ingredients go into this little bowl of heaven

The texture of this stall's version of an all-time favourite local dessert is incredible. In one spoonful you may get bits of sweet potato, barley, white fungus, dried longans, preserved persimon, ginko nuts, dates, and a whole bunch of other stuff that I can't name.

At $2 a bowl it's not your cheapest hawker dessert but it sure is worth it. Even malays are joining the queue to have it! The taste could be slightly less sweet, but then again I was having the hot version so perhaps the cold one would do just fine.

Where: Chomp chomp-styled food centre opposite Bedok camp (I travelled 1 hour from town on bus number 14 for this)

Taste: 4/5
Value: 5/5
Ambience: 3.5/5

There's also a famous hokkien mee stall next to this one but that really wasn't worth the wait. Not nice lah, so so only.

Mai siao siao ok. The ART of Mee Pok

40 mins of waiting for this...

Ok, to be fair, it really is THE best mee pok I've tasted. Ever. Every aspect was perfect, the noodles, fishballs, prawns, lard, only the soup was too sweet.

5 stars for this. No, wait, 4.5.

Where: The Art of Mee Pok Ptd Ltd, near Tanah Merah MRT

Taste: 4.5/5 (minus 0.5 for the soup so if you don't mind it's a full score)
Value: 3.5/5 (Top-grade ingredients, but at 4 bucks a bowl is nowhere near value)
Ambience: 2/5

Duck and Char Siew rice

Finally, we walked last friday from suntec to liang seah to have this. The duck at this place is pretty good, but the char siew is the star. If you love your char siew very burnt and slathered with thick, calorie-laden black sauce, (like I do) then you'll like this place.

Where: Opposite Shaw towers, by day it sells roast meat, by night turns into budget steamboat place.

Taste: 3.5/5 (If you're a weight-watcher, don't bother)
Value: 4/5 ($4 a plate for charsiew + duck rice)
Ambience: 2.5/5

Well, it's been back to work this week. A few new faces, a couple have left. 23 funky fridays to go!

Tell me, what is the point. Put poster outside big big some more.

Himalayas from the plane

Himalayans from the plane, originally uploaded by ireallylovedanny.

For all Indian trip photos, go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/41669868@N00/sets/72157594448071363/