Has been craving for cheesy stuffs nowadays and my friend strongly recommend me to try out the Swiss Culture restuarant at Suntec, particular their cheese fondue.
This is actually my first time hearing of a cheese fondue (have heard of chocolate fondue thou). How exactly a cheese fondue is like? Is it the same as the chocolate fondue? Lots of question mark starts to float out of my mind. In order to satisfy my curiosity on the cheese fondue, i decided to go try it out.
Swiss culture is located near Suntec sky garden, frankly speaking its not really a prominent place as it took me quite some time to locate it. You can see quite a bit of greeneries over there which i believe is to serve the purpose of giving their customer a relaxing and smoothing kind of feeling. Perhaps this will let them enjoy their food even more?
The very first food that i have tasted is of course non other than their cheese fondue! This cheese fondue consist of 2 different types of cheese mixing together. It is served in a constant heating pot to ensure the cheese is in a smooth liquid form and do not stick together. Guess it will taste nicer when its hot.
The fondue is served with their homemade boule bread (something like french loaf). The bread is cut into small pieces so it will be easier for customer to dip in to the fondue.
I dipped my bread till it has fully absorbed the cheesy and this has made me hooked on the very first taste. I could not stop dipping after that. A very special fondue i can say but the price is abit steep given the limited side dishes to dip the cheesy.
Tried their cheese and mushroom pasta too, which i think it can be another must try food. Imagine the cheese has filling up the entire plate of pasta, and every mouth ful of pasta is mixed with cheese. This taste is simply amazing.
A word of caution, do not order too much cheese at one go as you may get quite sick after too much cheese. Definitely no go if you not a cheese lover too.
Little Red Shop on the Little Red Dot? A pretty interesting name for a shop i can say, as i almost thought that they are selling all sorts of red colour stuffs. Well, then again perhaps its this interesting name that has made me want to try their stuffs.
Still wondering what they actually sells? Ok, a very big clue is they are formally called 611 tau sar piah cake shop. Yes, its the tau sar piah shop at balestier road. However, the original shop at balestier has ceased operation so they moved over to a new location at vivo city and give themselves a new name.
Beside the traditional salty and sweet tau sar piah, they have other flavours like lotus, green tea, coffee, pineapple and even durian! Despite soo many different flavours, their traditional tau sar piah are still the most famous.
The very first look when i saw their tau sar piah, i could not figure out what is soo special about them. Its lightly colour appearance makes me wonder if it is edible (well, usually tau sar piah are brownish in colour).
Though it does not have an attractive appearance, i still decided to give it a try. The crust actually give out a buttery taste and this makes me fall in love with it immediately. Another good point of their crust is that it is not overly flaky which makes it easy for one to eat it on the go.
The dark brown colour paste is a big contrast from the crust (in terms of colour) is blended till very fine and smooth. I pretty like the way they did their paste, kind of different from the rest of the tau sar piah i have savour before.
These small tau sar piah range from sgd $0.7 to 0.8 per piece. Right now, they are having a promotion where by a box of 8 traditional tau sar piah costs sgd $5.40 and comes in a traditional flavour box with an specially desgined gift tag.
Pretty good idea to have them as a gift.
Love to eat ice cream? Then you should not miss this particular store... SCOOPZ!!!
Currently they have only 2 outlets, one is situated in parkway parade and the other in jurong point (people living in the west and east are so lucky!!!).
The reason why these ice creams are so special is that they are 100% handmade (most ice creams are machine make nowadays, handmade kinds are rare to find) and has lesser sugar content than normal ice cream.
If you are still wondering if they really handmade the ice cream themselves, then you have to really take a look at how they made their ice cream.
Fresh fruits bits and cream / milk will be blended together till you get a dough paste. Then they will proceed to put the dough onto a cold pan where they will start to fold to and for with a frying pan (looks like frying the ice cream). Once the dough gets thicker and hardens, it will become the ice cream that we get.
Beside those normal chocolate flavours that you will find in other ice cream outlets, they have a special range of fruit ice cream. You can find soursop, peach, strawberry, watermelon and even durian!!!
Yes, their durian ice cream is made with fresh D24 durian!!! This is my all time favourite and also one of the best selling ice cream.
Unlike other durian ice cream, you can actually taste the durian pulp in their ice cream. Guess its pretty innovative of them to put fruits bits into ice cream.
For a afforable price of sgd$2.80, you can get a single scoop ice cream filled with fruits bits and less sugar. Worth? You decide.
P/S: They even have a sugarless version of ice cream but you will have to pre order.
Have you ever imagine how it will feel to eat sizzling hot fish and chips while walking on the pavement? Impossible?
This idea never came to my mind as possible, until i pass by the naked fish express today.
This outlet is located in the ground floor of bukit panjang plaza. It is a simple blue colour shop (probably to resemble the colour of the sea) without much exaggerating decorations. Although the outlet may seems small, it managed to squeese in a few tables and chairs to allow customer to dine in.
As for customers who prefer takeaway style, it is a possible thing to do in this shop. Yes, this is done via their special packaging. Their Fish and Chips is not packed in normal styrofoam box, instead they are packed with a newspaper wrapped into a shape of a cone. Interesting ya?
Do not worry that the ink from the newspaper will sip into the fish and chips as these newspaper wrap are not just any commercial newspaper. They are specially designed and printed paper for the purpose to hold food.
Please do prepared to use a little bit of skill while eating the fish and chips directly from the cone, as its really not as simple as it sound. ;)
A large piece of deep fried golden brown dory combined with a cone full of chips, with added tatar sauce and a slice of lemon sounds similar as what you can find in some restuarant.
