I simply loved chinese new year as there is always plenty of goodies for me to eat. hee hee. This year round for the love letter selection, my family decided to buy them from D'Bun.
Ok, this store's love letter is not exactly that famous as most of the friends have not even heard of this store. But, frankly speaking, this store's love letters tasted even better that some other famous store.
Why do i say that their love letter is much better? Well, first is definitely the size of the love letter. Their love letter is rolled into a small diameter thus it appears to be more compact. Well, one may say that if love letter is more compact, it may have a thicker texture. Personnally, i feel that D'Bun love letter still has a rather thin texture even though its more compact now. Simply different from those ordinary love letters that are of a much larger diameter.
Next, its the taste of the love letter, it does not have a super strong coconut smell nor does it taste too sweet. With just the right amount of ingredients, this love letter tasted as fragrant as the rest of the love letters.
Lastly, it the quality of the love letter. I definitely gave them thumb ups for quality wise, as i hardly find one love letter that is 'char ta' - meaning burnt. Rather impressing in their quality check or rather the way that they did the love letters.
Overall, i believe their love letters is pretty special as compared to the rest. A rather good choice if one wants to try something different this festival. :)
During this chinese new year, my friend passed me the festive gift pack from Tung Lok. Although he is not willing to reveal to me the price of this gift pack, but based on the nice packaging and golden colour appearance, i guessed it should not be that cheap.
This rectangle gift pack appears to be rather special. First is definitely due to the shape, as most of the people packs goodie in square boxes of round containers. Hardly will i see rectangular kind of box. Next is definitely the varieties in the goodie pack. Gone is the normal kind single variety goodie, this gift pack has more than five different varieties of goodies.
Some of the goodies include the pineapple tarts, the peanut biscuit, chocolate cookie, mooncakes, fried shrimp rolls and barbeque pork. They basically sealed up each single goodie, most probably is to preserve the goodie for a much longer time.
I tried two of the goodies, one of them is the peanut cookie. Pretty tasty, i can say. With lots of peanut bits sprinkle on top of the cookie, one can easily taste the peanut crunchiness and the fragrance from the peanut.
The next goodie that i have tried is the fish shaped pineapple tarts. I pretty like the pineapple fillings, first is because of pretty decent amount of filling and second is the taste of the filling which issnt too sweet nor too sour. This gives one a very balanced kind of taste. The pastry skin wise, i find them rather thick to my liking.
Overall, i think this gift pack can be a rather decent gift to send to friends and family members. One will not need to worry if the goodie is to the receipent liking as they are so many goodies for the receipent to choose for. :)
Its the annual chinese new year festival again. Besides the spring cleaning, i like every thing about this festival. haha. The best thing that i can look forward to during this festive, is definitely the yummy goodies.
This year, my mum specially bought back one of my favorite goodies --- the almond melts from Takashimaya. Frankly speaking, this almond melts looks nothing fantastic at all. It does not have a extraordinary size nor does it has colourful appearance, whats presented in front of me is just few reasonable sized almond cookies placed in a red lid container.
Just one bite of the almond melts, i immediately fall in love with it. Why, you may ask? This is because, this almond melts really "melt" in my mouth. I have eaten other almond melts before, some simply tasted too crunchy and the better ones will only crumble in my mouth. I have never tasted one that can really melt in my mouth, this is the first time.
Beside the melting mechanism, there is also lots of almond bits in the cookie itself. So much so that, when the almond cookie has complete its melting process, one can still savour on the left over crunching almond bits. Bascially, this almond melts gave you two different types of texture -- soft and melty ; hard and crunchy.
Issnt it wonderful to realize two very different texture can actually be combined together to produce a heavenly cookie? haha. Perhaps,looks is really deceiving. Just how could one know if the almond melts is acutally so good without tasting it?
My friend has highly recommended this restuarant as one with good quality food and with a reasonable price. Guess, these two factors is what urged me to try them out soon. Haha. Since its my mother birthday in a few days time, i decided to treat my family to just this place.
The first thing that impressed me when i reached our table, its definitely the decoration. Oh well, perhaps its due to the wedding that is taking place on the other side of the restuarant, so we got a nicely decorated table and chairs (its pretty similar to those you find in the wedding banquet, with ribbons tied at the back of the chairs). :)
We have ordered around eight dishes and that includes the curry fried squid, jade abalone mushroom with vegetable, nonya grouper, sweet and sour pork, hot plate toufu, ee fu noodles, prawns with fruit salad and of course the ginko nuts and yam paste dessert.
Of all the dishes, i loved the hot plate toufu the best. Ok, i know this dish may sound as a very simple dish to most of you. But, i just loved the taste of the fried toufu with the egg and delicious sauce. And of course not forgetting how they taste pipping hot when put inside my mouth. :)
Another dish that i loved is their prawn with fruit salad. A rather simple dish with their prawns being fried and mixed together with some mayo and fruit salad. The size of the prawns and the crispness of the prawn do impressed me. It tasted simply marvellous when combined with the fruit salad.
