Dim Sum Buffet @ Swatow Seafood Restaurant

Rather contradict rite!? Seafood restaurant for dim sum buffet! But yes! They do serve buffet for high-tea and i personally think it is definitely a worth! But getting the person to bring the food from push cart to table was rather a tough task but of cos much better than Red Star at Chinatown area. LOL. But what's disappointing was, food such as paper wrapper chicken, xiao long bao all these was quite high in demand that when the server came with the pushcart, it's already empty. Waiting for another round took pretty long. In order not to leave the place with regrets, we tried our very best to get the waitress attention to get them to get the food for us. IT'S NOT EASY BUT NEVERTHELESS they are helpful.

Anyway we went on a sunday afternoon so is like $22.80++.. But still worth~

Pros
1) Waitress go to every table and distribute food.
2) Food taste awesome. I like the siew mai and liu sha bao! <3
3) Booking of table was easy. We book our table 2-3 days before.
4) Environment and ambience was good

Cons
1) Waiting time for food was long, spending my time waiting for food to appear infront of us and seeing the waitress walked past with empty pushcart...
2) Book a table before going is definitely a need! If not, good luck!

Been and back from Taipei! Taipei Day 1

As i mentioned from my previous post, i should be in taiwan for 6D5N! TAICHUNG - HUALIEN - TAIPEI - TAOYUAN. But I was glad that dad and bro managed to go to taichung and hualien and have lots of fun there.

Alright, nevertheless, i enjoyed myself in taipei!! <3 I like taiwan! Really. Definitely i WILL WANT TO GO BACK AGAIN but of cos not during winter time. LOL.

Yupp yupp. i'll start from upon reaching taoyuan airport... Mum and i took the Freego bus from the bus station at the airport @140/pax to Ximen Mrt. Journey was around 50mins? And upon reaching Ximen, Dad and bro was already waiting for us at the meeting point! HAPPINESS~ LOL

Reached our minsu in like less than 5mins walk from mrt! I LOVE THE MINSU! IS PRETTY!! i love the design of the whole apartment. I WILL DEFINITELY CHOOSE TO STAY THERE AGAIN. AWESOMEEE! And hosts are really nice and helpful. =))

Have our first day in taipei spent at Dansui! Lunch at Ding Tai Fung - but really sad, just recovered from food poisoning with no appetite. I only ate a bit. Hais!

Headed to Dansui via mrt, I like dansui because there are ALOT OF TIE DAN! <3 and not forgetting Yu Su. Hhahahas! Due to winter time, sunset really fast. At 5pm, sky starts to turn dark. AND WE WANTED TO TAKE THE BOAT to Fisherman's wharf, however boat service was only till 5pm. LOL. We had no choice but to take bus 26 there. By the time we reached there, sky have turned totally dark. LOL

Have our night spent at Shilin NM w/o dad and mum as they think travelling the whole day was already very tiring and decided to give NM a missed. LOL. Due to my food poisoning, no appetite, i actuallysay NO to HOTPLATE STEAK! I DIDNT TRIED IT. CAN U BELIEVE?! Bro grabbed some foods at Shilin and i took a few bites. AND THAT'S IT! DAMN YOU FOOD POISONING! 

Ipoh Trip Day 2

Started our day with a bowl of Ban Mian and not forgetting the ipoh white coffee. LOL!

Collected our goodies that we had ordered yesterday and buying more goodies to bring back to singapore. Headed to shopping mall after that to stock up a bit of our daily necessaries.

CAMERON HIGHLANDS - WE ARE COMING!!

Yes! Drove up to cameron highlands and stayed there till late and have steamboat for dinner. IT'S A PERFECT dinner choice at cameron highlands. Temperature went down when sunset, to 20 degree Celsius! I LIKE THE WEATHER THERE! <33 My acne problems will be solved if i was to stay there for a month? LOL!  Many strawberry farm there, some are really small. We drove further up till we reached lavender garden which seems big. 5RM per entry. It's really a nice place!

THE FRESH STRAWBERRY JUCIE!

Watch those video i uploaded using instagram! =DD The kids made this trip even more enjoyable. LOL

Steamboat dinner!

After steamboat, we went for supper! =DD HAHHAHAHA! EAT AND EAT AND EAT!

