south.east.asia

day 1
singapore

yaay!
going around south east asia and to try soooo many different food?
i can not tell you just how much excited i am for this trip
gosh... super nom nom

anyway, route that i am going to take is roughly like this:
singapore-malaysia-thailand-laos-myanmar-cambodia-vietnam

probably will change along the way
but we'll see :)

if you want, you can follow my foodprint using s.e.a tag
there will be less words, but more pictures to show

all set to go, yippie!


*One of the very nicest things about life is
the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing
and devote our attention to eating*
-Luciano Pavarotti-

late.breakfast.on.late.may

getting hangover from last nite drinking session,
resulted in waking up late this morning,

but then being served a plate of hot crunchy soesbrutcheez,
-sausage bruschetta cheese-
that's how i name it

thanks to my ex-roomie-now-becoming-hoummie

60 hours to go
enjoy your long weekend holiday

happy vesak day for those who celebrating :D

the.famous.prata

been reading so many review about this prata place
some say, it is the best prata in town
really?

located in no so far far away location
only... well.. approximately 1 hour travel time by bus and mrt ^^'
easy to find, not so crowded

the food?

well.. the roti prata was okay
the cheese naan prata was too salty
the ice cream prata was definitely too pricey..

conclusion?
i still choose malaysian roti canai at any mamak store
in malaysia of course :)

eat.all.u.can.sushi.part.two

while writting post no.8, i remember my first all-u-can-eat-sushi eating experience. it was in 2007 at suki sushi, cathay cineleisure mall, singapore. just next to the cinema where u can get their all-u-can-eat promo for SGD25.00. surprisingly, i found their dishes was not bad at all, big portion, quite fresh and also tasted good.


i-eight double salmon maki, mini california maki, tako and salmon sashimi, unagi maki, chuka chinmi and kisame itako. all in a huge portion, plenty amount of rice also making you feeling full in a short of time, so be careful not to order more than you can eat. but one thing i remember the most was the butter yaki hotate. very creamy, juicy and super delicious (hmm..). i guess i just came on the right time, right day.. complete satisfaction.

*never eat more than you can lift*
-miss piggy (american puppet character) 1990s-

papaya.soup

have you ever tried noodle-papaya soup?
i have.
how's the taste?
undescribable
(hmm...)

not much defferent with ordinary noodle soup, but with extra papaya cubes in it. i don't mind actually and i want to try it again next time, but i can say that this is not one of my favourite food.

may 2008, this is at xin wang hongkong cafe, singapore, inside anchorpoint shopping mall, which is located exactly opposite ikea building at alexander road.

i forgot the price for this one, but i remember i wrote it down. i'll tell you later when i find my notes.

why i choose this item?
let's say i do have a similarity with andrew zimmern, a tendency to try a weirdo kind of food (if in some cases, you still can say it as a food).

i remember there's one time, me and my younger brother want to buy an ice cream.
from all the flavour they offer us, he choose ogura flavour (red bead) and i choose wasabi flavour (hooo..).

in the end, he managed to finish his ice cream, but me? after struggling for almost twenty minutes, i finally gave up (booo). i do like sushi, wasabi, anything, just name it.. but for wasabi ice cream? 'guess i just have to practise much much more on this one.

back to the restaurant. the noodle-papaya soup was my order, but my friends picked something else, dimsum.

dimsum is like japanese sushi, with lots of variety and options. we didn't order all kind of dimsum, only a portion of siu mai, har gau (shrimp dumpling), and gyoza (japanese dumpling).

the dimsum was okay for me, not the best dimsum i've ever had, but okay.

mud.cake

i always wanted to eat a mud-cake.
sounds muddy, melting, just tempting.

and finally i eight (hoorai). this one is at coffee club, around orchad road area in october 2008.

my brother loves to hang out in a small downtown street side cafe. just to drink coffee, browsing the webworld or wasting time with friends. but for me, well i am not really a coffee person.

doesn't mean i dont like coffee, it's just tea suits me better tea is more personal and contemplating while coffee is more casual. that's why we have tea-ceremony rather than coffee-ceremony.. i think

so while my brother doing his thing, and the rest of the family were chatting and gossiping for sure, i, as usual, just busy picking what to order and eat.