Last but not least, i liked their dessert -- ginko nuts with yam paste. A rather generous number of ginko nuts are placed inside the yam paste and together with the pumpkin sauce, this dessert will not taste dry at all. I pretty like the texture of the yam paste -- smooth.
Guess, they did fare quite well in the food area. However, as for their service wise, i guess theres still room for improvement. Take for example, they actually served the wrong dish to us (without knowing is the incorrect dish, we polish it clean) and when the staffs knew that they gave us the wrong dish, they did not even bother to apologise for their mistake.
Another example is definitely the long waiting time for the dishes. They basically served the dishes one by one. So, we have to finish up the first plate and wait for around 10 minutes before the second plate is served. Waiting time is still required even when i requested for bowls of rice.
Oh well, guess if waiting time is not a problem with you. This is a good place to try out their food. Price wise, i guess its pretty reasonable. :)
ladyironchefsaid: Ahh.. i heard abt this one from a friend. Whats the price range? hmm.. cant really expect services from this type of old-school chinese restaurant? lol 20 Jan 2008 at 4:26 pm
Great Sagesaid: actually cannot really remember the price range... but in total we spend nearly 200 bucks for around 8 - 9 dishes. Hope this helps. :) 10 Feb 2008 at 7:43 pm
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Yes, this is another hong kong cafe in singapore. But i am recommending something special, something that you are not able to find it in other hong kong cafes here. Eager to find out what exactly i am talking about, then please read on.
Ok, its actually the pick up station located just outside the central restaurant. Do not know what exactly is a pick up station? Well, its actually a place for you to buy your pick up sticks. Each pick up sticks will have three similar types of ingredients in them. Some ingredients are seafood toufu, fu zhou fishball, prawn ball, etc. Quite a few varieties of ingredients are available.
Whats more? Ok, personally i do feel its pretty dry to just eat these ingredients alone. Thus, they actually come out with a variety of sauce. These sauce ranges from the normal tomato sauce to peanut sauce. Yes, you have seen correctly, its peanut sauce. This sauce tasted something like peanut butter but with a more diluted texture.
Of the pick up sticks that i have tasted, i personally love their fu zhou fishball the best. Although the fu zhou fishball may sound to be a simple ingredients, but they are able to make it taste super 'springy' on the outer layer and soft in the inner layer. Im pretty impressed.
These pick up sticks cost about 2 bucks each and of course the more you pick up, the cheaper you will pay. As for three pick up sticks you take, they will charge them for 5 bucks. Well, overall i guess its a pretty interesting concept to sell these stuff in singapore. However, if one would like to look for something more filling, this may not be a really good option.
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Ok, this store's love letter is not exactly that famous as most of the friends have not even heard of this store. But, frankly speaking, this store's love letters tasted even better that some other famous store.
Why do i say that their love letter is much better? Well, first is definitely the size of the love letter. Their love letter is rolled into a small diameter thus it appears to be more compact. Well, one may say that if love letter is more compact, it may have a thicker texture. Personnally, i feel that D'Bun love letter still has a rather thin texture even though its more compact now. Simply different from those ordinary love letters that are of a much larger diameter.
Next, its the taste of the love letter, it does not have a super strong coconut smell nor does it taste too sweet. With just the right amount of ingredients, this love letter tasted as fragrant as the rest of the love letters.
Lastly, it the quality of the love letter. I definitely gave them thumb ups for quality wise, as i hardly find one love letter that is 'char ta' - meaning burnt. Rather impressing in their quality check or rather the way that they did the love letters.
Overall, i believe their love letters is pretty special as compared to the rest. A rather good choice if one wants to try something different this festival. :)
Login to add your comment. Or, Register for an account now. It's free!Wow on the roll huh GS? :) I do like love letters. Thanks for the rec! How much are they?
10 Feb 2008 at 8:04 pm
D'bun is known for their paos
10 Feb 2008 at 10:52 pm
Oh ya! That's the one thing that I missed this year! Loveletters!
10 Feb 2008 at 11:49 pm
This rectangle gift pack appears to be rather special. First is definitely due to the shape, as most of the people packs goodie in square boxes of round containers. Hardly will i see rectangular kind of box. Next is definitely the varieties in the goodie pack. Gone is the normal kind single variety goodie, this gift pack has more than five different varieties of goodies.
Some of the goodies include the pineapple tarts, the peanut biscuit, chocolate cookie, mooncakes, fried shrimp rolls and barbeque pork. They basically sealed up each single goodie, most probably is to preserve the goodie for a much longer time.
I tried two of the goodies, one of them is the peanut cookie. Pretty tasty, i can say. With lots of peanut bits sprinkle on top of the cookie, one can easily taste the peanut crunchiness and the fragrance from the peanut.
The next goodie that i have tried is the fish shaped pineapple tarts. I pretty like the pineapple fillings, first is because of pretty decent amount of filling and second is the taste of the filling which issnt too sweet nor too sour. This gives one a very balanced kind of taste. The pastry skin wise, i find them rather thick to my liking.
