Seafood Paradise at Singapore Flyer

A place for great crabs! Seafood paradise serves great crabs. Big and fresh. We went there to try out the crabs because my aunt was a great fan of their crabs. We ordered the butter crab and chilli crab. The butter crab was delicious! This butter crab, unlike others that I had before, had alot of sauce. The fried mantou will also go very well with the butter crab's sauce. The chilli crab is pretty good too! Now it ranks number 2 on my chilli crab list. If only it was more affordable :X 2 crabs, 1 noodles, 1 fried rice, 1 fish and 1 toufu made us $330 poorer. The crabs were $80 each. Initially we wanted to make reservations for mother's day dinner but if we were to multiply the bill by the number of people that we will have for mother's day, the bill will be close to $2000. I think I will only be able to eat here on very special occasions. Meanwhile, I will satisfy my crab cravings at places that I can still afford to visit more frequently. On a side note, the service here was really good. It made us feel that the money spent was worth it. They were very attentive and friendly. The Electric run was happening as we had our dinner so we had quite a view!

Seafood Paradise at Singapore Flyer

30 Raffles Avenue
#01-01 Singapore Flyer
Singapore 039803
Tel: 6336 5101
Fax: 6336 5102
Business Hours
Mon – Fri
11.30am – 3.00pm (Last order 2.30pm)
6.00pm – 11.00pm (Last order 10.30pm)
Sat, Sun & PH
11.30am – 3.00pm (last order at 2.30pm)
5.30pm – 11.00pm (last order at 10.30pm)

Ippudo Ramen at Mandarin Gallery

Had dinner at Ippudo after my Japanese language class on saturday. The nearest branch was at Mandarin Gallery so we headed there. There was already a long queue when we got there just before 7pm. Food was good as usual but it found it kind of expensive. 2 bowls of ramen, 2 eggs, 1 gyoza and 1 beef stew for $75. 6 pieces of gyoza costs $8. That's really expensive. I'm not sure if it's me or the branch at Mandarin Gallery is more expensive than other branches.

 

Hi hamy!

Beef stew

Spicy Ramen with Char Shew

Korean Army Stew

We ran out of ideas on what to have for dinner so we decided to cook something. Something easy to make and doesn't require alot of preparation. We decided on Korean army stew as it looks really simple to make and it kind of does not require proper cooking skills.

I used a random recipe that I found online. The recipe actually mentioned that I can add practically anything that I want. I added SPAM, sausages, toufu, mushrooms, minced beef, kimchi, rice cakes and cheese. I should have added cabbage and onions too. Used alittle too much chicken stock so it was alittle too salty. Will add more water instead the next time. It was surprisingly good! Easy to make and all we had to do was to add the ingredients into the pot and let it cook. This pot was too much for the 2 of us so I packed some for lunch tomorrow. Ahhh.. the cheese was really good in the stew. We wanted to add ramen but realised that we do not have any stomach space left for that. Minced beef was marinated with paste, sesame oil and white pepper. Paste for the soup was the paste, garlic powder and sesame oil. I think that the most important ingredient in the stew is KIMCHI. It will not taste as good without the kimchi!

End product without the cheese.

Trip to Kyushu (Day 4)

Day 4 was spent in Beppu!

We visited the Hells of Beppu. 

There are 8 but we only visited 5 because it started snowing!

First stop was Chinoike Jigoku (blood pond hell). 

I love these foot baths!

With my cute mummy!

We were slightly disappointed as the water was not as red as we expected it to be. We expected it to be blood red but it was more of orange colour? It's the colour of clay.

Next up! Tatsumaki Jigoku!

We bought the ticket for 8 Jigokus for 2000YEN.

The 3rd bath, Oniishibozu Jigoku (mud bath).

 Really love foot baths!

The next 2 baths! Umi Jigoku and Yama Jigoku.

Love the blue water.

Eating these in the cold makes the simplest things taste good.

After the hells, we went for an experience at the sand bath! It was too cold along the way and also no pictures allowed at the bath, I totally forgot about taking pictures. I went to the onsen and sand bath while the rest of my family went to the sand bath only. I still prefer the normal onsen. The sand bath will probably be for those who are too shy to strip totally naked as you are still allowed to wear the yukata to the sand bath. The sand bath was not shiok enough for me. It does not have the kind of heat that I want in the cold weather. The heat is also not sufficient to make me feel less tired after many days of walking. Soaking in the hot water is still the best. 

As usual, we KO-ed on the train ride back.

Snacking on the train.