Ipoh Trip Day 1

Upon meeting up with JJ, we headed to Foh San Restaurant for our breakfast dim sum! Foh San vs Ming Court - both the famous dim sum shop in ipoh right oppsite each other. Nice food provided, it only cost us around 20SGD for a meal for four! I like!

Headed to some mountain cave temple after breakfast! So we went to Pi Li Tong and Taman Rekreasi! Guess this is something new to us. Cave temple and a place to look at awesome scenery! <3

Meet up with another friend whom drove all the way from JB up to Ipoh with his family! Meal together at some coffeeshop which is quite famous for their ipoh white coffee. I love their kids! So cute can! Photos of them will be up on blog soon~ LOL! After meal, we went to try their famous beancurd/ soay milk from a stall named funny mountain. Ordered while in car, eat in car and they will collect from you after you have finished. HAHAHA! A smooth and silky beancurd. I LIKE!

Ah San our friend, being the Funny Mountain's 代言人！LOL! GOOD!

We went to another cave temple named Ji Le Tong. It's so windy there with an awesome view of the sunny day while enjoying the wind and being sheltered in the cave. LOL! 

After visiting the caves, IT'S TIME TO EAT AGAIN! 4TH meals of the day! LO! Tried their asam laska and fried durians! I LIKE THEIR FRIED DURIANS, IS REAL DURIANS, not like S'pore kind which only gave the flavouring. This is with texture, smell and the flavoring which cost only 2rm for one!

Oh, did i mention that we are staying at JJ house for this trip? LOL! Yes! We are going to stay over in his house. He said he lived in kampong which means this is my FIRST time staying in a kampong. LOL! Upon reaching his house, we choose our room and put down our things. Something i like about msian, they are really different from Singaporean. They simply treat it like their own house. One went shower, another one went to boil water so on and so forth. LOL! I really enjoyed staying with them, they treated you really like a family instead of an outsider. HAHAHA! A lot of new experiences in this trip, showering w/o the shower head, using water to pour on ourselves is the way of showering, having a kitchen which is much bigger than my own room in Singapore and last but not least, sleeping in the night w/o a need to lock the door, AS IN THE MAIN DOOR. WOW~!

Dinner at Lou Wong Restoran for their famous beansprout chicken rice. I think i preferred Singapore's chicken rice. HAHAHHA! The chicken was not really that tender as what others have described, beansprouts was a little too raw. Nothing much special actually. LOL! But still, anything with CHICKEN, i'll still love it! Being known as 鸡王 during this trip. LOL!

Dessert @ Tang Shui Jie (i gussed). With the courtesy of JJ's gf who brought us for dinner and dessert as JJ have something on. Though, we didn't have much conversation. But i can tell, she is a nice person. =D

I've another meal of my own for supper- KFC from ipoh. LOL! Trying to compare MELAKA OR IPOH KFC. LOL!

Dim Sum @ Ju Chun Yuan $19.80+

I had my Dim Sum Lunch Buffet @ Ju Chun Yuan - Far East Square. S19.80+ used to be $18+ when i first knew about Ju Chun Yuan. IM SO KEEN TO HAVE MEAL THERE THAT I called to make reservations LIKE TWO DAYS BEFORE?! HAHAHAHA! It's a "HOT" place to have dim sum (as in it's always full). Do reach there around 1130am when they just opened- food are more fresh and there are more varieties available. If you were to reach there at 1pm, some dishes might be out of stock! =DD

Very nice place! Somewhere you would love to held some small gathering at! 

THREE OF US! MY FRIENDS AND I! WE HAD ALMOST 30 PLATES OF FOOD! OMG! Guess our previous incarnation = pigs! LOL! I was so full that i think i'll vomit anytime! I REALLY LIKE THE steamed rice noodles roll w bbq pork! <3 Their char sao su was awesome as well! Didnt try their porridge, i was thinking if i was to order the porridge, i won't be able to eat so much on other stuff. LOL!

Took some pics of the dimsum 

I'm nice okay! i took a photo of their menu - dishes available for the buffet!

**We took the highlighted words very seriously that we stuffed ourselves with all the food we ordered**

OUR RECEIPT WHICH SHOWS THE AMOUNT OF FOODS WE ATE! :O

WANTED TO TAKE A LOOK AT THEIR SALTED EGG CUSTARD BUN AKA LIU SA BAO?!

