ILLUSTRATOR
Annie Poon
Puppy.net, (cartoons) and AnniePoon.com.
App – speed touch, keeper/password safe
Seth Pitman for iphone
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
SINGAPORE BUSINESS CARDS
BANK
OCBC
Kelvin Ong relationship manager
Tel for Premier is 1800 773 6437
CAR REPAIR
Recommendation from Nicholas Wong
They have moved - they fixed my bumper
ACE Chrome and Restorations
Carol Tan 9029 4487
2 Kaki Bukit Avenue 2 #2-24
spraypaintingsingapore@gmail.com
CHOIR - Filipino Choir I heard at Astrid's fund raiser
FVS Filipino Voice Symphony
Maria 8499 9480
filvoicesymphony@gmail.com
COSTUMES from Lachlan / Darth Vader
http://number1costumecostume.com.sg/index.html
CULTURAL:
Paper/Lantern making:
Yeo swee huat
Blk 6 toa payoh industrial Park lor 8 #01-1317 sg 319058
6255 7512/7592
There were two shops right near each other,Blk 6 toa payoh industrial Park lor 8 #01-1317 sg 319058
6255 7512/7592
Aparna - do you remember if it was next door
or across the street from this store?
LION GUY, it's his private home,
Hong Nam World Handicraft Trading
Ng Hong Kiang
Tel 9662 661
Blk 552 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10 #24-1978
Tel 6453 8298
liondanceartist@gmail.com
WeeKean, the friendliest were the JOSS stick people,
I think they even have classes come in to make things.
Their address is on their FB page:
CHOCOLATE
Truffs - chocolate bar - from Channing
179A Telok Ayer Street
Singapore 068627
Tel. 9088 2736
DOCTORS
Dr Melvin Ee, becky’s derma, expert on cancer
EDUCATION / TUTOR
Robison tutor, Dotsie Poli dpolicore@gmail.com
FESTIVAL
Nine Emperor Gods
End Sept/Beg Oct
Kim San Tze Temple Association
25 Jalan Ulu Siglap
Tel 6445-0037
LANTERN & PAPER MAKING
Saw this on local crafts tour
Yeo swee huat
Blk 6 toa payoh industrial Park lor 8 #01-1317 sg 319058
6255 7512/7592
LAUNDROMAT
Wonder Wash
Block 345 Clementi Ave 5 #01-96 Singapore 120345
LAUNDROMAT
Wonder Wash
Block 345 Clementi Ave 5 #01-96 Singapore 120345
MASSAGE
Arab quarters new spa
Rule of Thumb
289 Beach Road
Tel 6295-5000
MASSAGE - Arab quarters
Wayan Retreat - the one Jonna loves
61 Bussorah Street
Tel 6392 0035
MASSAGE
Cheap foot massages in Arab quarters for a group
Xi Yuan Foot Spa
4 Pahang Street, near Sultan Gate
Tel 6396 8707
Branches on 87 Jalan Sultan and 91 Jalan Sultan
MOVING COMPANY
Jane and Adam used
9855 9053 Lisa
It was 200 sgd/10 foot truck
OSTEO - Carrie Gammons' person
Niel Wafer 6314 4440
RESTAURANT - Arabic
Alaturka
16 Bussorah Street
6294 0304
RESTAURANT - Arabic
Beirut Grill - they have belly dancing wknds
72 Bussorah Street
Tel 6341 7728
RESTAURANT - Arabic
Derwish, the one Jonna likes
60 Bussorah Street
RESTAURANT - Seafood, Dora Ellis
Happy Crab
12/13 Pahang Street
Delivery service available
Open 6pm to 10.30pm
Closed Sundays and PH
TEl 9620 3417
RESTAURANT - Arabic
Sufi's Corner, Turkish, Geri's fave
56 Arab Street
SEWING LESSONS
Nice Kiwi Lady Ella went to
Jokamamo Textiles
19 Faber Grove
Singapore 129236
Tel 9737 8697
sales@jokamamotextiles.com
SHELF
Custom made to fit shelves
http://www.yee-sin.com/
SPODE PLATE FACTORY
Claytan Ceramics
Tel 019 773 3006, 57th Mile, Jalan Johor, 86100 Ayear Hitam.
WOOD
where to buy wood/timber
from Nicholas Wong
All the wood factories are in Sungei Kedut area,
near Sungei Buloh wetlands. Ask them to google
timber yards and merchants, and they'll be able to find one.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Restaurants
AMERICAN (desserts)
Mike Daynes said he loves Morton's
CHINESE
Cheng's @27
Ate with Ilona in Tion Bahru
Love the chicken shop, some soup, etc
Great flavors
27 Yong Siak Street
Tiong Bahru Estate
Jing at One Fullerton - looks like it has big round tables, never been, but nice area
Ming Jang - Rochester - Peking duck we liked with ex-Firmenich couple
DIM SUM
Recommended by Queenie Chan
Luk Yu Tea House (Hong Kong dimsum)
Chinatown Point, 133 New Bridge Road #01-41/42 s059413
Ate with Queenie chan, a dim sum place near Tooth Buddha
Jing Hua Restaurant
2 Neil Road
11.30 to 3pm and 5.30 to 9.30pm
Closed on Wednesdays
Tel 6221 3060
They also have an outlet at Palais Renaissance and Bugis Village
FRENCH
Crepes - le comptoir
79 Circular Road
INDIAN
New favorite place after we ate at Sherma's by Missi'shouse
Bar Bar Black Sheep
Cluny Court
Excellent Indian plus they also have Thai and western
Great patio.