Dinner was settled at Hakata station. There are many shops selling food there so we don't have to worry about not having food to eat. As Hakata station is surrounded by shops, we also have no lack of shops to look at. After dinner every night, we will always take a short walk to the super market/ tokyu hands etc and will always end up buying alot of things.

Le Chasseur 食乐轩

We celebrated the mother's birthday at Le Chasseur 食乐轩! 

As dinner was just after my brain taxing class, I was hungry and grumpy.

Have not tried the food at this place before but heard that this place opened at this location not too long ago. It was not too hard to find the place because I drove. There are parking lots beside the food center. Heard from my family that it is only a short walk from Eunos train station.

I will sort of classify Le Chasseur as a Zi Char strore. It is a very spacious place and there are 2 zi char stores located there. The other one sells more of seafood. Other than that, there is a drink store and also other food stalls that were closed when we were there for dinner. They probably do not serve the dinner crowd. There was an area cordoned off just for Le Chasseur and that area was full by the time we got there (around 7pm). However, there were still plenty of seats outside the cordoned area so no worries about not getting seats for dinner!

I love their cutleries! I am going to get similar ones for my future home.

The shy boy.

Pork knuckle

The famous claypot rice

We ordered quite alot of food. Salted vegetable duck soup, coffee pork ribs, grilled cuttlefish, 2 kinds of vegetables, otah omelet,  pork knuckle, 2 servings of claypot rice. The other food looked normal so no pictures of them!

The salted vegetable duck soup was good! Not too salty, not too sour. Portion was alright for the 6 of us. I love my soups and this one passed! Coffee pork ribs was alittle bitter to me. Maybe because I personally don't like coffee. Otah Omelet was slightly salty but will go very well with rice. I like the sauce that came with the pork knuckle! The pork knuckle without the sauce was just normal but the sauce made it alot bettter! The claypot rice was very well received. The rice was the right hardness. Not too hard/ soft. The rice that they use are also different from the rice that we eat daily. These grains are longer. The rice with the sauce and ingredients make up a really good claypot rice. The only thing is that the rice came last and we were already full from all the food in front, we over ordered. The large portion itself would have been sufficient for the 6 of us but we added another small one because the lady mentioned that the large one might not be enough for 6. That will be true if the rice came first.

Overall, I will return for the claypot rice and salted vegetable duck soup!

 Of course there will be cake for a birthday celebration. At the point in time, we were all so full from the food. Luckily we got the smaller cake.

 

Mango cake from River Gauche

Happy Birthday Mummy! Hope you stay healthy and forever young!

A very random farewell picture!

Do drop by to try out the food!

Le Chasseur
27 Eunos Road 2
Singapore 409387
Tel: +65 63377677

Weekends!

Had ramen at Ramen Kagetus Arashi last weekend.

It was an impromptu thing as we didn't know what else to eat. 

I think that going to Japan multiple times spoilt our taste buds.

We saw that the shop was quite crowded previously when we walked past so we decided to give it a go. Sad to say, it does not meet my expectations of a good ramen. 

To me, a good ramen has to be slightly less salty because if it is too salty or just nice at the beginning, it is pretty hard to finish the whole serving. Secondly, THE EGG. 

How I rank ramen is:

1. Soup

2. Egg

3. Noodles

The soup is alittle too salty/ rich. Egg was horrible. As I know how to marinate my own ramen eggs at home, I have really high expectations of the egg in ramen. Japan's ramen eggs are DA BOMB. The original egg that comes with Ramen Kagetus Arashi's Ramen is a hard boiled egg and it is not possible to change to the semi hard yolk. We had to buy an additional egg. Egg was overcooked. 

Noodles was alright I guess. 

One of the rare days when I'm in a picture as I am usually the one taking the picture.

The Hmmmmmmm face.

His order of some curry rice. Pepper lunch's version is better.

 

My ramen does not look appetizing because I requested for no vegetables.

We probably will not head back there again as we have had better ones in Singapore. 

Till the next Ramen!

Also over the same weekend, I went to my favourite Kim Dae Mun Korean food stall again!

This time with alot more people!

Whole table of food!

My usual spicy chicken soup.

Another usual!

Love bringing new people to try my favourite food.

Happy customers!

 Kim Dae Mun will be moving to #02-17/18 of the same building starting June 2014! Please take note!

Moving on to Thai food! Favourite version of glass noodle salad!

Same taste, different place.

These pictures are making me hungry now. 

It's almost 12 midnight so i have to control myself.

On a side note, I'm loving the new camera!