Check it out @ my instagram! <3

Dim Sum @ Victor Kitchen , Korean BBQ @ StarKing

Meet up with Ming and Yvonne early in the morning at 10.30am at Bugis Mrt, planning to have our breakfast at Sunshine Plaza Victor's Kitchen which opens at 10.30am. Reaching there at 11am, the place was already packed with people and we have to Q outside!

DIM SUM @ VICTOR KITCHEN - SUNSHINE PLAZA
Table for 2 is easy. TABLE FOR THREE! FAT HOPE! WAIT. WAIT. WAIT. This is all we get and we have waited for almost an hr! Finally, they got us a table for three at 11.45am! Varieties of food was very limited. Serving of food was really chaos. The place was so packed, space for walking was so limited that the server have to pass the food down from the front and get to us. Sitting all the way in and getting out from there was really hard. People who sat beside you have to stand up and give you space to move. Waiting time for food was fast, however not complete. Food that we ordered was not served, food that we didnt ordered came, trying our best to get their attention to tell them that we DIDN'T ORDER THAT was NOT EASY! Server claimed that we ordered it, OH PLS. PLS AT LEAST MAKE AN EFFORT TO CHECK THE ORDER. Carrot cake that seems to be their signature dish didnt come even though we tried to "remind" them. It's doesnt work.

The Menu 

Believed the boss have tried his best to get everyone what they have ordered, but it's just too chaos and there is really nothing the boss can actually do. I like one of the server, she is really patience and nice. When we raise our hand to get their attention, she approached us with a smile and asked what food was missed out? hahahah! Seems like she knows what's going on very well. LASTLY! I WOULD LIKE TO COMPLIMENT THEIR LAVA BUN AKA SALTED EGG YOLK CUSTARD BUN, IT'S REALLY REALLY VERY DELICIOUS!

Food- 7/10
Environment - 3/10
Service - 5/10

KOREAN BBQ @ STAR KING - TANJONG PAGAR
We had our dinner at star king tanjong pagar at ONLY $23NETT with free flow of icecream and soft drinks! However, i felt a little pressurize by the boss upon stepping into the shop. Just wanted to take a look on what they have, and non-stop promoting their dishes to us till we finally sit down. LOL!

As usual- korean bbq = meat feast. LOL! It's really well marinated, very delicious. i like the pork collar, very juicy really. Icecream was awesome too. COOKIES & CREAM! and total of 4 different flavour available. =DD

With this electric stove, less smoke, less oily. You smell better when u walked out of the shop. LOL

However, Boss will be there looking at you taking, cooking the meat, at times, she will even teach you how to cut the meat. "Over-service" i think. LOL, nevertheless, she is friendly and nice la!

FOOD - 8/10
Environment - 9/10
Service - 8/10

Luk Yu @ Chinatown Point

Meet up with YL! The last time we met was a year ago i suppose?! OMG! Srsly long!

Wanted to have our lunch at Ju Chun Yuan - They offer this lunch buffet at $18++ from 11am to 3.30pm. However, Yl have something on in the morning and we reached there almost 2pm yet they are full and have 3 table on waiting list. Which means, we have to wait for quite some time.

Thought of having high tea buffet ( dim sum buffet) at Yum Cha! However, while waiting for 3pm, we were walking/ shopping at Chinatown Point. Ended up we have our dim sum at Luk Yu Teahouse! Al-la Carte though. Can't really remember how much those dishes cost. But i try to recall la hor! LOL
These are the dishes that we ordered. Ohyea not forgetting the "Liu Sa Pao", the one being served to us was already cold - it's harden inside. LOL! Varieties of food are very limited. No porridge either. Only Dim Sum. =((  Ohyea - I like their service! Plates are regularly changed, tea are being fill-up fast even though we could do it ourselves.

Pork Ribs in Black Bean Sauce - $4.80

Prawn Siew Mai - $1.80/pcs

Scallop dumpling - $1.80/pc (This is awesome, full of prawns inside, FRESH!)

Spicy Vingear dumplings - $3.80 (I quite like this)

Xiao Long Bao - $8.80 (Quite small, like the juice taste)

A pot for $9

Paper Wrapped Chicken - $1.80/pc

 My FAVOURITE - CHAR SIEW BAO $1.80! <3

Char Siew Su - $3.80 (Awesome!)

Would you come to this place to your friends? Maybe
Quality of food - 8/10
Cost - 8/10 (30% discount from 3 to 5.30pm)
Environment - 8/10
Service- 9/10