I got a chance to eat the No 1 voted Ramen ~ BLACK PIG SHABU SHABU RAMEN, yesterday @ Tampopo Restaurant.
My sister ordered the ChaSiu Ramen ~ Kyoto Style. While for me, I took the Black Pig Shabu Shabu Ramen, of coz. Same Soup base, juz that mine was more spicy.
The BLACK PORK is OIISHI!!!!! Saw the Fat, but its doesn’t give you the soft soft oily oily taste. Its very thin and tender. Not much ingredient for this though - only pieces of pork and bamboo shoots. However, the ramen is so-so. Like not bery Q-Q type. More like not bery cooked.
We shared the Potato Salad and Agedashi Tofu. Recommended side dish - Potato Salad (coz I din try the rest , no moolah and the serving quite big for two persons leh).
Had another chance, I brought a friend to try the Black Pig Ramen. But I din order the Ramen, I ordered something like the Korean bibimbap. It is OIISHI!!!! I like sauce! Its like the teriyaki sauce, but not so salty. It reminds me of the brown rice that I had at another Jap Restaurant - Teri’s. I like the burnt rice at the bottom (锅巴).
We ordered the Hong Kong Ice Milk Tea, Xiumai（燒賣）, Cheongfun（腸粉）, Zhupabao(豬扒包）, and Mango Ice.
Verdict: Ambience - Not bad, quite cosy (means a bit tight lah) Food - Lots of variety. Have not tried all. Should be good, except for the Zhupabao, the pork slice is abit thin and tough, bread toast is good; and the Cheongfun is the local sweet sauce style, not the soya sauce style with meat fillings. Price - reasonable. Timsum mostly $2.50
Recommended: MANGO ICE! Big portion. Got Strawberry one too!
Other items on the menu: Luncheon Meat with Egg Noodles - This noodle tasted like home-cooked Instant Noodles. Nothing special. Ice Teh-O is GOOD! Thumb-up! As good as the HK Ice Milk Tea. Ice Honey Green Tea ~ so-so only. Tasted a bit bitter though. Thick French Toast is abit too sweet. They pour honey over it, and added a piece of thinly sliced butter on top to let it melt. It looks like Tau Kua. With the honey, it makes it bery soggy. Curry Chix rice - Bery flavourful curry. I like the hard and crunchy potatoes, while my Dear loves the thick curry sauce, and boneless Chix. Shanghainese Chix Chop rice - A different kind of Chix rice. It used olive fried rice. Guo Tian (Fried Dumplings) - Crispy, Juicy. GOOD!!!! :D Black Pepper Chix Rice - Not bad, but a bit ‘jerlat’. Maybe I wasn’t that hungry when I ate it. The black pepper sauce is not that spicy. Black pepper taste is there though. Prawn Paste Chix - Made from Boneless Chix thighs. A bit of butter taste, and a bit oily. My Dear likes it. Fu Pi Juan (Bean Curd Skin wrap with Prawn meat) - Common. Not say that its really that fantastic. No harm trying though. Bo Chai Yun Tun Mian (Wanton Noodles - Dried) - MUST TRY! Its good! The Wanton is crispy. The sauce is juz nice. The spinach noodles are chewy! The Char Xiu are tender but not that kind that melt in the mouth. :p Ham and Egg Sandwich - If they toast the bread, it will be better. The Ham was fried - OILY sia! Xiu Mai - Good! Not very meaty in the sense that it has prawn, so not all pork.
My Dear recently is working on an Advert project on this “Ah Mei”. I as a KPO Queen, of coz, will follow him to Ah Mei to do research.
Saw “Banquet” ~ definitely its HALAH. Ah Mei is also selling things like Ya Kun - KAYA Toast (which I dun like), but they also sell another local favourite - PRATA.
Got ‘real’ fish in the curry. I mean normally we dun get to eat meat with the Prata curry. This branch will give you see the REAL ingredients in the curry.
I think only at Sun Plaza branch then you can eat MINI PRATA. Novena Square Branch dun have.
They sell nasi brani also. But but… its damn expensive leh. One drum stick will cost you SGD2. So I couldn’t part with my 2 bucks in exchange for the orange-crust fried drum stick.
I think different branches will have their own speciality. Coz some of the items can only be found at certain branch.