Excellent Indian / Colonial / Western food
The Tiong Bahru Club
Went with Ilona and Ben
Block 57 Eng Hoon Street #01-88
Tel 6438 0168
There is the counterpart of it called
The Namly Club we need to try
64 Namly Place
TEl 6469 0168
The Village
Boat Quay
Great view
SEW recommendation
ITALIAN
aPompeii
Went with Channing and Spencer
20 sixth avenue
Bukit Timah
JAPANESE
The Sushi Eatery - Hidden Japanese Gem
Good value for money.
Juicy grilled sirlion steak, salmon aburi, torched salmon roll with mentaiko.
Far East Plaza, 14 Scotts Road, 04-28 Far East Plaza
12.30 to 3pm, 5.30 to 9pm Mon-Fri Sat 12.30 to 9pm, Sun closed, text 9653 6464 for reservation
Fried Sushi! Basically sushi in tempura
Watami - multiple outlets
Maki-san - raffles and cathay basement
THAI
Ying Thai (recommended by Meghan from Ambassador uncle) Fancier Thai
36 Purvis street, tel 6337 1161
Soi 60
Robertson Quay
Ilona recommendation
Great view
CIRCULAR ROAD AREA
MEXICAN
El Rocho's
36 circular road, 6438 7879
Opened lunch and dinner Mon to Fri, dinner on Sat, closed Sunday
Same chef-owner previously from Les Amis
Rooftop drinks on same road at Amber 21
TELOK AYER
Truffes - chocolate bar
Urban Bites - Lebanese (Mona)
Pho Pho - Vietnamese (Mona)
VIETNAMESE:
Sandra said in Joo Chiat Long Phung, Casual
http://eastcoast.canalblog.com/archives/2011/06/11/21369062.html
L'euPHOriz in Tanjong Pagar
#01-21,, Axa Tower, 8 Shenton Way
Ms. TEO recommendations for hot pot, local food, etc.
http://thediningtable.sg/2015/02/10-chinese-new-year-pen-cai-try-year/
& since we are on about food, if your friends are over & you all would like to try some very good crabs, Melben seafood has amazing crabs. They have the singapore chilli crab & black pepper crab which is OK but what's really nice is their CLAYPOT CRAB BEEHOON & CREAMY BUTTER CRAB. Order these 2 & some deep fried man tou (bread) & their coffee pork ribs is also good. My friend likes their chilli crab but I still prefer jumbo's & long beach's but the ones here are pretty good to try too. I still think the Toa Payoh branch is best so you might want to give that a call. Can't vouch for the other branches as this is the original branch & the only I've tried. Give a call for reservation if they allow for that day otherwise just have to head in early & queue. It can be as long as an hour to an hour half wait. If there's 6 of you, 3 crab dishes will be ok & not too much. Pricey though at about $50+ per crab if I remember correctly, used to be $38 but I remember the last time I went they upped it to $58 or something along those lines. Not too sure about that so you might need to head down to know price range.
Ms. TEO recommendations for hot pot, local food, etc.
http://thediningtable.sg/2015/02/10-chinese-new-year-pen-cai-try-year/
Hai di lao at 313. Call to make reservations too otherwise you might need to queue for an hour. Not all outlets are nice but the 313 one is pretty good.
At these places I will avoid mussels, crabs & shellfish. They kind of make the soup dirty like your soup will turn greyish after puting them in if they are not fresh. So it's kind of like luck. Anything else feel free to try.
Sauces here are vv yummy but be daring to mix them. So usually I'll stir & mix the sesame oil, peanut sauce, chinese chilli sauce & if you like garlic sauce all together. Then when you dip your meat slices into the sauce, yummy!
Bugis steamboat BBQ.
This is not a place you want to bring your friends to & impress them with steamboat. More like an adventurous try with you kids & family which can be a hit or miss.
At places like this, other than prawns & fish, the other seafood is kind of like try at your own luck/risk as some can be not fresh at times. So if there are really any seafood you want to give a shot there, take a piece cook it & try if it's good as I've eaten really unfresh ones which of course means diarrhea the next day. You will realise quality of food is really much lower as compared to the others but it's a good place to start with kids as they have BBQ. & some can be quite yummy either but just not at the quality of food as the hai di lao & especially not the joo Chiat one.
You can also just try mookata beside udders ice cream & carpenter & cook area. The food there is surprisingly very fresh so will be a good try with family, they open only after 5pm. Kids have to be patient to wait for food though so you might not want to bring them when they are starving but just reasonably hungry.
