Chin Mee Chin Confectionery, East Coast Rd Singapore

Was passing by this road and my stomach was playing music when it was only about 130pm. First guess was, a ha, must not have lunch yet or early brunch. In fact, I had an early lunch at about 11+ am.

Address from the paper-box used for take away

My friend told me that Chin Mee Chin Confectionery serves great raisin bread, so I said - on. We were not so lucky that day, it was sold off, yes at this early hour of the day!

So we settled for the normal bun with kaya (Asian bread spread equivalent to jam but with coconut flavour - color wise - pale green or brown - the former with pandan flavour leave and the latter without) and butter.

Bun with kaya and a sllice of butter

I love the kaya flavour - taste like those old days kopi-tiam style. As I was sitting next to one of the fridges, can see that to provide fast service, there a few tubs of sliced butter in it.

I would go back for the bun and kaya but not the tea. Tea is just like the one ordinarily instant tea flavor despite them brewing and preparing using the cloth sock - traditional method.

visible sight where your beverage is prepared

Besides bun, I must say they do serve a varieties of other confectioneries, which I did not manage to take any pic as they were alot of people queuing for a take away.

Sage Restaurant and Wine Bar, The Gardens Kuala Lumpur

The Gardens Kuala Lumpur is a new extension of an upper class of shopping just adjacent to Mid Valley Mall, Kuala Lumpur. I was invited to Sage by a close friend one evening, he called me and said, I will bring you to one of the fine dining in KL in The Gardens, I have not heard of Sage before this.

Sage's owner also owns the famous French-Japs fusion Cilantro at the Micasa All Suites Hotel along Jalan Tun Razak. I did dine at Cilantro many years back before I started blogging.

It was closed to Xmas when we were there.

Entrance to Sage - decorated with wide varieties of wines

Coming back to Sage, the day we were there, they were having a promotion on Truffle, yes, delicacy of this special fungus. There is black or white Truffle to choose from the special Truffle Menu....everything on the menu looked very appetizing and I had difficulty to nail down on one, I wish I have an extra stomach to sample everything on the menu albeit watching on my diet as I am on above average on cholesterol
barometer.

Chef's complimentary starter;

For Appetizer, I decided on Ramen with shaved White Truffle and Parmesan cheese, the aroma of the white truffle is strong and couple with the creamy sauce it really went well with Ramen, (Japs fusion!)

Ramen with shaved White Truffle

A closer look of the white and black truffle on the right and left respectively.

As for the main course, I picked from the white truffle menu, Slow cooked lamb rack with blue cheese, shaved with white truffle and Shiromiso sauce. I had requested for almost well done yet moist and juicy for the lamb rack and surprisingly the chef did manage to prepare it that way. Lamb rack was tender and juicy coupled witht he Shiromiso soup, it's was great, the truffle was a bonus to the already yummy taste of this dish.

The dessert was only so so and nothing great perhaps my expectation was set higher after the two courses that I had !

All in all, it was a great experience.

You Huak Restaurant, Sembawang Singapore

555....(if you know Thai, you know what I mean here!). I have been MIA since then, went for alot of 'makan' (eat/dine in Malay), but just did not manage to find time in between my hectic life to make any post.

Went for cycling with my riding 'kaki' (buddy in Malay), part of our training ride after a series of too much food. We had wanted to visit this place the last time we were at the vicinity but could not locate it, so this time my buddy did his homework and got the direction right. Were there rather early, before noon, to beat the lunch crowd.

Quench our thirst after the tough training ride, while awaiting the specialties of the restaurant, located on 22 Jalan Tampang, tuck in corner row of a series of shoplot, opposite the Sembawang Shopping Centre.

Closer view of the white beehoon, full of seafood

distant view to show the portion for about 2-3 pax

This is indeed tasty, with the wok taste and the egg based gravy is flavorful, was told that they used chicken bone for the gravy. As time passed, the meehoon will soak the gravy and all the flavor is infused into the beehoon adding to the oommph.......as I don't favor squid, perhaps if they add pork fillet instead may complete my experience. Besides, this we also ordered a plate of Foo Yong egg, chinese omelette, (nothing extra ordinary so I did not take the pic). For the record, I love KL hokkien mee (dark fat noodle), there is also the hokkien beehoon, but its not on my list of favorites fried noodles. There are times, when I go for the hokkien beehoon, I would ordered one without black sauce, but then, compared to this one, I would still rate this one as the top. Give me a KL hokkien mee, done in KL and a plate of ths You Huak white beehoon, it completes a noodle day for me.