I never heard about this Miss Clarity Cafe before. Its at Purvis Street. A friend recommended and we went there to have dinner cum supper after an outing.
They serve western and some local favourites. We were lucky to get a table at that late hour coz the cafe was actually quite pack.
My friends ordered Potato Munchskin & Chix Salad. As for me & My Dear, we ordered set dinner. My Dear who dun like Vegetables, surprised me by finishing the salad!
My main dish was Stew Chix with pasta. Actually that’s not my first choice, coz all priority choices were sold out. Frankly speaking, this dish is so-so. Very home-cooked feel. Which means, my mum can cook too. Very suitable for those who missed home-cooked food. The chicken seems to be cooked with out defrosting it. Tough & dry.
My Dear’s main dish was this fried chix bake rice. Eh… also so-so only.
I wanna mentioned My Frienc’s main dish - Lobster linguine. Why? Coz they use the wrong pasta. Linguine was too soft for this dish. Too much of it will make pple feel ’sick’. If its spaghetti (swop with my pasta) then it might be better.
Haaa… mostly seems to be bad comments about the food. :p But for the price, its reasonable, juz that I am a bit picky. :p
I like the soup, salad and ICE CREAM…. Haaa… not their main dish. Maybe becoz all these are not their ‘direct’ product. :p
My sis brought me to this HongKong Cafe (师奶茶餐厅) at Novena for dinner. I have never try anything there before. I always go to the Xin Wang for Hongkong cafe food. Din like Tong Shui’s food also.
The menu is filled with alot of dishes. My sis wondered if all the items listed are available. I told her that the basic ingredients are there, cooking style different only.
We ordered a couple of things. Hongkong Milk Tea Sliced Fish with Flat Rice Noodles 鱼片三捞河粉 Seafood Buckwheat Noodles 海鲜伊付面 Dim Sum - Har Kaw & Pork Ribs
Verdict - TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT 1. Sliced Fish with Flat Rice Noodles 鱼片三捞河粉 Bland, tasteless. I add alot of green chilli and red chilli still find it inedible. So not to waste food, I finished only the tastless sliced fish.
2. Steam Pork Ribs Not flavourful too. Oily. No meat. Yes, I know its pork ribs, so you can expect it to be meaty. But i din expect it to be so boney.
At least things that my sis ordered are still edible - the milk tea, the buckwheat noodle and the Har Kaw. Yeah, at least its filled with prawn and not minced pork with a bit of prawn.
1=SGD 0.0587
My sister ordered the ChaSiu Ramen ~ Kyoto Style. While for me, I took the Black Pig Shabu Shabu Ramen, of coz. Same Soup base, juz that mine was more spicy.
The BLACK PORK is OIISHI!!!!! Saw the Fat, but its doesn’t give you the soft soft oily oily taste. Its very thin and tender. Not much ingredient for this though - only pieces of pork and bamboo shoots. However, the ramen is so-so. Like not bery Q-Q type. More like not bery cooked.
We shared the Potato Salad and Agedashi Tofu. Recommended side dish - Potato Salad (coz I din try the rest , no moolah and the serving quite big for two persons leh).
Had another chance, I brought a friend to try the Black Pig Ramen. But I din order the Ramen, I ordered something like the Korean bibimbap. It is OIISHI!!!! I like sauce! Its like the teriyaki sauce, but not so salty. It reminds me of the brown rice that I had at another Jap Restaurant - Teri’s. I like the burnt rice at the bottom (锅巴).
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Verdict:
Ambience - Not bad, quite cosy (means a bit tight lah)
Food - Lots of variety. Have not tried all. Should be good, except for the Zhupabao, the pork slice is abit thin and tough, bread toast is good; and the Cheongfun is the local sweet sauce style, not the soya sauce style with meat fillings.
Price - reasonable. Timsum mostly $2.50
Recommended: MANGO ICE! Big portion. Got Strawberry one too!
Other items on the menu:
Luncheon Meat with Egg Noodles - This noodle tasted like home-cooked Instant Noodles. Nothing special.
Ice Teh-O is GOOD! Thumb-up! As good as the HK Ice Milk Tea.
Ice Honey Green Tea ~ so-so only. Tasted a bit bitter though.
Thick French Toast is abit too sweet. They pour honey over it, and added a piece of thinly sliced butter on top to let it melt. It looks like Tau Kua. With the honey, it makes it bery soggy.