What i like is the way they prepared their dory fish. You will not find thick batter skin covering the dory, instead you will taste a crispy thin skin with soft and moist meat. Delicious, i can say.
Whats even better will be the afforable price that naked fish offers. Their fish and chips costs only sgd $3.50. Cheap? You decide.
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This is actually my first time hearing of a cheese fondue (have heard of chocolate fondue thou). How exactly a cheese fondue is like? Is it the same as the chocolate fondue? Lots of question mark starts to float out of my mind. In order to satisfy my curiosity on the cheese fondue, i decided to go try it out.
Swiss culture is located near Suntec sky garden, frankly speaking its not really a prominent place as it took me quite some time to locate it. You can see quite a bit of greeneries over there which i believe is to serve the purpose of giving their customer a relaxing and smoothing kind of feeling. Perhaps this will let them enjoy their food even more?
The very first food that i have tasted is of course non other than their cheese fondue! This cheese fondue consist of 2 different types of cheese mixing together. It is served in a constant heating pot to ensure the cheese is in a smooth liquid form and do not stick together. Guess it will taste nicer when its hot.
The fondue is served with their homemade boule bread (something like french loaf). The bread is cut into small pieces so it will be easier for customer to dip in to the fondue.
I dipped my bread till it has fully absorbed the cheesy and this has made me hooked on the very first taste. I could not stop dipping after that. A very special fondue i can say but the price is abit steep given the limited side dishes to dip the cheesy.
Tried their cheese and mushroom pasta too, which i think it can be another must try food. Imagine the cheese has filling up the entire plate of pasta, and every mouth ful of pasta is mixed with cheese. This taste is simply amazing.
A word of caution, do not order too much cheese at one go as you may get quite sick after too much cheese. Definitely no go if you not a cheese lover too.
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Still wondering what they actually sells? Ok, a very big clue is they are formally called 611 tau sar piah cake shop. Yes, its the tau sar piah shop at balestier road. However, the original shop at balestier has ceased operation so they moved over to a new location at vivo city and give themselves a new name.
Beside the traditional salty and sweet tau sar piah, they have other flavours like lotus, green tea, coffee, pineapple and even durian! Despite soo many different flavours, their traditional tau sar piah are still the most famous.
The very first look when i saw their tau sar piah, i could not figure out what is soo special about them. Its lightly colour appearance makes me wonder if it is edible (well, usually tau sar piah are brownish in colour).
Though it does not have an attractive appearance, i still decided to give it a try. The crust actually give out a buttery taste and this makes me fall in love with it immediately. Another good point of their crust is that it is not overly flaky which makes it easy for one to eat it on the go.
The dark brown colour paste is a big contrast from the crust (in terms of colour) is blended till very fine and smooth. I pretty like the way they did their paste, kind of different from the rest of the tau sar piah i have savour before.
These small tau sar piah range from sgd $0.7 to 0.8 per piece. Right now, they are having a promotion where by a box of 8 traditional tau sar piah costs sgd $5.40 and comes in a traditional flavour box with an specially desgined gift tag.
Pretty good idea to have them as a gift.
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Currently they have only 2 outlets, one is situated in parkway parade and the other in jurong point (people living in the west and east are so lucky!!!).
The reason why these ice creams are so special is that they are 100% handmade (most ice creams are machine make nowadays, handmade kinds are rare to find) and has lesser sugar content than normal ice cream.
If you are still wondering if they really handmade the ice cream themselves, then you have to really take a look at how they made their ice cream.
Fresh fruits bits and cream / milk will be blended together till you get a dough paste. Then they will proceed to put the dough onto a cold pan where they will start to fold to and for with a frying pan (looks like frying the ice cream). Once the dough gets thicker and hardens, it will become the ice cream that we get.
Beside those normal chocolate flavours that you will find in other ice cream outlets, they have a special range of fruit ice cream. You can find soursop, peach, strawberry, watermelon and even durian!!!
Yes, their durian ice cream is made with fresh D24 durian!!! This is my all time favourite and also one of the best selling ice cream.
Unlike other durian ice cream, you can actually taste the durian pulp in their ice cream. Guess its pretty innovative of them to put fruits bits into ice cream.
For a afforable price of sgd$2.80, you can get a single scoop ice cream filled with fruits bits and less sugar. Worth? You decide.
P/S: They even have a sugarless version of ice cream but you will have to pre order.
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This idea never came to my mind as possible, until i pass by the naked fish express today.
This outlet is located in the ground floor of bukit panjang plaza. It is a simple blue colour shop (probably to resemble the colour of the sea) without much exaggerating decorations. Although the outlet may seems small, it managed to squeese in a few tables and chairs to allow customer to dine in.
As for customers who prefer takeaway style, it is a possible thing to do in this shop. Yes, this is done via their special packaging. Their Fish and Chips is not packed in normal styrofoam box, instead they are packed with a newspaper wrapped into a shape of a cone. Interesting ya?
Do not worry that the ink from the newspaper will sip into the fish and chips as these newspaper wrap are not just any commercial newspaper. They are specially designed and printed paper for the purpose to hold food.
Please do prepared to use a little bit of skill while eating the fish and chips directly from the cone, as its really not as simple as it sound. ;)
A large piece of deep fried golden brown dory combined with a cone full of chips, with added tatar sauce and a slice of lemon sounds similar as what you can find in some restuarant.
What i like is the way they prepared their dory fish. You will not find thick batter skin covering the dory, instead you will taste a crispy thin skin with soft and moist meat. Delicious, i can say.
Whats even better will be the afforable price that naked fish offers. Their fish and chips costs only sgd $3.50. Cheap? You decide.
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