i don't know if this is a real mud-cake, at least for me it is. it's a combination of cake, layers of ice creams, with chocolate syrup poured on top of it. really good, and the size is huge, but the best of all is, tasted just exactly like a mud-cake in my mind.

all.about.sushi.and.sashimi.part.two

this is part two.

part one is when eating sushi is like one in a million chances.
part two is... well
let say i met more people with the same addiction to sushi
and more opportunity to eat with less worries about my pocket condition (sigh)

anyway, i got the chance to visit singapore again around december 2007.
so another sushi time (yaay). this time at (not agaain..) sushitei at raffles city mall.

drinks? hot ocha for sure..
then, trying to saved up some money, first item i ordered was a SGD7.00 chirashi don (rice in bowl with assorted sashimi slices). anything with rice will make my stomach full, prevented me to order any other items, although beside that i do like chirashi don, especially the pink -sweet taste thing they put in it.

another item was a-must-ordered tobikko, for a price of SGD2.80. i've told you before... i LOVE crunchy-munchy tobikko sushi.
after that i ordered chuka chinmi, also my favourite, SGD 4.00 and for dessert was a SGD 3.40 peach jelly (hmm.. yummy).

eating at sushitei, always a pleasure and no complaint... err well except for the price (sigh)

all.about.sushi.and.sashimi.part.one

my ultimate guilty pleasure, indeed [o.O]'

back in 2006, a portion of avocado unagi roll (sea eel) is my first introduction to japanese sushi, then we finished up with 2 large macha (green tea) ice cream. we didn't order much at that time, because just to eat at that place, me and my 2 best friends had to sneakin' up from the rest of my friends. we told them that we need to go to a bookstore, instead we eventually ended up elsewhere *ooops*. it was my favorite japanese restaurant, sushitei at plaza indonesia, jakarta. well, not everyone like sushi or even sashimi, i also need some time to get used to it. but once you can enjoy it... hmm...

the second time was at a small japanese restaurant near my house. there, i learned something about wakame (seaweed), tamago (sweet egg omelet sushi), and my all time favorite sushi, tobikko (flying fish roe). i like tobikko because the roe is smaller compare to ikura (salmon roe), so less ''fishy taste'' and also tobikko is very crispy, you can literally hear the crack sound when you eat and bite it. good thing that tobikko is much cheaper than ikura (yosh!). too bad i didn't take any pictures for this one.

third time was the best, because i-eight for free (yaay!) and again it was sushitei but this time at paragon mall, singapore. the place itself similar like any other sushitei branch, modern simplicity design with dim light, plenty of water elements and bamboo here and there.



of course we had to have ocha (green tea), it's a must... prefer hot ocha for me, but the other two guys ordered a cold one. then we add california roll, tamago, and most definitely tobikko again. also tried chuka iidako (baby octopus) for the first time here, turns out really good. a bit scary for first timer, it's a baby... well octopus, but still, it's a baby.

after that we also order soft shell crab and ebi (raw prawn) sushi. finally a portion of unagi roll, sashimi salad, and chirashi lobster. no dessert this time, too tired to eat anything anymore.

*don't eat until you're full, eat until you're tired*
-a hawaiian saying-

just.because.a.carrot.cake

a quick glimpse of history here. this is the very first food picture that i taken, with full awareness that i realize since then, i LOVE taking pictures of food.

it was 2006, in the city of lion to be exactly, at the hawkers food arena next to the durian building. in short, esplanade singapore.

this was just a simple SGD4.00 carrot cake and couple of barbequed chicken wings. along with that also a portion of grilled stingray, lemon chicken with rice and this big prawn which i forgot the name and ended with a glass of refreshing sugar cane.

i don't know really, maybe because of the name -carrot cake- or the shape and colour, or maybe because that was the first time (since a very loong time) i visit singapore or maybe just because -like many people, surround me especially- i just simply LOVE to eat.

but one thing for sure, from that moment i officially became an addict (of food photography) :D :D ;D