Curry Chix rice - Bery flavourful curry. I like the hard and crunchy potatoes, while my Dear loves the thick curry sauce, and boneless Chix.
Shanghainese Chix Chop rice - A different kind of Chix rice. It used olive fried rice.
Guo Tian (Fried Dumplings) - Crispy, Juicy. GOOD!!!! :D
Black Pepper Chix Rice - Not bad, but a bit ‘jerlat’. Maybe I wasn’t that hungry when I ate it. The black pepper sauce is not that spicy. Black pepper taste is there though.
Prawn Paste Chix - Made from Boneless Chix thighs. A bit of butter taste, and a bit oily. My Dear likes it.
Fu Pi Juan (Bean Curd Skin wrap with Prawn meat) - Common. Not say that its really that fantastic. No harm trying though.
Bo Chai Yun Tun Mian (Wanton Noodles - Dried) - MUST TRY! Its good! The Wanton is crispy. The sauce is juz nice. The spinach noodles are chewy! The Char Xiu are tender but not that kind that melt in the mouth. :p
Ham and Egg Sandwich - If they toast the bread, it will be better. The Ham was fried - OILY sia!
Xiu Mai - Good! Not very meaty in the sense that it has prawn, so not all pork.
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Saw “Banquet” ~ definitely its HALAH. Ah Mei is also selling things like Ya Kun - KAYA Toast (which I dun like), but they also sell another local favourite - PRATA.
Got ‘real’ fish in the curry. I mean normally we dun get to eat meat with the Prata curry. This branch will give you see the REAL ingredients in the curry.
I think only at Sun Plaza branch then you can eat MINI PRATA. Novena Square Branch dun have.
They sell nasi brani also. But but… its damn expensive leh. One drum stick will cost you SGD2. So I couldn’t part with my 2 bucks in exchange for the orange-crust fried drum stick.
I think different branches will have their own speciality. Coz some of the items can only be found at certain branch.
Login to add your comment. Or, Register for an account now. It's free!Mini prata was nice but counter Staff always black face! After u step out the place, u will smell like a prata!!
29 Dec 2008 at 5:37 pm
They serve western and some local favourites. We were lucky to get a table at that late hour coz the cafe was actually quite pack.
My friends ordered Potato Munchskin & Chix Salad. As for me & My Dear, we ordered set dinner. My Dear who dun like Vegetables, surprised me by finishing the salad!
My main dish was Stew Chix with pasta. Actually that’s not my first choice, coz all priority choices were sold out. Frankly speaking, this dish is so-so. Very home-cooked feel. Which means, my mum can cook too. Very suitable for those who missed home-cooked food. The chicken seems to be cooked with out defrosting it. Tough & dry.
My Dear’s main dish was this fried chix bake rice. Eh… also so-so only.
I wanna mentioned My Frienc’s main dish - Lobster linguine. Why? Coz they use the wrong pasta. Linguine was too soft for this dish. Too much of it will make pple feel ’sick’. If its spaghetti (swop with my pasta) then it might be better.
Haaa… mostly seems to be bad comments about the food. :p But for the price, its reasonable, juz that I am a bit picky. :p
I like the soup, salad and ICE CREAM…. Haaa… not their main dish. Maybe becoz all these are not their ‘direct’ product. :p
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The menu is filled with alot of dishes. My sis wondered if all the items listed are available. I told her that the basic ingredients are there, cooking style different only.
We ordered a couple of things.
Hongkong Milk Tea
Sliced Fish with Flat Rice Noodles 鱼片三捞河粉
Seafood Buckwheat Noodles 海鲜伊付面
Dim Sum - Har Kaw & Pork Ribs
Verdict - TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT
1. Sliced Fish with Flat Rice Noodles 鱼片三捞河粉
Bland, tasteless. I add alot of green chilli and red chilli still find it inedible.
So not to waste food, I finished only the tastless sliced fish.
2. Steam Pork Ribs
Not flavourful too. Oily. No meat. Yes, I know its pork ribs, so you can expect it to be meaty. But i din expect it to be so boney.
At least things that my sis ordered are still edible - the milk tea, the buckwheat noodle and the Har Kaw. Yeah, at least its filled with prawn and not minced pork with a bit of prawn.
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