Overall, i think this gift pack can be a rather decent gift to send to friends and family members. One will not need to worry if the goodie is to the receipent liking as they are so many goodies for the receipent to choose for. :)
Login to add your comment. Or, Register for an account now. It's free!Ya. Tung lok things will not be cheap. Wahahaha.....
10 Feb 2008 at 11:53 pm
must be good friends : )
11 Feb 2008 at 12:05 am
This year, my mum specially bought back one of my favorite goodies --- the almond melts from Takashimaya. Frankly speaking, this almond melts looks nothing fantastic at all. It does not have a extraordinary size nor does it has colourful appearance, whats presented in front of me is just few reasonable sized almond cookies placed in a red lid container.
Just one bite of the almond melts, i immediately fall in love with it. Why, you may ask? This is because, this almond melts really "melt" in my mouth. I have eaten other almond melts before, some simply tasted too crunchy and the better ones will only crumble in my mouth. I have never tasted one that can really melt in my mouth, this is the first time.
Beside the melting mechanism, there is also lots of almond bits in the cookie itself. So much so that, when the almond cookie has complete its melting process, one can still savour on the left over crunching almond bits. Bascially, this almond melts gave you two different types of texture -- soft and melty ; hard and crunchy.
Issnt it wonderful to realize two very different texture can actually be combined together to produce a heavenly cookie? haha. Perhaps,looks is really deceiving. Just how could one know if the almond melts is acutally so good without tasting it?
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The first thing that impressed me when i reached our table, its definitely the decoration. Oh well, perhaps its due to the wedding that is taking place on the other side of the restuarant, so we got a nicely decorated table and chairs (its pretty similar to those you find in the wedding banquet, with ribbons tied at the back of the chairs). :)
We have ordered around eight dishes and that includes the curry fried squid, jade abalone mushroom with vegetable, nonya grouper, sweet and sour pork, hot plate toufu, ee fu noodles, prawns with fruit salad and of course the ginko nuts and yam paste dessert.
Of all the dishes, i loved the hot plate toufu the best. Ok, i know this dish may sound as a very simple dish to most of you. But, i just loved the taste of the fried toufu with the egg and delicious sauce. And of course not forgetting how they taste pipping hot when put inside my mouth. :)
Another dish that i loved is their prawn with fruit salad. A rather simple dish with their prawns being fried and mixed together with some mayo and fruit salad. The size of the prawns and the crispness of the prawn do impressed me. It tasted simply marvellous when combined with the fruit salad.
Last but not least, i liked their dessert -- ginko nuts with yam paste. A rather generous number of ginko nuts are placed inside the yam paste and together with the pumpkin sauce, this dessert will not taste dry at all. I pretty like the texture of the yam paste -- smooth.
Guess, they did fare quite well in the food area. However, as for their service wise, i guess theres still room for improvement. Take for example, they actually served the wrong dish to us (without knowing is the incorrect dish, we polish it clean) and when the staffs knew that they gave us the wrong dish, they did not even bother to apologise for their mistake.
Another example is definitely the long waiting time for the dishes. They basically served the dishes one by one. So, we have to finish up the first plate and wait for around 10 minutes before the second plate is served. Waiting time is still required even when i requested for bowls of rice.
Oh well, guess if waiting time is not a problem with you. This is a good place to try out their food. Price wise, i guess its pretty reasonable. :)
Login to add your comment. Or, Register for an account now. It's free!Ahh.. i heard abt this one from a friend. Whats the price range? hmm.. cant really expect services from this type of old-school chinese restaurant? lol
20 Jan 2008 at 4:26 pm
actually cannot really remember the price range... but in total we spend nearly 200 bucks for around 8 - 9 dishes. Hope this helps. :)
10 Feb 2008 at 7:43 pm
Ok, its actually the pick up station located just outside the central restaurant. Do not know what exactly is a pick up station? Well, its actually a place for you to buy your pick up sticks. Each pick up sticks will have three similar types of ingredients in them. Some ingredients are seafood toufu, fu zhou fishball, prawn ball, etc. Quite a few varieties of ingredients are available.
Whats more? Ok, personally i do feel its pretty dry to just eat these ingredients alone. Thus, they actually come out with a variety of sauce. These sauce ranges from the normal tomato sauce to peanut sauce. Yes, you have seen correctly, its peanut sauce. This sauce tasted something like peanut butter but with a more diluted texture.
Of the pick up sticks that i have tasted, i personally love their fu zhou fishball the best. Although the fu zhou fishball may sound to be a simple ingredients, but they are able to make it taste super 'springy' on the outer layer and soft in the inner layer. Im pretty impressed.
These pick up sticks cost about 2 bucks each and of course the more you pick up, the cheaper you will pay. As for three pick up sticks you take, they will charge them for 5 bucks. Well, overall i guess its a pretty interesting concept to sell these stuff in singapore. However, if one would like to look for something more filling, this may not be a really good option.
Login to add your comment. Or, Register for an account now. It's free!I saw this when I passed by. Interesting concept. Like how they do it in HK. Great alternative fingerfood.
13 Jan 2008 at 10:19 pm
I tried it as well. Quite nice. Hee...
14 Jan 2008 at 4:07 pm