The dessert place at bugis is a must try!! It's called ah chew's dessert This is one of the best chinese dessert shop. I love their cold water chestnut with egg dessert, the kids will love their mango sago with ice cream, other good chinese desserts: yuan yang paste= sesame paste & almond paste; yam paste, cold ginkgo barley. If the kids have not try it yet, along bugis street, there's also this shaved ice dessert which I'm pretty sure they will love it.
This is the one at geylang/joo chiat.
http://www.sgfoodonfoot.com/
The fish kuay tiao is the must try as well as their fish paste. But generally anything handmade there is nice & meats are fresh. If it's your first time, this is the authentic steamboat place you want to try. This place is always crowded so give a call to make a reservation. Staff there are friendly too so if you are not sure how to go about, you can ask them to help you.
So these are some suggestions on what you might want to get & sequence to put them in.
Red garoupa - more expensive but very yummy & fresh
Prime beef, pork belly & chicken are all yummy.
Prawns, Chef recipe meatball, hand made squid ball, hand made fishball, crispy bean sheet, fish kuay tiao!, golden mushroom, cabbage, tang or, and any other vegetables you like, egg.
Things to throw in first:
1) cabbage, golden mushroom, any balls, when they are softer or half cooked
2) chicken, pork, fish kuay tiao: when these are cooked you can start eating & cooking
3) prawns, fish, are then to be put in pot & monitored so they don't overcook
4) use the ladle with lots of holes to to cook beef. Hold on to the ladle with beef in it to prevent overcooking. We like our beef medium rare so usually we just dip it in the boiling broth for awhile then eat it with the dipping sauce. You can also use chopsticks to cook
5) make sure food are cooked before you eat at each round if not Hee its diarrhea the next day due to uncooked food. So like if we put pork, chicken or fish/prawn, we wait for everything to be cooked then start eating & drinking soup. But it's like eat & cook at the same time? So other than 1) & 2) where you really wait, the rest you can eat & cook at the same time but just take note if any put food in to cook then do the same so when they are cooked then you start taking the other food out to eat.
6) sauces are important. So I like to half boil my egg & mix in with the sauce but you can also just put into the soup & scramble it in to make the soup nice & eggy. If you like your soup clear though then don't scramble the egg in.
In other places they have more sauces but here is fixed.
This is a lot of food ordered so just order what you think you'll like & probably add more other vegetables you think you might like. If you order all you will probably not be able to finish.
http://www.sgfoodonfoot.com/
The fish kuay tiao is the must try as well as their fish paste. But generally anything handmade there is nice & meats are fresh. If it's your first time, this is the authentic steamboat place you want to try. This place is always crowded so give a call to make a reservation. Staff there are friendly too so if you are not sure how to go about, you can ask them to help you.
So these are some suggestions on what you might want to get & sequence to put them in.
Red garoupa - more expensive but very yummy & fresh
Prime beef, pork belly & chicken are all yummy.
Prawns, Chef recipe meatball, hand made squid ball, hand made fishball, crispy bean sheet, fish kuay tiao!, golden mushroom, cabbage, tang or, and any other vegetables you like, egg.
Things to throw in first:
1) cabbage, golden mushroom, any balls, when they are softer or half cooked
2) chicken, pork, fish kuay tiao: when these are cooked you can start eating & cooking
3) prawns, fish, are then to be put in pot & monitored so they don't overcook
4) use the ladle with lots of holes to to cook beef. Hold on to the ladle with beef in it to prevent overcooking. We like our beef medium rare so usually we just dip it in the boiling broth for awhile then eat it with the dipping sauce. You can also use chopsticks to cook
5) make sure food are cooked before you eat at each round if not Hee its diarrhea the next day due to uncooked food. So like if we put pork, chicken or fish/prawn, we wait for everything to be cooked then start eating & drinking soup. But it's like eat & cook at the same time? So other than 1) & 2) where you really wait, the rest you can eat & cook at the same time but just take note if any put food in to cook then do the same so when they are cooked then you start taking the other food out to eat.
6) sauces are important. So I like to half boil my egg & mix in with the sauce but you can also just put into the soup & scramble it in to make the soup nice & eggy. If you like your soup clear though then don't scramble the egg in.
In other places they have more sauces but here is fixed.
This is a lot of food ordered so just order what you think you'll like & probably add more other vegetables you think you might like. If you order all you will probably not be able to finish.
& since we are on about food, if your friends are over & you all would like to try some very good crabs, Melben seafood has amazing crabs. They have the singapore chilli crab & black pepper crab which is OK but what's really nice is their CLAYPOT CRAB BEEHOON & CREAMY BUTTER CRAB. Order these 2 & some deep fried man tou (bread) & their coffee pork ribs is also good. My friend likes their chilli crab but I still prefer jumbo's & long beach's but the ones here are pretty good to try too. I still think the Toa Payoh branch is best so you might want to give that a call. Can't vouch for the other branches as this is the original branch & the only I've tried. Give a call for reservation if they allow for that day otherwise just have to head in early & queue. It can be as long as an hour to an hour half wait. If there's 6 of you, 3 crab dishes will be ok & not too much. Pricey though at about $50+ per crab if I remember correctly, used to be $38 but I remember the last time I went they upped it to $58 or something along those lines. Not too sure about that so you might need to head down to know price range.
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